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We do not guarantee that every meeting will be recorded. Some presenters may prefer not to be recorded. Sometimes there are technical glitches. Sometimes other bad things happen.

Some of our presentations are also recorded on video. See http://kwlug.org/vidcasts to see these.

2023-05: grassRoots History, Umbrel

Kevin Stumpf discusses UW and six local companies in his grassRoots history of Hi-tech in KW. Bob B discusses how he used Umbrel to explore Bitcoin and the Lightning network. See https://kwlug.org/node/1315 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

2023-04: LanCache, Trivia

John Steel demonstrates the LanCache proxy. Jason E    ckert leads us through some Linux trivia. See https://kwlug.org/node/1317 for additional information, slides and other auxilia    ry materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.

2023-02: pfSense, Plan 9

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.

2023-01: CiviCRM, Origin Stories

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.
 

2022-12: SadServers, Visual Studio Code Server

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.

2022-11: Cycling Guide, Bash Autocompletion

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.

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.