[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>>  
>        www.niemueller.de <http://www.niemueller.de>
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