> Maybe we should submit the kicad board file for acceptance as the standard. ;)

It’s actually not a bad idea.  My board house takes Gerbers or Kicad, and 
nothing else.

Plus, it’s open source, which standards bodies like.  (But even commercial 
stuff can become a standard — I was part of the team that submitted PDF to ISO.)

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 20 Feb 2018, at 23:49, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> 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 <ke...@ve3syb.ca 
>> <mailto:ke...@ve3syb.ca>> 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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