Greetings List Lurkers,
Had a good ride to Tech Jamn in Burlington. The Generator area in the
basement is really nice, and I wish we could do a similar thing here in
Barre, but hey... right now it is merely good to get together in a heated
space with wi-fi and pizza. Survival comes before ambitiion.
As I mentioned last week, I bought a NEW laptop.... A Toshiba Satellite /
Satellite Pro S50-B Series... My God UEFI!!! Well, this is fun...NOT!
The first time I have done this in years! I will bring it with to the meet
today and we can try to figure out how to stay even. There are some
seriously screwed up features to Unity...
The new Raspberry-Pi based logon minder for use in the local churches and
institutions is I believe within our grasp we are nailing down the
Workstation software today. It shall be Debian.
Thus, this is the official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute
(BOSI) Adult Swim. For those coming in via the Google Plus and 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.
Like I said, warm space, wifi, spare parts, pizza...
Projects abound....We must help Big John finish up the kiosk project.
I actually think this shall be a good thing. Now that we figured out how to
run the Java validator on a raspberry pi, the next step this week is to get
a debian workstation install process, and add the Bad Penguin.
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. Maybe we need to make it into a maker space.
We would value input on how to get this done.
As I cannot say too damn often, The meeting today is back at 40 Washington
Street, Barre, VT 05641 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM!
Remember, 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,
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://bzinga.net - What happens when you combine Bash and Zenity?
- 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 discussion 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, I checked it out. The old
DVD's are available to checkout and copy I am duplicating the newer DVDs
now, and 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.
Peace out and...
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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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
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http://www.bosivt.org
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skype: flintinfotech
Work: (202) 537-0480
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