Greetings List Lurkers,
First and foremost! Anybody who wants a ride to Pycon, the 2018 python
convention in Cleveland, Ohio contact me now. I leave tomorrow and would
like to have another driver to help with the 10 hour trip.
Next, we have the hat that Bit Ed wore to the New England Amateur Radio
Festival (NEAR fest) in custody. I suppose we should give it back.
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 am
gathering signatures on a petition to gain a posting on the ballot to
represent Washington County District three in the Vermont House. I run as
the Flatland Fred Tuttle... The web site will go up when we complete
getting signatures on the petition to get on the ballot. To sign you must
be a Barre City Registered Voter. If you are a Barre City voter, I would
very much like your signature.
As, 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, which will be up soon after I return from Cleveland..
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.
The great news is that there is a script built and tested 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.
That said, we seem to have the most traction on Google Hangouts...
This morning's yak was to figure out how to start the spindle motor on the
cnc system. I have the code and the interface working but really need a
bigger relay... All hail Amazon and the $10.00 Solid State Relay (aka
"Hocky Puck")... We live in a very connected world.
Another Yak that 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.
Time flies like the wind...
Horse flies like banannas...
It is off to Cleveland, I gotta pack!
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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