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. 

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. 

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 Nicoll will discuss the Elixir programming language. She writes:

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. 

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

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.