SW RISC OS Show on 1st March
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Andrew Rawnsley (492) 1443 posts |
It’s now just two weeks until the SW RISC OS show at the Webbington Hotel near Weston-super-mare, just south of Bristol. The show runs from 10.30am to 4pm on Saturday 1st March. As well as a wide selection of RISC OS exhibitors, there will also be space set aside for a “bring-your-own-computer” Raspberry-Pi-style “jam”, where you’ll be able to show what you’ve been up to, and test things out on fellow enthusiasts. RISC OS exhibitors include R-Comp, Orpheus Internet, RISC OS Open, CJE Micros, MW Software, Organiser, Drag’n’drop magazine, Archive magazine, Steve Fryatt, Fortran Friends, and of course the Charity Stand. We’re still awaiting final confirmation from a couple more, too. We’ve managed to ensure that entrance fees can stay unchanged from last year, making the show the cheapest of the “nice hotel venue” RISC OS to enter. We’re aware that the weather has not been kind to folks in the SW recently, and hopefully it won’t put too much of a dampener (pardon the pun) on things for the show. We look forward to seeing people at the event, and if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with either myself or Richard Brown at the usual R-Comp or Orpheus Internet contact details. Further information, including directions etc, can be found on the show website – http://www.riscos-swshow.co.uk/ See you there! |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
In lieu of a vertical banner, I have created a textual promo on my blog. It’s on the right-hand column (desktop mode). |
Frederick Bambrough (1372) 837 posts |
Only 18 miles from where I’m living at the mo’… but only if my swimming improves. I’ve some bits & bobs I could give away too (sucks teeth). |
Andrew Rawnsley (492) 1443 posts |
Just a quick “bump” to remind folks that it is now only two days until the RISC OS Southwest show. |
Vince M Hudd (116) 534 posts |
There’s been a vertical banner on RISCOSitory for ages. I knocked that one up (ooer, missus) because there wasn’t an ‘official’ one – but I see there now is. Hmm. I prefer my version, and your textual one, to the proper one. Who had the bright idea to put the R-Comp and Orpheus logos at the green end, when they’re bit maps rendered against a lighter colour, possibly white? |
Steve Revill (20) 1361 posts |
RISC OS Open will be there – we’re looking forward to it! :) |
Bryan Hogan (339) 589 posts |
ROUGOL will be there too. Also looking forward to it! :-) |
Doug Webb (190) 1158 posts |
Various MUG members will be there as well. Looking forward to it and spreading the word about the July MUG show as well :-) |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
I plan to sleep late (!), but hope you guys have a good day. |
Steve Revill (20) 1361 posts |
Thanks to everyone who organised the show, to those who exhibited and to everyone who came along to have a look. It was a looong day for Ben and I but well worth it. Maybe we’ll see some of you at Wakefield next month? :) |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
Grrr! 1 It has two commas in the price – and before Rick chimes in: we don’t use that foreign malarkey for decimal separator, proper . for decimal and , for thousand and million bits round here. |
Steve Revill (20) 1361 posts |
Now, we could do with those kinds of sums in the RISC OS world, so Ben and I could come and work full time for ROOL instead of doing voluntary stuff in our (very little) spare time. And the same applies to many others in the community, of course. A seven-figure sum could transform RISC OS and keep things going very nicely for another decade! |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
Do useful work as a volunteer = little thanks and no income. Personally I couldn’t live with myself if I did option 3 1 Plus comments from Tories that are best described politely as extremely far removed from accurate. |
Steve Fryatt (216) 2103 posts |
It’s not on ROOL’s page, but now that I’m back up north(ish) I’ve put my photos from the event up at http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/gallery/index.php?/category/southwest2014 — I think it should work in NetSurf. Thanks to Andrew and Richard for all their hard work making it happen (especially as I’ve a good idea of the amount of work involved).
I hope so. :-) |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
An observation from the photos….what should we be doing to attract a younger generation1 of hacker-types to RISC OS? 1 Even I can no longer fool myself, the non-coloured hairs are starting to win this battle, and I can’t even try the excuse that I’m Leland Palmer (that, too, will probably date me ;) ). |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
White is warmer than pink. On topic – maintaining a youth interest is a mysterious process. The same difficulties exist in other organisations/groups. CAMRA has been fighting the same problem for years, most of the success revolves around “fun” |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
You know, one day I might turn up at work with animé-blue hair. Just for lulz. I wrote more, but deleted it. I know what I want to say, just don’t know how to say it. So instead I shall ask this: Given the age of the people in the photos, I’m sure we all have fond memories of the Beeb. You know, there’s a quiet little mailing list and just the other day a machine failed to start up. Turns out one of the address decoding chips had given up the ghost. The fault was diagnosed from the behaviour, the chip replaced, the machine burr-beeps once again. When you compare hardware of old with hardware now, it reminds me of a line from that Joni Mitchell song – something’s lost but something’s gained – we have gained the power to do incredible things. So many people don’t give a moment of thought to the power in their pocket every time they get a notification of a new email, they don’t think of all that came before it. And I would have been the worst student ever if I had this iPad when I was a teenager. I’m lying in bed writing this before watching a recording of a TV program. Yeah, I just had to make do with a Walkman and some worn out tapes. ;-) So my question is this: Why are you interested. What makes all of this fun for you? And if you can answer that, do you know how you might begin to share this, especially with a generation that never had to load software from a tape or wait for a program to download, or even had a look inside a computer?3 How do we define “fun”? Well… That was more than I planned to write the 1 It’s a Japanese word that means “little sister”. 2 I will kill anybody that mentions “year of code”. http://www.heyrick.co.uk/blog/index.php?diary=20140214 3 What first attracted me to the BBC Micro was when I realised a few simple PRINT statements would take care of my maths homework for me. What absolutely sealed the deal was when I snuck into the classroom during evening prep and undid four simple screws and the cover lifted right off. Oh hell yes ! Now that’s more like it. I didn’t get detention when caught, I got a fiftieth-generation photocopy of the schematic which needed quite a bit of touching up. But it was like dropping a person in a city full of interesting things and then giving them a street plan. Perhaps this is the basis for my preference for assembler, even if I’m not as good as I wish I was? Because having taken the Beeb apart in my mind (the school wouldn’t have been happy with anything more!), I could visualise the address bus, the data bus, the control and clocking pulses, all the little bits and how they relate to each other. You just cannot experience that with a little blob of plastic (and the bit you can see isn’t even the fun part, that’s hiding underneath!). |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
What makes me want to work where I do and do what I do? Challenge? possibly. Curiosity about new things? possibly. A sequence of incidents starting with taking my bedroom wall clock apart and putting it back together, through building a TV games computer and learning to use the Polytechnic EPROM programmer and write notes for the students (I was in school). Having numerous people tell me something was impossible when logic said otherwise and then testing proved me right. All these, some or none.
I don’t understand me, other people are more difficult. However, I believe I can say that you’re looking for a good teacher. When I say good I mean good. Good teachers understand “hooks”
You don’t, you study other people and find their hook. You find what they find fun. |
David R. Lane (77) 766 posts |
It’s difficult to do justice to your post in the few words I am going to contribute, but here goes. Really, these points need some qualification and some examples or backing up, but I haven’t time for that and so just take the general idea. And, no, my knowledge of how a computer works is pretty feeble. Most folk haven’t the time to study computers in depth, hence the problem. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
Ding! Potential hook for subject Pampling identified on line 10,000 |
Malcolm Hussain-Gambles (1596) 811 posts |
No Photos? |
Steve Fryatt (216) 2103 posts |
https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/1/topics/2415#posts-30713 ? |
Steve Revill (20) 1361 posts |
How about 1000 photos ? |
Vince M Hudd (116) 534 posts |
Having now been able to write up a show report, I’ve linked to Steve Fryatt’s photographs, and embedded that video. Since nobody else has commented yet, take a more careful look at about the 53 second point. |
Steve Revill (20) 1361 posts |
Nice one, Vince. An entertaining report as ever. And as for the London Show timelapse – I’m afraid we didn’t get to do anything silly in that one. The great thing about the London Show was we were too busy to leave our stand for the whole thing. Which was also the worst thing about the show! ;) |
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