Lpc2000

Rod Moffitt wrote:

>I think yahoo has offered a quality product allowing us to host these 
>great discussion groups. However I believe we have (for sometime now) 
>grown beyond a simple yahoo group. Plus with the limits on file uploads 
>and the annoying advertisements it isn't exactly ideal.
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Only if you access the web pages which I very rarely do.

>I would like to start a thread on setting up a community run (no 
>commercial sponsoring) site devoted to the LPC2000 family. In fact, due to 
>the overwhelming popularity of the other ARM7 variants, an ARM7 site would 
>be ideal.
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Overwhelming popularity of others ?
Your not referring to atmels claim to have the most popular arm7 devices ?

My view is the lpc21xxx's are very popular especially with hobbiests 
and  others
especially due to the reasonably easy availability and free tools.
Where as other manufacturers discourage hobbiests and non-large 
companies from using their products.

>I believe I have a solution. A while ago I registered arm7.org with the 
>intention of hosting my build scripts plus other ARM7 documentation and 
>information pertaining to ARM7 (see my site at rod.info/arm.html for more 
>info on my scripts and other links).
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No thanks, I think this group is going along very nicely as it is.

Probably would be a good idea to have say an arm7 or even arm  site 
(armfreaks)
but you would have to keep it manufacturer neutral.

Would be a fair buit of work, keeping a site like that up to date.

>Instead, what I think would be very beneficial for the ARM7 community as a 
>whole, would be to create a CMS (content management system) with email 
>discussion groups, wikis and file hosting. With such a site all of the 
>yahoo groups could be moved over to a limit and advertising free 
>environment.
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These all already exist, just not in one central spot and not controlled 
by one person, which
I think is probably the better way to have it.

avrfreaks is similar to what you suggest as is www.at91.com
both are funded directly by atmel.

It could work if done properly.
Still prefer to keep this group as is rather than use a forum format 
like avrfreaks etc
Also allows people who can't access web pages due to employer filters etc
to post and read without problems.

With regard to wikis, it is a good idea to mirror them.
Especially if the server goes down and there aren't any backups
(like what happened to the gfortran(gnu fortran 90/95 compiler) wiki 
last week)

The gnu arm site is now quite well mirrored.

Alex

>I have a virtual dedicated server at an ISP with lots of disk space and 
>bandwidth. I would be willing to lead the administration of such a site if 
>I could get people interested in helping out.
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>One thing I promise is to never elicit advertising through this site. If 
>you know me, or have perused any of the websites I maintain (see rod.info 
>for some links) you are aware that I am not commercially orientated (I 
>don't even put links to my employer on my personal web site). We will of 
>course have links to ARM7 commercial ventures, yet there wouldn't be any 
>commercial sponsoring (i.e. paid advertising).
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>The first thing I would like to do is canvass this list to find if there 
>is general support for such an idea.
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>The next step would be to find volunteers with LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL 
>PHP) experience who are interested in helping administrate the server (for 
>starters you would get shell access on a Linux box).
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>After that the volunteers and I would select a CMS system to provide the 
>basis for this site. And then we will see where it goes from there!
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>Please let me know what you think.
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>- Rod
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