Greetings List Lurkers,
Being a grizzled old hippy is so ...ew...retro... but - hey - days like
this bring it out in me. The reason you are getting this note is a
standing miracle. The mighty flint.com mail server went very down Sunday
evening (the provider needed to do maintenance, or so they say...), and I
am struggling to get thing back on track, which is a shame 'cus I kinda
had a plan for a program... Are you ready? (Drum roll please...:^)
PDF files and their impact on tax policy and therefor our Nation, with a
sub-chapter on fillable PDFs, or FDFs.
Thus, welcome to your official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute
(BOSI) Adult swim, in a reasonable time, (the swim stars at 5:00 PM) we
will begin the ancient traditions of trying to screw in the inscrutable
and fix the unfixable by counting, and then deploying Emperor Penguins
(yes the actually are counting Emperor Penguins it is in the Montreal
Gazette, it has got be true:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Antarctic+penguins+keep+marching/6464350/story.html).
Despite all this, the BOSI Adult Swim remains an excellent opportunity to
do good things with open source technology...
Beyond the rant about PDFs and the fact that Adobe will soon be what open
source advocates worry about rather than Micro$oft, Several open source
software projects are of interest, we are attempting to develop Barre Open
Porch, based upon a fork of the Open Porch product in GIT. As you can see
this would fit very well into my framework for world domination at this
afternoons meeting. We are interested in your good thoughts and offices.
Note the stuff...
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/bop
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/furmon
Otherwise Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
Software meeting. Perennially, I hope that are gonna work more on our
internal infrastructure and the web rebuild situation, both of which
remain in grim shape. That said, We have our grubby mits on additional
the Dallas Semi "1-wire" temperature probe USB adaptors, as was promised,
the damn Basic Stamp micro development kit still appears to be immune to
Linux Who knows, we actually have an Arduino and who would not like a
Raspberry Pie... in order to get around to doing some system development.
The principle reason to consider these devices is "Can we use these to
brew better beer?"
Anyway, come and do open source stuff. For more information about the BOSI
Adult Swim meeting time and location try this:
http://www.flint.com/adult_swim_location/index_html
Note that our meeting time for this week will remain Monday 5-7 PM, by next
month - that would be May, we should be moving to 4:30 to 6:30 PM. (Yea
right...:^)
Show up at the the Hedding United Methodist Church Basement if you have
questions or are interested in Linux or the concept of free and open systems,
The basement of the Hedding UMC facility is actually working out pretty well.
If you wish to be included on the "Linux_adult_swim" mailing list, send a
response to this note. Note that the mailing list system is a bit peevish
right now. Let me know if you have any difficulties.
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
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Barre Open Systems Institute
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