CERN BE-CO-HT Contribution to KiCad
This 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 GPLv2 license. The objective 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, and to do it in close collaboration with the current 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 intend to describe our planned tasks and their progress using a list of work packages.
There is a Git repository in this project that we use to test ideas and as a handy temporary storage place. Please do not take this as representing in any way whatsoever working code we would like to merge into the KiCad main tree. 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, taken from http://www.kicad-pcb.org*
Donations
Please visit the donations page if you would like to help us contribute more and faster.
Contacts
If you have a question about this project, you can contact Javier Serrano. It is probably wise to read the list of Frequently Asked Questions first.
Status
Date | Event |
11-04-2013 | Project announced in the KiCad developers mailing list |
11-04-2013 | Maciej Sumiński submits a preliminary version of the View component to the KiCad developers list |
09-07-2013 | Maciej Sumiński submits a second release of the View component for testing purposes |