ROSCon 2012 - Lightning Talks
Why Robotics Stack Exchange recommends it
Robotics Stack Exchange answerers point people to it for the authoritative explanation of the humor behind ROS tool names like rosawesome, roswtf and suck2blow.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2012 to 2018.
What it is
A 45-minute set of short talks from ROSCon 2012, the first ROS developer conference, published by Willow Garage. It is a series of quick presentations by ROS community members on tools, projects and quirks of the ecosystem, including an explanation of what the joke tool rosawesome does.
What people said
Recommends rgariepy · 2012-10 · Robotics Stack Exchange · on “What does rosawesome do?”
I will defer to Ken Conley, by way of ROSCon 2012: [this video] Originally posted by Ryan [LINK] with karma: 3248 on 2012-10-10 This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site Post score: 11
Cites ahendrix · 2017-12 · Robotics Stack Exchange · on “What does roswtf mean?”
The official acronym is "Where's The Fire," but I suspect that wasn't the original acronym. If you want more silly tools, go try to figure out what rosawesome does. Originally posted by ahendrix [LINK] with karma: 47576 on 2017-12-06 This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site Post score: 4 Original comments Comment by Hufeisennase [LINK] on 2017-12-07 : Thanks a lot. Yes "Fire" - so under 18 is welcome in ROS too :-) I found this, how explain the spirit of the ROS names very well: [this video] Comment by jayess [LINK] on 2017-12-07 : So no one has to do any Googling [LINK]
Cites gvdhoorn-rse · 2018-03 · Robotics Stack Exchange · on “suck2blow reference?”
See #q45463 and #q277428 for a related questions, and as a shortcut, see ROSCon 2012 - Lightning Talks - What does rosawesome do? [this video] for probably a rather authoritative source (spoiler: they're Spaceballs [LINK] references). Edit: I asked if suck2blow a reference to something. Yes. Again, to Spaceballs: Spaceballs "Mega Maid" scene [LINK] . What's the meaning of suck2blow and why is it linked with rosbag play? Mega Maid (from Mega_Maid [LINK] ): Mega Maid is the transformed version of Spaceball I. It is shaped like a woman with a vacuum cleaner. The vacuum can both suck air out of a planet's atmosphere, and blow it back into an atmosphere. It appears very powerful, since it can clean a