Greetings List Lurkers,
Hell no.
I, your swim coach, may be in and out this meeting, as I need to go over
to the Library, but I will leave Bit Ed, Markster, DTG or some other
Serious Authority Figure (SAF) in charge, and you my good people, in their
iron grip...
So, this is the official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI)
Adult Swim. The swim stars at 5:00 PM EST, our continuing vanity being to
include a goggle hangout https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1 until
6:00 PM EST.
Adult Swim is less about a formal learning environment and 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...
That said, most of my body hair has grown back since that last learning
experience.
Once again the goal of the meeting shall be as usual, to clean up and try
to get the various projects moving forward. One of these which we already
ignored for a week, is Yarger's new nodejs tiddler,
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/nodejs.
This has been a special project for Yarger and he really needs the
feedback, maybe a little editing and someone to shake him very hard and
maybe slap him around a bit...(The line forms to the right:^)
I have been busy on my next special project, putting a real cool RJ-45
based sound system in a candy shop (http://docbox.flint.com:8081/audio).
so lets just say that our big project of the month continues to be the
Strembot - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/strembot.org. The developments
here revolve around the $20.00 Arduino compliant Seeed GPSR:
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/gprs-shield-p-779.html
Last week "Santa" Stanley the "B" stopped by with a sleigh full of old
Dell portables, Gods bless him and his employer, but all the kiddies need
to be on the "nice list", and help us sort them out...
Otherwise, 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.
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/nodejs - ok, it is on the list.
- 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/audio - eh...
- 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
about 30 Dell laptops in various states of repair, two Arduinos, the Seeed
GPS modules, 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 cool took a two month
vacation, and we are really hoping that nodejs is gonna be cool for
December, but "Santa" Stan beat it all to hell...
The bad news is that again this weekend I was unable to get to the Barry
Library and read the latest issue of Linux World. I have no doubt that
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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