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Kicad is amazing. I was trying to contribute a while ago. But setting everything up and compiling is a bit tricky. I think I will give it another shot.

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Following their docs and noting any difficulties might be helpful even if you don't get to any actual coding.

Same for me. I wanted to contribute, but the amount of dependencies needed to get a local build to run was a major hurdle.

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