> Something based in RST & compilation to HTML + a cute design would be > awesome, because > it would foster developer participation in the website maintenance.
I was thinking of volunteering to do something like this as I primarily do web development outside my usual work of embedded systems. I think it would be easy to make a very pretty "modern" kicad home page for non developers. I would love to have kicad be more inviting for non devs as the website write now is quite unwelcoming for such users. On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Miguel Ángel Ajo <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday, 20 de March de 2015 at 16:49, Javier Serrano wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Nick Østergaard <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2015-03-20 15:19 GMT+01:00 Mário Luzeiro <[email protected]>: > > This type of support and community is what they expect when pay for a > commercial product... if something is wrong.. they will ask the company for > support.. > But, this is an issue in the opensource software feeling in general. But I > believe some projects are making a good work in give people trust on this > matters. > > > I feel it quite the opposite. For a commercial product it is hard to > get sane support, while open source projects are very easy. > > > I see this as a two-dimensional issue. The opposite of free/open is > proprietary. The opposite of commercial is non-commercial. There are > four possible combinations. I think free/open and commercial is a > winning combination. The software stays free-as-in-freedom, and > free-as-in-free-beer for those who want it that way. If, in addition, > we could find a way to reward those who make KiCad such a great tool, > that can only be good. Look at successful free software projects. Most > of them have a way to reward key contributors. Some people get paid > full-time salaries to contribute to the Linux kernel, the Apache web > server and many other projects. I hope KiCad gets there one day. Sorry > for the digression, but I see this commercial-vs-open issue pop up > often and I thought I'd give my view on it. > > > I expect that to happen in the next years, to my eyes, KiCad to hardware > is a bit what GCC was to software decades ago. > > Open Hardware is slowly becoming more relevant (open compute project, the > CERN > projects, etc…), and I expect that to grow, specially after all the latest > KiCad contributions, > from features, to building, to everything… > > Open and free is sustainable. Open always wins in the long term. We need to > figure out > how to fit open for hardware, HP recently jumped on the OCP project, they’re > building servers > and racks based on the OCP designs, It would be awesome if such designs > started to happen > with KiCad. > > About the confluence thing, It just works, and core project participants are > software/hardware > developers, nobody of us wish to spend his time in maintaining or developing > a web, the problem > with lots of common open source software/CMS for the web is maintainability, > security, fixes. > > Something based in RST & compilation to HTML + a cute design would be > awesome, because > it would foster developer participation in the website maintenance. > > If someone is volunteering to do such thing, go ahead, prove it’s better > than the current solution, > I can provide a build server & hosting, repoint the DNSs, whatever is > needed, but It’s not something > I would do myself, as I prefer to invest my little little time in > KiCad+python development, that it’s the > important thing for us. > > > Cheers!, and freedom ;) > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Mark _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
