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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday August 12th ===
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| Author Annette Godtland on her book "This Little Program Went to Market". The book describes how to Create, Deploy, Distribute, Sell, and Market Software and More on the Internet at Little or No Cost to You. Find out more at her website. The usual time and location, which is 6 pm, RCTC's Heintz Center HA109 or HA107 depending on construction progress. See the Meetings page for more details on how to find the building and the room.
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| | === Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 30th === |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday July 15th *** NOTE DATE CHANGE ===
| | Back to our usual Cascade Lake Park. |
| Brent Vrieze will present SquareSpace and demo the website he created for his ambulance garage.
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| | Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is shoreline. |
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| === Lunch: Thursday July 15th ===
| | As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCAMJX2 geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage. |
| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Yes, the same day as our technical meeting.
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| === Social: June 29th===
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| Frisbee golf, 7 pm, East Park. That's kitty-corner from the Heintz Center building, here's a [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=East+Park,+Rochester,+MN&ie=UTF8&ll=44.022447,-92.443299&spn=0.007468,0.012124&z=16 map], email Tina if you need more detailed directions. You're welcome even if you don't own your own discs, or if you've never played. If you don't own your own, you can throw your shoe (entertaining but highly inefficient), or try to let us know in advance to bring a spare for you to borrow.
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| | === Virtual Social: Thursday April 11th === |
| | Come hang out virtually with your favorite geeks, and share what you've been up to or found interesting. |
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| === Lunch: Thursday June 17th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| | Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74567357951?pwd=nQjQHcz7eKjaZ5YaHS2UGrat5UVUCv.1 here]. |
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| === CANCELED June Technical Meeting ===
| | Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know. |
| Tim and Tina are both unavailable to run a meeting, and we have no speaker. Past history suggests low summer attendance anyway. So in the usual arbitrary and capricious manner, this meeting has been canceled. Speakers are needed to volunteer for upcoming months.
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| === Social: Thursday May 20th ===
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| Yes, the same day as lunch, hope you're not sick of us yet. Disc golf at East Park (kitty-corner from RCTC's Heintz Center), 7 pm. You're welcome even if you don't own your own discs, or if you've never played. If you don't own your own, you can throw your shoe (entertaining but highly inefficient), or try to let us know in advance to bring a spare for you to borrow.
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| | === Virtual Technical Meeting: To be rescheduled === |
| | Acu Dorin will present on opensource AI software and an effort he and some other folks have made to create a private version of a chatGPT like AI interface |
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| === Lunch: Thursday May 20th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday May 13th === | | === Outside Social: Friday March 22nd, 6 pm === |
| The featured speakers this month are José de Leon of Winona State University and Bonnie Gabrick, a Winona State University student in Management Information Systems. They will talk about iPhone web development with the rapid web-development framework Ruby on Rails. Bonnie and José worked on a database-backed site in Rails, describing the technology inventory in each classroom at Winona State, and developed a mobile version of the website that exists alongside the default site. Like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, two cool technologies that go great together!
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| | Geocaching! The March equinox is an excuse to [https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2024/03/celebrating-the-march-equinox/ find 3 geocaches during the week of the equinox]. If you've never geocached before, this is a great time to join us. Wear your hiking shoes, long sturdy pants, and otherwise dress for the weather. |
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| === Social: Thursday April 22nd ===
| | We will chase 3 multi-caches that start to the east and north of St Marys Hospital |
| We'll be participating in Rochester's A Litter Bit Better campaign by helping to clean up [http://www.k-lug.org/images/8/8d/LitterBitBetter_2010_AdoptionArea.pdf section 346] of [http://www.rneighbors.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/SE-Final.pdf Bear Creek Park]. 6:30 pm start, meet at the south end of the McQuillin Field parking lot, more details can be found [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC25WX0 here]. Bring your own gloves, and anyone interested in geocaching the park can do both at the same time (plan is to get a few FTF options out of there to encourage the geocachers). Since we're participating in [http://www.rneighbors.org/?p=2688 LBB], the City provides the empty trash bags, picks up the full bags, and covers the disposal costs. | | https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6G6R5 |
| | https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XDH0 |
| | https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XEQV |
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| | If we have any DNF's, first choice replacement will be: |
| | https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC56K4K |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday April 8th ===
| | I skimmed through the logs, and none of our regulars seem to have found these, so hopefully everyone will qualify for the achievement. |
| Eldon Nelson and Jon Gullixson will speak on online storage, and securing your online storage.<br>
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| '''When:''' Thursday April 8th - 6pm - 8:30pm<br>
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| '''Where:'''RCTC Heintz Center HA109 or HA107 depending on construction progress<br>
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| [http://www.k-lug.org/April_2010_Minutes more information]
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| | There is a limited quantity of 2 hour parking in St. Marys Park proper. However, the neighborhood parking permit restriction opens back up starting at 5:30, so by starting at 6 pm you should be able to park on the street (and not be competing with employees for spots) for the duration of our explorations. |
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| === Lunch: Thursday March 18th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday March 14th === |
| | Speaker cancelled due to illness, will reschedule. |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday March 11th ===
| | Tim Massaro will come to our rescue, and will present on his Partyrock/Blackrock hackathon project, as well as brainstorming some future socials. |
| The usual time and close to the usual place - 6 pm in RCTC's Heintz Center near HA107 (room under construction). Maps and directions are on our [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings Meetings] page. Jose de Leon will present on "Winona360 and Drupal".
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| Winona360 (edutech.tlt.winona.edu/winona360) is an online journalism site that was built for the Mass Communications Department of Winona State University. The site was built using the open-source content management system Drupal, and the talk will be more focused upon some working with some of the advanced Drupal features, and what was done with them to make the site work.
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| '''Slides from Jose's presentation can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/images/b/bc/Drupal_Winona360.pdf here].'''
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| Also, PCIG elections.
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| === Social: Sunday March 7th ===
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| On Sunday March 7th in Owatonna, the Owatonna Curling Club will be holding an open house. This is your opportunity to see live curling, learn about curling and even try curling for free. They're no longer allowing individual small groups to come for free as Tina's taken some of you in the past, so this may be your best option. Don't forget to bring clean tennis shoes. Details can be found on the club website http://owatonnacc.org
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| | === Outside Social: Saturday February 24th === |
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| === Alternate social: Sunday February 21st ===
| | It's supposed to be dry all week, there's no snow to fight with, the disc golf holes are present, and Saturday's forecast is for sunshine and a high of 46. So let's play disc golf! |
| Celebrate the Chinese New Year by going out for Chinese with your fellow K-LUGgers. The Chinese New Year is actually on Valentine's Day this year, which I figured was asking for trouble for trying to get enough seats in a restaurant, so we'll go a week late. 6 pm, Hunan at 844 South Broadway near Kmart. RSVP's are due to Tina by lunchtime on Wednesday February 17th so reservations can be made.
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| | Meet outside the RCTC field house, 2 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]. |
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| === Lunch: Thursday February 18th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th === |
| | Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics. |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday February 11th ===
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| Chris Abbey on digital photo processing. Those of you who went on the October social photowalks, send your pictures to Chris in advance or bring them to the meeting. Culling is the first step, so don't feel like you need to reduce in advance the pictures you took.
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| Also, PCIG nominations.
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| === Social: Thursday February 4th === | | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th, 2024 === |
| For a February social there's an IBMer that Tim knows who is a good public speaker, he's doing a Community Ed class on Woodstock. Details are code 7071.221, Thursday February 4th, 7-8:30 pm, Northrop 319. You must register with Community Ed to attend, the class fee is $7.
| | Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics. |
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| === Lunch: Thursday January 21st ===
| | And KLUG officer elections. |
| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| === Social: January 16th ===
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| Potluck dinner and game night at Tina's.
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| 6 pm dinner - Tina will provide pork based something for the main dish
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| 7 pm games - we'll play whatever you bring
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| Please RSVP to Tina
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday January 14 - IBM SameTime 3D - Virtual Collaboration in 3D Meeting Rooms - Demo by Tim Massaro ===
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| -> '''Where:'''RCTC Heintz Center
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| Room HA107 (or HA109)
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus] <br>
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| SameTime 3D allows users to collaborate via voice, textchat, avatars and various meeting specific tools. Upload a presentation and invite others to join you in a virtual 3D meeting space.
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| Meetings are about people getting together to do things - with 3D meetings you see all the others as avatars throughout the meeting.
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| Social interactions are more natural with avatars. The expressiveness of avatars help co-workers communicate in a natural and personal way that helps them get to know each other - leading to more trust and better collaboration.
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| Work in 3D. Organize in 3D, build in 3D, present and interact in 3D
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| We'll also go over topics for future meetings...Need some ideas? [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list Here are topics] your fellow K-LUGgers have requested.
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| Also, '''elections''' are coming up please consider volunteering.
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Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 30th
6:15 - 7:30 pm
Back to our usual Cascade Lake Park.
Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is shoreline.
As usual we are teaming up with the geocachers to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.
Virtual Social: Thursday April 11th
Come hang out virtually with your favorite geeks, and share what you've been up to or found interesting.
6 pm
Meeting link here.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
Virtual Technical Meeting: To be rescheduled
Acu Dorin will present on opensource AI software and an effort he and some other folks have made to create a private version of a chatGPT like AI interface
Outside Social: Friday March 22nd, 6 pm
Geocaching! The March equinox is an excuse to find 3 geocaches during the week of the equinox. If you've never geocached before, this is a great time to join us. Wear your hiking shoes, long sturdy pants, and otherwise dress for the weather.
We will chase 3 multi-caches that start to the east and north of St Marys Hospital
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6G6R5
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XDH0
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XEQV
If we have any DNF's, first choice replacement will be:
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC56K4K
I skimmed through the logs, and none of our regulars seem to have found these, so hopefully everyone will qualify for the achievement.
Parking:
There is a limited quantity of 2 hour parking in St. Marys Park proper. However, the neighborhood parking permit restriction opens back up starting at 5:30, so by starting at 6 pm you should be able to park on the street (and not be competing with employees for spots) for the duration of our explorations.
Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday March 14th
Speaker cancelled due to illness, will reschedule.
Tim Massaro will come to our rescue, and will present on his Partyrock/Blackrock hackathon project, as well as brainstorming some future socials.
6 pm
Meeting link removed.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
Outside Social: Saturday February 24th
It's supposed to be dry all week, there's no snow to fight with, the disc golf holes are present, and Saturday's forecast is for sunshine and a high of 46. So let's play disc golf!
Meet outside the RCTC field house, 2 pm. Here is a map.
Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th
Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics.
6 pm
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th, 2024
Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics.
6 pm
And KLUG officer elections.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.
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