[OpenStack-docs] Diagram recommendations for Openstack Contributor Guides

Shaun O'Meara someara at mirantis.com
Fri May 13 10:48:51 UTC 2016


I have reached out to Lucidchart and will share there response as soon as
they get back to me with a concrete answer.

One of things I like about Lucidchart is that we can create templates for
diagrams that can help with maintaining a particular style.


On Friday, May 13, 2016, darren chan <dazzachan at yahoo.com.au
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dazzachan at yahoo.com.au');>> wrote:

> It is very time consuming creating and editing diagrams in Inkscape
> compared to using proprietary tools like Omnigraffle. We need to recommend
> one tool that is relatively easy to use and minimises time and effort
> producing diagrams. This will encourage more people to contribute to
> diagrams.
>
> Shaun mentioned to me Lucidchart can provide free licences for open source
> projects. In fact, we could investigate which proprietary tools will offer
> free licences for upstream use.
>
>
> On Friday, 13 May 2016, 19:48, Christian Berendt <christian at berendt.io>
> wrote:
>
>
> On 13 May 2016 at 10:34:48, Shaun OMeara (shaun at omeara.co.za) wrote:
> > > Opensource
>
> With this requirement we are only able to use Inkscape, it is the only
> listed open source software.
>
> Omnigraffle, DrawSVG, and Lucidchart are not open sourced.
>
> I would prefer to not rely on hosted services like Lucidchart and DrawSVG.
> This way we are depending on the availability of a 3rd party service
> provider.
>
> Christian.
>
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