Helper required for Acorn World
Posted by Steve Revill Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:07:00 GMT
RISC OS Open have been planning to visit the Acorn World Show in Huddersfield on 13th September. This is an exciting opportunity for us to talk to people who may not be regulars on the RISC OS show scene about the shared source project and all of the interesting community developments that have come out of it.
Unfortunately, for a number of reasons, we here at ROOL find ourselves unable to attend. We are frustrated by this development but rather than pull out completely, we would like to invite one or more enthusiastic members of the community to go along and represent us.
Even if you can’t help ROOL with our presentation, you should seriously consider going along to the show (which is running on the Sat and Sun) to see all kinds of fascinating exhibits and talks from the history of Acorn, including a presentation from Professor Steve Furber – one of the creators of the original Acorn computers.
ROOL are offering to cover your expenses for the trip. All we ask is for you to go along to the show on the Sunday and do a short talk/presentation, starting at 1pm, focusing on the RISC OS shared source project, what you have been doing with it and perhaps demo something like the Beagle board (we could provide one for this purpose). We want to talk about RISC OS now and in the future, to contrast with the main theme of the show, which is the history of Acorn machines. There will probably also be a short Q&A session afterwards.
You don’t need to present yourself as being from ROOL; we’re happy to say that we couldn’t make it to the talk but there do seem to be lots of people out there contributing to the project who might be able to speak about how it has affected them. If you are interested, please get in touch with us here. Thanks! :)
