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 .
Jason Paul will give us a tour of his homelab setup.
Mikalai Birukou will give us an update on PrivacySafe. He writes:
PrivacySafe is a client system that uses 3NWeb protocols. We'll demo hopefully production version, which you'll be able to use right away, addressing every privacy concern that you may have by doing things the right way (tm) 😁.
This meeting has been re-posted and linked elsewhere:
Some KWLUG members are enthusiastic about getting together in person, and so have organized a dinner meeting 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 .
Fernando Duran discusses his sysadmin training project SadServers, and Sean Dalziel demonstrates how to get Visual Studio Code Server running from inside a virtual machine. Unfortunately, the sound quality on the first presentation was not very good; for those who want to skip ahead, the second begins at 00:43:50 . See https://kwlug.org/node/1303 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
David Trueman from CycleWR is joined by Catalin Pop, Amy Colford and Brent Lintner to present Cycling Guide, a route-finding app which uses OpenStreetMap in its backend. John Steel explains how autocompletion works in the Bash shell. See https://kwlug.org/node/1297 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
