JenLog Jan 2019

31 Jan 2019

Attended a seminar last night about launching a hardware company.
I need to review before I summarize. I'm still googly-eyed head-exploding at virtually every turn of this epic journey.
I met the guy who worked on the Roomba. My hero.

Preparing for the DemocracyLab event mext Tuesday.
Updating project page, looking at D3D/universal axis.
Uploading recording of seminar last night to YouTube.
Can't get Google Starbucks wifi to connect on the Ubuntu on my laptop.
Definitely time to woman up and just install on Houghie.
I can wifi via my phone, and will, but dang.
I need to upload the recordings of the event last night before I work Phonie more. I really need to be able to run three devices simultaneously to get my work done.
I appreciate Starbucks and their free fast wifi. I can only imagine what my "free time" would cost me if I had to buy all this data myself.
It is definitely going to be a minute before I'll have time to finish the upload/download a meeting instructions of the protocol page.
And the pattern language. LMAO, people ask me what I like to do in my "free" time.
This IS my free time, Paisano. This IS my free time.

Back at a homebase, rendering the seminar from last night. Yeah that's three steps in.
YouTube only lets me download one vid at atime, but if I hit download for one vid, then download for the next vid,
and so on it will queue them and download in succession.
It says you can only download five vids in 24 hours,
but what they really mean is you can only download the same vid 5 times in 24 hours.
That has never been a problem for me, lol. Once is usally enough.

Hardware launch seminar

30 Jan 2019

More work on Meeting Protocol page,
correspondence from Mark Frischmuth <mark@democracylab.org> regarding a hackathon added event this coming Tuesday, 5 Feb 2019.
Forwarded info to Marcin.
Looking over the string of links.
Our project page needs major updating.
Sign-in info was sent to Marcin.
That's my personal account, so please be careful about the other project I'm on, etc.

Recording a meeting on Jitsi
Added Jitsi recording instructions to the Dev team meeting notes protocol page on our wiki.

29 Jan 2019

Uggg. At first I just couldn’t get online on my OSE Ubuntu USB.
Then when I restarted the page wouldn’t load. Reburning.
I need to woman up and just put the software suite onto my computer.
Soon.
At this point burning the stick is getting to be second nature. :-D
*******
first part of day

Reading the pattern language pp on our wiki.
I really thought I'd done the OSE crash course, thinking about it, but I hadn't. Sigh.
I still haven't contacted IDEA. Not sure why I'm so nervous about it.
So I'm doing exactly that right now.
I ended up contacting them on Facebook. #AppLife.
Hopefully we'll get a response soon.
I just noticed the Jan 15 meeting is no longer on my YouTube. Seriously? Fixing now.
Got the vid back up. Participated in and recorded meeting today.
And look at that- pattern language was an important topic.
The gods are good. ;-)
So the gist of the meeting today is that we need documentation and monetization, not just our project monetize but also people to monetize our project.
So after some admin (or during- download/upload meeting vid) back into pattern language.
Also, prepare for the seminar Wednesday, Navigating the Stages of Building a Hardware Company.

28 Jan 2018

Working on Kdenlive.
For some reason it is rendering projects under my last project name. I must not have "cleaned up" or started the new project correctly. Maybe it's just a folder in the last one.
I'm just not shaking my curls over that today.
It looks like maybe I didn't hit the "Remove Job" button in the Render box.
Progress report- to copy a clip use the edit drop down in the upper left.
I kind of have to hunt around for the sopies, but I can paste paste paste the same copy.
When I right click it directs me to control c v etc but then does not seem to actually follow through with copying and pasting.
I had Vokoscreen running a fair bit whilst doing the editing,
but I remember habving problems finding my files the first time I used Vokoscreen.
The Chromium quit a couple of times on me. Not sure if I maybe had too much running for it?
This is a thing though- The OSE website won't load on my Chromium today though it's loading well on my iPhone.
The OSE wiki is loading well. Idk.
What else am I looking at? Creating folders in the project can be tricksy, bnut I manage to mumble through it, making liberal use of the "Delete Folder" option, which appears when I right click on the folder name.
I didn't do a lot with transitions. I got kind of sidetracked having fun with the sequencing.
It's hard to believe this tiny clip took two hours. That includes the upload to YouTube, download to Kdenlive, the processing, then uploading the final product to YouTube and publishing.
I'm developing that old school habit of save early save often that auto-save has spoiled so many of us out of using.


Oh I almost forgot I also learned how to select a portion of the project to render. The manual is very helpful now that I've used to software a bit.
Select part of project to render
There are little pipes with balls on the bottom ends and arrows next to them. Set those to the parameters of that which you wish to render.
Now I'm going to try to figure out how to wrap text.
Well the < div /div bit ddn't do the trick even after I removed the breaks. Nm then.

Now I'm reading about pattern language. Doug at eLiberate was telling me about this at the last Hackathon.
I discovered via Eventbrite an open source hackathon at North Seattle College.

27 Jan 2019

My second device is just my phone today.
Logging will get tedious fast.
Back into Kdenlive primarily working from memory. Here to fiddle with effects.
My original project was still up. Disappeared when I hit New Project, just like yesterday, k I’m adding breaks later.
When I tried to create a sub folder it looked like a separate but equal folder in the tree so I deleted, then added videos,
then added a folder and the vids went into that just added folder.
Just like yesterday.
Result consistence. It’s a thing.
All right I can drag and drop from folder to folder in the tree. Life is good.
I’m pretty sure this is the wrong lazy way, but I keep shoving unwanted clips down my timeline.
Ok. Now it’s not letting me drag and drop a vid into editor. I think because it started in a different folder? Ok.
SO I wrangled around with that a bit, including removing it from the project folder and reloading it, no go.
I found it would go into an audio track, then later after I had clipped it it would go into the video track. Really?
AND I stopped being lazy with my unused clips and started deleting.
The video tracks filled up fast.
Now I'm going to split the audio from a visual I like and experiment with putting the audio from the video I didn't split over it.
I gave up on phone logging and went to having to flip between Kdenlive and Chromium on my laptop.
More than one fullsize device is NOT overkill.
Disabled notifications on my Google calender. I don't usually have them on so I don't know if this is across browsers, but it flips me to my calendar screen when there's a notification
That gets disconcerting when I'm logging.
The black line that shows where I am on the tracks playing does not like to be moved whilst playing.
It prefers I hit pause first.
I've also hit on the insanely obvious now that I've thought of it cut the clip a bit bigger than what I want to end with and progressively trim bits off. Subtractive.
The rendered vids seem to go to the Documents file. It doesn't seem I can rename until after they're rendered?

26 Jan 2019

Working on Kdenlive.
The screen doesn't really look like what I'm finding in the quickstart guide,
not that I'm complaining.
I'm happy to have it.
Kdenlive quickstart guide
So I got my vids into the project folder and they automatically went into the subfolder I created in the project folder- which is inside the file I created.
I think.
When I tried to split the audio from each of two video clips I wasn't able to move the files into the order I wanted.
Probably user error and lack of patience.
When I followed the instructions in the guide it put me back into Project Settings
which then put me on a new project and my folders disappeared!
What what?? ACK! It was there under File > Open. Whew!
Back to working on learning this better.
Looking for the directory. Honestly, I'm feeling very like a guppy. Hmmm. The little box on the left must be my directory.
Sorry I'm not putting in pics just yet. Hopefully later.
I pre-enter the breaklines so that I can just tap my mousepad and move to the next line.
Loving it.
Okay. I deleted the second track then inserted a track under video track one and put the second video back into the track. Now my ocd can work with this. Lol.
To split the audio I right click and a box comes up with a Split Audio option and I click that. It will automatically put the first audio you split off into Audio 1, so don't be like Jen and have to redo the thing to get it ocd compliant.
Hmmmm. I wasn't clear that right now I have two videos loaded in the project folfer and that I'm just trying to get my vid split from audio and in order. I have actually succeeded at that now.
It's a beautiful thing.
Niow I'm at the point of just futzing with the software and ignoring the guide. Hmmm. Back to the guide for a minute.
"Let's save the work via File > Save". Excellent plan. Why was that option not available a few minutes ago? Sigh.
ctrl-mousewheel stetches or contracts the entire timeline of each track. Fair warning.
Can't figure out how to cut just one of the tracks on the timeline. There has to be a way. I want to offset my audio, or even put audio from the other clip over this vid and vice versa. Hmmmm.
Okay. I'm getting the clip splits. I went to just the original vid in the timeline, then I clipped it by clicking on the little scissors icon then selecting where I want to cut the clip.
It appears that by separating the audio into audio 2 and keeping the vid in video 1 allows me to snip them separately.
Ermagawd just noticed I was putting video in an audio track. To add a video track right click on Video 1 (or whichever video you're on) and select- wait for it- Insert Track- in the box that appears. The default seems to be Above. I prefer Under so the tracks stay in numerical order, but now that I think about it maybe keeping the main file in the middle and arraying outwards makes sense. Idk.
I think I set up my initial vids incorrectly for what I wanted to do.
On the outro remember to put them in one video track sequentially. That way I can cut one at a time. THEN move the clips that I cut into other tracks to edit.
OK now to try to fade.
It's called Dissolve. I had video clips overlapping between the two tracks, then I click on the corner of Video 1 that I want dissolved.
An Effects box comes up, and I selected Dissolve.
this has to be repeated for either end, obviously, and it appears that the transition needs to be initiated from track 1?

I would like to get something completed and uploaded to YouTube today- That lack of persistence on the USB: not full-up on mad coding skills yet.
Forgot to look at the guide. Rendering. I don't remember where I found Render.
The remaining time just nearly doubled a couple of minutes in. Lol. I think I remember that about Kdenlive.

I really want this vid uploaded before I leave Starbucks.
I was hoping to do my JS class from "home". #AppLife.
"Rendering finished in 00:14:09"
Now to find my project vid. I just saw it. Ack.
Okay. It was over there in my Directory. I just moved it to Video on my Ubuntu... and I forgot how already.
Uploading to YouTube now.
Trying to think how to save the file I created as well.
But I may call this good for the day.

Sharing OSE

Just shared about OSE with the couple sitting next to me. I'll talk to anybody about anything, and this is fun.
I repeat the name several times, I emphasize that we're open source, that employers specifically look for open source work, that we use a huge variety of software and languages, and that we're an excellent opportunity to get some gits committed.
I repeat the name, Open Source Ecology, and I actually can get it into a sentence three times.
I then go to our web page at opensourceecology.org and show the people the web page, so when they go home and look it up they'll recognize it, and I go to our TEDTalk on YouTube and show them our TEDTalk- I don't play it but I show them the TT on YouTube so they see the video and can read the title.
I emphasize the name of the project again. I say that we are a global project and that people all around the world are building our machines and sending us pictures and videos, that we have teams around the world, you don't have to be on the American team,
I repeat the project name a couple more times, and say that we have weekly developers meetings that people are welcome to join, and that everything is open source.

25 Jan 2019

Uploaded meeting 22 Jan 2019 to YouTube, embedded in log, shared.
Went over some of my notes from the last meeting, esp re: Hackathon projects.
I still need to update our project at Democracy Labs.

24 Jan 2019

Uggg- didn't sign on before I tried to save my logs - three days worth- just don't ask.
Reconstructing-
I just want to add that it's been almost exactly a year- I don't remember the date- since Lex encouraged me to join the OSE team. I waited a few months to be in a more stable position to join, then life kept happening anyway. So even though I didn't really start until May, in my mind January 2018 is when *I* started.

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. [[[1]]]
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