This meeting will be held virtually.
John Driezen will discuss a Python application he wrote to track scrap metal prices. He will show us some programs that led him to the final version of the app, and show his motivations for developing the app. (Note: John was originally scheduled to give this talk last April, but he had to cancel. So we have rescheduled him now.)
Jason Paul gives us a tour of his home lab setup full of enterprise servers. Mikalai Birukou discusses PrivacySafe. See https://kwlug.org/node/1311 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials.
We are continuing the post-pandemic dinner meetup tradition at McCabe's Irish Pub and Grill in Kitchener, starting at 7pm. This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold virtual meetings for technical topics.
The address is 352 King Street West, Kitchener, ON, near King and Francis streets.
You can probably just show up, but the organizers would find it helpful if you RSVPed to dinner@kwlug.org .
Note: This meeting will be held online.
Note: Brent had to postpone his Ardour presentation. Jason Eckert kindly agreed to fill in with a fun presentation refreshing us about the UNIX philosophy.
Jason Paul will tell us about Dev Containers and Cloud Development environments. He writes:
Bob B discusses esoteric features of the firewall distribution pfSense, and Nathan G introduces the Plan 9 operating system. See https://kwlug.org/node/1305 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Update, April 3: Unfortunately, John Driezen suffered an internet outage and won't be presenting today. We will reschedule his presentation. John Steel will still be presenting LanCache.
John Driezen will discuss a Python application he wrote to track scrap metal prices. He will show us some programs that led him to the final version of the app, and show his motivations for developing the app.
John Steel will tell us about LanCache, a proxy server that makes it easy to distribute binaries for your LAN parties.
The December meetup went well, so some KWLUG members have organized another dinner at McCabe's Irish Pub and Grill in Kitchener, starting at 7pm. This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold virtual meetings for technical topics.
The address is 352 King Street West, Kitchener, ON, near King and Francis streets.
You can probably just show up, but the organizers would find it helpful if you RSVPed to dinner@kwlug.org .
Update: The meeting is confirmed as being online.
Kevin Stumpf will share his "anecdotal history of the early technological community in KW from 1920 to 1990". Revisiting an excellent talk he gave a decade ago, he will discuss some of the early companies that put Kitchener-Waterloo on the map, as well as some of the technical innovations in the area.
Ian Kelly introduces CiviCRM, a constituent relationship management system. Five KWLUG members - Brent Clements, Jason Eckert, Jason Paul, Aaron Sohl and Andrew Sullivan Cant -- share how they got into Linux and Free Software, and where that interest took them. See https://kwlug.org/node/1304 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
The December meetup went well, so some KWLUG members have organized another dinner at McCabe's Irish Pub and Grill in Kitchener, starting at 7pm. This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold virtual meetings for technical topics.
The address is 352 King Street West, Kitchener, ON, near King and Francis streets.
You can probably just show up, but the organizers would find it helpful if you RSVPed to dinner@kwlug.org .
