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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm experimenting with Google Search and for now the GitHub repos under my
name don't seem to get indexed at all. I've searched in many different
ways, including the most obvious ones. I'll see how we can get something
out of it.


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Switching from openssl thread to a new one:
>
>
> >
> > With GITHUB_PLUGIN now available to ~ 90% of the KiCad user base
> (omitting OSX?), I now
> > look forward to folks putting footprint libraries on github and bragging
> about them, under
> > the leadership of Carl Poirier, who has scripts and know how on how to
> publish them so
> > that they can be "installed" by a single copy and paste through a
> webbrowser into the
> > fp-lib-table editor.
> >
> > I look forward to that affecting my productivity in a positive way, so
> that I can spend
> > less time looking for footprints, and more time making boards.
> >
> > I would look forward to collaboration on sharing the "pretty on github
> publishing" know
> > how on kicad-pcb.org in the form of documentation, and a link to that
> write up making it
> > to the kicad-user mailing list.  Because I think this would spur more
> sharing, and yet
> > again help my productivity in making boards.
> >
> > Question: does google index any of the github content, or is it simply
> too much?  If yes,
> > then this is yet another way to find KiCad specific footprints rapidly
> after this
> > publishing gets some legs.  You should be able to google for
> >
> >    kicad_mod <package_name>
> >
> > and turn up something.
> >
>
>
> I think it would be great if we could gather up some prizes (cash,
> goodies) of some kind,
> and award them to a "best footprint library maintainer" every six months
> or so.
>
> OK, it's out there, now I hope the community can run with this stuff, OK !?
>
> (I've got programming work and board work to do.  No time for library
> management, and I
> don't have the expertise either.)
>
>
>
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