For some reason the images are displayed in my inbox but not in the launchpad website. See below:
https://www.flickr.com/gp/mrkindustries/t62h47 I agree about moving the demos out of the source code, but its a long shot for me to suggest that, I don't know what its the best way to have the projects available for the packagers. It could be a git repo for packagers or a URL for the user to download the projects. Marcos On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Nick Østergaard <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it is a good idea to have easily accessible demo projects in > kicad, but I do also agree that they don't nessesarely in the source > repo, they could be kept somewhere else for the packagers to package. > > 2015-06-22 15:33 GMT+02:00 Mário Luzeiro <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > > > My opinions / ideas about this: > > I prefer that non-source code stuff could move out from the source code > repository. > > Unless it is for example a test data (test board) to validate and test > the development. > > I see right now the demos/ folder is almost 8MB of data. > > > > I am not sure about to add this demos to a release package, but I may > prefer or think that it would be amazing if this type of things could be > keep online in the appropriate webpage that users can find it easily and > try it. > > Example: a demos page that anyone (from kicad dev) can update the demos > and the page to work as online show off and that people can download > whatever they way. > > Otherway, I believe adding this demos to a package (with all 3D and > stuff)... will start to increase a lot the package size. > > > > Other idea but now easily possible would be to add a "welcome" tab in > Kicad where people can get some examples to play with.. but again, as a > user I dont like it much and I prefer a clean and tight software.. > > > > My2cents! > > Mario Luzeiro > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro= > [email protected]] on behalf of Marcos Chaparro [ > [email protected]] > > Sent: 22 June 2015 06:16 > > To: KiCad Developers > > Subject: [Kicad-developers] Include open source boards as demo projects? > > > > Hi, > > A moment ago I had the idea of include open source projects in the demos/ > > directory. > > > > There are enough high quality open source projects out there, most of > them > > would be happy to be included in kicad, its a way for them to get closer > to > > the community. It is also a way for kicad to get closer to that > community. > > > > We were going to include just screenshots of these projects in the web > > page, maybe its a good chance to get that a bit further and let new users > > open what they see in the webpage. > > > > I could get in contact with some hw developers to ask them if they want > to > > be included in kicad, but its up to you guys to decide wether this is > > a,good idea or not. > > > > Here are some screenshots of what we could gather from the internet so > you > > can see the actual status. As you can see, most of them would need some > 3D > > models and some revew to check if its well designed. > > > > Unertooth > > [image: Inline image 1] > > HackRF > > [image: Inline image 3] > > VESC with walter's 3D models > > [image: Inline image 4] > > Saturn > > [image: Inline image 2] > > Rusefi > > > > > > Is this a good idea for the release? > > > > > > Marcos > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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