[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [General] [meetings] Call for Contributions:ROS Developers Conference 2018
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Tue Feb 27 09:15:09 UTC 2018
### CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AND PARTICIPATION : ROS Developers Online Conference 2018 ###
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RDC2018 - ROS Developers Conference
A practical online ROS conference for ROS developers worldwide
Date: July 7-8, 2018
Conference website and Registration: http://www.rosdevcon.com
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IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission deadline: April 30, 2018
* Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2018
* Final tutorial submission: June 7, 2018
* Early registration deadline: May 7, 2018
OVERVIEW
The first ROS Developers Online Conference will be held from July 7 to Jul 8, 2018. This is a completely practical conference for ROS developers. The conference aims to connect ROS developers around the world without geographical restrictions and to advance ROS levels through real-time practice.
We will host eight top ROS developers to give tutorials of real ROS projects: during the conference, all participants will program together the projects at the same time with the speaker.
- All the participants will have to practice at the same time with the speaker along the conference.
- No installation of anything required. Only require a computer and internet connection. Any type of computer will work.
- All the participants will have full access to the ROS development studio for programming
- All participants will receive a pdf document with all the steps described during the conference
- All the participants will receive a copy of the ROS Developers Guide e-book.
- Each speech will be 30 minutes plus 10 minutes Q&A.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
* Dr. Enrico Mingo Hoffman (Post-Doc at Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
* Romn Navarro Garca (CTO of Robotnik Automation www.robotnik.com)
CALL FOR TUTORIALS
Full length tutorial: 30 mins
Tutorial should target fields of robotics using ROS and focus on practice, in order to provide a real practical conference to participants and to exchange developing research results and ideas. The submission of a tutorial must contain the following information:
-Title
-Speaker Information
-Statement of objectives: what is your speech about and what are you going to make attendants practice
-Special requests (equipment or other issues)
The proposals must be sent to this address: tutorial at rosdevcon.com
If your tutorial is accepted, you will have to prepare the following material (with our support):
A notebook with the tutorial
Package with pre-defined code for participants
ORGANIZERS
The Construct (http://www.theconstructsim.com/)
You can contact us with questions and doubts here: info at rosdevcon.com
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