Greetings List Lurkers,
Like we whimpered at the beginning of March, all any of us can think of is
"When the hell will we get warm?"... That said, remember, it is always
warm in the basement of Hedding UMC, which is great for an Adult Swim.
My big push last week was to begin pyodf. This is the way to build
documents pro-grammatically. The nodejs stuff is also very useful and
worth remembering:
http://www.nodebeginner.org/
The goal includes using 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.
Will get back to this after pyodf.py.
https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport
We will know soon if it works well, and has the extra added feature of being
jsonish.
I am working on this but I suddenly have the desire to do everything in
JSON and JavaScript. So we learn JSON and nodejs. Now the nodejs is
creeping into other projects.... If there is a javascript god or goddess
out there with some pity, drop us a line!!!
So my priorities flipped and I went from the altar of nodejs back to the
bordello of python, specifically in getting word documents out of
something aptly named Grantbot:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/grantbot,
The first output has to be to generate word "doc" and "docx" files. I
actually got this working under bash, which led to the discovery of
xmlstarlet and unoconv. For more information see:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash#mswf.sh. Now in living pyodf, we
are acually writing programs instead of reacting to input signatures. In
the end This may eventually get triggered by nodejs calls... or maybe just
do it all in python.
The real interesting part has been manipulating ODT documents with pyodf
and with a script I built out of xmlstarlet - a command line XML/ODF
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.
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, 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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