Greetings List Lurkers,
While the BOSI crowd does often come off as a buncha humorless ideologues,
the very hint of spring we had this year brings the mirth of spring to our
minds...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnqAXuLZlaE
This next one comtains some of the most imaginative vulgarity this side
of kjcole's comment lines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXvm76e2X1Q
My big push last week was to begin pyodf. This is the way to build documents
pro-grammatically. The result is that you can crank out odf flavored word
documents using this:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/grantbot#PythonMethod
The big quesiton I go to Pycon in Montreal with this week is:
Which is better odfpy (pyodf) or pydocx?
Do I continue up the path into the Open Document Format nirvana, or do I
go down the dark docx road? If you have any opinion or merely want to
protect fools and idiots from making intellectually fatal mistakes do not
hesitate to get back.
The basic plan is to wrap all this in the gossamer of nodejs and serve it
out to a waiting grateful world. That said it is worth repeating that
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
Again, 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 contue 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.... Again, if there is a javascript god or
goddess out there with some pity, drop us a line!!!
I now believe my priorities flipped for the better when 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,
To recap, 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...
Also Effin has really made progress with the carputer:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/jetta
Will anyone ever cure the young american male of his love for diesel
vehicles?
Othewise, 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.
After we get back from Pycon we fully intend to get organized. I mean it
this time.
Kindest Regards,
☮ Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
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