OpenWRT

Contribution Date

It's somewhat startling to realize OpenWRT wasn't nominated long ago ...

From http://openwrt.org/:

- OpenWrt is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices.

Contributions - cash or equipment, but apparently to SPI, with instructions to forward to OpenWRT, instead of OpenWRT directly:

- https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/SupportDonate - includes credit card payment means. No obvious PayPal mechanism sticks out.

In-Person Social: Wednesday, March 18 2026, 7pm

Dinner at J&B Family Restaurant, Downtown Kitchener

Meeting Date

2026-03-18T19:00:00

We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at J&B Family Restaurant in downtown Kitchener, starting at 7pm. Note that this restaurant meeting is on a Wednesday.

This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold hybrid meetings for technical topics.

The restaurant is located at 79 Victoria St N in Kitchener, near the corner of Victoria and Duke. Here is a map

2026-02: Home Assistant, ProxySQL

Khalid Baheyeldin explains alerting, voice to text, and garage door sensor functionality in Home Assistant. Shravan Dwarka explains how to use ProxySQL for query routing. See https://kwlug.org/node/1423 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, April 13, 2026, 7pm

Arduino Garage Door Opener, Vibe Coding and Recovery

Meeting Date

2026-04-13T19:00:00

J. Lucas Donkers will tell us how he put together a remote garage door opener using Python, an Arduino and some LLM coding. He writes: 

I used free LLM's to help write the bulk of the code to create an interface between my smartphone and a spare garage door remote controller, which allows to me type in a PIN through my phone's browser to open the garage.  

Colin Knapp will share how programming with LLM assistants helped him stay functional while recovering from a health issue. 

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, June 1, 2026, 7pm

BigBlueButton Setup, FOSS Tools for High Powered Rocketry

Meeting Date

2026-06-01T19:00:00

Jason Paul will continue his exploration of setting up BigBlueButton using GitOps/DevOps principles.

Matteo Golin will discuss how he uses Free Software tool suites to make rockets. He writes: 

In-Person Social: Monday, February 16, 2026, 7pm

Dinner at Yo Sushi

Meeting Date

2026-02-16T19:00:00

We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Yo Sushi in downtown Kitchener, starting at 7pm. Note that this restaurant meeting is on a Monday

This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold hybrid meetings for technical topics.

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, March 2, 2026, 7pm

Marp, Lessons in Homelabbing

Meeting Date

2026-03-02T19:00:00

Megan McDermott will tell us about Marp, the Markdown Presentation System. 

Christopher Thompson will relate some adventures (and misadventures) in working with his homelab setup. He will tell us some things that worked and some that very much didn't.