OSRA TGC meeting minutes for March, 2026

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Here are the meeting minutes for the March regular meeting of the Technical Governance Committee, held on the 26th of March 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

26 March 2026 / 15:00-16:30 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)
  • Daniel Gordon (Gold Rep, Huawei)
  • Mirko Ferrati (Platinum Rep, Canonical)
  • Tully Foote (Platinum Rep, Intrinsic)
  • Michael Grey (Open-RMF PMC Lead, Intrinsic)
  • Christian Henkel (Gold Rep, Bosch)
  • Michel Hidalgo (Silver Rep, Ekumen)
  • Scott Logan (Infrastructure PMC Lead, Intrinsic)
  • Bence Magyar (ros-controls PMC Lead, Locus Robotics)
  • Steve Peters (Gazebo PMC Rep, Intrinsic)
  • Addisu Taddese (Gazebo PMC Lead, Intrinsic)

OSRA Observers

  • Nicolas de Camaret (BotBot)
  • Tom Counihan (Intel)
  • Adam Dąbrowski (Robotec.AI)
  • Christoph Froehlich (AIT)
  • Florian Pestoni (InOrbit)
  • Leonardo Rossetti (Red Hat)
  • David Tan (Netatech)
  • Josh Whitley (Apex.AI)
  • Zhao Qi Lee (ROS-Industrial APAC)

AGENDA

Geoff Biggs, TGC Chair, called the meeting to order at 15:03 on 26 March 2026, UTC.

Existing Business

  1. Confirmation of minutes of meeting TGC-20260122-Regular

    • Approved by consensus

  2. OSRA updates

    • Introduction of new members.
    • The OSRA now has 54 member organizations.

  3. Project reports revision

    • To promote discussion rather than one-way reporting in the TGC meeting, project reports will from now on be provided as written reports that TGC Members can read in advance.
    • During the TGC meeting we will focus on specific questions, if any, and, time allowing, hearing about one interesting advance from one project since the previous TGC meeting.

  4. Other Existing Business Matters

    • Status of SIGs/TCs
      • SIG on Interoperability
        • Chair: Michael Grey
        • Received a presentation from ARTC regarding use of Crossflow for AMR management. They used Crossflow because they found that behaviour trees were unable to represent their interdependent workflows.
      • SIG on Physical AI
        • Chair: Tully Foote and Yadunund Vijay
        • All five working groups are now active.
        • The SIG is focused on getting the accelerated memory support into Lyrical Luth.
        • Interested hardware vendors are encouraged to engage with the SIG members.

New Business

  1. Approval of the OSRF’s Technology Strategy for 2026 (Geoffrey Biggs)

    • After several rounds of feedback and editing, the Technology Strategy is ready for publication.
    • Geoffrey Biggs moves to adopt the Technology Strategy for 2026.
      • Steve Peters seconds the motion.
      • Motion adopted by consensus.

  2. Start of funding round for 2026 (Geoffrey Biggs)

    • Geoff described the process for disbursing the Board-approved funds for 2026.
    • The TGC discussed the timing of proposal collection and a desire to avoid conflicting with the ROS Lyrical Luth release.
    • The TGC agreed to begin the funding process in June, 2026.
    • Geoff will provide guidance on which proposals from 2025 are good samples of the level of detail required.
    • The TGC agreed to also make the funding available to SIGs so that the SIG on Physical SIG can apply.

  3. OSRA 2nd Anniversary Review

    • The TGC held an in-depth discussion on how the OSRA’s processes and structures may be improved.
    • Geoff will create discussion threads for topics raised during the meeting.

Adjournment - Geoff Biggs adjourned the meeting at 16:33 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.
  2. Geoff will circulate guidance on funding proposal formats.
  3. Geoff will create discussion threads for the TGC to debate improvements to OSRA processes.
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