Update: Unfortunately, Joe had a serious personal situation come up, and won't be able to present this evening. There will still be a meeting but the topic is too be announced. In the worst case we will host a roundtable discussion. Our apologies for the last minute change.
Update: We had a roundtable discussion.
Theo Belaire gives an overview of the Rust programming language and its memory-safety features. See kwlug.org/node/1091 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that we have truncated audio silences in this podcast. (What do you think of this?)
Note: We have shifted this meeting a week forward. Cory Doctorow will be giving a talk on Dec 4 at the University of Waterloo, and there is some chance that tickets will be made available to the public. In this case many KWLUG members would prefer to attend that talk rather than this meeting.
The University of Waterloo School of Computer Science (SCS) recently undertook a project to provide several hundred TB of redundant, multi-building distributed high-performance storage for SCS users and infrastructure use. The first part of this talk will recount the non-linear trajectory of the project from the formulation of goals through to the delivered Ceph system.
The design of this system allows for the modular addition of services utilizing the storage. The first such service, SCS Nextcloud, provides a DropBox-like functionality across all popular client platforms. We will give details of a high-availablity implementation of Nextcloud built using haproxy and containers.
Nathan Fish discusses the Salt configuration management system. Ronald Barnes and Bob Jonkman discuss the XMPP setup they use on kwvoip.ca. See kwlug.org/node/1087 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials.
Khalid Baheyeldin has been dabbling in a new hobby: amateur astronomy. In this talk he will share some of the surprisingly capable open source software he has found for astronomy, and has been using. This includes: planetarium applications, drivers for telescope control, astrophotography, astrometry, object databases, and more.
Aden Seaman introduces functional programming in general and Haskell language features in particular. See kwlug.org/node/1078 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials.
Tim Laurence will talk about "How to ruin your life using shell scripts".
Andrew Cant has been playing with JOSM, the Java-based OpenStreetMap editor. He will discuss his experiences thus far.
Mark Steffen discusses OSSIM, an open source intrusion detection and event correlation system. Jason Eckert presents a brief history of Linux and Open Source Software. See kwlug.org/node/1080 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials.
Every so often a group of KWLUGers volunteers to rescue laptops donated to the Computer Recycling project at The Working Centre. For assorted reasons it is not viable for Computer Recycling to spend much time refurbishing these laptops itself, so we sort through them, select ones in reasonable condition, then install Xubuntu on them for resale.
Also this month: we will look at donated routers. We will match them up to power supplies, test them and see whether we can install OpenWRT on them.
