Cascade STEAM Open Source - Homelab Series, Part 2

Join us Wednesday, November 19th, from 5:30 PM to (at least) 7:30 PM at Bellingham Makerspace as we explore practical Linux with community organizers from BLUG, Bellingham Codes, the BTC Raspberry Pi Club, and Cascade STEAM! Some of our members will be presenting an overview of Proxmox and the process of starting your own homelab.

We will be discussing hardware and where to get some starter equipment, documentation tools, and spinning up the centerpiece - Proxmox!

Proxmox is an open-source virtualization technology based on Debian that can scale from one machine all the way to an enterprise cluster (the company has paid options to support this use case, still all based on the same open source core). Many of us run Proxmox for our "homelabs" and the Raspberry Pi Club runs it to support most of their project resources. At this month's BLUG, we'll continue where we left off last month and see how far we get — Proxmox has a lot of features for various types of virtualization and orchestration.

Each Open Source meetup will be in three parts:

• The first half hour will be arrival and community support. Need help installing some app or flavor of Linux? Make sure to show up early and partake in the wisdom from some of our more experienced members.
• After that, we will have guest sessions. Do you have ideas on what you would like to present or want to present yourself? Let us know!
• After the presentations are done, we will have a Q&A and general social time to get to know each other and to collaborate on new things.

We helped relaunch the Bellingham Linux Users Group earlier this year after it succumbed to the chaos of COVID, and we have reformatted as Cascade STEAM Open Source as we acknowledge the shift from Linux-focused topics to the enormity and revolution of Open Source Software and Hardware. Join us each third Wednesday of the Month as we launch a new running series highlighting fundamental open source technology stack softwares and share how we are incorporating these systems into our own organization.