We've just posted with a review of the last year of the FPA grant program.
#FreeCAD #Grants #FPA #Community
https://blog.freecad.org/2026/03/01/fpa-grant-program-2025-year-in-review/
#FPA
La #pétition est portée par l’Association de la presse étrangère (FPA), organisation à but non lucratif qui représente les journalistes travaillant pour des agences de presse internationales couvrant l’actualité en Israël, en #Cisjordanie et dans la bande de #Gaza.
La #FPA déploie depuis plus de deux ans des efforts considérables pour rétablir l’accès aux journalistes étrangers à la bande de Gaza, notamment par un recours en justice auprès de la Cour suprême israélienne, sans succès.
Cette pétition paraît juste après le rapport annuel publié le 25 février par le Comité pour la protection des journalistes - #CPJ
https://foreignpressassociation.online/
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Fragile ceasefire in Gaza holds
Vigil number 113 held in Salisbury
February 2026
The vigils continue in Salisbury and around 25 braved the cold and rain on Saturday 31st January to hold the 113th such event. A fragile ceasefire continues to hold and plans are continuing for the Board of Peace. 492 have died since the October ceasefire and the total dead is now put at 71,660 by the Hamas Health Ministry. On this, news this week that the IDF has now accepted this as a correct figure having decried the statistics since 2023. A further 10,000 are thought to be under the rubble unaccounted for. Throughout the conflict, Israel has claimed it is engaged in targeted strikes and reports of indiscriminate attacks are according to Netanyahu, a ‘blood libel’.
The UN has reported that the ceasefire is making a difference as more aid is getting in to the territory. They say the famine is being reversed although aid is insufficient to meet all needs. Foreign media have not been allowed into Gaza preventing verification of claims and the reporting of facts on the ground. The Foreign Press Association has launched a claim in the Israel Supreme Court to allow journalists in now that a ceasefire is in place. They argue it is absurd to prevent journalists from entering.
We have noted in previous posts that despite 113 vigils having taken place, there has been no sign of the local MP Mr John Glen at any of them and he has never mentioned their existence in his weekly column in the local paper the Salisbury Journal. About 2 weeks ago, an attendee of the vigils wrote to him for an answer but has not received a reply. Mr Glen is thought to be a member of the influential and well-funded Conservative Friends of Israel organisation as are a number of Labour and LibDem MPs. About 80% of conservative members are thought to be members. The question is whether being a member of this group overrides his role as the local MP employed to represent his constituent’s interests, not those of a foreign power?
Images courtesy of Peter Gloyns. A video of the vigil is available here.
Sources: BBC, Guardian, Al Jazeera, factually, UN.
#ConservativeFriendsOfIsrael #FPA #JohnGlenMP #peace #Salisbury #vigil
Goed dat ook de laatste #gegijzelde gevonden is. Hij was pas 24, te jong om te sterven, net zoals zovelen aan beide kanten. - Onafhankelijke journalisten en hulpverleners moeten ongehinderde toegang krijgen in #Gaza en op de #Westbank. Hamas moet verdwijnen uit alle sleutelposities en liefst helemaal. Daders moeten worden berecht. #FPA #Israel
https://nos.nl/artikel/2599789-leger-israel-overblijfselen-laatste-gijzelaar-gevonden-in-gaza
Dec 2025 bug bounty update
We are currently at 17 release blockers for FreeCAD 1.1, so the FPA members have raised the price per fixed release blocker from $50 to $100.
Meanwhile, two more people have collected bugfix rewards:
Werner Meyer, who is a co-founder of FreeCAD.
Chris "ipatch" Jones, who previously contributed numerous improvements benefiting Mac users.
For more information
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/12/19/dec-2025-bug-bounty-update/
#DevelopmentUpdates #FPA
Job Offer: Competition Co-ordinator
The FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) are keen to develop a recurring CAD challenge/competition and are looking for a project co-ordinator.
Inspired by CAD challenges such as the "Too Tall Toby" program the co-ordinator will lead on designing and delivering a pilot activity, leading to a sustained event.
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/10/12/job-offer-competition-co-ordinator/
#FPA #FreeCAD #GetFediHired #CAD #Community #Opensource
Die israelische Presse-Agentur #FPA will wieder Zugang zum Gaza-Streifen!
"Erklärung zum anhaltenden Verbot des Zugangs zum Gazastreifen [11. September 2025]
Die Foreign Press Association in Jerusalem stellt mit Bestürzung fest, dass seit der Einreichung ihrer zweiten Petition beim Obersten Gerichtshof Israels für einen freien und unabhängigen Zugang zum Gazastreifen bereits ein ganzes Jahr vergangen ist. Bedauerlicherweise gibt es noch immer keine Entscheidung."
https://foreignpressassociation.online/2025/09/11/the-foreign-press-association-statement-on-the-continued-ban-on-access-to-gaza-september11-2025/
Q3 2025 grants announced
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, bo
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/10/03/q3-2025-grants-announced/
#FPA #Grants
First bugfix program payouts done
We’ve just done the first payouts in the pilot bugfix rewards program launched in August. Two contributors have claimed the reward so far: tetektoza fixed 15 confirmed issues, and matthiasdanner fixed another five. Congrats!
We have more money to spend on this, so if you already qualify for a reward or just thinking about joining, please see this blog post for details about t
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/10/02/first-bugfix-program-payouts-done/
#FPA
We are looking for a regression bisection specialist
The FPA is seeking applicants to help identify and document code regressions in FreeCAD.
Key responsibilities:
Investigate regression reports from users, developers, and CI tools
Use git bisect and related tools to identify the commit that introduced a regression
Reproduce issues locally using scripts, FreeCAD builds, or custom testing e
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/09/04/looking-for-regression-bisection-specialist/
#FPA
The Q3 2025 grant applications deadline is near
We will soon wrap up accepting grant applications for the third quarter of 2025. If you are interested in participating, please submit your application by September 1. Any applications submitted after the deadline will be reviewed in the fourth wave in November/December. For general information about the grant program, please refer to this handbook page.
Pleas
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/08/07/q3-2025-grant-applications-deadline/
#FPA
#Israel / The state has informed the Supreme Court that it will continue to ban foreign and Israeli journalists from entering Gaza to report freely on the situation
This ban has been in place since October 2023, with multiple legal challenges filed by the Foreign Press Association (#FPA). While some limited access with military escort has been granted, Israel maintains that free movement for journalists poses unacceptable security risks.
The FPA has stated journalists will bear responsibility for any harm they face in Gaza, but Israel disputes this, fearing potential legal challenges and risks to operational security.
A court hearing on the FPA's petition is now scheduled for October 23rd, over a year after the initial request.
[...] The FPA's petition, filed approximately ten months ago, was originally scheduled for a hearing last April. However, the hearing was postponed due to "court calendar constraints." Subsequent hearings planned for May and June were also canceled, in part due to Israel's attack on #Iran.
WandererFan is retiring
WandererFan, AKA Chris has recently announced his retirement from two roles at FreeCAD: Maintainer of the TechDraw workbench and member of the FreeCAD Project Association (FPA) board, responsible for all accounting and budgeting work.
Chris is a retired IT engineer in the transportation industry. He joined FreeCAD in 2013 to submit various Unicode-related fixes and add some new tools to Draft (
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/07/03/wandererfan-is-retiring/
#FPA
Q2 2025 grant program deadline
This year, we are running the grant program in four waves. The deadline for submissions in the second wave is quickly approaching. We will wrap up on June 1, so if you are considering participation and you have a great project in mind, please submit your application before that. Otherwise, it will be reviewed in the third wave.
For program rules and guidelines, please see t
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/05/09/q2-2025-grant-program-deadline/
#FPA #Grants
New grant: fixes and improvements in TechDraw and PartDesign
The FreeCAD Project Association has awarded a grant of EURO 5,000 to the CAD Working Group (CWG) for allocation towards bounty projects.
Most of the deliverables are TechDraw improvements, such as adding support for labeling symbols from ISO 129-1:2022 and workpiece edge symbols from ISO 13715, adding broken-out se
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/04/29/new-grant-fixes-and-improvements-in-techdraw-and-partdesign/
#FPA #Grants
Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine https://journals.lww.com/cjrm/fulltext/2025/01000/ten_year_retrospective_study_on_medico_legal_risk.7.aspx https://journals.lww.com/cjrm/fulltext/2025/01000/ten_year_retrospective_study_on_medico_legal_risk.7.aspx?lid=xep974rf7gzd&utm_source=25Apr17en-G-78-79&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Ebulletin “Ten-year retrospective study on medico-legal risk of family physicians providing anaesthesia care in Canada, 2013–2022”
#FPA #RuralHealth #CJRM
The Right to Protest: Foreign Press Association press conference in #London
"sounding a warning that #democracy is on death row"
Watch Stop the War's Chris Nineham, actor and activist Juliet Stevenson, Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos, economist and activist Yanis Varoufakis, PSC director Ben Jamal and MP Jeremy Corbyn on how democracy in Britain is under attack.
#peace #fpa #foreignpressassociation #uk #Palestine
On #StoptheWarCoalition channel. ☮️
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