Fedora Robotics SIG

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Hello Fedora Community,

@cottsay and I would like to re-bootstrap the Robotics SIG, not as a spin but as a Fedora SIG, maybe as an IOT “sub-group” if it makes sense.

The initial proposal for this SIG is to enable robotics projects in Fedora, starting with ROS2, which has a huge community and is an “kind of” supported platform in ROS2.

ROS2 has several “platform tier levels” and Fedora would start being a tier 3 supported platform[0] for their rolling releases for now, meaning that we would provide some documentation on how to use ROS2 in Fedora and possibly a developer environment in a container/toolbox[1];

It is important to note what “enable ROS2” in Fedora means, at least in this initial phase: ROS2 has its own build system and their packaging process is a bit different from Fedora’s, so the first goal it to ensure that we are able to build ROS2 from source in Fedora, i.e. in a container, and figure out how both communities can work together, including build system/packaging wise.

That being said, we are want to kickstart things with a bi-weekly community office hours , the initial proposal being every other Thursday at 4PM UTC.

Any feedback and interest is welcome!

[0] - https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/rep/pull/376
[1] - https://github.com/odra/ros2-fedora-toolbox

Regards,

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I’m interested! This sounds great (and very in line with Objective Review: More (active) SIGs, fewer images).

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I am very interested in this, we are working on RISC-V on this.

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Hi! I’d be interested in helping.

I’ve been looking for a way to get more involved in the ROS and Fedora communities.

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Hello all,

We have created an entry in the SIGs calendar with the proposed date and time of the original post in this thread: SIGs - Fedocal.

The first meeting will be happening next week on May 11.

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