Greetings List Lurkers, I look out my window and feel like I am staring into a Grandma Moses landscape... The ground and the sky are a matching white.
That said no additional snow this AM. Sunday was gorgeous here. A new torment has come to my personal life, 2925 taxes! As a practicing masochist I actually do my own returns. Thus at this juncture I have little progress to report on beyond editing the BOSI education institute 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 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. The document is fleshed out, now I need to add a human touch... 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 still 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
