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2022-10: Open Food Network, Waterloo Region Votes

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.

2022-09: Baz/Bazaar, Updating Ruby Libraries

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.

2022-08: Shorewall, FWBuilder

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.

2022-07: Asahi Linux, D3.js

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.

2022-06: Residence Management, 3NWeb

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.

2022-05: pass Password Manager, Helm Charts

Bob B walks us through saving secrets in text files, ending up at the Pass password manager. John Steel walks us through deploying a Docker project in Kubernetes, ending up with Helm Charts. See https://kwlug.org/node/1283 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

2022-04: Firefox Extensions, OBS

Andrew Cant discusses privacy-enhancing Firefox configurations and extensions. Brent Clements gives a tour of Open Broadcaster Software Studio and how he used it for a FASS community theatre production. See https://kwlug.org/node/1279 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

2022-03: Linux Installations, WebAssembly

Paul Nijjar presents a beginner-friendly introduction to installing Linux, and Mikalai Birukou discusses WebAssembly. See https://kwlug.org/node/1275 for addi1tional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

2022-02: Vulnerability Scanner, Kubernetes Tutorial

Ilguiz Latypov discusses a "community cleanup" project to scan for vulnerable internet devices and notify the owners. Jason Eckert leads us through a Kubernetes tutorial with Docker and Minikube. See https://kwlug.org/node/1272 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

2022-01: ESPHome, Linux USB Persistence

Tim Laurence presents ESPHome, a tool that allows you to configure ESP home automation devices. Cris Waurechen describes how to set up USB flash drives to boot into Linux Mint and Manjaro with persistence, so you can save files between boots. See https://kwlug.org/node/1266 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.