Khalid Baheyeldin discusses how he got into astronomy, and the software he uses to help him take pictures of the sky: Stellarium, Cartes du Ciel, and KStars. See kwlug.org/node/1011 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Jim Kelsh will demonstrate how to install Linux on a laptop. He may cover different installation methods and different distributions. This presentation is intended to be friendly to beginners to Linux.
Update: Jim's slides are here: 2018-03-05-linux-installation.odp
Charlie Drage will discuss his work (and contributions) to Kubernetes.
Tim Laurence tells us how to ruin our lives with shell scripts, and Andrew Cant tells us how to map buildings in JOSM. See kwlug.org/node/1098 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Bob Jonkman sets up conference calling with FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX. See kwlug.org/node/1090 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
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.
