Greetings List Lurkers,
Tried to organize a party down here in Barre, and got not so many FOSS
folks showing up. Guess we will try again next year. BTW how many got
the message? Let me know if you did or did not...
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...
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... The fact that
"Santa" has dropped a few laptops in our laps is a good thing and we are
on the road to mending many.
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 two weeks, is Yarger's new nodejs tiddler,
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/nodejs.
This has been a special project for Yarger and he really someone to shake
him very hard and maybe slap him around a bit. The deal here is to
tell the story. This is not easy. We need to look this over.
The candy shop sound works, 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
Otherwise, expect to be preached at on the topic of Open Source SNMP for
both sink and source energy information transport, but more importantly
talk 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 am, as usual dreaming...
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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