Hi,

my name is André Dietrich and started using ros 6months ago, for my Phd-thesis 
at the University of Magdeburg. 

http://www-ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/eos/index.shtml.en

The first package i would like to contribute, allows you to call simple shell-
commands also from the launch-file. It is possiblie to subscribe to stdout of a 
shell-command and also to publish inputs to stdin...

use the following link for checkout

svn checkout http://svn.code.sf.net/p/ivs-ros-pkg/code/trunk ivs-ros-pkg

and I put some basic examples into the launchfile-folder....


Regards, André