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