Also, group name morphs from SAUG into SROUG. The Southampton RISC OS Users Group usually meets on the second Tuesday of each month, and In February, that should mean the 10th. However, Dave Higton reports that there is a clash on that day with a Parents’ Evening, so the February meeting has been provisionally rescheduled for the following day – Wednesday, 11th February.
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RISC OS Awards at ROUGOL
An opportunity to reminisce about good times long very recently gone. The RISC OS User Group of London have announced the date and subject of their next meeting – and it’s a subject that I hope all but fifty or so members of the RISC OS community are currently thinking about! That subject is the 2014 RISC OS Awards poll, which is currently underway and has only received a handful over fifty votes so far – with a closing date that is a little over two weeks away, at the…
Read MoreUpcoming user group meetings – Southampton, Bristol
Pub time! (Or college centre time, depending where you are!) Announcements/reminders of two user group meetings taking place this week have been made – one of which is very last minute.
Read MoreSouthampton, Bristol, Midlands user group meetings this week
London, New York, Paris, Munich So’ton, Bristol, Midlands, er, that’s it… Everybody talk about pop music RISC OS! The Southampton RISC OS Users Group’s next meeting is on Tuesday, November 11th – that’s tomorrow, folks – at its usual location:
Read MoreUpcoming meetings in Southampton, Bristol
The end is next meetings are nigh! The Southampton Acorn Users Group – SAUG – usually meets on the second Tuesday of each month and September’s meeting will therefore take place on Tuesday, 9th September, with the usual starting time of 7:00pm, running on until 9:00pm. The meeting takes place at:
Read MoreFrom RiscPC to Raspberry Pi at the September WROCC meeting
Yet more attention for the RiscPC, which really only wanted to celebrate quietly, with family and close friends. With the RiscPC having celebrated its 20th birthday earlier this year, the next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club will feature Peter Richmond taking a look back at some of the hardware expansion options that have been available in that time for Acorn’s iconic and most powerful computer.
Read MoreWakefield club offers meeting videos for remote members
You can virtually attend meetings – but with no interaction. Just like TV! The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club have come up with a new way to encourage membership from afar – by allowing members to virtually attend meetings, albeit after they’ve happened. In other words, they’re making videos of meetings available online for those people who are unable to attend in person.
Read MoreUser group meetings in June
If you like a lot of chocolate RISC OS in your biscuit social life, join a club! With some announcements about upcoming meetings appearing around the same time, as well as news of possible changes to meeting dates, why not throw them all together with some bacon, lettuce and tomato in a sarnie. Except without the bacon, lettuce or tomato – since this isn’t a sarnie, it’s a RISCOSitory post. What? It’s been a long weekend! Umm… anyway…
Read MoreARX, Arthur and RISC OS – what Paul Fellows said to ROUGOL
“we started off with the best machine in the world, ever, the BBC Micro model B” For their October 2012 meeting, ROUGOL (the RISC OS User Group of London, who organise the annual RISC OS London Show , this year taking place on 26th October at its usual venue, the St Giles Hotel, Feltham) managed to get none other than Paul Fellows to attend as guest speaker.
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A better late than never introduction for the RISC OS world to the #RaspberryJam RISC OS users should by now need no introduction to the Raspberry Pi – but in case there is anyone reading this who has been living as a hermit for the last few years with no access to the internet (or any other news sources) in their cave, it is a very small, incredibly cheap computer based around a Broadcom BCM2835 ‘System on a Chip’ (or SoC). The heart of that SoC is an ARM processor,…
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