Greetings List Lurkers, Snowy Winter day, cold...
Ack! I am trapped in my own attempt to synthesize a vision for an institute of higher education here in Barre City. It is hard for me to believe 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 technology, like humans everywhere we have not been able to expand the concepts of free and open source knowledge much at all. In these dark neo-fascist times, my meditations have taken to planning For A 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 published this idea, and now find the need to follow up with some detailed planning. What keeps me going is the Career Center Planning meeting, which I shall continue to attend with great intestinal fortitude. I did deliver a short summary of an Open Source Institute idea to the attendees of that meeting. It was as if I did not exist in their meeting process. At the meeting I attended last Tuesday evening a directive was circulated to rewrite their voted-down proposal on an accelerated timeline for approval of the Barre City School Board. I expect that The participants of the CVCCSD Facilities Forum do not understand nor believe that this idea of a University in Barre City will be accepted. Well, but what the heck. BOSI after over 15 years of operation, meets again tonight. Thankfully, our gathering this evening is more about free software ideas, and 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 blems 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
