The next opportunity for people with an interest in RISC OS software development to gather around the fire for a chat about all things related to the subject is this coming Saturday – 14th November.
Starting at around 7:30pm via the Zoom video conferencing system, these meetings are way for for anyone who develops software for RISC OS, and anyone with an interest in the topic, to talk to other like-minded people, enabling them to discuss what they’re up to, the problems and issues they’ve come up against, and how they’ve solved them – or, if they haven’t solved them, to seek help and advice from other developers.
The meetings are informal in nature, with no set topic. Instead, the direction of the conversation is directed entirely by those present bringing up the aspects of developing on (or for) RISC OS that they want to talk about.
Examples of topics that came up at the last meeting include:
- Dave Higton talking about issues with his IPv6 software and the latest updates to the network stack from RISC OS Developments.
- Looking at a Zip file versus looking inside one, and the problem of too many files being held open after tools scan through a Zip file, because the file remains open for a few seconds after being read.
- Another, more general discussion covered the way people adapt to different user interfaces, as well as the problem of changing user interfaces versus one that remains consistent.
The meeting will kick off at 7:30pm, and it is open to anyone to join, no matter how experienced or otherwise you are as a developer. All you’ll need is 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.