KiCad Project Status

Wayne S

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This talk from Wayne Stambaugh, KiCad project leader, will be a full overview of the current KiCad project status including the recently released version 8 and the upcoming version 9 development. The talk will also include a brief history of KiCad for a fun look back on the birth and development of the project over time.

KiCad is an open source software suite for Electronic Design Automation. The goal of the KiCad project is to provide the best possible cross platform electronics design application for professional electronics designers.

Wayne Stambaugh is the KiCad project leader. Before KiCad he was a full time EE for 32 year with a broad range of electronics design experience and embedded and application software development. Stambaugh has been with the KiCad project since 2007 and the project leader since 2011.