A Dimarts 30 Setembre 2008, Jose Luis Blanco va escriure: > Hi everyone! > > As researcher in robotics, I really like the idea of a robotics division > within debian/science. Thanks > IMHO, an essential package missing in [3] is the Player project (old > player/stage), already in debian (package "robot-player"). Done, I have added it. > And I'd also > add (but this opinion is biased since I'm the author...) the Mobile > Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT) package, currently in the New queue of > Debian. Sure, I know it. I read debian mentors ;-) > Another good library (I think still not debianized) which would fit is > VXL (algebra, computer vision,...). Ok, I prepare the template to add. Think that I fill a text file and after is created the the web page. So, the changes, if there's no erros need some time. > Best, > Jose Luis Estamos en contacto!! Leo > Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: > > [Please follow up to debian-science] > > > > Dear people, > > > > first of all I would like to apologise because I have "BCC" this mail to > > people that I think that use debian (or ubuntu) and has relation with the > > robotics area and they are not subscribe to this list. If I'm wrong, > > sorry for the noise and move this mail to /dev/null. ;-) > > > > OTOH, if it's your case, and you know people that are interested, please, > > FF this message. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >------ What's debian-science? > > > > From [1] , the goals are: > > - Provide to researchers and scientists better experience when using > > Debian. - Classify, package and distribute free software useful to > > science and research. > > - Support any quality efforts around free scientific software. > > - Maintaining the Debian Science CDD [2] > > > > You can use Debian Science perfectly as you are using Debian because it > > is a completely internal project and is nothing else than Debian itself. > > We just felt a need to found a team that works as a strike force for > > scientific software inside Debian. > > > > #metapackages provide an easy way of installing a range of software > > appropriate to your particular field. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >------ > > > > In general, all of us use a collection of packages that are common in the > > scientific area. Under the umbrella of debian science, I would like to > > ask if someone are interested in create some kind of group to create and > > maintain software packages in the robotics area. > > > > I have added to this mail people that I know that don't know how to > > create packages, but they are users (and developers) and their > > collaboration with ideas about interesting software or bugs or whatever > > is important. > > > > Also, I have added people that has their own custom debian distribution > > based on debian (or ubuntu) and their collaboration joining efforts to > > maintain some packages could be decisive. I should mention that the > > robotics area is very wide but there's a part that has a special relation > > with the hardware (robots, devices, ...) that has some specific > > constraints: realtime kernels and drivers. > > > > OTOH, you cannot underestimate all the people that their work in the > > robotics area is based on simulations or planning, where many times use > > software of the games and they don't depend on any specific hardware. > > > > To many kind of packages could go there, and a lot of tasks could be > > defined. This mail is just a first approach to try to work together, to > > share opinions (problems) to see if it could be done or not. I did a > > first fast and dirty propose of packages (done or to package) [3]. The > > responsible tag is that i have propose it. > > > > If you are interested, please reply to the debian science list. If the > > group is consolided, we can ask to create a specific list, but. > > > > Opinions, ideas? > > > > > > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience > > [2] http://people.debian.org/~tille/cdd/ > > [3] http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/robotics.html > > -- > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Jose-Luis Blanco-Claraco Phone: +34 952 132848 > Dpto. Ingenieria de Sistemas y Automatica > E.T.S.I. Telecomunicacion Fax: +34 952 133361 > Universidad de Malaga > Campus Universitario de Teatinos > 29071 Malaga, Spain > > http://www.isa.uma.es/jlblanco > ___________________________________________________________ -- -- Linux User 152692 PGP: 0xF944807E Catalonia
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