Greetings List Lurkers,
The notice is indeed late...
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.
Welcome to Vetrans day, am not a Vet, yet have done my time...
Adult Swim is more about helping out fellow users of open source products
in a clinic environment. Despite my very best of intentions, the BOSI
Adult Swim is really almost a perpetual install fest, and only secondarily
a learning environment, not to say that I do not learn a lot from
attending the Swim...
Once again the goal of the meeting shall be as usual, to clean up and try to
get the various projects moving forward. As part of the meeting tonight, I am
thinking about having a demo of the analog loop of the strembot, the name of
which may change again to "strembot.com. This project ties in with aspects of
Conspicuous Ecology Display in concert with the the concepts of Do It Yourself
(DIY) energy and ecology measurement.
I have been busy on a special project, so lets just say that our big
project of the month continues to be the Strembot -
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/strembot.org.
If this comes to pass, 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.
In a perfect worldpeople come in, sit down, see the stuff we have been doing
and hopefully help us get the DIY stuff we are doing done.
This evening we are again expecting to G+ with Cole and Yarger from down south,
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. I really need a good finished carpenter for this
project. Anybody got any contacts?
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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