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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

I use Pelican do to rst->html.  It works well.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Something based in RST & compilation to HTML + a cute design would be
> awesome, because
> > it would foster developer participation in the website maintenance.
>
> I was thinking of volunteering to do something like this as I
> primarily do web development outside my usual work of embedded
> systems. I think it would be easy to make a very pretty "modern" kicad
> home page for non developers. I would love to have kicad be more
> inviting for non devs as the website write now is quite unwelcoming
> for such users.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Miguel Ángel Ajo <majopela@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Friday, 20 de March de 2015 at 16:49, Javier Serrano wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > 2015-03-20 15:19 GMT+01:00 Mário Luzeiro <mrluzeiro@xxxxx>:
> >
> > This type of support and community is what they expect when pay for a
> > commercial product... if something is wrong.. they will ask the company
> for
> > support..
> > But, this is an issue in the opensource software feeling in general. But
> I
> > believe some projects are making a good work in give people trust on this
> > matters.
> >
> >
> > I feel it quite the opposite. For a commercial product it is hard to
> > get sane support, while open source projects are very easy.
> >
> >
> > I see this as a two-dimensional issue. The opposite of free/open is
> > proprietary. The opposite of commercial is non-commercial. There are
> > four possible combinations. I think free/open and commercial is a
> > winning combination. The software stays free-as-in-freedom, and
> > free-as-in-free-beer for those who want it that way. If, in addition,
> > we could find a way to reward those who make KiCad such a great tool,
> > that can only be good. Look at successful free software projects. Most
> > of them have a way to reward key contributors. Some people get paid
> > full-time salaries to contribute to the Linux kernel, the Apache web
> > server and many other projects. I hope KiCad gets there one day. Sorry
> > for the digression, but I see this commercial-vs-open issue pop up
> > often and I thought I'd give my view on it.
> >
> >
> > I expect that to happen in the next years, to my eyes, KiCad to hardware
> > is a bit what GCC was to software decades ago.
> >
> > Open Hardware is slowly becoming more relevant (open compute project, the
> > CERN
> > projects, etc…), and I expect that to grow, specially after all the
> latest
> > KiCad contributions,
> > from features, to building, to everything…
> >
> > Open and free is sustainable. Open always wins in the long term. We need
> to
> > figure out
> > how to fit open for hardware, HP recently jumped on the OCP project,
> they’re
> > building servers
> > and racks based on the OCP designs, It would be awesome if such designs
> > started to happen
> > with KiCad.
> >
> > About the confluence thing, It just works, and core project participants
> are
> > software/hardware
> > developers, nobody of us wish to spend his time in maintaining or
> developing
> > a web, the problem
> > with lots of common open source software/CMS for the web is
> maintainability,
> > security, fixes.
> >
> > Something based in RST & compilation to HTML + a cute design would be
> > awesome, because
> > it would foster developer participation in the website maintenance.
> >
> > If someone is volunteering to do such thing, go ahead, prove it’s better
> > than the current solution,
> > I can provide a build server & hosting, repoint the DNSs, whatever is
> > needed, but It’s not something
> > I would do myself, as I prefer to invest my little little time in
> > KiCad+python development, that it’s the
> > important thing for us.
> >
> >
> > Cheers!, and freedom ;)
> >
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> Mark
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