User groups – Page 3

Up periscope! Nemo to navigate Nautilus up the Thames

March 18, 2023March 18, 2023 VinceH

An obvious reference like that is impossible to resist – sorry! The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) will take place on Monday, 20th March, and the guest speaker will be telling us how his submarine, Nautilus, is controlled via RISC OS. Wait, what? No, okay, then. The guest speaker will be Nemo20000, rather than Jules Verne’s fictional captain Nemo. ‘Our’ Nemo doesn’t have a submarine, but he does have some interesting RISC OS things to talk about.

Desktop dock demonstration in Droitwich. Ish.

March 2, 2023March 2, 2023 VinceH

That’ll be in Wychbold, then!1 The Midlands User Group (MUG) will be meeting up in person this Saturday (4th March) for the first time since before the pandemic – meetings in the interim have all been held online – and the ‘main event’ of the meeting will be a demonstration of the Desktop Dock, for use with laptops such as the Pinebook Pro.

Previewing the Southwest Show with ROUGOL

February 20, 2023February 20, 2023 VinceH

In a very last minute (well, last day) announcement, the details of the next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting are now available. This evening – yes, tonight (20th February, 2023) – there will be no formal speaker and instead the group will be discussing the very rapidly approaching Southwest Show.

Attend Dr Wimp’s Surgery with MUG

February 2, 2023February 3, 2023 VinceH

The Midlands User Group (MUG) meeting will take place online, via the Zoom video conferencing system, on Saturday, 4th February at 2:00pm. John McCartney will be taking the main stage for the meeting, to discuss Dr Wimp’s Surgery – a book published by the late Ray Favre that provided an introduction to programming the RISC OS desktop using the Dr Wimp BASIC library.

Bristol RISC OS Users meeting – 18th January

January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 VinceH

A week later than it would normally take place, the next meeting of Bristol RISC OS Users (BRU) is set for Wednesday, 18th January. The group normally meets on the second Wednesday of odd months, but was put back by seven days to avoid a clash with the recent Wakefield meeting.

To be and not to be – RISC OS Developments at ROUGOL

January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 VinceH

Whether ’tis nobler in the pub to imbibe. Or something. The next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting will be another hybrid meeting, with both a physical presence at the group’s regular venue, and an online one – but with an added twist: There will be two guest speakers for the evening, and one will be appearing in person, while the other will be at the other end of an internet connection.

ROUGOL’s plans for early 2023

January 7, 2023 VinceH

World domination not on the cards – just some meeting information. With all the shenanigans surrounding the tail end of the year out of the way – Christmas, New Year, hangovers (lots of hangovers, probably) – details of some of the first few RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meetings of 2023 have been released.

R-Comp and the Pinebook Pro at Wakefield – 11th January

January 5, 2023January 5, 2023 VinceH

A week later than the customary first Wednesday of the month (members need time to recover from the New Year celebrations, obviously), the next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting is set for Wednesday, 11th January, 2023, and Andrew Rawnsley of R-Comp will be the guest speaker.

Elesar takes a look at speech synthesis with WROCC – 7th December

December 5, 2022December 7, 2022 VinceH

Oh, and something about TextEase version 6, as well. Elesar Ltd‘s Rob Sprowson will be visiting the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) on Wednesday, 7th December, to deliver a talk ostensibly on the subject of speech. Well, speech synthesis to be precise.

Dock your Cobra Mark III in London – 21st November

November 18, 2022 VinceH

If you’ve ever played Elite – which is probably almost everyone in the Acorn and RISC OS spheres1 – you’ll probably find the next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting an interesting one, with Mark Moxon visiting the group as the guest speaker.