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=== Email ===
=== Outside Social:  Saturday October 7th ===
August 30, 2022:  Gmail is rejecting all of our emails, and our server has bounced all gmail addressed off the email list.  If you have another email address you'd like to subscribe with in the meantime until our email admin can decipher and unwind the problem, feel free to do so, links are on the leftnav panel.


Geocaching!  We're celebrating International Earth Cache Day by geocaching at Quarry Hill, primarily to find [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1T557 the earth cache there].  But depending on everyone's walking stamina these days, we'll also [https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2023/09/new-souvenir-international-earthcache-day-2023/ hunt other geocaches in the park].  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.


1 pm, Quarry Hill Park, at the Nature Center [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Quarry+Hill+Park/@44.0299058,-92.4292345,464m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m10!1m2!2m1!1squarry+hill+nature+center+parking+lot!3m6!1s0x87f9e1b4e1a125cb:0x38572654fae57d23!8m2!3d44.0296706!4d-92.4297814!15sCiVxdWFycnkgaGlsbCBuYXR1cmUgY2VudGVyIHBhcmtpbmcgbG90kgEEcGFya-ABAA!16s%2Fg%2F1tqyg1my?entry=ttu parking lot].






=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday October 12th ===
Want to be a speaker, or have ideas you'd like others to present on?  Let us know.


=== Virtual Social: Thursday April 13th, 2023 ===
6 pm
6 pm


[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]  
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.




=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday November 9th ===
Want to be a speaker, or have ideas you'd like others to present on?  Let us know.


=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 25th ===
6 pm
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.
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]  


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.




=== Virtual board game night:  Friday night in early December, TBD ===
Details yet to come, but likely using the same platform of [https://en.boardgamearena.com/ Board Game Arena].


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.
And because it's more fun to video chat while we game together, don't forget to also log into our [https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig video chat room.]






=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th, 2024 ===
Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics.


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


[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]
And KLUG officer elections.


Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.
=== Disc golf social: May/June  ===
Hoping to have several of these this summer, see you outside!




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=== Planned Socials: Fall or winter ===
=== Socials brainstorming: Fall or winter ===
-Murder mystery.  The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started.
-Murder mystery.  The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started.



Revision as of 19:16, 24 September 2023


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LUG News

We generally meet monthly for technical presentations (2nd Thursday of the month, 6 pm, RCTC), and monthly for socializing (varies). We no longer meet monthly for lunches, if you are interested in reviving this tradition please contact an officer.


Outside Social: Saturday October 7th

Geocaching! We're celebrating International Earth Cache Day by geocaching at Quarry Hill, primarily to find the earth cache there. But depending on everyone's walking stamina these days, we'll also hunt other geocaches in the park. 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.

1 pm, Quarry Hill Park, at the Nature Center parking lot.


Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday October 12th

Want to be a speaker, or have ideas you'd like others to present on? Let us know.

6 pm

Meeting link here.


Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday November 9th

Want to be a speaker, or have ideas you'd like others to present on? Let us know.

6 pm

Meeting link here.


Virtual board game night: Friday night in early December, TBD

Details yet to come, but likely using the same platform of Board Game Arena.

And because it's more fun to video chat while we game together, don't forget to also log into our video chat room.


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

Meeting link here.

And KLUG officer elections.

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



Pending potential presentations

Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize


Socials brainstorming: Fall or winter

-Murder mystery. The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started.

-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary

-Bowlocity laser tag. 5-6 people minimum needed.

-Liquid nitrogen ice cream. This needs a non-Tina organizer. Dennis DeLorme has 2 recipes. We need safety equipment and someone trained enough to keep us from freezing ourselves.


Old News Items

See the OldNews page.



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