[Fedora Robotics] Greetings

[John McLean]

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> 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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