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 about postmarketOS, a Linux distro for mobile devices based upon Alpine Linux.

(Chris will schedule his "Power Monitoring with Home Assistant" presentation to a future month.)

This month's meeting is part of Waterloo Tech Week. They request that we add the following blurb to our publicity: 

We are official event hosts with Waterloo Tech Week 2026, a celebration of what’s been built here, and what’s still to come. We’re building something great together. September 12-17, 2026. waterlootechweek.ca

To commemorate KWLUG's 25th anniversary, a number of early members will reminisce about the origins of KWLUG and reflect on their free software journeys. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and contribute your own thoughts. 

Sumedh Mahajan will demonstrate LearnBot, a system he set up to use AI chatbots in learning management systems (LMSes). The AI helps clarify questions from student users.

Spencer Hughes will tell us about Authentik, a self-hostable, open-source Identity Provider (IdP) for modern single-sign on (SSO) applications.

Thayen Burtenshaw will tell us about Podman, an open-source container management engine.