We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Bobby O'Brien's Irish Pub 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 125 King St E in Kitchener, near the intersection of King and Young St. Here is a map. 

Bobby O'Brien's does not have its own parking, but 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

This month's meeting will also be a LibreLocal celebration. Please bring your appetites and free-software demos to share with others. 

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: 

This presentation covers the free and open-source software tools that can be used (and in fact, are standard use) for designing, modelling, simulating,building and flying high-powered rockets. We will look at everything from flight  simulations, CAD design, deployment electronics and even mission patch design. Open-source is the best way to participate in rocketry!   

A number of KWLUG members will show off their homelabs and some uses they have found for them:

• Marc Peppin will tell us about some subset of his six servers, two workstations, three laptops, networking gear but no partridge in a pear tree
• Anne DeCusatis will tell us about their collections of Raspberry Pis and a Nintendo Wii running NetBSD
• Mikalai Birukou will share some notes on hardware, computing, ergonomics setups, and uncommon elements
• Thayen will show off some of his gear

Christopher Thompson will describe the components he uses to run self-hosted Large Language Models at home. He writes: 

Get the stack breakdown on the stack path for an LLM that isn't entirely useless. Christopher Thompson walks through the high-level components and integrations you should know"                                                
                                                                            
"Bonus - An agentic build for child safety. Eg. Let your kids have AI, but just not an AI girlfriend(ewe)

Cameron Davidson-Pilon will give us some updates from his Pioreactor project, which sells bioreactors for growing microorganisms in science experiments. As per the name, Pioreactors are based on Raspberry Pi devices. 

Chris Irwin will tell us how upgrading to a heat pump led him through an exciting journey of using smart plugs, some smart appliances and whole-home power monitoring to track his electricity usage in Home Assistant.