Dear Flint,

I believe that your system for Roberts Rules has already
been implemented in the court systems, to a certain degree.

I would recommend taking a look into it

Regards,

Chris Yarger



On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 to ply the
> chaos of dealing with the all manner of technology, with an emphasis on
> open source stuff... The problem today will be how to contain inspiration.
>
> While the Arduino continues to be the captivating bit of open source
> hardware and software, we expect to present at the Maker Faire later this
> month the Dallas 1-wire sensors configured in using the Chris Yarger method
> and our flashy new hardware enclosure method showcasing the Arduino.
>
> While "tsp" site has been updated: 
> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**tsp<http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp>and 
> contains more pictures and will have pictures of the enclosure soon.
> Chris and I will throw together a presentation on this system at the Maker
> Fair in Burlington 
> (http://www.**champlainmakerfaire.com/<http://www.champlainmakerfaire.com/>)
> on September 29th.  Again, the pellet furnace, and temperature monitoring
> projects all seem to converge around this Amtel chip set.
>
> But the inspiration came this weekend.  I was in one of "those meetings"
> that life forces to attend every now and then.  Anyway I was half paying
> attention and talking to Terri, their "parlementarian", and a thought hit
> me like a freight train...
>
> How hard could it be to use an application to track the process of the
> meeting, especially when the application needs only to track the meeting in
> the rather constrained context of "Roberts Rules of Order"?
>
> Wait for it...
> The new project is located here:
>
> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**robotsrules<http://docbox.flint.com:8081/robotsrules>
>
> Can you imagine how much of an impact you would have if you could write an
> application to keep track of motions, count calls for division, remember
> who seconded what, the silly thing could optionally record the whole
> meeting.  The output of this would be three things:
>
> 1. A very nice meeting minutes
> 2. Optional recording of the meeting.
>
> 3. Absolute World Domination to whoever got this running first.
>
> I looked around on the web briefly and this might even be an original.
> If anyone can find a project working on this I would be happy to use that.
>
> ....so much for inspiration...
>
> Other ongoing, or maybe not so ongoing... projects, but again not as cool
> as the new one include:
>
> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**arduino<http://docbox.flint.com:8081/arduino>- 
> moving in the arduino groove
> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**javajive<http://docbox.flint.com:8081/javajive>-
>  to get better at Javascript
> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**tsp <http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp>  -
> Temperature Sensors Project
> http://docbox.flint.com:8081/**furmon<http://docbox.flint.com:8081/furmon>- 
> Furnace Monitoring
>
> The snowba money pit...
>
> On the subject of the snowba, I need to find the manual on the electric
> wheelchair this is based upon.  There appears to be a hack waiting to
> happen if I can get information about the chair's original controller. Wish
> me luck or point me in a good direction, but thanks existentially in any
> event.  Stack that up against the well-healed patron who realizes the
> research potential of the Barre Open Systems Institute and cut us a large
> check.
>
> ...ah, for a well healed sponsor!
>
> Otherwise Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
> Software meeting.  That said, we continue to find our grubby mitts on the
> Dallas Semi "1-wire" temperature probes, and the Arduino, clearly the
> coolest thing all year, the electric wheel-chair and more old computers
> than you can imagine...
>
> Do not forget that the Barre library stocks "Linux World", the DVD are
> soon to be available.  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<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.
>
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>
> Kindest Regards,
>
>
> Paul Flint
> (802) 479-2360
>
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