Linux-Ottawa February 2025 Meeting.

==== Date/Time: ====
Thursday February 6th at 7pm

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==== Format: ====

  - Online over Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/oclug_2025-02-06_meeting
  - Check the mailing list for in-person clusters being hosted by other members.

==== Program: ====

__Topics__


Topics:

  * The hot topic of the day seems to be online survivalism, aka migrating dependence on US based infrastructure. No-one explicitly offered to talk, but there is much interest in the topic. So tonight will be an ad-hoc community driven discussion on ad-hoc friend-shoring of IT services.
    So please bring your short (or long) overview of your solutions to share with the group. Topics that lit up our normally tranquil mailing list include:
    * Self hosting
    * Canadian hosting
    * Canadian global connectivity (and yes, I had forgotten how much Canada there was west of Tweed) - Closed source software from suppliers based in countries threatening Canada, used in Canadian government, financial and business sectors.
    * How to protect our online lives in a nihilistic milieux.
    * Feel free to add to the list