Actually, it is the *last* day of April, the 30th, today. 😀
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 30, 2018, at 12:40 PM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings List Lurkers, > > Next to the last day in April, and we awake with about 2 inches of snow... > > Please - Spring!!! > > As mentioned previously, I learned about Yaks while attending the LibrePlanet > conference last month in Boston. Specifically the topic is "Yak Shaving". > Yak shaving is developer for the seemingly endless series of small tasks that > have to be completed before the next step in a project can move forward. > > For further information please see: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mmISldi060 > > I really feel that despite the overwhelming number of Yaks that I need to > shave, it is worth going out and finding more Yaks. That said I > would announce a very large Yak I am interested in shaving. > > It appears that I will be running for the Vermont House from Washington > County District 3. For more information keep an eye on the web site > flint43.us. > > In the mean time I am feeling really happy about TSP2, a refrying of the > original temperature sensor system built a few years ago which remains in > service to this day. The new system operates off of a Raspberry Pi Zero and > is capable of many sensors. > > As I mentioned, now that Taxes are over there may be a chance to work on the > "Block Chain Tic-Tac-toe" (bcttt.sh) Visual Bash project. If you are > interested in the current progress, please see: > > (http://docbox.flint.com:8081/blockchain#tttVB) > > The actual code is here: > > http://docbox.flint.com:8081/blockchain#bcttt.sh > > A downloader for the code is this: > > wget "http://docbox.flint.com/~flint/bin/mdft.sh"; ; > chmod +x mdft.sh; ./mdft.sh > > This downloader and its new brother shall be further enhanced based upon an > idea from Marco the Marvelous Minion, and is in the middle of being > expanded... So why do I not simply write enough visual bash to link tiddle > space to git space? Give me a tiny mount of time... > > Way too many Yaks not enough time... > > So, the short answer is we are still here and the meeting will take place > today at 17:00. > > We lost good audio in VTC last week because the adaptor was not available. I > hope to bring the new audio adaptor to the meeting today. Hopefully it will > work. > > The great news is that there is a script being built which installs the > google playstore on a Kindle Fire7. The prototype for this script is located > here: > > http://docbox.flint.com:8081/kindle#ifire7i.sh > > This caused great rejoicing last week, but we need to refine it and find > another fire7 that needs the services of the Kindle Liberation Front. > > The problem here seems to be the Cosmic Law that you *do not fix that which > is not broken*, and sadly enough, while it sucks, Google Plus is not broken, > and we appear to have fixed the bandwidth issue. > > The idea that Kevin Cole came up with, a dedicated raspberry pi based > conferencing station. Is a goal we should consider in the long term. What a > cool idea! > > That said, we seem to have the most traction on Google Hangouts... > > What I am looking for is a way to dial a cell phone via the Android Developer > Port... > > Our standard topics once again remain: > > - Open Source Educational Human Development > I am changing the priority > of our eternal needs, and placing education first, as manifest in a > Barre Brain Barn. > - 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. While having #1Son around helped, I am still fighting DREK. > How to get over it? The secret may be empty pellet bags. > TechnoRubble is hereby defined as organized DREK. DREK is > just what you get prior to something becoming TechnoRubble. > Just to let you know I am desperately trying to turn DREK into > TechnoRubble. The ultimate goal being the development and > implementation of the TechnoRubble Taxonomy. > > On this last area here at Casa Flint Labs, we have made progress, as the DREK > is in remission. > > 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: > > For more information try: > http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tada > > ...and we hope that there are folks who are gonna try, the swim "tada" starts > 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 unusual, as it will be more about planning > and vision and less about how 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 web page: > > http://bosivt.org, works, and has just been updated. > > 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 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 free and 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. > > If you wish to be included on the "Linux_adult_swim" mailing list, send a > response to this note, or contact me. > > I expect to be chastised eagle-eyed Dr. Mark, or god forbid, Effin as Dr. > Mark remains our Honorary Editor. > > > Kindest Regards, > > > Paul Flint > (802) 479-2360 > (802) 595-9365 Cell > > /************************************ > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://family.flint.com/flint > skype: flintinfotech > Work: (202) 537-0480
