Greetings List Lurkers,
First and foremost!
I have a real favor to ask of each of you. As you may know I have been
trying to develop and popularize the VisualBash framework. Some
suspicious things have happened currently to the domain name and the
wikipedia article related to VisualBash. So if you could get on wikipedia
and search for "visualbash", and if possible write about it either on
wikipedia or other blogs, I would very much appreciate it.
The BOSI Adult Swim meeting today is again at 40 Washington Street, Barre,
VT 05641. We shall again meet tonight at our usual place and time if you
need to know more see below...
TECHNORUBBLE
We did arrive and shine at Shelburne Farms in Champlain this weekend
(Sept 23-24). Despite the conspiracy on the part of the trailer tires,
and my inability to tie a tarp down. We arrived and returned with minimum
loss.
We met interesting folks and we want to welcome YourDuino.com to our
mailing list. We also need to get down and see the Maker Space in
Rutland. Would it be nice to do the same thing here in Barre!
(http://bbbvt.org/)
Technorubble at Libraries.
At the meeting back in February, J West came up with this angle and I
would very much like to try to set TechnoRubble up at the Kellog Hubbard,
Kimball and the Aldrich Libraries and see if this would work. I may also
try to get some traction at the Kellogg Hubbard.
I am beginning to believe that this will never happen.
TechnoRubble Supply
While we got through the Shelburne Maker Fair, we need more TechnoRubble.
Two local sources of TechnoRubble might someday be the ReStore and CVSWD. The
TechnoRubble untangling and packing is part of that effort.
TechnoRubble Taxonomy
Lets start with the hard part:A TechnoRubble Taxonomy
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/technorubble#TechnoRubbleTaxonomy. had some
good feedback about this issue. As the summer burns off I intend to
tackle this, using the framework developed in the Trantor project. This
needs to be reflected in the "unlikely candidate for software development"
category above.
While at the Maker Fair, I Talked to Nick Floersch and the gang at the
Code for America Vermont brigade. Code For America Burlington appears to
be Slack based, and I clearly am not. The idea is to make TechnoRubble
much more network centric (after all what created most of the
technorubble?) maybe get people to mail their TechnoRubble to us in a USPS
Flat Rate Box. Get TechnoRubbble available on Amazon or Ebay! Not high
priority, but could change...
Nick is also interested in the streambot...
TRANTOR LLDD
As you know by now,LLDD stands for Local "Library Digital Destinations", and is
the real important part of this project. As of now the system is once again
100% operational. I had a chance to speak to Sarah, as I am most interested in
her help with both the trantor project and Library-based TechnoRubble.
Sarah the librarian indicated that there is new management (Scott Murphy) at
the State Library level and that they are hiring a technical coordinator who
can address Local Library Digital Destinations (LLDD), but this has not yet
happened.
Sarah also still wants a press release. I hope that the concept of Local
Library Digital Destinations has not been completely wiped out by entrenched
powers would so much prefer that to raise revenue by concentrating everything
in the very expensive DII Data Center at National Life, likely for a hefty
monthly fee! I may still do a press release, and after talking to her will no
doubt have a draft for her to review on the Trantor web site shortly. Sarah has
been busy, I may stop by and see how things are tomorrow.
Maybe we can crank out a press release before much longer.
The hard part of trantor turns out to be:
1. Getting a State bureaucracy to recognize
Free Open Source Software (what's in it for them?)
Could there be some action here finally?
2. getting the visual bash trantor prototype complete, with
appropriate features, which is done.
3. Adding the new elements to the collection...
Sadly, not much has changed here. Sent David Zukerman a note about this, but I
am not getting involved with State Gumment...
THE 2017 VISUAL BASH TOUR FROM HELL RESURRECTED?
Something called CPOSC... Watch this space. In first week of November...
PYTHON EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES
We will be scheming (no pun intended) to go (pun intended) forward with this
somehow.
LOFTIER EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES
Blockchain Tic-Tac-Toe
part of the SHARE conference is to reconnect and somehow figure out how to code
the transactions. This will be attached to the tic-tac-toe.py game. We have
decided on using python 3 for the first cut which merely involves writing a
simple tic-tac-toe game. Now get thinking!
see http://docbox.flint.com:8081/blockchain#blockchainttt
I am gonna continue this because it seems relevant.
Splunk
The BOSI web site "Classes" section has been updated to include educational
materials about Splunk, which we really need to start to use as a product.
Eric-the-Weasel is back and is making me feel very guilty... I propose we get
him to help us build a sample Splunk Server, as eventually I want to set up a
copy of Splunk here in the Casa Flint Network Kitchen. Maybe today. Watch this
space...
MAINFRAME ZLINUX
If you want to play in this space, please let me know.
REXTRY
Now that the Maker Faire is over I am going to get back to this.
We actually got copy of the VM program RexTry running on the zPDT. Now I need
to figure out how to turn it on. I am almost ready to focus on this again,
just got to debug some Visual Bash, then I can get at this.
TADA
Teleconferencing At Da AdultSwim (TADA) starts again at 6 PM EST today. I would
dearly love to know how to do more than one party, we like Joseph Hart but is
there more we can do? What about a Visual Bash or Termux interface to Google
Plus? Got to ask Joe.
Hopefully these will be discussed on:
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/flint.com/tada
Topics for discussion as usual remain:
- 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? We clearly have a
Maker Faire profile. Could it be that the commercial power centers
are beginning to appreciate the value of the maker movement.
See http://bbbvt.org/
Here are the city and statewide plans:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/bb
who has good ideas about a Barre Maker Space. Why not do digital
stone soup?
- Move BOSI towards reStructuredText. I am seriously researching a
tiddly2rest converter. This would allow us to become more git
centric... avoid the need to change to gittlywiki...
We still need to convert... Yea buddy... Shut up Effin.
- Blue Sky R&D, but in Vermont it will be Gun-metal Grey Sky(c) R&D
(GMGSR&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. How to get over it? The secret
may be empty pellet bags. Is TechnoRubble organized DREK?
DREK is also what you get prior to something becoming TechnoRubble.
These five points are quickly becoming more than our policy, and more like a
prayer...
Anyway, we have the technology and we will have Pizza tonight 5-7 at Hedding
UMC.
This is the official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI) Adult
Swim. Accept no substitutes... 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,
and figure out where our good chairs went. One direction we have been working
on is to begin thinking about classes. The curriculum that I am most interested
in is teaching documentation.
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, works, and has just been updates see javascript link to
"classes"...
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.
While we need to update this list soon, the ever growing list of projects (now
on our web site :^) includes:
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/vm - A Docker copy of VM370
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/kindle - The Kindle Liberation Front
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/pyrs - A pythonic interface to Income Tax?
- 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?
This will be updated, hopefully two newsletters from now!
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 about a years worth of DVD's which is quite a task. You
may want to watch this space for developments.
Anyway, come and do open source stuff. For more information about the BOSI
Adult Swim meeting time and location try this:
Directions to the Adult Swim:
http://docbox.flint.com:8080/bosivt.org/directions or, go to http://bosivt.org
and click on 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 we like 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.
Join us in the heat this afternoon!
This is Flint signing off...
I will continue to refactor this newsletter, and at some point in the future
(do not hold your breath :^), it shall become readable!
I expect to hear from eagle eyed Dr. Mark, as he is our Honary Editor.
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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