KWLUG Meeting: Monday, September 8, 2025, 7pm

Note: the location for the in-person meeting will continue to be LIB 323 at the Dana Porter library, not LIB 329. This will be our in-person home for the indefinite future.

Some members of the Waterloo Region Drupal User Group will tell us about the venerable content management system Drupal, and its relevance in the modern web.

Doug Moen will share "A Luddite Perspective on GrapheneOS", a secure and open-source firmware for (some) Android phones. Amongst other things, he will share why GrapheneOS is suited to his threat model and ethical system, why Calyx and other FOSS phone distros are less well suited, and why he rejected the GrapheneOS app store in favor of F-Droid. Along the way he will discuss the philosophies behind his choices, including  Ned Ludd, malware, surveillance capitalism, Kant's Categorical Imperative, and threat models.