Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club

Meeting on Thursday 10th November at 7.45pm

RISC OS Open

Steve Revill from RISC OS Open will be joining via Zoom to update the community on progress towards the release of RISC OS 5.30, the open bounties, and other activities.

Please note that this meeting is being held on the second Thursday of the month instead of the usual first Wednesday.

This ‘virtual’ meeting is open to all, and will take place using the Zoom conferencing service. Zoom invitations will be sent out ahead of the meeting, but only to those who email info2022@wrocc.org.uk to request one. If you would like to be part of the meeting (and don’t receive an invite in the next 24 hours as a member of WROCC), please RSVP — at the latest by the end of Wednesday 9th November.

If you haven’t used Zoom before, we suggest that before Thursday you try to join the Zoom test meeting at https://zoom.us/test on the device that you intend to use, in order to check that your system works OK. You will not require a Zoom account to take part.

Past Meetings

Videos of previous meetings can be found in our links to past meetings at https://www.wrocc.org.uk/meetings

Club Membership

Annual membership of the Club is available for those living near and far at £10, but new members receive a 50% discount (ie. £5) in their first year.

Members receive:

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• Entry to meetings, when we’re allowed to meet in person again.
• Access to the WROCC Internet Discussion Forum.

For further information, please email info2022@wrocc.org.uk or visit the Club’s website at https://www.wrocc.org.uk

I shall have a question for Steve. Is there any reason why the work on the Pinebook and the Pinebook Pro has not yet resulted in a daily rom download on the ROOL site? Also an eMMc driver now exists for the latter – is there any requirement on the Apache licence for this to be fed back so that an eMMc driver for the CM4 can be downloaded?

Looking at the other pages, e.g. 5.28, then there were updates every few weeks from February 2020 when the initial review was done until October 2020 when it was concluded. For 5.30 the initial review was May 2022 but there has not yet been even one update nor any indication whether the ‘monthly release candidates’ has been produced. Another question.

has not yet resulted in a daily rom download on the ROOL site?

As I understand it, the stuff is all there (such as this), but it hasn’t been added as another build target because…it would appear to be somewhat complicated.

is there any requirement on the Apache licence for this to be fed back

No.

the stuff is all there (such as this),

A very pertinent example.