Ian Kelly of PeaceWorks will tell us about the CiviCRM project and their work with it.
CiviCRM(wikipedia) is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system designed especially for non-profit and civil society groups. Built in PHP and licensed AGPLv3 it integrates with a wide variety of other CMSes.
Fernando Duran will show off his new service SadServers.
SadServers provides you with interesting Linux admin and SRE(Site Reliability Engineering) problems to solve in the browser. It can be just a fun Capture the Flag challenge, or help practice your skills before an interview.
Karla Falk introduces the Open Food Network, an international collaborative that is building distributed e-commerce platforms for local farmers. Paul Nijjar discusses the municipal election website Waterloo Region Votes. See https://kwlug.org/node/1298 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Doug Moen proposes Baz and Bazaar. Baz is a new packaging system for desktop software across platforms. Bazaar is a distributed free software app store. Andrew Cant discusses how he upgraded library dependencies for a Ruby project. See https://kwlug.org/node/1294 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Karla Falk will give an overview of the Open Food Network. OFN is a non-profit, building open source tools (licensed AGPLv3) to help farmers sell the food they grow more easily.
David Trueman is a founder and current president of cycling advocacy group CycleWR. With design firm Zeitspace, he helped build https://www.cyclingguide.app/ , which is powered by OpenStreetMap. The app will be open source.
This meeting features two tools to assist with firewall creation on Linux. Lori Paniak discusses Shorewall, and Bob B discusses FWBuilder. See https://kwlug.org/node/1289 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Doug Moen will introduce his new project Baz. Baz is new open source project with the goal of publishing desktop apps to every desktop in the world as easily as we access webapps. Installing software should be as easy as downloading a package from a website, with the resulting program registered with the OS's package management system. Bazaar will be an associated, decentralized app store embedded in the world wide web.
Doug will introduce his plans for the project, and solicit helpers to help him make it a reality.
Jason Eckert discusses Asahi Linux, a project to run Linux on Apple Silicon Macs. Ron Barnes demonstrates how to create a dynamic bar graph using D3, the Data Driven Documents Javascript library. See https://kwlug.org/node/1288 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Ken Taylor discusses his plans to use open source tools to manage and monitor a seniors residence. Mikalai Birukou demonstrates some aspects of his privacy-focused server platform 3NWeb. See https://kwlug.org/node/1285 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
