Greetings List Lurkers,
You know it is always about what is going on in your house...
This weekend was spent nursing my dear Wife back to health. The poor
thing spent the entire MLK weekend in bed with the flue. BTW while it is
hazardous to generalize about the fairer sex, let me opine that girls can
get a little cranky when they are sick, and clearly need attention...
So now the hazard is yours, am I now to be known as "Typhoid BOSI"? How
about "Flue Flint"? Anyway I got a flue shot and she did not. We shall
see...
A major objective is to continue to try to figure out how to invest the
time and resources to turn the Barre Open Systems Institute into more than
just the Adult Swim technical clinic and more into a real learning
facility.
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 essentially 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 Linux 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 get organized and try
to get the various projects moving forward. I have been really burning the oil
on the Streambot project:
http://strembot.org
This week involved the breakthrough of actually completing the design of
the streambot's analog input conditioning. Right now I am getting about
500 points along a 10" sample, and I expect to double this resolution.
Additionally I have been sprucing up BOSI's home site:
http://bosivt.org/, particularly in the "initiatives" section. You can, if you
like just go to:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/ohix
If you just want to cut to the tiddlywiki.
As well as fixing a typo in the javajive...
try this:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/javajive
The 40 Dells that "Santa" Stanley the "B" stopped by with over Christmas are
finding homes with deserving folks all over the area. If we can get
one dozen working systems I shall be content. The fetish of watching a clearly
disadvantaged man, woman, boy or girl walk out with a laptop they
repaired and put Linux on is really quite an endomorphic rush.
This point causes me to belabor this epistle by sharing some stuff I sent
to Eric Oberg... the pity of this is that I am not an alcoholic, drug
addict, or sexual predator. My particular vice is far more difficult to
manage, you see I get endorphin rushes from other people's epiphanies, so
to you I say... thanks for the fix.
I suspect that it was due to this odd predilection I became a consultant,
where I spent several decades sustained myself off the sudden insight of
others... This vice may, in fact, be the reason that I operate the Adult
Swim, as it allows me what access there is to feeding off of other's
ideological/technical enlightenment, but hey - that is the story, we all
have our hang-ups...
Otherwise, expect to be incessantly preached at on the various topics of
Open Source and how I am confident it shall cure all the evils and ills of
this wicked world. In a perfect meeting, people would come in, sit down,
see the stuff we have been doing and hopefully help us get the DIY stuff
we are doing done, or maybe just fix a laptop.
BTW we need Dell 20 volt power supplies real bad. Give a call or email if
you have any.
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 CNC router for this project. Anybody got any
ideas, expertise or rather expensive hardware?
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/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
a Leonardo, which I am not very happy with, many Arduinos, with lots of
shields and other fixin's as well as several Raspberry Pi's a boat load of
radio modules, many broken Dell laptops 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 the Maker Fair was cool for September. August
was too chaotic to have a cool thing I suppose. So the cool took a few months
vacation, and we were really hoping that nodejs ass gonna be cool for December,
could heroku be the next cool? We ponder and await a cool front...
The good news is that again this weekend I was able 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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