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=== Downtown Lunch:  Thursday March 10th  ===
=== Downtown Lunch:  Thursday March 10th  ===
11:30 am, 1st Avenue food court downtown, at the bigger tables near the entrance.
11:30 am, 1st Avenue food court downtown, at the bigger tables near the entrance.  The Mexican place has closed, an Indian restaurant will replace it "soon".  Mango Thai has opened.




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-PCIG elections
-PCIG elections
-Discussions of the K-LUG email list
-Choice of a March social event.  Possibly a [https://www.theescapechallenge.com/home.html locked room escape]?
-Requests for an April speaker
-Consumption of semi-homemade Pi Day pie (peach, raspberry, strawberry; I cheated and bought crusts).  Please bring your donation for the "hat".




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=== Planned Social:  April 2016, TBD ===
=== Planned Social:  Thursday April 21st, 2016 ===
Likely our annual Litter Bit Better trash pick up for Rochester beautification.
 
Our April social will be the Litter Bit Better park clean up.
 
That's 6 pm on Thursday April 21st, at Cascade Lake Park.
 
Parking is approximately [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B001%2724.7%22N+92%C2%B029%2736.1%22W/@44.0235333,-92.4933667,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0 here] (or slightly further west, closer to the corner/park). Geocachers get [http://coord.info/GC6CYCW CITO credit].
 
Bags and trash are provided, you need to provide your own gloves and a sense of civic duty. If anyone has some waterproof boots for cleaning the marshy stream edge, that'd be great too.  
 





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We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see a list of ideas if you're willing but lacking a topic.


LUG News

Downtown Lunch: Thursday March 10th

11:30 am, 1st Avenue food court downtown, at the bigger tables near the entrance. The Mexican place has closed, an Indian restaurant will replace it "soon". Mango Thai has opened.


Technical Meeting: Thursday March 10th

Marc Thomas, from NORLUG, on setting up and maintaining your own media server.

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Everything you need to know to set up your own media server, as ethically and legally as possible. From video codecs and containers, compression algorithms, DRM decryption and circumvention, transcoding, storage, organization, consumption, and all the tools that make this possible, all under Linux!

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Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:

-PCIG elections

-Discussions of the K-LUG email list

-Choice of a March social event. Possibly a locked room escape?

-Requests for an April speaker

-Consumption of semi-homemade Pi Day pie (peach, raspberry, strawberry; I cheated and bought crusts). Please bring your donation for the "hat".


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

Directions to Campus

Heintz Center Building Map

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Jon G or Tina know.



Planned Social: March 2016, TBD

Ideas can be found here or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.


Planned Social: Thursday April 21st, 2016

Our April social will be the Litter Bit Better park clean up.

That's 6 pm on Thursday April 21st, at Cascade Lake Park.

Parking is approximately here (or slightly further west, closer to the corner/park). Geocachers get CITO credit.

Bags and trash are provided, you need to provide your own gloves and a sense of civic duty. If anyone has some waterproof boots for cleaning the marshy stream edge, that'd be great too.



Technical Meeting: Thursday April 14th

Speaker needed, please let Tina or Jon G know if you're willing to volunteer. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our requested topics page.


Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:

-PCIG second round of officer nominations (with elections in March)


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

Directions to Campus

Heintz Center Building Map

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Jon G or Tina know.


Pending potential presentations

[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game

Oculus Rift], "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games" .  Peter Shabino

Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize


Planned Socials: Fall or winter

-Murder mystery. The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started.

-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary

-Rock climbing at Prairie Walls

-Bowlocity laser tag. 5-6 people minimum needed.

-Liquid nitrogen ice cream. This needs a non-Tina organizer. Dennis DeLorme has 2 recipes. We need safety equipment and someone trained enough to keep us from freezing ourselves.

-MAME/foosball/ping pong at ... can't be Tim Massaro's anymore...

-February or July armchair mapping aka road rally event, http://home.earthlink.net/~oldmaltese/



Upcoming Meeting Crisis!

Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2015. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Jon G with suggestions for topics. Should we run some previous sessions again (maybe something you really wanted to see but missed out on)? What type of topics are good, what type are bad? Also see this page for a list of suggested topics http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings


Old News Items

See the OldNews page.



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