From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Sat Jan 6 16:05:51 2018 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 16:05:51 -0500 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Kubernetes, Terraform (Jan 2018) Message-ID: <20180106210551.GH4824@nb-heartburn> It's January again. Have you made some resolutions? Are you going to pilot a bunch of containers to a better future? Are you going to change the world? (Or maybe you are having a meltdown over the spectre of recent CPU vulnerabilities?) If you have container problems, Joe Wennechuk has container solutions. One of these tools is Kubernetes (kubernetes.io), a Google-initiated project to deploy containerized applications and keep them running. Another is Terraform (terraform.io), a tool to build up infrastructure, such as deployment and test environments that are identical to each other. Recently, Joe started working with some tools for large scale infrastructure automation, and he would like to share his insights with us. This presentation will start around 7pm. In other news, we are on the hunt for KWLUG presentations this year. We have slots available from March onwards. You can present for 40 minutes or take a 90 minute slot. We are a friendly bunch, so if you are a first-time presenter then this is a good place to practice your presentation skills. We welcome any and all presentations related to free software and free culture. Here is an announcement about KW LinuxFest: it will still happen, but the organizers have pushed the date from January to May 12, 2018. Stay tuned for more information, or follow the progress at https://kwlinuxfest.ca . As always, there are lots of other tech events posted to the Watcamp calendar at http://watcamp.com, and you can get a lovingly produced weekly newsletter of upcoming events by signing up here: https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/watcamp-newsletter_kwlug.org This month's meeting will be held at the usual location: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street N (at Weber) Kitchener There are maps and pictures of the location at http://kwlug.org/sjk . Doors open around 6:30pm, and setup helpers are always welcome. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Sat Feb 3 22:01:34 2018 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 22:01:34 -0500 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Data Visualization with ElasticSearch (Feb 2018) Message-ID: <20180204030133.GD1755@nb-heartburn> Hello again! This is an email! In all likelihood you get many many emails like it every day. Email is one of the many ways the world keeps you informed of its goings on. Along with its friends (phone notifications, chat updates, log files, news feeds, ...) you must be one of the most well-informed people who ever lived. Or you would be, if you weren't drowning in so much information. How do you separate the signal from the noise? How do you focus on the information that is most important? How do you get a big-picture overview of the information you are swimming in? Enter ElasticSearch. It slurps up data and makes it available for further processing via search and analytics. It can then make that data available to other tools, such as the data visualization and dashboard interface Kibana. In this month's meeting, Mary Loubele will lead an interactive demonstration of using ElasticSearch to interface with the Twitter API, and then use Kibana to visually make sense of the results. Since this is a hands-on demonstration, it will work best if you participate. To do so, please have the following with you beforehand: - A laptop with Virtualbox installed - The ElasticSearch virtual machine Mary has set up, available from: http://loubele.org/Elastic.ova - An SSH client. If you are bringing a Windows laptop, get PuTTY. - Installation instructions, available at http://loubele.org/instructions.pdf - If you have a Twitter account, the credentials (and an API key, if you can set one up beforehand). Having these things ready to go will get the demo started faster. If you do not have a sufficiently-powerful laptop then you are still welcome to attend the meeting, but maybe you will be able to work alongside somebody who does. This demonstration will begin at 7pm, after meeting announcements. In other news, those of you interested in 3D printing and graphics modelling might be interested to hear that KWLUG member Doug Moen has officially released his Curv programming language to the world. Doug presented Curv during last December's meeting, and it is a pretty neat way to model 3D shapes geometrically. Get it from https://github.com/doug-moen/curv . KWLUG member Ron Singh has developed passion for spreading the word about KWLUG. He has recently put together a poster which he is distributing around the community: https://kwlug.org/sites/2018-02-01-kwlug-flyer.pdf . You can help spread the word about KWLUG by this poster, one of your own, by inviting somebody you know to a meeting, or by spreading the word on your social media. This month's meeting will be held at the usual location: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria St N (at Weber) Kitchener Doors open around 6:30pm. Setup helpers are always welcome. Park in the thrift store parking lot on the other side of the entrance. See maps and photos of the location at https://kwlug.org/sjk . - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Sat Mar 3 12:22:16 2018 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 12:22:16 -0500 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Laptop Installation, Kubernetes (March 2018) Message-ID: <20180303172215.GF1241@nb-heartburn> This month we are initiating something different at KWLUG. There has been a longstanding tension between more technical talks suitable for advanced users, and more newbie-friendly fare, and often our presentations have leaned on the technical side. Recently some people on the kwlug-disc mailing list became enthusiastic about offering more beginner-friendly fare. So starting this month many meetings will consist of two presentations: one that is more beginner-friendly, and one that is more technical. On the beginner-friendly side, Jim Kelsh will demonstrate how to install Linux on a laptop. His presentation will involve some live demos, but he promises that we will not be staring in silence at an installation screen all session. On the technical side, Charlie Drage will talk about some of the work he is doing with Kubernetes, a system for managing containerized applications at scale. In his day job Charlie works for Red Hat as an Enterprise Cloud Architect. In other news, there are rumours that Jon "maddog" Hall will be in town on March 12 and 13. The Computer Science Club at the University of Waterloo has invited him to give a talk and a workshop. Hall is a well-known advocate for free software and open hardware. He has given talks in town before, and they have been engaging and accessible to general audiences. I have not seen precise details yet, but keep an eye on Watcamp, kwlug-disc, or the csc-general mailing list for further updates. Maker Expo is happening again this year. It is scheduled for June 2 and 3rd, and they are currently looking for exhibitors. They write: > Our focus is on interactivity and inclusivity ? we want to celebrate > a wide range of topics and disciplines, including, but certainly not > limited to: > > 3D printing ? Agriculture ? Arduino ? Arts ? Computing ? Crafts ? > Electric Vehicles ? Electronics ? Engineering ? Gardening ? How-tos > & Education ? Metalworking ? Model Aircraft & Flying Machines ? > Paper Arts ? Robotics ? Science ? Sewing & Textiles ? Space & > Near-Space ? Student Projects ? Wearables ? Woodworking AND > MORE! (There is room for all sorts of makers!) If you are interested in applying, fill out an application at https://www.makerexpo.ca/application/ . Our meeting will be held at the usual location: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street North (at Weber) Kitchener There is parking in the thrift store parking lot, and bike parking along the side of the building. Find maps and pictures of the location at https://kwlug.org/sjk Doors open around 6:30pm. Setup helpers are always welcome and appreciated. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Fri Apr 6 19:20:36 2018 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 19:20:36 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: A User Journey; VoIP Security (April 2018) Message-ID: <20180406232035.GB1357@nb-heartburn> Everybody starts somewhere. Nobody is born being a computer expert. It can be helpful for experienced users to be reminded of what it was like to start using an operating system, and it can be helpful for new users to learn from their peers. So it is nice that the beginner-friendly portion of this month's meeting is going to involve Sandeep Johri telling us about his journey to becoming an experienced Linux user. Also on the bill is first-time presenter Steve Walker. He works in the field of VoIP solutions, and will share some thoughts about VoIP security: how and why your VoIP system can be hacked, common vulnerabilities and how to detect them, and how to make your Asterisk installations more secure. These presentations begin at 7pm. In other news, Maker Expo is happening June 2 and 3rd, but the call for exhibitors closes April 20. If you make things and would like to show off what you do, you should apply to be an exhibitor. See https://makerexpo.ca for more information. We have not held a Laptop Rescue Mission for a while. There is a chance (not a guarantee) that maybe we will start something up again. It would probably be held on a Saturday afternoon, as before. Are you interested? If so send me an email offlist. This month's meeting will be held at the usual location: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria Street N (at Weber) Kitchener There is parking in the thrift store parking lot. See https://kwlug.org/sjk for maps and pictures of the location. Doors open around 6:30pm. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Fri May 4 12:54:50 2018 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 12:54:50 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Backups, Mail-in-a-Box (May 2018) Message-ID: <20180504165450.GB3538@nb-heartburn> At this month's meeting we will go back to basics: backups and email. Khalid Baheyeldin will get us started with a beginner-friendly introduction to his backup strategy, revolving around the dump utility. This allows him to make versioned, incremental, off-site backups, and does not require a third-party cloud service. Colin Knapp will follow this up with a demonstration of Mail-in-a-Box, a software bundle that tries to make it easy to run a mail server on the modern Internet. It includes webmail, IMAP/POP access, spam filtering, and all the fiddly DNS wrangling necessary for other mail servers on the Internet to consider you a legitimate mail source. These presentations will start at 7pm, after meeting announcements. In other news, Maker Expo is happening June 2 and 3 at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium. In addition to attendees they are also looking for volunteers; visit https://makerexpo.ca for more information. CIGI has been putting on some interesting talks related to information security and intellectual property. One talk that may be of interest is entitled "Our Data Driven Future" by Susan Ariel Aaronson. That talk will be held Tuesday, May 15 at the CIGI auditorium. Visit https://www.cigionline.org/events/our-data-driven-future for more information. If you missed Cory Doctorow when he was here in December (or you would like to see him speak again) he is giving a talk entitled "The war on general purpose computers is the war on science". I think that this is open to the public. It will be held Wednesday May 9 at 2pm. See https://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/seminar/war-general-purpose-computers-war-science for more details. This is your irregularly-scheduled reminder that you can get more comprehensive listings of upcoming tech events on the Watcamp-newsletter mailing list. You will get a weekly email with tech events pulled from watcamp.com . See https://off-topic.kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/watcamp-newsletter_off-topic.kwlug.org for more information and to subscribe. This month's meeting will be held at St John's Kitchen: St John's Kitchen 97 Victoria St North (at Weber) Kitchener There is more information about St John's Kitchen at https://kwlug.org/sjk . The building opens around 6:30pm or so, and setup helpers are always welcome. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Fri Jun 1 13:31:18 2018 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 13:31:18 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday (NEW LOCATION): Linux Desktop Use, PostGreSQL Indices Message-ID: <20180601173118.GB1150@nb-heartburn> LOCATION CHANGE: For some time KWLUG has been looking for new meeting spaces. This month we will experiment with a new candidate: the KW Innovation Centre co-working space at 283 Duke St West, in Kitchener. (This is sometimes known as the "Canada Blockchain Hub" in the old Boehmer Box building.) The new space is about block away from the old one. See https://kwlug.org/283-duke for maps and information. I hope you will be able to find the new space because there are some nice presentations lined up. Our beginner-friendly presentation will be delivered by Jim Kelsh, who will take us on a tour of how to use Linux desktop environments day by day. If you have been dabbling with a Linux desktop environment but have not transitioned to one for daily use, this is the presentation for you. On the more technical side, first-time KWLUG presenter Hadi Moshayedi will talk about different kinds of indices in the PostgreSQL database. PostgreSQL offers many different ways to organize your data for fast lookups, and they all come with advantages and drawbacks. Hadi will discuss B-tree, GIST, GIN, Hash, and Brin indices. Also: we are on the lookout for a 40-minute beginner-friendly presentation for July. If you have something in mind then please get in touch. With the summer season (finally) approaching there are lots and lots of interesting events going on over the next few weeks. Here are a few that may be of interest to KWLUG: - This weekend (June 2 and June 3) is Maker Expo! This free event features all kinds of demonstrations and displays of cool tech and art projects created by local makers. There are also many hands-on workshops suitable for both kids and grownups. In addition robots beat each other up for our amusement, and there is an interesting speaker series. This year Maker Expo has expanded to the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium, and has expanded to two days (but is still gratis?!). For directions and more information, visit https://makerexpo.ca . - If you would like to ham things up, on Sunday the Guelph and Kitchener Amateur Radio Clubs are hosting the Central Ontario Hamfest, dedicated to radio and electronics. This event is not gratis, but should be lots of fun. See http://hamfest.on.ca/ for more information. (It turns out there is a relationship between ham radio enthusiasts and Linux; in the beginning days of distributions, ham radio enthusiasts were early adopters of Linux as a platform for their software, as evidenced by the still-existing "hamradio" section in Debian: https://packages.debian.org/stable/hamradio/.) - Our friends at Hive Waterloo Region (disclaimer: I am now an organizing member?!) are holding their next big event on Wednesday, June 6, at Alert Labs. There will be a number of speakers offering quick talks on digital literacy and inclusion. See http://hivewr.ca/events/hive-wr-meetup-6/ for more information. There are tonnes of other things happening. As always, check out http://watcamp.com for some of them. Here's information about our new meeting space again: KW Innovation Hub (aka "Canada Blockchain Hub") Unit 225 283 Duke Street West (near Duke and Victoria, just past the railroad tracks) Kitchener Maps and photos are available at https://kwlug.org/283-duke . The meeting will start at 7pm, and we will start setting up around 6:30pm. Note that there are two sets of doors to the room, but it is likely that only one set will be open. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Sun Jul 8 00:16:32 2018 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 00:16:32 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Sprinkler System, Qubes OS (July 2018) Message-ID: <20180708041632.GC1253@nb-heartburn> First, a location note: This month, we will again be in the KW Innovation Centre at 283 Duke St: https://kwlug.org/283-duke . In August we will be at the Google Community Space. Then we will be back at KWIC. Do you know what people do when it is hot and sunny? Some people hide indoors behind their computer monitors. Other people grow things. Apparently plants and other weird life forms enjoy hot and sunny weather so they can grow better, so humans cultivate some of those plants for food and ornamentation. Tim Laurence is one of those people. He has a beautiful garden full of basil and tomatoes and other edible things. But there is a problem! When it is hot and sunny plants use up more water, and sometimes if you don't give them water they shrivel up and die. What to do? If you're Tim, you use a Raspberry Pi to solve the problem: you build an automated sprinkler system that keeps your plants watered. In this beginner-friendly presentation, Tim will talk about how he set things up. Or maybe you prefer spending your summers in compartments? If so, Qubes OS might be for you. Qubes is a security-focused operating system that uses Xen to compartmentalize applications and processes. An interesting side effect is that you can run different operating systems in different guest compartments side-by-side. Ben Turnbull has been exploring Qubes OS, and he will give us an overview and some live demonstrations of what it can do. In other news: I missed announcing this for last month's meeting, but there is a new PostgreSQL meetup in town, organized by KWLUG members Dave Cramer and Hadi Moshayedi. If you are interested then you can join the Meetup group here: https://www.meetup.com/Waterloo-PostgreSQL-Meetup/ As mentioned above, this month's meeting will be held at the KW Innovation Centre: KWIC Unit #225 283 Duke Street (Just beyond the train tracks) Kitchener See https://kwlug.org/283-duke for maps and pictures. Doors will open around 6:30pm. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Sat Aug 11 01:23:20 2018 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 01:23:20 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Life as a Debian Developer; High Availability (Aug 2018) Message-ID: <20180811052320.GA13190@nb-heartburn> Let's start with a location note: for this month, we are holding our KWLUG meeting in the Google Community Space, at 25 Breithaupt Street. For details about the meeting location, see https://kwlug.org/google-community-space . Note that we will all get name badges while we are on the space (but I think they are regular name badges and not high-tech surveillance ones). There are some other rules we have to follow, but most of them are common-sense. If you are interested, you can read them here: https://kwlug.org/sites/default/files/2018-08/Google_Waterloo_Community_Space_Security_Guidelines.pdf As a second note, Jim Kelsh is ill and won't be able to give his Virtual Machine beginner talk this month, but we will reschedule. However, we have two other talks which should be pretty excellent. First, we will hear from Hubert Chathi, who has been a Debian developer for many years now. Hubert has maintained several packages for Debian over the years and has seen the Debian project grow and change. In celebration of Debian's 25th anniversary, he will give a high-level, largely non-technical overview of his experiences. Secondly, Madison Kelly will give us a high-level overview of how high-availability computing works. She will keep the talk flexible, with lots of opportunities for you to ask your questions. That's it for this exciting edition of August Announcement Meeting, except for telling you where our August meeting will be held: Google Community Space 25 Breithaupt Street Kitchener The entrance is off of Breithaupt Street. See https://kwlug.org/google-community-space for maps and photos of the meeting entrance. - Paul -- Municipal election information: https://waterlooregionvotes.org (Please spread the word! Contributions also gratefully accepted.) From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Sat Sep 8 00:57:43 2018 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 00:57:43 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Gitlab, Swap Meet (Sept 2018) Message-ID: <20180908045743.GG1129@nb-heartburn> Don't look now, but it appears that Microsoft won after all. Want a job? Every career counsellor in the Western World insists that you need to get an account on Microsoft LinkedIn and use it to network, or be unemployed forever. Want to develop software collaboratively? You had best be using Git, and if you're using Git and want any credibility you had better be uploading your repositories on Microsoft GitHub, and using their proprietary tools for issue tracking and pull requests. Sure, we don't have to use their operating system (and we can even use Linux in Windows 10 now!) and we don't need to use their web browser, but overall we have been embraced and extended. There is no escape. Or is there? Colin Knapp belongs to a determined resistance that wants you to be able to host collaborative socialized Git repositories on whatever server you want. Gitlab is a web-based repository manager that has a freely-licensed community edition. As a followup to his last Gitlab presentation in March 2015 (!?) Colin will meet us in a secret undisclosed location (namely, the KW Innovation Centre at 283 Duke Street) to talk about "Creating problems to solve problems in GitLab". He will talk about how to organize and compartmentalize projects, Kanban boards, the development cycle he uses, and GitLab Runners. This presentation will begin around 7:00pm. Do you have some electronic treasure sitting around, possibly disguised as trash that is collecting dust at your house? Do you have old computers with neat histories? The second part of our evening at KWLUG will consist of an electronics swap meet. You can come and trade stuff, or pick up stuff, or drop off stuff, or tell stories about stuff, or just listen to other people tell stories about stuff. If there is surplus unwanted stuff then we will (I hope!) get it sent to be disposed of responsibly. In other news, this is your irregularly scheduled reminder that https://watcamp.com exists, that it is a great resource if you are looking for local tech meetups, and that you can get a weekly listing of events sent to you by email here: http://off-topic.kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/watcamp-newsletter_off-topic.kwlug.org That's all I have, other than to remind you that our secret meeting location will once again be the KW Innovation Centre: KW Innovation Centre Unit 225 283 Duke St W (just past Victoria) Kitchener See https://kwlug.org/283-duke for maps and pictures of the site. We will open the space around 6:30-6:45pm. - Paul -- Municipal election information: https://waterlooregionvotes.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Sat Sep 29 00:13:50 2018 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:13:50 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Programming Microcontrollers (October 2018) Message-ID: <20180929041350.GE2360@nb-heartburn> In addition to staring up at the sky a lot, recently Khalid Baheyeldin has started playing with microcontrollers -- in particular, Bluetooth and wifi-enabled devices that can be programmed in micropython. These devices can serve as interfaces to the Internet of Things, so that you can automate your home, make your seat cushions smart, and authorize your entire house to spy on your every move. (Hey Google, how do I know if I am paranoid? Alexa, book me an appointment at your re-education camp.) Ever the techno-utopian, Khalid has been having lots of fun playing with these cheap microcontrollers, and he will share his enthusiasm starting at 7pm. Although this is not explicitly billed as a beginner-friendly talk, Khalid's talks are always articulate and approachable, so if you show up you will probably learn something. If you like electronics and lights, perhaps you would be interested in attending the City of Waterloo's Lumen Saturday evening? https://www.waterloo.ca/en/living/lumen.asp There will probably be some microcontrollers in action there too. This month's meeting will be held at our new, semi-permanent home: KW Innovation Centre Unit 225 283 Duke St W Kitchener See https://kwlug.org/283-duke for maps and pictures of the location. - Paul -- Your municipal election hub: https://waterlooregionvotes.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Sun Nov 4 00:24:10 2018 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 00:24:10 -0400 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: Website Security, Virtual Machines (Nov 2018) Message-ID: <20181104042409.GH1224@nb-heartburn> Halloween has just passed, and we are all disoriented by the time change, so what better time for a terrifying (oops. sorry. "spooky") and unsettling topic at KWLUG: web security. When we put a website out in the world, we open ourselves to all kinds of scary attacks that can harm our users, corrupt our data, and hurt our reputations. Is there any hope? Mark Steffen thinks so. He uses a number of tools to test for website vulnerabilities, including Burp Suite, Vega, and Nikto. He will tell us about (some of) these tools and how to use them to harden our web applications. Our beginner-friendly presentation this month is by Jim Kelsh. He will show us how to set up Linux virtual machines running in Windows 10. If you are interested in using Linux but are not willing to give up your Windows installation, or if you are looking for additional installations for experimentation, this is the talk for you. In other news, we are looking for presentations! There are slots available from December (!) onwards, so if you want to give a talk without the wait, now is your opportunity. Contact me offlist if you are interested, or come to the meeting and propose your talk. Hive Waterloo Region brings together those who are interested in digital inclusion and digital literacy in the area. They are putting together an event for Wednesday, November 21. A little birdy (namely, their internal discussion list) tells me that the theme for this meetup is "Women in Engineering." They have a couple of speakers lined up, but are looking for one or two more to give a 20 minute presentation. If you are interested (or know somebody else who might be) then contact hello at hivewr.ca . If you would like to attend their event on the 21st you can register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/hive-wr-meetup-7-tickets-52072897438 (The ticket page is a little sparse now, but I am told it will be populated shortly.) That's all I have for now. As always, if you have FLOSS-y events you would like me to mention, then let me know. Our meeting will be held in our new space, with its ever-changing name: Kitchener-Waterloo Innovation Centre 283 Duke St W, Unit 225 Kitchener (just north of Victoria) You can find maps and pictures of the location at https://kwlug.org/283-duke The meeting starts at 7:00pm. Doors open around 6:30pm, or whenever somebody with a thumbprint gets to the room. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org From paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca Sun Dec 2 03:24:33 2018 From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca (Paul Nijjar) Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 03:24:33 -0500 Subject: [kwlug-announce] Meeting Monday: LXD, SSH Tricks (Dec 2018) Message-ID: <20181202082433.GC1158@nb-heartburn> Here we are again. December. To commemorate the last meeting of the year we will box ourselves in and communicate in tricky ways. LXD offers sysadmins and enthusiasts lightweight containerization that is easy to experiment with, and which attempts to be secure out of the box. LXD exposes a REST API and some tools to set up containers and control them. In his first KWLUG presentation, Mikalai Burukou will show us what LXD is and how it works. He says this will be a good talk for beginning systems adminsitrators or those who would like to dabble on the commandline. Many of us are familiar with SSH. We often use it to communicate with remote computers interactively. Some of us use it as a transport for other commands, such as rsync or git. But SSH is a flexible, powerful tool. Jason Eckert will demonstrate some of that power by showing us some SSH tricks. In other news, tickets for the grassroots conference StarCon are now available. You can purchase yours at starcon.io . This month's meeting will be held at the KW Innovation Centre: 283 Duke Street, Unit 225 Kitchener Maps and photos of the location are here: https://kwlug.org/283-duke . Doors open around 6:30pm or so. The meeting starts at 7pm. - Paul -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org