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[Martijn Kuipers <martijn.kuipers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Léo,

Thank you for your interest in KiCad. I agree, it is already very
powerful.

I think your email already gave you a hint of what could be done
<quote>
> I know KiCad leader is french but I've don't
> see any french kicad book… 
</quote>

Now I am not suggesting you to start and write a book, but perhaps you
could write a Tutorial (in French if you like). If you get a lot of
feedback from the readers, then  it might be worth to start thinking of
writing a book.

At the moment internationalization of the website/tutorials is not the
highest priority, because it would take time away improving the
existing documentation. But, it's open source, and nobody will stop you
from writing a French tutorial. It might be that you don't receive so
much feedback, since not everybody might be able to easily read in
French (I haven't spoken much French in the last 20 years or so).

Thanks,
Martijn


On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:01:44 +0100
OpenSourceWay <opensourceway@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I'm not so good at C++, I've never write code in C++, only C.
> But I think I can do what I need, but, I think big features is very
> important, but kicad is already powerfuul, I think its just need a
> good comunication, public image. I think a beautiful and simple
> website is important, I know KiCad leader is french but I've don't
> see any french kicad book… 
> 
> I think I can be more "gainful" other than writting line
> of code… 
> 
> Léo 
> 
> Le 2012-12-17 19:48, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo a écrit :
> 
> 
> > Hi Léo, 
> > 
> > We recently moved to a Confluence instance for the
> main site at http://www.kicad-pcb.org [4]. It works quite well, 
> > may
> be what it needs now it's more content. I think main developers are
> happy with bzr and launchpad as it works. (I prefer 
> > other solutions
> also, but bzr works reasonably well, and right now it lets developers
> put all their effort in the KiCad software 
> > itself.) 
> > 
> > How good
> are you at C++ ? , may be you could try contributing to the software
> itself. Find a feature you'd like to see on KiCad, 
> > ask as you need,
> start a branch, follow the guidelines, and then ask for merge on
> testing branch. 
> > 
> > We're also plenty of ideas and a couple of bugs in the bug
> tracker. 
> > 
> > I started with a little one, and I liked it, code quality
> in KiCad is getting better and better on every commit. 
> > 
> > Greetings,
> 
> > Mike. 
> > 
> > Miguel Angel Ajo 
> > http://www.nbee.es [5] 
> >
> +34911407752 
> > skype: ajoajoajo 
> > 
> > On 17/12/2012, at 18:45,
> OpenSourceWay <opensourceway@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > 
> >> Hello ! 
> >> 
> >>
> I'm new here, and I'll introduce myself. I'm french, and I've created
> a lot of free projects like OpenSourceSoft -
> http://opensourcesoft.fr.nf [1] - and other, mainly listed in my
> personal website. 
> >> 
> >> As 2013
> will be a new year, I'll try to stop creating open source project
> alone but I want to participate in usefull big projects, like Kicad.
> I'm also an electronics student and I want to create some fun PCB
> over my Linux Laptop but Cadence PSD isn't free and doesn't work. 
> >> 
> >> So, I'll try
> you to create this really big project, wich is already powerfull. I
> don't know if you need that but I think the website can be
> reorganised, without using a lot of external tools as launchpad,
> libs, chat… CodingTeam is a good soft wich include wiki, source
> repository, xmpp server, bug tracking tool, localisation tool, forum… 
> >> 
> >> Thanks for
> all, and sorry for my bad english. 
> >> 
> >> Léo 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >>
> OpenSourceWay
> >> opensourceway@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >> opensourceway.fr.nf
> >>
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