[NBLUG/talk] Tuesday, May 10 NBLUG meeting recap

[Brad Morrison]

Hi all!

Well, it was a pretty small group last night at Spring Thai/Flagship 
Taproom, but the conversation was lively and compelling!

Thanks to Mike (I think?) who shared with us his experience with Second 
Life/Open Sim and how he has been participating in the "Metaverse" for 
many years now. Good luck with your perceptual hash project! I hope you 
are able to get that difficult tenant situation resolved too.

Allan: I saw your vehicle's license plate as you drove away and thought 
it was great! I'll try to remember to ask you about that next time.

Derek: I completely forgot to mention this in our discussion of Amazon 
Web Services, but the reason I happened to know the retail price of 
their S3 service (about $21 per TB) was because I saw it on Sia's 
website - https://sia.tech/ Although Sia's website has changed a lot 
since I last looked at it, they are still a blockchain based, 
decentralized, open source storage platform where if you have storage 
space, you can rent that out on the Sia network or if you need storage 
space you can rent it on the Sia network. Their stats at the bottom of 
the homepage indicate that there is about 600-700 hosts, 1 million+ 
downloads, 7.6 PB of total storage on the network, and 2.72 PB of 
storage currently used. Filecoin is another blockchain based, 
decentralized storage network - https://filecoin.io/ Although I 
understand that you're no fan of blockchain/digital currencies.

Tom: thanks so much for providing the furry entertainment! While I was a 
bit disappointed that the women on the Flagship/Spring Thai patio were 
far more interested in your Samoyed than me, that tends to be par for 
the course...

And my talk about a potential open source tax credit was fun to give too.

Finally, the organization that I have been volunteering with recently, 
Open Source Ecology - https://www.opensourceecology.org/, came up as we 
were talking about Blender and FreeCAD. "An open source, libre economy 
is an efficient economy which increases innovation by open 
collaboration. To get there, OSE is currently developing a set of open 
source blueprints for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) – a set 
of the 50 most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist 
– everything from a tractor, to an oven, to a circuit maker. In the 
process of creating the GVCS, OSE intends to develop a modular, scalable 
platform for documenting and developing open source, libre hardware – 
including blueprints for both physical artifacts and for related open 
enterprises." I have been helping on land acquisition, interacting with 
Realtors and contractors in Kansas City, MO in order to take the OSE 
design for a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 1000 square foot house that can be 
built for $50,000 in materials from a concept into practice and then 
scaled up over time. Feel free to check it out if you feel so inclined...

Brad
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