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["A. V. Dolganoff" <adolganov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Salut to fellow Frenchie ;)

Can you elaborate more on what aspects of Kicad you didn't like the
most the last time?

a+, Alexei.

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Benoît Roehr <benoit.roehr.ec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> First of all I really want to thank you all for the great improvements KiCad
> had recently. The last time I tried to use it (about a year ago) I made the
> decision to return to Altium because of the lake of important features.
>
> Now that CERN is also on board, switching to KiCad, helping and following
> the development sounds really exciting :}
>
> A bit about me: I live in Strasbourg and I work for the Strasbourg
> University in Cronenbourg as an electronic technician since one week. Before
> that I was one of the head hardware designer of Ideovitra, and I worked on
> the sensybee products for two years.
>
> My competences are quite wide: schematic capture and routing, board
> prototyping and repairing, python, LabView and C++... I haven't done a lot
> of code for computers, as I mostly make program for microcontrollers.
>
> I would be really glade to participate in the development of KiCad. I used
> Altium a lot and at the moment it is still my favorite EDA, but Altium is
> far from perfect. For example, the library management is very daunting, and
> of course, it's not free and opensource.
>
> These next days, I will think about a project I could realize with KiCad to
> take it on hand and dig into while keeping notes about what could be
> improved, and/or bugs.
>
> Also, if help is needed somewhere else, just tell me what I can do I will
> help, for sure.
>
> Cheers,
> Benoît
>
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