Re: User contributions

Steven Rubin <[email protected]> Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:41:47 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cad.electric.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 12:44 PM 6/3/2007, you wrote:
>Is there any plan for making user contributions to Electric
>development easier? What is missing, is a community based platform for
>exchanging designs, libraries, configurations, scripts and patches
>that are not necessarily suitable for upstream.
>
>There are two ideas that look sensible to me:
>- (simple) setting up an Electric wiki (or similar solution),
>- (more complex) modifying Electric to run as a Web Start application
>and integrating it with above mentioned wiki. It wouldn't have to be
>as hard as it seems at first as Electric already has some relevant
>features (implemented in java, built in revision control etc). This
>could open a possibility to create a platform for exchanging
>electronic designs (think YouTube for EE's)

This all sounds like a good idea.  What we need is someone who can do 
these things.  Are you the one?

    -Steven Rubin