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[Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

The new site looks absolutely phenomenal! Bravo to everyone who worked on
it (especial Mark, wow!)


On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Good work all!
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello KiCad developers
>>
>> We are happy to announce a new website for KiCad, this instead of the
>> old website system which was using Confluence, that has proved very
>> unstable.
>>
>> The goal of this new website is to be the go to place for official
>> KiCad information and should support some way of having regular KiCad
>> users contribute to the site, let that be fixing typing mistakes or
>> just improving the content in what ever way seems fit.
>>
>> This time around we have taken a new approach, instead of using the
>> monster of confluence, we have choosen Hugo, a static site generator.
>> This should make sure that the requirements for the hosting server is
>> quite low, and should help increasing the availability of the site.
>> Although KiCad itself does not run on mobile devices (think
>> smartphones and the like) the website should be way more appealing on
>> theese platforms too.
>>
>> I would like to thank especially Mark Roszko for helping me out with
>> actually developing the site and have done a quite substantial amount
>> of work in this regard. There are other people which has contributed
>> with different pieces of the site too, I will also thank them and I
>> will list their github usernames here for reference. The list is
>> listed approximately with the amount of changes the person has
>> contribuated with. Largest ammount of work contributed on top.
>>
>> Thor-Arne
>> Caerbannog
>> tfboy
>> cpavlina
>> reportingsjr
>> adamwolf
>> mangelajo
>> carycode
>> marcos-paltatech
>>
>> The site still needs some fixes here and there, and new people are
>> still contributing, but I choose to ask Ajo to enable it now, since it
>> is mostly done and the confluence site has had something in the order
>> of 95% downtime. A site in progress is way better than a site down.
>>
>> Contributions are made on https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-website/
>>
>> I also thank various people for their general feedback, that I have
>> received and tried to take into account when appropiate.
>>
>> Regards
>> Nick Østergaard
>>
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