CERN BE-CO-HT Contribution to KiCad

This ohwr.org project has been set up to facilitate the contribution of CERN's BE-CO-HT section to the KiCad Printed Circuit Board design tool development.

KiCad is a Free/Libre Open Source Software Tool which runs on GNU/Linux, Windows and Apple OS X. It is licensed under the GPL license.

The objective of this project is to help enhance KiCad in such a way that it becomes an efficient tool for PCB design which people can use to share their design information without compromising productivity. We do this in close collaboration with the main KiCad developers.

We think that KiCad can do to PCB design what the gcc compiler did to software: ensure there are no artificial barriers to sharing so that design and development knowledge can flow more freely.

This contribution is part of our efforts in Open Source Hardware. We describe our planned tasks and their progress using a list of work packages.

Contributions to KiCad will happen through the KiCad developers mailing list, in the standard ways defined by the main KiCad developers.



KiCad PCB layout snapshot*

Detailed project information

Want to help?

If you would like to offer a bit of your spare time to help us improving KiCad, below you can find links listing our goals for the next release.

If you need any help, do not hesitate to contact us - we will gladly introduce you to the source code.

Donations

Please visit the CERN & Society donations page if you would like to help us contribute more and faster.

Contacts

Status

25 September 2019

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