December 15, 2020January 2, 2021 by vicpimaker

Happy Holidays

The friends of VicPiMakers wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Stay tuned for our 2021 lineup of VicPimaker and Others goodness and lots of Linux and Network fun.

Christmas Tree by Mark G and Arduino

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Next Meeting is October 23, 6:30pm

Hi Fellow NetSIG-ers — our next topic in the "queue" is RabbitMQ for Newbies! Learn how apps communicate asynchronously using RabbitMQ, a lightweight message broker. We’ll cover Pub/Sub basics, code review simple pub/sub clients, and run live AMQP and MQTT demos. 🕒 ~1 hour | 💻 Docker demos | 🧠 Beginner-friendly
BTW, NetSIG will be meeting in the Big Conference Room on October 23 (at 6:30pm)
Bring your laptop with Wireshark, and an OpenWrt router (if you have one).

Afterword, we will go out for a beer/coffee. We'll be meeting in-person this month, at Quality Foods, View Royal, 27 Helmcken Rd #110. We will also setup a laptop in the upstairs small board room for those attending remotely.
We'll use Jitsi for the remote part of this meeting:

Online...
https://meet.vinnythegeek.ca/netsig

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