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=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday November 8th ===
Med City Drone presentation by founder Ryan Kuisle.




=== Planned Social: July 2016, TBD ===
MedCity Drones is Rochester's first drone racing club run in accordance with MultiGP safety guidelines. We are still growing and learning, but are happy to share what knowledge we have gained. In our presentation we will go over drone basics (drone builds, control, first person view) along with a racing overviewAt the end we will have some show and tell and time for questions.
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your ownWhat would you like to do?  Tell Tina.


Probably yard games + ice cream at Tina's house, but if you have other requests/ideas please let Tina know.  Possibly also a [https://www.theescapechallenge.com/mission-background.html locked room puzzle event], The Norwegian Job because that one is handicapped accessible.


If anyone has any questions they know in advance, please send them to Tina, Ryan wants to incorporate them into his presentation.  But be aware that the meeting will be run by Nix, so any last minute items need to go to him.




=== Technical Meeting: Thursday July 14th ===
6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.


Robert Nix, on Red Hat Summit. He will talk about what goes on there and what things are announced.
[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tina know.
 
 
=== November social ===
We avoid having a November social, to keep the scheduling burden on families as light as possible during the holiday season.
 
 
=== Social:  October ===
What might you want to do?  Tell Tina.
 
(We didn't end up having one, sorry)


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]


Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tina know.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday October 11th ===
This month will be a field trip!  A limited group of pre-registrants (~15 people total) will be attending a tour of our local Rochester waste water treatment plant.  The registration option will be published by email first so everyone can get in on this first come, first serve opportunity.
 
 
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday September 13th ===
 
DefCon review is cancelled, sorry.  Instead Nix will lead a round-table discussion of whatever people want to chat about; show up at the usual place, and depending on preferences the group may adjourn to a suitable nearby site offering snacks and beverages.
 
 
6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.


[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]


=== Downtown lunch:  Thursday July 14th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know, but also know that Nix will be in charge of this meeting.
This is the special IBM day at Thursdays on First (a replacement for an IBM day at the Olmsted County Fair this year), so we should meet for lunch. 11:30 am, East on Historic 3rd Avenue off the corner of the Tap House (formerly Bilotti's), we'll try to find a table in the shade.




=== Social:  August ===
What might you want to do?  Tell Tina.




=== Planned Social:  June 2016, TBD ===
I'm going to host a yard games + ice cream event, but it'll probably end up in July, May/June has just been too busy (and our lawn mower is currently in the shop waiting to be repaired, so our yard is a field).


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday August 9th ===


Andrew Eggenberger, on his attendance at [https://srccon.org/ srccon] in June.


=== RochesterFest lunch:  Thursday June 23rd ===
About srccon from srccon.org
June downtown lunch at RochesterFest (Soldier's Field track oval), Thursday June 23rd, 11:30 am, weather permitting (rain date TBD).  For those of you downtown who aren't up to walking that far (or your schedule doesn't permit the extra time), they are doing free trolley rides again 11-2 from in front of the Marriott Hotel.  Hopefully they will publish some coupons for food vendors again this year, if so I'll add a link later.


SRCCON is a hands-on conference, full of conversations and workshops focused on the practical challenges that news technology and data teams encounter every day. We work to make it an inclusive and welcoming event where people can feel comfortable digging into complex problems.




=== <strike> Technical Meeting</strike> Social: Thursday June 9th ===


Disc golf at Slatterly, 6 pm.  [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B000'39.0%22N+92%C2%B026'52.5%22W/@44.0106201,-92.4496818,659m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d44.010823!4d-92.447921 Park here.
6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.


[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]


=== <strike> Technical Meeting:   Thursday May 12th </strike> ===
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]


=== Social: Tuesday May 10th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know, but also know that Aaron will be in charge of this meeting.


We did not get any speaker volunteers.  6 pm.  <strike> Plan B is to go play disc golf at [https://www.google.com/maps/place/43%C2%B051'31.3%22N+92%C2%B030'01.1%22W/@43.858691,-92.5024947,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0 Bear Cave Park]. </strike> (rained out)  Plan C is to enjoy dinner together at the [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pizza+Ranch/@43.867592,-92.4914597,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x87f7564533a8f601:0x84f740738bc6192c!8m2!3d43.867592!4d-92.489271 Stewartville Pizza Ranch].  If you can find one of the half-page coupon books that either arrived in your mail or is at many free stands downtown, there's a coupon for BOGO50% off (adults).  [http://www.pizzaranch.com/menus/STEWARTVILLE Pricing and food] ideas for those who haven't been there before.


If you have never joined us before and this will be your first event, you're looking for a family of four (F long hair and glasses, M short curly hair and glasses, 4 year old, 1 year old) sitting with an unknown quantity of other geeks, or use the email list to tell us how to spot you.


=== Social:  Saturday July 21st, 10:30 am ===
Join us at the Rochester Public Library's presentation about the [https://root.evanced.info/rochester/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=35929 40th anniversary of the 1979 flood.]    "This July marks the 40th anniversary of the historic flooding of Rochester. Come to this program to learn about what happened during the flood from the people who lived it and find out how the city planned and built the flood control system that protects us today."  In the RPL auditorium.




=== Social:  Thursday April 21st, 2016 ===


Our April social will be the Litter Bit Better park clean up.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday July 12th ===


That's 6 pm on Thursday April 21st, at Cascade Lake Park.
Kyle Gilbertson (IBM LEGO Education Outreach core team member and a prolific volunteer for other efforts as well) has agreed to be a speaker at an upcoming K-LUG meeting. As part of Kyle's volunteering both for ILEO and for other LEGO related STEM outreach he has had the occasion to want to produce instructions for constructing a LEGO model. This is actually difficult to do and have it look like you would expect LEGO instructions to look. Kyle was able to chain several different open source tools together to produce a quality set of instructions. He has volunteered to share the lessons he learned during this process with us.  (And he says that no, it's not a presentation for kids, sorry.)


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.


Build digital 3D LEGO models on your computer. Create build instructions for your design. Learn the tools and avoid pitfalls to produce great results.
This emphasizes LEGO robot models, but this all works for standard studded builds. Using what you learn, consider contributing a robot design and instructions for use in this fall's IBM LEGO Education Outreach classes.


=== <strike> Technical Meeting:</strike>  Disc golf social:  Thursday April 14th  ===
We did not get any speaker volunteers.  Go play disc golf at [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=217033483939111930234.0004a379c4172da19682b&ll=44.02311,-92.440456&spn=0.004606,0.007092&t=h&z=17 East Park] again.


6 pm


Slides are [https://ibm.box.com/ILEO here,] open the 'Robot Build Instructions' folder.






=== Social:  Tuesday March <strike> 15th </strike> 29th ===
6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.
Disc golf at [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=217033483939111930234.0004a379c4172da19682b&ll=44.02311,-92.440456&spn=0.004606,0.007092&t=h&z=17 East Park]


6 pm
[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]


Note the change from the original date, due to rain/mud.
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]


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




=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday March 10th ===
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday June 14th ===
Marc Thomas, from NORLUG, on setting up and maintaining your own media server.
 
3D printing, by Roger Southwick.


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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!
Roger Southwick has been a software engineer at IBM for 30 years and an electronics hobbyist since the late 1970s. He assembled a Rostock Max 3D printer and will share experiences from 2 years of experimentation in a brief presentation including a printer demonstration, display of some interesting print samples, and time for discussion.


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Picture [http://k-lug.org/images/e/ef/3dprinting201806.jpg here].  His [http://k-lug.org/images/7/79/Home_3d_printing.pdf slides are here.]




Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:
6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.


-PCIG elections
[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]


-Discussions of the K-LUG email list
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]


-Choice of a March social event.  Possibly a [https://www.theescapechallenge.com/home.html locked room escape]?
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]


-Requests for an April speaker
Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tina know.
 
 
=== Social:  Thursday June 7th ===
Disc golf! Just up the road outside the RCTC field house. Meet at the parking lot edge / field house doors, 6:30 pm.


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




=== Social:  Tuesday May 15th ===
Disc golf! Just up the road outside the RCTC field house. Meet at the parking lot edge / field house doors, 6:30 pm.


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


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
=== Technical MeetingThursday May 10th ===


Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Jon G or Tina know.
Arhelger, giving us a preview of his MongoDB World presentation.




6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.


[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]


=== Downtown Lunch: Thursday March 10th  ===
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
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.


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]


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




=== Lunch:  Thursday February 18th  ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.




=== CITO Social:  Thursday April 26th ===
Our annual clean up a corner of the world event, helping de-litter a local park as a part of Litter Bit Better.  As usual we're teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7KHXD_10th-annual-cito-and-rochesters-litter-bit-better geocachers who get CITO credit]. 


=== "January" Social: Fridays February 12th, 19th, plus others ===
Parking is [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B001'25.3%22N+92%C2%B029'52.8%22W/@44.0237038,-92.500194,17z here] or [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B001'24.7%22N+92%C2%B029'36.1%22W/@44.0235278,-92.4955498,17z here], in the SE or SW corners of the parkThe official group gathering location is on the SE corner of the park.
We're going to try a map-based (eg armchair) road rally, http://home.earthlink.net/~oldmaltese/Massacre.html . Due to there having been a start-up cost for this event, I will be asking for contributions (say $5-10/family?) for those who come participateAnyone bringing an additional "11x15 100-page-plus 2016 Rand McNally Road Atlas" (this same large scale copy MSRP $20, Amazon has for $15) will have their fee waived for their assistance uncrowding the map table.


I anticipate this being much better done by small groups, and it seems a bit lengthy.  So we are going to host two pre-specified nights of map reading, and if Friday nights don't work well for you then email me off-list to request your available T/W/Sat/Sun timeframe and we'll see if we can work something out.  Fees per family won't be re-collected at subsequent attendances.
6 pm start time.


6:30 pm at Tina's house (email for directions). Snack/beverage potluck only (come with dinner already in your belly).
Bags and trash are provided, you need to provide your own gloves and a sense of civic duty. If anyone has some waterproof boots and/or grabbers for cleaning the marshy stream edge, that'd be great too.


Postmark deadline for submission of this for scoring is Monday February 29th, which realistically means we're going to have to mail it on Saturday the 27th, so our last potential night is Friday February 26th.






=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday February 11th ===
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday April 12th ===
Robert Nix, on LVM.
 
No speaker, we'll have "show and tell", socialize, and spectate the PCIG officer elections.


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Using Logical Volume Manager can simplify your disk space management on both large and small Linux systems. This will be both an overview, and a look at specific commands and results. See how LVM can be used to streamline your Linux installation and maintenance.
6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.


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[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]


Here are [http://k-lug.org/images/0/0d/Lvm.odp his slides] from the meeting.
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]


Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:
Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tina know.


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




6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
=== Social:  Monday March 12th ===
Early PI day, with pie at [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bakers+Square+Restaurant+%26+Bakery/@44.0063638,-92.4830637,15z/ Baker's Square (the one by Apache Mall)].  7 pm so you can have a healthy dinner at home first, for health and cost reasons (of course, if you wanted to go to Baker's Square and want to use this for an excuse, you're welcome to blame me).


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]


Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Jon G or Tina know.
=== Technical Meeting: March 8th, 2018 ===
Cancelled due to no speaker.  The PCIG elections will happen at the April meeting, beware! ;)


Volunteers or request for an April+ speaker, or the March+ social, would be appreciated.  Please email Tina.






=== Technical Meeting: February 8th, 2018 ===


=== Downtown Lunch:  Thursday February 11th  ===
Dennis DeLorme, "Arduino at Sea".
11:30 am, 1st Avenue food court downtown, at the bigger tables near the entrance.


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The original plan was to update the "Solar UV Intensity" project I did three years ago on a Pacific island cruise. I presented some of the Arduino to Android interface changes last July.


But what else does an Arduino addict do when faced with an 80 day Asia/Pacific cruise? Put a bunch of extra Arduinos and I/O modules in a box and put it in his carry-on "just in case".


=== Social:  Sunday, February 7th 2016 ===
In addition to the UV measurement results I will talk about 2 other projects...
Winterfest cardboard sled race spectating for our February social, Sunday February 7th, 1 pm. There IS an indoor viewing area, per the description, so no trekking through the snow required.


http://www.rochesterwinterfest.com/2015/01/07/cardboard-sled-race/
1) A scrolling Halloween message on an LCD display - they did some Halloween themed things on Oct 31. I used the user defined character feature to build a pumpkin image as part of the message.


Rochester Golf and Country Club
2) A temperature data logger that recorded the temperatures in 6 min intervals for several hours to document problems with the A/C in our cabin. I uploaded the data from the Arduino to our laptop via Bluetooth and used LibraOffice to to graph the data.
3100 Country Club Road SW


I will talk about the hardware and software for these projects and do a couple of demos.


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=== Lunch:  Thursday January 21st  ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.


Also, PCIG officer nominations.




=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 14th ===
6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.
Dennis DeLorme on a recent basement project - the $2 wireless link.


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[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]


Do you wish there was an easy, cheap way for your micro-controllers to
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
talk to each other over a wireless link? If so, come and learn about the
Nordic nrf24L01+ type modules. These allow short range wireless
communication in the 2.4 GHz band. The nrf24L01+ is designed for PC
keyboard/mouse, remote controls, home automation, toys etc.


There is available software to use the nrf24L01+ modules with common
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
boards such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone Black. The nrf24L01+
module can be added to these boards for about $1 per node, if ordered
directly from China. I'll talk a little about my experience ordering
directly from China.


I will talk about the features of the nrf24L01+ and the software to use it. I will demo a sensor star network with a couple of them on Arduinos (what else?) sending data to an Arduino attached to a laptop as the base unit.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.


If you are ready to break your New Years Resolutions, I will be bringing
German Chocolate cup cakes with coconut pecan frosting.


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Post-meeting addition - [http://k-lug.org/images/9/93/Klug-nrf24.pdf here are the slides] he has provided.
[http://k-lug.org/images/2/2f/StarNetDS18B20.odt Here is the code] in Open Office format because upload of text or code files is not supported.


=== Social:  Saturday February 3rd ===
We will go for a [https://www.rochesterwinterfest.com/events/2018/2/3/sleigh-rides sleigh ride at WinterFest] for our February social.  That's Saturday, February 3rd, at 10 am. 


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
[https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B000'14.4%22N+92%C2%B030'46.4%22W/@44.0040188,-92.5150877,17z/ Park along the road on Salem Road], the sleigh rides are north of the road behind the History Center.


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]
Plan to gather around the Schmidt family.


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]




Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:
=== Social:  Saturday January 20th ===
2 pm - Ice skating!  On the Soldier's Field track oval (same place where recent RochesterFest summer lunches have been).  Plan to gather around the Schmidt family.


-K-LUG’s annual officer elections – president, vice president, treasurer.  Nominations or self-nominations for these positions please.
https://www.rochesterwinterfest.com/events/2018/1/20/ice-skating-on-the-oval


-Annual financial report from our treasurer.


-PCIG first round of officer nominations (with elections in March)
=== Technical Meeting: January 11th, 2018 ===


Discuss job hunting, from local options, to telecommute jobs, current interviewing strategies, networking, build your own job, build your own company.  No specific speaker, we'll go around the room and let people talk about what's worked for them and what hasn't.


Special thanks to our mini-speakers who turned out despite the bad weather, here are the presentations given by [http://k-lug.org/images/8/85/Survival_in_technology.pdf Matt Bruzek] and [http://k-lug.org/images/7/7e/Job_Hunting_Options.pdf Mike Fallenstein].


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


Also, K-LUG officer elections, and PCIG officer nominations.




6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.


[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]


=== Downtown Lunch: Thursday January 14th  ===
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
11:30 am, 1st Avenue food court downtown, at the bigger tables near the entrance.


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]


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




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Technical Meeting: Thursday November 8th

Med City Drone presentation by founder Ryan Kuisle.


MedCity Drones is Rochester's first drone racing club run in accordance with MultiGP safety guidelines. We are still growing and learning, but are happy to share what knowledge we have gained. In our presentation we will go over drone basics (drone builds, control, first person view) along with a racing overview. At the end we will have some show and tell and time for questions.


If anyone has any questions they know in advance, please send them to Tina, Ryan wants to incorporate them into his presentation. But be aware that the meeting will be run by Nix, so any last minute items need to go to him.


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.

Directions to Campus

Campus layout

Heintz Center Building Map

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


November social

We avoid having a November social, to keep the scheduling burden on families as light as possible during the holiday season.


Social: October

What might you want to do? Tell Tina.

(We didn't end up having one, sorry)


Technical Meeting: Thursday October 11th

This month will be a field trip! A limited group of pre-registrants (~15 people total) will be attending a tour of our local Rochester waste water treatment plant. The registration option will be published by email first so everyone can get in on this first come, first serve opportunity.


Technical Meeting: Thursday September 13th

DefCon review is cancelled, sorry. Instead Nix will lead a round-table discussion of whatever people want to chat about; show up at the usual place, and depending on preferences the group may adjourn to a suitable nearby site offering snacks and beverages.


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.

Directions to Campus

Campus layout

Heintz Center Building Map

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know, but also know that Nix will be in charge of this meeting.


Social: August

What might you want to do? Tell Tina.


Technical Meeting: Thursday August 9th

Andrew Eggenberger, on his attendance at srccon in June.

About srccon from srccon.org

SRCCON is a hands-on conference, full of conversations and workshops focused on the practical challenges that news technology and data teams encounter every day. We work to make it an inclusive and welcoming event where people can feel comfortable digging into complex problems.


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.

Directions to Campus

Campus layout

Heintz Center Building Map

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know, but also know that Aaron will be in charge of this meeting.


Social: Saturday July 21st, 10:30 am

Join us at the Rochester Public Library's presentation about the 40th anniversary of the 1979 flood. "This July marks the 40th anniversary of the historic flooding of Rochester. Come to this program to learn about what happened during the flood from the people who lived it and find out how the city planned and built the flood control system that protects us today." In the RPL auditorium.


Technical Meeting: Thursday July 12th

Kyle Gilbertson (IBM LEGO Education Outreach core team member and a prolific volunteer for other efforts as well) has agreed to be a speaker at an upcoming K-LUG meeting. As part of Kyle's volunteering both for ILEO and for other LEGO related STEM outreach he has had the occasion to want to produce instructions for constructing a LEGO model. This is actually difficult to do and have it look like you would expect LEGO instructions to look. Kyle was able to chain several different open source tools together to produce a quality set of instructions. He has volunteered to share the lessons he learned during this process with us. (And he says that no, it's not a presentation for kids, sorry.)


Build digital 3D LEGO models on your computer. Create build instructions for your design. Learn the tools and avoid pitfalls to produce great results.

This emphasizes LEGO robot models, but this all works for standard studded builds. Using what you learn, consider contributing a robot design and instructions for use in this fall's IBM LEGO Education Outreach classes.


Slides are here, open the 'Robot Build Instructions' folder.


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.

Directions to Campus

Campus layout

Heintz Center Building Map

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


Technical Meeting: Thursday June 14th

3D printing, by Roger Southwick.

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Roger Southwick has been a software engineer at IBM for 30 years and an electronics hobbyist since the late 1970s. He assembled a Rostock Max 3D printer and will share experiences from 2 years of experimentation in a brief presentation including a printer demonstration, display of some interesting print samples, and time for discussion.

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Picture here. His slides are here.


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.

Directions to Campus

Campus layout

Heintz Center Building Map

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


Social: Thursday June 7th

Disc golf! Just up the road outside the RCTC field house. Meet at the parking lot edge / field house doors, 6:30 pm.


Social: Tuesday May 15th

Disc golf! Just up the road outside the RCTC field house. Meet at the parking lot edge / field house doors, 6:30 pm.


Technical Meeting: Thursday May 10th

Arhelger, giving us a preview of his MongoDB World presentation.


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.

Directions to Campus

Campus layout

Heintz Center Building Map

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



CITO Social: Thursday April 26th

Our annual clean up a corner of the world event, helping de-litter a local park as a part of Litter Bit Better. As usual we're teaming up with the geocachers who get CITO credit.

Parking is here or here, in the SE or SW corners of the park. The official group gathering location is on the SE corner of the park.

6 pm start time.

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



Technical Meeting: Thursday April 12th

No speaker, we'll have "show and tell", socialize, and spectate the PCIG officer elections.


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.

Directions to Campus

Campus layout

Heintz Center Building Map

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


Social: Monday March 12th

Early PI day, with pie at Baker's Square (the one by Apache Mall). 7 pm so you can have a healthy dinner at home first, for health and cost reasons (of course, if you wanted to go to Baker's Square and want to use this for an excuse, you're welcome to blame me).


Technical Meeting: March 8th, 2018

Cancelled due to no speaker. The PCIG elections will happen at the April meeting, beware!  ;)

Volunteers or request for an April+ speaker, or the March+ social, would be appreciated. Please email Tina.


Technical Meeting: February 8th, 2018

Dennis DeLorme, "Arduino at Sea".

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The original plan was to update the "Solar UV Intensity" project I did three years ago on a Pacific island cruise. I presented some of the Arduino to Android interface changes last July.

But what else does an Arduino addict do when faced with an 80 day Asia/Pacific cruise? Put a bunch of extra Arduinos and I/O modules in a box and put it in his carry-on "just in case".

In addition to the UV measurement results I will talk about 2 other projects...

1) A scrolling Halloween message on an LCD display - they did some Halloween themed things on Oct 31. I used the user defined character feature to build a pumpkin image as part of the message.

2) A temperature data logger that recorded the temperatures in 6 min intervals for several hours to document problems with the A/C in our cabin. I uploaded the data from the Arduino to our laptop via Bluetooth and used LibraOffice to to graph the data.

I will talk about the hardware and software for these projects and do a couple of demos.

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Also, PCIG officer nominations.


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.

Directions to Campus

Campus layout

Heintz Center Building Map

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


Social: Saturday February 3rd

We will go for a sleigh ride at WinterFest for our February social. That's Saturday, February 3rd, at 10 am.

Park along the road on Salem Road, the sleigh rides are north of the road behind the History Center.

Plan to gather around the Schmidt family.


Social: Saturday January 20th

2 pm - Ice skating! On the Soldier's Field track oval (same place where recent RochesterFest summer lunches have been). Plan to gather around the Schmidt family.

https://www.rochesterwinterfest.com/events/2018/1/20/ice-skating-on-the-oval


Technical Meeting: January 11th, 2018

Discuss job hunting, from local options, to telecommute jobs, current interviewing strategies, networking, build your own job, build your own company. No specific speaker, we'll go around the room and let people talk about what's worked for them and what hasn't.

Special thanks to our mini-speakers who turned out despite the bad weather, here are the presentations given by Matt Bruzek and Mike Fallenstein.


Also, K-LUG officer elections, and PCIG officer nominations.


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.

Directions to Campus

Campus layout

Heintz Center Building Map

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



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