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ROOL doubling-up bounty donations

Posted by Steve Revill Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:20:00 GMT

ROOL is hereby pledging to match, pound for pound, the first £1000 donated into our bounty scheme, spread across all bounties. This means that every £1 you donate is worth £2 to a developer who implements your chosen bounty. It also means that it’s in your interest to donate early, while this money is still available! We will keep the remaining amount available visible on the bounty page so you have some idea how much longer you can take advantage of this scheme.

There is one exception: we won’t be matching donations to the RISC OS Open administration bounty, since this would just be paying money back into the same fund from which we’re making the matched donations, so this would be pointless!

We will be starting by matching the donations already made into the bounty scheme. The donation matching process will be performed manually by ROOL staff so don’t be surprised if it takes a few days before the matching donation from ROOL appears in the relevant pot!

For more information, please take a look at this page.

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RISC OS Open Bounties

Posted by Steve Revill Thu, 26 May 2011 01:00:00 GMT

Development of RISC OS has been increasing in pace since the first batch of source code was published here on the 19th May 2007. There have been people purchasing the development tools from us all over the globe, from the US through Europe, Russia and out to New Zealand and Australia. We’re seeing more and more people getting stuck in and contributing to the future of the OS.

We are extremely grateful to all of those who are contributing their time and energy in return for little more than the knowledge that they have contributed. Things being the way they are, however, it’s sometimes difficult to find the time to put into such a labour of love.

What could sometimes help an enthusiastic developer to find a bit of extra free time is a small financial reward. And we think there is a way to do this: the ROOL Bounty Scheme. It is an opportunity for the RISC OS community as a whole to make their voices heard by voting with their wallets…

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C tools release 20

Posted by Steve Revill Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:39:00 GMT

RISC OS Open are pleased to announce the formal release of version 20 of the C/C++ Tools CD. This version includes a number of new components, bug fixes and updates. A full change list can be found here.

Free ISO download for existing developers

This release is available free to all current users of the ROOL Tools CD. Simply drop us an email quoting “ISO image”, your name and your Developer Key. ROOL will then point you towards a custom ISO image download for you to burn your own update/installation CD. Your unique ISO image will be uploaded onto the ROOL site for a period of one week for you to download.

Half-price CD for existing developers

Alternatively, existing users of the ROOL Tools CD have the option to purchase the upgrade on our printed CDs at half of the full price, which will then be posted to you. Send us an email stating “Post CD”, your name and your Developer Key

ROOL Tools CD for new developers

If you don’t already own the ROOL Tools CD but want a copy, you can buy it online from the ROOL store for £50 (plus P&P). We will send you the CD and add you to our database of registered developers.

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Birmingham MUG Show, Sat 10th July

Posted by Steve Revill Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:10:00 GMT

RISC OS Open will be attending this year’s Midland User Group (MUG) show on Saturday the 10^th^ July at:

This will be a great opportunity for you to come and find out what the latest developments are in the RISC OS scene and see some demos of RISC OS running on new ARM-based hardware platforms, emulators and native RISC OS machines.

For more information, take a look at the official MUG Show site.

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