Calgary Linux Users Group

CLUG Meeting

• Fall Season Club Activities – how often to meetup and for what purpose?
• Re-adjusting from what the club is doing… to what you the member is doing?
• Using XAMPP to prototype test or self educate on web servers such as WordPress?
  • Permissions and security
  • Some comprehensive instructions from “Apache Friends”
  • More…

Location

Central Library – 800 3 St SE – Calgary Alberta T2G 2E7

Room

3-19C Meeting Room

Date

02/Oct/2019

Time

from 04:00 PM to 07:30 PM booked

6:00 PM Start is OK for main meeting

CLUG Meeting June 5 – 6:15 to 8:30 PM – Nicholls Family Library

You can download Tomas’s CLUG Presentation at: https://lab.florian.ca/ and those who attended appreciated how pertinently he filled in the group with his questions and answers. Interesting talk, it made you think.

Tomas Florian has previously done a couple talks at Calgary Linux Users Group (VoIP and Ceph). This should prove to be an enjoyable evening. Thanks again Tomas for giving this talk! Note: seating limited to 40.

Last scheduled meeting before Summer break!

Date: June 5, 2019 — 6:15 to 8:30 PM

Location:

Nicholls Family Library
Nicholls Family Library Program Room — (on second floor) seating – 40
1421 33 Street SW

Calgary AB T3C 1P2

The Nicholls Family Library is located in Westbrook CTrain Station.
There is parking near the building and drop off area near NNW side.

This Library’s web site seems able to give directions:

https://calgarylibrary.ca/locations/NICHOLLS/

Topic: AI for beginners from a beginner – Open Source AI for Generalists

Recently I saw a demo of AI technology that could count the number of people in a security camera video feed.  I thought it was pretty cool and started Googling “how did they do that?”. First I came across scientific papers that require you to have an advanced math degree to understand, but soon I stumbled across a whole other class of open source projects that are pre-packaged and ready to go with zero math.   If you can handle the level of complexity roughly equivalent to compiling a Linux program from source, you can also start using powerful AI today.

I’m sure it will be interesting to many of your members.

Tomas Florian Principal IT Consultant Florian Consulting Inc. Cell: (403) 714-3914 tomas@florian.ca

www.florian.ca

Visitors welcome. Attendance free

CLUG Meeting May 15 – 6:15 to 8:30 PM – Nicholls Family Library

Pioneers wanted. Get help running your own small low power servers. Using commercially available libre/open single board computer product OR repurposed hardware (contains pure Debian Gnu Linux)

Calgary Linux Users Group Meeting

DATE:

May 15, 2019 — 6:15 to 8:30 PM

LOCATION:

Nicholls Family Library
Nicholls Family Library Program Room — (on second floor) seating – 40
1421 33 Street SW

Calgary AB T3C 1P2

The Nicholls Family Library is located in Westbrook CTrain Station.
There is parking near the building and drop off area near NNW side.

This Library’s web site seems able to give directions:

https://calgarylibrary.ca/locations/NICHOLLS/

TOPIC:

FreedomBox home servers solution
By design, setup and use is goal-ed to be easy and similar to installing APPS on a smart phone to federate all your devices and friends.

This Pure Debian project has matured with a thriving forum.
Besides buying the commercial version you can also try out a similar image of the FreedomBox OS on your own repurposed hardware.

My talk will strive to give you a feel for what starting out as FreedomBox Pioneer could look like.

https://freedombox.org

We will need to brush up on GnuGPG to create our own dynamic certificates.

Those at the last meeting asked me to look into this. The advanced tools have potential for online meetings and collaborations.

Hope to see you at meeting.
Thanks
Mel

Calgary Linux Users Group Meeting

DATE:
April 3, 2019 — 6:15 to 8:30 PM

LOCATION:
Nicholls Family Library
Nicholls Family Library Program Room — (on second floor)
1421 33 Street SW
Calgary AB T3C 1P2

The Nicholls Family Library is located in Westbrook CTrain Station.
There is parking near the building.

This Library’s web site seems able to give directions:

https://calgarylibrary.ca/locations/NICHOLLS/

PRESENTER:
Richard Gagnon

PHP presentation.

Focus is on simple PHP application development using ubuntu server VM 
running Apache server.
Platform is Windows 10 with VirtualBox.

Development tool is Microsoft Visual Studio with Devsense PHP plugin.

A small amount of Javascript to run PHP code on the server.

All development and demonstration will be restricted to a controlled 
environment on a laptop.PHP presentation.

Calgary Linux Users Group Meeting

• Date: February 6, 2019 — 5:45 to 7:30 PM
• Place: Central Library 4-20F Meeting Room. (seating for 8)
• Address: 800 3 Street SE, Calgary, AB T2G 2E7

I have been thinking of doing a presentation on some work I’ve done:

Using SaltStack to build personal private clouds on bare metal. Through the presentation I can sprinkle snippets of code from:

Raymond Burkholder

• debian pxe boot files
• how I use Saltstack to custom build pxe boot files
• using iproute2 for kernel based network configurations
• using Open vSwitch for layer 2 switching
• using Free Range Routing for layer 3 route distribution with BGP, EVPN, anycast
• using LXC for containers (rather than docker)
• maybe some nftables configurations for basic security
• how redundancy and resiliency is built into the solution

This configuration was used to build a mini open source cloud to monitor/manage a larger vmware based cloud.

My background can be found at https://blog.raymond.burkholder.net/

Meeting — Jan 2, 2019 Calgary Linux Users Group

• Date: Jan 2, 2019 — 4:45 to 7:30 PM
• Place: Central Library, Meeting Room 3-20A.
• Address: 800 3 Street SE, Calgary, AB T2G 2E7

Meeting — Jan 9, 2019 Calgary Linux Users Group

• Date: Jan 9, 2019 — 4:45 to 8:15 PM
• Place: Nose Hill Library, Main Meeting Room
• Address: 1530 Northmount Drive NW, T2L 0G6

Extra Meeting — Calgary Linux Users Group

Date: Dec 12, 2018 (Wednesday)

Place: Nose Hill Library – 1530 Northmount Drive NW, T2L 0G6, (Brentwood)
In Main Meeting Room

Time: 6:00 – 8:30 PM

Innovating your own solutions in GNU Linux.

Moved the backup data for Mint time shift.

I asked what the Dec 12 meeting was going to be about? The response:

Yes, I have the latest LTS Linux Mint but is anyone able to show us something else interesting or even better? I happen to have been looking into a Ubuntu flavor a customer of mine specifically requested.

Rather than do another Linux Distribution demo I took the opportunity to fix or repair a multi-boot laptop of mine that was developing some issues.

My chosen solution may also demonstrate some of the concepts well.
Oh, also I am ecstatic at having a working interim solution towards my goals.

Innovating your own solutions in GNU Linux.

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Who would like to meetup Downtown and try out the New Modern Main Calgary Public Library facilities?

They have 30 meeting rooms of various sizes so in future it could be feasible to have multiple channels of interest going on at the same time if desired?

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Rooms have to be booked by Calgary Public Library members who agree to the CPLibrary and CLUG rules.

Date: Dec 5, 2018  —  booked from 4:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Place: Central Library 3-19C Meeting Room. (seating for 12 and wall mount TV –HDMI cable).

Address:  800 3 Street SE, Calgary, AB T2G 2E7  just across 3rd street SE, East & south of City Hall train station.

See Map below! zoom in for detail.

Getting there:

Calgary Transit seems the best way to get there.

Unless you have your own parking spot you may find may find the Parking Authorities costs high in the downtown core. There is a drop off point [map pin] and special needs elevator on the south east side via 8 Ave SE, across from a small pay for lot. Also another larger parking lot starting a block more to the east.

Image elevator entrance and exit above near drop off point at SE side:

Read any parking instructions  carefully and be prepared to pay. I might be walking from outside the downtown area. Good exercise for me:)

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Calgary Linux Users Group {Guild}

Date: November 7 (Wed) 5:30 – 8:00 PM

We’re still good if you can attend by 6:00 pm

Place: Nose Hill Library

Address: 1530 Northmount Drive NW, T2L 0G6, (Brentwood) In Main Meeting Room

(Room booking verified)

Topics:

• Looking at Linux Mint 19 Tara as main stream ready
• Add yours

Following meeting already booked for December 12

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Monthly Meeting

Place: Louise Riley Library, Multi-purpose Room

This room is in the smaller building north of the main building.

Date: Sept 5, 2018 (Wed)

Time: 5:45 – 8:00 PM

6:00 show is OK too.

I have to smile when I think of the core group that has showed up. Thank you!

There is much to discuss in the coming weeks.

1. Nurturing club collaboration with better tools and methods. Goal being to make less strain for contributors.
2. Things that really interest and help you that the club would like to hear about.
3. The next Meetup venue.

There was no interest in the topic of AGM so it’s not on the agenda

Anyone wanting more timely updates of meeting notices, we can talk about sharing the load.

Email president at clug dot ca

See you at the meeting.

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