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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been working on Kicad for years.  The majority of the time, I've been
working on user experience enhancements.  This includes things like
frequent builds.

I think our website could use some improvement. I like confluence, and
don't necessarily think we need to change engines.

Personally, I will work on the website when it's the best thing I can do
for Kicad.  Right now, the best thing I can do is work on getting up to
date installers on Mac, Windows, and Linux, that are easy to use and fit in
with how users of those platforms like to work.

Kicad doesn't have the best web presence of any open source project--but
I'd be even more ashamed if we had an amazing website and the newest
installers were years old. :)

The Kicad web presence used to be much worse than it is now--and we have a
bunch of people to thank for it now, including Nick and Miguel. Thanks!

If you're volunteering to help out, a good way to start would be to post
some ideas here, do some quick mockups, and see what the project leads
think.  We're a pretty friendly group!

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
Wayne and Layne LLC
On Mar 20, 2015 4:35 PM, "Mário Luzeiro" <mrluzeiro@xxxxx> wrote:

> > In the user perspective, as I pointed before, is not just the content
> but the message and the way it is perceived in the other side.
>
> I've just found a post in kicad.info posted 5 days ago by a user, with
> one example that illustrate the perception and the first impression that
> someone got:
>
> https://forum.kicad.info/t/eager-to-begin-but-dont-know-how/700
>
> hast66: "On most software sites I see a green download button and within a
> few minutes one can start working with the latest updated vesion. I'm
> missing such a button on Kicad homepage. I read about builds, old stable
> and since english is not my motherlanguage, I'm losing track."
> nickoe: "So you never arrived to this page?
> http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/Installing+KiCad";
> hast66: "yes I've read that page but as said, my English is not so good.
> And when I read words like "testing purposes" and "bugs", I'm not so eager
> to download.
> I believe that a simple green dowload button which leads to the latest
> stable version would increase the number of Kicad users.
>  At your link, should I just DL one of the 11 march versions or is there
> someting more to do. (I'm on Windows 7)
> What is the difference with the earlier versions?"
>
> It is very clear from this, what this type of user was expecting, the
> fears and as a bonus he gives some suggestions... and download and install
> kicad ! :) .. but maybe others didn't install it because that :/
>
> Regards,
> Mario Luzeiro
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