Greetings List Lurkers, What a ride...
As we rounded the 1300-odd miles back to New England we were greeted by the Canadian forest fire smog.... Last night it rained and this gave way to a clear morning... Two great successes accompanied us on this trip. We got to see our boy Effin in Pittsburgh Wednesday afternoon, despite being an hour late for our appointment. The folks at the gates were very kind and sympathetic to our tardiness. >From there we headed to the VM Workshop convention, got to our hotel and endured rain for Thursday. Friday was dry, cloudy but filled with the success of our BOSI edited talk "Ten Statement Fortran". The demo actually created a bit of an understated sensation. This demo may be the birth of a new BOSI initiative, likely part of our discussions in the meeting this evening. Our ride, the Nissan X Terra carried us, our stuff and our electric bikes with no problems... Basically this was a triumph we can discuss during the meeting tonight. Traveling to the City of Columbus Ohio, arriving by Friday afternoon in order to give a talk called "Ten Statement Git" to a bunch of Mainframers was just perfect... Friday evening we went to a wonderful festival in Columbus' Colgate Park called Com-fest (https://www.comfest.com/). Very exciting! As I mentioned before, this evening you will likely be proposed to regarding a new BOSI project. I will say more then, Dame Judith, as I squinted at other presentations proffered at the convocation, I praised you in my mind. Fortune smiled on Debian based rag-tag fleet of cast-off laptops. The irony of Red Hat's new restrictions on source code access rang a bell from the past as IBM had done something similar over 30 years ago to VM called Object Code Only (OCO) distribution, where they closed the source for VM. Being Debian based thus was very nice Tonight's topics really need to include this idea for a new project. I am most happy to present this new project idea. That said, bring this and any other problems and questions and we will do our thing! This evening as we have, we shall again gather at the York Library, it is an excellent facility, and located at... 135 Mill Street, in East Barre. https://www.google.com/search?q=135+Mill+Street%2C+in+East+Barre.&oq=135+Mill+Street%2C+in+East+Barre.&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l2.974j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Again, this meeting accommodates remote participation, I will let Jit.si do the heavy lifting, it seems to work just fine. Feel free to click the following link to join... Come on to Jitsi at 6PM! Feel free to click the following link to join the meeting: https://meet.jit.si/bosi ===== Just want to dial in on your phone? Dial-in: +1.512.402.2718 PIN: 1992759198# Note that this dial worked with devastating effect from the road... Click this link to see the dial in phone numbers for this meeting https://meet.jit.si/static/dialInInfo.html?room=bosi Kindest Regards, Paul Flint
