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April Meeting: Share Your Home Lab Setups!

April 16, 2025 No Comments

When:

Thursday, April 17, 2025 @ 7:00pm

Where:

Wright State University
Russ Engineering Center, Room 302

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:

Let’s talk about home labs! Or home file servers, media servers, gaming rigs, firewalls, Pi-holes, VPNs, etc. etc.

What computing infrastructure do you have in your house? What works great, and what are the pain points? Any future plans? We’ll all do a bit of show and/or tell about our personal tech and see if we can all get some inspiration (or learn some lessons!) from our fellow geeks. Come prepared to describe your home setup, and feel free to share pictures or take us on a remote tour if you want.

As always, any news, discussions, and questions about Linux / open source topics are welcome.

March Meeting: TBD

March 19, 2025 No Comments

When:

Thursday, March 20, 2025 @ 7:00pm

Where:

Wright State University
Russ Engineering Center, Room 302

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:

No presentation is scheduled at this time. We will review the results of our recent Linux Installfest.

As always, any news, discussions, and questions about Linux / open source topics are welcome.

February Meeting: Open WebUI & Ollama

February 13, 2025 No Comments

When:

Thursday, February 20, 2025 @ 7:00pm

Where:

Wright State University
Russ Engineering Center, Room 302

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:

Open WebUI is an extensible, self-hosted AI interface that adapts to your workflow, all while operating entirely offline. Ollama is a lightweight, extensible framework for building and running language models on the local machine.

This month Shawn Garrett will demonstrate building and using these AI tools, either locally or in a cloud provider on Kubernetes. Some use cases discussed will be: trying out different large language models, image generation, web search, and even integrating with VScode to recreate a copilot like experience locally.

As always, any news, discussions, and questions about Linux / open source topics are welcome.

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