Informal Christmas meal at ROUGOL – 16th December

There might not be any room at the inn restaurant upstairs. With December being a busy month in popular restaurants, the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) tends not to arrange a formal speaker for its last meeting of the year. Instead, the group meets more informally, albeit still in line with the regular schedule. That meeting will therefore take place on Monday, 16th December, 2019, from around 7:45pm.

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Midlands User Group delves into shared files – 16th November

The Midlands User Group (MUG) looked at the various means of accessing network connections wirelessly at their September meeting, and had intended to move neatly from that onto the subject of sharing data and files with other computers, even other platforms. However, limited time meant the meeting only covered the connectivity options, and didn’t touch on file sharing at all – so that has been settled on as a topic in its own right for the next meeting, which will take place on Saturday, 16th November.

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News nybble: Southampton meeting – 12th November

The Southampton RISC OS User Group (SROUG) will next be meeting up on Tuesday, 12th November. There is no attendance fee, and everyone is welcome – whether to simply discuss RISC OS generally, or some specific aspect, to seek help with an issue or show off something they’re working on. There should be at least one small network of RISC OS computers, hopefully with internet access to the world beyond. The meeting will run from 7:00pm until 9:00pm in the Sports Centre of Itchen College, Deacon Road, Southampton – once…

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News nybble: Video of Chris Cox’s visit to ROUGOL now online

Back in February, Chris Cox paid a visit to the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) – and much more recently the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) – to talk about his time at Acorn Computers and Acorn RISC Technologies, where amongst other things he largely became the public face at exhibitions. For the benefit of anyone unable to visit either, a video recording of the London talk is now available to watch on YouTube. ROUGOL’s next meeting, meanwhile, will take place on 18th November, and the group…

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Mystery new product to be revealed in London – on 21st October

Wait, the London Show is on 26th October! What’s going on? If you read the London Show preview, you’ll notice that Adrian Lees is planning to launch a major new application, with no details available as yet about what it is – so the nature of that application is a mystery. Five days before the London Show, however, its organisers – the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) – still plan to have their regular monthly meeting, and there will be a mystery new product revealed at that meeting.…

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News nybble: Southampton meeting – 8th October

The next chance for RISC OS users in the Southampton area to meet up, chat, discuss or show off their latest hardware and software projects, and so on, will be on Tuesday, 8th October from 7:00pm until 9:00pm. The meeting will take place in the Sports Centre of Itchen College, Deacon Road, Southampton. The car park entrance is accessed from Deacon Road, opposite Whites Road, and once in you need to head for the College Centre, an open area with tables and chairs, next to the Sports Centre Reception desk.

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