Southampton user group meeting – 10th March

BASIC heating at March meeting! Dave Higton, has posted a reminder about an upcoming meeting of the Southampton RISC OS Users Group, aka SROUG. Following February’s shift from its usual second Tuesday of the month, which was due to a clash with a parents’ evening, the March meeting of the Southampton group is back on schedule, and will therefore take place on Tuesday, 10th March, at the usual time of 7pm, running until 9pm.

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Raspberry Pi 2 at February Southampton meeting

The heat is on… hopefully. The Southampton RISC OS User Group’s next meeting is taking place a day later than usual – the meetings are usually on the second Tuesday of each month but February’s is instead set for Wednesday, 11th February. Meeting organiser Dave Higton changed the date for February a couple of weeks ago, to avoid clashing with a Parents’ Evening at the group’s usual meeting place.

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Southampton February meeting provisionally rescheduled

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…

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Snippets – 31st December, 2014

Because while no news is good news, some news is better. Or something. Keen eyed readers of RISCOSitory will no doubt have noticed that for the last couple of months they have in fact not been keen eyed readers of RISCOSitory at all. As is sometimes the case, the workload here at the Soft Rock Software office became somewhat hectic for a while – moreso, I think, than it’s ever been before – leaving no time for any updates to the site. And to cap that, a nasty bout of…

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Snippets – 12th October, 2014

If news were a hot dog, this would be the ketchup. (Ketchup? Catch-up? Geddit? No? Ho hum – where’s my coat?) Here at the RISCOSitory/Soft Rock Software top secret underground bunker (whose entrance is cunningly disguised as a ramshackle shed) things have become somewhat busy positively hectic over the last couple of months, which has resulted in no news being posted to the site whatsoever for almost a month – not even in the ‘press release’ format whereby an announcement is simply quoted in full. So, in order to catch…

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Arche Gathering, Essen, Germany

A June German get together. The Arche Acorn User Club, based in the Ruhr area of Germany and describing itself as being “for the Friends of the RISC OS machines Acorn Archimedes, Acorn Risc PC, IYONIX pc, A9home and all other RISC OS computers,” are organising an “Arche user gathering”. The gathering, number 2.2 on their (new) numbering scheme, will take place from 1pm on Saturday, 16th June, 2012, in Room 104 of the Unperfekthaus, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 18, 45127 Essen – the same location as the last two gatherings, which took…

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