kicad-developers team mailing list archive

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

My bad, it looks like you first have to be part of the kicad-lib-committers
team to subscribe. What I suggest is you do a first contribution without
it, and if you wish to contribute further, we will add you to the team.

We will continue this in a personal conversation.

Carl

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:37 PM, A. V. Dolganoff <adolganov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well, this is one fine place to start, why not. Is this list by invite
> only? I cannot see a "subscribe to " anywhere:
> https://launchpad.net/~kicad-lib-committers ?
>
> Alexei
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi Alexei,
> >
> > One area you can easily give a hand is in the libraries. We have devised
> a
> > set of rules a few months ago which form our Library Convention. We have
> yet
> > to adjust all the symbols and footprints to respect these rules, and we
> need
> > as well to approve all the pull requests coming in. There is therefore no
> > development experience needed.
> >
> > If this is of interest to you, I suggest you join the
> kicad-lib-committers
> > mailing list, and we can start off something from there.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Carl Poirier
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:18 PM, A. V. Dolganoff <adolganov@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello, everybody,
> >>
> >> I've joined the team and the list just few hours ago after quite some
> >> time spent in kicad-users list/group and other forums because I think
> >> Kicad has great future and is worth to contribute too.
> >> Few words about me: I live near Paris and work in software industry, I
> >> am an ERP consultant by trade (ERP=Enterprise Ressource Planning,
> >> mainly SAP, Oracle Apps and Peoplesoft, my job has nothing to do with
> >> electronics whatsoever), and I am an electronics hobbyist and musician
> >> during my off-hours, so naturally my electronics projects always
> >> gravitate to music-related electronics.
> >> I've switched to Kicad few years ago because it does most of I want
> >> from an EDA, is free and evolves constantly!
> >> I am starting to release my projects under Open Hardware license and
> >> Kicad fits there perfectly. At the same time I am able to sell some of
> >> my designs, nothing to blow your mind financially, I am just able to
> >> offset some of my hobby expenses...
> >>
> >> Now, I would like to contribute something. The thing is I am not a
> >> great developer (not a developer at all in fact...), but I could take
> >> some tasks related to documentation, tutorials and such.
> >> My English is not my native language, maybe I could start with some
> >> French translations or something of the sorts?
> >>
> >> If you have any docs introducing new participants to the toolchain,
> >> general practices, what steps to take at first etc., I am happy to
> >> start anywhere!
> >>
> >> Cheers, Alexei
> >>
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