Past Meetings

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, May 6 2013, 7pm

Date: 
Monday, 6 May 2013
Presentation Topic

Ripping Audio to a Linux Media Centre + Lossless Audio Archiving

Note: There will be a release party for Debian Wheezy happening after the regular meeting schedule, at 9pm. We will have our regular presentations first.

This month's presentations both focus on converting audio on physical media to digital formats.

Richard Weait writes:

I recently converted my plastic disc CD collection for use on a full-house
media system. it's nice to be able to play thematic playlists without
changing discs. One thing that kept me from this for years was the endless
time ripping the CDs to digital. The solution, for me, was two-part.

Presented
Meeting Agenda: KWLUG Meeting: Monday, May 6 2013, 7pm
Location: 
St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, April 8 2013, 7pm

Date: 
Monday, 8 April 2013
Presentation Topic

LDAP for small organizations

Tim Laurence will tell us how to use LDAP (the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) to centralize user information across machines in a network. He may also show us how to set up a redundant failover cluster of LDAP servers.

Edited to add: Here are the slides of the talk in ODP format.

Here is a tarball containing the slides above, and configuration snippets from his presentation.

Presented
Meeting Agenda: KWLUG Meeting: Monday, April 8 2013, 7pm
Location: 
St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, March 4 2013, 7pm

Date: 
Monday, 4 March 2013
Presentation Topic

Linux for the In-Laws, Porting Embedded Bootloaders

Gordon Dey will tell us about his experiences in introducing and supporting "non-geeks" in the use of desktop Linux. At least one of his case studies will involve his in-laws. This talk is beginner-friendly.

Fadil Berisha ported the Barebox bootloader to a iMX233-OLinuXino embedded system board. He will use this example to give us a tutorial on porting bootloaders to other boards. This talk is probably less beginner-friendly.

Presented
Meeting Agenda: KWLUG Meeting: Monday, March 4 2013, 7pm
Location: 
St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, Feb 4 2013

Date: 
Monday, 4 February 2013
Presentation Topic

A grassRoots history of the early hi-tech community in Kitchener-Waterloo

Kevin Stumpf will present "anecdotal history of the early technological community in KW from 1920 to 1990". He writes:

Given the odd state of RIM (founded and based in Waterloo) it's too easy to project an odd mood over KW, but even though the situation is critical and its effects have so far been devastating, the more you know about KW you'll appreciate its resilience and see how easy it can be to visualize a healthy post-big-RIM local economy.

Presented
Meeting Agenda: KWLUG Meeting: Monday, Feb 4 2013
Location: 
St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, January 7 2013, 7pm

Date: 
Monday, 7 January 2013
Presentation Topic

SelfSourced Software, RaspberryPi

This meeting is newbie-friendly.

David Lloyd Carr writes his own software. He says:

Frustrated that there just doesn't seem to be a program or app that does exactly what you want? Maybe there is, but it does a lot of other things too that just get in the way. Maybe you just can't see paying for something so trivial. "I just want it to... How hard can that be?"

The answer may be, "Not so hard." Writing your own software has never been easier. Together we'll look at a few programs I wrote for my own personal use and how you can go about creating your own.

Presented
Meeting Agenda: KWLUG Meeting: Monday, January 7 2013, 7pm
Location: 
St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, December 3 2012, 7pm

Date: 
Monday, 3 December 2012
Presentation Topic

Panel Discussion: Earning a Living with FLOSS

This month's consists of a panel discussion about earning a living with Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS). All of our panellists use FLOSS in their jobs -- some of them exclusively. The panellists will discuss topics including: how they got involved with FLOSS, how they got employment relating to FLOSS, the prospects and challenges of work in the field, and advice for others who are interested in FLOSS-related employment. The night's panellists include:
  • Khalid Baheyeldin, who has 25 years of software development experience and has been working with the Drupal content management system since 2003. Khalid is the founder of 2bits, which focuses on Drupal development and site optimization.
  • Andrew Berry, who is also a Drupal developer. Andrew has worked as a freelance Drupal consultant, and is now employed by Lullabot.
  • Fernando Duran, who has over 15 years experience in the field of network and computer security. Fernando currently works for I Think Security, based in Waterloo.
  • Joe Wennechuk, who started his career as a factory worker and transitioned to the world of IT and then to FLOSS. Joe currently works with the FLOSS Electronic Medical Records system OSCAR EMR at PryLynx Corporation.
  • Andrew Cant, a software developer who works for SugarCRM, a company that develops open source customer relationship management software.
    • EDIT: Colin kindly posted this talk to Youtube: Part 1, Part 2.
    Presented
    Meeting Agenda: KWLUG Meeting: Monday, December 3 2012, 7pm
    Location: 
    St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North

    KWLUG Meeting: Monday, November 5 2012, 7pm

    Date: 
    Monday, 5 November 2012
    Presentation Topic

    Arch Linux

    R. Brent Clements will introduce us to Arch Linux, a lightweight and flexible Linux distribution.

    Colin kindly posted this presentation to Youtube.

    Presented
    Meeting Agenda: KWLUG Meeting: Monday, November 5 2012, 7pm
    Location: 
    St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North

    KWLUG Meeting: October 1 2012, 7pm

    Date: 
    Monday, 1 October 2012
    Presentation Topic

    Clang and LLVM

    Behan Webster will share his experiences using the LLVM and its Clang frontend for compiling C, C++ and Objective-C targets. Behan uses this compiler suite in his embedded development work.

    Presented
    Meeting Agenda: KWLUG Meeting: October 1 2012, 7pm
    Location: 
    St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North

    Software Freedom Day: Saturday, Sept 22 2012

    Date: 
    Saturday, 22 September 2012
    Presentation Topic

    Software Freedom Day 2012

    Note: this event will be held from 10am-4pm.

    Software Freedom Day is an invitation to shape the future of our
    digital world. Rather than being overwhelmed and controlled by the
    many issues of our computerized age, the free software movement
    harnesses the creativity of citizens worldwide. Free software treats
    software -- the code that runs computers, cellphones, and other
    technological devices -- as abundant, not scarce.
    We are encouraged to use this abundance, learn from
    it, and share our contributions with others. Although it sounds like

    Presented
    Meeting Agenda: Software Freedom Day: Saturday, Sept 22 2012
    Location: 
    43 Queen St S - The Working Centre

    KWLUG Meeting: Monday, September 10 2012

    Date: 
    Monday, 10 September 2012
    Presentation Topic

    Bazaar + Outsider's Drupal Overview

    Adam Glauser will show us the use of Bazaar, a distributed version control system used extensively by the Ubuntu project.

    Paul Nijjar will give a somewhat-nontechnical outsider's view of his experiences with the Drupal version control system.

    UPDATE: Here are the slides for Paul's talk: PDF, LaTeX Beamer sources

    FLOSS Fund Nominee: JQuery

    Presented
    Meeting Agenda: KWLUG Meeting: Monday, September 10 2012
    Location: 
    St. John's Kitchen - 97 Victoria St. North
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