We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at J&B Family Restaurant 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 79 Victoria St N in Kitchener, near the corner of Victoria and Duke. Here is a map. 

There is parking in front of the restaurant. The nearest City parking lot is at Hall Lane.

Normally you can probably just show up, but J&B is a small place. If you plan to attend please RSVP to [email protected], so the organizers can make an accurate reservation.

J. Lucas Donkers will tell us how he put together a remote garage door opener using Python, an Arduino and some LLM coding. He writes: 

I used free LLM's to help write the bulk of the code to create an interface between my smartphone and a spare garage door remote controller, which allows to me type in a PIN through my phone's browser to open the garage.  

Colin Knapp will share how programming with LLM assistants helped him stay functional while recovering from a health issue. 

Thomas Busch will discuss incident response. He writes: 

When something goes wrong on your Linux systems, having a plan matters more than having perfect tools. This talk walks through the NIST incident response phases and shows how free tools like Wazuh, Volatility, and Suricata can handle real-world security problems. You'll leave with practical starter commands and a clearer sense of what to do when things break.  

Bob Jonkman from Radio Waterloo will tell us about LibreTime, the radio automation and scheduling software that runs the station. (This presentation will be held during the second presentation slot. If all goes well it will be simulcast as a radio show.)

Jason Paul will continue his exploration of setting up BigBlueButton using GitOps/DevOps principles.

Matteo Golin will discuss how he uses Free Software tool suites to make rockets. He writes: 

This presentation covers the free and open-source software tools that can be used (and in fact, are standard use) for designing, modelling, simulating,building and flying high-powered rockets. We will look at everything from flight  simulations, CAD design, deployment electronics and even mission patch design. Open-source is the best way to participate in rocketry!