----- Announcing Free Dog -- the Free EDA User's Group! ----- Owing to the growing interest in free/open-source EDA, the time has come to form a user group dedicated to supporting and promoting open-source design tools! To meet this need, we are forming "Free Dog": the "Free EDA Users Group". (FreeEDAUG -- try pronouncing it!) Free Dog will begin holding monthly meetings starting this September 1st (2004). We will meet at MIT (Cambridge, MA, USA) in room E51-085 at 7:00pm; meetings will be held on the first Wednesday of every month, and will last about one hour. At our meetings we will have informal networking followed by interesting speakers. Afterwards, we will convene for informal networking at a local watering hole -- beer drinking optional! At our first meeting (Sepember 1st), we will hold an informal gathering for prospective members. There will be a couple of Linux systems present running gEDA, ngspice, PCB, and other tools as a demonstration of the capabilities of the gEDA suite. Ales Hvezda and I will be there. If you are in the Boston area, we welcome you to attend. Free Dog is hosted by MIT, who graceously hosts many computer interest groups: http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/m/mugs/ For continually updated information about the Free EDA User's Group, please watch the Free Dog website: http://www.freeedaug.org/ or feel free to contact me at: sdb (AT) cloud9 (dot) net. Stuart