Feeling alone :-/

Hello

I am a new RiscOS user from the French speaking parts of Belgium… and I feel damned alone here :-(
I tried googling “Riscos forum français”… and nothing came out!

Is there a french community around RiscOS? Where are located the french speaking RiscOS users?
Are there four of us, or, like Anonymous, are we legion?

Cheers

François

Geographic Distribution of The RISCOS Foundation in 2000
Gibraltar 1 0.09%
Iceland 1 0.09%
Israel 1 0.09%
Japan 1 0.09%
Kuwait 1 0.09%
Singapore 1 0.09%
South Africa 1 0.09%
Sweden 1 0.09%
Canada 2 0.18%
Austria 3 0.26%
Channel Islands 4 0.35%
Denmark 4 0.35%
Italy 5 0.44%
USA 5 0.44%
Norway 7 0.62%
France 8 0.70%
Belgium 9 0.79%
Northern Ireland 9 0.79%
Switzerland 10 0.88%
New Zealand 13 1.14%
Australia 16 1.41%
Wales 38 3.35%
Scotland 46 4.05%
Germany 48 4.23%
Netherlands 71 6.25%
England 830 73.06%

The proportions are probably not really changed over the years, only the numbers.

Netherlands 71 6.25%

Considering the Dutch user group (Big Ben Club) had a lot more members than 71 in 2000 (there are still more than double that today…), I’m not sure the distribution of the RISC OS Foundation is all that relevant.

Bienvenue! There used to be a French (certainly French speaking) coder called ArmOric, who’s still being referred to here on this forum. I don’t know whether the rest of the ARM’sTech crew were French and/or if any of them are still around and following RISC OS stuff. Bon continuation de recherche.

Edit: There’s also Alain Brobecker, ¹ and Rick (on here) who lives in France.

¹ It looks as if the président du club multi-jeux is the same person (from the website link), and there’s a phone number which is only around 18 months old.

Let say the Dutch RISC OS community is still around 150 than the French-speaking RISC OS community is likely around 35.

Big Ben Club had 450 members in 2000.

Maybe is the only French-speaking RISC OS usergroup left: http://habett.org/armada/

Hi

Looks like armada is dead…

Maybe, one day, I will find s.o. using RiscOS in the region where I live… :)

There is/was Jérôme Matthevet. Not sure if he still dabbles with RO or if he’s gone Linux like so many.

Still, the obvious question is where do you live (nearest big town)? There may be people nearby.

ers, in 2000 I was living in England; it’s a 13 year old statistic of subscribers rather than users so may well be lacking in accuracy.

Hi François.

Welcome to the “feeling alone” club: I’ve been there for many years… :)

You see, I live in Norway, and I don’t know a single Norwegian person that’s using RISC OS… Back in the 80’s/90’s, we had a small community of Acorn computer users, but they’ve all moved to PCs long time ago (which I also did at the time, before returning to the RISC OS world about 5 years ago).

I used to know a person named Jan-Jaap van der Geer (a person from the Netherlands living in Oslo), but his mail address no longer works, and I have no phone number for him anymore.

Anybody else knows any Scandinavian RISC OS user, or knows if Jan-Jaap is still active, possibly has his mail address?

In any case, location isn’t that important for me, but even worldwide, there doesn’t seem to be a lot happening… That is, very little activity when it comes to general discussions, programming, etc., both at this site and the newsgroups.

Any place with more activity that I’ve missed?

In any case, being the happy owner of ARMiniX, and having started to get into studies and development once again, I’m happy as a clam, but I wouldn’t mind more people and activity in our community… :)

François, welcome to our community! :) I think you’ll find us a friendly, helpful bunch of people. :)

For Norway you could try http://mistymornings.net
Nice Webcam.

Anybody else knows any Scandinavian RISC OS user, or knows if Jan-Jaap is still active, possibly has his mail address?

I’ve just sent him an e-mail, so I expect he’ll show up here shortly.

For Norway you could try http://mistymornings.net

Nice pictures, but is it even remotely related to RISC OS…? :)

Maybe not, but Stan Williams is a RISC OS user (or at least he used to be until recently).

Ah, I didn’t know, thanks. :)

Terje…

How lucky you are… You have found a RiscOS fellow speaking your language :D

But it could have been worse for me, I could have been a Laplander ^^

Cheers

Hah-hah… :)

The language used isn’t much of an issue for me: My fiance is American, so we speak English at home. :)

Still, it would be nice to know at least someone else in Norway (or Scandinavia) who uses RISC OS… :)

Bonjour François,

RISCOS n’a jamais été très populaire coté francophone. En de dehors des noms déjà cités je ne connais que:
- moi-même, toujours qui possède toujours un RISC PC et pour lequel je continue de temps en temps à développer DigitalCD et tout ce qui tourne autour.
- Gilles Damoiseaux, membre de BASS à qui l’on doir quelques excellentes démos, mais ca fait +- 15 ans qu’il est passé sur PC.

Coté néerlandophone, je crois qu’il reste encore un groupe d’utilisateurs qui se réunissent de temps en temps du coté d’Anvers.

Bonjour André,

Merci de ta réponse. Je me doutais que le nombre d’utilisateurs francophones n’a jamais dû être très important. Moi-même, qui suis pourtant un peu nostalgique de l’informatique des années 80-90 (atari et amiga principalement), je n’ai entendu parler de RiscOS qu’il y a quelques mois, quand je me suis intéressé au Raspberry Pi… Et je suis littéralement tombé sous le charme! Au point d’acheter plusieurs logiciels commerciaux pour en faire ma station bureautique personnelle principale…
Sur le forum francophone Yaronet.com, un certain “nicam” serait utilisateur francophone. J’espère que ce n’est pas toi, ainsi, nous serions au moins trois :)
Qui sait, peut-être qu’au Quebec…

Cordialement

François

Ik ben nog steeds en RISC OS gebruiker, mijn Iyonix doet het ik heb een Beagleboard en een RPi. Op dit moment heb ik veel andre dingen ik moet regelen (o.a. twee autos door de APK krijgen) dus ik heb mijn digital leven op zij gezet. Maar ik hoop om wat meer tijd in de herfst te krijgen voor leuke RISC OS aktiviteiten.

Hei Terje, det er fint å høre at det finnes andre RISC OS brukere i Norge. Jeg hadde kontakt med Jan-Jaap i fjør men har ikke hørt noe fra ham i en stund. Jeg mente at det skulle være morsomt å opprette en RISC OS User Group i Norge. Har du lyst til å være med?

One of the slight problems of living in Norway is that Terje and I “quite close” to each other. That is, it only takes me around four hours to drive from Gol to his home town. Which is longer than it would take a resident of the Netherlands to drive from Groningen to Maastricht :)

As for the RISC OS content of my site, well with the exception of the galleries most of the rest of the site is built using my Iyonix. I also created some format files for EXIFInfo to allow jpegs to be renamed with the date/timestamp. These are to be found here http://mistymornings.net/info/exifinfo.html

Hi Stan and good to hear from you. :)

I sent you a mail, too, which you may have got (using the mail address at your website).

Also, thank you Google Translate for letting me make sense of the Dutch part of your posting. :)

Yeah, I’d love to be part of a Norwegian RISC OS User Group. Maybe that could attract more people to the platform, as well, giving it more exposure, and a place for RISC OS users to find each other.

I’m also a member of Oslo C++ Users Group, where I once had a presentation about Concepts in C++0x (which was eventually pulled from C++0x :) ), and I’m a member of an astronomy club in Norway, Deep Sky Exploration.

Looks like sth is coming in the french riscos “community” (more than 1 is a community, right?): www.riscos.fr

If the creator of this site is active on this forum, he can contct me: I am ready to help for articles and so on!

Wait and see!!!!

François.

www.riscos.fr

Hehe… Registered to Ano Nymous. Jeez, I wonder how a Frenchie would pronounce “Nymous”? ;-)

“… programmée pour la rentrée 2013” – that’s September, right?

Yes, Septembre 2013 ,this is indeed how I understand it :)

Hei Terje,

Still here :) As c2i.net stopped, I had to change my address. It’s still the same part before the @ but it’s @gmx.com now :)

Hi Jan-Jaap and good to hear from you again. :)

I’ll resend my mail to your new address.