> Mon 09 Feb 2026 12:02:42 PM EST
>>
>> Greetings List Lurkers,
>>
>> 28 years ago the builders put down what I suspect was yellow shag
>> wall-to-wall carpeting. We recently had this torn out and replaced
>> with wood flooring.
>>
>> It is so nice to sleep in our newly en-floored bedroom!!
>>
>> Getting things back to normal has been an overwhelming task, so
>> I have little progress to report on beyond editing the BOSI education
>> project plan...
>>
>> PLANNING FOR AN OPEN SOURCE UNIVERSITY IN BARRE CITY.
>> Maybe it merely a form of self delusion, that we can establish good and
>> lasting
>> institutions on the Barre City floodplains, yet I have proposed this
>> idea, and now find
>> the need to follow up with some written details.
>>
>> Thus,I continue to be trapped in my own attempt to synthesize a vision
>> for an institute of
>> higher education for in Barre City. The irony is that we have been
>> meeting,
>> teaching and learning here at the Barre Open Systems Institute since
>> October 2014,
>> and while we have made progress in the technology, like humans everywhere
>> we have
>> not been able to expand the concepts of free and open source knowledge
>> much at all.
>>
>> I expect the presentable draft will be available in about a week, but do
>> not hold
>> me to this...
>>
>> BAZZITE
>> Having some trouble getting the printing to work. Is this the fault of
>> Bluefin/Bazzite or my general level of incompetence. Turns out there
>> appears to be an issue, and I will likely need to get it fixed.
>>
>> Again, at this point we have, available
>> for loan, two Intel i5 workstations with Bazzite loaded and operating.
>> Again, our goal here is to find members of the community in order to
>> loan these machines out for use. If you are loaned one of these Bazzite
>> based systems you will need the following additional hardware:
>> - Two Power Cords 1 for console 1 for monitor
>> - Monitor (VGA, Divix or HDMI)
>> - Keyboard
>> - Mouse
>> - Network and network patch Cable
>>
>> These units have been donated to BOSI by our benefactor Rubin. I thank
>> him.
>> We now have new and sweet development systems.
>>
>> Thankfully, our gathering this evening is more about free software ideas,
>> and
>> less about local politics. This open discussion is available tonight,
>> this Monday evening, at 6 PM at the York Library in beautiful East Barre
>> Vermont.
>> Thus we are centralizing and convocating at the York Branch Library this
>> evening.
>>
>> That said, come in person or remotely and bring this and any Open Source
>> other technical or personal blames 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
>>
>>
>>
