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| foundation = [[Worthing]], UK ({{Start date and age|2006|06|20|df=yes}})

| founder = Ben Avison, Andrew Hodgkinson, Andrew Moyler, Richard Nicoll, Steve Revill

| location_city = [[Cambridge]]

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Operations exist to facilitate tasks related to ROOL's goals. Additionally, staff undertake development work on the code themselves. Since early 2009, ownership, development and sales of the {{nowraplinks|[[Acorn C/C++]]}} tools were transferred to RISC OS Open.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2504 | title = News in brief | accessdate = 2011-06-16 | date = 2009-05-04 | publisher = [[Drobe]] | quote = RISC OS Open has taken over sales of the Acorn C/C++ development suite, known as the Norcroft compiler, which is used to build RISC OS. | archive-date = 2 February 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140202124725/http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=2504 | url-status = dead }}</ref> As an extension to the initial goals, in 2011 ROOL introduced a [[open source bounty|bounty]] scheme to encourage further development.<ref>

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Attendance at {{nowrap|RISC OS}} [[computer show]]s is often arranged, with other knowledgeable coders sometimes standing in when ROOL staff are unavailable.<ref name="iconbar retro reunited">{{cite web | url=http://www.iconbar.com/Retro_Reunited_and_Acorn_World_2009/news1228.html | title=Retro Reunited and Acorn World 2009 | work=[[The Icon Bar]] | date=2009-09-14 | accessdate=September 28, 2011 | author=Mellor, Phil | quote=[...] talk was by Robert Sprowson who was representing RISC OS Open Ltd.}}</ref> A [[Facebook page]] and [[Twitter]] feed was created in 2012 to communicate events via social media.<ref name="riscosopen facebook">{{cite web | url=https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2012/03/04/risc-os-open-on-facebook | title=RISC OS Open on Facebook | publisher=RISC OS Open | date=March 5, 2012 | accessdate=March 6, 2012}}</ref><ref name="riscosopen twitter">{{cite web | url=https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2013/03/04/keep-up-to-date | title=Keeping up to date | publisher=RISC OS Open | date=March 4, 2013 | accessdate=November 12, 2023}}</ref>

=== Publishing ===

A number of book titles have been published starting in 2015 with the RISC OS Style Guide, a three book set in support of the Desktop Development Environment, BBC BASIC Reference Manual and the RISC OS 5 User Guide.

=== Forum ===

Online discussions take place on the forum. Developers can seek technical assistance with writing software, debugging, and [[porting]] the operating system to new hardware. End users can seek assistance with applications, [[Emulator|emulation]], and enquiries of a more general nature. A common area exists to make announcements that are broadly related to the theme of RISC OS, and discussion of future [[wish list]] features or applications.

Discussions of a technical and more general nature take place on the forum. A thread entitled "Let's get started with a Pandora port" witnessed discussion of [[porting]] to the [[Cortex-A8]] used in the [[Pandora (console)|Pandora]] handheld game console.<ref name="arcsite santillan 2009">{{cite web|last=Santillán|first=Carlos Michael|title=Neue RISC OS Hardware|url=http://www.arcsite.de/news/index.php?p=300|publisher=ArcSite|accessdate=28 June 2012|date=4 October 2009}}</ref>{{Relevance inline|date=July 2018|discuss=Pandora thread|reason=Out of all the threads and topics on fora, why is THAT one worth mentioning HERE and others aren't? What makes it so super special?}} The thread was started in September 2008.<ref name="riscosopen chamberlain 2008">{{cite web|last=Chamberlain|first=Andrew|title=Let's get started with a Pandora port|url=https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/5/topics/166#posts-869|work=ROOL forum|publisher=RISC OS Open|accessdate=28 June 2012|date=30 September 2008}}</ref>{{Relevance inline|date=July 2018|discuss=September 2008|reason=What is significant about September 2008? Embellish this in the article, if there is anything, or remove this pointless statement if not.}}

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