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
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