When:
Thursday, January 15, 2026 @ 7:00pm
Where:
Wright State University
Russ Engineering Center, Room 302 (or 348)
We will also have an online presence via the Zoom web conferencing service.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87602254357
Meeting ID: 876 0225 4357
If joining a meeting from a Windows PC, the Zoom client will automagically download and attempt to install. For those using Linux, you can download the free (not Free) Zoom client from this page. It’s available for a variety of distributions.
For those attending in person, we will most likely adjourn to Milano’s afterward for food and socializing.
Presentations/Topics:
Ben Kendrick will lead a discussion on Open Source self-hosting sustainability for small organizations:
“I recently began setting up my local historical society with local cloud resources (Nextcloud) as they begin digitization projects of the documents/artifacts in their collection. With the board we had several discussions on independent vs dependent IT strategy for the organization. Essentially, do we go with a known tech giant for storage, management, and sharing of digital files or do it ourselves? The decision was to do it ourselves (me really) because the cost could be lower without all of the subscriptions that would be necessary. I could share the basic presentation for background.
“A discussion I would like to have: How do I, as the person setting all of this up, put processes into place so that when I am gone, the organization can continue to run independently with Open Source software. I am not looking for a discussion/argument on which software to use, but more looking at good practice processes around keeping a small organization running.”
We’ll also talk about the recent OLF conference, and Stephen Hinton will go over plans for our booth at TechFest in February.
As always, we’ll also have discussion time for Linux and Open Source news, projects you’re working on, and questions for the rest of the group.