Update: Unfortunately Megan will not be able to present this month. We will reschedule her Marp presentation. 

Doug Moen will tell us about Fedora Atomic distros such as  Fedora Kinoite. He writes:

Fedora Atomic Linux is a family of distros that combine the ease of maintenance and the worry free automatic system updates of Android and ChromeOS, with the hackability, configurability and privacy of traditional desktop Linux.

There's a old meme about the "year of the Linux desktop", which is somehow always in the future. In order to get there, we need to match the ease of use and maintenance of consumer operating systems. There's more to this than just polishing the GUI. In order to have worry free automatic upgrades, that happen in the background, without impacting the operation of the machine, and that can't fail and trash your disk, we need an architectural change. Fedora Atomic Linux delivers this architectural change. It does this without throwing away our existing package ecosystems, and while still allowing you to freely modify and configure your system.

I will argue that atomic distros are the future of desktop Linux: they will be easier to use and more reliable for novice users migrating from Windows, and provide a better experience for developers and system hackers. And I will share my experiences of using such a distro.
 

Mikalai Birukou will tell us about Incus, a Linux container platform developed as  an alternative to LXD. 

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 

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. 

Bob Jonkman from Radio Waterloo will tell us about LibreTime, the radio automation and scheduling software that runs the station. (This presentation will be held during the second presentation slot. If all goes well it will be simulcast as a radio show.)