Re: [Fedora Robotics] Greetings

Hedayat Vatankhah <hedayatv@xxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:05:44 +0430

Hi John,
Welcome! Thank you for this introduction since I was late for the meeting.

Have fun!
Bye,
Hedayat

/*"John McLean" <jesusfreak91@xxxxxxxxx>*/ 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

<mailto:tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> 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

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