🐥 ROSCon 2024 Birds of a Feather Sessions + More

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:hatched_chick: ROSCon 2024 Birds of a Feather Sessions :hatched_chick:


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Hi Everyone,

I’ve got a couple of ROSCon related announcements to share! The first announcement is that you have exactly one week to register for ROSCon at the early bird rate. The early bird rate is $100 off our regular rate, and it makes attending one of our seven ROSCon workshops virtually free. The last day for early registration is 2024-09-03T07:00:00Z, so don’t delay. Also, if you would like to demo your product or robot at ROSCon, we just had a couple of sponsorship slots open up. More information about sponsorship can be found in our sponsorship prospectus.

The second announcement is that we are bringing back Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions for ROSCon 2024. :tada:

We piloted BoF sessions at ROSCon 2023 and they were so successful that we’ve decided to bring them back this year with a few tweaks. The biggest change we’re making is that we are elevating BoFs to be part of the ROSCon workshop lineup. What this means in practice is that everyone who is not participating in a full day workshop can participate in a full day of BoF sessions during day zero of ROSCon. We’re making this change so our attendees don’t have to choose between attending BoF sessions, watching ROSCon talks, and visiting our sponsor’s booths! It is worth noting that you DO NOT need to be registered for a ROSCon workshop to attend BoF sessions, all ROSCon attendees are welcome to participate!

To host a BoF session all you need to do is fill out this form! After the ROSCon executive committee reviews your submission your slot will appear on the BoF section of the ROSCon webpage (this may take a couple of days). We recommend that all ROS community groups and major package maintainers take the time to hold a BoF session during ROSCon. ROSCon attendees are also more than welcome to propose BoF sessions on whatever topic they want! Our only rule about BoF session topics is that they should not be commercial in nature, but other than that we’re open to just about any topic! We recommend you reserve your BoF slot soon, space is limited and we’re anticipating that BoF sessions are going to be very popular this year!

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Are we required to have the BoF on the Day 0? I don’t see an option in the form to do it on Day 1 or 2.

Do we have a sense of what percentage of participants are going to a workshop? I’m curious if the majority of folks will be around for Day 0

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You are, of course, free to have an informal group discussion on any topic at any time during ROSCon. However, we are only able to provide meeting space for BoF meetings on the workshop day, and that’s what the booking form is for.

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OK! I just wanted to make sure the bulk of people are going to be around for that so that no one is left out that might want to attend!

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Great initiative, especially to make it very visible so that people don’t miss out accidentally.

I’m on the lookout for everyting real-time ROS / Executors related, or ROS on nvidia Jetson.

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