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The FPA Gen­er­al Assem­bly approved three new grant applications.

Pieter Hij­ma will work on improv­ing the user expe­ri­ence of VarSets. The work will include guid­ing the dis­cus­sion on the more com­pli­cat­ed top­ics, adding new fea­tures that are request­ed from users, and improv­ing on var­i­ous small issues. The work is sched­uled to be done between Jan­u­ary and April 2025. Pieter was award­ed EUR 8,000 for the work.

Turan Furkan Topak aka “Reqre­fu­sion” will improve the doc­u­men­ta­tion wiki. He will apply fix­es for some of the exist­ing issues, improve the search fea­ture, imple­ment respon­sive design, open­ing direct user reg­is­tra­tion after mak­ing our Medi­wi­ki instance van­dal-safe, improve the edi­tor, set up the ebooks gen­er­a­tions for offline use, and improve var­i­ous oth­er things. Reqre­fu­sion was award­ed USD 3,000 for the work.

Joe Sar­dos aka “Obelisk” will write new FreeCAD Art Guide­lines along with pro­vid­ing replace­ment icons to fol­low the new guide­lines. The cur­rent art guide­lines are well thought-out and pro­vide for repro­ducible style, how­ev­er fall short of fol­low­ing cur­rent design trends for visu­al com­mu­ni­ca­tion and rely heav­i­ly on bold and brash col­or com­bi­na­tions. The idea behind this pro­hect is to replace the guide­lines, doc­u­ment them, work with the FreeCAD com­mu­ni­ty across sev­er­al plat­forms to find both style and form that have a gen­er­al wide­spread accep­tance, and replace them in their entire­ty. Total expect­ed dura­tion of the project is 3 months (or until com­plete). Joe was award­ed USD 1,750 for the work.