Greetings List Lurkers,
Welcome to your absolutely-official notice of the Barre Open Systems
Institute (BOSI) Adult Swim. The swim stars at 5:00 PM), when we shall
continue to loiter in front of the the technical general store that is our
society and very likely get into some kind of trouble, as we attempt to
find the truth of technology strewn withing the falsehood... with the
absolute faith and knowledge that the open source stuff is really the way
to do it.
My domain where all the claptrap comes from is in the process of change.
With any luck we will not be absorbed by the Great Google and it's
comfortable harlot, Plus, but hey, those folks know how to code...
Be aware that a side effect of this new layer of chaos may be actually
getting the appropriate web sites up and working a bit better, and the new
look on http://www.bosivt.org is an example of what happens when you give
a copy of Plone to an irresponsible "Yout" such as good Master
Christopher, but hey, he does good work... BOSI has received word of an
invitation to RBT by no less than Rubin hisself, and we intend to get very
organized and respond, yea, that's it... get organized. Rubin Bennett
Technologies is one of the finer firms in the Washington County area that
can and does specialize in Open Source so we will collaborate in order to
that we can carry their information (Atta boy, Rubin:^).
With the weather changing, the furmon is in play. We are getting data off the
pellet furnace... now we need to attack the data with Python, Stuff it
into MRTG, make it into SNMP MIBS. Or maybe not, as SNMP is anything but
simple.
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 are also working on another Arduino alarm thingy. More as this
develops. 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, and
he has resounded back, a full report shall be forthcoming...
Otherwise, Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
Software meeting and general hacksterism. That said, we must acquire more
of the Dallas Semi "1-wire" temperature probes, and we just got another
the Arduino, with two ethernet shields. The shield TCP/IP stack is
apparently done in around 10K. We live in an age for miracles, this
remains the coolest thing all year. If invited, we can and will
bring the electric wheel-chair we have found a good hack point in the
controller card assembly, a connector the same shape and size as an old
floppy...
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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