[ros-users] ROS Day @ISR - University of Coimbra

Radu Bogdan Rusu rusu at willowgarage.com
Wed Nov 24 16:52:37 UTC 2010


Goncalo,

That's a great idea! Thanks for sharing it with us, and good luck with the presentations.

If you need anything 3D PCL related, let me know (also - check pcl.ros.org, they might be there).

Cheers,
Radu.


On 11/24/2010 06:21 AM, Gonçalo Cabrita wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> For the past few months me and my colleague Pedro Sousa have been learning ROS and developing nodes for most of the
> hardware we have on our lab. We are now working on documentation and cleaning up our repository.
>
> We believe that our next step should be to share what we have learned so far with the rest of the ISR-Coimbra community
> of professors, students and researchers. For this purpose we came up with the ROS Day.
>
> Our goal is to first of all introduce people in the ISR-Coimbra to ROS, explaining what it can do, what it is meant for
> and how they can benefit from it (and how we can all benefit if we all use the same tools). Secondly we intend to speed
> up the learning process of our colleagues.
>
> To achieve our goals we were thinking about dividing the ROS Day in 2 parts. A first session will consist of a
> presentation with some Q&A at the end. A second session would be somewhat of a workshop where people could bring their
> laptops and we could all do some exploring and coding.
>
> So my question is if anyone has had any experience with this sort of thing before? What kind of topics would be
> interesting to approach for a first contact with ROS? (Always keeping in mind we have just started ourselves!!!)
>
> Also if anyone has got any materials on this subject (like presentations) they would like to share we would be very
> thankful.
>
> Any comments and ideas are also welcome :)
>
> Gonçalo Cabrita
> ISR - University of Coimbra
> Portugal
>
>
>
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