Linuxcnc pro/paid?

As a complete beginner I found the forum to be extremely responsive. Most of my issues were hardware related.

Most (all?) open source development is managed with mailing lists. It would probably be useful to have someone feed things asked in the forums frequently to the dev mailing list.

It's true though, LinuxCNC could see a lot of industrial use if someone offered paid support.

Hypnotoad wrote:

As a complete beginner I found the forum to be extremely responsive. Most of my issues were hardware related.

Most (all?) open source development is managed with mailing lists. It would probably be useful to have someone feed things asked in the forums frequently to the dev mailing list.

It's true though, LinuxCNC could see a lot of industrial use if someone offered paid support.

I have had mixed responses. I have only had to come here for support a handful of times and sometimes it has been quick and helpful. Other times I have waited days for a response. If this was a hobby machine that wouldn't be a problem but when I have a project sitting on the machine for 5 days that I need to get done one starts to see the value of instant support even if it costs a little bit.

cncbasher wrote:

i do at times take on paid work , depends on whats needed etc ,

Would you or anyone else be interested in trying to start up a paid/more supported channel of linuxcnc? I know that many developers have jobs and work in their spare time but if we could find a couple people who were interested in trading more time for more money it might be worth putting in some effort to see where it could go.
Even a crowdfunding campaign to see if it could get enough initial funding to start it up and pay for someones time. If it falls short then oh well.
I have seen some ridiculously lousy CNC type projects do way too well on kickstarter and the like. Little machines made out of MDF and plastic cut out on another little ghetto machine that brought in bucketloads of money. Of course they had good videos and marketing and that is one other thing I am not good at.

I am not even set on the paid thing but just doing something to bring more accessibility, more ease of use and hopefully even more development to linuxcnc. I think with small changes to the format that linuxcnc could be more popular. More popular and a more open energetic community means more people involved. More people involved means a shared workload. Experienced community members answering questions instead of only moderators feeling obligated to do so because they are the only ones there.

The DIY cnc scene is blowing up right now. Why is linuxcnc lurking in the shadows?

I and many others on here want to help when we can. The problem is that most all of us users also have full time gigs elsewhere. That combined with other life makes it hard to respond to every post on here or through the mailing list etc.

If your question is not getting answered and you need a response be sure to keep posting about it and nag us so we know how urgent it is.

I sometimes look at a post and think that I could help with that, but life gets in the way and I don't ever get back to the post.

As you see today once it was made clear that you needed an answer right away you had three very capable users helping right away to get the problem solved.

LinuxCNC isn't so far in the shadows that Autodesk don't supply a postprocessor

It is just not named properly. LOL!

yoshimitsuspeed:
you will find Linuxcnc people ,and moderators spend a lot of their time developing for linuxcnc , so it's not always about Money , to get things done .
we all trade time and assist everyone , and in some cases , considerable time to take things further, some are paid yes as it encroaches on their profession . this may be contrary to other forums , but it works ! ,
ultimately paid or not , it all gets filtered into the mainstream more times than not .

if there is something you feel needs adding or maybe a bug , then make a post about it , and make your point . ideally if a bug , post full code showing the possible error , and the details why you think that .
and it will be looked at .

Just because you may not get an immediate answer , does not mean someone is not looking , some areas take a lot of debugging to be correct .

as an instance i'm currently looking at Pathpilot , for a number of forum members .
most moderators have there specific areas of interest , which tend to get looked at first .

and in some cases it can take 2 maybe 3 moderators to solve a problem , in the background , even if the problem seems easy on the surface .

so don't be disheartend if you feel your being neglected just bump the thread , or simply ask .

hope this helps .