Southwest Show 2020 next weekend (Feb 22nd) in Bristol - Arnos Manor

It is now only a week to go before the SouthWest RISC OS Show at the Arnos Manor hotel in Bristol – Saturday Feb 22nd.

The venue is easily accessible by road or public transport (unlike the old Webbington location), so we hope as many folks as possible can make the trip.

This year, the show is set to be one of the best yet, with several new exhibitors, and the welcome return of MW Software from Germany, who haven’t been able to make the last few RISC OS events. The exhibition will be taking over even more space in the hotel than last year, to ensure that both exhibitors and guests have more room to enjoy the event.

The show will see the launch of several new products, as well as all the latest hardware releases from major RISC OS companies.

We’ll also have the “live launch” of the RISC OS Direct project. This is a combination software and video project with the goal of spreading RISC OS outside of its usual audiance. The video series will introduce RISC OS to new users, whilst also giving plenty of tips, tricks, and history for existing users. Plus, we think everyone will enjoy the expansive supporting software suite designed to build on the excellent work started by ROOL with their Pi distribution, but expanding into something that will give Pi users the best possible experience of Open Source RISC OS and the myriad software applications it offers. There will be live-streaming of the RISC OS Direct launch, as well as show coverage and interviews. RISC OS Developments will also have RISC OS Direct (micro)SD cards available to give out to new/returning users who make the trip.

For more information, please see http://www.riscos-swshow.co.uk/

It is still not quite too late (but almost) if you’d like a table to show off what you’ve been doing with RISC OS, but please get in contact this weekend, as we need to finalise everything at the start of the week.

Jeez… Nobody but me has posted anything all evening.

You’d think something important was about to happen.

Oh… wait…

;-)

Have a great day tomorrow, everybody.

Watch it live on YouTube! – https://www.youtube.com/wifisheep/live
Timetable:
10:30 – Live feed from the main hall
11:00 – Introduction and welcome
11:30 – First showing of episode one of RISC OS Direct
11:45 – Interview with Anthony Bartram of AMCOG Games
12:45 – Live demonstration of gaming and emulation
13:30 – Live feed from the main show, including interviews and showcases from various exhibitors
14:00 – Interview with Rob Coleman about his 8-bit projects and VideoNuLA
15:00 – Second showing of episode one of RISC OS Direct
15:20 – Live demonstration of programming on RISC OS in BASIC and Python
16:10 – Interview with Bryan Hogan of the RISC OS User Group of London
16:30 – Close-down and end

Preview on RISCOSitory – https://www.riscository.com/2020/southwest-show-final-round-up/

The IconBar show report is live , along with pictures and notes from the talks

The recordings of the various talks are now online:

• Richard Brown
• Andrew Rawnsley
• Steve Revill
• Stefan Fröhling

Unfortunately, I missed the start of Andrew’s talk (chatting to someone at my table). I’m not sure how long he’d been talking before I got in to start the camera, but it was at a convenient moment because it almost seems as though he’s just starting his talk – I think he’d just switched hats at that point.

Interesting to note the lower presence of white hair and balding heads in the Cloverleaf presentation.
Presumably a greater proportion of chat users in the more youthful sector, which makes the chat client a good thing

The RISCOSitory show report is now up. At long last. :)