WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 Hello, my name is Kosovo Ribeiro. 00:07.000 --> 00:11.000 I'm the co-founder of Honour Robotics, small company, 00:11.000 --> 00:14.000 but more important probably for the talk is I've been working 00:14.000 --> 00:17.000 the last decade in open robotics core teams. 00:17.000 --> 00:20.000 So let's give a look into what's going on in the organization, 00:20.000 --> 00:23.000 of course, and speak about politics and power. 00:23.000 --> 00:28.000 Three main icons, three main sources of power inside the project, 00:28.000 --> 00:32.000 commit permissions, who can take the structural decision, 00:32.000 --> 00:36.000 affecting the whole project, who is paying for the work 00:36.000 --> 00:40.000 or for the developers, or for robots. 00:40.000 --> 00:43.000 For those of you that don't know it, 00:43.000 --> 00:46.000 Ross, who has a project in vision by a couple of guys 00:46.000 --> 00:49.000 in the St. Paul University 2006, 00:49.000 --> 00:53.000 Kinananarek, these two guys wanted to create something called 00:53.000 --> 00:57.000 the Linux of robotics, and they were looking for a fund 00:57.000 --> 01:01.000 and they found some one called the Scott Hassan, 01:01.000 --> 01:05.000 who was a millionaire, coming from Google search engine. 01:05.000 --> 01:09.000 At that time, I joined a Scott company called 01:09.000 --> 01:11.000 a little bit familiar for some of you. 01:11.000 --> 01:12.000 Will you wear that? 01:12.000 --> 01:14.000 How things were in will you wear that? 01:14.000 --> 01:17.000 As you can imagine, starting with the projects, 01:17.000 --> 01:19.000 Kinananarek were the directors. 01:19.000 --> 01:22.000 I joined the directors of it. 01:22.000 --> 01:26.000 Scott Hassan put a lot of money into the company, 01:26.000 --> 01:29.000 so the funding was coming directly from the owner. 01:29.000 --> 01:32.000 It's easy to think that everyone working on Ross, 01:32.000 --> 01:35.000 but that time was in the same building, 01:35.000 --> 01:37.000 so things can come in. 01:37.000 --> 01:40.000 The whole things were in a single place. 01:40.000 --> 01:43.000 The first source of saving structural decisions 01:43.000 --> 01:46.000 of the project is the web one, 01:46.000 --> 01:49.000 and the web one we have, 01:49.000 --> 01:51.000 the interesting thing is you can propose, 01:51.000 --> 01:53.000 but who is going to decide? 01:53.000 --> 01:56.000 The web one is the malevolent detector for now. 01:56.000 --> 01:59.000 I mean, this is active now, this web. 01:59.000 --> 02:01.000 This is the web number one. 02:01.000 --> 02:04.000 So I put some of my family here, no, go. 02:04.000 --> 02:08.000 But yeah, this is still active. 02:08.000 --> 02:09.000 Let's move. 02:09.000 --> 02:13.000 So part of the team inside Willow, 02:13.000 --> 02:18.000 where I go out of the company and create the OSRF fund, 02:18.000 --> 02:22.000 mainly it was the Gasebo simulation curtain at the beginning, 02:22.000 --> 02:27.000 but they brought the Ross curtain in 2013. 02:27.000 --> 02:30.000 So things changed a little bit, we have a foundation. 02:30.000 --> 02:31.000 They don't have an owner, 02:31.000 --> 02:34.000 but they have the people that take decisions. 02:34.000 --> 02:37.000 In the foundation there's the board of directors and the CEO. 02:37.000 --> 02:40.000 So these people were now the main, 02:40.000 --> 02:43.000 I mean the final ones taking decisions. 02:43.000 --> 02:46.000 The OSRF brought the Ross curtain, 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 so the commit permission and the repository permission 02:49.000 --> 02:52.000 came with that, and the funding model is interesting. 02:52.000 --> 02:57.000 So the foundation were by establishing projects with public company, 02:57.000 --> 03:00.000 with company companies, 03:00.000 --> 03:03.000 that can benefit the open source at the same time 03:03.000 --> 03:06.000 that they were peddling all the salaries for the curtain. 03:06.000 --> 03:08.000 Right? 03:08.000 --> 03:14.000 The first attempt to serve the organizational body, 03:14.000 --> 03:19.000 was the TSC, the technical student committee, 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 was 2018. 03:22.000 --> 03:27.000 So the TSC was an attempt by the OSRF to say, 03:27.000 --> 03:32.000 hey, if you commit to put people to work on this, 03:32.000 --> 03:36.000 you are going to get in exchange building rights. 03:36.000 --> 03:39.000 So that was a change in the model, 03:39.000 --> 03:42.000 and we arrived until 2022. 03:42.000 --> 03:45.000 We do what happened in 2022, 03:45.000 --> 03:47.000 the whole team in the OSRF, 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 but that time it was a company called Open Robotics. 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 That's the same way. 03:52.000 --> 03:55.000 Join an alphabet company called Intransic. 03:55.000 --> 03:59.000 So we have lost completely the model that we have now, 03:59.000 --> 04:03.000 and what's going to go on is something called the Open Source Robotics Alliance. 04:03.000 --> 04:06.000 This is something created by the foundation. 04:06.000 --> 04:10.000 Yeah, this is something created by the foundation 04:10.000 --> 04:14.000 to provide ally governance and a new model for the whole worse community. 04:14.000 --> 04:17.000 It's a mix, membership and meritocratic model. 04:17.000 --> 04:21.000 So the membership means that companies and people can pay 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 to have some rights to vote. 04:23.000 --> 04:28.000 The biggest governance committee in the personal alliance 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 is the technical governance committee. 04:30.000 --> 04:33.000 It's formed by a couple of few years coming from the OSRF, 04:33.000 --> 04:35.000 the TSC, and the look at the case, 04:35.000 --> 04:38.000 there are representatives of this membership community, 04:38.000 --> 04:40.000 and people that is paying for that. 04:40.000 --> 04:43.000 And there are representatives of projects inside the OSRF, 04:43.000 --> 04:46.000 which is mainly the worst is the biggest one, 04:46.000 --> 04:47.000 but there are some others. 04:47.000 --> 04:49.000 And what we find, 04:49.000 --> 04:52.000 the worst project managers committee, 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 this is under the previous TSC, 04:54.000 --> 04:57.000 and it's taking care of day-to-day operations. 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 It's formed by the leader, their members, 04:59.000 --> 05:01.000 which are rights to vote, commissioners, 05:01.000 --> 05:02.000 don't have rights to vote, 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 and you shall represent the tips. 05:04.000 --> 05:06.000 It has some power, 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 but they can propose and vote the OSRF leader. 05:08.000 --> 05:12.000 It means that the OSRF is proposed, 05:12.000 --> 05:14.000 but the decision is to say, 05:14.000 --> 05:17.000 okay, for that, and after they vote for it. 05:17.000 --> 05:18.000 That's it. 05:18.000 --> 05:19.000 Thank you. 05:19.000 --> 05:21.000 Thank you.