Greetings List Lurkers,
Finally sultry, steaming days have arrived in Central Vermont, causing the
entire population to retreat to the brooks and swimming holes that festoon this
rural fantasyland...
Today's meeting shall be held at Casa Flint!
http://family.flint.com/home
Several very Geek things will be happening:
1. I fully intend to use the new Green Mountain Grill Pellet Smoker to
cook a Beef Brisket to perfection, followed by fresh strawberries and
cream. This will be served at 5:30 in lieu of
burned pizza. I expect that there will be potatoes and salad to go along.
Miss this at your peril, as this will be the signature feeding of the
Adult swim.
2. Should someone be inclined to bring explosives with them, I have some
nicrome wire and we shall attempt to detonate whatever device we can get
our grubby hands on via a PitchBox.
If I were you I would not miss the now second annual Adult Swim Barbecue
for anything. That said your mileage may vary. Please attend!!!!
THE TECHNORUBBLE REPORT
TECHNORUBBLE - The Website http://technorubble.org, http://technorubble.com
The next Technorubble activity is another run to the MIT Wireless Flea
Market Sunday 17th July. This is a one day 9 hour deathmarch, and we hope
to have no less than Joe Hart riding shotgun... One never knows...
PITCHBOX
More on the Pitchbox, becoming a household word...
Progress is being made here... We are going out right now to get the
explosives, and I intend to wire PiTchBox #2 as a detonator...
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry#PiTch-Box
The PiTch-Box is an enclosure built out of the shipping case the Raspberry Pi
Touch Display comes in. I am very happy with how this is coming along. The
latest idea is instead of getting custom boxes built we have sticker kits...
Need to develop the software and hardware Pitchbox library...
Even as I write this, Kevin is remoted in working on Jarvis, a voice
recognition product that will run on a PI.
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry#JarvisOnJenkins
Maybe we can have a real countdown for the detonation of the nicrome
induced explosions...
PYRS
PYRS is in deep deep deep background, I remain fascinated with the idea of
writing a python tax library... PYRS - A python interface to the IRS!
(http://docbox.flint.com:8081/pyrs) Maybe the conference can disuade me.
As mentioned a few weeks back, Due to the bandwidth issue, and my own traveling
adventures the entire Kindle Liberation Front is lagging, but there is
good news on this front. The bad news is that all the new units are coming in
with 5.1.1. Good news is that the unit from #1 son can be modded.
Hopefully in the coming week.
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/kindle
As for the barbecue here in Barre, I beseech you to to go to the
directions web site should you need them at:
http://bosivt.org/directions where you will find a posting directing you
to the barbecue at:
http://family.flint.com/home
To summarize, the meeting today is not at 40 Washington Street, Barre, VT
05641 but at Casa Flint 17 Averill Street in Barre.
Topics for discussion on the porch include:
- Open Source Educational Human Development
I am working on an idea... I am changing the priority of our
eternal needs, and placing education first.
- 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... Yea buddy...
- Blue Sky R&D, but in Vermont it will be Gun-metal Grey Sky(c) R&D.
- 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, or you let your friends or relatives use it. This is a cosmic
law. I am still fighting the DREK.
Anyway, we have the technology and we will have the Beef Brisket tonight
5-7 at Casa Fint.
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?
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...
I will be refactoring our newsletter when I get back to Vermont...
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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05641
http://www.bosivt.org
http://family.flint.com/flint
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