# Maritime Working Group Meeting Nov 2023: technical working meeting

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/maritime-working-group-meeting-nov-2023-technical-working-meeting/34327>\
**Category:** Marine Robotics\
**Tags:** wg-maritime-robotics\
**Created:** [October 24, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/maritime-working-group-meeting-nov-2023-technical-working-meeting/34327 "2023-10-24T21:03:35Z")\
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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 24, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/maritime-working-group-meeting-nov-2023-technical-working-meeting/34327/1 "2023-10-24T21:03:35Z")

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Based on community interest and feedback, we decided to have a November working meeting, separate from the joint speaker with the November Gazebo Community meeting. They will be two separate events.

1. Technical working meeting: We received feedback that people want to do work! Hey, go figure, it’s a working group. Some attendees told us in Sep and Oct that they want to make technical contributions. So we are in the process of updating and restructuring the WG [kanban board](https://github.com/orgs/ros-maritime/projects/1) for this need. We’ll update the kanban during the meeting as well based on community updates.

2. Presentation meeting: If you’d like to hear about VRX and Njord autonomous surface vehicle competitions using ROS and Gazebo, head over to the [Gazebo Community meeting](https://community.gazebosim.org/t/community-meeting-empowering-marine-autonomy-the-impact-of-open-source-software/2380), which is announced on [Gazebo Community](https://community.gazebosim.org) as usual.

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Feedback welcome as always. One-on-one discussions welcome too if you have specific expectations or ideas for the WG (like really, we’re looking to establish some goals for the WG). Message me here on Discourse. I don’t bite. Not everyday. If it’s something everyone can benefit from, use the WG [Matrix chat](https://matrix.to/#/#ros-maritime-general:matrix.org) for more visibility.

Quick links to resources for the WG:  
[Agenda](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wnddq4xRXR6HF2XFWeejfUGII_hj7DilKrGcFj1qlEA/edit?usp=sharing)  
[GitHub community](https://github.com/ros-maritime)  
[GitHub kanban board](https://github.com/orgs/ros-maritime/projects/1)  
[Matrix chat](https://matrix.to/#/#ros-maritime-general:matrix.org)  
[Google Group](https://groups.google.com/g/maritime-robotics-working-group-invites) (only used for meeting calendar invites)

Everyone welcome. See you there.

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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:** [November 7, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/maritime-working-group-meeting-nov-2023-technical-working-meeting/34327/2 "2023-11-07T17:40:47Z")

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Great meeting! Thank you everyone for the technical discussion and signing up for tasks!

Meeting [recording](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hXbYqkqT4oZAKQ9t8kLpBdZ8Ac-CIM0-/view?usp=drive_link) and [transcript](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fvRZrKx32u1Xzvygzfbs_DlpYq2iDL05/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=118230858012167511251&rtpof=true&sd=true).

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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:** [November 21, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/maritime-working-group-meeting-nov-2023-technical-working-meeting/34327/3 "2023-11-21T21:38:58Z")

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Marine presentation this month at Gazebo Community Meeting (cross-posting here) on Nov 29, Team Aritra will talk about their participation in the VRX and Njord challenges using ROS and Gazebo:

> **[Community Meeting: "Empowering Marine Autonomy: The Impact of Open Source...](https://community.gazebosim.org/t/community-meeting-empowering-marine-autonomy-the-impact-of-open-source-software/2380)**
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> Here’s our last meeting of the year, we’ll skip December! This time we’ll have a presentation about the journey of Team Aritra looking for marine autonomy. Join us as we share how team Aritra utilized open-source tools - VRX, Gazebo, and ROS to...

It is usually recorded and posted as a reply to that announcement.

(I will be traveling and won’t be able to make it, but hope some of you do!)