Hi Fedora users. Responding to Paul's blog entry that we use Fedora on our robots for autonomous robot soccer games and service robotics provoked some echoes. After making it more public what we do on Planet Fedora Jeff Spaleta asked me to start a Robotics SIG - so we do now! I ask everybody who is interested in robotics to join the effort and bring robotics related software into Fedora and make it fit to power robots, to provide educational tools for robotics starters and to make it a good distro to develop for robots in general. I have setup a wiki page at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Robotics. Please visit and add yourself if you are interested. I have tentatively scheduled an IRC meeting for next Wednesday, May 7th at 15:00 UTC on IRC (see wiki page). Let us know if you want to participate but the time just happens not to be when you are awake so that we can agree on a time where we max the number of participants. If there are enough people interested we can think about creating a fedora-robotics-list. My personal interest in this is mobile robotics and embodied artificial intelligence. I think Jeff noted some specific interest in the educational sector of robotics. Robotics is a wide field so we need more people involved, maybe even with other specific interest in particluar sub-domains of the field. The plan is to start identifying interesting software projects that would be worth packaging (and license compatible, always a problem in this field), targeting some robotics-related problems (hardware support comes to my mind) and try to find solutions. Join now, robotics is a lot of fund and many robots can be built with a small budget already. Regards from Aachen, Tim -- Tim Niemueller <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> www.niemueller.de ================================================================= Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
