Greetings List Lurkers, This time Finds Me in the deepest darkest clutches of Hardwick Vermont thankfully I was able to find a Wi-Fi signal and I could send this announcement out.
I expect to be back in time for our meeting at 6:00 please see the directions below. Thank you, Wandering Paul On Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 13:37 Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >
