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=== Virtual Technical Meeting:  Thursday May 21st ===
Note the date change!  One week later than usual.  But it'll still be a Thursday, and still at our usual 6 pm start time.  Probably no business portion to start due to virtual format, so presenter content may start closer to the top of the hour than you're used to.  Matt Bruzek will tell us about his Texas experiments in robotic lawn mowing, since their lawn mowing season started well ahead of ours.


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So you are surviving the pandemic apocalypse but your lawn still needs to be mowed. Make a robot mow your lawn instead of you! Matt Bruzek will talk about the robot lawn mowers and give some tips and lessons learned from his adventures in robot lawn mowing.
=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday October 12th ===
Want to be a speaker, or have ideas you'd like others to present on?  Let us know.


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6 pm


Live - Connect [https://meet.google.com/gcj-xias-pcj here.]
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]  


After the fact - view slides [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13MJxRkxSCAX11Aa-5qF1iPDSWgYkq1-XRpn1ma7zNwY/edit?usp=sharing here.]




=== Outside Social:  Saturday October 7th ===


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.


=== CANCELLED Social: Monday May 18th ===
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].
All of Rochester's Litter Bit Better has been pushed to October, so we've been delayed until October 6th, see below.


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Litter Bit Better!


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://coord.info/GC8M8JA geocachers who get CITO credit].


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.
=== Outside Social: Friday September 22nd ===


6 pm start time.  
Disc golf! Meet at the Byron Links disc golf course, 6 pm. General description of the course is here, including where it is:  https://udisc.com/courses/byron-links-dgc-421X


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.
And a course map, for those who like more details:  https://udisc.com/courses/byron-links-dgc-421X/map  For some reason for me that loads up some ways due north of Byron, move yourself down and then zoom in as necessary.
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=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday September 14th ===
Dennis DeLorme will present on his home media server.


=== Social:  April 2020 ===
6 pm


Instead of a social, practice aggressive social distancing.  Take this time to send emails or make phone calls to the people you love.
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.] Presentation notes [here http://k-lug.org/images/2/28/Home_media_streaming.pdf]


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






=== VIRTUAL Technical Meeting:  Thursday April 9th ===
=== Outside Social:  Friday September 8th ===


Kevin's presentation will be about 3D printing. He has two printers and has spent a fair bit of time in CAD modeling various items. He'll cover the basic technologies and show off his gear. This will be [https://youtu.be/5poYQ4eEN8o live streamed via YouTube] at 6:00 Thursday. If you can't join us live, the link will still be available afterwards.
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].


There will NOT be a gathering at RCTC's Heintz Center, please watch from the germ-free comfort of your own home.




=== Outside Social:  Monday August 14th ===


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 - 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.
=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday August 10th ===
Aaron Albertson will talk about the IBM LEGO Education Outreach (ILEO) program, the process of designing challenges, and the capabilities of the LEGO robots that the ILEO program currently makes use of.


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).
6 pm


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


Emotions - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/who-gets-hospital-bed/607807/
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.




Numbers - https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca


=== Virtual Social: Thursday July 13th ===
6 pm


Webcomic - https://xkcd.com/2278/
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]


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






=== Outside Social:  Tuesday June 27th, 6:30 pm ===


=== CANCELLED Technical Meeting:  Thursday March 12th ===
Disc golf! Meet outside the RCTC field house, 6:30 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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Presenter needed.  Willing to volunteer?  Tell Tina.


=== Virtual Social: Thursday June 8th, 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 Aaron 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.
=== Outside Social: Thursday May 25th, 6 pm ===
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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 February 13th ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday May 11th, 2023 ===
6 pm


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[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]
Presenter needed. Willing to volunteer?  Tell Tina.


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 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]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 25th ===
6:15 - 7:30 pm


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


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.
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.
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=== Social:  "January" and February 2020:  Saturday February 1st ===
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.


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.
=== 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!


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


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.


Lunar New Year celebration (a week late)
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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Saturday February 1st, 12:30 pm
Don't worry, there will hopefully be lots of disc golf this summer.  Just not this time.


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


[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.






=== Email ===
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.




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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.


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.


Outside Social: Friday September 22nd

Disc golf! Meet at the Byron Links disc golf course, 6 pm. General description of the course is here, including where it is: https://udisc.com/courses/byron-links-dgc-421X

And a course map, for those who like more details: https://udisc.com/courses/byron-links-dgc-421X/map For some reason for me that loads up some ways due north of Byron, move yourself down and then zoom in as necessary.



Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday September 14th

Dennis DeLorme will present on his home media server.

6 pm

Meeting link here. Presentation notes [here http://k-lug.org/images/2/28/Home_media_streaming.pdf]

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


Outside Social: Friday September 8th

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


Outside Social: Monday August 14th

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


Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday August 10th

Aaron Albertson will talk about the IBM LEGO Education Outreach (ILEO) program, the process of designing challenges, and the capabilities of the LEGO robots that the ILEO program currently makes use of.

6 pm

Meeting link here.

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


Virtual Social: Thursday July 13th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

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


Outside Social: Tuesday June 27th, 6:30 pm

Disc golf! Meet outside the RCTC field house, 6:30 pm. Here is a map.


Virtual Social: Thursday June 8th, 2023

6 pm

Meeting link here.

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


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.


Email

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.




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