Hi guys,

I keep telling Wookey I'll do this every time I see him.

Could I request to become a member of the development group for Balloon
please.

As I discussed with Wookey, I'm interested to see if it would be
(theoretically) possible to "open" the schematics by converting them
from Altium's propitiatory format, to the open gEDA(*) format for
schematics.

Whilst I appreciate Altium is nice, and that the Balloon board will
probably continue to be developed using it, as a gEDA developer, I'd
love to see if it were possible to retrieve useful data from the Altium
files. If so, you then also have a format you could potentially make
schematics available in which are still editable as schematics, but with
a lower entry cost for new developers.

There is a possible conversion route, something like using Altium to
save as Protel 98 Format, then using Protel 98 to save as its old Protel
ASCII based format, followed by a conversion program which converts that
to gEDA schematics.

(*) http://www.geda.seul.org/

Best wishes,

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)