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: Monday, March 1 2010

The March 2010 KWLUG meeting will have all of your favorite activities. New attendees are welcome and we'll have informal Q&A from arrival time until the presentation starts at 7pm. You'll learn everything that there is to know about regular expressions Afterwards we'll adjourn to a local restaurant for further discussion and refreshments. There is no fee to attend KWLUG meetings and everybody with an interest in Linux, Free Software, Software Libre, Open Source Software and flightless waterfowl in formalwear are welcome to attend.

NOTE: This meeting will be held at St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street North Kitchener, at the corner of Weber and Victoria. Use the door on the left / North side of the building. We meet on the second floor. Doors will open around 6:30pm.

Presentation Topic

Regular Expressions

You search text every day, often many times. Although much of that may be Internet searches, there are still lots of places to use the pattern matching power of Regular Expressions.

The cryptic looking regular expressions are usually quite simple. This presentation will help you understand the most commonly used features of regular expressions and will cover the most commonly used tools and a couple of programming languages.

So whether you are a graphical interface user, command line user, system administrator or programmer you'll find regular expressions useful.

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Date: 
Monday, 1 March 2010
Location: 
St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North
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Nominee: OpenBSD

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, April 12 2010

Note that April 5 is Easter Monday, so this meeting will be on April 12.

Presentation Topic

KVM, libvirt and QEMU virtualization

Virtualization systems allows your computer to run more than one operating system at the same time. KVM is a Hypervisor -- the main part of a virtualization system -- included in the Linux Kernel. Chris Irwin will show us what virtualization is, as well as how and why to use KVM, QEMU, and libvirt on Linux.

This presentation is suitable for those new to virtualization and curious about it as well as those with moderate virtualization experience. Presentation topics covered ...

Topic Status: 
Author is volunteer presenter
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Date: 
Monday, 12 April 2010
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Nominee: RRDtool

KWLUG Meeting: May 3 2010

Presentation Topic

Overview of the MySQL Database

Khalid Baheyeldin of 2bits.com will give a presentation on the the MySQL database.

MySQL is a popular and free database management system used in many applications, and by many web sites.

  • Relational databases and SQL
  • What is MySQL?
  • History of MySQL?
  • Who is using MySQL?
  • Advantages and disadvantages
  • The plethora of MySQL engines
  • The MyISAM and InnoDB engines
  • Creating a database
  • Creating tables
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Monday, 3 May 2010

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, June 7 2010

Presentation Topic

Demo Night

KWLUG members will give a number of quick (30 minute or less) demonstrations of assorted Linux goodies.

- Paul will give an introduction to GNU Screen, a program which manages multiple command-line windows effectively. Paul will cover basic usage and some configuration tricks like title bars and automatic window labelling that make Screen much more informative (and pleasant) to use.

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Date: 
Monday, 7 June 2010

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, July 5 2010

Presentation Topic

git

Chris Frey will give us an overview of the git revision control system.

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Date: 
Monday, 5 July 2010

KWLUG meeting: Monday, August 9 2010

Presentation Topic

Programming For Linux

Raul Suarez will give a practical introduction to programming in Linux. It will help those who are completely new to programming get started, and help those who have programming experience already get acquainted with the Linux/FLOSS programming ecosystem.

This will be an overview of what's available, and a practical comparison of various programming alternatives.

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Monday, 9 August 2010

KWLUG Meeting: October 4 2010

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 useing it.

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Monday, 4 October 2010