The stable release is coming soon, but we are still missing a clear and simple website, presenting the features of Kicad, an extract of project status and simple links for downloads & donations.
Therefore, we, the Kicad devs, are asking for your help! Are there any folks here with web design skills who would be willing to contribute to Kicad’s webpage?
Cheers,
Tom
PS. Here’s my small attempt to make a simple website with Bootstrap link, but I lack graphics design skills and time to finish it…
If you are planning on moving KiCad development to Github (maybe you already have), can you use their Github Pages stuff to generate your website? I think that would work as long as you’re doing a static site.
Hi Tom,
I’m glad to know a new stable release is comming. However I would rather to put efforts in arrange the fragmentation of the Kicad community support. Here’re some support channels we can find right now:
Kicad INFO
Launchpad
kicad-users (Yahoo group)
GitHub
other?
From my point of view I would keep the Kicad INFO for most users and Launchpad for developers and bug report. The rest just adds confusion and duplication of information.
KiCad.info is not an official part of the project, just a resource set up for users to discuss. kicad.org continues to be the official home of information about the software, I believe that is what the discussion is about here.
And someone has got to teach people on the yahoo mailing list to not keep posting all the content of the post they are replying to.
The same goes for posting html emails there.
Sometimes one has to go through pages and pages of “old crap” just to get to the new content. It is not hard to add a “plain text domain” in the mail client.
Well, I suppose I’m accustomed to use centralized rather than distributed resources. But besides madworm’s explanation what’s the difference between INFO and kicad-users? I have to admit that is hard to understand using Yahoo in an open source project.
