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[Mário Luzeiro <mrluzeiro@xxxxx>]

Hi,

My opinions / ideas about this:
I prefer that non-source code stuff could move out from the source code repository.
Unless it is for example a test data (test board) to validate and test the development.
I see right now the demos/ folder is almost 8MB of data.

I am not sure about to add this demos to a release package, but I may prefer or think that it would be amazing if this type of things could be keep online in the appropriate webpage that users can find it easily and try it.
Example: a demos page that anyone (from kicad dev) can update the demos and the page to work as online show off and that people can download whatever they way.
Otherway, I believe adding this demos to a package (with all 3D and stuff)... will start to increase a lot the package size.

Other idea but now easily possible would be to add a "welcome" tab in Kicad where people can get some examples to play with.. but again, as a user I dont like it much and I prefer a clean and tight software..

My2cents!
Mario Luzeiro

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From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua.pt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Marcos Chaparro [nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 22 June 2015 06:16
To: KiCad Developers
Subject: [Kicad-developers] Include open source boards as demo projects?

Hi,
A moment ago I had the idea of include open source projects in the demos/
directory.

There are enough high quality open source projects out there, most of them
would be happy to be included in kicad, its a way for them to get closer to
the community. It is also a way for kicad to get closer to that community.

We were going to include just screenshots of these projects in the web
page, maybe its a good chance to get that a bit further and let new users
open what they see in the webpage.

I could get in contact with some hw developers to ask them if they want to
be included in kicad, but its up to you guys to decide wether this is
a,good idea or not.

Here are some screenshots of what we could gather from the internet so you
can see the actual status. As you can see, most of them would need some 3D
models and some revew to check if its well designed.

Unertooth
[image: Inline image 1]
HackRF
[image: Inline image 3]
VESC with walter's 3D models
[image: Inline image 4]
Saturn
[image: Inline image 2]
Rusefi


Is this a good idea for the release?


Marcos