Greetings List Lurkers,
Got a chance to talk with "Big" Jim Lawson of the VAGUE list server last
week. The miracle of this conversation is that the good offices of the
VAGUE list server, of which Jim is the guardian angel, remain positively
disposed to relaying our rather frequent announcement for the Adult Swim.
That said, the inference was clear...keep it light and entertaining...
Ok so hear goes...
I have squandered my week installing a new shower at casa open source.
At six feet by just over a yard deep, this is the largest shower I have
yet interacted with, I am firmly convinced that you could land a small
airplane in the pan. There is a practical side to this extravagance, that
is that one could accommodate a small, dirty pony, or more to the point a
wheelchair...
This has kept me off the streets, mostly in hardware and building supply
stores. This has cut my time to interact further with the Vermont
Computing Cooperative of Randolph Vermont which we had the pleasure of
visiting two weeks. Ian, Matt, Bob, Dan et al. have taken Open Source by
the horns and formed a Worker owned computer cooperative. This remains
the candidate for the coolest thing of the month. I really think that
these folks are onto something, and when I can take a shower I intend to
follow up.
But more on that later, we have the technology and we will 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 essentially completed the the Cafe
Pilot Pi Project. I actually think this is good thing, now to get the
documentation to the point that the project is reproducable. This is
clearly the great weakness in most projects IMHO.
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/hedding is where CafePilot landed, and boy
does it need revision. One school of though it to simply convert the
whole thing over to Active Directory...uh...
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.
We continue to wonder 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...
Note I fully intend to review and imbellish the above list by next week...
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 I finish the new group shower, we fully intend to get organized. I
mean it this time.
Kindest Regards,
☮ Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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