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.)

2026-05: Incident Response, LibreTime

Thomas Busch discusses how to respond to security incidents. Bob Jonkman discusses how he uses LibreTime to manage the Radio Waterloo radio station. See https://kwlug.org/node/1463 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

In-Person Social: Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 7pm

Dinner at Bobby O'Brien's Irish Pub, Downtown Kitchener (also LibreLocal)

Meeting Date

2026-05-20T19:00:00

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

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, August 10, 2026, 7pm

LLM Stack, PrivacySafe

Meeting Date

2026-08-10T19:00:00

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

2026-04: Garage Door Opener, Vibe Coding for Recovery

J. Lucas Donkers describes how he set up a garage door opener he could open with his smartphone. Colin Knapp tells stories of how LLMs helped him recover from a health issue. See https://kwlug.org/node/1471 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

In-Person Social: Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 7pm

Dinner at Crabby Joe's, Downtown Kitchener

Meeting Date

2026-04-29T19:00:00

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

In-Person Social: Wednesday, March 18 2026, 7pm

Dinner at J&B Family Restaurant, Downtown Kitchener

Meeting Date

2026-03-18T19:00:00

We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at J&B Family Restaurant 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 79 Victoria St N in Kitchener, near the corner of Victoria and Duke. Here is a map

2026-02: Home Assistant, ProxySQL

Khalid Baheyeldin explains alerting, voice to text, and garage door sensor functionality in Home Assistant. Shravan Dwarka explains how to use ProxySQL for query routing. See https://kwlug.org/node/1423 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.