Well done! This is much better. Thank you to everyone who stepped up to make this happen.
Cheers, Wayne On 8/26/2015 5:31 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote: > Hello KiCad developers > > We are happy to announce a new website for KiCad, this instead of the > old website system which was using Confluence, that has proved very > unstable. > > The goal of this new website is to be the go to place for official > KiCad information and should support some way of having regular KiCad > users contribute to the site, let that be fixing typing mistakes or > just improving the content in what ever way seems fit. > > This time around we have taken a new approach, instead of using the > monster of confluence, we have choosen Hugo, a static site generator. > This should make sure that the requirements for the hosting server is > quite low, and should help increasing the availability of the site. > Although KiCad itself does not run on mobile devices (think > smartphones and the like) the website should be way more appealing on > theese platforms too. > > I would like to thank especially Mark Roszko for helping me out with > actually developing the site and have done a quite substantial amount > of work in this regard. There are other people which has contributed > with different pieces of the site too, I will also thank them and I > will list their github usernames here for reference. The list is > listed approximately with the amount of changes the person has > contribuated with. Largest ammount of work contributed on top. > > Thor-Arne > Caerbannog > tfboy > cpavlina > reportingsjr > adamwolf > mangelajo > carycode > marcos-paltatech > > The site still needs some fixes here and there, and new people are > still contributing, but I choose to ask Ajo to enable it now, since it > is mostly done and the confluence site has had something in the order > of 95% downtime. A site in progress is way better than a site down. > > Contributions are made on https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-website/ > > I also thank various people for their general feedback, that I have > received and tried to take into account when appropiate. > > Regards > Nick Østergaard > > _______________________________________________ > 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
