The next online meeting for anyone who is interested in the topic of developing on or for RISC OS will take place online on Saturday, 25th April.
As ever, these friendly fireside chats are an informal way for developers and those with a passing interest to get together and discuss the issues that affect them or they feel are relevant. There is no set agenda, so the areas covered by the meeting are steered by those present – meaning you can bring up a burning issue, pose a problem to other attendees, offer advice if you can, or just sit back and listen in while others ask and answer questions.
Examples of topics brought up previously include:
- The idea of Zap and StrongED sporting a ‘project mode’, to ease finding and loading all the disparate source files that might make up a development tree.
- The state of play with TWimp, a comparatively new development tool that makes programming the WIMP a breeze.
With the next meeting taking place on Saturday, 25th April, and the following day being the 41st birthday of the ARM processor (many happy returns, ARM!) – and noting that the last participants of the meeting are usually still present well after midnight, meaning the meeting will end on the 26th – you can be sure the anniversary itself will get a mention.
Kicking off at 7:30pm, the meetings take place using the Zoom video conferencing software, which is available for most platforms. They are wholly informal and don’t follow a set agenda – those present steer the conversation as the evening progresses. They 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.