Greetings List Lurkers,
Well, last week was a big family time, and number one son came in from
the coast for a week. He came loaded with a project. He has me designing
very intense theater lights using 7500 Lumen LED arrays. This is not as
easy as you would think, there are several wrinkles, not the least of which
is consolidating all the power supplies into one. The damn LED arrays
want about 40 VDC; then you need cooling fans...Arduino and who knows what
else. I swear as soon as the smoke clears there will be a project page on
this one, and I intend to show the project and it's developer as part of
the program today. Tuesday he is back in the air going back to San
Francisco and hanging out with the Snowbot, which has gone into show
business.
All this activity really put a crimp in new shower at casa open source.
Sadly I have had no time to delve further into Vermont Computing
Cooperative of Randolph Vermont which we had the pleasure of visiting last
month. 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, which we will get going this time at
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.
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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