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[Alejandro Méndez A. <twistx77@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the info Dick.

Carl, I could give you some help then. At least I could help you validating
and creating components that I already create for my self.

I will need some help at least in the beginning to learn how to work well
with github since git is a new field for me since I've always used SVN.

Anyway, if there is anyway I can star helping you guys let me know and I
will do as much as I can with the time I have left :).




2014-03-17 21:10 GMT+01:00 Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>:

>
> > Is anyone working on doing some sort of collaborative library where
> people could create components and by users votes have the components
> validate them-selves?
> > I know a little about the github "official" library for KiCad
>
> Few of us (like me) work on libraries on a voluntary basis. So much as
> those who volunteer for any other good cause.
>
> Basically, contributors started to open merge requests to one or more
> GitHub libraries. We then validate as much as we can and pull the merge
> request. That's how you would do to contribute some corrections to a
> library and/or commit a new one.
>
> For now, the merge requests can be handled by one person but I suspect
> this will change soon, once the GitHub plugin gets more users. We will then
> need more people to validate the footprints and libraries.
>
> Carl
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 03/17/2014 01:35 PM, Alejandro Méndez A. wrote:
>> > Ok,
>> >
>> > I will do that in a new post with another title so it is easy to find.
>> >
>> > I could make a video since I already have a youtube channel with plenty
>> of visits but I'm
>> > not a native English speaker so I think it might be better just to keep
>> the written version :)
>> >
>> > In fact I've been doing a tutorial for Kicad in Spanish but I haven't
>> finished since the
>> > last changes for KiCad have changed a lot in PCBNew and Library and I'm
>> thinking of
>> > redoing the first ones with a newer version of KiCad including the new
>> features of PCBNew.
>> > Should I keep waiting a little longer for more big changes?
>> >
>> > I'll try to make a useful post for the environment variables and how to
>> use them to be
>> > able to work with Kicad seamlessly in different platforms.
>> >
>> > Last but not least. I think there is already work being done with the
>> libraries but I
>> > think that it would be really good for KiCad to have a very large
>> contributive components
>> > library since most "hobbiest" users don't wan't to make their own parts
>> and people like me
>> > that are freelance or work for small companies will use already created
>> components when
>> > they come from a "respectable" source. I spend a lot of time creating
>> my own footprints
>> > and I've found that the best library out there in my opinion is this
>> one:
>> > http://smisioto.no-ip.org/elettronica/kicad/kicad-en.htm . Is anyone
>> working on doing some
>> > sort of collaborative library where people could create components and
>> by users votes have
>> > the components validate them-selves?
>> > I know a little about the github "official" library for KiCad and also
>> I know of a web
>> > that is doing that for three differents packages (KiCad included), it
>> is called
>> > CircuitHub. It is a great idea but they try to cover too much, at least
>> for now, in my
>> > opinion. You can create the components in their web, et cetera. I've
>> tried it and I've
>> > even talked to one of the founders for support, since there are many
>> things that don't
>> > work right yet and they make it basically unusable at the end. They've
>> told me they are
>> > working on it, but it have passed at least 6 months and they have added
>> other things but
>> > the component creation part is still not working right. To the point of
>> not even been able
>> > to create new schematic symbols.
>> >
>> > Anyway, I just want to know if there is somebody working in an idea
>> like that but just to
>> > keep the components, not creating them in the web since I could help
>> creating components
>> > and a system to let people create components to share, following a
>> common criteria which
>> > could give some security to the people wanting to use them.
>> >
>> > BTW, sorry for the long boring reply.
>>
>>
>> For any task requiring large man-hours to succeed, there typically needs
>> to be incentive
>> or economic sustenance.  Simply voting does not cut it.  You could ask 50
>> people to dig
>> ditches, and tell them you will vote on who does the best job, and they
>> will walk away
>> with a curious look on their faces.
>>
>> The guys maintaining the github repo are picking up steam and are
>> changing and adding
>> footprints and parts fairly regularly now.  This is an economic miracle.
>>  There is no
>> economic explanation for it.  I vote "yeah" for Carl and the gang!
>>
>> You get what you pay for, or you get what you do, anything after that is
>> an economic
>> miracle (or a free lunch, but they don't exist, because in English it is
>> well known that
>> "there is no free lunch").
>>
>> If you want to learn more, join the ~kicad-library-committers team, but
>> what you want is
>> not happening here on this mailing list and I'll have nothing additional
>> to do with it
>> (other than having previously recruited Carl and having written the
>> github plugin.)
>>
>> Now Carl and company are the engine of improvement.  Name names, and give
>> thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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