<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>i m also available on work dayz ......but it would be better on weekends.......</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "fedora-robotics-list-request@redhat.com" <fedora-robotics-list-request@redhat.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> fedora-robotics-list@redhat.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, October 2, 2009 9:30:07 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Fedora-robotics-list Digest, Vol 16, Issue 1<br></font><br>Note: Forwarded message is attached.<br><br> Send Fedora-robotics-list mailing list submissions to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:fedora-robotics-list@redhat.com" href="mailto:fedora-robotics-list@redhat.com">fedora-robotics-list@redhat.com</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-robotics-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-robotics-list</a><br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:fedora-robotics-list-request@redhat.com" href="mailto:fedora-robotics-list-request@redhat.com">fedora-robotics-list-request@redhat.com</a><br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br> <a ymailto="mailto:fedora-robotics-list-owner@redhat.com" href="mailto:fedora-robotics-list-owner@redhat.com">fedora-robotics-list-owner@redhat.com</a><br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Fedora-robotics-list digest..."<br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Reviving Robotics SIG (Tim Niemueller)<br><style>.forwardmsg {border:2px solid;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;padding:0 0 5px;border-color:#dc881e;}.forwardmsg .forwardmsgfname {color:#333333;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;padding: 0.5em 0 0.5em 10px;background-color:fbf5d8;}.forwardmsg .msgheader {background-color:#f6f6f6;border:1px solid #e6e6e6;padding:5px 5px 5px 2px;}.forwardmsg .subjectbar {left:0;padding:0 5px;position:relative;top:0;}.forwardmsg .msgsubject {color:#3f3f3f;float:left;font-size:100%;display:block;font-weight:bold;margin:0.67em 0;line-height:1.2em;}.forwardmsg .date {float:right;font-size:77%}.forwardmsg .clearFloat {clear:both}.forwardmsg .padding2px {padding:2px 0}.forwardmsg .label {color:#7f7f7f;float:left;font-size:10px;padding:0 2px 0 5px;text-align:right;width:3.5em;}.forwardmsg .details {font-size:10px;color:#343434;padding:0 2px 0 5px; position:relative;text-align:left;width:70%}.forwardmsg .abook {float:left;margin-right:3px; text-align:left;width:auto}.forwardmsg .pointer {cursor:pointer}.forwardmsg .blue {color:blue}.forwardmsg .underline {text-decoration:underline}.forwardmsg .displaynone {display:none}.forwardmsg .padding5px {padding:5px}.forwardmsg plainMail {overflow:visible; visibility:visible}</style><div class="forwardmsg"><div class="forwardmsgfname">Fw: [Fedora Robotics] Reviving Robotics SIG</div><div class="msgheader"><div class="subjectbar"><div><h1 class="msgsubject">[Fedora Robotics] Reviving Robotics SIG</h1><div class="date"><nobr>Fri Oct 02 2009 05:01:02 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)</nobr></div><div class="clearFloat"></div></div><div class="clearFloat padding2px"><div class="padding2px"><div class="label">From: </div><div class="details"><div class="abook"><span>"Tim Niemueller" <<a href="mailto:tim@niemueller.de">tim@niemueller.de</a>></span></div><div class="clearFloat"></div></div><div class="clearFloat"></div></div><div class="padding2px"><div class="label">To: </div><div class="details">"Fedora Robotics SIG" <<a href="mailto:fedora-robotics-list@redhat.com">fedora-robotics-list@redhat.com</a>></div><div class="clearFloat"></div> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class="padding5px"><div class="plainMail">Hi all.<br><br>It's been about a year since we last coordinated and met on IRC. Many of<br>us went off at that time for other work (myself for thesis and exams).<br>I'd like to revive the Robotics SIG again, and I hope you can also<br>contribute some time and effort.<br><br>I'm quite happy to announce that we have finally released the Fawkes<br>Robot Software Framework which we use on all of our robots. The website<br>is at <a href="http://www.fawkesrobotics.org" target="_blank">http://www.fawkesrobotics.org</a>. I'm currently working on making it<br>ready for inclusion in Fedora. This brings several components e.g.<br>Player does not provide, most importantly a behavior engine, a scripting<br>environment that allows you to "just make the robot do something" in the<br>simulation environment, something that can become an important part of a<br>demo LiveCD.<br><br>Other major pieces of software we introduced (or wanted to) as Robotics<br>SIG are the Player and Stage packages. Player is in there, but is<br>waiting for a major upgrade. The Stage review stalled and was closed,<br>the Gazebo review never posted. Fortunately I was contacted recently by<br>someone wanting to jump on the Player/Stage train.<br><br>So I would like to coordinate with everybody interested in the Robotics<br>SIG on how to go forward from here. Some things to consider:<br>- Learn about and integrate new people, there have been quite a few new<br> subscriptions to the mailing list, so I hope for more work force :-)<br>- Player/Stage/Gazebo packaging<br>- Fawkes inclusion and small "robotics game" to develop to get the user<br> easily involved in a simulation environment<br>- RoboCup Soccer Server demo apps (maybe available already?)<br>- New software packages to include<br>- Finally prepare for a LiveCD containing all the robot software with an<br> easy to use simulation environment, especially as teaser<br>- Documentation to get people started with robotics (and the LiveCD)<br>- Toby Collet's distro coordination request<br><br>If we have enough interested people we might propose this as a feature<br>for F-13?<br><br>So I think we should discuss a bit and eventually meet on IRC within the<br>next two weeks or so. I'm pretty open on work days, what about you?<br><br>Regards from Aachen,<br> Tim<br><br>-- <br> Tim Niemueller <<a ymailto="mailto:tim@niemueller.de" href="mailto:tim@niemueller.de">tim@niemueller.de</a><span>> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.niemueller.de">www.niemueller.de</a></span><br>=================================================================<br> Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)<br><br><br></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Fedora-robotics-list mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Fedora-robotics-list@redhat.com" href="mailto:Fedora-robotics-list@redhat.com">Fedora-robotics-list@redhat.com</a><br><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-robotics-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-robotics-list</a></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div></div><br> </body></html>