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.
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.
--John
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
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@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@niemueller.de www.niemueller.de ================================================================= Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)
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Hi John, Welcome! Thank you for this introduction since I was late for the meeting.
Have fun! Bye, Hedayat
/*"John McLean" jesusfreak91@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@niemueller.de mailto:tim@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@niemueller.de <mailto:tim@niemueller.de>> www.niemueller.de <http://www.niemueller.de> ================================================================= Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein) _______________________________________________ Fedora-robotics-list mailing list Fedora-robotics-list@redhat.com <mailto:Fedora-robotics-list@redhat.com> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-robotics-list
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On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:59 PM, John McLean jesusfreak91@gmail.com wrote:
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. :)
Welcome!!
Good start....about packaging gazebo i was looking into it....so anyway lets' bang on and solve all its' problems. We need to get this P/S/G and the one hedayat is doing packaged to give a head way. Drop mail on the list if you get stuck somewhere :)
cheers, Arindam
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Arindam Ghosh schrieb:
Good start....about packaging gazebo i was looking into it....so
Oh, was thinking that you were still busy with Stage. How far did you get, what has been done, do you already know answers for some of the questions I raised?
Tim
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Tim Niemueller tim@niemueller.de wrote:
Arindam Ghosh schrieb:
Good start....about packaging gazebo i was looking into it....so
Oh, was thinking that you were still busy with Stage. How far did you get, what has been done, do you already know answers for some of the questions I raised?
Stage at this point seems to be okay....let player get in repository...then the reviewer can assign a final review :) As for gazebo....i started lookin in the packaging part of it after givin it a mock run.....i should be able to put up a scratch spec file sometime soon, so that john gets some help...
--Arindam
Arindam Ghosh schrieb:
a mock run.....i should be able to put up a scratch spec file sometime soon, so that john gets some help...
Sounds great! Looking forward to see it!
Tim
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