Homelab Brisbane

We’re a group of tech enthusiasts who enjoy exploring the latest trends in technology using our own hardware, in our own time. We founded Homelab Brisbane to connect with others who share this passion — to ask and answer questions, share insights, and make discoveries together.

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Meet Online
We meet online with our Jitsi server every month. With these online meetings we can meet face to face, and even include people outside of Brisbane. They are announced on meetup.com and the calendar below.
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Meet In Person
Once a month we also meet in person in a library meeting room in Brisbane. We try to move these around to make them convenient to a broader range of people. These gatherings are also announced on meetup.com and on the calendar below.
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Online Forum
When we're not meeting in person or online, we're discussing our various interests and projects on our Discourse server.
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Contact Us
If you have any other inquiries you can always email us at listmaster@homelabbrisbane.com.au.

We publish our past and upcoming events on the following url. You can subscribe to them in the calendar of your choice.

Subscribing to this calendar is typically an exercise in copying that address and pasting it into a "subscribe to url" dialog in your calendar platform of choice. For instructions on how to do this in Google Calendar, click here, and for Microsoft Outlook 365, click here.

July 2025 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly In Person Get Together

Agenda

  • 6.30 pm - Welcome
  • 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  • 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
  • 6.45 pm - Presentation 1: James: Git
  • 7.15 pm - Presentation 2: Terry?: Fossil?
  • 7.45 pm - Loose (Discourse) Threads

July 2025 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together

Agenda

  • 7.30 pm - Welcome
  • 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  • 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
  • 7.45 pm - Presentation 1 - James: Git
  • 8.15 pm - Presentation 2 - Terry?: Fossil?
  • 8.45 pm - Loose (Discourse) Threads

June 2025 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Social get-together. Discussion about large language models and meshtastic experiments. Clumsy attempt at adhering to an agenda and taking minutes.

Minutes

  • Admin
    • ToS and Privacy Policy doesn't need to be hosted on the main page. It's already got a publicly accessible presence in Discourse.
    • James to formalise agenda procedure
    • James to render cal.php on main page
    • James to publish "subscribe" link for calendar
  • Recap from Last Month
    • Hardware Donations for Education
      • Substation 33, in Kingston or Logan?
      • Dirk has a carload of stuff to offload
  • Discourse Themes
    • LLMs
    • Hardware for LLMs
    • Tiny11
  • Agenda
    • Motioneye
    • Meshtastic
  • Next Month
    • Location Requests

June 2025 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Getting started with meshtastic