Will a Google hangout be available? Sent from my iPhone
> On May 25, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings List Lurkers, > > If this were the end of May, I would out of respect for those in the armed > services, consider a holiday. Two things keep me sending this invitation: > > 1. Freedom - particularly free software should be celebrated. It does not > come cheap, and seems to perpetually involve struggle. > 2. I always figured that the holiday is the end of May, and Sunday, May 31st > I will be down with my surviving WWII Navy Vetran, my father-in-law, treating > him right.. > > It is amazing how involved I have become with my family and free technology. > For instance I remain fascinated with my number one son's bright idea, high > powered Light Emitting Diode array illumination. > > As we mentioned last week, this Bright Idea now has a name, LEDroid, and > oddly enough, a web site: > > http://ledroid.org/ > > I have been working on this stuff and truly find it fascinating. Again, > anyone out there who has ideas about Very Bright illumination, drop me a > line, as it has been a very illuminating experience for yours truly. This > project will no doubt by next week find a place in the project list below. > > The damn LED arrays want about 40 VDC; then you need cooling fans...Arduino > and who knows what else. I have substituted a 555 Pulse Width Modulator for > the Arduino PWM to allow us to get the hardware working without resorting to > software. > > In addition, we have come up with is what I am affectionately referring to as > the "Berserker-mod" for a standard PC power supply. So what else comes out > of the PC supply is 170 VDC. While this actually works, I am still banging > out the engineering necessary to get 40 VDC from this, or how to put 4 high > power LEDs in series. Check out the LEDroid site for more information. > Anyone with a good idea how to step on the 170 VDC and yield 40 would be most > welcome to get back via email! > > All this activity continues put a crimp in new shower at casa open source. > > I took time to talk to the good folks at Vermont Computing Cooperative of > Randolph Vermont which we had the pleasure of visiting last month. We should > all attend as 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, anyone with assignments or service opportunities should contact > Mr. Ian Stewart of VCC, Randoph. These are good folks and this is a > shameless plug. Keep the faith VCC! > > Anyway, we have the technology and we will have the pizza... > > 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). > > Does anyone know how to set up a G+ session from a command line? Still > interested... > > For some reason many of our projects are turning into hardware. Anyone want > to computer control a gas powered model race car? There will be a web site > coming soon! > > 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://ledroid.org - Ok, this is a real project eh? > - 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 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 > > /************************************ > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://family.flint.com/flint > skype: flintinfotech > Work: (202) 537-0480 > > Consilium _ gratuitum .~. > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > valet /V\ against HTML e-mail X > quanti /( )\ www.asciiribbon.org / \ numerantur ^^-^^
