PiHole Workshop
11/20/2024 at 05:30 PM
After the success of our last meetup covering PiHole as a concept, we have decided to put on a workshop class focused on installing and utilizing PiHole. The workshop aims to teach participants about improving home network security using PiHole, a popular network-level ad blocker and DNS sinkhole. By highlighting the practical applications of PiHole, the source emphasizes its potential to enhance network performance and overall security for individuals at home. Bring your Raspberry Pi’s, or an old Linux laptop (preferably Debian-based) and join us as we provide a hands-on, mentor-based workshop with the students from BTC!
BLUG – Back in sessions
10/16/2024 at 05:30 PM
Join us Wednesday, October 16th from 5:30 PM -7 PM at Bellingham Makerspace as we continue our relaunch of the Bellingham Linux Users Group (BLUG) along with community organizers from Bellingham Codes, the BTC Raspberry Pi Club, and Cascade STEAM!
Since 1998, BLUG has hosted convenings for all interested in Linux, GNU, and open-source hardware and software. During the COVID pandemic, BLUG focused on keeping LinuxFest Northwest alive, and we are excited to return to regularly scheduled meetings on the Third Wednesday of the month at 5:30 PM. Locations will generally be Bellingham Makerspace, but may also include the occasional social event at local establishments and those will be announced specifically in advance.
Each BLUG meetup will be in three parts: the first half hour will be arrival and community support. Need help installing some app or flavor of Linux? Make sure to show up early and partake in the wisdom from some of our more experienced members. After that, we will have guest sessions. Do you have ideas on what you would like to present or want to present yourself? Let us know! After the presentations are done, we will have a general social time to get to know each other and to collaborate on new things.
Bellingham Linux Users Group Relaunch
09/18/2024 at 05:00 PM
Join us Wednesday September 18th from 5pm-7pm at Stemma as we relaunch the Bellingham Linux Users Group (BLUG) along with community organizers from Bellingham Codes and the BTC Raspberry Pi Club!
From the beginning in 1998, BLUG has hosted convenings for all those interested in Linux, GNU, and open source hardware and software. During the COVID pandemic, BLUG focused to keep LinuxFest Northwest alive, and we are excited to return to regularly scheduled meetings: The Third Wednesday of the month at 5pm. Locations TBD.
(virtual)BLUG meeting 11/4: Kat Morgan – Agility in the HomeLab, Declarative Infrastructure at Home
11/04/2021 at 06:30 PM
Meeting Includes…
BLUG/LFNW & Linux News, Q&A, and a presentation by Kat Morgan.
Kat’s Presentation:
This is a 102 level presentation where understanding of basic fedora/ubuntu installation and ssh abilities should suffice for duplicating success with the material shared. I will bring plenty to talk about. Technical level of depth into the technology stacks used will be audience lead.
Technologies included will be:
- Fedora 34
- Ubuntu 21.10
- Docker
- Ansible
- Helm
- Kubernetes
- KubeVirt (Virtual machines on Kubernetes)
- VyOS (Linux Router/Firewall Distribution)
- SSH
- RDP
- VLAN
Looking forward to it!
Online meeting!
While we continue to social distance, we’ll meet online. Meet us at 6:30pm for news/help/chat, or 7pm for the main presentation via Zoom:
https://konghq.zoom.us/j/97609664398
Meeting ID: 976 0966 4398
(virtual)BLUG meeting 10/7: Logan Perkins – Running webservers behind a transparent reverse proxy
10/07/2021 at 06:30 PM
Meeting Includes…
BLUG/LFNW & Linux News, Q&A, and a presentation by Logan Perkins on running webservers behind a transparent reverse proxy.
Logan’s Presentation:
This is partially a sequel to my recorded LFNW2020 presentation on implementing transparent reverse proxies, but if you haven’t seen that, don’t worry, I’ll give a brief recap. I think there will be enough time to go over how to run about 4 different webservers, which should be sufficient to apply the lessons to any webserver.
https://discuss.lfnw.org/t/2021-oct-7-running-webservers-behind-a-transparent-reverse-proxy/318
Online meeting!
While we continue to social distance, we’ll meet online. Meet us at 6:30pm for news/help/chat, or 7pm for the main presentation at https://meet.google.com/btp-xynf-vbh .
5 Linux command line tools to take you to the next level
07/01/2021 at 07:00 PM
Meeting Includes…
BLUG/LFNW & Linux News, Q&A, and a presentation by John Blanford – “5 Linux command line tools to take you to the next level”.
John’s Presentation:
Ok you know the basics, this talk will help you advance to the next level
in your quest for Linux guruhood. This is an beginner to intermediate
level talk.
Look at me! I am in the cloud – ssh and scp
Can you wrap that up to go? – tar and zip
I know it’s in there somewhere – grep
Online meeting!
While we continue to social distance, we’ll meet online.
Meet us at 7pm PDT at https://meet.google.com/btp-xynf-vbh
(virtual)BLUG meeting 6/3: Kevin Burkeland – Learning Linux: Let’s Talk Distros
06/03/2021 at 07:00 PM
Meeting Includes…
BLUG/LFNW & Linux News, Q&A, and a presentation by Kevin Burkeland – “Learning Linux: Let’s Talk Distros”.
Kevin’s Presentation:
A talk for new users and greybeards alike, going over different distros you may or may not be familiar with along with tips and tricks for helping you find the right distro for you.
Online meeting!
While we continue to social distance, we’ll meet online.
Meet us at 7pm PDT at https://meet.google.com/btp-xynf-vbh
CANCELLED: (virtual)BLUG meeting 3/4: James Mason – Atari VCS
03/04/2021 at 07:00 PM
Cancelled Rescheduled from Feb 11 to March 4
Meeting Includes…
BLUG/LFNW & Linux News, Q&A, and a presentation by James Mason on the new Atari VCS .
James’ Presentation:
In 2020, Atari released the new VCS game console[1], 2½ years after the start of their crowd funding campaign[2]. While the new VCS will satisfy retro gaming enthusiasts, with its built-in store of 100 classic Atari arcade and console games, it also promises to provide an exciting new development platform for gaming.
The VCS is powered by Linux, running a Debian derivative OS on top of AMD hardware. One strong distinguishing factor from other game consoles is the acknowledgement that gaming consoles are PCs too: the Atari OS is designed to dual boot with another OS on internal or USB storage, and the base OS ships with Google Chrome preinstalled alongside games and other streaming service apps.
Let’s spend an hour diving into the hardware specs, the interesting open source options for the VCS, and of course stream some retro video games 😀
[1] https://atarivcs.com/
[2] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/atari-vcs-game-stream-connect-like-never-before
Online meeting!
While we continue to social distance, we’ll meet online.
Meet us at 7pm at https://meet.google.com/aqh-ckxp-tne
(virtual)BLUG meeting 11/5: John Blanford – The Terraform Cloud Provisioning Tool
11/05/2020 at 07:00 PM
Meeting Includes…
BLUG/LFNW & Linux News, Q&A, and a presentation by John Blanford on The Terraform Cloud Provisioning Tool.
John’s Presentation:
I will be talking about a project that I have been working on using open source tools to work with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. I am using Terraform (https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform) to provision resources at AWS and the combination of Ansible (https://github.com/ansible/ansible) and Packer (https://github.com/hashicorp/packer) to create custom bootable images.
At the meeting I will give a quick introduction to Terraform and then show how I have used it to implement a reference architecture from AWS. This includes a VPC, auto scaling servers, a load balancer, managed database and a shared nfs based file system.
At a future meeting, I will talk about using Ansible and Packer.
Online meeting!
While we continue to social distance, we’ll meet online. Meet us at 7pm at https://meet.google.com/btp-xynf-vbh .
(virtual) BLUG meeting 10/1 7PM: Michael Gan & Garth Johnson – Pine STEM project
10/01/2020 at 07:00 PM
Join the Bellingham Linux Users Group as we meet on October 1st at 7pm featuring TAGNW’s presentation of “Whatcom STEM + Pine = Pine STEM”. Michael Gan and Garth Johnson will provide an update on the Whatcom STEM Network and highlight the Pine STEM project in development. Pine STEM is a collaboration of Pine, Manjaro, and TAGNW to create a STEM OS, community, and educational projects for Pine devices. For more information about Pine and Manjaro, please see their websites:
Pine: https://www.pine64.org
Manjaro: https://www.manjaro.org
About Whatcom STEM and Technology Alliance Group for Northwest Washington (TAGNW):
Whatcom STEM is an alliance of businesses, education institutions, nonprofit organizations, and local government with the collective mission to strengthen STEM education (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and Career Connected Learning in Whatcom County. Technology Alliance Group for Northwest Washington (TAGNW) manages the network in affiliation with Washington STEM, NW Washington STEM, and Skagit STEM to provide shared infrastructure and facilitate communications and resources on behalf of Whatcom STEM partners.
Technology Alliance Group for Northwest Washington (TAGNW) is a nonprofit organization located in Bellingham, WA. Our mission: Advocate for technology education, foster innovation, assist business and workforce development, and provide community for students, professionals, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and local government in Northwest Washington. We provide events, programs, and services to Strengthen Our Technology Community. Foremost, we build relationships and infrastructure in our community to do the things we do better together.
Learn more about TAGNW and Whatcom STEM at our websites: tagnw.org and whatcomstem.org. For inquiries, please contact Michael Gan, TAGNW Executive Director at director@tagnw.org or 360-312-7105. Join us at the TAG Community Hub for open discussion. All are welcome.
Online meeting!
While we continue to social distance, we’ll meet online using the free open source videoconferencing system, Jitsi. Meet us at 7pm at https://meet.jit.si/BLUG-October-2020 .