KWLUG Meeting: Monday, November 1, 2021, 7pm
Home Assistant, SQLite
Meeting Date
2021-11-01T19:00:00
John Steel will relate his adventures building a privacy-focused Smarthome system with Home Assistant and ZigBee2Mqtt .
KWLUG Meeting: Monday, Sept 13, 2021, 7pm
MuseScore, Demystifying Containerization
Meeting Date
2021-09-13T19:00:00
Michael Hitchens will follow up his LMMS presentation with another music-related project: the music composition software MuseScore.
Jason Eckert will demystify containerization and orchestration for us. Docker, Kubernetes, Swarms, Rancher... what are these tools used for? Why are they useful? How do they fit together? How has the industry evolved over the past seven years? Jason will answer these questions and more.
2021-08: Krita, Homelab setup
Kyle Murphy demonstrates how he uses Krita, the digital painting program. Bob B shows off his homelab setup. See https://kwlug.org/node/1251 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
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2021-07: Tmux migration, Trivia night
Paul Nijjar describes configuration changes he made in order to migrate from GNU Screen to Tmux, and the group collectively stumps itself with trivia. See kwlug.org/node/1248 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
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2021-06: Arduino, Text Formats
Brent Clements demonstrates some Arduino projects, and Tim Laurence discusses different text formats you may encounter in the world. See kwlug.org/node/1247 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
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KWLUG Meeting: Monday, August 9, 2021, 7pm
Krita/Blender Revisited, Homelab Setup
Meeting Date
2021-08-09T19:00:00
In May we had a Blender/Krita presentation that emphasized Blender. This month we have a followup from Kyle Murphy, who will emphasize the digital painting tool Krita. He will offer some tips and techniques, shows how he incorporates Krita into game design, and demonstrate cross-functionality with Blender.
Bob B will give us a tour of his homelab: a collection of servers, storage and networking that lives in his house.
2021-05: LMMS, Blender
Michael Hitchens introduces the digital audio workstation software LMMS. Rocco Commisso gives an introduction to the 3D modelling program Blender. See kwlug.org/node/1243 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials.
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KWLUG Meeting: Monday, July 5 2021, 7pm
Tmux Migration, Trivia Night
Meeting Date
2021-07-05T19:00:00
This meeting will be held on our BigBlueButton instance: https://webconference.kwlug.org/room/kwlug
Paul Nijjar will explain how and why he transitioned from the GNU Screen multiplexer to Tmux.
The group will collectively hold a trivia night. You can bring some free-software trivia to share and maybe we will get stumped.
KWLUG Meeting: Monday, June 7, 2021, 7pm
Arduino Projects, Text Formats
Meeting Date
2021-06-07T19:00:00
This meeting will be held on BigBlueButton: https://webconference.kwlug.org/room/kwlug .
Brent Clements will demonstrate a few "real world" uses for inexpensive Arduino controllers. He will start with a crash course on what they are and how to work with them. Next he will demonstrate how to control simple lights and other devices with simple programs, as well as discuss a couple of ways he has used Arduinos in the past.
2021-04: Joplin, Curv
John Kerr gives an overview of the notetaking app Joplin, and Doug Moen discusses the impending redesign of his programming language Curv. See kwlug.org/node/1239 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
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