Greetings List Lurkers,
So, this is the official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI)
Adult Swim. The swim stars at 5:00 PM EST, our continued vanity being to
include a goggle hangout https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1 until
7:00 PM EST.
While the rest of the working world presumes to a holiday, the swim will
be held as per usual today. That said we expect to be reflective of the
activities we are planning for the coming month.
For instance, the Barre open systems institute is going into the Maker
Fair in Shelburne at the end of September. We expect to do some more with
the concepts of Do It Yourself (DIY) energy and ecology measurement. This
shall be our big project for the month.
As mentioned previously, Bit Ed Hutchinson will assist and keeps us
wandering in a common positive direction, as he has done in the past so we
expect that whole Maker event to be pleasant. We expect to preach again
on the topic of Open Source SNMP for both sink and source energy
information transport, we expect to use our booth so that people can come
in, sit down, see the stuff we have been doing and hopefully help us get
the DIY stuff we are doing done, and maybe play a little guitar.
Keep in mind the O'Reilly class books are still available if anybody wants
any...This evening we are expecting a lively G+ with Cole and Yarger from down
south. Yarger and see what these good gentlemen are up to.
One project I would like to move a bit forward next week is the
Robotsrules.org project. Who knew that there was a python tarball
apparently available? We need to open that tarball and start to bounce it
around.
The ever growing list of projects includes:
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/snobot - jesum they love this robot
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/furmon - monitor that pellet furnace
- 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 - - -
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash - Yea, I am not kidding...
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/mrtg - remedial raw mrtg for the slow...
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry - all rPi'ness
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/organized - oh please let me be organized!
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/music - this may be the least organized
site ever!
The good news is that this weekend I got to the Barry Library and read the
latest issue of Linux World. The magazine is chocked full of good ideas,
but now that school is back, we need to get some of the above projects
moving, and possibly more and better projects in the are of Open Source.
Otherwise, Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
Software meeting and general system rejuvenation. That said, we expect to
assemble more of the Dallas Semi "1-wire" temperature probes, and we have two
Arduinos, with lots of fixin's as well as several Raspberry Pi's a boat load of
radio modules, and an embarrassment of riches in terms of books.
Needless to say the Arduino remains the coolest thing for 2012, the Raspberry
Pi the coolest thing so far for 2013, and Ras-BMC the coolest thing for the
month of April, xBMC for May, PiFm the coolest thing for June. Solarfest was
the coolest thing in July, and maybe the Maker Fair will be cool for September.
August was too chaotic to have a cool thing I suppose.
Do not forget that the Barre library stocks "Linux World", and the latest issue
is on the shelf. The DVD's are available to checkout and copy, we intend to
continue provide copies and isos of each and every one.
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
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
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