RISC OS User Group Of London
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Welcome to RISC OS User Group Of London |
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ABOUT ROUGOL
ROUGOL is a not-for-profit organisation consisting of Acorn/RISC OS computer users in London and the south-east. Our aim is to bring those users together. There is no membership fee and entry to all meetings is free. To find out more, email us.
MEETINGS
Meetings are held on the third Monday of every month. Most meetings feature a guest speaker, demonstrating the latest hardware or software, giving tutorials of software both new and old, or simply to kick off discussions on the current hot topic. Entrance is free, so why not come along and say hello?
Next meeting -
Monday 20th April 2026 
Desktop Themes - Paolo Zaino and Martin Eastwood
As the topic of customising the look of the RISC OS desktop has been a popular subject recently, this month a couple of the people who have been particularly active in helping to create themes will be demonstrating their work.
Paolo will talk about his ExtTheme application which aims to make it easy to install and switch between themes. It integrates with, but greatly expands on, the built in theme support while also supporting the theme formats used by earlier systems. He will also show off the themes he has created, including dark mode.
Martin has created what is probably the most complete new theme called Frosted. This includes new desktop wallpaper, window furniture, standard icons, and also new matching icons for many common applications. As if that wasn't enought, he has also created a dark mode version call Obsidian.
Join us to see the themeing possibilities, and maybe be inspired to create
and share your own.
Click here for more details
Future Meetings 
20 Apr: Desktop Themes
18 May: ARX and the Acorn Palo Alto Research Centre, Jim Mitchell
15 Jun: TBC
If there is a topic you would like to see covered at a future meeting, or (even better!) if there is a
subject you would like to talk about, please contact us.
London Show
The next RISC OS London Show will take place on Saturday 24th October 2026.
Recent Meetings
March: JSbeeb and Compiler Explorer, Matt Godbolt
February: Retro YouTube and pocket computers, Colin Hoad
January: Multi headed systems, Chris Hall
December: Acorn Biography, Rob Napier
November: RISC OS Pyromaniac: Evolution, Gerph
October: RISCOSbits pre-show teaser, Andy Marks
September: Book Publishing with Ovation Pro, Gavin Crawford
August: Networking Elite, Mark Moxon
July: New 5tuff, Andrew Rawnsley, R-Comp
June: Everything I did at Acorn, Hugo Tyson
Click here for a full index of past meetings, reports etc...
If you see a topic that hasn't been covered for a while that you think
needs revisiting, please let us know.