Jason Paul will continue his exploration of setting up BigBlueButton using GitOps/DevOps principles. His github repo is here: https://github.com/linuxtek-canada/bigbluebutton-aws
Matteo Golin will discuss how he uses Free Software tool suites to make rockets. He writes:
We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Yo Sushi 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.
Megan McDermott will tell us about Marp, the Markdown Presentation System.
Christopher Thompson will relate some adventures (and misadventures) in working with his homelab setup. He will tell us some things that worked and some that very much didn't.
Doug Moen discusses Fedora Atomic Linux distros. Mikalai Birukou discusses the container management platform Incus. See https://kwlug.org/node/1456 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Update 2: It looks like the weather will be quite snowy for Wednesday (2026-01-21) as well. We will not cancel the restaurant meetup, but please do not put your well-being at risk trying to attend. Exercise good judgment in deciding whether to attend given the snow.
Room Update: Unfortunately our usual in-person meeting room is unavailable. This month our meeting will be held in DC 2585 in the Davis Centre at the University of Waterloo. This is the same building as the Davis Centre Library, but on the second floor. The room is somewhat tricky to find, but on the second floor there are some floor maps posted that might help. Here are some directions:
Spencer Hughes describes the software tools he uses to plan his Christmas parties. Mark Connolly discusses the OpenStreetMap-based navigation app Cycling Guide. See https://kwlug.org/node/1447 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Khalid Baheyeldin describes how to get weather alerts and how to control his humidifier using AppDaemon on Home Assistant. Spencer Hughes discusses setting up a NAS on Proxmox using Ceph for distributed storage. See https://kwlug.org/node/1422 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Jason Eckert demonstrates the static site generator Hugo. Mikalai Birukou asks for feedback about system maps for PrivacySafe apps. See https://kwlug.org/node/1444 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Update: Unfortunately Megan will not be able to present this month. We will reschedule her Marp presentation.
Doug Moen will tell us about Fedora Atomic distros such as Fedora Kinoite. He writes:
Fedora Atomic Linux is a family of distros that combine the ease of maintenance and the worry free automatic system updates of Android and ChromeOS, with the hackability, configurability and privacy of traditional desktop Linux.
