To whom it may concern, POSI (http://posithon.org) May Meeting 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. We will record the meeting and upload the results to the POSI site. 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. 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 Separate Email: And as an aside, if you have not done so already, in lieu of the functionality on the website, please consider submitting to andrewdo@frdcsa.org as many of the following as possible: 1) your resume 2) your online portfolio (your website, twitter account, facebook account, etc) 3) a write-up of your skills (similar to the skills exchange http://pumpingstationone.org/wiki//index.php?title=Skills_Exchange) 4) a write-up of your public-facing priority system (that is, all your goals that you feel comfortable sharing) in the format as mentioned here. http://frdcsa.org/~andrewdo/writings/system-x.html If you are on facebook please consider joining the Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=26304570734&ref=ts