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[Marcos Chaparro <nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

The new site looks amazing, great job guys!


Marcos

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Thor-Arne <lp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> And nice announcement, Nick.
>
> I just want comment that my name deserves to be further down the list,
> several people contributed way more than me.
> My "largest work" was to figure out how github works (and I'm still
> working on that).
>
> Anywas, thanks for beeing a part on creating this new awesome site.
>
> TA
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Nick Østergaard
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 11:31 PM
> To: KiCad Developers
> Subject: [Kicad-developers] Announcing The New Website
>
> 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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