Hello guys, I think it would be quite important that: - the kicad version that you normally gets with apt-get (or equivalent) is updated to a more recent one. - the page https://launchpad.net/kicad gets a little better look and content - the page page kicad.sourceforge.net/ gets deleted.
this is my 2c. cheers Fabrizio On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Dan Chianucci <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm new here, but I've been following for quite a while. I think that what > Dick said is a good idea on the whole. > > A few suggestions for fundraising would be: > > 1) Kick-start: I don't know what the incentives for donating to the project > would be... perhaps a greater say in what gets developed next? > www.kickstart.org > > 2) Google summer of code: Basically get money from google to pay a college > intern to write software. They would need a mentor though and I'm not sure > that there is anyone with enough time to devote to that > I know that the gimp project has used this successfully in the past... > http://code.google.com/soc/ > > 3) Have a donate button somewhere on the website. I'm not sure where the > money would go or if there is some sort of account set up for the Kicad > project. > > 4) I know Fabrizio Tappero mentioned this a few days back, but I really > think that the Kicad website should be centralized. For me at least, it is > very frustrating trying to find something when there are multiple places to > look. > It seems as though some information is in one place and the rest in > another. I think that if everything was centralized it would make fore a > more professional looking website, and in turn make the kicad project as a > whole look > more professional. > here is a link to Fabrizios original post: > https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg07772.html > > 5) Finally, I think that for Kicad to really take off it needs to be > advertised like crazy. Competing products like eagle are constantly > mentioned on sites like hackaday and sparkfun. We should try to > get kicad projects mentioned on tech sites like these. It might not get > the attention of huge corporations, but it would definitely get more > potential users to try kicad. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
