At the end of 2025, my term as Project Leader for the OSRA Infrastructure project concluded. I’m delighted that @cottsay, who has been part of the project since its earliest ad hoc days at Open Robotics, will be succeeding me as Infrastructure Project Leader. I will be withdrawing from the Infrastructure PMC and stepping away from maintainership of Open Robotics projects in order to recharge.
I’ve been a contributor to ROS and Open Robotics infrastructure and build / release tools since joining Open Robotics in March of 2017. I can scarcely imagine how I could have made more meaningful contributions to the open source ecosystem over the last 8-and-then-some years. I’ve spent with this wonderful community but every journey has its stops and, at least for a while, it’s time for me to take a step back from Open Robotics work.
I would like to thank everyone who has welcomed me into these projects and who gave us the opportunity to build up the Infrastructure Project into a dedicated and collaborative effort.
I’m so grateful to Scott and everyone on the Infrastructure Project for being so fantastic. I wouldn’t be able to tear myself away if I was not fully confident that the project was going to be in such good hands.
See you in the world,
Steven! (nuclearsandwich)
P.S. I hear there’s a really wonderful train across Canada so who knows maybe I’ll be in Toronto toward the end of September anyway…
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