Greetings List Lurkers,
Election day is tomorrow... but today we Swim...
As we enter March, all any of us can think of is "When the hell will we
get warm?" Remember, it is always warm in the basement of Hedding UMC,
which is great for an Adult Swim.
I looked at my data and we have not been above freezing temperatures
since December...see:
http://docbox.flint.com/~flint/tsp/otemp/otemp.html
Yarger has gone off the reservation again with an attempt to finally extend the
furmon beyond the stone age. This is available at:
http://docbox.flint.com/~cpyarger/fm/canvas.html
We need to feed live data into this thing. It works well, but has the extra
added feature of being "write only". Thankfully this can be fixed!
I would be working on this but I suddenly have a patron who wishes me to
do it all in JSON. So we learn JSON. If there is a JSON god or goddess
out there with some pity, drop us a line!!!!
While last week we have had to travel to Bennington several times due to a
death in the family, if it were not for JSON, my real goal would be to try
and stay indoors write something aptly named
Grantbot...http://docbox.flint.com:8081/grantbot, which has lead to the
need to generate word "doc" and "docx" files from bash. This has led to
the discovery of xmlstarlet and unoconv. For more information see:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash#mswf.sh.
The good news is that there is a tenuous connection bettween JSON and XML.
Figuring this out is a major ponderance, yet I plod on.
I had believed that I have gotten over the hump with parsinf ".pyx" files.
Anybody out there interested in building word processing documents from
scratch is welcome to take a look at my code and laugh... In hindsight
maybe the way out was python and pypyx, or some Jboss... or maybe JSON!
That said, With the edition of word doc capabilities, Grantbot hopefully
will mature into a tool that will generate grant web sites that can then
be populated, and eventually turned into proposals.
The real interesting part has been manipulating ODT documents with xmlstarlet -
a command line XML toolkit.
The current state of the code to set up the grant sites is here:
http://grantbot.net.
This is a really cool thing, but less about that and more about how to get on
with organizing the Adult Swim for today...
Anyone who is interested in this concept or in the grim business of scaring up
resources for projects, can read up and contact me. Again, I feel certain that
if there in anywhere that the Linux GNU text processing tools can find purchase
it is in this area, I would like to believe that this may be a good stab at
this issue, but we shall see.
More later, we have the technology and we have the pizza...
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 is good thing.
A few weeks ago, Effin started reesearching a streaming broadcast system,
using the Ubuntu SDK and gstreamer, the goal being to make this multi-usb
camera. This will lead to endless trouble no doubt. He is using gstreamer
and the ubuntu sdk. I think he has chosen great tools.
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...
As I cannot say too damn often, despite the blizzard, 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.
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/grantbot - A less noble idea to feed the
big 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
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