The opportunity has once again come around for people involved or
interested in software development on, for, or even of RISC OS to gather together and discuss matters relevant to the topic. The next friendly
fireside chat is scheduled to take place on Saturday, 10th January.

The meetings, which are held online using the Zoom video conferencing
system - https://zoom.us/ - don't follow a set agenda. Instead, the
discussion topics are down to those people present, and what they wish to bring up or ask about.

For example, at the last meeting, discussion topics included:

* The various paths and works in progress that might eventually bring us a 64-bit RISC OS, or whether the way forward is emulation, and in that
context what RISC OS actually IS in different people's eyes?

* Identifying the nature of text (and its encoding type, such as UTF8) recieved by a program - and a Wimp Message that almost nobody uses, but is designed to solve that problem.

* More generally, Ui inconsistencies on other platforms.

The meetings are open to anyone, regardless of their programming prowess -
you could be someone with no programming experience looking for advice on where to begin and what tools to use, an expert with many years of
development behind you, or anything between the two extremes; all are
welcome.

To join the meeting, you will need a platform on which Zoom can be run,
along with the meeting credentials. If you've joined a previous fireside
chat, those credentials remain unchanged, but if not you can get them via
one of these routes:

You can contact Andrew McCarthy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ArmBytes
or Mastodon at https://mastodon.online/@armbytes - or from your RISC OS computer using ChatCube.

Or you can send a message to me here in the RISCOSitory bunker (by
replying to this message via email). Please note, though, that any emails
sent to me on the day of the meeting itself will not receive a reply until very close to the meeting's start time!

If you can't wait until the next meeting to discuss RISC OS development
issues with others, or want to continue a discussion started at the
meeting, there is also now a Discord discussion forum - The RISC OS Coding Community, which can be joined at:

https://discord.com/channels/1389293639938740354/1389293640609824874


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