Jim Kelsh demonstrates how to install Linux, and Charlie Drage talks about his work with Kubernetes, Kompose, and Kedge. See kwlug.org/node/1111 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials.
Mary Loubele leads a hands-on workshop about installing Elasticsearch and using it to analyse Twitter data. See kwlug.org/node/1113 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Khalid Baheyeldin has been playing with inexpensive Wifi and Bluetooth enabled microcontrollers. These can be programmed using the Arduino IDE or Micropython (which runs on the chip instead of an operating system). He will tell us about the Internet of Things (IoT) and how to use such microcontrollers to interface devices to things like home automation packages (e.g. Home Assistant), and much more.
Khalid Baheyeldin will talk about the backup strategy he uses at home. He achieves versioned, incremental, off-site backups without relying on third-party services, using the dump utility. This presentation is intended to be accessible to new users.
Update: Khalid has posted his slides on his website: https://baheyeldin.com/linux/presentation-incremental-backup-linux.html
Note: For this meeting we are trying a new meeting location. See the 283 Duke St page for details.
James Kelsh will tell us about using the Linux desktop day to day, including work, fun, and maintenance. This presentation is intended to be accessible to new Linux users.
Update: Sandeep's slides are here: 2018-04-Linux_and_Me.pdf;, and Mike's presentation is linked here: http://telium.ca/?a:dd~id:kwlugpresentation.
KWLUG members hold a roundtable discussion. They covered topics including MySQL replication, token ring networks, speculative execution in light of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, the RowHammer vulnerability, and the geneology of operating systems. See kwlug.org/node/1108 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Doug Moen discusses the 3D modelling language Curv he is developing, and Jonathan Fritz discusses working at Mattermost, which is building a chat-ops open-source alternative to Slack. See kwlug.org/node/1106 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Lori Paniak discusses how he planned and implemented a distributed file storage system using Ceph, ZFS and NextCloud. See kwlug.org/node/1106 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials.
Mary Loubele will lead an interactive demonstration of how to use Elasticsearch to visualize the Twitter API. Bring your laptop loaded with VirtualBox. You will also need a Twitter login to access the API.
To participate, please follow these instructions: http://loubele.org/instructions.pdf
The virtual machine for you to download is here: http://loubele.org/Elastic.ova
