Re: Introduction

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Cezary Zielinski (Dr) wrote:

> I and my collegues from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, are
> late-commers into the EURON consortium. As such also our participation - if
> accepted - in OROCOS will be rather late too.

There are two ``different'' Orocos projects:
 1. the one sponsored by the EU. That consortium (Leuven, Toulouse,
    Laas) is fixed. This project starts September 1st.
 2. The Open Source project Orocos, which is open to anybody, anytime.
Of course, both projects have the same goals :-)


> From the very interesting
> discussion already published I see that the first responsibility of the
> candidate is to present his/her group's attainment in the area of robotics
> software. If full membership will not be possible due to my late response,
> we are at least interested both in taking part in the brainstorming
> (milestone) meetings and in contributing to the project as a Contributor.

Welcome!

I happen to be preparing the `official' announcement for the first
brainstorm meeting, which will also be the official kick-off of the EU
project. This meeting will take place Saturday September 1st and Sunday September 2nd, in Leuven.

> One of our activities could be to port the existing software to
> RT Linux.

Sounds interesting ! But keep in mind that Orocos first wants to come
up with a long-term design, so that just reimplemtations of existing
bits and pieces to open source versions is not the final goal. Of
course, it will always help!

From your other information I learn that you have already done quite a
lot of thinking about network distribution of the software, so I hope
you will share your experience in this respect :-)

Thank you _very_ much for your detailed email! (I hope it will
stimulate others to do the same :-) )

Best regards,


Herman Bruyninckx

-- 
"I decry the current tendency to seek patents  on  algorithms.  There
 are better ways to earn a living than to prevent  other  people from
 making use of one's contributions to computer science."  D. E. Knuth