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Re: Helping out with Kicad

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Yes, I'm scheduling some time this morning to create a test subdomain, so we can all see, 
decide, and move on.

Confluence is too unstable for the amount of traffic we serve.

Nick Østergaard wrote:

Yeah I now noticed that, alternatively you can use the google cache
for now.  As probably mentioned earlier we are in the process of
creating a new website, so the links might change anyway -- when we
are done...

2015-08-18 23:25 GMT+02:00 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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