The FreeCAD Grant Program Archive

The following is a reverse-chronological-order list of past projects funded by the FreeCAD Project Association:

2023

Benjamin Bræstrup Sayoc (@bensay): Fix Issue #5903

Funding approved 3 August 2023.

Bensay is implementing the autofilling of text fields in SVG page templates in TechDraw workbench. He was awarded a grant of 500 USD.

AgCaliva (@AgCaliva): Per-document Unit Selector

Funding approved 3 August 2023.

AgCaliva implemented a simple per-document unit selector in FreeCAD. He was awarded a grant of 600 USD.

Alexandre Prokoudine (@prokoudine): New grant program

Funding approved 19 July 2023.

Alexandre is revamping the grant program for FreeCAD Project association to make it more attractive to new contributors. He was awarded an overall grant of 3500 USD — 1500 for initial research and 2000 for designing the new program.

2022

Lei Zheng (@realthunder): Topological Naming Problem Mitigation

Funding approved 15 November 2022.

In recognition of the efforts he has put into FreeCAD, especially the very large time investment he has made in working with the FreeCAD Maintainers to integrate his work on the topological naming problem, Zheng is awarded a grant of 1000 USD.

Ajinkya Dahale (@jnxd): Spline Handling in Sketcher

Funding approved 26 September 2022.

Ajinkya proposed numerous improvements to the spline handling in the sketcher workbench. He raised funds from many members to do this work and has largely completed stage one. The FPA contributed to the second stage which focused on functionality to create more interesting curves not possible by knot position and slope alone. In recognition of his significant contribution to FreeCAD, Dahale is awarded a grant of 1000 USD.