Forthcoming Events

Details of upcoming shows and club meetings that you won't want to miss

Click to jump to the following sections:

A full record of events from 2000 to 2003, compiled from issues 1 to 13 of Foundation RISC User, is also available.

RISC OS Shows

RISC OS Southeast Show 2003

Organised by the Surrey and Sussex Acorn User Group (SASAUG), the RISC OS Southeast Show 2002 will take place on Saturday, 18th October 2003 at The Main Building, Guildford Technical College, Stoke Road (A320), Guildford, Surrey.

Maps to the venue are shown to the right (click for larger versions); free parking will be available. For rail access, many lines converge at Guildford, and a bus service provides a link to the college. Alternatively, visitors may walk from the station, as the college is less than three quarters of a mile away. Since there is an existing bus route, no shuttle bus service to the show venue is required, and hence the entrance price can be kept low.

Opening times

The show will open at 10:00am and close at 4:00pm.

Entrance prices

A single price of £5 applies to all tickets, which will be available only at the door; no advance ticket bookings are available.

Please note that Guildford College operates a 'no smoking' policy.

Catering

On-site catering will be available from 10:30am to 3:30pm (along the corridor to the left of the main entrance).

Theatre presentations

Time Speaker & Topic
10.30 Jack Lillingston, Castle Technology
11.30 Brian Jaques
12.30 Paul Middleton, RISCOS Ltd: Select 3
13.30 John Cartmell: Acorn Publisher & Fleur Designs
14.30 R-Comp
  RISC OS Southeast Show 2003 map
RISC OS Southeast Show 2003 venue map

Exhibitors

A provisional list of confirmed exhibitors (as at June 2003) is as follows:
Acorn Publisher
Acorn User
Aemulor
APDL
Archive Publications
The ARM Club
Castle Technology Ltd
Charity stall 		CJE Micros/4th Dimension
The Electronic Font Foundry
Fortran Friends
Icon Technology Ltd
IC Software
ITC-UK Ltd
Brian Jaques
MW Software 		Oregano UK
Peter Naulls & Paul Vigay
NetBSD
Photodesk Ltd
R-Comp/RCI
RISCOS Ltd
SASAUG
Virtual Acorn

Further details

For more information, please check the show's Web site at http://www.fillin.co.uk/seshow/.

Midlands RISC OS Show 2003

CANCELLED

It is with great regret that the ARM Club is forced to announce the cancellation of the Midlands Show, which was to have been held on 29th November 2003.

Our normal venue, the National Motorcycle Museum, suffered a severe fire on 16th September, destroying several parts of the building and rendering many more parts unusable. The suite we had booked was damaged in the fire, and has been declared unsafe. Since the fire we have attempted to find alternative venues in the area, but unfortunately have found nothing suitable and available. Cancellation is not a decision that we have taken lightly, and we appreciate the disappointment to visitors and exhibitors alike.

At this stage we are planning to run the show again in 2004, by which time the Museum should be back in functioning order.

Wakefield 2004 RISC OS Computer Show

Wakefield Show logo

The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club announces that its ninth annual show is at the planning stage. The show will take place on Saturday & Sunday, 15th & 16th May 2004.

The show will not be at its usual venue, however: it will take place at the Cedar Court Hotel Conference Centre, which is at Junction 39 of the M1, just off the slip-road beside the motorway. A free minibus will be provided from Wakefield Westgate railway station (and possibly elsewhere) to the venue (courtesy of APDL and Virtual Acorn).

The show will feature a theatre with 100–120 seats, a prize draw, catering and free car parking facilities for up to 350 cars.

Opening times

Saturday: 10:00am until 6:00pm;
Sunday: 10:00am until 4:00pm.

Tickets In advance At the door
Saturday £6 £7
Sunday £6 £6
Children under 6 Free

Advance tickets will be available from mid-February 2004.

For further information

Contact: Chris Hughes
Address: Wakefield Show
3 Riverdale Avenue
Stanley
Wakefield
WF3 4LF
Web: http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/
Email: showinfo@wrocc.org.uk

User group meetings


UK events diary for 2003

Here are meeting dates for most UK clubs over the whole of 2003. For details of guest speakers, topics covered, location of and directions to meeting places, contact the club concerned directly.

Note that, for convenience, clubs are listed by area in the table below, as the location of a meeting is generally more useful than a club acronym (e.g. "Bottisham" rather than "BAUG"). However, clicking on an area reference will take you to the information page about the club in question.

Month Date Area Event
July
2003 		2nd Suffolk Neil Spellings: Aemulor on the Iyonix (and other things)
2nd Wakefield Virtual RISC OS machines
4th Welwyn/Hatfield  
8th Bottisham  
8th Essex Tony Lister: Solar Eclipses and Computers
8th Liverpool  
10th North Kent  
14th Derbyshire  
14th Southampton  
14th Surrey/Sussex Chris Hornby: Downloading photos with USB and smart-card readers, Photodesk and OHP
16th Hemel Hempstead  
16th Manchester  
17th Norfolk Peter Naulls: Installing Linux on an IYONIX pc
18th Welwyn/Hatfield  
21st London Paddy Reid: The Omega and Alpha in action! (PHR Computers)
22nd Bottisham Comparing flat-screen monitors
29th Blackpool  
29th North East  
30th Bristol David Summers: Working with ProCad
August 1st Welwyn/Hatfield  
6th Suffolk Social evening & meal
6th Wakefield Steve Potts: A surprise or two!
11th Surrey/Sussex  
12th Bottisham  
12th Essex  
12th Liverpool  
14th North Kent  
15th Welwyn/Hatfield  
18th London Chris Morison: Organizer
20th Manchester  
21st Norfolk  
26th Blackpool  
26th North East  
27th Bristol Paul Richardson: The Latest from ExpLAN
29th Welwyn/Hatfield  
September 3rd Suffolk Jack Lillingston: IYONIX pc, RISC OS, USB, new PCI options and more (Castle Technology)
3rd Wakefield Andrew Rawnsley (R-Comp/RCI): UniPrint, DataPower Home and other products
8th Derbyshire  
8th Southampton  
8th Surrey/Sussex  
9th Bottisham  
9th Essex Mike Albon and the Dodsons: Practical networking
9th Liverpool  
11th North Kent  
12th Welwyn/Hatfield  
15th London Peter Naulls: The UNIX Porting Project, Iyonix Linux and more
16th London/Essex Joe Taylor: AppBasic
17th Manchester  
18th Norfolk  
23rd Bottisham  
24th Bristol Chris Hall: The story behind SignalBox
26th Welwyn/Hatfield  
30th Blackpool  
30th North East  
October 1st Suffolk CD-burning on Iyonix and on Windows PCs
1st Wakefield John Cartmell: Playing with ArtWorks 2
9th North Kent  
10th Welwyn/Hatfield  
13th Derbyshire PDAs
13th Southampton Alan Lewer: My IYONIX pc
13th Surrey/Sussex  
14th Bottisham Problem-solving session
14th Essex Frank Watkinson: Backing up to hard disc: can it be sensible?
14th Liverpool  
15th Manchester  
16th Norfolk  
18th SASAUG: RISC OS Southeast Show 2003
Guildford Technical College, Stoke Road (A320), Guildford, Surrey
Show Web site: http://www.fillin.co.uk/seshow/
20th London Andrew Davis, Neil Spellings & Tommy Lowe: Networking RISC OS and other platforms (especially Windows XP)
21st London/Essex ProAction/APDL (David Bradforth)
24th Welwyn/Hatfield  
28th Blackpool  
28th Bottisham  
28th North East  
29th Bristol David Snell: WebWonder and update on ProCad+
November 5th Suffolk  
5th Wakefield  
7th Welwyn/Hatfield  
10th Derbyshire  
10th Southampton  
10th Surrey/Sussex  
11th Bottisham  
11th Liverpool  
11th Essex  
13th North Kent AGM/Open Evening/Quiz Night
17th London Informal meeting
18th London/Essex  
19th Manchester  
20th Norfolk  
21st Welwyn/Hatfield  
25th Blackpool  
25th Bottisham  
25th North East  
26th Bristol Paul Middleton (RISCOS Ltd)
29th The ARM Club: Midlands RISC OS Show 2003
National Motorcycle Museum, Coventry Road, Bickenhill, Solihull, West Midlands
Show Web site: http://www.armclub.org.uk/shows/midlands/
Cancelled due to fire at venue
December 3rd Suffolk  
3rd Wakefield  
5th Welwyn/Hatfield  
8th Derbyshire  
8th Southampton  
8th Surrey/Sussex  
9th Bottisham Bring and buy sale
9th Essex  
9th Liverpool  
11th North Kent  
15th London Informal meeting
16th London/Essex  
17th Bristol Christmas meeting
17th Manchester  
18th Norfolk  
19th Welwyn/Hatfield  
January
2004 		2nd Welwyn/Hatfield  
7th Wakefield  
8th North Kent  
8th Suffolk  
12th Derbyshire  
12th Southampton  
12th Surrey/Sussex  
13th Bottisham  
13th Essex  
13th Liverpool  
15th Norfolk  
16th Welwyn/Hatfield  
19th London Joe Taylor: AppBasic
20th London/Essex  
21st Manchester  
27th Blackpool  
27th Bottisham  
29th Bristol  
30th Welwyn/Hatfield  
February 4th Wakefield  
5th Suffolk  
9th Derbyshire  
9th Southampton  
9th Surrey/Sussex  
10th Bottisham  
10th Essex  
10th Liverpool  
12th North Kent  
13th Welwyn/Hatfield  
16th London Richard Brown (Oregano UK Ltd)
17th London/Essex  
18th Manchester  
19th Norfolk  
24th Blackpool  
24th Bottisham  
26th Bristol  
27th Welwyn/Hatfield  
March 3rd Wakefield  
5th Suffolk  
8th Derbyshire  
8th Southampton  
8th Surrey/Sussex  
9th Bottisham  
9th Essex  
9th Liverpool  
11th North Kent  
12th Welwyn/Hatfield  
15th London  
16th London/Essex  
17th Manchester  
18th Norfolk  
23rd Bottisham  
26th Bristol  
26th Welwyn/Hatfield  
30th Blackpool  
April 5th Suffolk  
7th Wakefield  
8th North Kent  
9th Welwyn/Hatfield  
12th Derbyshire  
12th Southampton  
12th Surrey/Sussex  
13th Bottisham  
13th Essex  
13th Liverpool  
15th Norfolk  
19th London  
20th London/Essex  
21st Manchester  
23th Welwyn/Hatfield  
27th Blackpool  
27th Bottisham  
30th Bristol  
May 5th Wakefield  
5th Suffolk  
7th Welwyn/Hatfield  
10th Derbyshire  
10th Southampton  
10th Surrey/Sussex  
11th Bottisham  
11th Essex  
11th Liverpool  
13th North Kent  
15th & 16th Wakefield: Wakefield 2004: The Acorn RISC OS Computer Show
Cedar Court Hotel Conference Centre, Junction 39, M1
Show Web site: http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/
17th London Jack Lillingston, Castle Technology: Iyonix news
18th London/Essex  
19th Manchester  
20th Norfolk  
21st Welwyn/Hatfield  
25th Blackpool  
25th Bottisham  
28th Bristol  
June 2nd Wakefield  
4th Suffolk  
4th Welwyn/Hatfield  
8th Bottisham  
8th Essex  
8th Liverpool  
10th North Kent  
14th Derbyshire  
14th Southampton  
14th Surrey/Sussex  
15th London/Essex  
16th Manchester  
17th Norfolk  
18th Welwyn/Hatfield  
21st London  
22nd Bottisham  
25th Bristol  
29th Blackpool