Greetings List Lurkers,
In keeping with no holiday tradition, Kevin Cole, an acknowledged software
god, has contributed a seasonal verse to our weekly screed and it is about
our favorite topic...
...BASH!
The hash in bash in rashly used for trash...
The hash in bash is rashly used for trash!
(GPL, CC-SA-BY but stolen from "My Fair Lady")
Anyway, this week we announced the formation of the Bashist Party.
Our slogan: "Bash Not-c"
(say it fast...yea... you got it :^)
We will be distributing Jodhpur shorts and black armbands sporting our
symbol, the octothorp very soon! Note that this whole idea is a very
disturbing trend here at the Barre Open Systems Institute...
We may do a recruiting tour if Ms. Julie Lerman will allow this kind of
weird ideological stuff at her software camp... Julie, I promise no cute
little mustache.
That said, the Bourne Again SHell remains my sword as I battle all of the
problematic elements. Not that I am not ridicules for "bash-ing" away at
life's little issues, but hey, why not? Occasionally I will stray and use
Python, but the real deal is Bash...and a continuing embarrassment. To
reprise:
I was so surprised while attending the event last Friday at the Generator
when no less than Ms. Julie Lerman, the scion of the excellent Vermont
Code Camp, and a presenter that evening, confided in me that she was just
then exploring Bash... Apparently, Microsoft's recent change in their open
source strategy has opened a window, coupled with her acquisition of an
Apple I book, which comes with BSD and therefore Bash, has piqued her
creative juices. The really scary thing is we both got to talking about:
http://visualbash.org
A tongue-in-cheek homage to a control structure I am currently romancing... We
took it seriously... Golly!
The Temperature Sensing System still working in the basement on a real old
Dell Dimension 630 said 30 degrees F this morning it finally snowed this
weekend. Now I am really good old New England miserable... Thankfully
the "Gun-Metal Grey Skies (c)" of Barre, remain what I see above...
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp
As for our gathering here in Barre, 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
There will be pizza. Today we are gonna concentrate on Raspberry Pi's if I
have any say in the matter...
The dreaded future projects remain ever present on our small minds:
- Maker Movement A Maker Space in Barre? Why not? Could it be that the
commercial power centers do not yet appreciate the value? I need to
revise my paper on this subject and get it out to Lucas Jensen
who has good ideas about a Barre Maker Space.
- Move BOSI to become more git centric... develop gittlywiki... working!
check out tiddlywiki5 here: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5
We still need to convert...
- Blue Sky R&D, but in Vermont it will be Gun-metal Grey Sky(c) R&D.
Sadly Firefox OS for the Pi...got thrown under the bus last week.
- Open Source Educational Human Development (nothing new here:^)
But I wish we there where.
- I fought the DREK and the DREK continues to win. Remember, What
really is holds us back is DREK!!! DREK is what happens to your
workspace (both hardware and software) when you fail to put stuff
away.
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...
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/gitlywiki - is tiddlywiki5 the answer?
As Bit Ed using an ISP in Plainfield, first reported many services block http
service on odd ports, one immediate projects needs to 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.
Somehow we need to make progress not more projects!!!
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 Swim in Barre this afternoon with the weather
so balmy maybe we do this in real water - outside!...
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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