The opportunity has once again come around for people involved or interested in software development on, for, or even of RISC OS to gather together and discuss matters relevant to the topic. The next friendly fireside chat is scheduled to take place on Saturday, 10th January.
The meetings – which are held online, using the Zoom video conferencing system – don’t follow a set agenda. Instead, the discussion topics are down to those people present, and what they wish to bring up or ask about.
For example, at the last meeting, discussion topics included:
- The various paths and works in progress that might eventually bring us a 64-bit RISC OS, or whether the way forward is emulation, and in that context what RISC OS actually IS in different people’s eyes?
- Identifying the nature of text (and its encoding type, such as UTF8) recieved by a program – and a Wimp Message that almost nobody uses, but is designed to solve that problem.
- More generally, Ui inconsistencies on other platforms.
The meetings are open to anyone, regardless of their programming prowess – you could be someone with no programming experience looking for advice on where to begin and what tools to use, an expert with many years of development behind you, or anything between the two extremes; all are welcome.
To join the meeting, you will need a platform on which Zoom can be run, along with the meeting credentials. If you’ve joined a previous fireside chat, those credentials remain unchanged, but if not you can get them via one of these routes:
- 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!
If you can’t wait until the next meeting to discuss RISC OS development issues with others, or want to continue a discussion started at the meeting, there is also now a Discord discussion forum – The RISC OS Coding Community.