OSRA TGC meeting minutes for October, 2025

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Here are the meeting minutes for the October regular meeting of the Technical Governance Committee, held on the 23rd of October, 2025. You can find the official minutes in the repository, as well as a Markdown version below. The PDF version is the official version.

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TECHNICAL GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE

MEETING MINUTES

23 OCTOBER 2025 / 15:00-16:30 UTC / VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM

ATTENDEES

OSRF:

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

OSRA Delegates/TGC Reps:

• Addisu Taddese (Gazebo PMC Lead, Intrinsic)
• Alejandro Cordero (ROS PMC Rep, Honu Robotics)
• Bence Magyar (ros-controls PMC Lead, Locus Robotics)
• Christian Henkel (Gold Rep, Bosch)
• Daniel Gordon (Gold Rep, Huawei)
• David Lu!! (Individual Rep, Metro Robots)
• Michael Grey (Open-RMF PMC Lead, Intrinsic)
• Michel Hidalgo (Silver Rep, Ekumen)
• Mirko Ferrati (Platinum Rep, Canonical)
• Steve Peters (Gazebo PMC Rep, Intrinsic)
• Tully Foote (Platinum Rep, Intrinsic)
• Yadunund Vijay (Open-RMF PMC Rep, Intrinsic)

OSRA Observers

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

AGENDA

Geoff Biggs, TGC Chair, called the meeting to order at 15:05 on 23 October 2025 UTC.

Existing Business

1. Confirmation of minutes of meeting TGC-20250828-Regular

   • Approved by consensus

2. Project reports

   • Project update: ROS (Presented by Alejandro Cordero, PMC Rep)

     • Formal decisions:
       • New Committer, Skylar Medeiros (iRobot).
     • Vendor package reduction work is proceeding well, thanks to Pixi.
     • Bazel support work is also proceeding smoothly.
     • Michel from Ekumen has produced a prototype of replacing CDR with flat buffers, and the results are promising, especially for use of AI workloads.
     • Windows 10 has now gone end-of-life, so work is proceeding in the buildfarm relating to this.

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

     • Formal decisions:
       • Two new Committers: Saurabh Kamat (ROS Industrial APAC) and Shameek Ganguly (Intrinsic).
     • Gazebo Jetty was released in September.
     • Point system for the tutorial party was well received.
     • The next release will be called Gazebo Kura.

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

     • Formal decisions:
       • Two new Committer mentees, one from CHART and one from Kabam.
     • Workflow library has been renamed from bevy-impulse to Crossflow.
     • Done the first release of Crossflow, as well as a diagram editor for it. The first release includes inbuilt support for gRPC and Zenoh, allowing drag-and-drop creation of nodes that talk to gRPC and Zenoh networks.
     • The first official release of the new site editor is nearly ready.

   • Project update: ros-controls (Presented by Bence Magyar, PMC Lead)

     • Working on having a Mujoco ros-controls driver, but this is blocked by having a releasable Mujoco base package in ROS. This is currently being worked on by PAL.
     • Work is being done to extend the kinematics library by people from the University of Salerno, based on Pinocchio.

3. Other Existing Business Matters

   • Status of SIGs/TCs
     • SIG on Interoperability
       • Chair: Michael Grey
       • Held an open chat about future topics for the SIG.
     • SIG on Physical AI
       • Chair: Tully Foote
       • Four of the planned five working groups are up and running, with goals set and their own parallel tasks underway.
       • The SIG membership continues to grow.
       • A BoF session is planned for ROSCon.
       • A GitHub organisation has been created at ros-physical-ai · GitHub, although it is not yet set up.

• Update on 2025 funded work

  • Work to add Cargo support to the buildfarm has been contracted out to Ekumen. The work is being done by someone who knows the buildfarm very well and also has experience with Rust and Cargo. This work is expected to be completed early in 2026.

    • The potential vendors for the documentation improvements have been narrowed down to two, with the final candidate chosen. A formal quote for the work has just been received, and we expect to sign a contract for the work the week after ROSCon and start that work by the middle of November. The contractor will be designing an information architecture and taxonomy for our documentation, design the implementation of these, and trial some existing content from our ROS documentation. This work is expected to be completed early in 2026, and lead into a follow-on contract.

  • Zulip server notice

    • The new Open Robotics Zulip chat server will be announced publicly at ROSCon. Expect to see a lot of new people joining.

New Business

• 2026 Funding Round

  • The OSRF Board is expected to approve funding for disbursement by the TGC when it meets at ROSCon 2025.

    • We expect to start the process for disbursing that money ASAP after ROSCon is over. The process will be broadly similar to the process used in 2025.

Adjournment - Geoff Biggs adjourned the meeting at 15:50 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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