SIGs/Robotics/Meeting-20101110

Fedora Robotics SIG Meeting Minutes 2010-11-10

Meeting Time

• 2010-11-10 1:00 UTC
• #fedora-robotics on freenode

Participants

• Tim Niemueller (timn)
• Rich Mattes (rmattes)
• Hedayat Vatankhah (hedayat)

Agenda

• Package Reviews/Outstanding Tasks/Interesting Software
  • What else do we need for LiveCD
  • Re-evaluate Tasks list, focus on what we have manpower for
  • Re-evaluate Interesting Software list, see if there's still interest/projects are still alive
• Tutorials/Documentation
  • Outlined on Demos page
  • Are our ideas realistic? Upstream-able?
• LiveCD spin
  • Kickstart file
  • Size target (CD? DVD?)
  • Get in touch with Spins SIG?
  • F15 feature (can we pull it off in the next few months?)
• Regular meeting schedule
  • Does it make sense? When is everyone available?
• Blogging/Planet Fedora
  • Start fedora-robotics blog?
  • Blog more often individually about robotics stuff?
• Wiki Page
  • Restructure Robotics wiki items
  • Screenshots of robotics software
  • Descriptive blurbs for software packages
    • What it is, what it's used for, why it makes Fedora awesome, etc.
• Anything else: feel free to edit

Summary

Decisions

• do not focus on additional software to add for now
• have linear ~5 level demo using Fawkes/Player/Stage
• Afterwards present pointers to more in-depth information
• Provide shortcut to pointers for advanced users
• Make Robotics LiveCD a proper Spin
• Make Robotics LiveCD a Fedora 15 Feature
• Prepare spin (kickstart etc.) as we go
• Have development files and IDE on spin
• Blog more about robotics for Fedora Planet
• no specific fedora-robotics blog
• Restructure wiki, give pointers to software

Tasks

• Feature Page (timn)
• Spin page (timn)
• Package list on spin page (all)
• Demo application (timn et al.)
• Prepare advanced documentation overview (hedayat)
• blog more (all)
• featured package descriptions and screenshots (rmattes)
• Restructure wiki page, possibly using boxes (rmattes)
• Spin kickstart (postponed)

Transcript

• File:Fedrobsig20101110.txt Transcript of Fedora Robotics SIG Meeting on 2010-11-10