Greetings List Lurkers,
So, this is the official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI)
Adult Swim. For those coming in via the Internet, 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.
This is all predicated on Chris Yarger finding the Key to the Hedding
United Methodist Church, and I would not count on pizza tonight if I were
you.
I am gonna try to join Kevin Cole and G+ in 5-6 PM if all works out.
Chris Yarger will be your host at the Adult Swim, with his latest
project:
http://bzinga.net
...and his new Android Keyboard....He will likely also show off his phone
running cyanogen-mod. His new gig sometimes keeps him late.
Projects abound....We need to help Big John get the kiosk project out the
door. Our ongoing 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. Thankfully we have input both from several sources on
this topic. At risk of repetition, anybody willing to actively get
involved here is blessed. We have had some interest from the folks at
Norwich, the Young Hackers Academy in Montpelier, and the Greenfield Tech
Scouts are actually here with Bram, but actual structure seems still
pretty far away.
As I cannot say too damn often, The meeting today is back at 40 Washington
Street, Barre, VT 05641!
The BOSI Adult Swim is essentially about helping out fellow users of open
source products in a clinic environment. Despite my very best of intentions,
the Adult Swim is really almost a perpetual Linux install-fest, and only
secondarily a learning environment, not to say that We are actually doing some
cool stuff with Zenity and bash scripts, see:
http://bzinga.net
Once again, the goal of the meeting shall be as usual, to get organized
and try to get the various projects moving forward.
The ever growing list of projects (now on our web site :^) 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. 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, and it is good. The DVD's are available to checkout and
copy, we shall 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://bosivt.org/directions
Show up at Hedding UMC if you have questions or are interested in Linux or
the concept of free and open systems. Again, we are in the basement of
the Hedding UMC facility which 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. Let me know if you have any difficulties.
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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Barre Open Systems Institute
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Barre, VT
05641
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