Greetings List Lurkers,
Maybe an inch-and-a-half of snow on the ground here in Barre City. That
said, the short answer is that we are still here and the meeting will take
place today at 17:00.
So I have been spelunking python3. It is like hitting yourself in the
head with a 2X4, but it is better than the alternative, which is bashing
yourself in the head with a 2X4...
I know that this sounds like a complete cop out, but the important theme
here is to use the appropriate solution for any given problem, so anyway,
again I gotta finish this newsletter and get back to python3.
No, this is not a cop out, there may be funds involved...
3DPRINT
For Thanksgiving I worked on a real flesh and blood Turkey, not 3DPRINT.
I am still being tormented by the world of 3D. As I mentioned, there are
two paths of torture:
1. 3DPrint and
2. 3DCNC
In 3DCNC I am making some progress. It has to do with calibration of the
table surface... On the 3DPrint side, I am gonna have to call in
Consultants.
They will show up as Christmas presence...
TADA
This actually may be working, but really is not a solution. For instance,
Joe Hart, needs to compile a new version of firefox to get things working
on his end. Just like last week, in order to accommodate this we will be
Google Plus at the beginning of the meeting and jitsi towards the end.
Brother Kevin Cole came back from Oslo with a clear case of the Jitsi's,
and for the last two meeting we drank the jitsi cool-aid. So this meeting
just like last week, we are going to switch over in mid-meeting it from
goggle hangouts. Seems like all we can do at this time.
So from 6PM on, here is the data for tele-connection:
The BOSI Adult Swim invites you to https://meet.jit.si/tada for the
duration of our meeting, 5-7 PM today. If you want to come into this
conference from a voice line: 1) Call +1.512.402.2718
2) Enter Meeting ID: 1313940399 following by # to dial in from a phone
Yarger reported that the phone number did not work. I will test that
later today. Note that this dial in solution will only get you on for
about 2 minutes currently.
This is what we are intending to once again use Google Plus for the first
part of Teleconferencing At Da AdultSwim (TADA) which starts today at 5 PM
EST
today, and follow this at 6PM with Jitsi. We are trying to keep a fair
number of remote folks happy including, Effin in San Francisco, Kevin Cole
in DC, Brett in the South and Joseph Hart at Niagara Falls What we can do?
Getting a
solution that meets BOSI needs is becoming an interesting issue. We seek
a solution.
So today just like last week, we start with Google Plus then at 6PM we
continue to meet virtually at:
https://meet.jit.si/tada
That said, for the corporeal attendees, there will be Pizza as opposed to
confusion...
SPLUNK CLASS
In the attempt to getting around to playing with Splunk, we may have gone
over the 30 day evaluation limit. Thus we need to get registered as a non
profit with "splunk sentral", which is why we really like open source.
I remain confident that Los Weasel will actually support this project by
such good acts as sending me the URL I need to fill out for this program
offered by Splunk. Who knows he may actually try jitsi!!!!
VISUAL BASH
Visual Bash has been cold comfort. I had to rewrite a program I use to
change Excel files into tiddles and subsequently upload them. The bug
fixes, (ever deal with csv file and commas? yech!) predictably, this
caused this code to suffer a great rewrite and now we regress and test
and lather rinse and repeat. But hey - it has worked out.
Say what you want but spell it correctly... As you may surmise, I have
been trying to develop and popularize the VisualBash framework, and it
actuall works for me.
I have tried in vain to get an article posted about VisualBash on
Wikipedia,
but do not seem to have the "psudeo-savvy" necessary to satisfy their
editors. So I need help. Any of you who can, write about VisualBash
either on Wikipedia or other blogs, I would very much appreciate it. Any
way I am trying again using their dreaded "article wizard"... God I hate
wizards.
TECHNORUBBLE
Technorubble has been quiet, which may change next week.
The only development is that the Amature Radio folks have shown some
interest in this area. I am encouraging this.
TechnoRubble Supply
Beyond direct donation, our favorite method, 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 winter arrives I intend
to tackle this, using the framework developed in the Trantor project. It
will be a mid-winter projecet I suspect. This needs to be reflected in
the "unlikely candidate for software development" category above.
I had 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...
The latest news is that we have the worlds cheapest RFID system arduing
card, and 101 RFID cards. Apparently this RFID card also works on the
Raspberry Pi
(http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry#PiRFID). We have a long way to go
here...
LAKECRAFT PI
As you recall, Nick of Code for BTV developed "Lakecraft"
(http://www.lakecraft.net/) which is a terrarian of the Champlaign Lake
that can be used on an intel Minecraft version. We now know that Minecraft
is default loaded on Raspberry Pies... Wonder if there is data set
compatibility...
Wierdly enough, Deyo our new hulk, plays this game like a violin, and
demonstrated a whole lot about running it on the pie. There is a glimmer
of hope here.
TRANTOR LLDD
The Trantor Project designed to be a Linux based operating system resource
(http://docbox.flint.com:8081/trantor) languishes. As you My know, LLDD
stands for Local "Library Digital Destinations", and is the real important
part of this project that remains undone. As of now the system is once
again 100% operational after Sam performed a "security evaluation", on the
physical hardware at the library.
I have an ongoing conversation about this with Sarah, the Aldrich Library
director, as I am most interested in her help with both the trantor
project and Library-based TechnoRubble. Maybe we can find out what is up
here...
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...
EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES
Python - Particularly based upon my present task, we will be scheming (no
pun intended) to go (pun intended) forward with this somehow.
WATCHING OTHER MAKER SPACES
The conference let me do this, particularly the fantasitc Mint Maker space
in Rutland. We should get some kind of site going in support of the
functioning maker spaces in New England.
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
The newest question: Is Hashgraph the new king? Do you recall how the
Blockchain King died? More frustration!!!!
MAINFRAME ZLINUX AND 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.
I also have a line on curl for VM. This could be very cool.
he 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...
Topics for discussion as usual remain:
- Open Source Educational Human Development
I am working on the BBB and ... 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 DREK. How to get over it? The secret
may be empty pellet bags. Is TechnoRubble organized DREK? Or is DREK just
what you get prior to something becoming TechnoRubble? Just to let you
know I am desperately trying to turn Drek into 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. Accept no substitutes... For those coming in via voice or the
Internet,
so not forget this information:
This is the official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI)
Adult
Swim. BOSI has invited you to the https://meet.jit.si/tada conference
1) Call +1.512.402.2718
2) Enter Meeting ID: 1313940399 following by # to dial in from a phone
For more information try:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tada
...and we hope that 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 the following with no particular organization
or accuracy:
http://www.bosivt.org
http://bosivt.org, works, and has just been updates see javascript link to
http://family.flint.com/flint
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/flint.com/tada
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry#MinecraftRaspberryPi Pi Minecraft,
cool. http://www.lakecraft.net/ This is the site we want to get Pi
Minecraft working
with. http://bbbvt.org/ Barre Brain Barn.
http://ledroid.org Ok, this is a real project eh?
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/travel#VTMakerConf2017
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/technorubble#TechnoRubbleTaxonomy
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry#PiRFID
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/trantor
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/blockchain#blockchainttt
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/bb
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://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
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/bb A big noble idea.
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/grantbot A less noble idea to feed the
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/gitlywiki is tiddlywiki5 the answer?
http://docbox.flint.com:8080/bosivt.org/directions or, go to
http://bosivt.org
This list has been updated... Next we shoot for accuracy!
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 Aldrich 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.
It is so nice and warm in this room it may be time for a nap. This is
Flint
signing off... I look at the list of stuff we still have to do and I
wonder where it all came from!
I expect to hear from eagle-eyed Dr. Mark, as he remains our Honary
Editor.
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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