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K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group

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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

Next Meeting: - No Meeting, but Disc Golf

->When: Thursday, August 14th - 6:00 pm - 7:35 pm ->Where: meet at the jRCTC Campus for disc golf, park in the UCR Gym lot

Other upcoming topics:

Next week Thursday, August 21st, 11:30 am - lunch at Apache Mall food court, near B&N.

Monday, August 25th, 6 pm - minigolf at Skyline Raceway. There's a coupon in the half-sized local mailed coupon book for $2 off a round, these coupon books can also be picked up in the entryway of many local stores. http://www.skylineracewayrochester.com/mini-golf.html

Saturday August 30th, time and location TBA by launch master Kevin Arhelger - rockets!

Social Preparation for August: Friday July 25th

Last rocket build night at the Rabbit Hole.

http://tymkrs.com/rabbithole/

547 Northern Heights Dr NE

Rochester MN 55906

6 pm


Social: Wednesday July 30th

6:30 pm - disc golf at RCTC. If you don't have your own disc that's fine, come out anyway. Don't know where to meet? Here's a map.



Technical Meeting: Thursday August 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.

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

Directions to Campus

Heintz Center Building Map


Planned Lunch: Thursday August 21st

11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.


Planned Social: August TBD

Rocket launch and picnic. Date, time, location all TBD.


Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday September 11th

Kevin A - DefCon 2014 summary

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

Directions to Campus

Heintz Center Building Map



Planned Social: September TBD

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


Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday October 9th

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.


Planned Lunch: Thursday October 16th

11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.


Planned Social: October TBD

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


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

Ingress. Chris Abbey and/or Matt Bruzek


Planned Socials: Fall or winter

-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary

-Rock climbing at Prairie Walls

-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...



Upcoming Meeting Crisis!

Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2014. 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 see this page for a list of suggested topics http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings


Old News Items

See the OldNews page.