# Maritime Community Group Meeting Oct 2024: Goby3 in ROS 2 + ocean FOSS ecosystem proposal

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/maritime-community-group-meeting-oct-2024-goby3-in-ros-2-ocean-foss-ecosystem-proposal/40116>\
**Category:** Marine Robotics\
**Tags:** wg-maritime-robotics\
**Created:** [October 16, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/maritime-community-group-meeting-oct-2024-goby3-in-ros-2-ocean-foss-ecosystem-proposal/40116 "2024-10-16T14:51:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![mabelzhang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/mabelzhang/32/6376_2.png) [@mabelzhang](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/mabelzhang)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/maritime-community-group-meeting-oct-2024-goby3-in-ros-2-ocean-foss-ecosystem-proposal/40116/1 "2024-10-16T14:51:01Z")

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This month, we’ll hear about open source middleware Goby3 for autonomous marine vehicles, now with a bridge for ROS 2, from [Toby Schneider](https://gobysoft.org/people/toby/) at [GobySoft](https://gobysoft.org/):

The [Goby3 project](https://goby.software) is targeted at marine robotics applications, with a focus on supporting the dramatically different communication scenarios that exist between ocean robots (acoustic modems, satellite radios, etc.) versus within the robots. ROS 2 has an impressive body of work supporting the general robotics community, though the marine subcommunity is nascent. This talk will provide a brief overview of the Goby3 project and discuss a work-in-progress Goby3-to-ROS2 gateway (bridge) to allow for interoperability between these two potentially complementary systems.

- Goby3 on [GitHub](https://github.com/GobySoft/goby3)
- [Publication](https://gobysoft.org/dl/schneider-auv-2016-goby3.pdf): T. Schneider, Goby3: A new open-source middleware for nested communication on autonomous marine vehicles. IEEE AUV 2016 / Tokyo.

As a bonus, Toby is putting together an NSF POSE proposal for an open source ocean robotics software working group overarching the MOOS-IvP / ROS / Goby communities, which are now separate. He will initiate a discussion after the talk to get feedback from the ROS community.

When: 2024-10-29T15:00:00Z→2024-10-29T16:00:00Z  
Where: Virtual at [Launch Meeting - Zoom](https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/5572215412?pwd=WHhyWUc4ajlldGtQOEFxMG0zTjREQT09)  
Calendar event: [Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWV1ZzE3cjF2ZHQ5Y2Uyc3A1amRyOW5zNzQgMDhkYWVlMzI4YTRjYzc1YmFlOTBlOTMzNzVhNmI0MDlhOTliNDU3Nzk4YzI0MDE4OGEzMjNjOTI4YTY5MzEyOEBn&tmsrc=08daee328a4cc75bae90e93375a6b409a99b457798c240188a323c928a693128%40group.calendar.google.com)  
Agenda: [ROS Maritime Community Group meeting agenda - Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wnddq4xRXR6HF2XFWeejfUGII_hj7DilKrGcFj1qlEA/edit?usp=sharing)

See you there!

Quick links to resources for the Community Group:  
[ROS Discourse Maritime category](http://discourse.ros.org/c/maritime/36)  
[Agenda](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wnddq4xRXR6HF2XFWeejfUGII_hj7DilKrGcFj1qlEA/edit?usp=sharing)  
[Google Group](https://groups.google.com/g/maritime-robotics-working-group-invites) (only used to send meeting calendar invites)  
[Public Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=08daee328a4cc75bae90e93375a6b409a99b457798c240188a323c928a693128%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe%2FLondon)  
[GitHub kanban board](https://github.com/orgs/ros-maritime/projects/1)  
[GitHub community](https://github.com/ros-maritime)  
[Matrix chat](https://matrix.to/#/#ros-maritime-general:matrix.org)

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**Author:** ![mabelzhang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/mabelzhang/32/6376_2.png) [@mabelzhang](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/mabelzhang)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/maritime-community-group-meeting-oct-2024-goby3-in-ros-2-ocean-foss-ecosystem-proposal/40116/2 "2024-10-29T16:26:03Z")

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Slides from the talk are attached. You can [contact](https://gobysoft.org/contact/) Toby on GobySoft website.  
[goby3-ros-community-working-group.pdf](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/uploads/short-url/mZFWlJM0XfBu9AxUpYhvYx1FK34.pdf) (2.5 MB)  
[openocean.software-proposal.pdf](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/uploads/short-url/2Hy0LVOKVupgv1aRNHRW3Ptkvo7.pdf) (77.7 KB)

Video recording to be uploaded soon.

Teaser slide:

 ![Goby3 Nested Communications](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/9/d/9dc1eb6b3f4f2a39616818077aad753925eabf0b.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Katherine\_Scott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/katherine_scott/32/4434_2.png) [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/maritime-community-group-meeting-oct-2024-goby3-in-ros-2-ocean-foss-ecosystem-proposal/40116/3 "2024-11-07T20:01:31Z")

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[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/e/c/ec002189c8e2688b1b2e8d13988131d5320b0506.jpeg "ROS Maritime Community Group Meeting (2024-10-29 15\_00 GMT)") ](https://vimeo.com/1027428269)

[Here is the recording](https://vimeo.com/1027428269?share=copy)