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.

October 2025 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly In Person Get Together

October 2025 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together

September 2025 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly In Person Get Together

September 2025 Online Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly Online Jitsi Get Together

August 2025 In Person Catch Up

Start Time
Location
Description

Monthly In Person 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 - Loose (Discourse) Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. Key Signiing
  7. Next meeting - 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)
  4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1 -
  5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2 -
  6. 8.45 pm - Loose (Discourse) Threads
    1. Proposed
      1. NixOS
  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