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=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday March 12th ===
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday March 12th ===
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Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is also used in connection with Arduino (which was the subject of our Feb meeting)
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is also used in connection with Arduino (which was the subject of our Feb meeting)


=== Social:  February 13th, 6:30 pm ===
We'll also be celebrating Pi day a little early.
Make DVD episodes 1-4 will be shown at Tim M's house.  Also available for viewing will be the Hackers R Peeps 2 video Kevin A brought us back from DefCon, and gaming for those who prefer it.  Directions [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=116951360347447065495.00043977759b79d1e4f44&t=h&z=12 here].  It'd be nice if some people brought snacks/beverages to contribute.  If you have allergies, beware they do have pets.




=== LunchThursday February 19th ===
=== SocialTuesday March 17th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&NLook for a gaggle of gregarious geeks.
We're celebrating Irish Heritage Day with potatoes, specifically potato guns!  We'll also be constructing a Rube Goldberg device (including things like diet Coke and Mentos)People need to bring a contribution to make this social a success, more details and sign ups on the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social page].


=== Planned Technical Meeting:  Thursday March 12th ===
Mo Holahan will present on the programming language [http://www.processing.org Processing].  This is a good compliment to our February presentation on Arduino.  Some kaleidoscope examples written in Processing:  [http://skymeadowmedia.com/GenerativeArt/Kaleidoscope2/ kaleidoscope] and [http://skymeadowmedia.com/GenerativeArt/Radials1/ radicals].  The usual place: RCTC's [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Heintz Center] , [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Room HA107] , and time (6 pm).




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=== Planned Social:  March TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own.  What would you like to do?  Tell Tina.
We've had a request for Rube Goldberg device device construction (outside to allow for big messes with things like diet Coke and Mentos).  If this works out, a day, time, and location will be posted.





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Technical Meeting: Thursday March 12th

Mo Holahan will present Processing an Image Processing Programming language and development environment. Location: The usual place: RCTC's Heintz Center , Room HA107 , and time (6 pm).

Details on the Processing Presentation

http://processing.org/

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is also used in connection with Arduino (which was the subject of our Feb meeting)

We'll also be celebrating Pi day a little early.


Social: Tuesday March 17th

We're celebrating Irish Heritage Day with potatoes, specifically potato guns! We'll also be constructing a Rube Goldberg device (including things like diet Coke and Mentos). People need to bring a contribution to make this social a success, more details and sign ups on the Social page.


Lunch: Thursday March 19th

11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a convocation of geeks.



Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday April 9th

Speaker needed. Ideas for presentations can be found here if you're willing to speak but need a source of inspiration.

This will possibly be our keyboard hardware project... More information eventually.


Lunch: Thursday April 16th

11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a convocation of geeks.


Planned Social: April TBD

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

Possibly a field trip to the Cities to watch the FIRST Robotics League Regional competition on Saturday April 4th. More info from the PB.

Upcoming Meeting Crisis!

Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2009. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Tim 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 don't forget, Speakers earn up to $40 as an incentive for their presentation! Also see this page for a list of suggested topics http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings


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