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=== 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."
Dancing with kids is fun, bring yours or come share mine.
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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/






=== Outside Social:  Thursday May 25th, 6 pm ===


Disc golf! Meet outside the RCTC field house, 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].


=== CANCELLED Technical Meeting:  Thursday March 12th ===


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Presenter needed.  Willing to volunteer?  Tell Tina.


=== Virtual Social: Thursday May 11th, 2023 ===
6 pm


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.)
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]


[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.
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 25th ===
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6:15 - 7:30 pm


A new to us park!  [https://goo.gl/maps/CBxuPMLC8GqAydq88 Manor Park], which can be entered from 3rd St NW, we will be gathering just off the edge of the parking lot.


Bags provided.  You bring your own gloves, grabbers, mask if desired, and sense of civic duty.  This park doesn't have any shoreline, so hopefully we can leave the muck boots at home and bring home dry children.




=== CANCELLED Technical Meeting:  Thursday February 13th ===


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As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCA5Y11 geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.  I'll be arriving a little late, so you'll need to look for the group.
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.)


[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]
=== CANCELLED <strike>Disc Golf in-person social (outside), Friday April 21st</strike> ===
<strike>The ground is drying up, and the holes are posted, so it's time to start disc golfing!


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
6:30 pm - the new disc golf course in Zumbrota, at the Covered Bridge Park.


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
Park around [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B017'52.2%22N+92%C2%B040'16.5%22W/@44.297828,-92.67124,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d44.297828!4d-92.67124 here].  If it's already full, there's more parking further down the road to the west.


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.
First hole is around [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B017'49.4%22N+92%C2%B040'17.9%22W/@44.29706,-92.671626,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d44.29706!4d-92.671626 here].
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Don't worry, there will hopefully be lots of disc golf this summer.  Just not this time.




=== Social: "January" and February 2020:  Saturday February 1st ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday April 13th, 2023 ===
 
6 pm
Sleigh riding
 
Saturday, February 1st, 10 am
 
[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.
 
 
 
Lunar New Year celebration (a week late)
 
Saturday February 1st, 12:30 pm
 
[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]
 
Please RSVP to Tina by 3 pm on Thursday January 30th, so she can make reservations.


[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]


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




=== Virtual Social: Thursday March 9th, 2023 ===
6 pm


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 9th, 2020 ===
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]


Dennis DeLorme, on monitoring current and voltage in his river project.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.


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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.
=== Technical presentation: Thursday February 9th, 2023 ===


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.
Tim Massaro will give us a demonstration on Dalle2:


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.)
Is anyone interested or knowledgeable in chatGPT, I haven't had time to look into it enough for a demo, but I have looked into Dalle2 enough to present a short demo. My understanding is Dalle2 uses ChatGTP to dynamically produce very interesting artwork based on user input such as "show me an impressionistic image of a Monkey riding a dinosaur along a beach at sunset".


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.
[http://k-lug.org/images/b/bb/Dall-e_2.pdf Slides here], including those links that came up in the social discussion.


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6 pm


[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]


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


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.




[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]
=== Virtual Social: Thursday January 12th, 2023 ===
6 pm


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
Also on the agenda - KLUG annual officer elections.
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tina know.


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




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Revision as of 20:31, 1 June 2023



Outside Social: Thursday May 25th, 6 pm

Disc golf! Meet outside the RCTC field house, 6 pm. Here is a map.


Virtual Social: Thursday May 11th, 2023

6 pm

Meeting link here.

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


Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 25th

6:15 - 7:30 pm

A new to us park! Manor Park, which can be entered from 3rd St NW, we will be gathering just off the edge of the parking lot.

Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, mask if desired, and sense of civic duty. This park doesn't have any shoreline, so hopefully we can leave the muck boots at home and bring home dry children.


As usual we are teaming up with the geocachers to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage. I'll be arriving a little late, so you'll need to look for the group.


CANCELLED Disc Golf in-person social (outside), Friday April 21st

The ground is drying up, and the holes are posted, so it's time to start disc golfing!

6:30 pm - the new disc golf course in Zumbrota, at the Covered Bridge Park.

Park around here. If it's already full, there's more parking further down the road to the west.

First hole is around here.

Don't worry, there will hopefully be lots of disc golf this summer. Just not this time.


Virtual Social: Thursday April 13th, 2023

6 pm

Meeting link here.

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


Virtual Social: Thursday March 9th, 2023

6 pm

Meeting link here.

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


Technical presentation: Thursday February 9th, 2023

Tim Massaro will give us a demonstration on Dalle2:

Is anyone interested or knowledgeable in chatGPT, I haven't had time to look into it enough for a demo, but I have looked into Dalle2 enough to present a short demo. My understanding is Dalle2 uses ChatGTP to dynamically produce very interesting artwork based on user input such as "show me an impressionistic image of a Monkey riding a dinosaur along a beach at sunset".

Slides here, including those links that came up in the social discussion.

6 pm

Meeting link here.

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



Virtual Social: Thursday January 12th, 2023

6 pm

Meeting link here.

Also on the agenda - KLUG annual officer elections.

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





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