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Meetings

Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club meets on the first Wednesday of every month. Our meetings usually consist of a talk or demonstration, with plenty of time for informal discussions and trips to the bar before and after.

Details of future meetings can be found below; recent presentations have included:

R-Comp • RISCOS Ltd • Iyonix Ltd • RISC OS Open Ltd
Digital photography • Public domain software
Ovation Pro • ArtWorks 2 • EasiWriter
PDF generation • Networking • Problem solving

Meetings start at 7.45pm, at the West Yorkshire Sports and Social Club in Wakefield. Doors open at 7.15pm, and the scheduled part of the evening is generally complete by about 10pm. See the directions to the venue for details of how to find us.

Visitors are always welcome to attend our meetings (with the exception of the AGM in January) – there is a fee of £2 on the door for non-members.

Forthcoming meetings

The following meetings are planned for the near future (note that presentations may be re-scheduled due to events outside our control).


Wednesday, 7th January – Annual General Meeting (members only) The WROCC Annual General Meeting will take place as usual in January, with a free buffet for those who attend. This event is for members only.


Wednesday, 4th February – A visit from Professor Steve Furber Professor Steve Furber, one of the people behind Acorn’s early hardware, will be talking to us about topics including the development of the BBC Micro, the history of the ARM processor, and his current research into neural networking and parallel ARM devices.


Wednesday, 4th March – SQL and the DataPower Database Nick Mason will be visiting us to talk about the use of Structured Query Language (SQL) for working with databases, illustrating the theory with examples using the DataPower system on RISC OS.


Wednesday, 1st April – Meeting details to be announced

Past meetings

Here is a collection of photographs taken at WROCC’s 25th Anniversary in April 2008.