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[Lance Doiron <ldoiron17@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for the insight I will look into it!

Lance Doiron
Electrical Engineer
207.289.5500


On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Lance,
>
> Thank you for considering KiCad as a place to spend some of your time
> to help out KiCad.
>
> For general information on how to get started, please have a look at
> [1] and look at [2] for some ideas on where to start. I have tried to
> list some possible "easy" issues on [2]. But other than that, try to
> browse the issue tracker (I suggest chronologically) and see if there
> are some issues that you fell that you can handle and try to fix them.
>
> For more handholding and direct response, you might want to join our
> IRC channel #kicad@freenode, there you might be able to gain some
> realtime help if you will need it.
>
> Regards
> Nick
>
> [1] http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/DEV/Getting+Started
> [2] http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/DEV/How+to+Contribute
>
> 2015-08-14 14:18 GMT+02:00 Lance Doiron <ldoiron17@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Kicad Team,
> >
> > I am an EE by training and have a passion for open source anything. I am
> > currently designing an open source motor drive for teaching the DIY
> hacker
> > crowd about how PID loops, motor control etc works. I see that Kicad has
> > potential, and also that Kicad has very few people working on it to make
> it
> > better.
> >
> > I would like to help fix Kicad bugs, which is something only a handful of
> > crazy nut jobs have said before. I have programmed in Java and python
> > before, and dabbled in C++. I am not totally inept when it comes to
> > algorithmic coding, however I am not well versed in how OS programs run
> or
> > interact with the OS. If somebody who is working on Kicad is willing to
> > trade a little bit of hand holding for another person on board to help
> make
> > Kicad the next Ubuntu for PCB design, I am willing to help.
> >
> > I was planning on learning either C++ or Scala to write a desktop app for
> > interfacing with my new motor drive so I would already be putting the
> time
> > in to get semi proficient at C++.  I don't have 40 hours a week to put
> in,
> > but I would assume anything is better than nothing!
> >
> > Lance Doiron
> > Electrical Engineer
> > 207.289.5500
> >
> >
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