Miscellanea...

1. I was at the EU today, for a contract negotiation. The officer gave
us some `feedforward' information that is both interesting and
relevant for Orocos:
 - the next Framework will (probably) have a (sub)Key-action on
   ``Advanced Control Systems''. And software
   engineering/implementation will be relevant; and the problem of
   real-time switching between controllers too :-)
 - one of the accepted projects has exactly this control switching as
   one of its work packages.
So, maybe some people/groups on this list are interested to prepare a
proposal in this Key-action? For example, to begin a `network' of open
source control software (i.e., general, not just robotics).
On the last Real-time Linux Workshop in Milano, some people were
already playing with this idea anyway.

2. I am preparing the ``Key component'' overview document, and from
the discussions on the mailinglist and other places, I get more and
more the impression that ``networks'' (graphs) will be one of these
key components: we talk about them to model controllers; we will need
them for the kinematic modelling of robot systems; they show up in
sensor processing algorithms (``Bayesian networks,'' neural networks;
...). So, it could be worthwhile to design such a basic class. One
`professional' (open source but not GPL) example could be ``The Boost
Graph Library (BGL)'' <http://www.boost.org/libs/graph/doc/>, built on
top of STL.
Any comments?

Herman