Greetings List Lurkers,
All good things must come to an end, such as my excellent vacation. This
week I will be in the house at Adult Swim. Again, I beseech you to to go
to the directions web site should you need them at:
http://bosivt.org/directions
To summarize, the meeting today is at 40 Washington Street, Barre, VT
05641 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM!
The best part of this past Vacation has been the opportunity to meditate
on future projects and activities. Here is a restatement of the 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... develop gittlywiki...
- Blue Sky R&D, but in Vermont it will be Gun-metal Grey Sky R&D.
- Open Source Educational Human Development (nothing new here:^)
While the business of servicing computers is not glamorous, the worker
owned cooperative, Vermont Computing Cooperative (VCC) of Randolph Vermont
continues to abide in the marketplace. 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 tonight 5-7 at
Hedding.
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, and
there are folks who are gonna try, the swim stars at 6:00 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.
Once again, the goal of the meeting shall be as usual, to get organized
and try to get the various projects moving forward. We continue to wonder
about how to build the BOSI curriculum to this webpage:
http://bosivt.org/classes Take a look if you dare...
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,
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. This is why we will be initiating the gittlywiki 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 Format", 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... We are back at the Swim in Barre this
afternoon!
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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Barre Open Systems Institute
17 Averill Street
Barre, VT
05641
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