Greetings List Lurkers
It appears that the New England winter followed me to DC. It feels like a
curse. I got weathered in on the trip down to Myrtle, and now they are
running the snow blowers in DC. Have I been somhow infected with Vermont
Calvinism to go?
What an experience!
Anyway, We are meeting today, presuming that some geek - and I am counting
on Bret or Big John, be at the door of HUMC we use at 5:00 sharp. My man
Scotty is gonna cruze by and get the space open. He has an appointment he
can't miss at 5:15, but he will be back sortly after he checks in.
With any luck someone can get hold of a pizza. Otherwise refreshments are
what you all can make of them.
Kevin Cole and I will G+ in at 5:00, assuming that this DC winter storm
does not shred our plans. It is blizzard cold today in DC.
My current status is really the root cause of these logistic issues,
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.
Any ideas?
Maybe we can institutionalize this activity as there is now the
reality that I am called away and am unable to continue the fun except
remotely.
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... I actually miss it when I am not around.
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 As I said,
being away from this project a few days, I realized the answer to my
analog data acquisition issue may lie in making this subsystem frequency
sensitive instead of amplitude sensitive. Again, any opinions here would
be welcome.
Additionally, we have been sprucing up BOSI's home site:
http://bosivt.org/,
particularly in the "initiatives" section.
A continuing saga involves 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.
BTW we need Dell 20 volt power supplies real bad. Give a call or email if
you have any. I am trying to figure out if we can use old PC power
supplies in the meantime. The discount power supplies we ordered came with
the wrong connector. We may try to fix this. Add it to the list, maybe
Bit Ed can come up with another Internet seller.
This evening with luck I will be G+ing with Cole and Yarger from down
south, and we can 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?
This is the kind of thing a Maker Shed, which I call a "Brain Barn" might
have handy. I understand that there is some hope to get a Maker
facility/movement going in Barre. Anybody with further information on
this topic would be welcome to send me information ([email protected])
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.
I just picked up a Raspberry Pi version B. many Arduinos, with lots of
shields and other fixin's as well as several other 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, thanks to Anthony Carrico, cool is
back in the form of a command line element "lsblk", officially the coolest
thing all year (the man is a god...:^). If "lsblk" were only not so cool!
BTW just found an old Ubuntu LTS system where the command did not work,
and "lsblk" also does not work under IBM AIX. Go figure...
Otherwise, expect to be remotely 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.
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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