Greetings List Lurkers,
Welcome to your semi-official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute
(BOSI) Adult Swim. The swim stars at 5:00 PM), when we shall continue to
wander the technical road and very likely get into some kind of accident,
as we attempt the process of mitigating the commercial degradation of
dealing with all manner of technology, with full faith and knowledge that
the open source stuff is really the way to do it.
A rant you ask? No time today... sorry.
Be aware that we are in the process of actually getting the web sites up
an working a bit better, and the new look on http://www.bosivt.org is
entirely Master Christopher Yarger's continued work. BOSI is looking for
firms in our area that specialize in Open Source so that we can carry
their information (That means you Rubin:^).
With the weather changing, the furmon is in play. We are getting data off the
pellet furnace... Stuff it into MRTG, make it into SNMP MIBS!!!
The "tsp" site has been updated: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp and contains
more pictures and we have have pictures of the enclosure now as well as
snippets of miniterm and how you can remotely sample data. That said, we need
to get back to thinking about all the other projects, Javascript, the snowbot
and Robots Rules. We must discipline our thoughts towards presentations...
Any other ongoing, or maybe not so ongoing... projects, but again not as cool
as the furmon progress include:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/arduino - moving in the arduino groove
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/javajive - to get better at Javascript
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp - Temperature Sensors Project
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/robotsrules - The quest for Roberts Rules of Order
On Robots Rules, we responded to the professor at Evergreen College, we
can expect an answer some day...stay tuned.
Otherwise, Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
Software meeting. That said, we must organize ourselves around the
presentation of the Dallas Semi "1-wire" temperature probes, and the Arduino,
with winter coming this is the coolest thing all year. If we are invited, we
can and will bring the electric wheel-chair and more old computers than you can
imagine to other gatherings.
Do not forget that the Barre library stocks "Linux World", the DVD are soon to
be available. Don't reveal your source, as 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. Note that I will be
updating the list-server by next week.
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
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Barre Open Systems Institute
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Barre, VT
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http://www.bosivt.org
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Work: (202) 537-0480
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