From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Sat Jan 2 20:56:42 2016 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 20:56:42 -0500 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday, 7pm: Mageia Linux, Tax Software Message-ID: <20160103015642.GE3721@nb-heartburn.theworkingcentre.org> Surprise! New Year's Day was on a Friday this year, so Monday is a regular old workday, and with it the start of another shiny new year. Personally, I will be looking for any available excuse to distract myself from another year of disappointment and grinding drudgery, so Monday's KWLUG meeting should be a welcome respite. This month, Marc Par? will discuss a couple of topics. For the first time in a long while, we will enjoy a presentation that is distro-specific. Marc has used Mageia Linux for years (since it was called Mandriva, if not earlier) and supports several community members in its use. He will give an overview of the distribution and why he likes it. For an encore, Marc will cover a topic near and dear to our hearts: taxes. He will tell us how he prepares his taxes using government-approved tax software available on Linux. (Hint: wine might be involved.) These two presentations will start at 7pm, after meeting announcements. There are several other fun things you can do this January. Most notably, Colin Mills is running the inaugural Conestoga Linux Fest at the Doon Campus of Conestoga College on Saturday, January 30. This will be an all-day event featuring speakers. My understanding is that attendance will be free and open to all. Check the KWLUG website for additional details as they become available. Once again some of us from KWLUG (and some people from the broader community) will be getting together to refurbish laptops from Computer Recycling and install Xubuntu on them. This month we will hold the laptop rescue mission on Saturday, January 16 from 4pm onwards. People of all skill levels are welcome -- you don't need to be a Linux genius to be helpful. Contact me offlist to RSVP. After a long hiatus it sounds as if the FLOSS Fund might be making a (one-off?) reappearance at this Monday's meeting. The FLOSS Fund was a pre-Kickstarter, pre-Patreon attempt at putting together a donation towards some worth free software project. Suggested candidates for this month were archive.org or the Wikimedia foundation. Contributions to the fund are completely optional and anonymous. It may be a new year, but we are meeting at the same location: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street North (at Weber) Kitchener There are maps and pictures of the site here: http://kwlug.org/sjk . You can park your vehicle in the thrift store parking lot. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Fri Jan 29 20:02:27 2016 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 20:02:27 -0500 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Social Night, 7pm (also: Conestoga Linux Fest) (Feb 2016) Message-ID: <20160130010226.GC3742@nb-heartburn.theworkingcentre.org> Christmas is over and summer is far away. Let's get together and talk Linux. This month's meeting is will be a freeform social night. Bring FLOSSy projects to show off. Bring questions about Linux and current problems you are working through (and feel free to bring a laptop demonstrating those problems). Bring some Linuxy gossip to share. Or just come by and engage in conversation with some friendly people. Bring snacks if you are so inclined, but more importantly bring yourself. Social night starts at around 7pm. If you would like even more Linux conversation this week, you might be interested in Colin Mills's inaugural Conestoga Linux Fest, which is being held Saturday (ie TOMORROW) at the Doon Campus of Conestoga College. The cost for admission is $5; the cost for parking is up in the air ($12?). There will be four presentations, plus lunch. See http://kwlug.org/node/1015 for more information. Also of note is our monthly (?) Laptop Rescue Mission at Computer Recycling at The Working Centre. February's mission date is set for Saturday, Feb 20 from 4-8pm. As usual, you need not be a Linux genius to participate, and as usual you should contact me to RSVP (especially if you do not know the secret phone number to be let in the door). We have had a good mix of people attending lately, so it would be nice to keep the momentum going. That's it, except for this month's meeting location: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street North (at Weber) Kitchener See http://kwlug.org/sjk for maps and pictures. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Sat Mar 5 02:09:03 2016 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 02:09:03 -0500 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday, 7pm: Mastering DVDs, Kdenlive Message-ID: <20160305070903.GB3827@nb-heartburn.theworkingcentre.org> This month's KWLUG meeting is all about preserving fond memories. In the dead of winter, Raul Suarez flew off to sunny Mexico and celebrated his parents' 50th wedding anniversary. Pictures were taken. Videos were shot. Mission accomplished, right? Not so fast. Some people celebrating their 50th wedding anniversaries appreciate physical artifacts of memories, so instead of copying videos and pictures to a USB key Raul decided to master an interactive DVD (!) of videos and pictures, using only FLOSSy tools. What happened next? Come to the meeting and find out. Meanwhile, Bob Jonkman has fond memories of his laptop working reliably, but he will valiantly attempt to demonstrate the video editor Kdenlive video editor nonetheless. Bob often attends public meetings, and he (or often the shadowy cabal that secretly orchestrates his actions) often shoots video of these events -- video that must be edited and uploaded to archive.org posthaste. Bob will demonstrate the mad video editing skills he uses to make this happen. We are running the next laptop rescue mission on Saturday, March 19, and you are invited. So far we have had a good variety of people and skill levels, and it seems that people have a reasonable amount of fun. If you would like to have some fun too, contact me offlist. As usual we will hold the session at Computer Recycling from 4pm to 8pm. Monday's meeting will be held at its usual location, too: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street North (at Weber) Kitchener There is car parking in the thrift shop parking lot, and bike parking along the side of the building. Visit http://kwlug.org/sjk for pictures and maps. We'll start setting up around 6:30pm, and setup helpers are always welcome. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Fri Apr 1 18:20:50 2016 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 22:20:50 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Docker Workshop (7pm, April 2016) References: <153767339.1397014.1459549250435.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <153767339.1397014.1459549250435.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Last February, Tim Laurence gave us an overview of the popular Docker containerization platform. By popular demand, this month he will follow up on that presentation with an interactive workshop. We will work through basic Docker commands, setting up dockerfiles, dealing with networking and more. Because this workshop is interactive, Tim has homework for us. Those of us who are following along should bring our laptops preconfigured with Virtualbox and Docker according to Tim's instructions here: https://github.com/timdaman/docker-tutorial Ominously, Tim writes: "Tell people to be prepared or else. ;)" which I am hoping is code for "Tim won't wait for people to get set up at the beginning of the presentation." If you would like to participate in the workshop but do not have a suitable laptop, contact me (or the kwlug-disc mailing list) and we can see what we can do. Maybe people can work together and maybe we can prepare a couple of laptops with the appropriate software installed on them. Speaking of laptops: the next Laptop Rescue Mission is scheduled for Saturday, April 16 from 4-8pm. You can RSVP to me if you are interested in participating. Past events have been well-received, but it looks like this may be our last Rescue Mission for a while; we are running out of servicable laptops with power adapters. (If anybody has a secret stash of Dell PA-10/PA-12 power adapters they would be willing to donate to the cause, they would be greatly appreciated.) As usual, you do not need to be a Linux genius to participate, and these events have been good alternatives to our sometimes highly technical meetings. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is scheduled to be released this month, and there are rumours of a release party. The rumours indicate that the most likely date would be Saturday, April 23. If you would like to contribute to these rumours you can vote here: https://framadate.org/TZOPec2w2fYOyS7b and if you would like to help organize the event you can contact Bob Jonkman (go to http://sobac.com for his contact information). That's all I have, other than our meeting location: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street North (at Weber) Kitchener See http://kwlug.org/sjk for pictures and maps. Doors open around 6:30pm, and the meeting starts at 7pm. - Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pauln at theworkingcentre.org Fri Apr 1 20:54:51 2016 From: pauln at theworkingcentre.org (Paul Nijjar) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 20:54:51 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Docker Workshop (7pm, April 2016, attempt 2) Message-ID: <20160402005451.GD10086@theworkingcentre.org> (Sorry for the repost. Something is not happy when I post to KWLUG from my yahoo.ca account so I will cheat and post from work.) In February 2015, Tim Laurence gave us an overview of the popular Docker containerization platform. By popular demand, this month he will follow up on that presentation with an interactive workshop. We will work through basic Docker commands, setting up dockerfiles, dealing with networking and more. Because this workshop is interactive, Tim has homework for us. Those of us who are following along should bring our laptops preconfigured with Virtualbox and Docker according to Tim's instructions here: https://github.com/timdaman/docker-tutorial Ominously, Tim writes: "Tell people to be prepared or else. ;)" which I am hoping is code for "Tim won't wait for people to get set up at the beginning of the presentation." If you would like to participate in the workshop but do not have a suitable laptop, contact me (or the kwlug-disc mailing list) and we can see what we can do. Maybe people can work together and maybe we can prepare a couple of laptops with the appropriate software installed on them. Speaking of laptops: the next Laptop Rescue Mission is scheduled for Saturday, April 16 from 4-8pm. You can RSVP to me if you are interested in participating. Past events have been well-received, but it looks like this may be our last Rescue Mission for a while; we are running out of servicable laptops with power adapters. (If anybody has a secret stash of Dell PA-10/PA-12 power adapters they would be willing to donate to the cause, they would be greatly appreciated.) As usual, you do not need to be a Linux genius to participate, and these events have been good alternatives to our sometimes highly technical meetings. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is scheduled to be released this month, and there are rumours of a release party. The rumours indicate that the most likely date would be Saturday, April 23. If you would like to contribute to these rumours you can vote here: https://framadate.org/TZOPec2w2fYOyS7b and if you would like to help organize the event you can contact Bob Jonkman (go to http://sobac.com for his contact information). That's all I have, other than our meeting location: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street North (at Weber) Kitchener See http://kwlug.org/sjk for pictures and maps. Doors open around 6:30pm, and the meeting starts at 7pm. - Paul From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Fri Apr 29 23:14:42 2016 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 23:14:42 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Sound in Linux, Continued (May 2016) Message-ID: <20160430031442.GE3785@nb-heartburn.theworkingcentre.org> It is almost May, which means that it is almost time for our monthly KWLUG meeting. This month professional audio-wrangler R. Brent Clements will continue demonstrating sound creation and editing tools for Linux. During last November's presentation he showed off several ways to hook up audio equipment, as well as some neat demos (including an impressive synthesized pipe organ). He has lots of additional material to share, and he will do so starting at 7pm. As always, there are lots of other events happening in the region, and the Watcamp calendar at http://watcamp.com does a great job of listing them. April's Laptop Rescue Mission was deferred due to illness, so we will be running another session on Saturday, May 14 from 4-8pm, at Computer Recycling. If you would like to help out please let me know. That's all I got, except for the location. St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street North (at Weber) Kitchener It's almost May, so maybe some of you will be cycling? If so you can park your bicycles alongside the building. If you are driving a car then don't chain it to the side of the building though; instead, use the thrift store parking lot. Find more meeting information at http://kwlug.org/sjk Doors open around 6:30pm, and the meeting starts at 7pm. Setup helpers are always welcome. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Sat Jun 4 03:56:45 2016 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 03:56:45 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Raspberry Pi projects (June 2016) Message-ID: <20160604075645.GH3757@nb-heartburn.theworkingcentre.org> It appears that June is Raspberry Pi season in KWLUGistan. Last June John Kerr showed off his Raspberry Pi 2, and this month we have an additional two presentations about the Pi. Grade 8 student Omar Atwa used a Raspberry Pi to create a Water Irrigation System for his school's science fair. He will show us how he put the project together. Omar inspired Khalid Baheyeldin to get involved with Raspberry Pi development. Khalid bought himself a development kit, and he will share what he learned, as well as some of his projects (music players and a weather forecasting application). These presentations will begin at 7pm. In other news, we are putting together a series of short presentations for the August meeting. Do you have a short presentation to contribute? If so please get in touch. And that's it. Go eat some Pi, or some Raspberries. But first you should note where Monday's meeting will be held: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street North (at Weber) Kitchener Find maps and pictures of the site at http://kwlug.org/sjk . Come by starting at 6:30pm or so to help set up. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Sat Jul 2 00:18:18 2016 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 00:18:18 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday, 7pm: Synchronizing Email (July 2016) Message-ID: <20160702041818.GA4186@nb-heartburn.theworkingcentre.org> As happens from time to time during the summer months, the first Monday of the month is not always a holiday. While our American friends are celebrating their independence, we get to trudge off to our regular daily activities. Thank goodness we have a meeting Monday to celebrate summer and distract us from our troubles. This month, Chris Irwin will celebrate his independence from having mail stuck in a single location. He went on a quest to synchronize his mail, calendars and contacts across devices. He ended up using an alphabet stew of utilities and libraries: mutt, notmuch, Khard, Khal, Todoman, iSync/MBsync, vdirsyncer, git, CalDav-sync, CardDav-sync, OpenTasks, Baikal and DavMail. You might remember that Chris presented a pair of talks on btrfs that were amazing, so I have lots of hopes that this will be an excellent presentation. For August, we have supposedly scheduled a smorgasboard of small presentations. But as often happens when people clamour for small talks, few people are willing to present! So we have several spaces for 10-20 minute talks available. If you should like to offer a quick demo or talk about some neat FLOSSy thing, next month is your chance. Please email me offlist and we can arrange details. Also on the topic of presentations, Colin Mills is following up his successful Linux Fest with a second offering, which is tentatively scheduled for Jan 28, 2017. He has put out a call for presentations, and if you would like to offer something get in touch with him by emailing kwlinuxfest at gmail.com. Do you know any systems administrators you would like to appreciate? Maybe you are a sysadmin yourself in need of appreciation? Once again Bob Jonkman would like to help you out. To commemorate Sysadmin Day (http://sysadminday.com/) he usually arranges for sysadmins and those who appreciate them to gather and eat egg rolls. I have heard rumours that he is organizing something for July 29, but I am not sure of the details. You can contact him for further information, or contact me and I will relay your interest to him. Our summer meeting location is exactly the same as our winter one: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street North (at Weber) Kitchener See http://kwlug.org/sjk for maps and photos of the location. The meeting starts at 7pm. Set up starts around 6:30pm, and I always appreciate setup help. -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Fri Aug 5 18:55:48 2016 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 18:55:48 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Presentation Smorgasboard (August 2016) Message-ID: <20160805225548.GB3775@nb-heartburn.theworkingcentre.org> Apparently August is the Picnic Month, and true to form this month's KWLUG meeting will consist of a potluck of small presentations: - John Kerr will show us how he creates educational Linux screencasts - Bob Bosiljevac will show us how he uses ZBackup for effective backups - Andrew Cant will discuss the static Indyweb - Bob Jonkman will lead a formal keysigning - Tim Laurence will show us how to diagnose resource bottlenecks on servers - Paul Nijjar will introduce VLANs If you would like to participate in the keysigning, create a GPG key and follow the instructions here: http://sobac.com/wiki/index.php/KWLUG_Keysigning_2016-08-08 In other news, Maker Expo is coming up fast: it will be held Saturday, Sept 10 at Kitchener City Hall. Last year's event was pretty fun, and featured robots beating each other up for our amusement, which I am sure our future robotic overlords are noting in their records for when the revolution comes. In any case, Maker Expo is looking for volunteers to make this year's event a success, and you can join in by visiting http://www.makerexpo.ca/volunteer/ . Open Streets has been running in Uptown Waterloo this summer, and friend of free culture Stephen Paul Weber has been staffing a table full of Free Culture goodies. If you would like to help him out, you can contact him at singpolyma.ca (or you could pay him a visit during the next Open Streets, which is scheduled for August 21). Our August meeting will be held at the usual location: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street North (at Weber) Kitchener There is car parking at the thrift store parking lot, and bike parking along the side of the building. Find maps and pictures of the location here: http://kwlug.org/sjk . Show up around 6:30pm if you would like to help with setup (certain announcement writers would be very grateful if you wanted to help with setup). - Paul -- Electoral reform committee is happening! Submissions due Oct 7! See http://fairvotewrc.ca for local events. From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Fri Sep 9 21:25:28 2016 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 21:25:28 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday, 7pm: September Smorgasboard Message-ID: <20160910012527.GA4523@nb-heartburn.theworkingcentre.org> Unfortunately, Kris Braun's OpenWRT presentation had to be postponed until November. Fortunately, the KWLUG membership is talented and generous, and since last month's smorgasboard of presentations went fairly well we have a new set of shortish talks for you to enjoy: - Busy Bob and Conscientious Chris will reveal the inner workings (and their inner workflow) with respect to the Watcamp calendar at http://watcamp.com . Thanks to Watcamp, you can learn about tech events in the region even if you have no friends and/or are not on Facebook; Bob and Chris will show us how they put this community resource together. - Keen Kirk will show us some code he wrote in the Guile Scheme interpreter to interface with key management functionality built into the Linux kernel. - Plucky Peter will share his adventures in using a Raspberry Pi 2 to build a car computer. - Awesome Andrew will deliver the presentation we skipped last month, telling us about the Indieweb movement and how great it would be if we all participated. Because we are once again blessed with a fairly full schedule, we will be starting the meeting promptishly at 7pm. Apparently it is fall or something, so there is a megagram of stuff coming up: - Saturday (that's tomorrow! Or maybe today if you are reading this on Saturday. Or maybe it is in the past if you don't check your email on weekends. What do I know?) is the 2nd annual Maker Expo at Kitchener City Hall. Drop by between 10am-6pm to see lots of DIY projects and participate in hands-on workshops. - Maker Expo is a part of Geek Week KW (http://geekweekwr.ca) which muscles in on Watcamp's turf for two weeks to highlight a bunch of geeky events in the region. (No, KWLUG is not on the list. I guess we are not geeky enough.) - Although not in September, Colin Mills is busy organizing the second annual KW Linux Fest, and he is looking for speakers. Visit http://kwlinuxfest.ca and see what you can offer. There is even more stuff happening! I wish there was a tech events website you could use to find some of this stuff out. When is our meeting? Monday? Where is our meeting? St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street North (at Weber) Kitchener There is parking on site. See http://kwlug.org/sjk . Come by around 6:30pm to help set up, or 7pm to be entertained. - Paul -- Electoral Reform Town Hall: Sept 14, 7pm, Stanley Park Community Centre! Info sessions: Sept 21 (Elmira), 28 (New Hamburg), and 29 (Ayr). Details: http://fairvotewrc.ca . Please spread the word! From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Sat Oct 1 00:20:50 2016 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 00:20:50 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Emulating the Tor Network (Oct 2016) Message-ID: <20161001042050.GC3693@nb-heartburn.theworkingcentre.org> Do you have some Internets kicking around? They seem to be pretty common. Somebody says something witty and/or insightful online, and all of a sudden other people are like "You win an Internet today!". As someone who takes great pains never to say witty or insightful things, I don't have any extra Internets of my own. It's just as well, I guess. Don't they take up a lot of storage space? I can't even handle the shared Internet I have access to now. What would I do with additional ones? Fortunately for us, Nik Unger has some extra Internets and enough imagination to put them to good use. As a grad student at the University of Waterloo, he is using Linux to emulate the entire Tor network at scale. (Tor, as you may recall, is "The Onion Router", which is used to implement anonymized network communication.) I guess the Tor Internet is smaller than the real Internet, but that still sounds like a lot of emulation. How does Nik do it? Why does he do it? Why does he use the Linux kernel to do it? We will find out at this month's KWLUG talk. There is a lot of other events happening this month! Here are a few that may be of interest. Do you use free software? Would you like to give back? Andrew Cant would like to turn you into a Rubyhead who makes contributions back to the greater Ruby community, mentoring members of the group through the free software contribution process. The inaugural event is Tuesday, October 18. Although I expect that some familiarity with the Ruby ecosystem would be helpful, I am guessing you do not need to be a Ruby expert to be useful. Learn more and sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/kw-ruby-on-rails/events/234273702/ Do you use Wikipedia? Would you like to give back? The Hive WR and the KPL are holding a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to promote female editorship. This event is being held on Thursday, Oct 13 at the Central library. Register for the edit-a-thon here: http://www.kpl.org/guestlibrarian Do you support nonprofits, small businesses or other small groups of computer users? Would you like to talk about it? The Kitchener-Waterloo NetSquared Group's next meeting is all about promoting open source within such organizations. This meeting will be held on October 17, and you can find out more information here: http://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/233388573/ . (Disclaimer: I have ended up organizing this group. On the bright side, that means I can tell you that we don't really care whether you RSVP on Meetup, so long as you show up.) Do you like laptops? Would you like to help refurbish them? After a summer+September hiatus, our monthly(?) laptop rescue missions are resuming. The next one will be held on Saturday, Oct 22 from approximately 4-8pm, at Computer Recycling. Contact me offlist if you would like to participate. (Do I really need to disclaimer this one?) Do you like Bitcoins? Would you like to watch a movie about them? CIGI is showing a Bitcoin movie called "The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin" on Thursday, October 20. You can RSVP here: https://www.cigionline.org/events/cigi-cinema-series-rise-and-rise-of-bitcoin Do you like conferences? Seneca College in Toronto puts on the FSOSS conference every year in Toronto, and it is coming up. It is in Toronto and it is not that cheap (for regular humans: $75 until Oct 3, then $150 after) but people on the kwlug-disc list seem excited about it? In any case, it is running on October 27 and 28, and you can register here: http://cdot.fsoss.ca/ . (They are looking for presenters as well.) Do you like meeting announcements to eventually end? How about we tell you where to go on Monday: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street North (at Weber) Kitchener Find maps and photos at http://kwlug.org/sjk . The meeting starts at 7pm; setup starts at 6:30pm or so (and helpers are always appreciated). - Paul -- Electoral reform submission deadline: Oct 7 http://canada.ca/democracy to make a submission. From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Fri Nov 4 23:15:01 2016 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 23:15:01 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: OpenWRT customizations, 7pm (Nov 2016) Message-ID: <20161105031501.GG4723@nb-heartburn.theworkingcentre.org> Kris Braun is a local tech enterpreneur. Along the way he has spent time customizing the OpenWRT Linux distribution. This Monday, he will share some of what he learned, including the use of lua, dnsmasq, iptables, and uhttpd. This presentation will begin around 7pm. Colin Mills is still organizing the KW Linux Fest for January, and he is still looking for speakers. Speaker applications are due December 1. If you would like to apply (or register for the conference), visit http://kwlinuxfest.ca . The laptop rescue mission in October was very successful, but future sessions are on hold for a while. There might be one in late November, but there may not be one this month. My apologies to those who were looking forward to participating in it. The meeting will be held at the usual location: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street N (at Weber) Kitchener Visit http://kwlug.org/sjk for maps and pictures. Doors open around 6:30pm, and setup helpers are always welcome. Somebody to help record the podcast would also be helpful. The meeting starts at 7pm. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Fri Dec 2 22:39:52 2016 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 22:39:52 -0500 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: C, webOS (Dec 2016) Message-ID: <20161203033947.GA4102@nb-heartburn.theworkingcentre.org> This month features presentations from web to shining C. C is a programming language. I guess it's kind of popular? Maybe you are reading this email using software written in it. Rumour has it that certain Linux kernels you know and love may also be written in it. First-time presenter Colin Mills likes C, and would like to share his enthusiasm with you. He will lead us through a tutorial/overview of the language. webOS is an operating system based around certain Linux kernels you know and love. It was initially developed by Palm (remember Palm?) for use in PDAs, but over the years it has morphed into an operating system for televisions, smart watches. Chris Irwin was feeling nostalgic and decided to revisit webOS for his old Palm devices. He will share his insights with us. I guess I have mentioned this before, but oh well: KW Linux Fest is happening on Saturday January 28 2017, and registration is now open: http://kwlinuxfest.ca . This month's meeting will be held at the usual location: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria St North (at Weber) Kitchener See http://kwlug.org/sjk for maps and pictures. The doors open around 6:30pm, and setup help is always appreciated. The meeting starts at 7:00pm. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org