On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 12:29 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > 2008/5/22 Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Awesome, the Fedora soccer-playing robots are picking up lots of steam! > > Matt Asay is a guy who clearly *gets it* -- notice he points out how any > > "customization" work done by the team, in the form of additional > > software packages they found upstream, they contributed back into > > Fedora. And thanks to our consistent policy of working with upstream, > > and problems we find or fix can be reported back upstream as well for > > the entire FOSS community. Now THAT'S teamwork! > > > Robotics is generally going to be a HUGE PR win for us. Its simply > super sexy....its science-fiction meets reality. > > With that in mind, I've tasked myself with trying to get the Lego > Mindstorm NXT related open source stuff into our distro so we can be > an open development platform for educators working with the Mindstorm > platform. FYI, US First is moving to Mindstorms based platform for its > Tech Challenge competition. If we can get a Mindstorms developmetn > environment out the door that works with the new 'kit' we have an > excellent talking about with middle and high school educators who are > doing robotics in a classroom setting..educators who will be out in > front in terms of grokking technology...people who could learn to > appreciate our message and then go on to preach it in their workplace. > > Here's the problem... like usually..I could easily have misjudged my > ability to get this done on my own. Please, as you talk to people > about this article... and they express any interest in robotics at > all.. please bring up the Robotics SIG... and do mention the fact that > its not just the very specialized robotics we are aiming for. We do > have the ability to get support for the Lego Mindstorm system. I'm > trying to get the open nxt tools into the distro. If the people you > talk to area Mindstorm NXT owners/fanatics and have done any of the > advanced Mindstorms programming in NXC or even the proprietary robotc, > they are potential contributors who are going to do a hell of a lot > better job than me in the long run at maintaining this stuff. Blog about this ASAP! I'll also help push this wherever I can. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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