Greetings List Lurkers,
Busy day today, first to Randolph to check up on Ian and the Gang at VCC,
then up to Big Burlington to pickup supplies for the Resource Consuming
Victorian, AKA Casa Flint, over to Shelburne to talk to the Maker Mafia
and then back for the Swim... A lota miles maybe a lot of smiles...
As ever, 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!
While the noble objectives we listed last week as a restatement of the areas to
concentrate on in the future remains ever present on our small minds:
- 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:^)
What really is holding us back is DREK!!!
Drek is what happens to your workspace (both hardware and software) when
you fail to put stuff away. It appears just this simple:
DREK="Stuff you did not put away for a while"
Hell, there may even be a calculus to this:
Where:
Tdreck=Time necessary to void dreck
Tgoals=Time you spent being creative and achieving goals
X=Universal constant for reorganizaiton.
Tdreck=(X)Tgoals
Anyway, I fear that I may be imobilized by my own drek till I can get it
organized enought to achieve goals...
Anybody with thoughts on Drek please respond!
As mentioned above, 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, despite drek. 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...
As Bit Ed using and ISP in Plainfield, first reported many services block
http service on odd ports, 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, hopefully today...
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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