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The FPA mem­bers have vot­ed for Q1 2026 grants.

The fol­low­ing work will be paid for once completed:

1. Web­sites improve­ments — Step 2.1: Mod­ern­ize Doxy­gen set­up and out­put by @marcuspollio. The exist­ing source code doc­u­men­ta­tion is severe­ly out of date. Mar­cus will update and refac­tor the cur­rent Doxy­gen set­up and con­fig, cre­ate a new repos­i­to­ry for the gen­er­at­ed out­put, set up CI and CD from FreeCAD/FreeCAD source to this new repo, and deploy to live site, then update web­site and wiki links and oth­er places to this new live site. He will be award­ed a grant of EUR 500 for the project. 
2. Main­te­nance, improve­ment and devel­op­ment Assem­bly & Sketch­er by @PaddleStroke. Pierre-Louis will con­tin­ue his work on bug fix­ing, main­te­nance, reor­ga­ni­za­tion, stan­dard­iza­tion of the two work­bench­es, and the addi­tion of new fea­tures. Pierre-Louis will be award­ed a grant of EUR 6,000 for work­ing on this project for the next 3 months.
3. Upgrade the CAM geom­e­try ker­nel from Clip­per 1 to Clip­per 2 by @davidgilkaufman. Poly­gon boolean and off­set oper­a­tions form the back­bone of near­ly all CAM oper­a­tions. We cur­rent­ly per­form these func­tions using Clip­per 1, but it has been super­seded by Clip­per 2, and Clip­per 1 is now obso­lete. So David will rewrite the affect­ed func­tions with Clip­per 2. David will be award­ed a grant of USD 3,750 for the project.
4. Imple­ment ISO 13715 (Edge Sym­bols) and ISO 15785 (Joint Sym­bols) in Tech­Draw Work­bench by @rehan-ahmed-aix. FreeCAD already sup­ports edge and face selec­tion, so the imple­men­ta­tion by Ahmed will lever­age that exist­ing capa­bil­i­ty, and users will be able to attach sym­bols direct­ly to select­ed edges, ver­tices, or faces on draw­ing views, or attach sym­bols to leader lines (tra­di­tion­al approach). Ahmed will be award­ed a grant of EUR 751 for the project.
5. OpenID Con­nect Authen­ti­ca­tion, FreeCAD Script­ing in View­er, and Mato­mo Dock­er Image Replace­ment for Lens Plat­form by @amrit3701. Ond­sel Lens will gain OpenID-based authen­ti­ca­tion, and users will be able to run cus­tom FreeCAD Python scripts on the loaded mod­el from the web inter­face. Addi­tion­al­ly, the cur­rent­ly defunct Mato­mo dock­er image will be replaced so you can run web ana­lyt­ics on your own instance of Lens. Amrit­pal will be award­ed a grant of EUR 8,000 from the sep­a­rate Ond­sel Onwards fund sub­mit­ted by a pri­vate sponsor.

The total non-Ond­sel allo­cat­ed fund­ing is EUR 10,721 against a bud­get of EUR 10,000. How­ev­er, the “CAM/BIM: 2D Nest­ing Tool for FreeCAD” grant has been recent­ly can­celled due to the devel­op­er’s inac­tiv­i­ty, which freed up EUR 1,650, so we are not over the bud­get after all.