Greetings List Lurkers,
Welcome to your official notice of the best weather this side of Miami, as
well as notification of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI) Adult
Swim. The swim stars at 5:00 PM EST, our latest vanity being to include a
google hangout https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1 until 7:00 PM
EST or until we get so sunburn that we cannot touch the keyboard.
Is it that is our perception of reality is distorted by our ongoing
relationship with Google? Are we doomed to have our eyes glaze over with
acronyms that begin with a "g"... GNU anyone? Are we sustained by the
absolute faith and hope that this open source stuff is really pretty damn
good?
Hopefully we have completed our spazim with domains. The issue was the
flint.com domain where all the claptrap comes from apparently completed
the process of change, and we were in many respects absorbed by the Great
Goggle and it's sexy sidekick, Plus... But hey they sure know how to throw
a video conference... That is exactly where we want to point Adult swim.
Again, a desirable side effect of this new world order 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 those that deserve it, fully expecting that pointers to
the appropriate Google information utilities, products and services will
be included in appropriate context by good Master Christopher, but hey, he
remains currently on leave from is position of Vice (ahem) at BOSI.
With any luck, are looking forward to this meeting convening in congress
with RBT, and in our minds, already have our snouts covered in delicious
pizza supplied by none other than Rubin hisself, and we intend to get very
organized and respond, yea, this is it... Note that Rubin Bennett
Technologies is one of the finer firms in the Washington County, Vermont
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 from cold to warm and back, the furmon is very
much in play, we have a humidity feature, but it really looks like we need
the TSPs. This week we got a new shipment of sensors in and we are still
hoping to get the data off the pellet furnace... and attack the data with
Python, Stuff it into MRTG, maybe make it into SNMP MIBS, instead we put
in the heat pump for the master bedroom.
...and it feels so very good...
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, maybe we can beta site or something. Still more to come
there.
Otherwise, Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
Software meeting and general hucksterism. That said, we expect to 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. This all fits neatly in the magic plastic wire-mold box...
Do not forget that the Barre library stocks "Linux World", the DVD are soon to
be available, I just made isos of each and every one. 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://family.flint.com/adult_swim_location/index_html
But the key appears broke. More stuff to fix.
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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