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May Meeting: Open Source BI Tools

May 18, 2026 No Comments

When:

Thursday, May 21, 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:

There are many open source tools available for turning raw data into meaningful reports, dashboards, and business insights — from familiar spreadsheet techniques to full-featured online analytics platforms. At this meeting, Ben Kendrick will present an overview of several categories of Business Intelligence (BI) tools and demonstrate practical examples of each.

The session will explore spreadsheet-based analysis using LibreOffice Calc and Base, pixel-perfect reporting with Jaspersoft Studio, database management with DBeaver, and web-based BI platforms such as Metabase, along with discussion of other open source options. Whether you are managing business data, building reports, or just curious about the current state of open source BI software, this presentation will provide a useful introduction and hands-on demonstrations of tools that can help make sense of your data.

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.

April Meeting: Intro to AnythingLLM

April 13, 2026 No Comments

When:

Thursday, April 16, 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:

Shawn Garrett will present an intro to AnythingLLM, an easy to use and configure all-in-one AI tool.

“The all-in-one AI productivity accelerator. On-device and privacy-first with no annoying setup or configuration.” That’s what this open source software is about. Shawn will present and live-demo some of his initial dabblings and experiments with deploying this and integrating it into his infrastructure.

Presentation Slides: https://linux.dma1.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/DLUG-AnythingLLM.pdf

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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.

March Meeting: Win10/11 to Linux Backup

March 17, 2026 No Comments

When:

Thursday, March 19, 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:

JMB will show us how to back up Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers to Linux systems, using ssh – no WSLing!

Project Features & Objectives:
  • Access a Win10/11 PC’s ‘Shared Folder’ via a separate Linux (Ubuntu) PC:
  • To backup data in the ‘Shared Folder’ to either a folder of the Ubuntu PC or a mounted SSD (LUKS encrypted) of the Ubuntu PC.
  • Use free and open source software (FOSS).
  • Not reliant on any cloud based storage.

 

We’ll also talk about our recent Installfest on March 7th.

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.

Presentation Slides: https://linux.dma1.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Win10-11-to-Linux-Backup-Presentation-Slides.pdf

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