Greetings List Lurkers,
Well, we open this swim invitation with the age old question, "can you
teach an old dog new tricks?" Today we begin to explore this in earnest
as I begin a course on how to write grant proposals. I feel certain that
if there in anywhere that the Linux GNU text processing tools can find
purchase it is in this area, but we shall see. That said, I will likely
be a bit tardy to the swimming party, so no less than Effen himself has
offered to get us open and with pizza today.
It looks like we delivered the completed Raspberry-Pi based logon minder
and a few workstations to our first venue, the the local Presbyterian
church. It immediately went sideways... The charming bug in the ralink
wireless drivers we are using is that the first version has a broken
"arp". The really cool part of this bug is that if you were using the
wireless in conjunction with a wired interface, the arp would go out the
wired and no one would be the wiser. However when you went to wireless
only, no arp and no network. The fix is an apt-get update and an apt-get
upgrade firmware-ralink...
The we are delivered but still working on the system...but hey we are releasing.
Anyway, 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. Note that we
really want to support TOX based video conferencing
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_%28software%29)
Projects abound....Now that we have completed the the Cafe Pilot Pi Project. I
actually think this shall be a good thing. In addition I added a new course to
the list we need to see - Electronic Publishing is a related field to the core
documentation aspect of BOSI.
I completed duplicating all the Linux Format DVDs that come every month to the
Aldridge Library. If you are interested in this project, take a look at the
visual bash code located here:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash/#ocdg.sh
I really want to do something clever with these disks.
Mark of Montpelier wants to give us a Mac, and I am really inclined to
accept it, as we need to stop ignoring Macintoshes...(ok maybe not :^)
Again, I am very interested in finding Linux fitbit software so that we can
use the fitbit that The Woman, got for her birthday. She retaliated by
buying one for me, so I am fitbitted. Interesting...(see site here:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/fitbit). More will come to these sites in the
following weeks as I get more data. Right now the android and cyanogen mod
phones are doing he heavy lifting in supporting the fitbits.
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.
One direction we have been working on is to begin thinking about classes. The
curriculum that I am most interested in is teaching documentation.
I have added some thoughts about how to build the BOSI curriculum to this
webpage: http://bosivt.org/classes Take a look if you dare... I think the AA
meeting should be subtitled "Intro to Cyanogenmod", and the Electronic
Publishing seminar is a critical need.
As I cannot say too damn often, The meeting today is 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 versions
- 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. The DVD's are available to checkout and
copy, we shall to continue provide copies and isos of each and every one. I am
continuing to duplicate abot a years worth of DVD's which is quite a task.
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.
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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