Hi David, thanks for your response.

3.) I'm willing to add anyone who is interested as a developer for
usc-ros-packages, just let me know what changes you have to contribute
and your sourceforge id, and I'll add you. I'm very interested in
building a community of interested and contributing users, and will do
whatever I need to to support it.

I'm currently working on getting the Pionner gripper working via the p2os node and am also interested in controlling a Canon PTZ.  If anyone else has worked on either one of these please let me know.

-Tucker