Hi all,

This looks like there's a solid group of people interested in making this
happen.  We haven't officially kicked off the Groovy planning cycle however
we're starting to setup the infrastructure.   I suggest that this be setup
as a SIG for the groovy planning cycle:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Planning

Tully

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Weißhardt, Florian <
Florian.Weisshardt@ipa.fraunhofer.de> wrote:

> Dear ROS Enterprise/ROS Industrial enthusiasts,****
>
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>
> It is great to hear that some people and institutions are forming a group
> now to bring ROS into a challenging field of application: the industrial
> field. This is well inline with the Fraunhofer mission of applied research
> and techtransfer “bridging the gap between research and industry”. We, the
> Service Robotic group at Fraunhofer IPA, are very much interested in
> joining this process. ****
>
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> For those who don’t know us so far: Fraunhofer Association is a German
> Non-Profit Research organization and our institute Fraunhofer IPA has been,
> among others, focusing on Service Robotics in the domestic and industrial
> field for over 50 years. We have been using ROS for over 3 years now and we
> are developing open source software in more 20 ROS Stacks as well as
> supporting the Care-O-bot platform. Besides that we have projects together
> with industrial companies focusing on Service Robotic applications. We
> already started some time ago with transferring (at least some parts of)
> ROS to these industrial projects and of course are curious about seeing
> more of ROS in this field. One example is a successful cooperation with
> Schunk where we offer our support for industrial partners using ROS in
> conjunction with Schunk products like Powercubes, Powerballs, light-weight
> arm LWA3 and industrial grippers.****
>
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>
> Unfortunately we cannot participate in some personal meeting around
> ICRA/ROSCON but still we would like to state our interest in actively
> participating in an ROS Industrial group forming an Enterprise version of
> ROS.****
>
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>
> We would be happy to discuss further details and our possible
> contributions with you.****
>
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>
> Best regards,****
>
> Florian Weisshardt****
>
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>
> ---
> Dipl.-Ing. Florian Weißhardt****
>
> Fraunhofer IPA, Abt. 320/Roboter- und Assistenzsysteme
> Nobelstrasse 12, D-70569 Stuttgart (Germany)
> Phone +49(0)711-970-1046,
> Fax +49(0)711-970-1008
> http://www.ipa.fraunhofer.de/****
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> *Von:* ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org [mailto:
> ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org] *Im Auftrag von *Kartik Babu
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 20. April 2012 01:19
> *An:* User discussions
> *Betreff:* Re: [ros-users] Enterprise Version of ROS****
>
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>
> So, given that there isn't an Enterprise ROS group (yet), can I ask for a
> show of hands for those that are interested in starting the discussion
> while at ROSCON? I'm keen on looking into where/how we can get started on
> some of the tasks discussed in this thread.****
>
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> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Ken Conley <kwc@willowgarage.com> wrote:
> ****
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> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Edwards, Shaun M. <sedwards@swri.org>
> wrote:
> >> Is there already a SIG that would consider this topic or do we need to
> form a new one?  Is there a set time for SIG meetings at ROSCON?
> >
> > The only named SIGs I know about were ad-hoc groups created to do
> > planning for Fuerte. In my view, it was a good idea that worked pretty
> > well.
> >
> >  http://www.ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Planning****
>
> SIGs will be renewed for Groovy fairly soon.  'Renewing' will ensure
> that we only track active SIGs and that there is opportunity to
> reorganize as releases evolve.****
>
>
> >
> > In addition, there are informal groups working on specific project
> > areas, such as Ackermann steering or embedded ROS.
> >
> >  http://www.ros.org/wiki/Ackermann%20Group
> >  http://www.ros.org/news/2010/10/embedded-project-for-ros-eros.html
> >
> > I know of no comprehensive list of such activities.
> >
> > I doubt there is any group working on Enterprise ROS already, but
> > there is enough interest here to form one.
> >
> > The ROScon site mentions space available for Birds-of-a-Feather
> > meetings, hacking, and information presentations.****
>
> +1
>
>  - Ken****
>
>
> >
> >  http://roscon.ros.org/
> > --
> >  joq
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