The FPA members have voted on grant proposals based on feedback from the Technical Grant Review Committee.

Here are the confirmed grants:

Jo Hinchliffe (concretedog) will write FreeCAD tutorials developing resources that target the promotion of FreeCAD in educational environments. Jo is a regular contributor to the FreeCAD blog and author of two books featuring FreeCAD and KiCad, both published by Raspberry Pi Press. He will be awarded a grant of £2,000 for the project.

Pierre-Louis Boyer (paddlestroke) will continue the ongoing work on improving the Assembly and Sketcher workbenches, with a focus on bugfixing. He will receive €3,000 for each project.

Pierre-Louis Boyer (paddlestroke) will also create a new annotation tool for TechDraw to replace the existing ones. He will receive EUR€2,000 for this project. A prototype is already available:

Kacper Donat (kadet1090) will develop a design system and style guidelines to help the team improve the consistency of the user interface. He will receive a grant of €5,000 for the project.

David Kaufman (davidgilkaufman) will improve the Adaptive clearing operation in CAM: enable successful generation at small stepovers, improve automatic diameter selection for entry helix, and add “rest machining” support for adaptive toolpaths. He will receive a grant of $4,250 for the project.

Francisco Rosa (Francisco-Rosa) will work on his Solar workbench. Expected new features are: creating sun radiation analysis in FreeCAD, and new functions to modify geometry (radius, position, north, etc.) and values ​​(radiation, irradiation, analysis period, and location). He will receive a grant of $2,000.

Additionally, Amritpal Singkh will once again resume his work on Ondsel Lens and implement the following features: authentication with Google and OAuth, branding and customization options, FC-Worker update to FreeCAD 1.0.2, and TrueNAS SCALE integration. Amritpal will be awarded a grant of $12,250 from the separate “Ondsel Onwards” fund.

The overall expense for Q3 (sans the Ondsel Lens grant) as of today is projected to be approx. €20,600, which is approx. €600 over the quarterly budget. However, we have a €10,000 leftover from Q1 2025, so we are not going to overspend.