On 20 Feb 2018, at 23:49, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Standards always seem like a good idea on the surface but they don't
seem to work as well in practice. On thing that is certain, gerber is
still the defacto standard for having boards manufactured. Lover or
hate em, they are not going anywhere any time soon. Of the few board
houses that I use, none of the them take IPC-2581 so I'm not sure
spending valuable developer resources on something that might not even
come to fruition even makes sense. I would rather the limited
resources we have stay focused on the features in the next version
road map. What is interesting, I know of more board houses that
directly take kicad board files than IPC-2581 to produce boards.
Maybe we should submit the kicad board file for acceptance as the
standard. ;)
As for someone attending the meetings, I don't think anyone in their
right mind would want me to sit in on those meetings. I know several
engineers who have sat on other standards boards and I know I would
not be a good fit. Politics is not my forte. Maybe someone else with
a bit more political skill than I have can represent KiCad.
On 02/20/2018 12:37 PM, Ouabache Designworks wrote:
Looks like they have corporate and individual memberships. Individual
is free and probably has no vote. Corp probably costs $$ but gives
you a ballot.
It would be nice if Kicad had an official rep that could attend
meetings, propose rules and vote. At least that way we would know
where we differed from
the standard and could move to support it.
John Eaton
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:kevin@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:kevin@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On 2018-02-20 11:19 AM, Ouabache Designworks wrote:
Does Kicad have anyone working with these folks?
[snip]
http://www.ipc2581.com/articles-and-blogs/
<http://www.ipc2581.com/articles-and-blogs/>
I took a look at the website. It sounds interesting but they don't
have a lot of information available on the site. Part of what I see
is what I consider one of those typical industry things where you
need to join the organization in order to gain access to the
information. I suspect that to get a copy of the actual standard you
will have to give them some money at some point.
-- Cheers!
Kevin.
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