Greetings List Lurkers,
I do not know which is more frustrating, getting hit with a rock in the
windshield or dealing with insurance companies/glass companies....
Anyway the appointment is at 3:30 in Berlin, so I may be a bit harried to
make it to the Swim by 5:00. Do not expect me to be there early. Sorry.
Gawd I hate insurance... If anybody can pick me up. That would be good.
Anyway we have a few days above freezing...
http://docbox.flint.com/~flint/tsp/otemp/otemp.html
My big push last week was to teach myself enough nodejs to be dangerous.
This web site helped:
http://www.nodebeginner.org/
The nodejs is really quite the thing. I wonder how this will be received
at pycon?
https://us.pycon.org/2015/schedule/
This is coming up at the beginning of April. I highly recommend getting
up to Montreal to be part of this thing.
One handy thing to do with nodejs is to get the furmon beyond the stone age.
This is available at:
http://docbox.flint.com/~cpyarger/fm/canvas.html
The intent here is to use node-serial to feed live data into this thing.
https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport
We will know soon if it works well, and has the extra added feature of being
jsonish.
I would be working on this but I suddenly have the desire to do everything
in JSON and JavaScript. So we learn JSON and nodejs. If there is a
javascript god or goddess out there with some pity, drop us a line!!!!
If it were not for JSON, my real goal would be to try and stay indoors write
something aptly named Grantbot, thankfully I have had good luck combining
the visual bash and the nodejs technologies...
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/grantbot is the development site,
This 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. This will eventually
get triggered by nodejs calls... what could be more fun?
Has anyone experience in using the googledocs api to build documents?
Again, 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
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