Jerry Jacobs is born in 1989 in the Netherlands. He studies currently Telecommunications/ICT. He started using linux and opensource december 2006.

As a electronic and open-source enthusiast I joined the KiCad team to translate it dutch for fun. Also i started learning the basics of C++ programming to hack/learn KiCad. Mostly i do testing of subversion
sourcecode and write documentation and provide feedback to the project. I started learning programming in C for microcontrollers (the Atmel AVR 8bit) during traineeship at Elektor.