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===28 June 2018===
Trying to get circular constraints to work again.
takacsjd (takacslog) - Right, they are totally unpredictable. I don't know how you designate which is the master for a part move.
Vokoscreen isn't recording audio?
Did I miss a permission on my new USB?
No... It was recording audio before.
Smh.
No clue.
The next USB is working.
I used an older version of Rufus to burn it.
Maybe that helped.
takacsjd (takacslog) - VirtualBOX VM's are anouther way to run OSE linux across computers... although not as portable.
Working on getting rid of this thing when I'm done with it:
Oh. Now the "finish editing" button worked and did not close FreeCAD.
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Now the circular constraints are working consistently but I can no longer get the planes to line up using that constraint.
Working off this forum right now, going through my trouble spots and finding the hiccups.
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=15880
===27 June 2018===
Still wrangling the finding my vids on Ubuntu thing.
After watching useless vids on inserting music I finally discovered, on my own, the overwrite tool on Kdenlive.
Now I can't find my 15 seconds of pain points to splice onto this, but GOOOOAAAAALLLLL anyway.
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Also, it wasn't until I started with making vids that I discovered the volume on my computer nearly is all the way down.
I don't want to mess with the USB in the middle of FINALLY getting the test all spliced together (going back to wage-slavery tomorrow afternoon, who knows when it will end). Couldn't find where to adjust computer volume quickly enough to suit myself, so I've been uploading everything to YouTube to volume test. For me right now that is the simple solution. Don't laugh, lol. Former goat farmer.
How I feel:
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Test-In your Work Log - document:
How many hours each part of the test took to complete: 1) Installing Linux; 2) Learning FreeCAD; and 3) Documenting your work--and which section was most difficult.
At first I downloaded the Linux to my USB.
That obviously didn't work.
I phoned a friend and got turned onto Rufus:
See 2 May 2018
The actual process takes maybe 10 minutes.
I spent about eight hours figuring it out and getting good help.
FreeCAD was about 6 weeks.
I don't have free time, really, and I needed three hour chunks to get anywhere, not that progress was ever guaranteed.
Documenting has a much nicer learning curve for me, but I think that's because I already have a YouTube channel and some minimal experience with vid editing.
FreeCAD was the hardest.
Each thing is a trial- until it's not.
Remembering to document on the wiki is the most difficult for me, but I can do it from any device- at least there's that.
Add any other feedback you have on the FreeCAD Test or the Developer Test in general.
Score yourself 0-100 based on the percentage of the Test points that you have completed successfully - and include that score in your work log comments.
I give myself about - well- 100% on the test itself.
===27 June 2018===
The Rufus still works (refer to 2 May 2018 or so). I was able to overwrite my "faulty" USB, I think. Working off a different one right now.
Waiting for my original cube to "render" on Kdenlive. Already rendered the 30 second version. Been on this two hours so far today, between burning the USBs and redoing the cube test. The circular constraints are still grumping about the math. Ah well. I'll have to ask - I think Abe was discussing that with me. I just don't get why they worked and worked and now they don't. Maybe I'm highlighting backwards? Oh, or maybe just one piece to one piece? That doesn't make sense. They're positionally fixed and somehow when I first was using them the pieces weren't? No. THAT doesn't make sense. The circular constraints are ON the Assembly workbench, so obviously that's where they're meant to be used. Hmmmmmmmm.
So much to think about and learn.
At least I grok enough now to be able to benefit from shorter periods of study.
Until the last couple of weeks, if I didn't have at least three hours I wasn't going to get anything new worked out or accomplished.
And I almost never had three hours.
Slow at work right now, so I've had a few days.
This would definitely be less fun broken up into bits, but I could easily have set up and walked away from burns and renders.
If I didn't have a bit of money to buy extra USBs and a few days off I might not be entertained but rather frustrated.
I rendered the full length cube build, but now I cannot find it?
I found the 30 second one anyway.
Dang. I thought I was doing things exactly the same each time.
Uggg. I have the music clip in my Kdenlive, but it's not recording when I render the project.
It seems like all the tech support these days is in vids, too.
Why learn to read and write?
===26 June 2018===
No.
Really.
Now my Part Design workbench isn't working. Seriously. I tried to video what it's doing, but vokoscreen isn't saving my vids.
So I'm going to reinstall Ubuntu on my USB.
Really.
It's me not me.
Now to find out if my Ubuntu to USB log is helpful.
===26 June 2018===
Had fun with fasteners on the fastener workbench and circular constraints on Assembly 2- until FreeCAD quit doing the math for the constraints-
The cube build is down to an art- until I try to record it of course- so the test cube is constructed mundanely and a bit ham-fisted. I had so many elegant solutions in mind.
Why I'm here though is to kvetch briefly about the kdenlive. I'm not finding vids I've saved through kdenlive, but I can go to the vid on my desktop and open it in kdenlive.
I worked on fasteners, circular constraints, and recording the build at least a few hours yesterday, and today a few hours recording and editing, uploading, et c.
As soon as the test is in I'm updating all of this software.
Just saying.
And I have well over 15 seconds of commentary on pain points, so maybe I'll just smile and say "God bless".
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===22 June 2018===
I had a great time in Eugene.
Dallin, the 3D Printer build participant, was really into it and completely unflappable.
It was a beautiful thing.
I managed to capture a fair bit.
The video is pretty intermittent.
My phone kept getting full, so I had to pause to upload to YouTube so I could delete vids and have room to take more.
Not that I am a videographer.
Here's the list, fwiw.
Feel free to copy, edit, and use.
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So on the REALLY exciting side I have an easy fix for the 3D printer frame needing jimmied around to get a pseudo-fit.
In order to get the fit smooth, which is literally impossible with five matching squares, AND keep each piece the same, we need to add the thickness of the steel plate at a pair of opposite ends on each plate. Then we can fit the long edge of either side to the long edges of the bottom. Then back and front pieces' long edges will fit over the edges of the sides and bottom nicely.
This may require the extra step of labeling each piece. Hopefully there's enough room on the axis parts to make that extra bit of stretch.
And no, I had no FreeCAD time, but I did pack The Brick and Chromie to Eugene. The Chromebook was handy and I did get a bit done on it, mostly YouTube related.
Oh, lol.
I just spent how many not yet logged OSE hours?
I may just do a wiki page on how to assist Marcin at events.
He seems to enjoy meat-based fresh foods in pastries of one kind or another and prefers blonde cookies (white chocolate macadamia nut) and "chocolates" to actual chocolate cookies and chocolate.
Also, he is not a fan of ice water.
Moderately temperatured water is better.
Keep feeding him.
He's probably deeply engaged in conversation, won't go get something to eat after, and may not have eaten before the event.
Keep feeding him.
Also, people stop him to talk to him, so if he has somewhere he needs to be go through the buffet line and meet him with a plate wherever he's headed.
===19 June 2018===
My logging is not so good.
So last night I figured out how to import files and succeeded at doing it.
I spent easily four hours between tutorials, sites, et c wrangling FreeCAD, not that I could find a tutorial on what I actually needed.
Finally I decided to try what I had been doing- downloading the tubing library and using the Assembly 2 workbench.
Mostly I couldn't find the file anywhere through FreeCAD, but it was on "my computer", the bit on my Ubuntu-loaded USB stick.
Grrr.
But it SAYS import parts on the Assembly 2 workbench.
So what's up?
Thinking thinking thinking-
I SAVED the download to a file and THEN I could find it and import the 8-hole tubing.
ERMAGAWD.
That easy, and it's really not the sort of thing a developer is going to think to ask me because it's so basic and so obvious.
I'm pretty sure that was it.
I can't tell from Lex's response when I asked if that was it whether he was being a little sarcastic when he said "Maybe". I think yes.
Anyway, that's what I had done differently.
I had found a workaround by simply using the tubing file and duplicating the tubing and moving it around, but that wasn't going to work for the bolt!
So today I won't have much time.
I have to pack to go to Eugene tomorrow to (hopefully) assist with the 3D Printer build there. So amazing.
This stuff is so cool.
I'm still debating whether I want to pack my ungainly brick of a laptop with me.
Will I REALLY have time to work on this there?
Really?
===18 June 2018===
My projects don't seem to be saving onto my USB.
Not sure what I'm not doing.
I'd saved several things on FreeCAD, projects from tutorials and such, and now nothing is in the files.
Grrrr.
Also, when I talk to people about help with FreeCAD they tell me "Nobody uses FreeCAD. Try..."
Or more politely, they share what they use and talk about why they like that software.
Be that as it may, I agreed to learn FreeCAD.
The problem is that I don't know ANY CAD maybe?
A friend may hook me up with AutoCAD if I ask nicely.
Maybe I should be using that?
ANyway.
Back into it today.
Thinking about downloading the FreeCAD directly onto my computer.
Idk.
Fml sometimes.
===17 June 2018===
Interesting...
Getting Linux onto the Chromebook, even using the USB, was a washout.
I'd thought I had logged that. Been messing in FreeCAD a bit. I still run into issues with sketching not appearing on the surface when I go to draw on various faces.
I spent at least six hours today watching vids, especially on 3D printer builds and general principles of OSE.
===14 June 2018===
It looks like I may be able to get Linux onto my Chromebook?
Super-stoked to try, and I have tonight off. Will report.
If I can then I'll be able to work on the bus. My laptop, a medieval brick, is far too cumbersome to deal with on the fly.
===13 June 2018===
About 10 minutes doing dev log page admin then listened to the meeting on YouTube, so about an hour.
===10 June 2018===
Still working on figuring out how to get multiple hunks of tubing onto FreeCAD. It's interesting to say the least. Each version is just different enough, right?
Getting acquainted with GitHub in the meantime.
Success.
I've been duplicating and manipulating the 8 hole tubing in the FreeCAD. It's all such a mystery, until it's not.
===9 June 2018===
Hmmm. Slacking on logging apparently.
So now I am trying to figure out how to add/access parts on FreeCAD.
I found a few videos on importing parts. Some even started in English. But soon they were in German. Sigh.
I also found the FreeCAD 101 manual on the FreeCAD 101 page.
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing
In attempting to follow these instructions the hang-up was this:
Place the downloaded macro in your FreeCAD Macros folder. The FreeCAD Macros folder location is indicated in menu Macros -> Macros -> User macros location.
I found the location, but the addons macro wasn't there and there wasn't any way I could see to put it anywhere.
It's in my Ubuntu download folder - or appears to be- not sure how to get it onto FreeCAD- but I need something like this to add the libraries?
Anyway.
More adventures.
===6 June 2018===
So the YouTube embed for 5 June on the dev log page looks different than the others do.
I have no idea what I did differently- I'm thinking nothing- nor how to fix it.
Last night I did do the FreeCAD tutorial I was stuck on again. This time I clicked auto refine under I want to say the edit button/preferences/part design. After that all of my drawings appeared on the surfaces throughout the design, which made working much easier. Another hour and a half last night. It looks like constraints may vary somehow FreeCAD version to version.
THANK-YOU MARCIN for saying we'll stick with this FreeCAD version until it no longer serves our purpose.
I certainly hope people will benefit from what I do document about learning it.
Now I know why everybody in analog world looked at me funny when I said I was going to learn it on my own.
But I am. :-D
===5 June 2018===
What I ran into last time with this tutorial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRFsW_FhyP4&index=4&list=PL6fZ68Cq3L8k0JhxnIVjZQN26cn9idJrj, was that after having successfully inserted I think three through pockets, when I entered the sketch mode to do a pocket on the next surface the axes nor the circle I drew showed on the surface. That makes it hard for me to work, when I cannot see what I am drawing.
I was unable to find a way to refine the lines out of the item on which I was working.
I had initially selected to not do it automatically because my computer is a bit long in the tooth.
When I do the tutorial again I'll just select automatic for now, though I am thinking I know the solution, now that it's gelled in my head a day. It's funny the details I'm remembering after-the-fact. Probably a good sign I remember them at all. I think I was looking in the wrong place for the manual refine. I think. Nuts, I'm not even positive it's called refining.
- Yes it is called refining. Yes I was looking in the wrong place. Yes setting preferences to autorefine did solve the problem.
And I am very sorry I'm not more accurate on recording my time. I need a one-man chess clock.
BOOM- working on OSE. BOOM not. Lol. At this point I'm counting learning FreeCAD as OSE work.
I really do only have about a dozen hours a week for this right now.
===4 June 2018===
Moved dev meeting YouTube to dev log page quickly on break at work.
Will look at migrating older meetings hopefully this afternoon.
Migrating the meetings is super easy.
You create the page to put them on by searching for it then creating the page.
To create an internal link you just put the page name between two brackets marked by an asterisk.
* [ [ page name ] ], but with no spaces
===3 June 2018===
FreeCAD tutorial, two hours.
Ran into the problem again where the axes don't show on the surface on which I'm sketching, so also the drawings do not show on that surface.
Will start from scratch again tomorrow.
"Talked" with Lex about moving the older meetings onto the list at the bottom of the page.
He said to create a web page, name it the date, migrate the code, then link.
Derp.
Starting to get the groove of this though.
Moving out of hausfrau/goat farmer mindframe.
===2 June 2018===
Worked on FreeCAD tutorial.
===1 June 2018===


Archiving meeting on my Samsung on break at work. YouTube doesn't seem to have a special embed code on this device?
*[[Jen notes]]


Got the slides moved anyway.
===14 July 2019===


===29 May 2018===
Seriously slacking on documentation!<br>
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I keep getting an error message when I attempt to access my log on my Chromebook.
I've been working in kdenlive all week <br>concurrently using vokoscreen to document processes.<br>
Look for a couple of kdenlive tutorials next week. <br><br>


The whiffle went well up to the last step, in which my second set of cuts left square bits. Hmmmm. I think I forgot to set "parallel to plane". I set up three cut out boxes to start, though, so I'm into the second one now.
===24 June 2019===


When I hit "undo" on the first one the whole project disappeared. I've seen the disappearing project before on my undo's. Back in...
I've been reading the Streamr docs/monetizing our own data/blockchain company.<br>
Meshes well with my own UBI thoughts really.<br>
It seems important to have processes immutable.<br>
<br>Also, I finally had a meshing insight.<br>
I've been thinking about a community cider press project since I've been in Seattle.<br>
OSE needs a cider press build. <br>
THAT would work as a local hackathon project.<br>
Still working on Linux admin type stuff.<br>
Still "researchcrastinating".<br>
At least I'm getting insights.<br>
Back to work.<br><br>
My hangup is trying to make the smart contracts appear in a readable form<br>
in Truffle. I know it has to be a baby Linux question.<br>
I'll figure it out.<br>
I didn't realize until yesterday how much catering<br>
blows up my head in the bad way.<br>
A whole week off to recover and think.<br>


Uggg. Redrawing the triangles for the second set of corner cuts.
===20 June 2019===


Irritating. Error message that 100mm is an invalid length for the line. What does that even mean? Undo undo etc, trying again. Plus I'm doing the log on my Samsung because my Chromebook and my log page refuse to cooperate.
Oh wow look what I found not five minutes on Reddit today~<br>
<strong>[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr].</strong><br>
Someone is already using blockchain to help us monetize our own data.<br>
Brilliant.<br><br>
Since data from the IoT is also on the table<br>
it seems OSE should have a place here.<br><br>


Ohhhhhhh... one of my triangle lines does not have the vertical line marker- so it isn't vertical anymore? I think that was an undo result.


Into my third precut.
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Actually, since I closed without saving I'm still on the second precut.
This is definitely an adventure.


Woot woot!
<strong>[[Ecology is Mind]]</strong><br>
Finally got it.


Nearly 2 hours.
I worked on my <i>Ecology is Mind</i> article a bit.<br>
There are all the little details to remember, and yes, the problem had been the symmetric to plane bit for the pads on the second set of cuts.
Hilariously, I followed a completely new train of thought,<br>
This keeps getting easier and going faster each time, though. Just be methodical and detail oriented.
well, in my perspective,<br>
and came up with a nearly identical but at the same vastly different<br>
definition.<br><br>


The whiffle was starting to get intuitive, especially regarding the switching between the parts and the parts design workbenches, plus I'm remembering to set incremental controls each time and the axes and directions are more fluid for me, Thank-you Descartes. Thank-you algebra.
Our heads are bigger than we think.<br><br>


Now I'm doing the whiffle from memory and scratch.
Never mind who's actually running the hologram.


This is weird- now I'm running into issues with how my inner cube is sitting when I enlarge it. Interesting. Starting over. I should have been named Pauli.
===19 June 2019===


It froze up when I was adjusting the placement of the third cylinder,  so I deleted that cylinder and went from there, no issues.
I don't even know where the in between time goes.


===28 May 2018===
Back at the end of April I attended that AI Convention in Seattle,<br> lost my imposter syndrome regarding blockchain geekery,<br>
was approached by a company about being a blockchain consultant, <br>decided to launch a sh*tcoin instead,<br>
and now I just finished installing hopefully all of the Truffle-Ganache IDE in the Linux I installed last week.<br>
Feeling pretty sassy about now.<br>


Not sure what I did differently today, but each of my axes centered when I worked on the Turner's Cube from this tutorial:
OH and Tatiana Moroz is coming to Seattle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmrfB47xrFE&index=2&list=PL6fZ68Cq3L8k0JhxnIVjZQN26cn9idJrj, so now it is done.
I ran into other issues, mainly from leaving out steps going through do-overs, but at this point the face/sketch/close-open/add pocket, etc. seems to be flowing smoothly and the Turner's Cube is complete. On to the next tutorial. That was about 2 hours.
I can definitely do the Turner's Cube from scratch with no direction at this point.


I'm like the slow wheel of the Athenian state on this, except I won't grind over Socrates.
===18 June 2019===
It took a minute, but it is definitely hard set. It's nice to get things ingrained so I don't have to go back over instructions each time.


*I need to remind myself to look at the other logs and try to figure out how to track my hours automagically.
Worked straight through the meeting yesterday.<br>*googly*eyes*<br>Finally had outstanding success last night.<br>
Was having trouble getting the AppImage for Ganache to run.<br>I could get Ganache-CLI fine, but I was after that GUI.<br>
I tried a few different files- off the Truffle site first, off GitHub, probably random files I found wandering in the hinterlands of the web,<br>all of those desperate things we do.<br><br>I could get to properties and set the permission, but then when I double-clicked there was nothing.<br>After uninstalling and then installing an older version of JavaScript,<br>removing a ganache download I'd stored in a directory, (thank-you TestOut course I bought through scammy community college),<br>and Idk what else, by that point my notes sucked,<br><br>I got to where when I double-clicked on my AppImage I got a terminal.<br>That was some improvement, right?
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I did the only thing I could do at that point;<br>
I took a walk.<br>
At Trader Joe's I ran into a person I knew from earlier this year, who's a contract developer for The Beast,<br>working in the games division.<br>He invited me to coffee, and we talked about my progress and approach,<br>and the best place to get good glasses on the cheap.<br>It was extremely fortuitous.<br><br>I had planned to try to install the GUI AppImage via command line,<br>but after getting home and meditating a few, I turned on Houghie, double-clicked on my icon,<br>and finally I was in it.<br>Now I need to get another computer, do it all over again, and send it to a friend.<br>
So that's where I've been. :-D


Something I figured out this morning was that I was forgetting to highlight faces before hitting the sketch button.
===18 May 2019===
Also had something to do with the pocket- I wasn't selecting the face.


Now on to the Whiffle Ball tutorial.
On the 16th I wenty to the PNW Blockchain panel of developing smart contracts on blockchains.<br>
This will hopefully go more quickly and smoothly.
I really want to get this learned and the test done so that I can focus on the economics of Open Source.
This meshes so perfectly with my goals. Again, thank-you Lex.


I'd also like more time to look at other logs.
I reconnected with Seth Goldfarb, who I'd met at a previous meetup, which I think I mentioned.<br>


Another hour plus into the next tutorial, a Whiffle Ball, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmrfB47xrFE&list=PL6fZ68Cq3L8k0JhxnIVjZQN26cn9idJrj&index=2, it occurs to me that if I save the project incrementally I won't have to start over from the beginning when I misstep. Derp. Headed to the gym and will start over, with regular project saving, when I get back.
There were a couple of guys who remembered me from another previous meetup.<br> I think that's networking?<br>;-)<br>
What came up was that one of the blockchain representatives said that his project had been open-sourced, and now it's not open-source, but that it will be open source again.<br>Tbh I didn't want to be rude and I think he knew he was on the spot.<br>It was a small but knowledgable audience.<br>My head was kind of spinning at that, and I didn't think to ask under what license such a thing is done.<br>Which means Marcin was right, so many weeks ago, when he directed me to pages describing different open source licensing.<br>


Another hour plus in-
This is actually fun and the missteps are no longer aggravating nor scary.
I find the instructor for the tutorial has a very reassuring voice and manner, and moves at a slow enough pace to follow.
I'm still stopping, rewinding (Is that still a word?), starting bits over. Lots of undo in the edit. And now I have martial arts lessons to go to. I'll have to work on the 3D3 BOM on the bus and during breaks at work. I can't see packing my laptop (It's a brick) and my Chromebook to work for the possibility of getting in a half-hour on FreeCAD.


Samsung runs on Linux. Shouldn't I be able to FreeCAD on my Sammy?
===15 May 2019===


===27 May 2018===
Trying to catch up on logging today.<br><br>I've been thinking a lot that integrating a 4D factor into our multi-dimensional printer should be as simple as adding a second nozzle with a moisture, temperature, or some other thing sensitive material to intitiate the change over time.<br>If we get on this we can launch the premiere Open Source Ironman suit.<br>That will definitely get us attention and legs.


Going through this FreeCAD tutorial.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HEvhclR4-o&list=PL6fZ68Cq3L8k0JhxnIVjZQN26cn9idJrj&index=1


It's working out well.
I'm realizing more and more that transcending the wage-debt slavery system and moving into an abundance mindset, ie, the open source economy, is my heart in this. I was approached about being a blockchain consultant after attending an AI and Blockchain workshop at the AI Conference mentioned in my April 23 log. After the first weeks of excitement have worn off an I've settled down and thought about it, I'm realizing this would most likely entail a move into a part of The Machine I've steadfastly avoided my entire life. But there would be amazing learning opportunities. I don't know.
I'm going a ways then stopping and redoing from memory.
Ran into things like forgetting to create the pad before attempting to make a pocket.
Also learned that if I put a circle in the square without closing then reopening the sketch it makes a hole through it.


I finally stalled out after getting the three pockets made then attempting to start on a new face, but the intersection for the axes was on the edge and not the center of the face of the cube.
***


I was in it a little over 2 hours today.
So about the Hackathon- <br>It was extremely helpful to get the feedback about messaging.<br>Our goal needs to be rewritten to be more direct.<br>It should be something like:<br>
Closed out and I'll start from the beginning tomorrow.
Our goal at Open Source Ecology is to get important industrial machines into the hands of everyday people,<br> people who can then use them to provide quality goods for their friends and neighbors.<br>
I'm thinking the problem was a setting earlier on maybe.
Idk. But I'm sure I'll figure it out or find someone to explain it to me if I don't.


On the plus side, I got the train tickets to Eugene and back and am making arrangements to stay at Campbell Club, a housing co-op adjacent to campus. Definitely looking forward to the workshop and happy to have some time to work on this FreeCAD for a couple more days.
===13 May 2019===


About to catch up on logs.


===26 May 2018===
The Hackathon Saturday- one person took our info to pass on to a friend.
I need business cards.


Relistening about kit.com from last dev meeting, working BOM.  
The Agile coach scrum goddess who was facilitating the section of presenters I was in<br>had taken great notes on my pitch and helped me fix it.<br>Big time.<br><br>Our elevator pitch- for now:<br><br><strong>What if you needed a car part or a pipe fitting and all you had to do was contact a neighbor to create it for you on the spot? How would that make your life better?


Already on the first item-
Now what if your neighbor could make that pipe fitting from locally collected recyclables?<br>
How would THAT make your life better?<br>
How would that make the world better?<br>


m6x18 zinc plated socket screw
You can help create this world, where recyclables get made into needed items and where neighbors provide goods for one another using homemade Open Sourced machines.<br> This is our goal at Open Source Ecology.</strong>
<br>
<br>On the plus side, she said my idea to have people find ways to move the 3D renderings on the wiki into FreeCAD in such a way that they're manipulable and to document was a great hackathon project.<br>Now to find people to do it.<br>


The only availability is in quantities of 400.
===10 May 2019===


Hmmmm.
Hmmm.<br>I forgot to note that I did figure out getting the drawing <br>onto the FreeCAD.<br>Now to eleventh hour get to changing the drawing.<br><br>To move views on the techdraw workbench the drawing needs to be a techdraw doc.<br>The link to the Python script to convert the pages is dead.<br>Of course.<br><br>I love don't love this.<br>#why_im_not_a_dev<br>You all have the patience of saints.<br>


===25 May 2018===
***
Serious dino action going on here.
So I install the current FreeCAD onto my Windows, right?<br> Seems obvious. We'll be using it.<br> All of OSE's files are in Linux. Zipped.<br> Now someone is probably laughing about this. I'm really not.<br> I need some kind of command line interface to unzip the file.<br>[http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/unzip.htm I'm not sure this woud go the right way anyway?]<br>Which makes sense.<br><br>So now I'm timing the install on a USB. Here to look at my notes. Again.<br>Starting the OSE Linux download at 12:37. This is definitely too long term to deal with in a hackathon.<br>[https://archive.org/details/OSELinux1.0 OSE Linux] <br>The download took about 26 minutes. Using Rufus to burn onto the USB took about 12.<br> [https://rufus.ie/ Rufus]


Started updating BOM to Amazon sourced last night.
===9 May 2019===


Maybe the kit site will have a workaround, but it occurred to me that sometimes suppliers are out. Not sure how this will affect the kit order-
If I really tracked the time I spend thinking about this project.
IE, do they send minus what's not yet available or do they hold the entire kit or do they sub?


We need a source on Amazon to 3D print  parts on demand. *laughythingy*
So for the hackathon this Saturday I'm trying to go with Marcin's idea about the drawings, <br>
but now I'm concerned there will be a disconnect between the drawings and me doing the work on Windows.<br>
I'd started with downloading the parts library.<br>
I can't find it in any menus, and when I search and find it<br>
it presents me with the option of choosing an app to open the file.<br>
I'm thinking that's a Linux/Windows diconnect?<br>
Andyway. Going to try to tackle the drawings now.<br>
The technical drawing workbench is included in the latest version of FreeCAD, <br>
which is what I have on my computer.<br>
On Windows because I still haven't downloaded Linux to Houghie.<br>


===23 May 2018===


11P/Moving meeting notes around.
===7 May 2019===
Still not sure how to move the old meetings to archive.
I'll see if  can't figure that out in the next hour.


So...
I HAVEN'T LOGGED SINCE FEBRUARY???!!!!???
I don't understand why the current meeting embed on the log page is formatted like the edit page and not like a slide show.
Yikes.
Diving in to figure that out.


Hopefully.
Working on figuring out Marcin's hackathon idea.
Something about making exploded diagrams from CADs on the wiki.
Of course I left my laptop at work.


Yay... So there was a stray bit of "edit?usp=sharing" in the first bit where it was coding to embed.
We'll see how this goes on Chromie.
It made the embed format like the slide page layout instead of like the first slide.
It's fixed now. Woot woot.


Thank-you Lex for your amazing instructions on how to do the notes pages.
One love.


I'm not sure what all to skin from the previous meeting when I'm setting up the current meeting.
Otwt work to get my laptop.
Guess I’ll spend the bus time listening to Antonopoulos<br>and reading white papers. <br> And reflecting on why I need a more streamlined laptop.


And with about a half hour in tonight I'm going to bed/up for work 4:30A.
===25 April 2019===
Should have time for the BOM tomorrow afternoon.


Oh- I forgot to mention that Ruslan's words of encouragement regarding the FreeCAD, that it is not intuitive and that the best thing is to find a good tutorial and follow along, really helped. Thank-you Ruslan.
This was the day, at the AI Conference, that I attended an AI and Blockchain "workshop".<br>Listening to the patterns of questions I realized that what is being called AI is still extremely basic, and yes, I get how various bits work even though I don't code, and I also realized that apparently the implications of blockchain while extremely mind-blowing are difficult for many developers to grasp.<br>


Putting on workshops sounds like heaven.


===22 May 2018===


Working too much. First chance I've had to really sit down with the FreeCAD again.
Part of my trepidation is that the devs on the project seem to be using other CAD softwares then transferring to FreeCAD, which makes me think there's a sharp learning curve.
Also, the comments that it's like a beta.


OTH, the flexibility and the open-source are important.
===24 April 2019===


NOW it finally sinks in that the fact that I haven't done any development is actually helpful because there are Very Fresh eyes on the situation.  
As I am writing this in MAY (yikes!,) after getting such amazing branding help at Hack For Your Mother, I'm appreciating how much more I'll be able to achieve in every direction.  


I'm very frustrated that so many things have come up the past few weeks and I've had unexpected encroachments on my time.
So another day at the AI Conference. <br>A lot of people were there TO look for work.<br>That was interesting.<br><br>So this was also at Code Fellows.<br>It was a build your own blockchain bit, <br>
but it was DragonChain, which used to be Disney,<br>but is now open source.<br>They have free resources there for developing and using blockchains,<br>but I haven't checked them out yet.<br>I will say most of what I'm finding on Coursera is beyond basic, <br>and I've reverted to AAnt vids.<br>But he's always the best anyway.<br>Back to DragonChain.<br>Of course any kind of Open Source, hardware, or political or economic event it is appropriate and topical to discuss OSE.<br>I've just been missing something catchy and succinct.<br>For now, I'm going with this on the outro:<br>"Our goal at Open Source Ecology is to get important industrial machines into the hands of everyday people,<br> people who can then use them to provide quality goods for their friends and neighbors.<br>


So this morning before the meeting I am going through FreeCAD tutorials on YouTube.
What I ran into last week was the following-


I found the parts library and I (thought I had) downloaded it.
===23 April 2019===
I couldn't figure out how to import the part to the FreeCAD. Then I noticed that the parts have a FreeCAD version, so I opened that.
When I tried to add the x-y axis to the part 4 huge tubes appeared intersecting at the axis.


It seems I remember this happening when Marcin did something on FreeCAD in the last meeting?
I attended [http://www.globalbigdataconference.com/seattle/global-artificial-intelligence-conference/event-115.html The Global AI Conference in Seattle].<br>I volunteered and so was able to attend much of it for free.<br>It was life-changing.<br><br>The life-changing extended into the evening, when I attended an open source community hack night at [https://www.codefellows.org/ Code Fellows] where [https://github.com/metaverde/magic_one I was helped committing my first git to GitHub].<br>
But he was starting at a point well beyond where I'm at. At this point I'm just trying to get the part where I can work with it.


I'm starting here today:
===10 Feb 2019===


https://youtu.be/_HEvhclR4-o
Three hours looking up contact info and emailing homeschool programs and documenting.<br>Time to DANCE.<br>
(Copied "embed" link from YouTube. Did not magically embed. NOT getting sidetracked.)




The "file edit view tools macro windows help" prompt line is not in the same place on my version as in the vid, which had me stymied for several minutes. I even closed and reloaded the FreeCAD, as it was already up when I had started the vid.
=== 9 Feb 2019===


I accidentally discovered that the "file edit view tools macro windows help" prompt line appears when I move the cursor above what appears to be the window in which the FreeCAD program is contained. (Newbie issues, right?)
Loafed all day yesterday, pretty much.
<br><br>
So back into the gloam- <br>
Lex is helping me out immensely.<br>
Thank-you Eukreign.<br>


10 minutes into vid- talking about scroll wheel properties. When I press and hold my scroll wheel I do not get the rotational properties, but strictly movement on the plane with no rotation. I had noticed earlier in the vid that I was not set on the same navigation style, so I am backtracking and resetting to see if that makes a difference. AND it does. So if I want to be able to rotate my object with the scroll button on the mouse I need to be in blender navigation not CAD navigation. To adjust navigation I need to go to preferences, under edit, and click on the the view icon. Then my navigation options will appear.
Unraveling how the templates work for an hour or so, then I'll get on to other things.<br>Egads. Even getting to this-<br>So Lex sent me the [https://youtu.be/F83QrDGZmg8 link to Marcin's explanation] from a meeting a year or so ago.<br>But the /Template address diverts to [https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Development_Spreadsheet_Template the Development Spreadsheet Template] with Marcin explaining [https://youtu.be/yXPpK2lu32k how to make new projects on the wiki].<br>Which I think is actually helpful to me.<br><strong>Oh now I'm in it!<br></strong>Marcin goes into the [https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Template:GVCS_Header Template:GVCS Header page],<br>and from there to the [https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Template:ToolTemplate Template:ToolTemplate page].<br>This is so much more interesting than doing "homework", <br>I'm learning more, and I'm actually advancing the world in some small way.<br>So I'm following Marcin's instructions from the video I linked above,<br>and now I'm on the editing page for the ToolTemplate.<br>His explanation starts about 30 minutes in.<br>I'm thinking I need to just liven the links on the wiki?<br>And to figure out exactly what is a "burndown graph".<br>I thought I knew.<br><br>
The burndown is a chart that shows how quickly the team is burning through builds.<br> It shows the total effort against the amount of work delivered each iteration.<br>Ok. So how is the ToolTemplate going to give us <strong>that</strong> information?<br><br><br>Every build needs a new spreadsheet template because every build is different.<br>Each build is a new iteration.<br>Documentation is where we're falling short.<br>I totally get it.<br>


3 hours roughly. Feeling much much better about it. When I have devices set up side by side so that I can follow along with the video actually doing what the instructor is doing as he is doing it, things go much more smoothly and the processes make sense- like when I'd made a note that my navigation choice was different than the instructor's. I am almost over my fear of changing settings.
=== 8 Feb 2019===


I am not sure how to log time spent?
I just realized I spend well over an hour yesterday on OSE.<br>Laughing my head off.<br>I found a message from Arkoprovo, in India, on my Instagram.<br>He has written a [https://medium.com/@arkoprovo1996/the-open-hive-cb6b593400c4 fabulous blog] on a cooperative hardware system he is creating.<br>So while I thought I was loafing actually I was being responsible reactivating my involvement across a spectrum of social media and networking with an Open Source Economy thinker.<br>If not now, when?<br>


Perusing OSE Wiki.
=== 7 Feb 2019===


1 hour/OSE dev meeting.
Realized I don't have to go to where the GVCS Header is actually coded, though I am still trying to figure that out.<br> At this point I'm focusing on "commenting out" the header where the links aren't live and at some future point putting something in place for each link- at the least a redirect.<br>Right now I am working on the 3D Printer, D3D Printer, and the Universal Axis, <br>as those are the projects I'll be presenting soon.<br>It occurred to me that I don't know how to find the plans for the D3D,<br>seriously.<br>So I'm off to do that now.<br><br><br>So the elevator pitch-<br>The idea of OSE is that you can go anywhere.<br> You take your software, your 3D printer parts, a limited amount of feedstock, and your powersource.<br>You can go anywhere and create your civilization.<br>The idea of Open Source Ecology is you can go anywhere and create your civilization.<br>We're creating the blueprints and giving them to you<br>so you can go anywhere<br>and create your civilization.<br>


3P looking at How to build a proper BOM.




===18 May 2018===
=== 6 Feb 2019===


Called a plumber suggested by a friend- said the question was too big, to call a plumbing supply.
https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Development_Strategy
I'm not sure the plumbing supply co's possible motivation/didn't call/ "Hey, tell me what you sell most of so we can put you out of business"?
https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/GVCS_Development_Template
Found the local plumbers' union and sent them an email requesting the info.
https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Main_page_ekopedia-like




===15 May 2018===


Correspondence with Ruslan re: finding standard pipe fittings dimensions.
=== 3 Feb 2019===


http://epubs.iapmo.org/2018/UPC/mobile/index.html
Edited GVCS bar off of the '''[https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/3D_Printer 3D Printer] page.<br>
The Uniform Plumbing Code/ US/ 2018 may be helpful to someone.
NOT the '''[https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/D3D D3D Printer]''' page, but the '''3D Printer''' page.<br>
I converted to html then used html comment code. The bar is still in the documentation.<br>
Collecting 3D and D3D printer links in a section on my log to try to make sense of before the next event<br> at which I'll be representing.<br>Because dangling prepositions.<br>'''OH Lex updated me- Eukreign is my hero here some days.<br>[https://github.com/ose THIS is our GitHub].'''<br>I updated on our [https://www.democracylab.org/index/?section=AboutProject&id=98 DemocracyLab page].<br> Ask Marcin or me for the sign-in if you would like to help flesh this out.<br>I know open source, but I'm just not that brave to post it on a wiki.<br>


(Log to date has been analog/paper copy. Will insert later.)
=== 2 Feb 2019===


Reading dev logs, adapting to the process, reframing understanding.
No idea how this took three hours.<br>Went through my screenshots lf links I know Marcin sent but I cannot find in my notes.<br>Updated current meeting Slides and filled out a card for me. A first.<br>Went through GitHub finding OSE projects, which I forked to my repository.<br>I found an [https://github.com/osedev/osedev OSE/dev repository], which Lex created?<br>This is what I'm using as our GitHub when asked,<br> so we'd better get this updated stat.<br>'''UPDATE Lex sent me [https://www.democracylab.org/index/?section=AboutProject&id=98 the actual OSE GitHub repository link].'''<br>I must have left something out,<br> but I guess following up on researching various hackathon details <br>and checking my links and working through those vagaries,<br>and forking GitHub repositories,<br>three hours really isn't that long.<br><br>
https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Current_tasks<br>NM the three hours, lol. Still working.<br>https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Project_needs#Specific_Project_Needs<br>THIS WILL HELP FILLING OUT THE DEMOCRACYLAB FORM.<br>Caps for me.<br>
https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/new-post-capitalist-ecosystem-value-creation/2017/01/18<br>


I just realized that other people are having the same questions. NOW I'm having some fun.
=== 1 Feb 2019===


~ 6:30 am to 10:30 am, research and perusing logs.
[https://www.democracylab.org/index/?section=AboutProject&id=98  DemocracyLab OSE Project Page]<br>
noon to 2 pm/ meeting notes. So six hours.


===16 May 2018===
On DemocracyLab we need a file repository link and a project management link.<br>
Followup- https://github.com/osedev/osedev I found this repository, which I am using.<br>
I've also messaged Lex to ask him how to best maintain and use.<br>
Followup- Slack is the standard, but ours is pretty slow,<br>so I wasn't really wanting to use it.<br>I lost the link Marcin gave me last meeting for the regular messaging system.<br>


About 1:30 to 2 am moved notes from meeting around ("archived").
https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/D3D https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Universal_CNC_Axis<br>


DEAD LINK http://openecology.org/forum/<br>
Forum is very inactive https://forum.opensourceecology.org/ <br><br>


===2 May 2018===
https://theagileadmin.com/what-is-devops/<br>


Keeping in mind that I am not coming from a developer background, please...


So I was SO excited about "downloading" the Linux software to my USB...
*[[Template Fun]]
But it tuns out it needs to be burned to the USB.
*[[Ecology is Mind]]


So I won't include all the excited feelings I had in my written journal.
===Ecology is Mind===


Because 5 May 2018
20 June, 2019:
It wouldn't have hurt to date the previous entry.
Live and learn.
And yeah yeah I know I can find the date.


12:30P I'm looking at the Linux on the thumb drive.
What is ecology anyway?
Since I am not familiar with Linux and still a bit of a Luddite, at least in ability, I am reading a good amount about this on the Wiki pp. So far every question has been answered by reading and rereading the generally excellent instructions.
I think of it as the way everything operates together.
But then we're operating in a hologram,
so what IS ecology?


See how I still think I did part 3?
I am finding zero non-biological definitions.
It's the science of living organisms' relationships to one another and to their environment(s).
And that's it.


Ish.
Hmmm.


I'd thought, following the prompts on the Linux download page, that I had downloaded the OSELinux to my google drive, then burned it to the thumb drive. But I'm not finding it in my google drive. It had downloaded to my Windows.  
Ecosystem then.
There we go.
"A complex network or interconnected system".
THAT is mind.


"Plug in USB, reboot into BIOS, and then select USB as the boot device."
Our interactions with our environments transfer and store huge amounts of data.
We are constantly accessing this data subconsciously.
This is the energy that people get from and contribute to their environments.


THIS is where I discover I did not burn the OSELinux to my USB.
The trick is to move this from the subconscious to the conscious
and to store and retrieve this data deliberately.


IT MAY BE IN THE INSTRUCTIONS AND I MAY HAVE MISSED IT.


My son sent me this link:
https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/tutorial-create-a-usb-stick-on-windows?_ga=2.252848266.2041634624.1525554540-2068399448.1525554540#


I followed the instructions here and got the OSELinux burned to my thumb drive.
***


===1 May 2018===
Previous entry for which I am not yet figuring out the date:


Started 8A filling out application.
So I'm watching a vid in Gordon White's Sigils course.
(Will insert speaker's name later)(Talking about Runa culture/Amazon)


8:38A, have a vid recorder on Chromebook ready to go.


9:30A, have vid uploaded, cover letter submitted.
This is the quote:


1 hour 20 minutes.
"Ecology is Mind".


Downloading the Linux-
Even when I'm not working on OSE I'm working on OSE.
I don't know how to reflect the coreness of it all.


(27 June, edited to add: See right here? I still say that sometimes by mistake.
I'm killing me- NOT download. BURN or INSTALL.)


11:30, requested Wiki account.
Now it's November 2018 and I don't remember where I was going with this.<br>Given an external mind, which I'm not sure I care to argue,<br>
Michael upgraded the recaptcha.
it would seem ecology is mind by default.<br><br><br>I think it goes a little deeper than that.<br><br>If our ecology is the environment in which we live, or more specifically, how we maintain that environment, especially in balance, then <i>Ecology is Mind</i> recognizes that interaction between our minds and the world around us.<br><br>I posit that this is a very direct relationship between our biology and the biology of the world around us. I certainly don't believe that this is the <i>only</i> interaction that our minds have with the natural world, but this is certainly happening.<br><br><br>IF and they can read the data being transmitted through a device by the changes in the electricity going through the wall socket- IF and they can take pictures of your dreams and form words and move limbs from your thoughts- IF and they can store data in DNA-<br> <br>Then WE are the singularity.<br><br>We need to transcend the "need" for hardware and learn to interface with our reality directly.<br><br>Or it could mean the environment is a mind.<br><br>Hmmm.<br><br>That's another singularity.<br><br><br>
Hadn't been working, hadn't allowed me to submit an account request.
Welcome to my Pauli effect.
:-)


Noon first dev meeting I was able to attend in full.
*[[JenLog Jan 2019]]
Followed Lex's instructions, and when I had questions I went back over the instructions and found my answers.
*[[JenLog 2018]]
Lex taught me well.

Latest revision as of 17:48, 14 July 2019


14 July 2019

Seriously slacking on documentation!

I've been working in kdenlive all week
concurrently using vokoscreen to document processes.
Look for a couple of kdenlive tutorials next week.

24 June 2019

I've been reading the Streamr docs/monetizing our own data/blockchain company.
Meshes well with my own UBI thoughts really.
It seems important to have processes immutable.

Also, I finally had a meshing insight.
I've been thinking about a community cider press project since I've been in Seattle.
OSE needs a cider press build.
THAT would work as a local hackathon project.
Still working on Linux admin type stuff.
Still "researchcrastinating".
At least I'm getting insights.
Back to work.

My hangup is trying to make the smart contracts appear in a readable form
in Truffle. I know it has to be a baby Linux question.
I'll figure it out.
I didn't realize until yesterday how much catering
blows up my head in the bad way.
A whole week off to recover and think.

20 June 2019

Oh wow look what I found not five minutes on Reddit today~
Streamr.
Someone is already using blockchain to help us monetize our own data.
Brilliant.

Since data from the IoT is also on the table
it seems OSE should have a place here.


Ecology is Mind

I worked on my Ecology is Mind article a bit.
Hilariously, I followed a completely new train of thought,
well, in my perspective,
and came up with a nearly identical but at the same vastly different
definition.

Our heads are bigger than we think.

Never mind who's actually running the hologram.

19 June 2019

I don't even know where the in between time goes.

Back at the end of April I attended that AI Convention in Seattle,
lost my imposter syndrome regarding blockchain geekery,
was approached by a company about being a blockchain consultant,
decided to launch a sh*tcoin instead,
and now I just finished installing hopefully all of the Truffle-Ganache IDE in the Linux I installed last week.
Feeling pretty sassy about now.

OH and Tatiana Moroz is coming to Seattle!

18 June 2019

Worked straight through the meeting yesterday.
*googly*eyes*
Finally had outstanding success last night.
Was having trouble getting the AppImage for Ganache to run.
I could get Ganache-CLI fine, but I was after that GUI.
I tried a few different files- off the Truffle site first, off GitHub, probably random files I found wandering in the hinterlands of the web,
all of those desperate things we do.

I could get to properties and set the permission, but then when I double-clicked there was nothing.
After uninstalling and then installing an older version of JavaScript,
removing a ganache download I'd stored in a directory, (thank-you TestOut course I bought through scammy community college),
and Idk what else, by that point my notes sucked,

I got to where when I double-clicked on my AppImage I got a terminal.
That was some improvement, right?
I did the only thing I could do at that point;
I took a walk.
At Trader Joe's I ran into a person I knew from earlier this year, who's a contract developer for The Beast,
working in the games division.
He invited me to coffee, and we talked about my progress and approach,
and the best place to get good glasses on the cheap.
It was extremely fortuitous.

I had planned to try to install the GUI AppImage via command line,
but after getting home and meditating a few, I turned on Houghie, double-clicked on my icon,
and finally I was in it.
Now I need to get another computer, do it all over again, and send it to a friend.
So that's where I've been. :-D

18 May 2019

On the 16th I wenty to the PNW Blockchain panel of developing smart contracts on blockchains.

I reconnected with Seth Goldfarb, who I'd met at a previous meetup, which I think I mentioned.

There were a couple of guys who remembered me from another previous meetup.
I think that's networking?
;-)
What came up was that one of the blockchain representatives said that his project had been open-sourced, and now it's not open-source, but that it will be open source again.
Tbh I didn't want to be rude and I think he knew he was on the spot.
It was a small but knowledgable audience.
My head was kind of spinning at that, and I didn't think to ask under what license such a thing is done.
Which means Marcin was right, so many weeks ago, when he directed me to pages describing different open source licensing.


15 May 2019

Trying to catch up on logging today.

I've been thinking a lot that integrating a 4D factor into our multi-dimensional printer should be as simple as adding a second nozzle with a moisture, temperature, or some other thing sensitive material to intitiate the change over time.
If we get on this we can launch the premiere Open Source Ironman suit.
That will definitely get us attention and legs.

I'm realizing more and more that transcending the wage-debt slavery system and moving into an abundance mindset, ie, the open source economy, is my heart in this. I was approached about being a blockchain consultant after attending an AI and Blockchain workshop at the AI Conference mentioned in my April 23 log. After the first weeks of excitement have worn off an I've settled down and thought about it, I'm realizing this would most likely entail a move into a part of The Machine I've steadfastly avoided my entire life. But there would be amazing learning opportunities. I don't know.

So about the Hackathon-
It was extremely helpful to get the feedback about messaging.
Our goal needs to be rewritten to be more direct.
It should be something like:
Our goal at Open Source Ecology is to get important industrial machines into the hands of everyday people,
people who can then use them to provide quality goods for their friends and neighbors.

13 May 2019

About to catch up on logs.

The Hackathon Saturday- one person took our info to pass on to a friend. I need business cards.

The Agile coach scrum goddess who was facilitating the section of presenters I was in
had taken great notes on my pitch and helped me fix it.
Big time.

Our elevator pitch- for now:

What if you needed a car part or a pipe fitting and all you had to do was contact a neighbor to create it for you on the spot? How would that make your life better?

Now what if your neighbor could make that pipe fitting from locally collected recyclables?
How would THAT make your life better?
How would that make the world better?

You can help create this world, where recyclables get made into needed items and where neighbors provide goods for one another using homemade Open Sourced machines.
This is our goal at Open Source Ecology.

On the plus side, she said my idea to have people find ways to move the 3D renderings on the wiki into FreeCAD in such a way that they're manipulable and to document was a great hackathon project.
Now to find people to do it.

10 May 2019

Hmmm.
I forgot to note that I did figure out getting the drawing
onto the FreeCAD.
Now to eleventh hour get to changing the drawing.

To move views on the techdraw workbench the drawing needs to be a techdraw doc.
The link to the Python script to convert the pages is dead.
Of course.

I love don't love this.
#why_im_not_a_dev
You all have the patience of saints.

Serious dino action going on here. So I install the current FreeCAD onto my Windows, right?
Seems obvious. We'll be using it.
All of OSE's files are in Linux. Zipped.
Now someone is probably laughing about this. I'm really not.
I need some kind of command line interface to unzip the file.
I'm not sure this woud go the right way anyway?
Which makes sense.

So now I'm timing the install on a USB. Here to look at my notes. Again.
Starting the OSE Linux download at 12:37. This is definitely too long term to deal with in a hackathon.
OSE Linux
The download took about 26 minutes. Using Rufus to burn onto the USB took about 12.
Rufus

9 May 2019

If I really tracked the time I spend thinking about this project.

So for the hackathon this Saturday I'm trying to go with Marcin's idea about the drawings,
but now I'm concerned there will be a disconnect between the drawings and me doing the work on Windows.
I'd started with downloading the parts library.
I can't find it in any menus, and when I search and find it
it presents me with the option of choosing an app to open the file.
I'm thinking that's a Linux/Windows diconnect?
Andyway. Going to try to tackle the drawings now.
The technical drawing workbench is included in the latest version of FreeCAD,
which is what I have on my computer.
On Windows because I still haven't downloaded Linux to Houghie.


7 May 2019

I HAVEN'T LOGGED SINCE FEBRUARY???!!!!??? Yikes.

Working on figuring out Marcin's hackathon idea. Something about making exploded diagrams from CADs on the wiki. Of course I left my laptop at work.

We'll see how this goes on Chromie.

One love.

Otwt work to get my laptop. Guess I’ll spend the bus time listening to Antonopoulos
and reading white papers.
And reflecting on why I need a more streamlined laptop.

25 April 2019

This was the day, at the AI Conference, that I attended an AI and Blockchain "workshop".
Listening to the patterns of questions I realized that what is being called AI is still extremely basic, and yes, I get how various bits work even though I don't code, and I also realized that apparently the implications of blockchain while extremely mind-blowing are difficult for many developers to grasp.



24 April 2019

As I am writing this in MAY (yikes!,) after getting such amazing branding help at Hack For Your Mother, I'm appreciating how much more I'll be able to achieve in every direction.

So another day at the AI Conference.
A lot of people were there TO look for work.
That was interesting.

So this was also at Code Fellows.
It was a build your own blockchain bit,
but it was DragonChain, which used to be Disney,
but is now open source.
They have free resources there for developing and using blockchains,
but I haven't checked them out yet.
I will say most of what I'm finding on Coursera is beyond basic,
and I've reverted to AAnt vids.
But he's always the best anyway.
Back to DragonChain.
Of course any kind of Open Source, hardware, or political or economic event it is appropriate and topical to discuss OSE.
I've just been missing something catchy and succinct.
For now, I'm going with this on the outro:
"Our goal at Open Source Ecology is to get important industrial machines into the hands of everyday people,
people who can then use them to provide quality goods for their friends and neighbors.


23 April 2019

I attended The Global AI Conference in Seattle.
I volunteered and so was able to attend much of it for free.
It was life-changing.

The life-changing extended into the evening, when I attended an open source community hack night at Code Fellows where I was helped committing my first git to GitHub.

10 Feb 2019

Three hours looking up contact info and emailing homeschool programs and documenting.
Time to DANCE.


9 Feb 2019

Loafed all day yesterday, pretty much.

So back into the gloam-
Lex is helping me out immensely.
Thank-you Eukreign.

Unraveling how the templates work for an hour or so, then I'll get on to other things.
Egads. Even getting to this-
So Lex sent me the link to Marcin's explanation from a meeting a year or so ago.
But the /Template address diverts to the Development Spreadsheet Template with Marcin explaining how to make new projects on the wiki.
Which I think is actually helpful to me.
Oh now I'm in it!
Marcin goes into the Template:GVCS Header page,
and from there to the Template:ToolTemplate page.
This is so much more interesting than doing "homework",
I'm learning more, and I'm actually advancing the world in some small way.
So I'm following Marcin's instructions from the video I linked above,
and now I'm on the editing page for the ToolTemplate.
His explanation starts about 30 minutes in.
I'm thinking I need to just liven the links on the wiki?
And to figure out exactly what is a "burndown graph".
I thought I knew.

The burndown is a chart that shows how quickly the team is burning through builds.
It shows the total effort against the amount of work delivered each iteration.
Ok. So how is the ToolTemplate going to give us that information?


Every build needs a new spreadsheet template because every build is different.
Each build is a new iteration.
Documentation is where we're falling short.
I totally get it.

8 Feb 2019

I just realized I spend well over an hour yesterday on OSE.
Laughing my head off.
I found a message from Arkoprovo, in India, on my Instagram.
He has written a fabulous blog on a cooperative hardware system he is creating.
So while I thought I was loafing actually I was being responsible reactivating my involvement across a spectrum of social media and networking with an Open Source Economy thinker.
If not now, when?

7 Feb 2019

Realized I don't have to go to where the GVCS Header is actually coded, though I am still trying to figure that out.
At this point I'm focusing on "commenting out" the header where the links aren't live and at some future point putting something in place for each link- at the least a redirect.
Right now I am working on the 3D Printer, D3D Printer, and the Universal Axis,
as those are the projects I'll be presenting soon.
It occurred to me that I don't know how to find the plans for the D3D,
seriously.
So I'm off to do that now.


So the elevator pitch-
The idea of OSE is that you can go anywhere.
You take your software, your 3D printer parts, a limited amount of feedstock, and your powersource.
You can go anywhere and create your civilization.
The idea of Open Source Ecology is you can go anywhere and create your civilization.
We're creating the blueprints and giving them to you
so you can go anywhere
and create your civilization.


6 Feb 2019

https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Development_Strategy https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/GVCS_Development_Template https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Main_page_ekopedia-like


3 Feb 2019

Edited GVCS bar off of the 3D Printer page.
 NOT the D3D Printer page, but the 3D Printer page.
I converted to html then used html comment code. The bar is still in the documentation.
Collecting 3D and D3D printer links in a section on my log to try to make sense of before the next event
at which I'll be representing.
Because dangling prepositions.
OH Lex updated me- Eukreign is my hero here some days.
THIS is our GitHub.
I updated on our DemocracyLab page.
Ask Marcin or me for the sign-in if you would like to help flesh this out.
I know open source, but I'm just not that brave to post it on a wiki.

2 Feb 2019

No idea how this took three hours.
Went through my screenshots lf links I know Marcin sent but I cannot find in my notes.
Updated current meeting Slides and filled out a card for me. A first.
Went through GitHub finding OSE projects, which I forked to my repository.
I found an OSE/dev repository, which Lex created?
This is what I'm using as our GitHub when asked,
so we'd better get this updated stat.
UPDATE Lex sent me the actual OSE GitHub repository link.
I must have left something out,
but I guess following up on researching various hackathon details
and checking my links and working through those vagaries,
and forking GitHub repositories,
three hours really isn't that long.

https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Current_tasks
NM the three hours, lol. Still working.
https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Project_needs#Specific_Project_Needs
THIS WILL HELP FILLING OUT THE DEMOCRACYLAB FORM.
Caps for me.
https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/new-post-capitalist-ecosystem-value-creation/2017/01/18

1 Feb 2019

DemocracyLab OSE Project Page

On DemocracyLab we need a file repository link and a project management link.
Followup- https://github.com/osedev/osedev I found this repository, which I am using.
I've also messaged Lex to ask him how to best maintain and use.
Followup- Slack is the standard, but ours is pretty slow,
so I wasn't really wanting to use it.
I lost the link Marcin gave me last meeting for the regular messaging system.

https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/D3D https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Universal_CNC_Axis

DEAD LINK http://openecology.org/forum/
Forum is very inactive https://forum.opensourceecology.org/

https://theagileadmin.com/what-is-devops/


Ecology is Mind

20 June, 2019: It wouldn't have hurt to date the previous entry. Live and learn. And yeah yeah I know I can find the date.

What is ecology anyway? I think of it as the way everything operates together. But then we're operating in a hologram, so what IS ecology?

I am finding zero non-biological definitions. It's the science of living organisms' relationships to one another and to their environment(s). And that's it.

Hmmm.

Ecosystem then. There we go. "A complex network or interconnected system". THAT is mind.

Our interactions with our environments transfer and store huge amounts of data. We are constantly accessing this data subconsciously. This is the energy that people get from and contribute to their environments.

The trick is to move this from the subconscious to the conscious and to store and retrieve this data deliberately.


Previous entry for which I am not yet figuring out the date:

So I'm watching a vid in Gordon White's Sigils course. (Will insert speaker's name later)(Talking about Runa culture/Amazon)


This is the quote:

"Ecology is Mind".

Even when I'm not working on OSE I'm working on OSE. I don't know how to reflect the coreness of it all.


Now it's November 2018 and I don't remember where I was going with this.
Given an external mind, which I'm not sure I care to argue,
it would seem ecology is mind by default.


I think it goes a little deeper than that.

If our ecology is the environment in which we live, or more specifically, how we maintain that environment, especially in balance, then Ecology is Mind recognizes that interaction between our minds and the world around us.

I posit that this is a very direct relationship between our biology and the biology of the world around us. I certainly don't believe that this is the only interaction that our minds have with the natural world, but this is certainly happening.


IF and they can read the data being transmitted through a device by the changes in the electricity going through the wall socket- IF and they can take pictures of your dreams and form words and move limbs from your thoughts- IF and they can store data in DNA-

Then WE are the singularity.

We need to transcend the "need" for hardware and learn to interface with our reality directly.

Or it could mean the environment is a mind.

Hmmm.

That's another singularity.


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