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

• Other

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.