Greetings List Lurkers,
Welcome to your official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI)
Adult Swim. The swim stars at 5:00 PM), when we shall continue the
business pleasure and pain of dealing with the all manner of technology,
with an emphasis on open source stuff. I am beginning to fancy myself
as the Marquis De Sade of open source...
Several projects remain on the front burner. We are going to abandon the
development of Barre Open Porch, due to the fact that the Barre City
fathers have chosen to go with the $208.00 per month fee that front porch
forum is charging... After all they do have our tax money.... Barre Open
Porch (www.bopvt.org) would be based upon a fork of the Open Porch product
in GIT, but who has the bloody time?
Anyway there are always popular pellet furnace, and temperature monitoring
projects... I want one that when you reach a preset temperature it shoots
your bathing suite and towel at you.
our Ongoing projects that tend to gather here (or gather dust) include:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/javajive - to get better at Javascript
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp - Temprature Senors Project
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/furmon - Furnace Monitoring
Finally, I priced the batteries for the base of the snowba. A "snowba" is
a rumba with a snowblower. We have a parted out hi-quad wheelchair with
the kind of linear actuators that might do the trick. Now I need a
about $200.00 for batteries, some MOS or IG FETS, and a snowblower, one
with internal caterpillar drive... ...or better yet a well healed sponsor!
Otherwise Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
Software meeting. We have made some small progress on our internal
infrastructure, but remember - it is an analog world.
That said, continue to find our grubby mitts on the Dallas Semi "1-wire"
temperature probes, and the Arduino is clearly the coolest. We even have
a new convert to the Arduino cult. We are gonna pour stinky Italian
cheese over his head as an initiation, unless we eat it first.
Note well that the Barre library stocks "Linux World", the DVD are
available as well. Don't reveal your source, I think I have some fines
overdue...
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
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
17 Averill Street
Barre, VT
05641
http://www.bosivt.org
http://www.flint.com/home
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Work: (202) 537-0480
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