KWLUG Meeting: Monday, August 11, 2025, 7pm

SadServers, BBB Video Editing Revisited

Meeting Date

2025-08-11T19:00:00

Note: The in-person meeting location has changed. Instead of LIB 329 (the "Computer Lab") this meeting will be held in LIB 323 (the "Learning Lab"), which has glass doors. 

Another Note: Unfortunately Jason had to postpone his BigBlueButton Setup presentation. It will be rescheduled.

Fernando Duran will give us an update on SadServers, which teaches users Linux skills by presenting them with interactive challenges on virtual machines. 

2025-04: ChimeraOS, ESPHome

Alesh Slovak demonstrates new features in his gaming platform ChimeraOS. Tim Laurence configures a smart plug using ESPHome. See https://kwlug.org/node/1415 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, July 7, 2025, 7pm

Transformer Lab, mpv

Meeting Date

2025-07-07T19:00:00

Tony Salomone will tell us about Transformer Lab, which allows you to easily run, train, evaluate and build AI models on your local machine without writing code. 

Sam Zhang will discuss mpv, a free software media player. He will demonstrate hardware acceleration, keybindings, frame advance features and more.

In-Person Social: Wednesday, August 27 2025, 7pm

Dinner at J&B Family Restaurant, Downtown Kitchener

Meeting Date

2025-08-27T19:00:00

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

In-Person Social: Monday, July 21, 2025, 7pm

Dinner at Crabby Joe's, Downtown Kitchener

Meeting Date

2025-07-21T19:00:00

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 Monday. 

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, June 18 2025, 7pm

Dinner at J&B Family Restaurant, Downtown Kitchener

Meeting Date

2025-06-18T19:00:00

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

In-Person Social: Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 7pm

Dinner at Crabby Joe's, Downtown Kitchener

Meeting Date

2025-05-21T19:00:00

Note: This restaurant meetup was originally scheduled for May 19, but monarchists in the group reminded us that this was Victoria Day. We have thus rescheduled the meetup to Wednesday, May 21. The restaurant is the same. 

We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Crabby Joe's in downtown Kitchener, starting at 7pm. 

This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold hybrid meetings for technical topics.

In-Person Social: Wednesday, Apr 23 2025, 7pm

Dinner at J&B Family Restaurant, Downtown Kitchener

Meeting Date

2025-04-23T19:00:00

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

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, June 2, 2025, 7pm

Raspberry Pi Travel Router, PrivacySafe Update

Meeting Date

2025-06-02T19:00:00

Jason Paul will show us how he set up a travel router on a Raspberry Pi, using the RaspAP router distribution. He will discuss the project's features, its installation and configuration, and how to enable additional functionality.

Mikalai Birukou will tell us about the latest updates to PrivacySafe.

2025-03: BigBlueButton Setup with GitOps/DevOps, BigBlueButton Videos

Jason Paul discusses DevOps and GitOps principles for setting up a BigBlueButton Server. Mikalai Birukou demonstrates the workflow he uses to produce the KWLUG vidcast from BBigBlueButton recordings. See https://kwlug.org/node/1416 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.