This coming Saturday – 12th October – is the next opportunity for anyone with an interest in RISC OS and software development to gather together in front of the virtual fire for an informal chat.
These meetings, which take place more or less monthly using the Zoom video conferencing system, are a way for people with that interest to get together and discuss anything related to programming on and for RISC OS.
There is no pre-set agenda for these meetings, and no speaker arranged ahead of time. Instead, their informal nature means participants can steer the topic – so a beginner (or even someone experienced) with a problem can ask for help and advice from others present, programming tools can be demonstrated, early edits of how-to videos may get shown, and so on.
That means there is no specific level of programming expertise required to join the meeting – you can be that hypothetical beginner (or expert) with a problem to be resolved, you might be the person developing that tool other programmers might find useful, and so on; anyone and everyone is welcome; all that matters is that you have an interest in RISC OS and software development on or for the platform.
You will also need to be able to run the Zoom software, which is available for most mainstream platforms, along with the meeting credentials. You’ll have these if you’ve joined these developer meetings previously, but if not there are a few ways to get them:
- You can contact Andrew McCarthy on Twitter or Mastodon – or indeed from your RISC OS computer using ChatCube.
- Or you can send an email to me here in the RISCOSitory bunker. Please note, though, that any emails sent to me on the day of the meeting itself will not receive a reply until very close to the meeting’s start time!