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| === Technical Meeting: November 10th === | | === CANCELLED - Social: Saturday March 14th === |
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| | "On Saturday, March 14, there will be an Irish Dance at the Eagles Club in Rochester - 917 15th Avenue SE. Dance instruction begins at 7:00 PM. Dancing begins at 7:30 PM. Tickets at the door are $10 for adults. Children accompanied by an adult will be admitted free of charge. Music and dance instruction will be provided by FriendsOnTheRange. No experience is necessary. All dances are taught. Singles are welcome. The traditional dances of the Irish Dance on March 14 will include both the jigs and reels of the group dances (performed in circles or in long parallel lines) and the waltzes and polkas and hornpipes of the couple dances. Familiar Irish ballads and sing-alongs will round out the evening." |
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| === Social: Saturday October 22nd, 10 am ===
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| Pumpkin tossing by trebuchet and catapult, at the Boy Scout's GameHaven. We're spectating, not participating. If in future years you want to participate, it sounds like community adults are allowed, chat about it on the email list.
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| [https://calendarwiz.s3.amazonaws.com/71630/Pumpkin_Chuckn_rules_and_registration_form.pdf The full schedule of events]
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| [https://calendarwiz.s3.amazonaws.com/71630/Lumberjack_Fest_Pumpkin_Chuckin_2016.pdf The full advertising flier for the event], there's more than just flying pumpkins this year. There will be lumberjack games and [https://www.facebook.com/events/307418579641937/ other things happening], including a pancake+sausages breakfast, a MN DNR forestry talk, a raptor program, small animals to watch/learn/pet, flying apples to go with the flying pumpkins, etc.
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| You won't be able to gather around Tina for this one, sorry.
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| === Technical Meeting: October 13th ===
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| Arhelger on MongoDB.
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| Kevin Arhelger has been a Technical Services Engineer at MongoDB since January. His presentation will cover the basics of MongoDB and good/bad use cases. He’ll have stickers and a few coffee mugs to give away. Here’s a chance to play stump the expert.
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| | Dancing with kids is fun, bring yours or come share mine. |
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
| | You know I'm a biostatistician - these were the two articles that I've generically been waiting for, addressing both the non-numeric and the number-heavy fronts, and I was sent both of them within 20 minutes of eachother on Thursday night. The numeric of these two articles is the first analysis I've seen that's mathematically "felt" right, and you can see how terrifying it is (humans don't mentally do exponentials well, it's well known in the biostatistical community). |
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.
| | Emotions - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/who-gets-hospital-bed/607807/ |
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| | Numbers - https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca |
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| === Planned Social: September 2016, TBD ===
| | Webcomic - https://xkcd.com/2278/ |
| Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday September 8th ===
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| Robert Nix, on how to put together an iOS application in Xcode in Swift.
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| 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.
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| 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
| | 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://github.com/rpural/TimeTraveler | | [https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus] |
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| 6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know. | | Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know. |
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| === Social #3: Wednesday August 24th === | | === CANCELLED Technical Meeting: Thursday February 13th === |
| 6:15 pm - Minigolf at [http://www.skylineracewayrochester.com/mini-golf.html Skyline Raceway]. Cash only!
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| === Social #2: Sunday August 21st ===
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| Kite flying and ice cream social.
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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.) |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
| | [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map] |
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| | | Also, due to low attendance in January, elections didn't happen, we will try again in February. Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know. |
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| === 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.
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| <strike>Stewartville's Bear Cave Park, 6:30 pm.
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| 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].
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| | === Social: "January" and February 2020: Saturday February 1st === |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday August 11th ===
| | Sleigh riding |
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| 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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| 6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| === Planned Social: July 2016, TBD ===
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| Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.
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| 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.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday July 14th ===
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| Robert Nix, on Red Hat Summit. He will talk about what goes on there and what things are announced.
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| | [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. |
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| === Downtown lunch: Thursday July 14th ===
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| 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.
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| | Lunar New Year celebration (a week late) |
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| | Saturday February 1st, 12:30 pm |
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| === Planned Social: June 2016, TBD ===
| | [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kingdom+Buffet/@44.0401034,-92.4655623,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x87f75f87ea76cc73:0x4cb524b317b5695c!8m2!3d44.0400996!4d-92.4633683 Kingdom Buffet] |
| 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).
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| === RochesterFest lunch: Thursday June 23rd ===
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| 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.
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| === <strike> Technical Meeting</strike> Social: Thursday June 9th === | | === Technical Meeting: Thursday January 9th, 2020 === |
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| 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.]
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| === <strike> Technical Meeting: Thursday May 12th </strike> ===
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| 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.
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| === Social: Thursday April 21st, 2016 ===
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| Our April social will be the Litter Bit Better park clean up.
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| That's 6 pm on Thursday April 21st, at Cascade Lake Park.
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| Bags and trash are provided, you need to provide your own gloves and a sense of civic duty. If anyone has some waterproof boots for cleaning the marshy stream edge, that'd be great too.
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| We 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.
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| === Social: Tuesday March <strike> 15th </strike> 29th ===
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday March 10th ===
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| Marc Thomas, from NORLUG, on setting up and maintaining your own media server.
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| Everything you need to know to set up your own media server, as ethically and legally as possible. From video codecs and containers, compression algorithms, DRM decryption and circumvention, transcoding, storage, organization, consumption, and all the tools that make this possible, all under Linux!
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| | As some of you know I have working with my brother on his river water quality monitor project. He is the director of the Prairie Waters Education and Research Center near Valley City North Dakota (http://www.vcsu.edu/prairiewaters/). One of their programs is River Watch (http://www.vcsu.edu/prairiewaters/river-watch) where high school students monitor a river in their area. |
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| | Last fall I sent out a message asking what parts of the project people were interested in. I got 2 responses one asking how we picked components and one asking about solar power. |
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| -Choice of a March social event. Possibly a [https://www.theescapechallenge.com/home.html locked room escape]?
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| === Downtown Lunch: Thursday March 10th ===
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| 11:30 am, 1st Avenue food court downtown, at the bigger tables near the entrance. The Mexican place has closed, an Indian restaurant will replace it "soon". Mango Thai has opened.
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| === Lunch: Thursday February 18th ===
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| === "January" Social: Fridays February 12th, 19th, plus others ===
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| 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.
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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.
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| Here are [http://k-lug.org/images/0/0d/Lvm.odp his slides] from the meeting.
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| === Downtown Lunch: Thursday February 11th ===
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| === Social: Sunday, February 7th 2016 ===
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| 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.
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| === Lunch: Thursday January 21st ===
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday January 14th ===
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| Dennis DeLorme on a recent basement project - the $2 wireless link.
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| Do you wish there was an easy, cheap way for your micro-controllers to
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| 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.
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CANCELLED - Social: Saturday March 14th
"On Saturday, March 14, there will be an Irish Dance at the Eagles Club in Rochester - 917 15th Avenue SE. Dance instruction begins at 7:00 PM. Dancing begins at 7:30 PM. Tickets at the door are $10 for adults. Children accompanied by an adult will be admitted free of charge. Music and dance instruction will be provided by FriendsOnTheRange. No experience is necessary. All dances are taught. Singles are welcome. The traditional dances of the Irish Dance on March 14 will include both the jigs and reels of the group dances (performed in circles or in long parallel lines) and the waltzes and polkas and hornpipes of the couple dances. Familiar Irish ballads and sing-alongs will round out the evening."
Dancing with kids is fun, bring yours or come share mine.
Technically this event is still happening. But please, practice aggressive social distancing.
You know I'm a biostatistician - these were the two articles that I've generically been waiting for, addressing both the non-numeric and the number-heavy fronts, and I was sent both of them within 20 minutes of eachother on Thursday night. The numeric of these two articles is the first analysis I've seen that's mathematically "felt" right, and you can see how terrifying it is (humans don't mentally do exponentials well, it's well known in the biostatistical community).
Emotions - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/who-gets-hospital-bed/607807/
Numbers - https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca
Webcomic - https://xkcd.com/2278/
CANCELLED Technical Meeting: Thursday March 12th
Presenter needed. Willing to volunteer? Tell Tina.
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.
CANCELLED Technical Meeting: Thursday February 13th
Presenter needed. Willing to volunteer? Tell Tina.
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
Also, due to low attendance in January, elections didn't happen, we will try again in February. Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.
Social: "January" and February 2020: Saturday February 1st
Sleigh riding
Saturday, February 1st, 10 am
Park along the road on Salem Road, the sleigh rides are north of the road behind the History Center.
Lunar New Year celebration (a week late)
Saturday February 1st, 12:30 pm
Kingdom Buffet
Please RSVP to Tina by 3 pm on Thursday January 30th, so she can make reservations.
Technical Meeting: Thursday January 9th, 2020
Dennis DeLorme, on monitoring current and voltage in his river project.
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As some of you know I have working with my brother on his river water quality monitor project. He is the director of the Prairie Waters Education and Research Center near Valley City North Dakota (http://www.vcsu.edu/prairiewaters/). One of their programs is River Watch (http://www.vcsu.edu/prairiewaters/river-watch) where high school students monitor a river in their area.
The monitor system is a solar powered data logger recording timestamp, temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen and conductivity.
Last fall I sent out a message asking what parts of the project people were interested in. I got 2 responses one asking how we picked components and one asking about solar power.
To cover these, the presentation will describe the history and evolution of the project over the last couple of years. It will be at a high to medium level. (I already covered specifics of the Bluetooth and WiFi interfaces in previous talks.)
I will also go through some of the problems and data that was collected last fall. Finally I'll demo the current WiFi interface using the actual hardware.
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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 2019 this room had been known as HA108. If anyone finds updated maps, please let us know.)
Also, annual KLUG officer elections, and PCIG officer nominations.
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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