RISC OS Developments Q&A at Big Ben eXperience 2021 (in a few mins)

Hello everyone,

I’ll be doing a presentation and Q&A about Iris, TCP/IP and other things (a bit of R-Comp probably too) at the RISC OS eXperience virtual show in 30 mins time. There will be a little bit of new news since Wakefield.

https://meet.jit.si/RiscOSeXperience2021-05-15

(That URL was copy/pasted from Iris in a VNC window into Chrome on my PC [running the camera etc] – never tried that before – it worked!)

12.45pm (UK time) on Sat 15th May.

Please forgive the lack of advance notice – this was only confirmed late last night / this morning!

Yep sorry for the late notification. If you log in please make a note of your name.

This raises the question of more shows.
Particularly shows with a larger number of RO vndors.

Time to find a more appropriate forum I think.

Surely an active RISC OS scene is good news for everyone, and worth announcing in the Announcements forum?

Surely an active RISC OS scene is good news for everyone, and worth announcing in the Announcements forum?

That gets my vote :)

Surely an active RISC OS scene is good news for everyone, and worth announcing in the Announcements forum?

That gets my vote :)

And mine. When I came across this announcement I logged on and caught the end of Andrew’s Presentation. Which was excellent BTW.

Surely an active RISC OS scene is good news for everyone, and worth announcing in the Announcements forum?

I meant for my musings on how the online show and meeting etc could be expanded.

Like the not so minor detail that none of the vendors have a reason not to be involved and does this presage the extension of the typical RO show beyond a single day?
Or do we need different “rooms”?

Ah, yes, I see – sensible ideas for sure :)

As usually, a lot falls on the organisers, and how much time/effort they can give. Personally, I see milage in a 2 day event – one day for vendors, one day for user presentations (tutorials, workshops etc). But that’s a massive amount of work, and many people may find two days of RISC OS a bit much!

Some people don’t like giving presentations, and aren’t very comfortable with it, so it really is quite personal as to what will work for any person – visitor or company/organisation/group.

does this presage the extension of the typical RO show beyond a single day?

I’m guessing you are seeing it from the point of view of the visitor.
For those exhibiting (real or virtual), there’s a day of getting stuff in order, a day of panic, a day for doing the things that the panic was about, another day of panic, and finally the show.

So, if there are more shows (even virtual) maybe the vendors won’t want to appear as they’re still recovering from last time?

Personally, I see milage in a 2 day event – one day for vendors, one day for user presentations (tutorials, workshops etc).

Why can’t they run side by side? The problem with making the events longer is in accommodation and picking which day to attend if both aren’t feasible.
I’m assuming you mean a real show here, because there’s no reason why workshops can’t be scheduled in the days around a virtual show.

Some people don’t like giving presentations, and aren’t very comfortable with it,

This.

My mind wanders too much. I’d need an autoprompter so I talk about what I’m supposed to be talking about and don’t end up talking about how darkly funny the film Spontaneous is.

Plus, people. Lots of people. Ewww.

(there’s apparently a plan to ease things back to normal (assuming the Indian variant doesn’t mess things up) but… I’m not sure I want normal back; people will think it’s “polite” to grab a piece of my anatomy and shake it vigorously, Frenchies will do the whole air kissing routine, in the winter loads of people will cough without a mask on, unruly tweenies will run around with no concern for who or what they crash into… I feel depressed just thinking about it)

Some people don’t like giving presentations, and aren’t very comfortable with it, so it really is quite personal as to what will work for any person – visitor or company/organisation/group.

1. I dislike speaking to groups, but I’ve learned to control that and discovered that I can rather well when I’m in the zone. Mostly people get used to it, some discover a talent.
2. The pandemic has seen a large increase in video link presentations, and the consequent connectivity issues that someone has to sort out. This means regularly seeing people use the video links badly. Of course no one gave any guidance.
3. Fear of groups – people could try a pre-recorded session of the presenter speaking to one person they know.

I’m guessing you are seeing it from the point of view of the visitor.

Both actually. Neither have to travel for one.
Neither have to dedicate their whole day – exhibitors might want to see all the presentations and also have small side-chats/sales sessions

For those exhibiting (real or virtual), there’s a day of getting stuff in order, a day of panic, a day for doing the things that the panic was about, another day of panic, and finally the show.

:) There’s this event that normally happens in late summer that I go to. The thing is when I say “go to” it doesn’t actually cover it all. Nor does it cover the fact that we work on the organisation of that event for many months, so long a period that I knew that GBBF was not happening this year many months ago.

TBH the main workload on the virtual events almost certainly sits on the shoulders of the organisers rather than the exhibitors as Andrew quite rightly says.