OSRA TGC meeting minutes for January, 2026

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Here are the meeting minutes for the January regular meeting of the Technical Governance Committee, held on the 22nd of January, 2026. You can find the official minutes in the repository, as well as a Markdown version below. The PDF version is the official version.

TECHNICAL GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE

MEETING MINUTES

22 January 2026 / 22:00-23:30 UTC / VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM

ATTENDEES

OSRF:

  • Geoff Biggs (TGC Chair)
  • VM (Vicky) Brasseur (OSRA Governance Advisor)
  • Vanessa Yamzon Orsi (TGC Secretary)
  • Kat Scott (Developer Advocate)

OSRA Delegates/TGC Reps:

  • Clara Berendsen (Infrastructure PMC Rep, Ekumen)
  • Michael Carroll (ROS PMC Interim Lead, Intrinsic)
  • Alejandro Cordero (ROS PMC Rep, Honu Robotics)
  • Mirko Ferrati (Platinum Rep, Canonical)
  • Tully Foote (Platinum Rep, Intrinsic)
  • Michael Grey (Open-RMF PMC Lead, Intrinsic)
  • Christian Henkel (Gold Rep, Bosch)
  • Scott Logan (Infrastructure PMC Lead, Intrinsic)
  • Bence Magyar (ros-controls PMC Lead, Locus Robotics)
  • Na Song (Platinum Rep, QualComm)
  • Addisu Taddese (Gazebo PMC Lead, Intrinsic)
  • Steve Peters (Gazebo PMC Rep, Intrinsic)

OSRA Observers

  • Christophe Bédard (Apex.AI)
  • Tom Panzarella (Seegrid)
  • Leonardo Rossetti (Red Hat)
  • Todd Sutton (Zachry Corporation)

AGENDA

Geoff Biggs, TGC Chair, called the meeting to order at 22:06 on 22 January 2026, UTC.

Existing Business

  1. Confirmation of minutes of meeting TGC-20251204-Regular

    • Approved by consensus

  2. Project reports

    • Project update: ROS (Presented by Michael Carroll, Project Leader)

      • Formal decisions:
        • New working group being chartered: Accelerated Memory Transport, led by Alejandro Cordero.
      • Many new features in progress for Lyrical Luth, including rcl::Buffer to support accelerated memory, improved Bazel support, runtime-configurable logging, and new executors.

    • Project update: Gazebo (Presented by Addisu Taddese, Project Leader)

      • Formal decisions:
        • Moved the Kura release one month earlier to 31 August, 2026, to avoid overlapping with ROSCon. Other dates moved earlier accordingly.
      • Primary and secondary roadmaps produced.
        • Primary items have commitment from someone in the PMC.
        • Secondary items are willing to guide someone from the community in doing, but no commitment from the PMC to do these items.
      • A third-party plugin repository is being produced.

    • Project update: Open-RMF (Presented by Michael Grey, Project Leader)

      • Formal decisions:
        • None
      • The handbook to teach CrossFlow has been released.
      • A multifactorial polynomial task cost calculation has been contributed.
      • Crossflow diagram editor now has new description panels and input example panels.

    • Project update: Infrastructure (Presented by Scott Logan, Project Leader)

      • Leadership transferred from Steven! Ragnarök.
      • Formal decisions:
        • Adopt the “gz_oci_images” repository, containing container images for Gazebo
      • Work to stand up platforms for ROS Lyrical Luth is on-going, with four new platforms required.
      • build.ros.org has been sunsetted.

  3. Other Existing Business Matters

    • Status of SIGs/TCs
      • SIG on Interoperability
        • Chair: Michael Grey
        • No meeting in January as the regular date was January 1.
      • SIG on Physical AI
        • Chair: Tully Foote and Yadunund Vijay
        • Working groups have kept up their momentum through the holidays and into the new year.
        • A fifth working group, on agentic embodiment, has kicked off.
        • The SIG is handing off work on accelerated memory transport to the new ROS PMC WG.
        • A new landing page has been created in the ROS Physical AI organisation (https://github.com/ros-physical-ai). A better URL is forthcoming.

  4. ROS Bounties

    • The TGC continued its discussion on a “bounties” idea.
    • The TGC concluded that it needs to consider further the underlying problem that is aimed to be solved, rather than going directly to a bounties system.

New Business

  • New method of TGC operations (Geoffrey Biggs)

    • A brief reminder about the new method of having one TGC meeting and one informal chat every two months (or more as necessary).

Adjournment - Geoff Biggs adjourned the meeting at 23:28 UTC.

ACTION ITEMS

  1. The meeting minutes will be circulated to the TGC for review and approval before the next meeting by the TGC Chair.
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