KWLUG - The Kitchener-Waterloo Linux User Group is a monthly meeting of GNU/Linux, Free Software, Open Source and technology enthusiasts. We meet in Kitchener, Ontario, usually on the first (non-holiday) Monday of the month. (Directions) Our meetings are free and open to those with an interest in Linux. Find out more about our meetings. Join our mailing lists.

KWLUG Meeting: September 13 2010

The doors open for conversation, networking and casual Q&A some time between 6 and 6:30. Formal meeting and presentations start at 7:00pm sharp.

Presentation Topic

Legal and Technical Aspects of Privacy in Canada

Kyle Spaans will tell us all about privacy, both from a technical and non-technical perspective. There will also be a key-signing party.

He writes: "Kyle, _who is not a lawyer_, will outline Canada's privacy laws and acts (with some nods towards copyright, just for fun) such as PIPEDA and the upcoming ACTA. For the technical side of things, Kyle will give a high-level overview of Tor: how it works and why you'd use it. Other privacy-enhancing technologies can be discussed, such as PGP, WikiLeaks, etc."

Presented
Date: 
Monday, 13 September 2010
Location: 
St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North
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Nominee: OpenWRT

KWLUG Meeting: October 4 2010

The doors open for conversation, networking and casual Q&A some time between 6 and 6:30. Formal meeting and presentations start at 7:00pm sharp.

Presentation Topic

XBMC - A FLOSS Media Centre

XBMC is an open-source, cross-platform media player and entertainment hub. Adam Glauser will tell us about his adventures in configuring and using it.

Presented
Date: 
Monday, 4 October 2010
Location: 
St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North

KWLUG Meeting: November 1 2010

The doors open for conversation, networking and casual Q&A some time between 6 and 6:30. Formal meeting and presentations start at 7:00pm sharp.

Presentation Topic

Social Night

This informal, somewhat-unstructured meeting will feature:

- socialization
- opportunities for Q&A with LUG members (bring questions!)
- demos (this is your opportunity to show off something cool!)
- troubleshooting (this is your opportunity to get help fixing something!)

Presented
Date: 
Monday, 1 November 2010
Location: 
St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North

KWLUG Meeting: December 6 2010

The doors open for conversation, networking and casual Q&A some time between 6 and 6:30. Formal meeting and presentations start at 7:00pm sharp.

Presentation Topic

Debian Infrastructure Tools

Andrew Cant will enlighten us about the "Debian Way", which is also applicable to Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other derivatives of this established Linux distro.

Topics that I can think off/summarize on the "Debian Way":
- Debian installation configuration (already covered by Eric as apart
of his awesome automatic installation presentation)
- creating Debian packages
- using Debian packages high-level (aptitude, synaptic, Ubuntu
Software Installer)
- using Debian packages low-level (apt, dpkg, dpkg-reconfigure,...)

Presented
Date: 
Monday, 6 December 2010
Location: 
St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, January 3 2011

The doors open for conversation, networking and casual Q&A some time between 6 and 6:30. Formal meeting and presentations start at 7:00pm sharp.

Presentation Topic

Ruby on Rails

Ralph Janke will discuss Ruby on Rails, a popular web development framework.

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Date: 
Monday, 3 January 2011
Location: 
St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, February 7 2011

The doors open for conversation, networking and casual Q&A some time between 6 and 6:30. Formal meeting and presentations start at 7:00pm sharp.

Presentation Topic

Introduction to PHP

Khalid will introduce the PHP scripting language, which will round out his set of presentations on the LAMP stack.

Presented
Date: 
Monday, 7 February 2011
Location: 
St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, March 7 2011

Presentation Topic

Demo Night: Clutter + more

This meeting will consist of three (?) shorter presentations by KWLUG members.

Darcy Casselman will present Clutter. He writes: "Clutter is a library developed by Intel designed for building their smartphone user interfaces. It's open source and available for use on the desktop as well. Gnome is using it for Gnome Shell and Ubuntu is using it in their Unity netbook UI. Best of all, it's fun and easy to get started with it and see some nifty effects. We'll show you how to get started with Clutter in Python.

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Date: 
Monday, 7 March 2011
Location: 
St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, April 4 2011

Presentation Topic

OpenVPN

Lori Paniak will discuss the powerful OpenVPN virtual private network solution, which allows you to connect computers that are far away physically into a secure virtual network.

Presented
Date: 
Monday, 4 April 2011
Location: 
St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North