Hi Paul, As I’m now over 3 hours away, can you go ahead an remove my name from you mailing list.
Hope things are well, /\/\ ark > On Aug 17, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings List Lurkers, > > My excellent vacation is winding down and coming to an end. This > week is the last Adult Swim that I will miss due to our vacation. Thus, > truth, I merely beseeched you to to go to the directions web site > should you need them at: > > http://bosivt.org/directions > > Meet at the adult swim and be happy. FN, represents that all will > be well, he has the capability and the pizza to pull this off, I hope that he > is motivated and that circumstances conspire in favor of the gathering. > > First off, I will see you again next meeting! > > We are currently about half way back across the country just outside of the > fabled Quad Cities that bless the banks of the Mighty Mississippi. > > Now we push east...ever east... > > The best part of this Vacation has been the opportunity to meditate on future > projects and activities. Here is my summary of areas to concentrate on in > the future. > > - LED Lighting #1 Son still needs this, and inspiration has struck. > - Maker Movement A Maker Space in Barre? Why not? > - Move BOSI to become more git centric. > - Blue Sky R&D, but in Vermont it will be Gun-metal Grey Sky R&D. > - Open Source Educational Human Development (nothing new here:^) > > For an example of the later, the worker owned cooperative, Vermont Computing > Cooperative (VCC) of Randolph Vermont continues to surprise and amaze me. As > part of this last activity, I wonder if it would be possible to approach Ian, > Matt, Bob, Dan, Chris et al. at the Worker-owned cooperative to change the > economic game from a Fee-For-Service (FFS) model to an Insurance (Assurance) > model. > > As I relaxed driving across country and back, I have been meditating on the > FFS vs Assurance model and wonder if it would fit the Windows vs Linux > dichotomy. If the proposition is that Micro$oft based computers are more > profitable due to the amount of service required, you need to bet the other > side of this proposition, that being that FOSS (Linux, BSD) are more reliable. > > Could you do this is by establishing a monthly service fee that favors FOSS > systems? The particulars of the numbers involved with this fee are something > that one would have to figure out based upon the data gathered on the actual > service costs of the respective architectures, by maintaining this data is > where VCC or other service sector provider might have a considerable > advantage. > > Note that economic incentives are established as the best ways of > communicating with any businesses, but is really behooves someone to do the > back-office analysis in order to get the monthly costs associated right or > the whole exercise might be profit-less. This might be an opportunity for an > interesting analysis for BOSI to pursue. > > In any event VCC remains the candidate for the coolest thing of the year. I > really think that these folks are onto something, again let me say that > anyone with assignments, service opportunities or interested in Monthly > Assurance should contact Mr. Ian Stewart of VCC, Randolph. 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, as I stocked up! > > 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 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... > > One of the disturbing things I have discovered while staying in Motels and > Hotels across America is how many services block http service on odd ports, > as first reported by Bit Ed using and ISP in Plainfield. Thus one of our > immediate projects shall be to reflect all of the current project pages to > git hub. > > Wish us luck on this project. > > 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. > > This is Flint signing off... Expect me back next week. > > 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 ^^-^^
