We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at the Huether Hotel 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 59 King St N in Waterloo, near the intersection of King and Princess St E. Here is a map. 

The Huether does not have its own parking, but parking at some Uptown parking lots are free in the evening. This includes parking at Waterloo Town Square and a lot near Bridgeport and Regina.

You can probably just show up, but the organizers would find it helpful if you RSVPed to dinner@kwlug.org

The restaurant has a patio and we will try to be outside, weather permitting.

Elsewhere

• Luma

Cameron Davidson-Pilon will give us some updates from his Pioreactor project, which sells bioreactors for growing microorganisms in science experiments. As per the name, Pioreactors are based on Raspberry Pi devices. 

Chris Irwin will tell us about postmarketOS, a Linux distro for mobile devices based upon Alpine Linux.

(Chris will schedule his "Power Monitoring with Home Assistant" presentation to a future month.)

This month's meeting is part of Waterloo Tech Week. They request that we add the following blurb to our publicity: 

We are official event hosts with Waterloo Tech Week 2026, a celebration of what’s been built here, and what’s still to come. We’re building something great together. September 12-17, 2026. waterlootechweek.ca

To commemorate KWLUG's 25th anniversary, a number of early members will reminisce about the origins of KWLUG and reflect on their free software journeys. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and contribute your own thoughts. 

Sumedh Mahajan will demonstrate LearnBot, a system he set up to use AI chatbots in learning management systems (LMSes). The AI helps clarify questions from student users.

Spencer Hughes will tell us about Authentik, a self-hostable, open-source Identity Provider (IdP) for modern single-sign on (SSO) applications.

Thayen Burtenshaw will tell us about Podman, an open-source container management engine.