Location note: Once again we have changed rooms for the in-person meeting. This month's meeting will be held in DC 1568 at the University of Waterloo. Note that this is in the Davis Centre library, not the Dana Porter library. Don't get confused! 

Update: Unfortunately, Bob B won't be able to present his Stupid Bash Tricks presentation this month. We will reschedule it.

Jason Eckert will tell us how to use Hugo to generate static websites.

Mikalai Birukou will demonstrate system maps in PrivacySafe.

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. 

There is parking in front of the restaurant. The nearest City parking lot is at Hall Lane.

Normally you can probably just show up, but J&B is a small place. If you plan to attend please make sure to RSVP to dinner@kwlug.org, so the organizers can make an accurate reservation. If you know what you plan to order from the menu, please include your order as well so the restaurant staff can prepare food in advance.

Khalid Baheyeldin will continue his series of talks about Home Assistant by telling us about AppDaemon, an execution environment that interfaces with Home Assistant for writing custom apps in Python. He will demonstrate a simple app, and then show some more involved ones, including an app for emailing weather updates, and an app to replace his humidifier's humidistat.
 

Spencer Hughes will demonstrate how he uses Ceph and Proxmox for network storage. He writes:

Proxmox supports Ceph for VM storage, but the built-in Ceph deployment can be used for much more. Learn how to use the Proxmox-managed Ceph cluster for storing any kind of data and accessing it over the network. 

We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Crabby Joe's 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.

The restaurant is located at 70 King St E in Kitchener, at the corner of King and Frederick St. Here is a map. 

Parking is free in the Crabby Joe's parking lot with purchase. The waitstaff will scan your ticket when you leave, which will permit you to leave the parking lot for free. In addition, parking at City of Kitchener parking lots is free after 5pm. The nearest City parking lots are at 40 Ontario St S, or 5 Charles St E.

You can probably just show up, but the organizers would find it helpful if you RSVPed to dinner@kwlug.org 

Spencer Hughes will show us how he plans his annual Christmas party using FLOSS. He writes: 

This talk describes the technology I use to organize and operate my annual Christmas party using open‑source software and other tech services. Topics include RSVP handling, inventory and food scheduling, network and media, sharing useful links, and some fun party favours we’ve setup.

Mark Connolly from the Cycling Guide Foundation will discuss the Cycling Guide app, including lessons about ranking route safety, and effective OpenStreetMap integration.

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. 

There is parking in front of the restaurant. The nearest City parking lot is at Hall Lane.

Normally you can probably just show up, but J&B is a small place. If you plan to attend please make sure to RSVP to dinner@kwlug.org, so the organizers can make an accurate reservation. If you know what you plan to order from the menu, please include your order as well so the restaurant staff can prepare food in advance.

Megan McDermott will tell us about Marp, the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem to create Powerpointish slide decks that can be themed using CSS. 

Khalid Baheyeldin will demonstrate some additional ways he uses Home Assistant. He will explain voice to text functionality, email and voice alerts for such events as extreme temperatures/humidity and door openings. He will also demonstrate a custom-made garage sensor that informs him about a light that is left on unintentionally, and the surprising reason why he had to swap out the ambient light component in the sensor after several years.

Shravan Dwarka will tell us about the popular floss database MariaDB and the powerful load balancer, proxy and firewall for SQL traffic ProxySQL.