CUUG Upcoming Meetings

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February General Meeting

Link Rock

Taking advantage of a glitch for... speedrunning?

Speaker: Rebecca Reid, Senior Software Engineer, Black Duck

Speedrunning is a niche but popular way to play video games. In it, players called speedrunners take advantage of every strategy they can to complete games as fast as possible. Sometimes, this involves breaking the game in highly convoluted ways.

This talk will go over a specific glitch used in "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" that runners perform to complete a game meant to take 30+ hours in 4 minutes.

Rebecca is a Senior Software Engineer at Black Duck, working in their C++ Compilers team. She has some first-hand experience with speedrunning, having once held a record for "Crypt of the Necrodancer." She is also a CUUG Director and Past President.

707 Fifth

707 - 5 St. S.W.

Third floor conference room C

Parking is available one block south of the meeting location, at the Centennial Parkade (Lot 54). Additional parking is available at The CORE and Holt Renfrew Parkades just east of the meeting location.

5:30 PM, Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Snacks at 17:30. Meeting begins at 18:00.

Attendance is free for CUUG members, or $10 (cash or e-Transfer) at the door for non-CUUG members.

RSVP to office at CUUG if you plan to attend.


March General Meeting

Details TBA

707 Fifth

707 - 5 St. S.W.
Third floor conference room C

Parking is available one block south of the meeting location, at the Centennial Parkade (Lot 54). Additional parking is available at The CORE and Holt Renfrew Parkades just east of the meeting location.

5:30 PM, Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Snacks at 17:30. Meeting begins at 18:00.

Attendance is free for CUUG members, or $10 (cash or e-Transfer) at the door for non-CUUG members.

RSVP to office at CUUG if you plan to attend.


April General Meeting

Details TBA

707 Fifth

707 - 5 St. S.W.
Third floor conference room C

Parking is available one block south of the meeting location, at the Centennial Parkade (Lot 54). Additional parking is available at The CORE and Holt Renfrew Parkades just east of the meeting location.

5:30 PM, Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Snacks at 17:30. Meeting begins at 18:00.

Attendance is free for CUUG members, or $10 (cash or e-Transfer) at the door for non-CUUG members.

RSVP to office at CUUG if you plan to attend.


May General Meeting

Andrew Ginter

Cyber-Informed Engineering for a Safety-Critical Cloud

Speaker: Andrew Ginter, VP Industrial Security, Waterfall Security

Andrew Ginter has been a CUUG member, on and off (mostly on) for decades. His career spanned product development for telecomms, industrial control systems, and for the last two decades, industrial cybersecurity. He is writing his fourth book on that topic, with a working title of OT Security: Reasonable Responses to Credible Threats - Cyber-Informed Engineering for a safety-critical cloud.

In his presentation, Andrew will cover:

Andrew has presented to CUUG a few times on industrial cybersecurity. While he is stuck using Windows laptops lately, Andrew spent decades working on Intel 286 Xenix, Z8000 UNIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64, AIX and of course Linux. He spent 7 years deep into Tcl and home-grown web servers as well - none of this modern Python and Apache nonsense. He lives in Calgary, makes ice with the Rosemont Ice Guys and toboggans when his grand kids indulge him.

707 Fifth

707 - 5 St. S.W.
Third floor conference room C

Parking is available one block south of the meeting location, at the Centennial Parkade (Lot 54). Additional parking is available at The CORE and Holt Renfrew Parkades just east of the meeting location.

5:30 PM, Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Snacks at 17:30. Meeting begins at 18:00.

Attendance is free for CUUG members, or $10 (cash or e-Transfer) at the door for non-CUUG members.

RSVP to office at CUUG if you plan to attend.


June General Meeting

Details TBA

707 Fifth

707 - 5 St. S.W.
Third floor conference room C

Parking is available one block south of the meeting location, at the Centennial Parkade (Lot 54). Additional parking is available at The CORE and Holt Renfrew Parkades just east of the meeting location.

5:30 PM, Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Snacks at 17:30. CUUG Annual General Meeting begins at 18:00. Presentation begins immediately after AGM.

Attendance is free for CUUG members, or $10 (cash or e-Transfer) at the door for non-CUUG members.

RSVP to office at CUUG if you plan to attend.


Annual General Meeting and Elections

The Calgary UNIX Users' Group is holding its Annual General Meeting and election of the 2026/2027 Board of Directors. Nominees will be announced closer to the time of the meeting. If you would like to volunteer or nominate someone else, please contact cuugboard at CUUG.

707 Fifth

707 - 5 St. S.W.
Third floor conference room C

Parking is available one block south of the meeting location, at the Centennial Parkade (Lot 54). Additional parking is available at The CORE and Holt Renfrew Parkades just east of the meeting location.

5:30 PM, Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Snacks at 17:30. Meeting begins at 18:00.

Attendance is free for CUUG members, or $10 (cash or e-Transfer) at the door for non-CUUG members.

RSVP to office at CUUG if you plan to attend.


See the main CUUG web page for general information about CUUG.