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Barre Open System Institute of Vermont

BOSIVT

[[Introduction]]

A Programming Culture is the personal framework that fosters a Programming Community.\n\n

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Three types of open systems are currently under study. These are:\n\n# [[Ubuntu]] - An Open Source Operating System\n# [[Containers]] - Metal ISO Shipping Containers\n# AutoComputers - Automible system regulators\n

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!Welcome to the Barre Open Source Institute site.\n\nThis site will be evolving directly.\n\nPlease contact Paul Flint at (802) 479-2360 for further information.

''Mission Statement''\n\n# Provide advisory and organization assistance to youth technology learners in Barre\n# Promote the adoption of open source technologies, innovation and county-wide open source policies, through the development of policy studies, migration guidelines, applications development, and advocacy campaigns\n# Provide youth and community opportunities to share their knowledge of open source technologies with other communities nation-wide and other communities world-wide through distance education, virtual and physical youth and community exchanges, and consulting services\n# To develop and assist in the management of a youth-managed for-profit/non-profit entity/club\n# Increase public access to / human capacity development with open source technologies through the development of community learning centers and programs that develop youth and community development capacity\n# Promote Linux or open source Users Groups and school-based technology training in Barre high schools\n

Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:38:47 -0400 (EDT)\nFrom: Paul Flint\nTo: Mark Schulman\nSubject: Congratulations on yesterday's Times-Argus Commentary\n\nDear Mark Schulman,\n\nI read your article in the Times Argus of 30 May (top pg. A5) with great\ninterest...\n\nI came back to Vermont for this. The progressive option has not been\nasleep, it has been gestating in hibernation for several decades. I share\nyour belief that it is about to wake up.\n\nWhen I was in Windham College, Dr. Johnny Lee Stones was the college\npresident, and while Windham as a college may not have survived, those who\nsurvived Windham remain on this planet committed to progressive change.\n\nIn my travels I have discovered something core to the development of\nprogressive ideas. It is called "Ubuntu".\n\n""Ubuntu" is an ancient African word that means "humanity to others".\n (Source: Cover of Ubuntu Version 7.04)\n\nIn respect to action, I would like to meet with you, give you a copy of\nUbuntu, and discuss with you an academic innovation I would like to develop\nhere in Barre, Vermont. This activity is the:\n\n Barre\n Open\n Systems\n Institute of Vermont\n\nFor more information on this please see\n\nhttp://www.bosivt.org/\n\nThe principle agenda of our meeting would be how BOSIVT could participate\nwith the progressive institutional powerhouse that is Goddard College.\n\nThanks in advance, and...\n\nKindest Regards,\n\n\nPaul Flint\n\n/************************************\n\nPaul Flint\n17 Averill Street\nBarre, VT\n05641\n\nhttp://www.flint.com/home\nskype: flintinfotech\nWork: (202) 537-0480\n Fax: (703) 852-7089\n\nFree advice .~.\nis worth /V\s\nexactly what /( )\s\nyou pay for it. ^^-^^\n\n

The Barre Open Systems Institute of Vermont (BOSIVT) is an educational community dedicated to the promotion of the development of open source practitioners., open knowledge/learning and open community and youth initiatives that will enable Barre Vermont and its citizens to grow and develop open source as a local community resource.\n\nThere is currently a trend in the economy, society and industry to privatize, compartmentalize, classify and restrict many areas of civic life - everything from genes, file formats and research to educational opportunities and public services. This is not to say that this is a prevalent trend in Vermont or that all restriction and private action runs counter to community well-being. However, in many cases, privately-developed and copyrighted software, information and knowledge places individuals, organizations and communities like Barre in a precarious position - as life-cycle consumers of expensive and ill-adapted solutions for communication, data, education, local administration, professional collaboration and for civic action. In some societies, closed technologies, information and knowledge-sharing policies can run counter to community development itself.\n\nAs in other communities, a digital divide runs through Barre. Inaccessibility to technology - the art of technology development, as opposed to appliance usage makes it somewhat difficult for our citizens to economically adapt new organizational administrative and education systems. While great strides have been made to improve technology access, the price tags are always high -- and social inclusion has been less than complete.\n\nMany Vermont organizations, small businesses, schools, and local administrations face difficult decisions as to how to upgrade their older technologies, databases, communications and management systems. They seek new, more efficient modalities for teaching, learning, collaborating, managing and organizing collectively. Many transitions are difficult to make. Newer systems often run in parallel with older systems. In some cases, the pool of fixed capital assets is discarded, when in fact, some assets could be put to alternative uses or recycled. And in transition, citizens and employees may need resources, training and differential levels of support.\n\nIn all instances, the challenges are not simply technological. Ultimately, they are about how the citizens of Barre and Vermont want to build community.\n\nBOSIVT supports a three-fold community development ideal: that technologies be open-source, that the Barre community open itself to other communities worldwide by mobilizing its cultural diversity and by employing technology and that teaching and learning be open and knowledge shared.\n\nBOSIVT operates with the core belief that an education in open source technology development is fundamentally different from being educated to use appliances. We believe in objectification and abstraction are tools to reveal not weapons to obscure for control and power.\n\nBarre has always had the reputation for independent artistry and craftsmanship. This tradition is manifest in the customized engines of Thunder Road as well as the granite artistry that adorns the country emanating from Barre. Imagine how fast that stock car could go if when it was delivered to the team the hood was welded shut?\n\nBOSIVT also maintains that youth is where this philosophy of open system development begins. Not everyone is destined to become a developer of Open Source Software, but understanding the communion of thought necessary to cause this to happen is the goal and purpose of this institute. This indeed may be the conceptual the key to building an "Open Barre," in which all capable of innovation and invention\n\nPlease join BOSIVT in this community education initiative. Transit to Barre Libre. It's just past Monopoly. And thanks for visiting our site.

First is ''Freedom Zero'', the freedom to use software however you wish. RMS notes that "most programs will at least give you Freedom Zero", and that any software that doesn't "is a pretty damn restrictive program".\n\n''Freedom One'' is the freedom to change software to suit your needs. Remember the example with the Xerox laser printer at the MIT AI lab, and how this freedom would have allowed them to rewrite the software to make their lives easier. In general when this freedom is not granted "it makes you a prisoner of your software" and "causes practical, material harm to society", just as the researchers at the lab were prisoners to their printer software and suffered under it.\n\n''Freedom Two'' is the freedom to distribute the software to anyone else, and in doing so "to help your neighbor". Remember the analogy with recipes and how sharing is "society's most important resource". RMS makes the point that the laws that are used to prevent sharing of software are based on the logic one normally applies to physical goods, when in fact there are vast differences between physical goods and software. For example, it takes greater resources to produce a copy of a car than it does to produce a copy of software. \n\n''Freedom Three'' is the freedom to distribute altered versions of the software, and in doing so cultivate a community centered around the evolution of the software. When you share a modified version of a recipe you obtained from a friend, you are exercising an analogue of this freedom.\n

Trust is an essential element.\n\nIs it a right?\n\n

!! DIGITAL RIGHTS\nAssigning constraints, duties, and responsibilities is an easy task compared to defining and promulgating the rights of an individual. Digital rights are a challenging subject that I have spent some time thinking about. Here is the limited guidance that I can reveal to you based upon my own meditation and research. \n\n! A working list of ''Digital Rights''\n# The [[RMS Freedoms]] are fundamental\n# A computer user has the absolute right to control his or her own system.\n# The information that a computer user places on his or her system is private property.\n\n!!Digital Rights Terms Clarified \n!User Rights\nUser Rights are Digital Rights. They are the sole and exclusive providence of sentient beings.\n \n!!!User Defined\n!!!! Positive Definition\nAny person with a registered account on any automated information system.\n\n!!!! Negative Definition\n''For the time being'' a process or Artificial Intelligence is not a person\nA Corporation is absolutely not a person.\n\n# Users have rights.\n# Users include guests. Guests are anonymous users.\n\n\n\n\n\n

Last night, I dreamed of a new law.\n\nThis new Software Development Lifecycle Law, related to any and all software unsupported by the original vendor, manufacturer or developer (OEM). This law would require that the source code escrow agents of\nthese supposedly obsolete and unsupported software products and systems either demonstrate contract with an agent supporting this code system or end their stewardship and disclose the source code in escrow.\n\nIn this dream, I was using Dbase and editing with Wordstar, as they were now open source, ( I was thinking about switching to Edix :^).\n\nIn this dream Micro$oft suddenly was supporting all versions of its software starting at MS DOS 3.0. All windows versions prior to Windows 2000 were supported under a contract with Computer Associates.\n\nWarty Warthog under this law, was placed in the public domain...\n\nCan anyone else think of the unintended consequences of this type of Software Development Lifecycle Law (SDLCL)?\n\nThank you and...\n\nKindest Regards,\n\n

Mission Statement\n\n 1. Provide advisory and organization assistance to youth technology learners in rural Vermont\n 2. Promote the adoption of open source technologies, innovation and state-wide open source policies, through the development of policy studies, migration guidelines, applications development, and advocacy campaigns\n 3. Provide youth and community opportunities to share their knowledge of open source technologies with other communities nation-wide and other communities world-wide through distance education, virtual and physical youth and community exchanges, and consulting services\n 4. to develop and assist in the management of a youth-managed for-profit/non-profit entity/club\n 5. Increase public access to / human capacity development with open source technologies through the development of community learning centers and programs that develop youth and community development capacity\n 6. Promote Linux or open source Users Groups and school-based technology training in rural Vermont schools\n

!! GNU Public License (RMS Freedoms)\nOnce you've legally downloaded a program liscensed under the GPL, \n# You can compile it. \n# You can run it. \n# You can modify it. \n# You can distribute your patches for other people to use. \n\nThese [[Four Freedoms]] are embodied in the statements from [[Richard M. Stallman | http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-summary.txt]].

!!!![[Bosi | Http://Bosivt.Org]] and [[Catalyst | Http://Catalystige.Org ]] members of of the [[Bioregional Coalition | Http://Bioregionalcoalition.Org ]]Collaborate To Teach An Introductory Web Design Class In The Bosi Computer Lab At [[Heading Teen Center | Http://Humctc.Org]]\n*No prior web design experience necessary.\n*Use a lab computer or bring your own.\n*Come to both sessions for an excellent crash course in web design.\nThis three session class will give you the resources and basic knowledge that you need to design or modify websites. The class will utilize free software programs that greatly simplify the web design process. We will focus on two basics of web design: html and css. You can expect to come out of this class with a basic understanding of how html and css work with each other to produce websites.\n\nApril1Syllabus\nApril8Syllabus\nApril15Syllabus\n\n\n!!!!!Resources\nmozilla firefox with web developer addon\nbluefish\nkompozer\nw3schools.com\ncss.maxdesign.com.au\nhtml reference sheet\ncss reference sheet\n!!!!!Itinerary\nOverview\na website consists of...\n*files linked to each other\n*held on server\n*interpretted by browser\n\nDesign Intro\n*html&css\n*look at pages with no style\n*look at html source\n*look at zengarden to see what css can really do\n*look at css source\n\nStart Learning!\n*syntax, tags, attributes, head, body, all that stuff\n*edit some html\n*css syntax\n*edit css

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Hi folks!\nToday we start with the very basics. But first! an intro to Open systems.\nNext, we will:\n*review what a website is and how it works\n*look at existing websites and their 'source' markup/coding\n*html=//language// for //marking//(markup) //text// in a //hyper// sort of way that a browser can understand\n*//handout// [[html tags reference page|http://w3schools.com/tags/ref_byfunc.asp]]\n*look at html syntax\n*look at the software we'll be using\n*begin experimenting with html and the editing software\n*open lab time - feel free to stick around for the full hour at the end or leave early

Day Two:\n*review everything from the first class\n**how a website works\n**html syntax\n**using the software\n*design a couple pages with html\n*begin applying styles to the html information with css

Day Three:\n*review everything again\n**html syntax\n**editing software\n**css syntax\n*go into more depth with html and css\n*admire the progress we've made\n*review the handout information so you can continue using it and learning on your own

! Competency Levels\n\nIn open source system education there are:\n\n# [[Cargo Cultist]]\n# [[Board Monkey]]\n# [[Consultant]]\n# [[Programmer]]\n# [[Developer]]\n# [[Technical Writer]]\n\nThe [[Cando | http://www.careercenter.arlington.k12.va.us/cando/index.htm]] Competency levels are equivalent in mapping...\n\n* [[ Cannot do ]]\n* [[ Do with direct supervision]]\n* [[ Can do without supervision]]\n* [[ Can teach ]]

Bill Stearn has an excellent [[resource web site | http://www.stearns.org/ ]] with some very cool Linux security tools.\n\n

The goal of any commercial tax is to equitably collect income from businesses in a jurisdiction. While this can be done directly with a city sales tax, in Barre City this is done indirectly through revenue sharing a state based sales tax the benefit of which the municipality enjoys. \n\nThus, within reason, it is possible to model city revenues based upon the number of square feet of commercial space available, as this space is dedicated to sales and sales are taxed. \n\nThis income model breaks down as commercial space becomes idle, no longer producing taxable sales. Landholders of idle commercial space currently have no tax based incentive to fill these properties with commercial sales tax generating business.\n\nThe proposed tax would use the potential income based upon historical use (corrected for current dollar value) of unused commercial property to determine the taxable income potential of the commercial space if the property was not empty and idle, and a percentage of this loss of income to the city would be billed as additional tax to the landowner.\n\nThis additional fee would act as an incentive to the landholder to place revenue producing businesses in the empty space. Once filled with a business entity, the property could pay regular sales taxs as is traditional. This idle space tax would cease - a rebate to the landholder could even be offered.\n\nIt is important to understand here that a business operating in a location in the city would merely continue to pay the current nominal tax on whatever sales were generated. This tax based incentive would only apply to empty and idle square footage available for commercial use.\n\n \n

! Images\nThe 4 megabyte rose...\n[img[http://docbox.flint.com/~barry/Jenifer_rose1.jpg]]\nThe 1 megabyte rose...\n[img[http://docbox.flint.com/~barry/Jenifer_rose2.jpg]]\n

! Government is where you need the greatest level of transparency and public scrutiny\n\n!! Article 6. [Officers servants of the people]\n//That all power being originally inherent in and co[n]sequently derived from the people, therefore, all officers of government, whether legislative or executive, are their trustees and servants; and at all times, in a legal way, accountable to them.//\n\nSource: [[Vermont State Constitution | http://www.leg.state.vt.us/statutes/const2.htm]]\n\n\n[[Vermont State Law | http://www.leg.state.vt.us/statutes/fullsection.cfm?Title=01&Chapter=005&Section=00316]]\n\nUnited States government in Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. Section 552(b)\n\n[[Vermont Open Meetings Law | \n\nTitle 1 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated sections 310 through 314\n\n[[Vermont Secretary of State Pocket Guide to the Open Meetings law | http://www.sec.state.vt.us/municipal/pubs/openmeeting/intro.htm}}

! Paul Venezia\nPaul Venezia writes in this [[article | http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-management/toward-technology-bill-rights-867]] an attempt to develop Digital Rights. God bless him.