Greetings List Lurkers,
Welcome to 2015. Let us hope for a happy new year. We are showered with
projects...
In December
I finished a course in Writing grant proposals. The result of this is
that everybody wants a grant written. Everything from Bathrooms to Brain
Barns. This has given me the first idea of the new year, which is to
develop a system to generate grant proposals based upon the framework that
I learned at the course.
I feel certain
that if there in anywhere that the Linux GNU text processing tools can find
purchase it is in this area, my first choice is to determine if I should
use Python and Libre Office or Python and Google Docs. Any thought along
these lines would be very much appreciated.
One of these proposals may involve the development of a USB television
studio production device. Mr. Effin Yarger has already begun a design
tiddle on this topic:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/kcast
I intend to propose to the Adult Swimmers that we consider this as a
project.
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
think we need to do more thatn simply maintain. That is where the
kcast and grantmanship stuff comes in, hopefully this may be a good
thing.
Production duplication of CD's and DVD's on your mind? 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
Mark of Montpelier wants to give us a Mac, and I am really inclined to accept
it, as we need to stop ignoring Macintoshes... This is this weeks project.
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. I have
google cardboard, and I am prepared to use it.
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!
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/bb - A big noble idea.
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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