KiCad's 2021 End of Year Fund Drive - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: johnboxall
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 08, 2021, 01:21:36 am
content: Part of KiCAD's success is thanks to receiving funding used to accelerate development and cover general costs. Considering the rapid progress that has been made in the past year or two, if you find value in the software - please donate towards the development of KiCAD. $1, $5, $20k, whatever - it all helps. If you're making profitable products using KiCAD, why not donate? And yes, we did.from kicad.orgThanks to a generous donation from KiCad Services Corporation, we are currently running a matching donation campaign through January 15th.All donations will be matched dollar for dollar by KiCad Services. Please consider donating today and make your contribution to KiCad go further than ever.For more information and to donate, see the links at the top ofhttps://www.kicad.org/

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 08, 2021, 01:38:18 am
content: Easy $100 going their way. I just installed nightly builds on my main machine. Over the past couple weeks I migrated all the Eagle libraries I had to KiCad in a VM, and after doing that I don't ever want to launch Eagle ever again. Version 6 finally made KiCad a tool I can use without any major complaints.

author: Warhawk
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 09, 2021, 09:26:14 pm
content: Thanks for the note. i've just donated (again).

author: fourfathom
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 09, 2021, 09:47:56 pm
content: Me too, again. I like V6 (5.99), but V5.xx has been extremely useful.

author: bson
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 19, 2021, 07:53:31 pm
content: Me too, good stuff!

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 19, 2021, 08:14:36 pm
content: Who is Kicad Services and how they are different from Kicad? Who is donating to whom here? It is confusing.

author: bson
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 19, 2021, 08:16:36 pm
content: Quote from: Bud on December 19, 2021, 08:14:36 pmhttps://www.kipro-pcb.com/about-us/

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 20, 2021, 01:55:37 pm
content: Quote from: johnboxall on December 08, 2021, 01:21:36 amSo they are donating to themselves

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 20, 2021, 05:44:37 pm
content: They are making funds available to other developers too, more than two people are working on the project. They had no obligation to put any money in from the business.

author: I wanted a rude username
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2021, 08:45:45 am
content: Just donated. Merry Christmas to everyone involved in KiCad, and thanks for this excellent tool.

author: voltsandjolts
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 23, 2021, 01:27:28 pm
content: Well, I'm an Altium user but I just donated too....

author: nfmax
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2021, 01:54:52 pm
content: I have given them a £20 Christmas present

author: JohanH
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 25, 2021, 11:27:52 am
content: Hobbyist here, donated!

author: IanJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 09, 2022, 03:16:54 pm
content: Donated.Yep, I think it's time to move to KiCad (currently using CircuitStudio).V6, what a great start!Ian.