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This month Bernard Boase will be facilitating a discussion about how best to widen people's knowledge and interest of RISC OS.

RISC OS needs more take-up -> RISC OS needs more publicity -> RISC OS needs convincing Use Cases which then need to be described in print, web and video.

Use Cases for RISC OS could depend upon:

• The Desktop for its ergonomic applications
• The RPi's GPIO for monitoring and control (low level access from RO)
• The powerful system-wide vector graphics it provides
• The educational merit of creating games in BASIC (e.g. with AMCOG kit)
• The Retro scene (BBC Micro and Archimedes)
• The fact that its code is now open source (and interest in ARM code?)
• The marketing led by RISC OS Developments Ltd ('Marketing by P')
• The knowledge of special uses known only to suppliers

Publicity could be based upon or make use of:

• RISC OS publications (Archive, DragNDrop, WROCC Newsletter)
• The MagPi (Editor Lucy Hattersley has said she's a 'big fan' of RISC OS and would like to print more, but she would need input).
• Social media
• Other web sites/forums, not normally RISC OS focussed (e.g. Pi forum)
• Suppliers' web sites
• !Store and !PackMan

BUT...
It has no modern browser, patchy video, security that relies on obscurity, no multi-core support, no likelihood of 64-bit support, only Python 2.7.2, insufficient libraries to compete with Raspbian, etc. etc.