KWLUG Meeting: Monday, Sept 9, 2024, 7pm

YouTube Download Tools, Mosquitto

Meeting Date

2024-09-09T19:00:00

Sam Zhang will follow up his July presentation on download managers with a discussion about video downloading tools. He will cover the death of youtube-dl, the rise of yt-dlp, as well as commandline usage and configuration for these tools.

Gordon Dey will tell us about his journey of getting a transceiver working with the MQTT publish/subscribe server Mosquitto

 

In-Person Social: Wednesday, July 24, 2024, 7pm

Dinner at Crabby Joe's, Downtown Kitchener

Meeting Date

2024-07-24T19:00:00

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 Wednesday.

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

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, Aug 12, 2024, 7pm

Digital Displays, LibreOffice Macros

Meeting Date

2024-08-12T19:00:00

Michael Free will discuss how he put together a digital signage player using common Linux utilities and bash scripts. He will discuss using Debian preseeding for automatic installation, packaging deb files, using Cockpit to manage digital signs, and Ansible for automation.

Mikalai Birukou will tell us about how to automate things using macros in LibreOffice. He writes:

2024-06: Matrix, Pioreactor

Hubert Chathi tells us what's new with the decentralized communications platform Matrix. Cam Davidson-Pilon tells us about his startup Pioreactor, which makes low-cost bioreactors that run on Raspberry Pi boards. See https://kwlug.org/node/1379 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

In-Person Social: Monday, June 17, 2024, 7pm

Dinner at Crabby Joe's, Downtown Kitchener

Meeting Date

2024-06-17T19:00:00

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, and that it is being held at the same location as last month's restaurant meetup.

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

2024-05: Intro to Linux, SQLPage

Jason Paul presents a brief overview of Linux (followed by a robust discussion). Anton Avramov presents examples from the SQL-oriented web development framework SQLpage, with an introduction from project founder Ophir Lojkine. See https://kwlug.org/node/1374 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

In-Person Social: Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 7pm

Dinner at Crabby Joe's, Downtown Kitchener

Meeting Date

2024-05-22T19:00:00

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 Wednesday.

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

KWLUG Meeting: Monday, June 3, 2024, 7pm

Matrix, Pioreactor

Meeting Date

2024-06-03T19:00:00

Hubert Chathi is a developer for Matrix, a real-time communications protocol that supports end-to-end encrypted decentralized communication. Hubert last told us about Matrix in 2019, and now he will tell about what is new and exciting in the Matrix world.

2024-04: Privacy and Tor Exit Nodes; Home Automation Sensors

Ian Goldberg discusses privacy and the value of universities running Tor exit nodes. Tim Laurence discusses sensors and their uses in his home automation system. See https://kwlug.org/node/1366 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.