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=== Planned Social:  September 2016, TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own.  What would you like to do?  Tell Tina.




=== Technical Meeting: Thursday September 8th ===


Robert Nix, on how to put together an iOS application in Xcode in Swift.


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=== Social:  November ===
<strike>What might you want to do?  Tell Tina.  If we don't get a request we may skip a social this year (like we do many years), as people's schedules just get too full as the winter holiday season sets in.</strike>


Swift has been a trending topic, and now that it has been open-sourced, the language becomes more relevant for platforms outside of Apple. Join us as we look at Swift 3 and XCode 8, and how to put together an iOS app from start to running on the iPhone.
No requests, so enjoy the extra free time.


Robert has been programming in one language or another since 1973, and has gained experience and insight over the years that has allowed him to adopt and adapt to new languages in a quickly changing industry. Swift is the latest in what has been a 43 year educational trek.


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The completed Swift XCode project started during the meeting can be found at
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday November 14th ===


https://github.com/rpural/TimeTraveler
Bill Marshall will give a presentation on Ansible.


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Ansible is an open-source configuration management tool for Linux, Unix-like systems with python, Windows and many network/security devices. It includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration. Ansible is agentless, temporarily connecting remotely via SSH or remote PowerShell to do its tasks.


Bill has been using Ansible on Linux systems for over two years. He will have a presentation, demo and Q&A time. He can also compare and contract Chef, Ansible and CFEngine if there is interest.




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


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]
6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's H1411 (note: For those of you that have been coming for a long time, we are still in the same place, the rooms in the Heintz Center were renumbered. Prior to March 20th this room had been known as HA108. If anyone finds updated maps, please let us know.)


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]


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




=== Social #3:  Wednesday August 24th ===
6:15 pm - Minigolf at [http://www.skylineracewayrochester.com/mini-golf.html Skyline Raceway].  Cash only!




=== Social:  October ===
<strike> What might you want to do?  Tell Tina.</strike>


Never happened, sorry.


=== Social #2:  Sunday August 21st ===
Kite flying and ice cream social.


12:30 pm


Location:  [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Redwood+Ln+SW,+Rochester,+MN+55902/@43.989365,-92.4843012,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87f758cbe6ddd805:0xcbd56f452d52bbef That park by Steve Fox's house], officially known as Pine Ridge Estates Park, on Redwood Lane SW.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday October 10th ===


This park has a nice playground for the littles, picnic tables, and room to fly kites, as well as usually being unpopulated.  The lack of trees and being on top of a hill mean it's pretty bug free even when there's not enough breeze to fly the kites.
Brent Vrieze will return to us from the Cities to present on his PFSense FreeBSD based firewall.


Please bring your family and friends who might want to hang out.  Bring your own kites.  If you don't want to sit at the picnic tables or on the playground equipment, bring your own folding chair.  And bring your own beverage.  Tina will bring the ice cream.
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https://www.pfsense.org/


pfsense is an enterprise grade firewall for your home.  Based on FreeBSD with a custom kernel and many 3rd party software packages to do network monitoring, filtering, routing, DNSSEC, DNS over TLS, VPN.  A virtual kitchen sink of security tools in one package...free.


It can be installed on any X86 or X64 based CPU with minimal memory and storage requirements.  I personally use an AMD based Mini-ITX board that does not require a CPU fan with an old 4 port PCIe Intel NIC that supports VLAN tagging and so there are no moving HD parts a small SSD.


=== Social #1:  Tuesday August 16th ===
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Disc golfing at Slatterly, 6:15 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].  Change in time and location due to threat of rain.




<strike>Stewartville's Bear Cave Park, 6:30 pm.


Map of [https://www.google.com/maps/place/43%C2%B051%2731.8%22N+92%C2%B029%2759.5%22W/@43.858822,-92.499856,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0 Bear Cave Park parking].
6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's H1411 (note: For those of you that have been coming for a long time, we are still in the same place, the rooms in the Heintz Center were renumbered. Prior to March 20th this room had been known as HA108. If anyone finds updated maps, please let us know.)
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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]


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


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


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday August 11th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tina know.


Kevin on DEF CON 2016.


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DEF CON is the worlds largest hacker convention held annually in Las Vegas. Kevin has been attending since 2008 and has presented on almost every one. This is the latest installment in that series and covers DEF CON 24


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=== Social:  Friday September 27th ===
Farm pizza!


[http://dreamacresfarm.org/wood-fired-pizza Dream Acres near Spring Valley], Friday September 27th, 6:45 pm (you're welcome to arrive earlier if your schedule allows, but they're 40 minutes south of Rochester).  They state to expect $15-25/pizza.  It's a working farm, so please leave the dogs at home.  You would need to bring your own beverages and place settings, from the pictures it looks like they'll provide some seating or you can bring your own.  I'm hoping by waiting until late in the season, the bugs will have died down, the tradeoff means 6:45 will be pretty close to sunset although we'll still have twilight.


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]


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


=== Social:  Thursday September 12th, 6 pm ===
We do not have a speaker scheduled for the technical meeting that would be this Thursday.  <strike> So instead we'll play disc golf.


=== Planned Social:  July 2016, TBD ===
Just up the road outside the RCTC field house. Meet at the parking lot edge / field house doors, 6 pm.
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own.  What 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.
Here is [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217033483939111930234.0004a3795f42da701ae0b&msa=0&ll=44.015742,-92.422206&spn=0.003541,0.006942&iwloc=0004a37962daae4746296 a map].


Keep your eyes open as the evening of the 12th approaches, the weather forecast is questionable and we may need to switch to something with less soggy ground (such as a Pokémon Go walk) or under shelter (dinner somewhere).</strike>


We have once again succeeded in summoning the rain gods!  ;)  So no disc golf.  Instead we'll meet for 6 pm dinner at the [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Arby's/@44.0067322,-92.4756243,17z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sarby's,+rochester,+mn!3m4!1s0x0:0xf2e7601ea14a0b8e!8m2!3d44.0065443!4d-92.4750459 Arby's that is Apache Mall-adjacent].


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday July 14th ===
Depending on what the weather is doing, timelines, and crowd interest, after dinner we will either disperse or maybe some will go across Hwy 14 to Soldier's Field for some Pokemon Go walking on paved trails.


Robert Nix, on Red Hat Summit.  He will talk about what goes on there and what things are announced.




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


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
=== Social:  Thursday August 8th ===
We do not have a speaker scheduled for the technical meeting that would be this Thursday.  So let's take advantage of the weather forecast and try a Pokemon Go walk.  We'll meet at the [https://goo.gl/maps/LzCEL3FyaVwbMsxB9 Silver Lake Park east shelter], which is on the north side of the lake.   


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
6 pm, Thursday August 8th


Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tina know.
No smart phone?  Don't like Pokemon?  Want to tote your camera instead?  Just want to join us for the walk&talk?  That's all fine.  As usual, family, friends, and children all welcome.  This one should be dog-friendly too if yours likes to walk, just beware all of the goose poop.








=== Downtown lunch:  Thursday July 14th ===
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:  Thursday July 25th, 6 pm ===


Disc golf! Just up the road outside the RCTC field house. Meet at the parking lot edge / field house doors, 6 pm.  Here is [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217033483939111930234.0004a3795f42da701ae0b&msa=0&ll=44.015742,-92.422206&spn=0.003541,0.006942&iwloc=0004a37962daae4746296 a map].




=== 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 July 11th ===


Tim Anderson will present on his customized keyboard, a Dactyl WIP.  Attendees with their own customized input hardware to show off are welcome to bring theirs for "show and tell" that will occur after the presentation.


=== RochesterFest lunch:  Thursday June 23rd ===
About the presentation:
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.


Some if the benefits of, and my reasoning for, using an ergonomic keyboard. I'll cover some other open source keyboard projects that are available that I've discovered during my research into the topic, and finally a reasonably detailed overview of the process in which I took to build my Dactyl keyboard.




=== <strike> Technical Meeting</strike> Social: Thursday June 9th ===
6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's H1411 (note: For those of you that have been coming for a long time, we are still in the same place, the rooms in the Heintz Center were renumbered.  Prior to March 20th this room had been known as HA108.  If anyone finds updated maps, please let us know.)


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.]
[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]


=== <strike> Technical Meeting:  Thursday May 12th </strike> ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tina know.


=== Social:  Tuesday May 10th ===


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.
=== RochesterFest lunch: Monday June 24th ===
June downtown lunch at RochesterFest (Soldier's Field track oval), Monday June 24th, 11:30 am, weather permitting.


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; and revised this year they're adding a trolley run from Bethel as a park&ride lot:  "Park in the Augsburg University lot at Bethel Lutheran Church (810 3rd Avenue SE) and take the free trolley shuttle to Soldiers Field Park and back over the midday. Look for the signs in the south part of the lot along 9th Street."


[http://www.rochesterfest.com/food.php Map of the vendors], [http://cms.cws.net/content/rochesterfest.com/files/2019%20Food%20Vendor%20Items.pdf listing of the items for sale] and [http://cms.cws.net/content/rochesterfest.com/files/2019%20Food%20Vendor%20Coupons.pdf coupons] are available.


=== Social: Thursday April 21st, 2016 ===
As our goal is conversation, we'll try to find a spot away from both stage and speakers, on the south/far end of the Main Tent. If the weather is good we might look for a table in the sun in that same vicinity.


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].  
=== Technical Meeting: Thursday June 13th ===
We do not have a speaker for the June technical meeting, so we will make our first attempt at disc golf for the year!  The weather report looks good, so keep your fingers crossed! We will use the RCTC course.  Gather in front of the RCTC Regional Sports Center (aka the Field House, see the campus layout link below if you're not familiar with that location). Don't worry if you're not familiar with disc golf, we have all skill ranges and some discs to loan out if you don't have your own.


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.  
6 pm, in front of the RCTC Regional Sports Center.  




=== <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
=== <strike>Technical Meeting</strike> PIZZA!  Thursday May 9th ===
No speaker, too wet for disc golf, sounds like a great night for pizza and socializing.  The usual meeting date and time (6 pm, Thursday May 9th), but we'll relocate to 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] pizza and chicken buffet.


We had a dozen people turn out, it was great!






=== Social:  Tuesday March <strike> 15th </strike> 29th ===
=== Social:  Thursday May 2nd ===
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]
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/GC84AAK_11th-annual-cito-and-rochesters-litter-bit-better geocachers who get CITO credit].  


6 pm
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 park. The official group gathering location is on the SE corner of the park.


Note the change from the original date, due to rain/mud.
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 March 10th ===
=== <strike>Technical Meeting</strike>  <strike>PIZZA!</strike>  CANCELLED:  Thursday April 11th ===
Marc Thomas, from NORLUG, on setting up and maintaining your own media server.
The bad weather, courtesy of power outages, wins for tonight.


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<strike>No speaker, bad weather, sounds like a great night for pizza and socializing.  The usual meeting date and time (6 pm, Thursday April 11th), but we'll relocate to 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] pizza and chicken buffet.  </strike>


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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=== Social:  March ===
<strike>What might you want to do?  Tell Tina. </strike>


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 [https://www.theescapechallenge.com/home.html locked room escape]?


-Requests for an April speaker
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday March 14th ===
Arhelger, on Wifi and Home Networking.


-Consumption of semi-homemade Pi Day pie (peach, raspberry, strawberry; I cheated and bought crusts).  Please bring your donation for the "hat".
Everyone asks Kevin what he recommends for Wifi routers, so he's going to put all of his thoughts into slide form to document it for posterity. He'll cover the explosion of options over the past few years to help you figure out what the best option for your situation. If you're looking to upgrade, have complaints about Netflix constantly buffering, or want to make sure your network is secure, this ones for you.




This presentation will be recorded, FYI if that bothers you.  For those of you who don't make it, look for the recording afterwards.


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]
We will also have a shorter presentation by George Chatzisofroniou, he's the lead author of [https://github.com/wifiphisher Wifiphisher], a free and open source tool that is available on GNU / Linux.


Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Jon G or Tina know.
Wi-Fi Security Testing with Open Source Tools


In this presentation, audiences will learn about the open source tools available to penetration testers and the situations in which they apply. The presentation will demonstrate how to conduct attacks with the help of open source tools.






=== Downtown Lunch:  Thursday March 10th  ===
Happy Pi Day! The plan is to consume pie.
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.




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]


=== Lunch: Thursday February 18th  ===
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.


[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.


=== "January" Social:  Fridays February 12th, 19th, plus others ===
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 participate.  Anyone 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.


6:30 pm at Tina's house (email for directions).  Snack/beverage potluck only (come with dinner already in your belly).


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.


=== CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER!  <strike>  Social Ice:  Thursday February 7th, right after the Technical Presentation </strike> ===
<strike>
Looking for a host to choose a time and location, and preferably at least one other person to commit to meeting up then/there, for this to happen yet tonight.  Please email the list.




=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday February 11th ===
Robert Nix, on LVM.


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We're headed to Social Ice (aka SocialICE), an [https://www.downtownrochestermn.com/events/socialice outdoor ice bar on the downtown Peace Plaza], which if the -25 degree windchills as I'm writing this is any indication, will have no issues with melting or crowding this year (it's Minnesota, that may change).


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.
For those of you who also love photography, note that SocialIce 2019 is holding a photo contest, each of 6 winners will receive a $50 gift card, details on the SocialICE Page.


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When and where?  The group attending the technical meeting will head there whenever it's a good time to have wrapped up the presentation, and they'll have their own meet up location chosen.  So plan to attend the technical meeting first.
</strike>


Here are [http://k-lug.org/images/0/0d/Lvm.odp his slides] from the meeting.




Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:
=== CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER!!  <strike>Technical Meeting: Thursday February 7th <- Note date change! </strike> ===


-PCIG second round of officer nominations (with elections in March)
Due to weather, RCTC is closed, so there will be no technical meeting tonight.  Rescheduled for the usual 2nd Thursday, but in March.




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


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
<strike> This meeting has been moved to avoid Valentines Day! I don't want to be in trouble with anyone's spouse or significant other.


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
Arhelger, on Wifi and Home Networking.


Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Jon G or Tina know.
Everyone asks Kevin what he recommends for Wifi routers, so he's going to put all of his thoughts into slide form to document it for posterity. He'll cover the explosion of options over the past few years to help you figure out what the best option for your situation. If you're looking to upgrade, have complaints about Netflix constantly buffering, or want to make sure your network is secure, this ones for you.




This presentation will be recorded, FYI if that bothers you.  For those of you who don't make it, look for the recording afterwards.


We may also have a mini-presentation by someone new to town, on wifiphisher, we'll let you know when we have more details ironed out.




=== Downtown Lunch:  Thursday February 11th ===
Immediately afterwards, at whatever time the meeting wraps up, those interested will go to Social Ice downtown on the Peace Plaza for our February social, led by Arhelger. So if you want to attend this social, make sure you attend the meeting, or have coordinated communication with Arhelger in advance.  See the separate Social Ice posting below too.
11:30 am, 1st Avenue food court downtown, at the bigger tables near the entrance.


More presentation details expected to be posted on Friday February 1st.




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


=== Social: Sunday, February 7th 2016 ===
[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]
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/  
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]


Rochester Golf and Country Club
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
3100 Country Club Road SW


Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tina know - but Tina won't be running this meeting, I'll let you know when I know who will be.


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






=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 14th ===
Dennis DeLorme on a recent basement project - the $2 wireless link.


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=== "January" Social:  Saturday February 2nd ===
Sleigh rides!  We will go for a [https://www.rochesterwinterfest.com/events/sleighrides sleigh ride at WinterFest] for our "January" social.  This is an annual favorite with the smaller geekazoids.  In fact I think we've even made the advertising photo for this public event, I suspect that mini-Schmidt is in pink on the top of the snowpile and my own blaze orange snowpants can be seen behind the horses to the right of mini-Schmidt.


Do you wish there was an easy, cheap way for your micro-controllers to
Saturday, February 2nd, at 10 am.  
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
Park along the road on Salem Road, the sleigh rides are north of the road behind the History Center.  
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.
Plan to gather around the Schmidt family. Sorry, no easily identifiable blaze orange to gather around this year.


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.


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 10th, 2019 ===
Dennis DeLorme on his Garagenator (that's garage doing the work of a refrigerator), involving WiFi/Web based temperature sensor/logger:


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
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Did you have the family gathering at your place for Thanksgiving? Did you run out of space in the refrigerator? Did you wonder if the garage temperature was safe for overflow food storage? If so you needed the GARAGERATOR - the WiFi/Web solution to garage temperature monitoring.


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]
In this presentation I'll describe how to use an under $10 WiFi module as a web server to monitor and log temperature. The "user interface" is via a web browser on a laptop, tablet, or cell phone. No special hardware or software is needed on the user side.


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
I will demonstrate the web server as an Access Point (a stand alone
network) to collect and download data. This requires no additional networking, so it is not dependent on a local network.


It can also be connected as a station on a local network and accessible to any device on the local network. I will describe how to do this (it is only a few lines of code difference). I don't know that I will be able to demonstrate this on the RCTC network - as I recall they had some additional interactions to sign on to their open network.


Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:
I will cover the hardware and software used in the project. For those that want to get a head start - the hardware is an ESP8266 module, a
DS3231 rtc, and a DS18B20 temperature sensor. The software is developed using the Arduino IDE with extensions for the ESP8266 (https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino).


-K-LUG’s annual officer elections – president, vice president, treasurer. Nominations or self-nominations for these positions please.
NOTE: This is not an "Internet Of Things" (IOT) presentation. It could be connected directly to the Internet, but I lack the security knowledge (or, alternately, the level of stupidity) required to do that. It can, of course, access the internet via a local network - like other devices on a local network.
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-Annual financial report from our treasurer.


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


KLUG officer nominations and elections (president, vice president, treasurer).


PCIG officer nominations.


Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Jon G or Tina know.
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 January 14th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.
11:30 am, 1st Avenue food court downtown, at the bigger tables near the entrance.
 
 
 




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Social: November

What might you want to do? Tell Tina. If we don't get a request we may skip a social this year (like we do many years), as people's schedules just get too full as the winter holiday season sets in.

No requests, so enjoy the extra free time.


Technical Meeting: Thursday November 14th

Bill Marshall will give a presentation on Ansible.

Ansible is an open-source configuration management tool for Linux, Unix-like systems with python, Windows and many network/security devices. It includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration. Ansible is agentless, temporarily connecting remotely via SSH or remote PowerShell to do its tasks.

Bill has been using Ansible on Linux systems for over two years. He will have a presentation, demo and Q&A time. He can also compare and contract Chef, Ansible and CFEngine if there is interest.


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's H1411 (note: For those of you that have been coming for a long time, we are still in the same place, the rooms in the Heintz Center were renumbered. Prior to March 20th this room had been known as HA108. If anyone finds updated maps, please let us know.)

Directions to Campus

Campus layout

Heintz Center Building Map

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



Social: October

What might you want to do? Tell Tina.

Never happened, sorry.


Technical Meeting: Thursday October 10th

Brent Vrieze will return to us from the Cities to present on his PFSense FreeBSD based firewall.

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https://www.pfsense.org/

pfsense is an enterprise grade firewall for your home. Based on FreeBSD with a custom kernel and many 3rd party software packages to do network monitoring, filtering, routing, DNSSEC, DNS over TLS, VPN. A virtual kitchen sink of security tools in one package...free.

It can be installed on any X86 or X64 based CPU with minimal memory and storage requirements. I personally use an AMD based Mini-ITX board that does not require a CPU fan with an old 4 port PCIe Intel NIC that supports VLAN tagging and so there are no moving HD parts a small SSD.

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6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's H1411 (note: For those of you that have been coming for a long time, we are still in the same place, the rooms in the Heintz Center were renumbered. Prior to March 20th this room had been known as HA108. If anyone finds updated maps, please let us know.)

Directions to Campus

Campus layout

Heintz Center Building Map

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



Social: Friday September 27th

Farm pizza!

Dream Acres near Spring Valley, Friday September 27th, 6:45 pm (you're welcome to arrive earlier if your schedule allows, but they're 40 minutes south of Rochester). They state to expect $15-25/pizza. It's a working farm, so please leave the dogs at home. You would need to bring your own beverages and place settings, from the pictures it looks like they'll provide some seating or you can bring your own. I'm hoping by waiting until late in the season, the bugs will have died down, the tradeoff means 6:45 will be pretty close to sunset although we'll still have twilight.



Social: Thursday September 12th, 6 pm

We do not have a speaker scheduled for the technical meeting that would be this Thursday. So instead we'll play disc golf.

Just up the road outside the RCTC field house. Meet at the parking lot edge / field house doors, 6 pm.

Here is a map.

Keep your eyes open as the evening of the 12th approaches, the weather forecast is questionable and we may need to switch to something with less soggy ground (such as a Pokémon Go walk) or under shelter (dinner somewhere).

We have once again succeeded in summoning the rain gods!  ;) So no disc golf. Instead we'll meet for 6 pm dinner at the Arby's that is Apache Mall-adjacent.

Depending on what the weather is doing, timelines, and crowd interest, after dinner we will either disperse or maybe some will go across Hwy 14 to Soldier's Field for some Pokemon Go walking on paved trails.



Social: Thursday August 8th

We do not have a speaker scheduled for the technical meeting that would be this Thursday. So let's take advantage of the weather forecast and try a Pokemon Go walk. We'll meet at the Silver Lake Park east shelter, which is on the north side of the lake.

6 pm, Thursday August 8th

No smart phone? Don't like Pokemon? Want to tote your camera instead? Just want to join us for the walk&talk? That's all fine. As usual, family, friends, and children all welcome. This one should be dog-friendly too if yours likes to walk, just beware all of the goose poop.



Social: Thursday July 25th, 6 pm

Disc golf! Just up the road outside the RCTC field house. Meet at the parking lot edge / field house doors, 6 pm. Here is a map.


Technical Meeting: Thursday July 11th

Tim Anderson will present on his customized keyboard, a Dactyl WIP. Attendees with their own customized input hardware to show off are welcome to bring theirs for "show and tell" that will occur after the presentation.

About the presentation:

Some if the benefits of, and my reasoning for, using an ergonomic keyboard. I'll cover some other open source keyboard projects that are available that I've discovered during my research into the topic, and finally a reasonably detailed overview of the process in which I took to build my Dactyl keyboard.


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's H1411 (note: For those of you that have been coming for a long time, we are still in the same place, the rooms in the Heintz Center were renumbered. Prior to March 20th this room had been known as HA108. If anyone finds updated maps, please let us know.)

Directions to Campus

Campus layout

Heintz Center Building Map

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


RochesterFest lunch: Monday June 24th

June downtown lunch at RochesterFest (Soldier's Field track oval), Monday June 24th, 11:30 am, weather permitting.

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; and revised this year they're adding a trolley run from Bethel as a park&ride lot: "Park in the Augsburg University lot at Bethel Lutheran Church (810 3rd Avenue SE) and take the free trolley shuttle to Soldiers Field Park and back over the midday. Look for the signs in the south part of the lot along 9th Street."

Map of the vendors, listing of the items for sale and coupons are available.

As our goal is conversation, we'll try to find a spot away from both stage and speakers, on the south/far end of the Main Tent. If the weather is good we might look for a table in the sun in that same vicinity.


Technical Meeting: Thursday June 13th

We do not have a speaker for the June technical meeting, so we will make our first attempt at disc golf for the year! The weather report looks good, so keep your fingers crossed! We will use the RCTC course. Gather in front of the RCTC Regional Sports Center (aka the Field House, see the campus layout link below if you're not familiar with that location). Don't worry if you're not familiar with disc golf, we have all skill ranges and some discs to loan out if you don't have your own.

6 pm, in front of the RCTC Regional Sports Center.


Technical Meeting PIZZA! Thursday May 9th

No speaker, too wet for disc golf, sounds like a great night for pizza and socializing. The usual meeting date and time (6 pm, Thursday May 9th), but we'll relocate to the Stewartville Pizza Ranch pizza and chicken buffet.

We had a dozen people turn out, it was great!


Social: Thursday May 2nd

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 PIZZA! CANCELLED: Thursday April 11th

The bad weather, courtesy of power outages, wins for tonight.

No speaker, bad weather, sounds like a great night for pizza and socializing. The usual meeting date and time (6 pm, Thursday April 11th), but we'll relocate to the Stewartville Pizza Ranch pizza and chicken buffet.



Social: March

What might you want to do? Tell Tina.



Technical Meeting: Thursday March 14th

Arhelger, on Wifi and Home Networking.

Everyone asks Kevin what he recommends for Wifi routers, so he's going to put all of his thoughts into slide form to document it for posterity. He'll cover the explosion of options over the past few years to help you figure out what the best option for your situation. If you're looking to upgrade, have complaints about Netflix constantly buffering, or want to make sure your network is secure, this ones for you.


This presentation will be recorded, FYI if that bothers you. For those of you who don't make it, look for the recording afterwards.


We will also have a shorter presentation by George Chatzisofroniou, he's the lead author of Wifiphisher, a free and open source tool that is available on GNU / Linux.

Wi-Fi Security Testing with Open Source Tools

In this presentation, audiences will learn about the open source tools available to penetration testers and the situations in which they apply. The presentation will demonstrate how to conduct attacks with the help of open source tools.


Happy Pi Day! The plan is to consume pie.


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.



CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER! Social Ice: Thursday February 7th, right after the Technical Presentation

Looking for a host to choose a time and location, and preferably at least one other person to commit to meeting up then/there, for this to happen yet tonight. Please email the list.


We're headed to Social Ice (aka SocialICE), an outdoor ice bar on the downtown Peace Plaza, which if the -25 degree windchills as I'm writing this is any indication, will have no issues with melting or crowding this year (it's Minnesota, that may change).

For those of you who also love photography, note that SocialIce 2019 is holding a photo contest, each of 6 winners will receive a $50 gift card, details on the SocialICE Page.

When and where? The group attending the technical meeting will head there whenever it's a good time to have wrapped up the presentation, and they'll have their own meet up location chosen. So plan to attend the technical meeting first.


CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER!! Technical Meeting: Thursday February 7th <- Note date change!

Due to weather, RCTC is closed, so there will be no technical meeting tonight. Rescheduled for the usual 2nd Thursday, but in March.


This meeting has been moved to avoid Valentines Day! I don't want to be in trouble with anyone's spouse or significant other.

Arhelger, on Wifi and Home Networking.

Everyone asks Kevin what he recommends for Wifi routers, so he's going to put all of his thoughts into slide form to document it for posterity. He'll cover the explosion of options over the past few years to help you figure out what the best option for your situation. If you're looking to upgrade, have complaints about Netflix constantly buffering, or want to make sure your network is secure, this ones for you.


This presentation will be recorded, FYI if that bothers you. For those of you who don't make it, look for the recording afterwards.

We may also have a mini-presentation by someone new to town, on wifiphisher, we'll let you know when we have more details ironed out.


Immediately afterwards, at whatever time the meeting wraps up, those interested will go to Social Ice downtown on the Peace Plaza for our February social, led by Arhelger. So if you want to attend this social, make sure you attend the meeting, or have coordinated communication with Arhelger in advance. See the separate Social Ice posting below too.

More presentation details expected to be posted on Friday February 1st.


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 Tina won't be running this meeting, I'll let you know when I know who will be.



"January" Social: Saturday February 2nd

Sleigh rides! We will go for a sleigh ride at WinterFest for our "January" social. This is an annual favorite with the smaller geekazoids. In fact I think we've even made the advertising photo for this public event, I suspect that mini-Schmidt is in pink on the top of the snowpile and my own blaze orange snowpants can be seen behind the horses to the right of mini-Schmidt.

Saturday, February 2nd, 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. Sorry, no easily identifiable blaze orange to gather around this year.


Technical Meeting: Thursday January 10th, 2019

Dennis DeLorme on his Garagenator (that's garage doing the work of a refrigerator), involving WiFi/Web based temperature sensor/logger:

Did you have the family gathering at your place for Thanksgiving? Did you run out of space in the refrigerator? Did you wonder if the garage temperature was safe for overflow food storage? If so you needed the GARAGERATOR - the WiFi/Web solution to garage temperature monitoring.

In this presentation I'll describe how to use an under $10 WiFi module as a web server to monitor and log temperature. The "user interface" is via a web browser on a laptop, tablet, or cell phone. No special hardware or software is needed on the user side.

I will demonstrate the web server as an Access Point (a stand alone network) to collect and download data. This requires no additional networking, so it is not dependent on a local network.

It can also be connected as a station on a local network and accessible to any device on the local network. I will describe how to do this (it is only a few lines of code difference). I don't know that I will be able to demonstrate this on the RCTC network - as I recall they had some additional interactions to sign on to their open network.

I will cover the hardware and software used in the project. For those that want to get a head start - the hardware is an ESP8266 module, a DS3231 rtc, and a DS18B20 temperature sensor. The software is developed using the Arduino IDE with extensions for the ESP8266 (https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino).

NOTE: This is not an "Internet Of Things" (IOT) presentation. It could be connected directly to the Internet, but I lack the security knowledge (or, alternately, the level of stupidity) required to do that. It can, of course, access the internet via a local network - like other devices on a local network.


KLUG officer nominations and elections (president, vice president, treasurer).

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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