Q2 2025 grant program deadline
This year, we are running the grant program in four waves. The deadline for submissions in the second wave is quickly approaching. We will wrap up on June 1, so if you are considering participation and you have a great project in mind, please submit your application before that. Otherwise, it will be reviewed in the third wave.
For program rules and guidelines, please see t
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/05/09/q2-2025-grant-program-deadline/
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New grant: fixes and improvements in TechDraw and PartDesign
The FreeCAD Project Association has awarded a grant of EURO 5,000 to the CAD Working Group (CWG) for allocation towards bounty projects.
Most of the deliverables are TechDraw improvements, such as adding support for labeling symbols from ISO 129-1:2022 and workpiece edge symbols from ISO 13715, adding broken-out se
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/04/29/new-grant-fixes-and-improvements-in-techdraw-and-partdesign/
#FPA #Grants
Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine https://journals.lww.com/cjrm/fulltext/2025/01000/ten_year_retrospective_study_on_medico_legal_risk.7.aspx https://journals.lww.com/cjrm/fulltext/2025/01000/ten_year_retrospective_study_on_medico_legal_risk.7.aspx?lid=xep974rf7gzd&utm_source=25Apr17en-G-78-79&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Ebulletin “Ten-year retrospective study on medico-legal risk of family physicians providing anaesthesia care in Canada, 2013–2022”
#FPA #RuralHealth #CJRM
The Right to Protest: Foreign Press Association press conference in #London
"sounding a warning that #democracy is on death row"
Watch Stop the War's Chris Nineham, actor and activist Juliet Stevenson, Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos, economist and activist Yanis Varoufakis, PSC director Ben Jamal and MP Jeremy Corbyn on how democracy in Britain is under attack.
#peace #fpa #foreignpressassociation #uk #Palestine
On #StoptheWarCoalition channel. ☮️
Q1 2025 grants announced
The FPA General Assembly has finalized the list of approved grant applications for the first quarter of 2025.
Ajinkya Dahale (AjinkyaDahale) will develop two new types of curves in Sketcher: restricted and offset curves. Restricted curves are useful when we only need a portion of an external curve that can change. Offset curves are dependent on a parent curve to allow offset for a larg
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/04/07/q1-2025-grants-announced/
#FPA #Grants
FreeCAD Telemetry addon is now available
Chris Hennes developed an opt-in Telemetry addon to help the development team make good decisions and help answer questions like:
How many people are affected by a given bug?
How many people are running an addon that may be affected by an API change?
Which platforms are the most popular and should receive the most development support?
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/03/30/freecad-telemetry-addon-is-now-available/
#DevelopmentUpdates #FPA
SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Mar 17th, 2025
#dementia #nitrate #Porphyromonas #Neisseria #Lookup #Registration #IETF #gTLD
#MIMO #FPA #MRA #SQP #wildfires #mesh #Kinéis #Silvanet #cortical #amygdala #neurobiology #ESR1
New contracts at FPA
The FreeCAD project association has filled three previously announced developer-support roles:
Pieter Hijma will take the role of OpenCASCADE Liaison. He will coordinate bug reports and patches with the upstream development team.
Sofia Fabiancic-Zühr will be the Translatable Text Reviewer. She will improve the consistence of terminology use throughout FreeCAD and improve grammar, spelling, and syn
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/03/02/new-contracts-at-fpa/
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FPA’s 2024 Annual Report
The FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) has just published the 2024 annual report.
Here are some of the report's highlights:
FreeCAD 1.0 release as the major milestone for the entire community.
TOP5 achievements: major progress with toponaming, integrated Assembly workbench, UX/UI improvements, new materials system, better documentation.
Rapid activity growth in the grant program.
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/02/27/fpas-2024-annual-report/
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FPA Grant Program 2025
The FreeCAD Project Association collects corporate and personal donations and distributes the funds to contributors who improve FreeCAD and its ecosystem.
In 2025, we are switching to quarterly waves of grant application reviews. Here are the submission deadlines:
Q1: March 1
Q2: June 1
Q3: Sept 1
Q4: Nov 15
If you want to apply for a grant for the next round of reviews, p
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/02/20/fpa-grant-program-2025/
#FPA #Grants
2024 grant program recap
Since its inception in late 2021, the FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) has been collecting the community’s donations with the intention of spending them on improving FreeCAD and its ecosystem. In 2024, the FPA launched its first annual grant program. Here is a recap of how this went.
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/02/13/2024-grant-program-recap/
#FPA #Grants
New grant: Refactoring Sketcher, part 2
The FPA General Assembly approved another grant application.
Ajinkya Dahale will continue refactoring Sketcher. The main deliverables are the same as the last time: more methods simplification, testing, and documentation.
On top of that, Ajinkya plans to spend more time merging his previous changes into the main development branch (he was holding those of
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/01/31/new-grant-refactoring-sketcher-part-2/
#FPA #Grants
Job openings at the FPA
The FreeCAD Project Association now has three open positions, each with a 1-year long contract and a compensation of up to $500 a month:
OpenCASCADE Liaison. You will coordinate bug reports and patches with the OpenCASCADE development team.
Addon Ecosystem Coordinator. The job is to test addons and work with 3rd-party developers to ensure addons compatibility with the current stable version
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/01/24/job-openings-at-the-fpa/
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High organofluorine concentrations in municipal #wastewater affect downstream #drinkingwater supplies for millions of Americans. Fluorinated #Pharmaceuticals Account #FPA for the Majority of EOF. We further identified 12 fluorinated pharmaceuticals/metabolites that accounted 4 a mean of 75% of EOF in wastewater influent, 62% of EOF in effluent - celecoxib, flecainide, maraviroc, hydroxyphenylmaraviroc, sitagliptin made up majority of quantified EOF in POTW influent #PFAS https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2417156122
New grants: transparent preview in Part Design, interactive Sketcher tutorials
The FPA General Assembly approved two new grant applications.
Kacper Donat aka kadet will work on a new feature preview system that can be used in Part and Part Design. Whenever you need to apply Pad or Loft or any other command, you will get a transparent preview of what you are g
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/12/02/new-grants-transparent-preview-in-part-design-interactive-sketcher-tutorials/
#FPA #Grants
#統一教会 (現 #家庭連合 / #サンクチュアリ / #FPA etc.)が対象者にアプローチするツールとして多用したのが手相などの占いや整体などの健康相談です
昨日公開された #やや日刊カルト新聞 の映像に、往時の手相勧誘を彷彿とさせる場面があります↓
https://youtu.be/BqX-NT5rsbM?si=O85qXyXUmNO8skOi&t=1009
[thread] anti-trans hate groups
Frontline Policy Action
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Dixon#Alliances
* Family Policy Council of the Christian nationalist group Family Policy Alliance
* unrepentant in disrespect of transgender community
* claims their actions "protect children"
#antiLGBT #FrontlinePolicyAction #FamilyPolicyCouncil #FamilyPolicyAlliance #FPA #ChristianRight #ChristianNationalism #FarRight #theocracy #transphobia #SPLC #HateWatch #conservatism #disinformation
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 encourage work on items from the general roadmap, but are also interested in grant applications exploring other possibilities.
The pr
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/03/01/the-annual-grant-program-is-live/
#FPA #Grants
