[Fedora Robotics] Robotics SIG update

[Hedayat Vatankhah]

  Hi all,

/*Rich Mattes <richmattes at gmail.com>*/ wrote on 08/25/2010 9:07:23 AM +0450:
>    On 8/24/2010 9:36 PM, Tim Niemueller wrote:
> [...]
> The discussions we had in IRC the last time we met about creating some
> sort of 'game' environment for Player and Stage fit right into the
> educational goals discussed above.  Tutorials and examples like Tim is
> suggesting would serve as a great jumping-off point for people to get
> started with robot programming.  The availability of Python bindings to
> Player is also a boon to the effort; Python is a very easy language to
> pick up, is script-able, and can even be used interactively in the shell
> to control a bot (if you can type fast enough!)  I'm happy to spend some
> time getting a plan together and running it by the rest of the Player
> devs, but I think that the goals of the SIG and upstream align quite a bit.
Nice to see some non-spam activity again ;)
I fully agree with having the demo program(s) inside the existing 
upstream projects (or creating an upstream project), since I think it is 
a better place to maintain such demos. As Tim said, the demo has many 
areas to advance so it'll (hopefully) become a real project rather than 
some few lines of code as a trivial package maintained by a package 
maintainer.

I'll think about the questions Tim asked in the last part of his email 
and answer later :P

Good luck,
Hedayat

> As far as the live cd, I think we should obviously plan on including as
> many of the robotics packages as we can (mrpt, rcss*, opencv,p/s/g,
> gearbox, fawkes, urg, etc) on top of the base desktop image.  We can
> strip out things like office, games and productivity, but adding the
> -devel packages and devtools is going to take up quite a bit of space.
> I'd also like to make sure that all of our packages are aligned with the
> latest upstream releases, and put a lot of effort into upstreaming any
> of the changes or enhancements we make.  Finally, we should definitely
> submit it as a Fedora feature once we get our act together; F15/F16
> timeframe is probably realistic.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
>
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