Proposal to a Nordic User Group

Local User Groups
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You can blame the cold and the dark days, but sometimes I do have an need to meet fellow ROS developers in person here in the Nordic! :sweden: :denmark: :norway: :finland: :iceland: :faroe_islands: :greenland:

I have been told that there are plenty of ROS using companies here in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. And there have been ROS developer meetups before, and of course we can’t forget the epic ROSCon 2024 in Odense, but there haven’t been so many since a while (at least, of what I am aware of).

So here perhaps a call for an place where we can coordinate and plan some more ROS meetups, so we don’t have to always travel far to meet and geek out about robotics and simulation! And yes, you hear that right, I have some self-interest here as well!

So here just a couple of things:

  • Why pan-Nordic and no groups per Nordic country? Well, I feel that that that is the best way to get everything jump started again, and all these countries are quite sparely populated. However, if this type of group can have a for instance, Icelandic Local user group, as a spin-off, that would be awesome of course.
  • Why in English and not in the local language This is a language that most of us can understand and speak here across all the Nordics and used in the ROS contexts as well. But like I said, if we will have country specific groups resulting out of this and rather want to do this in in the mother tongue, go for it!

And… just think of the meme potential!

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So hence, for anybody wants to participate with this, please copy this and fill it in with your info:

  • Name:
  • Company/Institute/University:
  • City/Country:
  • Language preference:
  • Do you want more nearby ROS meetups?
  • Would you like to organize a meetup yourself?

And of course add anything you’d like to mention, like robotics events we should be aware of like ERF in Stavanger or the Robotics and Physical AI day by Mashup in Malmö.

So you ROS Vikings, spread this wide and far you and make yourself known!

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ROS News for the Week of February 2nd, 2026
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I will start!

  • Name: Kimberly McGuire
  • Company: McGuire Robotics AB
  • City/Country: Malmö, Sweden
  • Language preference: English (but if we really have to, I’ll have a good reason to improve my Swedish!)
  • Do you want more nearby ROS meetups? Yes!
  • Would you like to organize a meetup yourself? Yes! or at least the first one.

And I was thinking of organizing a side ROS meetup around the Mash Up event mid-April

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Hi! This is a very cool initiative, I’d be happy to join :smiley:

  • Name: Nicola Macchiarulo
  • Company: I’m not currently working in a robotics company, but I have prior experience in the field
  • City/Country: Lund, Sweden (most of the time)
  • Language preference: English
  • Do you want more nearby ROS meetups? Yes
  • Would you like to organize a meetup yourself? I’d be happy to help with the organization
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Hey! Great initiative!
Name: Adam Leon Kleppe
Company/Institute/University: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of ICT and Natural Sciences.
City/Country: Ålesund, Norway
Language preference: Equally good at English and Norwegian.
Do you want more nearby ROS meetups? Definitely
Would you like to organize a meetup yourself? Probably. You can certainly ask.

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  • Name: Mihir Kulkarni

  • Company/Institute/University: Norwegian University of Science and Technology

  • City/Country: Trondheim/Norway

  • Language preference: English

  • Do you want more nearby ROS meetups? Yes

  • Would you like to organize a meetup yourself? I’d be happy to help with the organization :slight_smile:

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Thanks for taking the initiative!

  • Name: Sampath Bommakanti

  • Company/Institute/University: Kscale Robotics

  • City/Country: Lund/Sweden

  • Language preference: English

  • Do you want more nearby ROS meetups? Yes

  • Would you like to organize a meetup yourself? Love to participate to start with and then organize at some point

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I don’t have anything to contribute other than my kids feel like there needs to be another excuse for them to have a Scandinavian holiday.

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Hi! This is a great initiative indeed!

  • Name: Alejandro Lorite Mora
  • Company/Institute/University: IT University of Copenhagen
  • City/Country: Copenhagen/Denmark
  • Language preference: English
  • Do you want more nearby ROS meetups? Yes
  • Would you like to organize a meetup yourself? I can help organizing
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We have to make sure to organize in spring and summer then!

Unless you’d want to see the northern lights, then the cold will need to be endured

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If you’d like a category, let me know the title and description. Look to the other local user group categories for examples.

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