Thanks everyone for an amazing ROSCon 2012! The inaugural event exceeded our expectations, with over 200 attendees watching excellent, standing-room-only talks on all things ROS. ROS "Godfather", Morgan Quigley, kicked things with a talk that took us from ROS past to future, and the rest of the two-day schedule covered everything from useful core libraries (tf, URDF, Gazebo, openni_kinect, rosjava), to talks on robots using ROS (Robonaut, autonomous lawnmowers, humanoid, field robots), and much, much more. The event also served as an kickoff for the Open Source Robotics Foundation, which will act as a steward for ROS, Gazebo, and future ROSCon events.
Many of you have asked, and, yes, we're working hard now to process the video and post them online.
It took a lot of people to make ROSCon happen, so a special thanks to:
- Our sponsors: Yaskawa, Clearpath Robotics,Heartland Robotics, Willow Garage,Bosch,Yujin Robot, Schunk, CoroWare, Synapticon, and I Heart Engineering. Thanks also to National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) for sponsoring the opening night reception.
- Our organizers: Brian Gerkey, Ryan Gariepy, Matthew Williamson, and Cedric Pradalier.
- Our volunteers: Sarah Elliott, Aaron Blasdel, David Coleman, and Ben Cohen.
- Our speakers, who put together awesome talks.
- Our program committee for choosing the talks.
- Our attendees, without whom there would be no event!
For those that attended, we will be seeking your feedback to make sure that ROSCon 2013 can be even bigger and better.
Here are some of the attendee reactions from Twitter:
At #ROSCon right now. Awesome motion planning talk! twitter.com/asmat/status/2...
— Carlitos (@asmat) May 19, 2012
Just drove a @clearpathrobots Husky with my iPhone in the #ROSCon hack room.Only had to change one line in a launch file.
— Michael Carroll (@carromj) May 20, 2012
Met a lot of very awesome people at #ROSCon the last two days, and learned about some great projects that I'll use at work and for #thesis
— Michael Janssen (@jamuraa) May 20, 2012
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name #ROSCon #humbled
— David Lu!! (@probablydavid) May 20, 2012
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