We like Linux and Free and Open Source Software. Please join us on the first non-holiday Monday of each month. We are based in Waterloo Region, but welcome attendees and presenters from anywhere in the world.
This account mostly forwards announcements related to the group from elsewhere.
| Website | https://kwlug.org |
| Location | Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada |
Upcoming Meeting - https://kwlug.org/node/1405
Wednesday, Nov 20 2024, 07:00pm
Location:
We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Ethel's Lounge in Uptown Waterloo, starting at 7pm. Note that this restaurant meeting is on a Wednesday.This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold hybrid meetings for technical topics.The restaurant is located at 114 King Street North in Waterloo, at the corner of King and Young St East. Here is a map. You can probably just show up, bu...
Upcoming Meeting - https://kwlug.org/node/1399
Monday, Nov 4 2024, 07:00pm
Location: Hybrid: BBB and LIB 329 at Dana Porter Library
Mikalai Birukou will give us an update on his platform PrivacySafe.Khalid Baheyeldin will discuss how he uses Home Assistant to monitor the climate inside his home, including humidity, radon VOC, and CO2. He will also discuss MQTT integration with Mosquitto, long-term data storage using InfluxDB, and data visualization with Grafana.
Upcoming Meeting - https://kwlug.org/node/1403
Monday, Dec 2 2024, 07:00pm
Location: Hybrid: BBB and LIB 329 at Dana Porter Library
Lori Paniak will discuss the WatGPU project, which clusters GPUs together for research computation purposes.Sam Zhang will discuss Fabric, a commandline-based "open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI".
Upcoming Meeting - https://kwlug.org/node/1402
Monday, Oct 21 2024, 07:00pm
Location:
We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Kentucky BBQ in uptown Waterloo, starting at 7pm. Note that this restaurant meeting is on a Monday.This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold hybrid meetings for technical topics.The restaurant is located at 103 King Street North in Waterloo, at the corner of King and Young St East. Here is a map. There is parking in front of the restaura...
Video - https://kwlug.org/node/1401
2024-10: Infrastructure as Code, Proxmox
acant
Tue, 2024-10-08 21:11
Spencer Hughes explains why and how to use infrastructure as code tools in your homelab. Colin_ gives us a tour of high-availability on the virtualization platform Proxmox. See https://kwlug.org/node/1395 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials.<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/kwlug_meeting_2024-10-07" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfu...
Upcoming Meeting - https://kwlug.org/node/1395
Monday, Oct 7 2024, 07:00pm
Location: Hybrid: BBB and LIB 329 at Dana Porter Library
Colin_ will discuss the virtualization platform Proxmox. He writes:In this demonstration, I'll show how to set up a Proxmox cluster with High Availability using a stack of older Mac Minis, a Raspberry Pi, and a network switch. The presentation will highlight Proxmox's simplicity and reliability in a simulated home network environment, providing insights into ...
Video - https://kwlug.org/node/1397
2024-09: Video Download Tools, Mosquitto
pnijjar
Tue, 2024-09-17 15:21
Sam Zhang discusses video downloader tools, with an emphasis on yt-dlp. Gord Dey discusses transmitting radio over the internet using Meshtastic and the Mosquitto MQTT server. Video by Mikalai Birukou.
Upcoming Meeting - https://kwlug.org/node/1396
Wednesday, Sep 25 2024, 07:00pm
Location:
We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Crabby Joe's in downtown Kitchener, starting at 7pm. Note that this restaurant meeting is on a Wednesday.This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold hybrid meetings for technical topics.The restaurant is located at 70 King St E in Kitchener, at the corner of King and Frederick St. Here is a map. You can park in the restaurant parking lo...
Video - https://kwlug.org/node/1394
2024-08: Digital Signage, LibreOffice Macros
pnijjar
Fri, 2024-08-16 00:18
Michael Free discusses the components of a digital signage system he built. Mikalai Birukou discusses spreadsheet macros in LibreOffice. Video by Mikalai Birukou.
Upcoming Meeting - https://kwlug.org/node/1392
Monday, Aug 26 2024, 07:00pm
Location:
We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Crabby Joe's in downtown Kitchener, starting at 7pm. Note that this restaurant meeting is on a Monday, and that it is being held at the same location as last month's restaurant meetup.This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold hybrid meetings for technical topics.The restaurant is located at 70 King St E in Kitchener, at the corner of Kin...