Speakers – your talks are important to us and the ROS community – we still want to hear about your progress! Our team will be reaching out to ROSCon speakers to coordinate taking their talks virtual at ROS World. We’ll refund / exchange your tickets and work with the conference hotel to cancel your rooms. At this point you may be asking how these changes may impact you here’s what we can tell you right now:Īttendees / Current Ticket Holders – we’ll be reaching out to you soon. We’ll be releasing more information in the coming weeks as our plans come together. We’re still coordinating with our sponsors, speakers, and staff to create ROS World 2021. We hope that you’ll join us for ROS World this year! As such we have decided that the most prudent course of action is to cancel the in-person ROSCon.īut, we are still having a conference! Instead of the in-person ROSCon 2021, we will host our second virtual event, ROS World 2021, Oct 20-21! If you were able to attend ROS World last year, you know how engaging and vibrant an online ROS event can be, with thousands of attendees from across the globe. Even with appropriate safety measures in place it simply isn’t a suitable time to gather in large groups in Louisiana. These cancelations have coincided with the renewal of an emergency declaration for the state of Louisiana.
The situation in New Orleans is particularly grim, and multiple large events such as Jazz Fest and French Quarter Fest have recently been canceled due to the rapid rise in Covid-19. While the US has made great progress in the fight against Covid-19 we are once again seeing a massive surge in Covid-19 cases. Our plans included contingencies to scale up or scale down ROSCon based on the public health situation as we were fairly confident that in-person gatherings could be done safely. Slides and videos of the presentations, see their separate websites.ĭuring difficult times it is always good to remain optimistic therefore in January, on the heels of multiple announcements about effective Covid-19 vaccines, we decided to move forward with plans to return to an in person ROSCon in 2021. If you are looking for information on past ROSCons, including past programs, There will also be open space for impromptu hacking sessions and informal presentations. Talks from 2016 can be seen in this blog post or browse the recordings from past years. We expect to have many more people who want to present than slots are available.įor fair access there will be a lottery for requesting to give a lightning These are 2-3 minute talks, one session each day (3 minutes in the past but this may be reducing to 2.5 or 2 minutes this year). There will be an opportunity to give a lightning talk at ROS World. Project or idea to ROS World and present it in a lightning talk.
If you don’t want to make a formal presentation, you should still bring your new Contact us if you have ideas that you’d like to We also welcome suggestions for what else we can do to encourage more To help make ROS World 2021 more representative of the global ROS community. This year we are proud to continue the ROS World Diversity Scholarship
The ROS World planning committee acknowledges that the barriers to attendance for traditionally under-represented groups may be many and varied, and we are striving throughout the planning process to make the event as inclusive and accessible as possible. We expect all attendees to follow our code of Members of minority groups, and members of other under-represented groups toĪttend ROS World. Interested in ROS, then we want you to join us at ROS World. Whoever you are, whatever you do, and wherever you do it, if you’re We aim for ROS World to represent the entire ROS community, which is global andĭiverse. Theīulk of the program will be 10-30 minute presentations (some may be longer or Will comprise technical talks and tutorials that will introduce you to new toolsĪnd libraries, as well as teach you more about the ones you already know. Similar to previous years, the two-day program The success of the past ROSCons, this year’s ninth annual ROS World ROS World is a developers conference, in the model of P圜on and BoostCon.
Get tips and tricks from experts and meet and share ideas with To spend an extraordinary two days learning from and networking with the ROSĬommunity. ROS World 2021 is a chance for ROS developers of all levels, beginner to expert, ROS World will happen October 20th, and 21st!
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