Christopher Thompson will describe the components he uses to run self-hosted Large Language Models at home. He writes: 

We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Crabby Joe's in downtown Kitchener, starting at 7pm. Note that this restaurant meeting is on a Wednesday. 

This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold hybrid meetings for technical topics.

The restaurant is located at 70 King St E in Kitchener, at the corner of King and Frederick St. Here is a map. 

We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at J&B Family Restaurant in downtown Kitchener, starting at 7pm. Note that this restaurant meeting is on a Wednesday.

This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold hybrid meetings for technical topics.

The restaurant is located at 79 Victoria St N in Kitchener, near the corner of Victoria and Duke. Here is a map. 

J. Lucas Donkers will tell us how he put together a remote garage door opener using Python, an Arduino and some LLM coding. He writes: 

I used free LLM's to help write the bulk of the code to create an interface between my smartphone and a spare garage door remote controller, which allows to me type in a PIN through my phone's browser to open the garage.  

Colin Knapp will share how programming with LLM assistants helped him stay functional while recovering from a health issue. 

Jason Paul will continue his exploration of setting up BigBlueButton using GitOps/DevOps principles. His github repo is here: https://github.com/linuxtek-canada/bigbluebutton-aws

Matteo Golin will discuss how he uses Free Software tool suites to make rockets. He writes: 

We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Yo Sushi in downtown Kitchener, starting at 7pm. Note that this restaurant meeting is on a Monday. 

This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold hybrid meetings for technical topics.

Megan McDermott will tell us about Marp, the Markdown Presentation System. 

Christopher Thompson will relate some adventures (and misadventures) in working with his homelab setup. He will tell us some things that worked and some that very much didn't.