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Meeting on Tuesday, April 13 at 07:30 PM
by hi＠gtalug.org 24 Mar '21

24 Mar '21

<https://gtalug.org/meeting/2021-04/> # Windows subsystem for linux and Lightning talks with _schedules/virtual.html After one too many times fighting with PulseAudio and video drivers and having printers and scanners that will NEVER work with Linux, I gave up my dual boot laptop and desktop and have loaded Win 10 on both. Turns out, things run faster too, even open source apps like Handbrake which take advantage of the GPU to do its video decoding while Linux can't do that. But the story is not done. I installed Windows Subsystem for Linux and now have a fully running Kubuntu as a VM when I want it. And there are some interesting tools such as Windows Terminal in which you can have a Linux terminal shell next to a tab with Windows PowerShell. # Lightning talks This is GTALUG's version of an un-conference, a loosely structured short talks emphasizing the informal exchange of information and ideas between participants, rather than following a conventionally structured GTALUG meetings. If you already have a topic in mind please send an email to [speakers@gtalug.org](mailto:speakers@gtalug.org) to be added to the list of scheduled talks. ## Location Zoom meeting. TBD ## Schedule * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. # Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardise the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honoured by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: <https://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/>. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact the GTALUG Board @ <board(a)gtalug.org>.

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Meeting Today
by hi＠gtalug.org 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

https://gtalug.org/meeting/2021-03/ # MySQL High Availability Stack with Zoom meeting In this presentation Peter will present a high availability stack that has recently risen in popularity in the MySQL community. By using Orchestrator, Proxysql, and Consul, you can have greater confidence in the overall ability of your data platform. this session via video conferencing. ## Location We're going to use Zoom for this meeting: Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85058613249?pwd=M0ZjSXl1YjVobTh4VmRhV2h0WEZ0QT09 Meeting ID: 850 5861 3249 Passcode: 149625 ## Schedule * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. # Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardise the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honoured by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: https://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/ If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact the GTALUG Board @ board(a)gtalug.org

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Meeting on Tuesday, March 09 at 07:30 PM
by hi＠gtalug.org 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

https://gtalug.org/meeting/2021-03/ # MySQL High Availability Stack with Zoom meeting In this presentation Peter will present a high availability stack that has recently risen in popularity in the MySQL community. By using Orchestrator, Proxysql, and Consul, you can have greater confidence in the overall ability of your data platform. this session via video conferencing. ## Location We're going to use Zoom for this meeting: Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85058613249?pwd=M0ZjSXl1YjVobTh4VmRhV2h0WEZ0QT09 Meeting ID: 850 5861 3249 Passcode: 149625 ## Schedule * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. # Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardise the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honoured by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: https://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/ If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact the GTALUG Board @ board(a)gtalug.org

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Meeting Today
by hi＠gtalug.org 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

https://gtalug.org/meeting/2021-02/ # Lightning talks and Round Table This is GTALUG's version of an un-conference, a loosely structured short talks emphasizing the informal exchange of information and ideas between participants, rather than following a conventionally structured GTALUG meetings. If you already have a topic in mind please send an email to [speakers@gtalug.org](mailto:speakers@gtalug.org) to be added to the list of scheduled talks. A Round Table Q&A Session is where we take questions from the audience, and the audience discusses and attempts to answer those questions from their own knowledge. It's a great way to meet fellow members of our community and discover the skill sets we each bring to the table. Due to global pandemic we are going to hold this session via video conferencing. We're going to use Zoom for this meeting: **Join Zoom Meeting** https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86775332873?pwd=YW03dzBnSGlMdmVBZmJQNC9aSlZmUT09 **Meeting ID:** 867 7533 2873 **Passcode:** 312201 ** Notes on https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/gtalug-february ## Schedule * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. # Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardise the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honoured by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: https://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/ If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact the GTALUG Board @ board(a)gtalug.org

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Meeting Tomorrow
by hi＠gtalug.org 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

https://gtalug.org/meeting/2021-02/ # Lightning talks and Round Table This is GTALUG's version of an un-conference, a loosely structured short talks emphasizing the informal exchange of information and ideas between participants, rather than following a conventionally structured GTALUG meetings. If you already have a topic in mind please send an email to [speakers@gtalug.org](mailto:speakers@gtalug.org) to be added to the list of scheduled talks. A Round Table Q&A Session is where we take questions from the audience, and the audience discusses and attempts to answer those questions from their own knowledge. It's a great way to meet fellow members of our community and discover the skill sets we each bring to the table. Due to global pandemic we are going to hold this session via video conferencing. We're going to use Zoom for this meeting: **Join Zoom Meeting** https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86775332873?pwd=YW03dzBnSGlMdmVBZmJQNC9aSlZmUT09 **Meeting ID:** 867 7533 2873 **Passcode:** 312201 ** Notes on https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/gtalug-february ## Schedule * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. # Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardise the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honoured by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: https://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/ If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact the GTALUG Board @ board(a)gtalug.org

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Meeting Tomorrow
by hi＠gtalug.org 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

https://gtalug.org/meeting/2021-01/ # Using OpenEmbedded Linux to automate and control the wood-fired heating of his home with Trevor Woerner Trevor Woerner will be presenting his recent work using OpenEmbedded Linux to automate and control the wood-fired heating of his home. Bio: Trevor Woerner is a senior software developer with deep knowledge of deploying embedded Linux systems. He lives on a farm outside Toronto. His technical blog is at: https://twoerner.blogspot.com/ ## Location We will be meeting on Zoom: * Join Zoom Meeting -- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88449213217?pwd=MjlMT2VHRFFqbE9RMVB3SDVlSk5yUT09 * Meeting ID: 884 4921 3217 * Passcode: 658008 * Find your local dial-in number -- https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvVXMQGoD ## Schedule * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. # Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardise the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honoured by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: https://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/ If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact the GTALUG Board @ board(a)gtalug.org

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On the recent GTALUG Outage
by Scott Sullivan 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Folks, As many of you have noticed, GTALUG's mailings and website were down since Dec 17th. This was the result of the operations/executive failing to act in a timely manner after Chris's passing. A payment was missed, and our server was shutdown by the hosting provider. Over the holidays an attempt was made to recover the account, but we came under the mistaken impression that the server had been deleted. And so we focused our efforts on recovering DNS and establishing a new server from our regular backups. We have great thanks to express to Hugh Redelmeier. A steadfast volunteer and contributor of our community. Uncoordinated with the board, he reached out our provider and offered to pay the bill. Successful by-passing our misunderstandings, hotfixing the situation, and bringing us back on-line. He will be compensated for an out of pocket costs. Speaking personally, these are hard times. I as I've returned to help bridge the gap from Chris's passing, I've found to many functions and knowledge and pool in to few people and was not being effectively taught to new contributors. We failed to get enough visibility into our areas of risk. We failed to effectively communicate with our community via our other social media channels about our situation. I'm personally working with the current board to full on-board our lastest board members. Establish handbooks for the various functions and roles. In the past, the board was just the voting head of a rotating group of some 10-15 individuals that contributed and attended the executive meetings. If you want help spread the load, or be involved in how the group functions. Please see and consider joining the operations mailing list. https://gtalug.org/mailing-list/#operations Meeting Minutes of the Executive meetings can be found here: https://board.gtalug.org/ Executive / Board Meetings have always, and continue to be open to attendance from our community. -- Scott Sullivan Wearing the Hats of, A Director & Secretary

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Meeting Tomorrow
by hi＠gtalug.org 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

<https://gtalug.org/meeting/2020-12/> # The state of Mozilla with Mike Hoye We will be meeting on Zoom: * Join Zoom Meeting -- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89306740154?pwd=V0xGekxFWGFpMExXUDdFQnVPbGNPZz09 * Meeting ID: 893 0674 0154P * Passcode: 456858 * Find your local dial-in number -- https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kijld0Qm1 ## Location Zoom meeting room url -- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89306740154?pwd=V0xGekxFWGFpMExXUDdFQnVPbGNPZz09 ## Schedule * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. # Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardise the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honoured by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: <https://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/>. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact the GTALUG Board @ <board(a)gtalug.org>.

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Meeting Tomorrow
by hi＠gtalug.org 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

<https://gtalug.org/meeting/2020-11/> # Lightning talks and Round Table We would like to take some time to remember Christopher Browne who was an integral part of GTALUG and his loss is felt by all of us. Presentations: * High availability on two Raspberry Pis with Scott Sullivan * LPI partnership with Evan Leibovitch This is GTALUG's version of an un-conference, a loosely structured short talks emphasizing the informal exchange of information and ideas between participants, rather than following a conventionally structured GTALUG meetings. If you already have a topic in mind please send an email to speakers(a)gtalug.org to be added to the list of scheduled talks. A Round Table Q&A Session is where we take questions from the audience, and the audience discusses and attempts to answer those questions from their own knowledge. It's a great way to meet fellow members of our community and discover the skill sets we each bring to the table. * Meeting room url: https://jitsi.flamy.ca/GTALUG * Meeting Notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/gtalug-november ## Location * Meeting room url: https://jitsi.flamy.ca/GTALUG ## Schedule * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. # Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardise the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honoured by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: <https://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/>. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact the GTALUG Board @ <board(a)gtalug.org>.

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AGM Board Vote Notes
by Christopher Browne 13 Oct '20

13 Oct '20

** AGM Board Vote Notes In view of our "remote operation," the usual voting processes that take place in person cannot function, hence the following procedures. *** Voting via email The voting process will be done via email, starting on October 13th at 9:30pm EDT, and completing October 29th, 9:30pm EDT. In view of there having been a near absent attendance record, one of the board members has been released, therefore opening a seat for a one year term. Hence, there will be 3 board seats open, two for two year terms, and one for a one year term. Candidates will be asked to express their preference between the 1 and 2 year terms, so we will have two slates of candidates for the respective terms. Ballots will be sent to vote(a)gtlug.org, and should consist of the following: - 2 Year Board Term :: Candidate 1 - 2 Year Board Term :: Candidate 2 - 1 Year Board Term :: Candidate 3 As mentioned, votes should be submitted by GTALUG members via email to vote(a)gtalug.org. *** Count Procedure Votes sent to the GTALUG vote(a)gtalug.org address will be forwarded to the Returning Officer, and the official count will take place October 29th after 9:30pm EDT. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

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