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!   

Chris Nicoll will discuss the Elixir programming language. She writes:

Elixir is a functional language that runs on the Erlang VM. It's rumoured to make small teams extra-productive. It specializes in fault tolerance and concurrency, and as such, it's at home in distributed systems.  Elixir is still a niche language -- but with the current explosion in, ahem, interacting automated systems, is it about to have its day?                 
                                                                           
I'm no computer scientist, but I like Elixir. I'm going to try to develop a defensible opinion on that question and present it to you.

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 and Spencer Hughes will show off some of their 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)

Mikalai Birukou will tell us about the components of his platform PrivacySafe, and the establishment of a public charity to assist in its longevity. He writes:

PrivacySafe is a user-controlled platform. This installment presentation will go through tech's foundation describing how security and privacy aspects are implemented on top 3NWeb approach. There is a working client side for desktops. There will be an Android client. There is a server to run from one's home lab, or a Raspberry Pi. This presentation will demo  both server setup process, and usage of applications in one's PrivacySafe installation.                                                   
                                                                           
PrivacySafe Foundation has been set up as a 501(c)(3) public charity in Connecticut, USA, to ensure continual development of 3NWeb standards and  betterment of elements in the commons, i.e. basic client and server code that enables an ecosystem where users have actual privacy, security and control. 

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.