While this was already shared on the Fediverse. I am making a post here to help spread the word further.
The following is a QUOTE from the website in order to help give the link below some context.
Welcome to Open Source Ventilator (OSV) Ireland. This project >was initiated by the COVID-19 global pandemic as a result of a >community discussion within a Facebook group called Open Source >COVID-19 Medical Supplies (OSCMS). This group rapidly grew and >currently is targeting the development of a number of different >COVID-19 related medical supplies.
I have already shared this LinkedIn, got a positive response to the post, which is great.
Further to my previous post I have been on IRC #freebsd in order to ask about what would be good to use for taking screen shots of desktop applications for example.
Scrot : is easy to use and you cam use this to take a picture of the whole screen, this will be useful going forward with these posts.
pkg install scrot
For basic usage just type scrot at the console or in a terminal window.
I have also installed simpleviewer, with
pkg install simpleviewer
However running this at the cli did do anything, you need to find the actual binary executable for this.
info -lx simpleviewer
reveals sviewgl as the program you need to run.
I am now pretty much set up for taking screenshots and being able to view then.
Due to the Corona Virus outbreak. I decided to bring this post forward. It would be good, to be able to promote Google CodeIn in plenty of time for the event in December.
This also allows people more time to research and prepare for this from an early stage. Perhaps start to learn more programming languages or just make new contacts given, in the UK we are facing months of school closures.
Note: I am not linked to this in anyway, just trying to promote it. There is an irc channel #gsoc which also covers Google Summer of Code, this can be found on freenode irc network.
After using Mastodon for a while, I found that the federated feed moved so quickly, that it was difficult to select and block post if needed.
Investigating further and asking on irc (#mastodon) on Freenode I found a solution to this.
Firstly to slow down the feed go to the settings menu (the 3 horizontal bars) and under settings, select preferences
From here, you can tick slow mode as illustrated above. By default on the instance I am using sensitive content is hidden. If this is not the case on your instance or you want to change this setting, then further down is the option for this:
Hopefully this brief post is helpful to people out there. If you need further help there is further technical and user support available.
Libreplanet 2020 took place on the 14th / 15th March and the videos will be published in due course. Plans for the next EmacsConf are underway. Any help, speakers will be appreciated.
If you are able to login to IRC then you can join #emacsconf and #libreplanet respectivley to discuss further.
Everyone is welcome on IRC, however please be patient when asking questions, as not everyone is around, someone will respond in due course.
I have been working on some more projects around IRC chat bots. I decided to try and integrate a Magic 8 ball project so that an IRC bot would give a random response, chosen from a pre- defined set within the code (can be changed) when the bot is sent an instruction in my IRC channel.
This project builds on some of the code covered in my Minecraft Pi bot project. Mostly the base code from the Linux Voice article.
The code is currently being tested in ##zleap on Freenode.
At the moment magic8 can be sent the following commands:-
!umame – returns output of uname -a
!uptime – returms system uptime
!help – displays list of options
!botexit – bot quits irc channel,
!magic8 – returns random text
!ping – returns pong (used to check the bot is working, left in for legacy
!web – returns my own web address (this website) but can be changed
!sdtj – returns web address for the South Devon Tech Jam
Notes
uname and uptime are Linux / Unix commands, it is therefore assumed you are running on a GNU / Linux system.
I have created a welcome message from the bot, so when it joins it says hello, also says goodbye if !botexit is sent.
Todo
Make the code Python 3
Add more options
Keep it tidy
Help and Contribute
Feel free to fork the project and make improvements and further customization. Perhaps discuss further on IRC or via social media e.g Mastodon.
Owing to the situation with the Coronavirus (COVID-19), the committee of the South Devon TechJam, because we rely on the Paignton Library for venue hosting, regret to have to follow their direction regarding further physical meetings. We have been advised that Torbay Council (who own the Library building) have made the decision to cancel all room bookings for the next 16 weeks.
Further, the libraries will be closing apart from specific limited times (see or ). This is a central decision by Libraries Unlimited's Board of Trustees, Commissioners and Senior Management Team.
Therefore, there will be no further TechJam physical meetings held until further notice. Please stay tuned to our website https://sdtj.org.uk/ and other channels of communication with you to know when we will be able to resume. For any enquiries, please email [email protected].
Oragono is a modern, experimental IRC server written in Go. It's designed to be simple to setup
and use and to provide the majority of features that IRC users expect today.
It includes features such as UTF-8 nicks and channel names, client accounts with SASL, and
other assorted IRCv3 support.
Sign up is free, and there is lots of help on the Forums. You can also use websites such as Repl.it further develop any projects. Code can be copied from FCC to Repl.it for personalised editing. Why have a CatApp when you can have other subjects.
