[Fedora Robotics] Greetings
Hedayat Vatankhah
hedayatv at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 18:35:44 UTC 2008
Hi John,
Welcome! Thank you for this introduction since I was late for the meeting.
Have fun!
Bye,
Hedayat
/*"John McLean" <jesusfreak91 at gmail.com>*/ wrote on 07/03/2008 06:59:59 PM:
> Alright, sounds good. Right now I'm trying to get Player and Stage
> installed on my own system, and I'll do the same with Gazebo. Once
> I've gotten them installed on mine, I'll work on packaging Gazebo.
> You should know I'm pretty new at packaging rpms and such, so it'll
> probably take me a lot longer than it should. Nonetheless, I'll see
> what I can do. :)
>
> --John
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Tim Niemueller <tim at niemueller.de
> <mailto:tim at niemueller.de>> wrote:
>
> John McLean schrieb:
> > I introduced myself yesterday at the meeting on irc, but I'll take a
> > moment to reintroduce myself since only two others were on the
> channel
> > when I introduced myself.
>
> Hi John. Welcome!
>
> > My name is John McLean, and I'm a fedora intern at Red Hat
> working for
> > Greg DeKoenigsberg. I'd like to help out with the robotics SIG, but
> > don't know where to start. I'm starting to learn about the software
> > that's listed on the wiki page, and from what I understand this
> SIG is
> > mainly just trying to get software packaged and in the fedora repos
> > right now. If there's a project within this SIG that needs
> working on,
> > just let me know and I'll start working on it.
>
> That is only half the truth. Packaging is a first step that needs
> to be
> done. Besides providing the basic packages to drive and develop for a
> robot we want to create an educational environment.
>
> We plan to create a LiveCD, that will feature a simulator and simple
> control (and later development) environment, that makes it easy to
> just
> start with robotics. See the robot moving in the (simulated)
> environment, influence it, make it do weird things. Later on the road
> should be integration of a simple development environment that gets
> people started. We have agreed on Player/Stage/Gazebo for a start.
> It is
> widely used and features a 2D and 3D simulator and various sensors and
> actuators that are supported.
>
> I personally would like to see this LiveCD to hand it out to
> interested
> people, to students, to starters, to kids.
>
> We are currently lacking man power, so you are more than welcome!
> Reviews are currently underway for Player and Stage. The next big
> thing
> is fixing these packages to make them suitable for inclusion and push
> possible patches upstream and eventually get Gazebo packaged. This is
> where I could think work could be done by you - investigating on and
> packaging Gazebo.
>
> Besides the LiveCD we want to provide the tool for robotics
> researchers
> and engineers. Thus we need software that is easily extensible. We
> have
> to know what has to happen that someone can make use of Gazebo when it
> is installed system wide. Can new models be added on-the-fly, or is
> re-compilation necessary (we used it here about two years back and at
> that time patching was necessary, this might have changed). What would
> we need to do to improve the situation?
>
> If you want to give it a try I'd say get involved with the
> Player/Stage/Gazebo endeavor. See what's there, start packaging
> Gazebo.
> Find out how it works, how models are included, how it is run and
> used,
> what needs to be patched and fixed.
>
> What do you think, sounds interesting?
>
> Tim
>
> --
> Tim Niemueller <tim at niemueller.de <mailto:tim at niemueller.de>>
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