Greetings List Lurkers, It is a gorgeous day in Vermont...
All is well. We await surface mail for some good news... I remain distracted by tractors.... God I hate this tractor! UPDATE: This weekend I got the Tractor to work for about 25 minutes... I may finally realize what the fix is!!! If there is anyone in my readership that feels like they could get the gasoline supply on a 1954 Fergerson TE30 operating so the motor continues to run, and wishes that they could have nice crisp cash in their pocket please contact me. Note this would be a contract based upon performance... Payment based upon working Fergerson gasoline motor. Please let winter come so I can think less about farm equipment. I am still playing with opencode (https://opencode.ai/) check it out!! SUMMER DREAMS DEFERRED So as the summer winds down, my effort to actually plan a party on the land at SugarTower will need to be considered next summer (If we survive :^), so we shall plan. The working title for the contemplated festival is either "Wierdo Fest" or "Wierdo Juiblee". What do you think? These ambitious plans for next spring include my dream of a meet up of Adult Swim at SugarTower. I like to have a Pig Roast party that lasts into the evening! For part of this future event, I intend to keep the working title "Open Source Summer Camp" (OSSC): http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#Open_Source_Summer_Camp_(OSSC). One angle I would like to pursue would be to add a "Renaissance Festival" vibe to this planned gathering. All this is so far a dream... What do you think? Spending too much time with tractors at SugarTower, no time for Open Source Tech... However, we have been sorting the Drek in the shipping containers and constructing a temporary enclosure so that we can get things organized at the SugarTower Tech Pavilion... That all said we have a meeting tonight at 6PM. The life lesson here is that serious development remains for the winter. Winter should allow us to answer questions like: - Can I take a Caterpillar 315L and combine it with an ABB robot arm in order to do large scale 3D printing? - Can I combine the hardware and software into a "looperplex" (a musical instrument)? possibly about using RP2350? - A VIAOC based Arduino and Pi development environment that "Breaths" Code. By itself the concept of "breathing" code is essential and is really not part of the RP2040 / RP2350 architecture. I have not discovered how to get the code off of these buggers. http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#Virtual_Immutability_Associated_Containers_(VIAOC) Could the answer be to have the "inhale" code from git? - Need to write/revise "menubot.sh", a FED menu generator. Maybe with the help of opencode.com? Could opencode help me generate a general menu generator (GMG? :^) - Can I use the upgraded to Ubuntu Jetson AI and Tabby to generate VisualBash scripts? (see https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible) - Would it make sense to store VisualBash functions in MariaDB? Or maybe Git? - Could all tie into Kubernetes? ...so more about these foolish ideas is available this Monday evening at 6 PM at the York Library in beautiful East Barre Vermont. Thus we are convalescing, centralizing and convocating at the York Branch Library this evening. That said, come in person or remotely and bring this and any Open Source or other problems and questions and we shall do our thing! Again this evening, beyond the Library face-2-face & gizmo-2-gizmo, we shall use https://meet.jit.si/bosi to connect. Feel free to click the following link (around 6PM tonight) to join the meeting: https://meet.jit.si/bosi Let me know if this works for everyone... ===== 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, Director Barre Open Systems Institute
