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POSI-Pittsburgh July Meeting (July 10th 6:00 pm) |
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(Please forward to interested groups, such as HackPittsburgh mailinglist)
To those in the Pittsburgh area: POSI-Pittsburgh will be having it's first meeting (since it went inactive) at the HackPittsburgh hacker space. If you can't make this meeting (and sorry about the short notice), please let me know times that would be available for you next week (and thereafter).
Rides might be available to those who request them. Our first meeting topic will be establishing recurring meetings, from then on we will cover whatever people suggest, and/or the usual POSI topics as listed below.
First meeting:
When: Friday, July 10th 6:00 PM
Where: HackPittsburgh
1936 5th Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Second meeting:
When: TBA (maybe Thursday, July 16th 6:00 PM)
Where: HackPittsburgh
1936 5th Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Possible Topics: Just discussing POSI in Pittsburgh, covering topics (listed below in a different post), setting up follow-up meetings, perhaps taking a tour of the HackPittsburgh space, discussing how to use POSI software with HackPittsburgh. Planning for the first Posithon in Pittsburgh in a few years. It's also whatever people want to discuss. Hope to see you there! |
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Presentations and Software |
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We had a booth and a talk at Flourish 2009. A copy of the talk is available here: Flourish 2009 Talk A shortened version of the talk with be given on Monday April 13th in Batavia. POSIC Talk New software has been developed for matching skills offered with skills desired, and is being integrated into the POSI core engines. We will be integrating the pweb.cgi script (and incidentally the job-search.cgi script) with either Joomla or Drupal in order to allow authentication and secure editing of these resources. This will allow users to edit knowledge and for us to be reasonably sure who asserted it. LDAP should be adopted as the authentication mechanism. This will enable users to choose amongst their available resumes (in leui of dynamic resume generation from EMS) and to receive updates about their matching jobs. The skills matching software under development is mentioned here: The domain is the pumpingstationone skills exchange, but will be extended to work in all contexts. Progress has been made in the theory of EMS, especially the extraction of skills from writings. Still looking for a Java developer familiar with JGraph or equivalent to develop the Shared Priority System Editor. |
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POSI-Chicago May Meeting (May 19th 7:00 pm) |
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After consulting with the members of Pumping Station One, the new hacker collective in Chicago, we will be holding the POSI-Chicago May meeting at the new hackerspace on 3354 N. Elston Ave, Chicago, IL on Tuesday, May 19th, at 7:00 pm. Immediately after the meeting, the Pumping Station One weekly meeting will start, so this will be an opportunity for those not aware of what's going on there to drop in and see what's up. Please suggest additional topics to discuss at the meeting. Possible Topics: -
Job Search and Consulting If you are interested in obtaining consulting jobs and so forth, this system can help you. In order to help contributors stay solvent, this system exists to help find work. We will be integrating it with the overall POSI website, rewriting it and extending its capabilities. -
Natural Language Processing with FRDCSA So as to maximize attendance of the POSI-Chicago meeting, we should co-schedule this PS1 lecture . - Open Fair Credit System (OFCS)
http://groups.google.com/group/ofcs Implementing an open source accounting software system for normatively and semantically representing the value of work and assets and using it to promote a virtualized barter economy (not dependent on existing currencies so as not to disenfranchise the cash poor) for groups like POSI and PS1. -
Using POSI within PS1 Transforming the existing PS1 skills exchange to POSI format, setting up PosiBot on the #pumpingstationone channel, further developing the EMS skills extraction software. -
Getting and Staying Organized with Free Software An internal course on organization using free software. Topics include managing email, VOIP, feeds, (personal adaptive filtering), Ball-in-court, the paperless office, etc, etc. -
POSI/PS1 "Commercial" and Video Production Setting up the greenscreen and developing a "commercial" which informs the public about Pumping Station One in an effort to draw new members and friends into the group. -
Inventory Management Using RFID and inventory management for Pumping Station One, business and personal use using the FRDCSA SILO Inventory Managerl -
Access to the FRDCSA for Use and Development Ensuring that interested users and developers have access to the FRDCSA either through checking out the GIT repo or by building and distributing the Virtual Machine copy. -
Altruism Proving to the world that altruism works. Challenging the notion that "You must first help yourself before you can help others". -
Learning to Program Setting up and operating introductory programming instruction. -
Shared Priority System Editor (Java application) Go over the requirements and mini programming sprint on the Shared Priority System Editor and integration with Verber. -
LDAP Integration and POSI Website Development Setting up LDAP to provide authentication across POSI and FRDCSA and all associated web services. -
POSI Future Plans Discuss, review, the progress of POSI, what plans we have for its future, assessing its current priorities, and so forth. -
Debian Packaging and Software Archive -
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New Capabilities for POSI |
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Though it may seem as though POSI has slowed down, much development work has happened on the core infrastructure that will ultimately run POSI. There are now: A web based form for inspecting all FreeKBS knowledge (where POSI knowledge is stored). http://posithon.org/pweb/cgi-bin/pweb.cgi (password protected, email the admin if you'd like). Note that the data is not up to date in it currently. A web based form for the submission of resumes, and matching jobs from craigslist are listed. http://posithon.org/cgi-bin/js/job-search.cgi Reasonbase extension for making a wiki out of any text: http://posithon.org/reasonbase/tarawatch http://posithoh.org/reasonbase/picform These are just a few of the recent updates to the system. I would comment on all the uses of these various systems and how they are going to play a role in the functioning of the POSI software, but I will leave that to a later post. |
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