{"id":502,"date":"2025-03-20T20:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/?p=502"},"modified":"2025-03-20T20:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:27:14","slug":"user-groups-at-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/user-groups-at-the-show\/","title":{"rendered":"User groups at the show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As well as coming along to shows like RISC OS North, a good way to support the operating system is to attend your local user group &#8211; and a few will be represented at this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some groups hold regular online meetings that you can join from anywhere &#8211; you don&#8217;t need to be local to them &#8211; and some hold physical, in-person meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrocc.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wakefield RISC OS User Group<\/a> (WROCC) is a formally run group with regular online meetings featuring guest speakers, and publishes a monthly PDF magazine for its members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rougol.jellybaby.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RISC OS User Group of London<\/a> (ROUGOL) also holds regular meetings online, with guest speakers &#8211; but these are <em>hybrid<\/em> meetings, so if you&#8217;re local to London you can also attend <em>in person<\/em> instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With less frequent meetings, sometimes online, sometimes in person, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mug.riscos.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Midlands User Group<\/a> (MUG) is a smaller group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also the Southampton RISC OS User Group (SROUG), which meets regularly in person, and if you&#8217;re local to them, you can speak to Andrew Conroy on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.owlart.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Owl-Art<\/a> stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally, another group that meets regularly is <a href=\"http:\/\/bristol.riscosusers.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bristol RISC OS Users<\/a> (BRU). To find out more about this group either speak to Vince Hudd on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softrock.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Soft Rock Software<\/a> stand, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svrsig.org\/software\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chris Hall<\/a> at his table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As well as coming along to shows like RISC OS North, a good way to support the operating system is to attend your local user group &#8211; and a few will be represented at this event. Some groups hold regular online meetings that you can join from anywhere &#8211; you don&#8217;t need to be local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riscosnorth.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}