April: LLMs and Grafana

https://www.plug.org.nz/2025/04/april-llms-and-grafana/

## Date

7pm, Wednesday, 9 April 2025

## Topic 1/2: Experimenting with self hosting open source LLMs

Speaker: Richard O’Donoghue
Proprietary LLMs and their effects on the Internet have been a hot topic on the PLUG Discord of late. Richard has been experimenting with open source LLMs on his own hardware, which might just help to bring some balance back to the universe…

## Topic 2/2: Metrics and Grafana

Speaker: Chris Winkworth
Chris will return to talk more about homelab monitoring and metrics, this time using popular open source graphing tool Grafana. He’ll show how to use and view your server’s and docker containers’ info therein.

## Venue

Milson Community Centre

## Cost

$2 gold coin donation
Coffee and biscuits will be provided, but please feel free to bring along your own snacks and drinks.

## Agenda

• 7:00pm: Welcome (Richard O’Donoghue)
• 7:10pm: Topic 1/2: Experimenting with self hosting open source LLMs (Richard O’Donoghue)
• 7:55pm: Tea and coffee break
• 8:05pm: General business (Richard O’Donoghue)
• 8:10pm: Topic 2/2: Metrics and Grafana (Chris Winkworth)
• 9:00pm: Doors close