Greetings List Lurkers, It is about 15:30 EST. I do not feel well.
Will be back next week!!! Love, Flint On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 12:50 PM Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
