My bad, it looks like you first have to be part of the kicad-lib-committers team to subscribe. What I suggest is you do a first contribution without it, and if you wish to contribute further, we will add you to the team.
We will continue this in a personal conversation. Carl On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:37 PM, A. V. Dolganoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, this is one fine place to start, why not. Is this list by invite > only? I cannot see a "subscribe to " anywhere: > https://launchpad.net/~kicad-lib-committers ? > > Alexei > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Carl Poirier <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Alexei, > > > > One area you can easily give a hand is in the libraries. We have devised > a > > set of rules a few months ago which form our Library Convention. We have > yet > > to adjust all the symbols and footprints to respect these rules, and we > need > > as well to approve all the pull requests coming in. There is therefore no > > development experience needed. > > > > If this is of interest to you, I suggest you join the > kicad-lib-committers > > mailing list, and we can start off something from there. > > > > Regards, > > > > Carl Poirier > > > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:18 PM, A. V. Dolganoff <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Hello, everybody, > >> > >> I've joined the team and the list just few hours ago after quite some > >> time spent in kicad-users list/group and other forums because I think > >> Kicad has great future and is worth to contribute too. > >> Few words about me: I live near Paris and work in software industry, I > >> am an ERP consultant by trade (ERP=Enterprise Ressource Planning, > >> mainly SAP, Oracle Apps and Peoplesoft, my job has nothing to do with > >> electronics whatsoever), and I am an electronics hobbyist and musician > >> during my off-hours, so naturally my electronics projects always > >> gravitate to music-related electronics. > >> I've switched to Kicad few years ago because it does most of I want > >> from an EDA, is free and evolves constantly! > >> I am starting to release my projects under Open Hardware license and > >> Kicad fits there perfectly. At the same time I am able to sell some of > >> my designs, nothing to blow your mind financially, I am just able to > >> offset some of my hobby expenses... > >> > >> Now, I would like to contribute something. The thing is I am not a > >> great developer (not a developer at all in fact...), but I could take > >> some tasks related to documentation, tutorials and such. > >> My English is not my native language, maybe I could start with some > >> French translations or something of the sorts? > >> > >> If you have any docs introducing new participants to the toolchain, > >> general practices, what steps to take at first etc., I am happy to > >> start anywhere! > >> > >> Cheers, Alexei > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > >
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