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.
The big push for the next few meetings is to get ready for BOSI Adult Swim
participation in the Champlain Mini Marker Fair Starting Saturday
September 28th. We have been invited to participate, and we need to mix
up a report on some of the projects that has a coherent look and feel.
The basic idea for Shelburne is do some more with the concepts of Do It
Yourself (DIY) energy and ecology measurement. This shall be the
overarching project for the month. I really want to get Stream Gauges
working at a concept level for the event.
In light or our attempt to portray Barre as an Open Source Mecca, 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.
This evening we are expecting more lively G+ with Cole and Yarger from
down south. I am very interested in the DIY mobile that Google has going
with Motorola. I want it in Barre. More on this later.
One project that I did move forward a bit is the Robotsrules.org project.
Who knew that there was a python tarball apparently available? I started
playing around getting the first tarball extracted and finding out that
there are two others We need to open in order start to bounce robots rules
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/streambot - like I needed another project.
- 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, the snobot
and the streambot, 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. Keep in mind the O'Reilly class
books are still available if anybody wants any...
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.
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.
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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