Jen Log
24 Jan 2019
Uggg- didn't sign on before I tried to save my logs - three days worth- just don't ask.
Reconstructing-
23 Jan 2019
Meeting admin- I think I did that this day.
Realized my host's slow internet probably means it will be more polite to do the meeting vid load at Starbucks.
#WestCoast #Seattle So glad Starbucks is local here.
I answered the phone- unusual for me- and it was an Amazon rep lf someone to do a one hour app test on the day for $100.
So I did. That disrupted my project time. :-(
22 Jan 2019
Dev team meeting.
Minor prep for meeting/skimmed my notes on logs- yes I'm prepping for meetings-
21 Jan 2019
Prep for meeting.
Perused dev logs made notes on possible hackathon projects.
I realized I think just a few weeks ago that working on OSE projects, even in an admin capacity,
is doing plus a million more for my chops than any community college classes.
I did learn just enough to be dangerous at school.
So watch out. I'm a walking razor.
17 Jan 2019
This was kind of interesting- I got a followup call from one of those coding dojos whose classes I sporadically attend.
Yeah I probably did check the dev immersive information please box.
I briefly explained that I'm more interested in being able to talk to devs,
that actually coding is kind of a long-term goal,
THEN I talked about OSE and made the point that it would be a great way for their graduates to be active on github, have some commits, keep their dev chops fresh and get some input on a global project...
Mhm.
16 Jan 2019
The meeting yesterday was great.
We'd pretty much burned it down and Poli had left when Abe showed up, then Chas, an outside hardware developer, showed up and talked about his projects. It was epic. So I'm here today to do basic admin and start a *How homeschoolers can get funding for OSE page.
15 Jan 2019
When I tried to boot my old USB it took a long time,
then I got a page of feedback, which ended in "kernel panic" or some such.
So I'm reburning.
I just went to the link and followed the instructions.
Waiting for the burn.
And now all appears as it should.
Hmmm.
Never mind below.
It appears the download hasn't changed, so I'm going to see about updating FreeCAD on my USB.
Basic life skills.
Getting ready to burn the latest OSE version.
So glad I put links in my log.
Mhm.
Burning Ubuntu to USB
JenLog 2018 2 May
12 Jan 2019
Wrote up and communicated the debrief for the hackathon yesterday.
Jen's debrief of Hacky New Year
11 Jan 2019
In perusing dev logs looking for ideas for projects to suggest tomorrow I came across this on Ruslan's log: Debugging in FreeCAD
And this on Marcin's: OSE Summer School
And then Michael's log has all the Linux admin: Maltfield Log Page
Now I'm wondering if we're still using this survey?
We must be- it's fairly recent.
Workshop Survey Form
Thank-you Eric for the link hints.
10 Jan 2019
Uploading the two meeting vids I found from October, posting to October log page,
minor admin from the meeting the 9th, putting together some coherent projects- I hope- to present at the Hackathon on Saturday.
In the spirit of procrastination, I finally tidied up the 2017 meetings on the dev log page.
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I'm not exactly sure how to name internal links.
9 Jan 2019
Of course the Comcast-of-the-beast Xfinity wifi booted off the wifi I actually wanted to use, unnoticed by myself until I attempted to save the extensive logging I did, then wanted a password, which I don't have, and I lost my log.
Long story short- I think I found recordings of two October meetings in my Dropbox, in my attempts to solve my Jitsi recording issues. Deets later.
We're in the Hackathon this Saturday.
It's going to be epic.
The meeting yesterday really helping me thinking about it.
One Love, Friends.
8 Jan 2019
Minor admin, posting.
7 Jan 2019
Found an email from Mark Frischmuth of DemocracyLab from Friday regarding the Hackathon this coming Saturday.
No time like the present.
We're in.
1 Jan 2019
In the course of working on my personal pet project, using mind technology to achieve 4D results in realtime
I came across Neil Gershenfeld’s TEDtalk about the geometry of coding being askew.
That was actually mind-blowing enough, except that I was already suspicious
that we were coding directly into materials.
We are actually literally at that place where the Terminator builds himself out of liquid metal.
No shit.
Be that as it may, how does this relate to OSE?
Well, Neil Gershenberg has established a system of FabLabs.
In these Fab Labs people are able to use the 3D printer, 4D printer as well I believe, and even a rapid prototyping machine.
That made me a little touchy for a minute.
It's a lot to process.
What we are doing is a lot more fundamental.
Fab Labs are introducing people to cutting edge tech, developed at MIT,
and providing opportunities for underserved populations to use this technology.
We're teaching people to BUILD the technology.
Now I'm working out how we fit and work together with other makers.
I still haven't made it to Seattle Makers. Plannong a field trip tomorrow.
One Love
Ecology is Mind
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.