The meeting scheduled and announced for the Southampton RISC OS User Group – which would otherwise have taken place Tuesday, 9th May (tomorrow night) – has been cancelled. It appears that the venue has made a double-booking, and the room used by the group is therefore unavailable – so any RISC OS users who make the mistake of turning up will be joining an event concerning something else entirely. Organiser Andrew Conroy says he will try to arrange an alternative date, and let everyone know as soon as possible.
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Bristol, Southampton meetings this week
Two RISC OS user group meetings are taking place in the next few days, one in Bristol and one in Southampton.
Read MoreElesar’s Rob Sprowson at WROCC meeting – 3rd May
Taking place on Wednesday, 3rd May, the next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club will see Rob Sprowson as the guest speaker. The man behind Elesar Ltd and the Titanium motherboard, Rob will be demonstrating a Titanium-based computer and talking about its development. Elesar also has a growing range of software titles, both home-grown such as CloudFS, and taken over and updated from a previous owner, such as Font Directory Pro (originally from LOOKsystems).
Read MoreNews nybble: London meeting reminder – Monday 17th April
With it being the Easter weekend, and with the RISC OS User group of London‘s next meeting taking place tomorrow evening, the group has sent out a reminder. The evening’s speaker will be Chris Gransden, talking about his efforts porting things from Linux to RISC OS – with Otter Browser being one of the most notable ports to date, as well as arguably the most important. And since the meeting is less than a week before this year’s Wakefield Show, it’s an opportunity to discuss the show with other like…
Read MoreSouthampton meeting – 11th April
No bunnies were harmed sent on their holidays in the arranging of this meeting. If London on the Easter weekend is still too daunting for you, the next Southampton RISC OS User Group meeting will take place six days earlier, on Tuesday, 11th April. However, this doesn’t coincide with any public holidays and is a normal working day, and there aren’t as many famous tourist attractions in Southampton as there are in London anyway. Readers could therefore be tempted to conclude that I’m just using the London meeting as a…
Read MoreCome and see the Easter Otter at ROUGOL on 17th April
The Easter Bunny has taken a year out to travel the world. One of the most notable ‘problem areas’ for RISC OS is the web browser situation. NetSurf is an excellent piece of work, but it still has a long way to go to get us to the point where we no longer need to switch to another system in order to perform some web-related tasks, and the developers have to fit their work on the browser around their normal lives and commitments. Step forward, then, Chris Gransden, who brought…
Read MoreGet a wisp of a new product from RISCOSbits at ROUGOL – 20th March
At the recent Southwest Show, RISCOSbits‘ Andy Marks was showing off an early version of an in-development product, called Wispy – and Bryan Hogan has managed to get his hands on a pre-release sample, which he will be presenting to the RISC OS User Group of London on the evening of Monday, 20th March, 2017, when the group next meets.
Read MoreNews nybble: Compiling RISC OS in the Midlands – 18th March
Note: Being in the Midlands is not a compilation prerequisite! The Midlands User Group‘s next meeting takes place from 2:00pm on Saturday, 18th March, and the guest speaker this month will be Chris Hall, who will be showing MUG members how to use RISC OS Open‘s Desktop Development Environment to build their own RISC OS ROM image – as well as touching on other uses for the software suite. The place to be is: The Methodist Church Hall, Greenhill, Blackwell, Bromsgrove, B60 1BL. There is a small entrance fee to…
Read MoreNews nybble: RONWUG meeting – 15th March
The next monthly meeting of Cheshire-based RONWUG takes place tomorrow evening – Wednesday 15th March. Organised by Steve Potts, the meeting kicks off at around 7:30pm, and is open to anyone with an interest in RISC OS – and there are no membership or entrance fees. So, if you’re in the area tomorrow evening, the place to be is: Trafford Metrovick Rugby and Cricket Club, Finnybank Road, Sale, Cheshire, M33 6LR.
Read MoreNews nybble: Southampton meeting – March 14th
The Southampton RISC OS User Group will be holding their next meeting on the evening of Tuesday 14th March, from 7:00pm until 9:00pm at the usual location: Itchen College Sports Centre, Deacon Road, Southampton. The car park entrance is accessed from Deacon Road opposite Whites Road, and the meeting itself will be in the College Centre, the open area with tables and chairs, next to the Sports Centre Reception. There is no charge to attend the meeting, and visitors are welcome to bring along any hardware and/or software for the…
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