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

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

https://bit.ly/stc031725

#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/
#FPA

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/
#FPA

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/
#FPA

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

[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"

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

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:

Electrostatics problems through an analogy with the heat equation to derive the e
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/02/27/new-grants-electromagnetic-system-simulations-and-bug-triage/
#FPA #Grants

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 place during 3 days at the Brussels hackers
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/02/13/the-freecad-day-2024/
#Events #FPA #event #FOSDEM #hackathon

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 looking forward to their work!

If you a
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/01/25/fpa-grant-for-toponaming-work/
#Announcement #FPA

"More fiction is written in Excel than in Word"—especially this time of year...
Happy planning season!
#cartoon #fpa #planning #analytics #xpa

When asked if not giving women the right to vote would be proportionally unfair on women, ACT MP, Brooke van Velden said women don't have the right to vote now so they won't be any worse off.
#FPA #FairPayAgreements #NZPol #NZQT #Satire

@mistboard
#AMIGA #CPM68K from https://github.com/juollila/cpm68k-amiga
does run fine on a
#MiST #FPA with
AMIGA #Minimig AGA #Core ;)