Another topic for discussion:
Possible standardization of suction gripper / suction array messages. This could help abstract away any differences between suction grippers.
Google has awarded us 2 slots for the Google Summer of Code. Unfortunately, we have more than 2 good proposals, so we have to make some hard decisions. We don’t have time to discuss all 20 proposals, but I can provide a quick summary of the top contenders.
Participants: Andy Zelenak, Christian Henkel, colaed 11, Dave Coleman, Felix von Drigalski, Henning Kayser, Jens Petit, Jafar Abdi, Jere Liukkonen, Jeremy Adams, Jorge Nicho, Mark Moll, Marq Rasmussen, Michael / v4hn, Mike Lautman, Nathan Brooks, Omid Heidari, Rajendra Singh, Robert Haschke, Simon Schmeisser, Tyler Weaver
World MoveIt Day
Make it coincide with GSOC start date because it could help bring students up to speed
World MoveIt Day will be June 2nd
Next Melodic Debian release
We have a lack of ownership for this task
Robert will do the next Melodic release
Jafar to run pre-release tests without admin permissions (for now)
Michael / v4hn has a PR synchronizing melodic with the master branch link
We need extensive testing for melodic branch and users are asked to report issues they have observed
Yes @bmagyar I would like them in both ROS1 & 2. I need to make a finalized document for everyone to review but will be sure to keep you in the loop. If you have any suggestions feel free to reach out!