Dayton Linux Users Group February Meeting: Run Your LLMs Locally with Ollama
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Presentations/Topics:
Ollama is an open-source tool that allows you to run large language models (LLMs) directly on your local machine. This makes it ideal for those who prioritize data control and privacy. By running models locally, you maintain full data ownership and avoid the potential security risks associated with cloud storage. Offline AI tools like Ollama also help reduce latency and reliance on external servers, making them faster and more reliable.
Rick Wills will demonstrate some of his experimentation with Ollama on a laptop computer – and maybe even on a Raspberry Pi!
We’ll also talk about our booth at TechFest last weekend, and the upcoming Installfest on March 7th.
As always, we’ll also have discussion time for Linux and Open Source news, projects you’re working on, and questions for the rest of the group.
Where:
Wright State University
Russ Engineering Center, Room 302 (or 348)
(Room right across the hall from the elevators.)
If we can arrange it, we will also have an online presence via the Zoom web conferencing service.
If joining a meeting from a Windows PC, the Zoom client will automatically download and attempt to install. For those using Linux, you can download the free (not Free) Zoom client from this page. It’s available for a variety of distributions.
For those attending in person, we will most likely adjourn to Milano’s afterward for food and socializing.
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The Dayton Linux Users Group, a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Dayton Microcomputer Association, meets the 3rd Thursday of the month Online.
At our monthly meetings, we may have one or more presentation topics planned, or we simply discuss news and projects of interest to our members. (We’re working on planning presentations for more of our meetings, and could use some volunteers — hint, hint!). Our attendees include anyone from experienced Linux system administrators to those who have been hearing about Linux and want to learn more.