FreeCAD News

We recent­ly post­ed about the planned FreeCAD activ­i­ties around FOSDEM 2026. These include the FreeCAD Day on the 30^th Jan­u­ary and the joint KiCad/FreeCAD booth at FOSDEM itself on the 31^st and 1^st. We also men­tioned that Chris Hennes (@chennes) and Jo Hinch­liffe (@concretedog) are co-ordi­nat­ing the Open Hard­ware CAD/CAM room talk track at FOSDEM on Sun­day the 1^st February.

We are real­ly pleased to announce the, most­ly, con­firmed speak­er line up for the room and it’s look­ing fab­u­lous. It’s great to see a real diver­si­ty of talks and top­ics. There are some clas­sic talks for this room, with KiCad and FreeCAD state of affairs talks, as well as an update on KiCon­nect, a work­bench con­nect­ing FreeCAD and KiCad. There’s also “How Open Hard­ware Projects Cre­ate Ecosys­tems” with Arya and Lina.py, and the tan­ta­lis­ing­ly titled “The Black­pants are Pants for your Black­hat” by Ryan Walk­er. There’s also a cou­ple of speak­ers yet to click the “con­firm” but­ton one of which is a talk on Open­Cas­cade Techol­o­gy (OCCT) which we imag­ine will be a pop­u­lar talk for this room. Check out the full list of excel­lent con­firmed talks here.

Mas­sive thanks to every­one who sub­mit­ted pro­pos­als, the appli­ca­tions were all of a great stan­dard and we were indeed over­sub­scribed for the time we have available.