OpenWRT

Contribution Date

It's somewhat startling to realize OpenWRT wasn't nominated long ago ...

From http://openwrt.org/:

- OpenWrt is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices.

Contributions - cash or equipment, but apparently to SPI, with instructions to forward to OpenWRT, instead of OpenWRT directly:

- https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/SupportDonate - includes credit card payment means. No obvious PayPal mechanism sticks out.

In-Person Social: Monday, August 24, 2026, 7pm

Dinner at Huether Hotel, Uptown Waterloo

Meeting Date

2026-08-24T19:00:00

We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at the Huether Hotel in Uptown Waterloo, 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 59 King St N in Waterloo, near the intersection of King and Princess St E. Here is a map

In-Person Social: Wednesday, July 22, 2026, 7pm

Dinner at Crabby Joe's, Downtown Kitchener

Meeting Date

2026-07-22T19:00:00

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 Wednesday

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

2026-06: BigBlueButton Setup, High-Powered Rocketry

Jason Paul describes how he set up a backup BigBlueButton webconferencing server on AWS. Matteo Golin discusses the use of free software in high-powered rocketry. See https://kwlug.org/node/1470 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

In-Person Social: Monday, June 15, 2026, 7pm

Dinner at Prohibition Warehouse, Uptown Waterloo

Meeting Date

2026-06-15T19:00:00

We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Prohibition Warehouse in Uptown Waterloo, 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 56 King St N in Waterloo, near the intersection of King and Princess St E. Here is a map

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, October 5, 2026, 7pm

25th Anniversary Panel + 1 more?

Meeting Date

2026-10-05T19:00:00

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. 

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, Sept 14, 2026, 7pm

Pioreactor, postmarketOS

Meeting Date

2026-09-14T19:00:00

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.)