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[Lance Doiron <ldoiron17@xxxxxxxxx>]

It seems that the server for the domain is having some issues at the
moment, I a got a 504 (Gateway Timeout) error.

Lance Doiron
Electrical Engineer
207.289.5500


On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Lance Doiron <ldoiron17@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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