Switching from openssl thread to a new one:
> > With GITHUB_PLUGIN now available to ~ 90% of the KiCad user base (omitting > OSX?), I now > look forward to folks putting footprint libraries on github and bragging > about them, under > the leadership of Carl Poirier, who has scripts and know how on how to > publish them so > that they can be "installed" by a single copy and paste through a webbrowser > into the > fp-lib-table editor. > > I look forward to that affecting my productivity in a positive way, so that I > can spend > less time looking for footprints, and more time making boards. > > I would look forward to collaboration on sharing the "pretty on github > publishing" know > how on kicad-pcb.org in the form of documentation, and a link to that write > up making it > to the kicad-user mailing list. Because I think this would spur more > sharing, and yet > again help my productivity in making boards. > > Question: does google index any of the github content, or is it simply too > much? If yes, > then this is yet another way to find KiCad specific footprints rapidly after > this > publishing gets some legs. You should be able to google for > > kicad_mod <package_name> > > and turn up something. > I think it would be great if we could gather up some prizes (cash, goodies) of some kind, and award them to a "best footprint library maintainer" every six months or so. OK, it's out there, now I hope the community can run with this stuff, OK !? (I've got programming work and board work to do. No time for library management, and I don't have the expertise either.) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
