Meetings

May 2020 virtual meeting We’ve scheduled our May meeting for Saturday, May 2nd, starting at 2:00pm. Due to the Covid19 outbreak, we will be meeting virtually. Speaking Topics We’ll have presentations on both Racher’s lightweight Kubernetes implementation, K3S, and a technical overview of the Wireguard VPN server. We’re hosting this on what will be a short-lived, self-hosted instance of Big Blue Button, and the meeting room is here: https://meet.chicagolug.org/b/jim-ftr-kmp

January 2020 Meeting of ChicagoLUG

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January 25, 2020

Our January 2020 meeting is set for Saturday, January 25th, starting at 2:00pm, We’ll gather at Pumping Station: One. We have two talks lined-up for this meeting, covering Linux on RISC-V and systemd-homed. Linux on RISC-V This is going to be an exciting meeting. Drew will demo Linux running on RISC-V on the Hackaday Supercon Badge, and talk about how we were able to accomplish that using free software tools such as Linux-on-LiteX-VexRiscv and KiCad.

July 2019 Meeting of ChicagoLUG

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June 16, 2018

Our July 2019 meeting is set for Saturday, July 13th, starting at 2:00pm, We’ll gather at Pumping Station: One. We have two talks lined-up for this meeting, covering Debian packaging and Linux on FPGA’s. What goes into a Debian package With this talk we’ll get a look at Debian packaging as explained by a long time Debian Developer. We’ll cover what a source package is and how it gets turned into a binary package.

June 2018 Meeting of ChicagoLUG

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June 16, 2018

Our June 2018 meeting is set for Saturday, June 16th, starting at 2:00pm, We’ll gather at Pumping Station: One. Running a Truly Open Source Android Stack In 2008, open source enthusiasts rejoiced as Google released Android as an open source mobile operating system. However, ten years later, Google has been able to maintain control over Android by gradually releasing application updates and API extensions under proprietary licenses. Google Play Services is of particular concern, with many, if not most Android applications requiring this proprietary API.

May 2018 Meeting of ChicagoLUG

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May 5, 2018

This will be a follow-up hands-on meetup where we’ll continue working through updating the ChicagoLUG website and related projects. If you’re interested in learning about Ansible, Nginx, Discourse, and / or Hugo, this will be a good time to meet other members of ChicagoLUG and get experienc with these projects. We’ll work to Ansible-ize our website deployment, make some improvements to the ChicagoLUG.org site layout / appearance, and start the process of porting our Mailing List from GNU/Mailman to Discourse.

April 2018 Meeting of ChicagoLUG

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April 7, 2018

This will be hands-on meetup where we’ll be working on our ChicagoLUG website and related projects. If you’re interested in learning about Ansible, Nginx, Discourse, and / or Hugo, this will be a good time to meet other members of ChicagoLUG and get your feet wet / hands dirty with these projects. We’ll work to Ansible-ize our website deployment, make some improvements to the ChicagoLUG.org site layout / appearance, and start the process of porting our Mailing List from GNU/Mailman to Discourse.

February 2018 Meeting of ChicagoLUG

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February 10, 2018

Our February 2018 meeting is set for Saturday, February 10th, starting at 2:00pm, We’ll gather at Pumping Station: One. SecureDrop - Developing and hosting a security-critical web application For this month we invite you to join Freddy Martinez and members of the ChicagoLUG to learn about SecureDrop. SecureDrop is a free software whistle-blower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from, and communicate with, anonymous sources.

December 2017 Meeting of ChicagoLUG

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December 9, 2017

Our December Meeting is set for Saturday, December 9th, starting at 2:00pm, and we’ll be meeting at Pumping Station: One. How the DebConf video team uses Ansible Carl Karsten will provide a tour of how the DebConf video team provisions their video recording hardware. Whether he is putting the installer and config files onto bootable media, or serving it up using a PXE stack, Carl uses Ansible to turn the new box into one of the many types of machines needed: video mixer, frame grabber, encoder, nfs server, even the dhcp/pxe server that hosts all the scripts to do all the things.

June 2017 Meeting of ChicagoLUG

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June 17, 2017

Our June Meeting is set for Saturday, June 17th, starting at 2:00pm, and we’ll be meeting at the Pumping Station: One. OpenShift MiniShift Minishift is a tool that helps you run OpenShift locally by launching a single-node OpenShift cluster inside a virtual machine. With Minishift you can try out OpenShift or develop with it, day-to-day, on your local machine. Bring whatever latop you want because you can run Minishift on Windows, Mac OS, and even Linux operating systems.

February 2017 Meeting of ChicagoLUG

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February 11, 2017

Our February Meeting is set for Saturday, February 11th, starting at 2:00pm, and we’ll be meeting at the Pumping Station: One. Live network coding in 8sync Isn’t network programming a pain? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could live code and explore the system you’re building as you go? Enter 8sync, an actor model library for GNU Guile that’s built to support evolving your networked application as it runs.