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Re: Dual Revolution: 3D & Bio

Ossoil — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:37:03 -0000

Note to self: 3D printing community and DIYbio are like ying and yang. The first one is media pet; nearly all public notes are positive or at least neutral. Sometimes 3D printers are represented as heroes. The latter are often associated to criminals, fear, terror and anything that reminds negative things and raises fear of the unknown. They are like two sides of a coin. They are almost as antagonist as 'white hat hacker' and 'black hat hacker'.

Re: MeetMer dashboard – design and status

Furosemide 40mg — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:27:13 -0000

Hi
Really Index template lists the meetings both in content section and in left column.
Thank you

Re: Global 3D Printing Community Survey Results

JohnMaclane — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:02:15 -0000

Hey that's really a great post and a wonderful description out here, I really like the way things are being executed and discussed here.

Re: Good and bad – makers and hackers?

Ossoil — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 05:21:11 -0000

Another option that has been used instead of 'hackerspace' is 'hacklab'. Interesting article about the subject can be found from http://peerproduction.net/i.... I must say that I don't agree with all in there since the definition of 'hacklab' sounds like a social center, not hacker activity. At least in Finland 'hacklabs' are about technical stuff and about hacking, not about giving homeless people a place to shower and spend time.

Re: Good and bad – makers and hackers?

texrat — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:39:35 -0000

I like the name hackerspaces, but run into confusion and even resistance when I attempt to use it where I live (North Texas). People here tend to be conservative and old-fashioned, and limit their definition of "hacker" to the black-hat variety.

So for my local purposes I prefer Makerspace, although I did use Hackerspace in a proposal (http://www.futuredowntown.o.... Some may see avoidance of "hacker" as political correctness, but if you're looking for funding or other buy-in from conventional-minded people, you may have to carefully consider the language used.

Re: National community management

Ossoil — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:34:30 -0000

Thanks for the reminder! I have bumped into it a few times. Don't know why I haven't used it yet :) I have to give it a shot.

Re: National community management

texrat — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:24:16 -0000

Hey Jarkko, here's what I did to encourage entry-level volunteer contribution: http://www.slideshare.net/T...

It's a good, easy start!

Re: Tampere incubator community

Ossoil — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:29:29 -0000

Adding one item what's missing: proven mentors who will help get traction. See more http://www.readwriteweb.com...

Re: Open Source Web Apps for 3D Modelling?

Ossoil — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:25:41 -0000

Looks very promising! Thanks for the tip - http://shapesmith.net/

Re: Open Source Web Apps for 3D Modelling?

Elmo Mäntynen — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:57:49 -0000

Try ShapeSmith, it's a very promising parametric solid cad based on OpenCascade.

Re: Open Source Web Apps for 3D Modelling?

Ossoil — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:51:29 -0000

Thanks! Looks like a good start. I took a sneak peak at it and it seems to concentrate more on viewing, not modelling, at least for now. A nice declarative addition to WebGL though.

Re: Open Source Web Apps for 3D Modelling?

Sandy Ressler — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:00:51 -0000

You should check out the work of an open source project X3DOM. Go to http://www.x3dom.org it's an attempt at putting X3D seamlessly into web pages.

Re: Global 3D Printing Community Survey Results

3d printing — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:47:18 -0000

These statistics are pretty impressing compared to the previous year, 3d printing trend seems to be growing constantly. So the future of the 3d printing going to be an interesting one for sure. This blog is a great statement for the 3d printing future.

Re: LDP nodes spreading to new cities

Lloyd3073 — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:09:55 -0000

hosted pbx http://www.sunteltechnologi...

Re: Growing 3D printing ecosystem

Scottsdale Printing — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:07:20 -0000

I've read over the info on the SSPP site, and honestly it doesn't really surprise me.

Re: Growing 3D printing ecosystem

Anon — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:42:16 -0000

understandle

Re: National community management

Elias Aarnio — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:52:27 -0000

A superb crystallization of this Finnish cultural phenomenon.

Re: P2 Generation Survey Site

Want3D Ltd — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:44:04 -0000

I contacted Michel Bauwens from P2P Foundation. Support request has been forwarded to technical people.

Re: Open Coral Info block – IRC community meetings

Ossoil — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:04:57 -0000

Nice thinking, thanks. Apparently not even nearly all projects use or have IRC meetings. From those who do have IRC meetings, only a portion (don't know how many) use some kind of bot to generate meeting minutes and logs.

CoralBot is just a username in IRC. Other projects will name it differently. It is pure SupyBot. MeetBot is just a ready-made plugin which is loaded to SupyBot.

Re: Open Coral Info block – IRC community meetings

Aapo Rantalainen — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:47:13 -0000

Let analyse projects who uses IRC-meetings.
Some of them:
-does not log anything
-only gather everything (full log)
-manually copies decisions
-uses SupyBot+MeetBot
-uses SupyBot+SomeAnotherPluginForMeetings (any know? What is this: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/g... ?)
-does not use supybot, but some other bot (e.g. http://moritz.faui2k3.org/e...

I didn't understand is (will) CoralBot using MeetBot or only SupyBot. I understand that MeetBot creates log-files and links are added to the OC-stream, but anything else?

I think we can implement CoralBot as defined here. If some project uses some other IRC-tools, and they want use Open Coral, they can implement (and merge) their CoralBot.

Re: Open Coral – Sync email & stream discussions

Aapo Rantalainen — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:13:43 -0000

The open-coral-mailer sounds good solution. Then there will not be polling the list, but mailer will get mail as soon as it is posted to the list. I think there will be 'many' steps to fully add project to the open-coral, so one step could be that join oc-mailer to the list.

Issues for mailer:
*It will be harder to track who sent messages (static research comparing only headers of the mailing list messages).
*Readers of the list must know what is oc-mailer
*Admins of the list must accept "multi-user-account".
*Does this open one more way to spam lists?

Re: Open Coral Daemon

Ossoil — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:09:07 -0000

Resque does not look too bad either. I must dig deeper with the options. https://github.com/defunkt/...

Getting more convinced that 'resque' is the one: http://railscasts.com/episo...

Re: Open Coral Daemon

Ossoil — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:03:00 -0000

After some initial tests with BackgroundRb I decided to ditch it. Why? It is not compatible with rails 3.x, no community, no activity in more than 2 years. Instead I will try out with Starling and Workling.

I also found out that BackgroundRb is fine, but has some serious problems/issues.
1) It uses a lot of memory. Every worker creates at least one process. Plus, there is a master process to watch everything and deal with communication. It doesn’t take much before you end up with 5-6 processes. I would not recommend running apps using backgroundrb with low mem hardware.

2) It’s not easy to build a queue with control over threads without creating a ton of processes.

3) If I wanted to do something pretty straight forward, I would have to dig through the backgroundrb code to figure out the backgroundrb way. In brief, good stuff, but too complex for my (our) needs.

Good news is that the above described architecture is still valid :) A little more work to do, but not too much.

Re: 3D-CUPS Printer Job management needed

Ossoil — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:54:52 -0000

Discussions about the subject in two communities:
Open Manufacturing http://groups.google.com/gr... and

RepRap http://forums.reprap.org/re...

Re: 3D-CUPS Printer Job management needed

Robb Greathouse — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:35:00 -0000

Try JBoss. They are a fully capable, open source, application server. It enables users to send messages, upload files, login, an manage jobs via the web.