Thank you for the insight I will look into it! Lance Doiron Electrical Engineer 207.289.5500
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Nick Østergaard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lance, > > Thank you for considering KiCad as a place to spend some of your time > to help out KiCad. > > For general information on how to get started, please have a look at > [1] and look at [2] for some ideas on where to start. I have tried to > list some possible "easy" issues on [2]. But other than that, try to > browse the issue tracker (I suggest chronologically) and see if there > are some issues that you fell that you can handle and try to fix them. > > For more handholding and direct response, you might want to join our > IRC channel #kicad@freenode, there you might be able to gain some > realtime help if you will need it. > > Regards > Nick > > [1] http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/DEV/Getting+Started > [2] http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/DEV/How+to+Contribute > > 2015-08-14 14:18 GMT+02:00 Lance Doiron <[email protected]>: > > Kicad Team, > > > > I am an EE by training and have a passion for open source anything. I am > > currently designing an open source motor drive for teaching the DIY > hacker > > crowd about how PID loops, motor control etc works. I see that Kicad has > > potential, and also that Kicad has very few people working on it to make > it > > better. > > > > I would like to help fix Kicad bugs, which is something only a handful of > > crazy nut jobs have said before. I have programmed in Java and python > > before, and dabbled in C++. I am not totally inept when it comes to > > algorithmic coding, however I am not well versed in how OS programs run > or > > interact with the OS. If somebody who is working on Kicad is willing to > > trade a little bit of hand holding for another person on board to help > make > > Kicad the next Ubuntu for PCB design, I am willing to help. > > > > I was planning on learning either C++ or Scala to write a desktop app for > > interfacing with my new motor drive so I would already be putting the > time > > in to get semi proficient at C++. I don't have 40 hours a week to put > in, > > but I would assume anything is better than nothing! > > > > Lance Doiron > > Electrical Engineer > > 207.289.5500 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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