Intro: about the author and the presentation

• Tibor 'Igor2' Palinkas
• contact: IRC, email: http://igor2.repo.hu/contact.html
• formal education: Mechanical Engineer (MSc)
• acutal job: programming (flight simulation, embedded systems)
• electronics: hobby since 2005
• started using gEDA in 2005
• pcb-rnd forked: gEDA/pcb in 2013
• file format subproject since 2016

This presentation:

• design choices
• there is no one good solution!
• generic ideas usable outside of EDA
• not recipes but a way of thinking