GCentral
GCentral.org
Frequently Asked Questions
How Do I Get To GCentral?
- Go to GCentral.org
GCentral
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is GCentral?
- GCentral is for programmers who need to find, share or collaborate on G reusable code or software engineering tools. GCentral is a non profit organization that provides a platform for G code packages and collaboration resources.
What problems is GCentral solving?
- G community members are often frustrated when looking for tools and code others have posted on the web. There are too many places to look, and most aren’t easy to find:
- ni.com
- lavag.org
- LabVIEW Tools Network
- NI package manager
- VI Package Manager
- G package manager
- Git repos
- Others
- These locations often don’t reference each other. Therefore, a new or even experienced G community member can easily miss code ALREADY WRITTEN that solves their problem, resulting in wasted time duplicating code.
- Furthermore, should someone want to generously contribute their code, there are significant barriers to build and distribution.
How does GCentral solve these problems?
- GCentral exposes packages of all types (NIPkgs, VIPkgs, GPkgs) through a single web interface. The web interface indexes the main locations of packages.
- GCentral provides software tools to build and move packages to the common locations making it easy to contribute code, and find and use each other's code.
- Ultimately code that's easy to find reduces/eliminates wasted time in re-solving problems, and redirects the community's effort towards new and meaningful innovations.
History
- GCentral was first envisioned by Chris_Cilino_(LabVIEW_Champion) in early 2019.
- Officially incorporated as a Non-Profit, September 18, 2019.
Organization
GCentral is organized as a non-profit with a Board of Directors, Executive Staff, and a Steering Committee. These positions are currently held as follows:
Board of Directors
Executive Staff
- Quentin Alldredge, Secretary
- Chris Cilino, Treasurer
- Open Position, Bookkeeper
- Open Position, Public Relations
Steering Committee
- Michael Aivaliotis
- Brian Hoover
- Jeff Kodosky
- Jon McBee
- Brian Powell
- Michal Radziwon
- Derek Trepanier
Volunteers
Volunteers have been essential in getting GCentral's mission going. This is above the volunteered time of our Board, Staff, and Committee. A few others have volunteered time and effort and have helped in getting a prototype website together. They include:
- Matthias Baudot, Studio Bods
- Siva Shankar, Soliton