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
6:00 PM EST.
After the recent trip out of town for personal stuff, we are back at the swim.
The goal, as usual will be to clean up and try to get the various projects
moving forward now that family obligations are staved off for the time being.
The Barre open systems institute did very well at the Maker Fair in Shelburne at
the end of last month.
We are engaged with aspects of Conspicuous Ecology Display in concert with the
the concepts of
Do It Yourself (DIY)
energy and ecology measurement.
Our big project of the month will be the Strembot -
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/strembot.org.
Bit Ed Hutchinson and Dave the Geek were a lot of help in maintaining a common positive
direction, at the maker fair, as well as honorary Geeks Jeanne Danielle and Kris Checcenni
We expect
preached
on the topic of Open Source SNMP for both sink and source
energy information transport, but more importantly talked about water level sensing
in streams which is what we were supposed to talk about. People
came in, sat down, saw the stuff we have been doing and
hopefully help us get the DIY stuff we are doing done, or got chased around the booth
by the Snobot...
This evening we are again expecting a lively G+ with Cole and Yarger from down south.
Yarger and see what these good gentlemen are up to. Note that in the intervening two weeks we have
been without a standard meeting the G+ was used (even while I drove through New Jersey rush hour), and
it is a real good thing to be involved with.
One project I would like to move a bit forward in the next few weeks is the Robotsrules.org
project (http://robotsrules.org/).
Now that the hard part is done and the actual decision making code is available
we need to update this base, get it up on GIT hub and start building the other stuff to go
around it.
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/strembot.org - maybe a very cool 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!
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 to chaotic to have a cool thing I suppose.
The bad news is that this weekend I was unable to get to the Barry Library and read the
latest issue of Linux World. The magazine is chocked full of good ideas, but
maybe I can get by there this week.
So, 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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