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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:31:47 -0700
From: Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt AT recycle DOT lbl DOT gov>
To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com
Subject: [geda-user] potential FAQ: board design services?
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Friends -

I think this topic has come up before, but somehow it is not
in the FAQ (at http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:faq).

Are there people -- small companies or individual consultants -- who
will use gaf for contract board design?

I personally have worked with non-gaf board designers, e.g., shipping
netlists generated with gschem to a PADS layout person.  It's kind of
a pain.  Communication barriers would be lower and quality-of-results
would likely be higher if I could work with a board designer that used
gschem and pcb (or pcb-rnd, or even KiCad).

Ideally the FAQ would have a (non-stale) list of such people.
If people want to keep their name off the main wiki for anti-spam reasons,
for instance, go ahead and send me PM, and give me guidance about how
many of my friends I can tell about you.  ;-)

In my case at least, I'm looking for an organization sufficiently formal
that they can offer a quote based on an incomplete schematic, and take a
government purchase order.  Reviewing and completing the schematic would
be part of the paid work.

   - Larry