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title = "Full Time Project Leader Announcement"
date = "2019-04-30"
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For those of you who did not have the good fortune to attend
https://kicad-kicon.com/[KiCon] (more on that in a later post), there was
a major project announcement made by the project leader during the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL0yTvJKA5c&feature=youtu.be[keynote talk].
The KiCad project is excited to announce that the lead developer, Wayne
Stambaugh, has been hired by https://www.wit.com[WIT] to work full time
on KiCad. On behalf of The KiCad development team and its users, we
would like to say thank you to WIT for its commitment to the project.
We are looking forward to the additional development manpower this will
provide and we hope we can help WIT achieve its goals.
