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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.

23 Apr 7 May 28 May 11 Jun 25 Jun 9 Jul 23 Jul
Location Chermside Library Jitsi Workspace365, 260 Queen Street Jitsi Carindale Library Jitsi Carindale Library
Presentation 1 Open-source coding assistants with locally-running LLMs Automation Engines - N8N, OpenClaw and Claude Code Repair Cafe
Presentation 2 Getting started with Home Assistant for solar / power management

Please let us know if you'd like to present at any of our meetings.

July 2026 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
PIN
Description

Monthly In Person Get Together. Check Discourse for room details.

July 2026 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together

June 2026 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
PIN
Description

Monthly In Person Get Together. Check Discourse for room details.

June 2026 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together

May 2026 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
PIN
Description

Mike Crilly has generously invited us to use his office space for this meeting. This is the first in person meetup we've ever had that hasn't been in a library! We're aiming for a 6:30 kick off, so either Mike or James will be posted at the front door to welcome people in, and you can call the phone number that is hidden in the PIN field to get help getting into the building.

Agenda

  1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
  4. 6.45 pm - Presentation 1
  5. 7.15 pm - Presentation 2
  6. 7.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. Pending
  7. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - online on 11 June 2026
  8. 8.30 pm - Close

May 2026 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together.

Agenda

  1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
    • Future Meeting Dates (rough date planning)
  4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
  5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2
  6. 8.45 pm - Recent Discourse Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. Pending
  7. 9.30 pm - Close

April 2026 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
PIN
Description

Monthly In Person Get Together. We'll be in meeting room 3. I'll post the PIN number for the meeting rooms on Discourse.

Agenda

  1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
  4. 6.45 pm - Presentation 1
  5. 7.15 pm - Presentation 2
  6. 7.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. Pending
  7. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - online on 7 May 2026
  8. 8.30 pm - Close

April 2026 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together.

Agenda

  1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
    • Future Meeting Dates (rough date planning)
  4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
  5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2
  6. 8.45 pm - Recent Discourse Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. Cool Remote Control
      2. Sway with StreamDeck
      3. Forgejo - the open source purists CVS
  7. 9.30 pm - Close

March 2026 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly In Person Get Together.

Agenda

  1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
  4. 6.45 pm - Presentation 1
  5. 7.15 pm - Presentation 2
  6. 7.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. Linux Remote Desktop
      2. Solar, solar, solar
      3. Paperless-ngx
      4. Note taking apps
      5. Low cost VPS - BinaryLane vs OVH
  7. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - online on 9 April 2026
  8. 8.30 pm - Close

March 2026 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together.

Agenda

  1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
    • Future Meeting Dates (rough date planning)
  4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
  5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2
  6. 8.45 pm - Recent Discourse Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. Audio Bookshelf
      2. Anti-gravity
  7. 9.30 pm - Close

February 2026 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly In Person Get Together. The PIN number for meeting room 2 is 947300

Minutes

  1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
  4. 6.45 pm - Presentation 1 - Sway customisation - @jdownie (held over from last meeting)
  5. 7.15 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. Antigravity & Claude Opus 4.6
      2. OpenRouter - the unified interface for LLMs
      3. Recycling, e-waste, repair, etc. resources and discussion
      4. GitLab or GitHub Actions
      5. HLB in the age of Online Safety Age‑Restricted Social Media Platforms Rules 2025
      6. More home assistant goodies
      7. Proxmox backup server
  6. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - online on 10 March 2026
  7. 8.30 pm - Close

February 2026 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together

Agenda

  1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
    • Future Meeting Dates (rough date planning)
  4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
  5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2
  6. 8.45 pm - Recent Discourse Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. Fabric
      2. Anti-gravity
      3. Home Assistant Toys
      4. Home Assistant controlling Amber solar
      5. GitOps
  7. 9.30 pm - Close

January 2026 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly In Person Get Together. The PIN number for meeting room 1 is 593134.

Minutes

  1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
  4. 6.45 pm - Presentation 1 - Git best practices - @AB
  5. 7.15 pm - Presentation 2 - Customising the home page menu - @jdownie
  6. 7.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. Solar solutions with Home Assistant
      2. Organsing files with Claude
      3. Configuring sway
      4. ipv6 @ home
  7. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - online on 10 February 2026
  8. 8.30 pm - Close

January 2026 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together

Agenda

  1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
  4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
  5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2
  6. 8.45 pm - Recent Discourse Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. HA Goodies
      2. The solar home
      3. OCI containers in Proxmox
      4. Container of the month - phpipam
  7. 9.30 pm - Close

December 2025 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together

Agenda

  1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
  4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
  5. 8.15 pm - NixOS v freeBSD v15 on Starlink Standby
  6. 8.45 pm - Recent Discourse Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. Going Solar in Brisbane in 2026
      2. UPS in the homelab
  7. 9.30 pm - Close

November 2025 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly In Person Get Together. The PIN number for the meeting room is 452400.

Agenda

  1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
  4. 6.45 pm - Presentation 1
  5. 7.15 pm - Presentation 2
  6. 7.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. Managed switches
      2. Auto Wireless Adapters
      3. LLMs / MCPs
      4. Ntfy
  7. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - online on 9 December.
  8. 8.30 pm - Close

November 2025 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together

Agenda

  1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
  4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
  5. 8.15 pm - Recent Discourse Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. Proxmox GUI monitors
      2. vLANs and Proxmox
      3. RSS readers - FreshRSS
      4. Note taking apps - Blinko
  6. 9.30 pm - Close

October 2025 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly In Person Get Together. The PIN number for the meeting room is 593134.

Agenda

  1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
  4. 6.45 pm - Presentation 1
  5. 7.15 pm - Presentation 2
  6. 7.45 pm - Loose (Discourse) Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. DNS - "It's always DNS."
      2. Asahi Linux
      3. Blinko - container of the month
  7. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - 11 November
  8. 8.30 pm - Close

October 2025 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together

Minutes

  1. 7.00 pm - Welcome
  2. 7.05 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 7.10 pm - Administrivia (if any)
    1. Future invited speakers
      1. Dirk to reach out to Shreyans Jain
      2. James to reach out to another speaker
    2. HLB future projects
    3. Online promotion
  4. 7:25 pm - Presentation 1 - Grist- @matthew919
  5. 7.15 pm - Presentation 2 - DNS part2 - @Belfry
    1. Proposed
      1. Getting started with Docker @jdownie
      2. Routers - openWRT vs OPNsense
      3. Note apps - Evernote to Obsidian migration.
  6. Next meeting - Close

September 2025 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly In Person Get Together

Minutes

  1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
    1. HLB promotion - @jdownie / @zeeclor
  4. 6.45 pm - Presentation 1 - The CLI - @jdownie
    1. Some handy tools were offered by @Kangie and AB
      1. black
      2. pre-commit
      3. ripgrep
      4. ruff
  5. 7.15 pm - Presentation 2 - Homelab DNS - AdGuard Home / Pi-Hole / Technetium / NextDNS / Bind9 - @Belfry
  6. 7.45 pm - Loose (Discourse) Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. OpenWRT / OPNSense / ?pfSense
      2. PXE booting
      3. Software of the month - DNS resolving reverse proxies - caddy and traefik
  7. 8.15 pm - Next meeting
  8. 8.30 pm - Close

September 2025 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together

Minutes

  1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
  4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1 - WSL @kangie
  5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2 - NixOS - The Curly Bits - @techman
  6. 8.45 pm - Loose (Discourse) Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. Docker app of the month - IT Tools / Tandoor
      2. Distro of the month - The immutables - Vanilla OS / Silverblue
      3. Sharing is caring - Finding what and who on HLB
  7. Next meeting - Close

August 2025 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly In Person Get Together

Minutes

  1. 6.30 pm - Welcome We welcomed and introduced some new faces and heard briefly about their somelabl experiences.
  2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 7.05 pm - Administrivia JD is closing in on completing the HLB logo.
  4. 7.10 pm - Presentation 1 - Homelab Certificate Management - @Belfry
  5. 8.00 pm - Presentation 2 - n8n - @shirbo
  6. 8.45 pm - Next meeting
  7. 9.00 pm - Close

August 2025 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together

Agenda

  1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
    1. HLB Logo
  4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
  5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2
  6. 8.45 pm - Loose (Discourse) Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. OpenPGP
      2. n8n
      3. NotebookLM and gist.ai
      4. Docker mail servers
  7. Next meeting - Close

July 2025 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly In Person Get Together

Minutes

  1. 6:30 pm - Meshtastic Workshop
  2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 8.20 pm - Loose (Discourse) Threads - Proposed topics
    1. Fossil - We've started playing with it. We talked about how we could use a repo to share NixOS configs (for example). Fossil and Git are still both candidates.
    2. PGP - Our key signing party will have to wait for another catch up.
    3. Cryptpad - There is an instance up and running that David and Dirk are playing with. JD raised the importance of backup,, because traditional repository is not an option.
    4. Logos: JD is still mucking around with image ideas. Matt suggested letters ("HLB") instead of images.
  4. Next meeting - Close
    1. next meetings at Carindale Library

July 2025 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together

Minutes

  1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
  2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
  3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
    1. OK with default Privacy Policy and Terms of Service
    2. Logos: JD to use images supplied to attempt producing something in Gimp
  4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1 - James: Git
  5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2 - Terry: Fossil
  6. 8.45 pm - Loose (Discourse) Threads
    1. Meshtastic: Dirk has seen JD's node, but we haven't successfully exchanged messages yet.
    2. Next meeting
      1. JD to book next three months of meetings. One more at Chermside, then two at Carindale.

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