+1 Having a focused SIG would promote better attention to details/issues in the ARM community than being 'embedded' within a larger, more diffuse group. While ARM platforms are often associated with embedded systems, that's not always the case. For instance I wouldn't classify NVidia's CARMA board as 'embedded' ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/carma-devkit.html). Damn thing has more horsepower than my desktop. I don't what this to digress into a 'definition of embedded' thread. But as suggested, keeping ARM separate is no different than other operating system specific SIGs. On 01/24/2013 06:01 AM, Kevin Walchko wrote: I think embedded is potentially too broad, and looking at the mail group quickly there appears to be a lot of different topics discussed (bandwidth, C++ vs C, RTOS for ROS, etc). There seems to be a lot of interest in specifically ARM and supporting ROS specifically on ARM. I think if a SIG is going to produce something, it helps to be focused. There appears to be a lot of work to just setup the infrastructure, test, and distribute ROS packages for ARM. In order to achieve this, I think it should be its own SIG. I see no difference between this and the OSX SIG I support … which is a lot of work. On Jan 23, 2013, at 11:50 PM, Brian Gerkey wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Marcus Liebhardt > wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:14 AM, Tully Foote >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> Thanks for the interest. Based on the interest we have setup a SIG for >>> this. I encourage you to join if you have time to participate. >> >> >> I wonder, if it is necessary to create an extra SIG for this. Although the >> group of people interested in ROS on ARM has grown to a significant size, >> there are still not so many people out there. >> In order to avoid people getting scattered all over the place (and might >> even lost), I suggest we use the existing Embedded SIG >> (http://www.ros.org/wiki/sig/Embedded) for this. >> It gathers people interesting in and working on different embedded levels, >> such as ROS on ARMs running Linux distributions and ROS on/with "bare-metal" >> embedded boards. >> If this list/group gets to busy in the future, we still could split it up in >> different groups later. > > As a lurker on the ros-sig-embedded list, I agree with Markus. Unless > we really have two distinct communities, "embedded" and "arm," it > would seem that one group is enough. > > brian. > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users _______________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@code.ros.org https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users