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[Marcos Chaparro <nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

For some reason the images are displayed in my inbox but not in the
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I agree about moving the demos out of the source code, but its a long shot
for me to suggest that, I don't know what its the best way to have the
projects available for the packagers. It could be a git repo for packagers
or a URL for the user to download the projects.





Marcos

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think it is a good idea to have easily accessible demo projects in
> kicad, but I do also agree that they don't nessesarely in the source
> repo, they could be kept somewhere else for the packagers to package.
>
> 2015-06-22 15:33 GMT+02:00 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
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > 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
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