Category: FPA
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The annual grant program is live
The FPA is launching an annual grant program following last year’s research. The goal is to foster rapid development of FreeCAD. To do that, the FPA will use the community’s donations to pay developers and non-programming contributors. We reserved a fund of 50,000 EUR for this in 2024. We aso encourage work on items from…
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New grants: electromagnetic system simulations and bug triage
The FreeCAD Project Association issued two more grants. Mario Passaglia is now working on bugfixing and electromagnetic system simulations using CalculiX in the FEM workbench. Expected new features will provide the resolution of: Mario’s project is expected to last 7 months. He has been awarded a grant of $4,000. Max Wilfinger is working on bug triage:…
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The FreeCAD day 2024
This year again, the FPA organized a FreeCAD day and a hackathon (and much more!) together with FOSDEM, in Brussels. We had an incredible, epic week of events (which you’ll know all about later on this blog). I’ll describe here briefly what happened during the hackathon and the FreeCAD day. The hackathon The hackathon took…
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FPA Grant for Toponaming Work
The FPA has just given two grants for work on the Toponaming merge to community members @bgbsww and @CalligaroV — the two are working together for the next two months to integrate @realthunder’s Topological Naming Problem mitigation code into the main development branch of FreeCAD. Kudos to them on their selection, and we are all…
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Bringing Stability to the FreeCAD Release Process
Since its inception, FreeCAD’s build and release process has been an entirely volunteer effort. As the project has grown, however, this has resulted in ever more work for the volunteers. Maintaining the various builds and releases is a mostly invisible, thankless process; but also one that is mission-critical. The FreeCAD Project Association is pleased to…
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Revamping the FreeCAD Project Association’s grant program
TL;DR: the FreeCAD Project Association studied best practices of other organizations that have grant programs and is now working towards improving its own program. In 2022, the FreeCAD Project Association announced a grant program and issued several grants to people actively contributing to the well-being of FreeCAD and its ecosystem: to RealThunder for his work…
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FPA Needs a Logo
The FreeCAD Project Association (FPA)‘s Mission is to support and protect the FreeCAD project. As an organization independent of the community FreeCAD project, the FPA would like to have a logo that is visually distinct. To that end, last month we held open submissions for a new logo. Over the last week, FPA members have been voting…
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FPA 2022 report
After an amazing first year of operations, the FreeCAD project association (FPA), the non-profit body that supports the FreeCAD project, has just published its very first yearly report, which also includes plans for 2023. Thanks to everybody who put their trust in the FPA so early on! Read the report here
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FPA Logo Contest
(Pen-and-paper logo design image courtesy of https://customneon.co.uk/.) The FreeCAD Project Association (FPA)‘s Mission is to support and protect the FreeCAD project. As an organization independent of the community FreeCAD project, the FPA would like to have a logo that is visually distinct. To that end, we’ve launched a contest on the FreeCAD Forum to design our logo.…
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FPA Website and Handbook
The FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) was founded on the ideals of transparency and accountability: to that end, we’ve been working hard on making our website a useful source of information about the organization, its goals, and its initiatives. This past week we launched a revamped version of our website that includes the organization’s charter, budget,…