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| === Lunch: Thursday January 17th ===
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| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, sort of near the Barnes & Noble
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday January 10th, 6pm === | | === Outside Social: Friday August 30th === |
| We have a meeting room! RCTC Heintz Center, room HA107<br>
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| Topic: Freemind - Mind Mapping Software - Mo Holahan
| | 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]. |
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| Our January meeting will feature "mind mapping" software and a product called Freemind. Freemind is especially good at "fast" brainstorming, with graphical forking or branching to new ideas. With Freemind it's easy to move information around and re-associate it, assign attributes, etc. There is a linux version available and there are several other "brands" of mind mapping software. Mo Holahan will be doing this demo for us.
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| -KLUG officer elections<br>
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| -Planning the January social<br>
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| -Planning the February social?
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| | === Virtual Social: Thursday August 8th === |
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| === "Technical" Meeting: Thursday December 13th ===
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| 6 pm. DDR/Wii/other game systems, plus board/card games. You bring it, we'll play it. Held at Brian's house, 948 Byron Ave N in Byron. He says the Mapquest directions will get you there, but it's easier to follow these:<br>
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| 1. Head West on Highway 14 towards Byron - go 8 miles(approx) to 2nd Ave NW/County Road 5(Kwik Trip/2nd stop light) <br>
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| 2. Take right on 2nd Ave NW(Kwik Trip/2nd stop light) - go 9 blocks to 9th Street NW<br>
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| 3. Take right on 9th Street - go 2 blocks to Byron Ave N<br>
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| 4. Take left on Byron Ave N - at the very end on Byron Ave N cul-de-sac is my house a split entry with attached garage<br>
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| Jointly with PCIG. So that others can see what may be available and Brian knows how many the descending hoard will contain (and therefore need seating), please sign up below.
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| | Tim M || 1 || PS3 (need tv) || Madden/MotorStorm || NA || Pop || Bomberman
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| | Aaron Albertson || 1 || Wii || Mario Party 8 || RoboRally || TBD || NA
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| | === Virtual Social: Thursday July 11th === |
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| === Social: Night at the Planetarium, Tuesday December 4th ===
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| 7-8 pm at the Mayo High School Planetarium. This is a Community Ed class so you must pre-register with them, more details available at [http://www.rochester.k12.mn.us/ their website], -> Enrichment -> Adult -> Adults. Or sign up [https://activenet6.active.com/rochesterce/servlet/adet.sdi?activity_id=23872 online].<br>
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| Explore the nightly environment that is overhead with a visit to the planetarium. A tour of the heavenly sights is planned that will feature special sights specific to the month. Cosponsored with Rochester Astronomy Club. The planetarium is located at Mayo High School.<br>
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| Code Day/Date Time Sessions Fee<br>
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| 8380.143 T Dec. 4 7-8 PM 1 $5<br>
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| Location: Mayo-Rm. 1-226<br>
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| Instructor: Rochester Astronomy Club
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| === Social: Friday November 16th === | | === Outdoor Social: Thursday June 27th, 11:45 am === |
| Video games, MAME, and whatever board/card games you bring to MJ Thompson's house. Friday, November 16th, 6:30-11 pm. More details on the [[SocialMeeting]] page.
| | Lunch at RochesterFest. We'll be sitting at a picnic table on the far side of the tent from the music, to hopefully lower the decibel level enough to still talk. |
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| | Food trailers are supposed to be open by noon, 11:45 am will give us a little better chance at getting parking. |
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| === Lunch: Thursday November 15th ===
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| | === Virtual Social: Thursday June 13th === |
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| === Technical Meeting: Swap/Sale Thursday November 8th ===
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| Swap meet!! Buy/Sell/Trade - at this annual event, even the general public can bring computer / gadget related gear to sell or trade, or just come to browse for the bargins. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm. We also plan to have a truck available to recycle old equipment at a price of $0.35 a pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar.
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| When: Thursday, November 8th, 6pm
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| Where: [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/getting-to-ucr.html UCR Main Campus], [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/buildingmaps.html#ucr East Hall], [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/easthall.html room 128]. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm.
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| Attendance will include KLUG, members of PCIG, IBM Ham Radio Club, students from RCTC, and the general public.
| | === Virtual Social: Thursday May 9th === |
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| '''We need your help!''' In order to make this a success, we need all of you to pitch in. How? There's all sorts of ways you can help, please sign up for these tasks below.
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| -Bring your stuff to sell/swap. Everyone.
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| -Print and show this revised [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/e0/Flyer07.pdf Sale Flyer] to friends. Everyone.
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| -Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.35 per pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar for ease of making change). Everyone.
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| -Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge. Tim Massaro | | === Geocaching in-person social (outside), Friday May 3rd === |
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| -Man the recycling area, do the weighing, cost figuring, and providing of change. -Steve Severson
| | Park and walk in a neighborhood in NE Rochester. |
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| -Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5). Tim Massaro | | Park near [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3WQ84 1 - Odin] on Whiting Lane NE's cul de sac. We'll walk from there to a couple of other geocaches ([https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC57FGC 2], [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4RPZ2 3]), then back to #1, and then decide if we're walking or driving to [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC8M3FP 4]. |
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| -Coordinate the pizza fundraiser, buy pizza and pop plus bring paper plates and disposable cups in quantities sufficient for those who show up. Will be reimbursed out of the profits from the fundraiser (charge is a donation). - Steve Fox
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| -Making some (Ubuntu?) CDs to give away. - Steve Fox
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| -Posting. Volunteers are needed to post to many locations. Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome): | | === Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 30th === |
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| -KLUG mailing list and wiki (done) - Tina W.
| | Back to our usual Cascade Lake Park. |
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| -IBM calendar, Ham Radio Club and PCIG Website (done) - Tim Massaro
| | Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is shoreline. |
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| -Mayo classifieds - Eric Amundsen
| | As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCAMJX2 geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage. |
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| -Craigslist, Think Bank (done) - Tim Massaro
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| -Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) - (this probably won't get done due to posting requirements)Volunteer_needed_here
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| -UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy - Ren
| | === 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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| -RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy - Volunteer_needed_here
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| -IBM White Building(664) - post hard copy (done)- Steve Severson
| | Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74567357951?pwd=nQjQHcz7eKjaZ5YaHS2UGrat5UVUCv.1 here]. |
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| -Venture Computer - send email of flyer, request posting (done)- Steve Severson
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| -Wherever else you can think of. Volunteer_needed_here
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| Please RSVP for what tasks you can help with. If I haven't heard from anyone on a task, I'll have to start pestering people. This has got to be a group effort to be successful.
| | === 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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| Things to remember, and what we could do to be better next year:<br>
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| -Who ever posts at Heintz Center should bring push pins as well as the fliers
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| -Additional volunteer job - arrive at UCR at 5:45 pm, post illegal wayfinding ("Tonight!" with arrows in appropriate directions, highlighting of what the event is and the room number, etc) signs on all entry doors, nearby directional corners, and on the room door. Bring masking tape. Also responsible for taking down at the end of the night. Find a door stop so we can prop the room door open. The masking tape and a pen are also useful for posting a sign above the pizza/pop, saying it's available for donation. And for putting a label on a cup as being the donation collection container.
| | === Outside Social: Friday March 22nd, 6 pm === |
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| -Convince Dean to come to the swap meet, make sure he forgets to lock his car, and save ourselves the trouble of taking a trip to the recycling center by dropping all of that in his back seat ;) | | 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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| -Additional volunteer job - Arrive at UCR before 6 pm, write welcome message on the chalk board, also list upcoming KLUG events and dates, K-LUG website address | | 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 |
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| | https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC56K4K |
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| -We had less sellers and less buyers this year than previously, how do we avoid losing them, or gaining new people? Do we really want to do a swap again next November?
| | I skimmed through the logs, and none of our regulars seem to have found these, so hopefully everyone will qualify for the achievement. |
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| -I can't remember what the context was, but there was a request for cheerleaders. If someone can find some to sell, fine, just duct tape their mouths shut for the duration of the swap. I don't want to have to listen to them spelling the same words at volume over and over again - we know how to spell, thank you.
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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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| -Pizza supply list, for future reference: pizza (4 this year), pop (4 2L this year), paper plates, napkins, plastic cups, ice. We had ~1/2 a pizza and ~2L worth of pop left over, but we broke even on the donations, so we're good. The "fancier" pizza flavors were the faster movers, such as supreme went much faster than cheese. And root beer and Mt Dew went much faster than Sprite. Set up a sign indicating that the pizza and pop are in this part of the room, that's it's for donation. Also label a cup as the donation collection container.
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| -We had some potential buyers present at 6:10, who stuck around until 6:20 pm and then gave up and left before the straggler sellers (who had the most variety and volume of stuff to sell) showed up. Do we need to push back our set-up time? And/or our start time? Or are our sellers just going to be perpetually late and we just have to accept having disappointed people (who cared enough to show up once, which is great, but probably won't show up to one of these events again, bad)? We were entirely done, cleaned up, and out of the parking lot by 8:30 pm, so there's room to push the schedule back if that would work better.
| | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday March 14th === |
| | Speaker cancelled due to illness, will reschedule. |
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| | === Outside Social: Saturday February 24th === |
| -After it seemed like everyone was there and set up (~6:45ish?), we went around the room and let each seller advertise their highlights and freebies. Let buyers have a chance to ask if anyone had something in particular that hadn't been mentioned. Advertised the recycling, and the food.
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| === Lunch: Thursday October 18th ===
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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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| === Slashdot 10yr Anniversary Party: Tuesday October 16th ===
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| October 16, 2007, 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. <br>
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| West Fire Grill<br>
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| Rochester, MN, US Host: grungewolf (1164849)
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| Location CompuSwap - (Near Whistle Binkies South)
| | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th, 2024 === |
| | Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics. |
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| The current proposal for our Oct meeting is that we dig in and help Steve Severson with a United Way Flood Relief Project.
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| The recent flood in SE Minnesota meant that many victims lost their computers. The United Way Tech Team (and Steve) are coordinating a couple of hardware build parties to ready 200+ CompuSwap systems for deployment to people, nonprofits and schools throughout SE MN.
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| Wed, Oct 03, 2007 08:00 am to 12:00 pm: (20 slots) [[https://vsadmin.united-e-way.org/olmsted/user/events/register.tcl?slot_id=10249729394 Register]]<br>
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| Wed, Oct 03, 2007 01:00 pm to 05:00 pm: (20 slots) [[https://vsadmin.united-e-way.org/olmsted/user/events/register.tcl?slot_id=10249729394 Register]]<br>
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| Sat, Oct 13, 2007 09:00 am to 01:00 pm: (20 slots) [[https://vsadmin.united-e-way.org/olmsted/user/events/register.tcl?slot_id=10249729470 Register]]<br>
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| Sat, Oct 27, 2007 09:00 am to 01:00 pm: (20 slots) [[https://vsadmin.united-e-way.org/olmsted/user/events/register.tcl?slot_id=10249729394 Register]]<br>
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| === Social: Thursday October 4th ===
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| RoboRally and whatever other board/card games you wish to bring, so far we're also expecting Puerto Rico, Power Grid, and Munchkin. 6:30 pm, at Steve Fox's house (N 43° 59.263, W 092° 29.033, house number [http://www.k-lug.org/images/a/a5/Park-map.PNG 1538]). Consider bringing food/drink to share.
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| === Social: Thursday September 27th ===
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| 6:30 pm, East Park, for Frisbee golf. If you don't have a frisbee, you can probably borrow one from another K-LUGger, or bring a shoe to throw.
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| === Lunch: Thursday September 20th ===
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| === Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday September 13th === | | === OLD SITE === |
| No presenter, no meeting.
| | Content from our old website can be accessed [http://k-lug.org/old.site/presentations/ here]. |
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| === Social: Tuesday September 11th ===
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| 6:30 pm, East Park, for Frisbee golf. If you don't have a frisbee, you can probably borrow one from another K-LUGger, or bring a shoe to throw.
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| === Lunch: Thursday August 16th ===
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday August 9th ===
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| === Social: Geocaching and potluck, Saturday August 4th ===
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| Geocaching followed by potluck/picnic/ice cream. Come for either or both as your interest level and time allows. Many more details and the sign-up sheet can be found on the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social page].
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| === Lunch: Thursday July 19th ===
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| === "Technical" Meeting: Thursday July 12th ===
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| We're having a picnic and relaxing evening instead. See the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social Meetings page] for more details and to sign up.
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| === Social: Thursday June 14th and Tuesday June 26th ===
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| 6:30 pm, East Park, for Frisbee golf. If you don't have a frisbee, you can probably borrow one from another K-LUGger, or throw shoes. We've learned the hard way that shoes are not very aerodynamic.
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| === Lunch: Thursday June 21st ===
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| === Technical Meeting: Tuesday June 12th ===
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| ==== UCR main campus, East Hall, room 102, 6pm ====
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| Steve Fox on LEGO Mindstorms NXT. Also, PCIG will be having their Thursday June 14th meeting on LEGO Mindstorms as well.
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| === Social: Thursday May 17th and 24th ===
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday May 10th ===
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| Robert Nix (and Pat ___?) on running Linux on a different hardware platform. They will be showing us zVM, then doing a network install of SuSE.
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| Our meeting cannot be held at the normal RCTC location, due to asbestos removal closing down the whole building. We'll be on the UCR main campus, which is south and east of the Heintz Center building. See [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/getting-to-ucr.html directions to UCR], the [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/buildingmaps.html#ucr general campus building layout], and the [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/easthall.html floor plan of East Hall].
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| === Social: Wednesday April 25th ===
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| 6 pm, road clean up with a few members of the Ski Patrol. Oronoco - meet at County 18 and County 12, clean a section going north from there. Recommended items to bring: garbage bags, reflective clothes, work gloves.
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboRally Robo Rally] will hopefully make an appearance in the future.
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| === Logo Contest: Deciding on a printer and products ===
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| [[LogoPage]] The winning logo is Anon #1's green state shaped logo. We need you to look into finding printing locations, prices, and products available to print on. So far we have information on the following:
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| -local print shop such as Superior Screeners. Probably would require bulk order. More details needed, someone please do some research.
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| -Printfection, bulk discount information available [http://www.printfection.com/customer/custom.php?tab=3 here]. This was the source of the blue K-LUG shirt Tim brought to the Second Life March meeting.
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| -www.cafepress.com. Probably slightly more expensive, but would not require a bulk order. We've been warned they won't look great. For items that can be printed on, see [http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/ Cafe Press]. Tim has already done some research, see the following pages: [http://www.cafepress.com/k_lug 1] , [http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/help/help_bulkpricing.aspx 2].
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| -Robert Nix has a source for weaving the logo into items such as afghans, pillows, tote bags. 70 x 54 inch woven blankets of the logo for $70 each.
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| -Nametags??
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| -Other products or sources you've done some research on?
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| === Lunch: Thursday April 19th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble. If the weather is nice, people from downtown may choose to walk together to lunch, it is supposedly an ~15 minute walk.
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| === Technical Meeting: Tuesday April 10th ===
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| ==== UCR main campus, East Hall, room 121 ====
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| Carl Albing will be presenting on bash. Carl is one of the co-authors of the O'Reilley book [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bashckbk/ bash Cookbook]. Topics will include: do we still need command line tools, a rapid fly-by of bash as a programming language, a few power-user features of bash, (time permitting) a short discussion of "so you want to write a technical book".
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| Our meeting cannot be held at the normal RCTC location, due to asbestos removal closing down the whole building. We'll be on the UCR main campus, which is south and east of the Heintz Center building. See [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/getting-to-ucr.html directions to UCR], the [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/buildingmaps.html#ucr general campus building layout], and the [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/easthall.html floor plan of East Hall].
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| === Social: Bowling, Saturday March 24th ===
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| noon-2 pm. See the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social page] for more details.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th ===
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| '''Plone by Eldon Nelson,'''
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| Combined meeting with PCIG.
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| '''When:''' Thursday, Feb 8th, 6pm
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| '''Where:''' University Center Rochester, Heinz Center in room HA108
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions ]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Building Map ]
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| '''Description of Plone:'''
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| Plone is a web based open source content management system (CMS) built off of the Python programming language. What do I need a content management system for? I'm not a book publisher or magazine; even though my glossy finish might make you think that way. The person that needs a content management system is every knowledge worker - which today, is everyone. We all need ways of managing the knowledge we work with and content types that are flexible to match the work we do. In the past, I've loved wiki for filling part of this role, but as I look at what wiki gets you it is not the whole picture. Sometimes, you need a tool chest instead of a hammer - this is where Plone fits in as your own secret tool chest.
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| What you get with Plone is a scalable, object oriented, pluggable system that handles all of your content management needs. Plone itself is actually a collection of plugins that give you the code to represent the objects that will eventually represent your data. So you might ask, on what is Plone built upon if it is just a collection of plugins? It is actually built off a very complete web framework for the Python scripting language named Zope. So yes, it is a collection of utilities from Python -> Zope -> Plone to get to the tool, but all of that hierarchy gives you a full framework to do everything and hooks and methods ready for your use.
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| With Plone you get rock solid access control that can be as granular as you want. You can integrate Plone plugins into your site to transform it to include seamlessly complex structures such as: bulletin boards, issue trackers, picture galleries, and more or use out of the box calendaring. Pretty much, Plone quickly, without the need for any coding, turns into your Swiss Army knife of web interactivity – all the while, maintaining a coherent look and feel and security of Plone.
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| During my Plone presentation I will be doing things a little differently than traditional KLUG or PCIG meetings. I’ll be showing part of my presentation through the use of screencasts to demonstrate activities that I have recorded before and edited into consumable nuggets of interest. I’ll also be using screencasts from the Plone.org website itself, so you may or may not want to watch their intro videos before you come – depending on how entertained you will be by them. I’ll be bringing some popcorn to keep you engaged – so look forward to a treat! Of course, a technical meeting isn’t any good without some hands on, in the dirt, demonstration. For that, I’ll be doing some live manipulation of Plone before your very eyes.
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| I hope you will enjoy this fun presentation.
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| Eldon Nelson ( eldon_nelson@ieee.org )
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| [http://www.plone.org Plone]
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th ===
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| (Note the Plone meeting has been moved to February)
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| Paint Shop Pro by Tony Drumm, with PCIG. This is not a truly Linux topic, but given the amount of interest in Robert Nix's GIMP presentation I thought there might be interest in comparing/contrasting. Also,
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| ==== KLUG officer elections ====
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| Please submit your nominations for president, vice president, and treasurer to the email list prior to the day of the election. Self nominations are accepted.
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| === Technical Meeting: Tuesday December 12th ===
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| The December "technical" meeting (ie gaming) will be held at the standard day and time, Tuesday December 12th, 6 pm. Since things just don't seem to be panning out for gaming at Cinemagic or Chateau (more details will remain below), we're going with the old standby of Lounge51 (formerly Xgames).
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| Location: Lounge51, 115 North Broadway, this is next door to the Senior Center and just south of the railroad tracks. This is NOT the old Xgames location.
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| When: Tuesday December 12th, 6 pm. However they open at 10 am, so you're welcome to start earlier. Also, while Lounge51's posted closing time is 9 pm, if three or more people want to keep playing and they're paying hourly rates, Lounge51 stay open later.
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| Cost: $5/hour if a non-member. Other options are memberships or day passes.
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| Snacking options: Pop, sugar, snack foods, basically anything that doesn't actually require a food license for them to sell.
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| Games available (and # of simultaneous players allowed): They have 24 computers. See http://lounge51.com/content/Games.aspx for a 6-12 month old list of games. Many more are now available. As far as licensing, that varies. Some games are available on every computer at once, and for those it's not available all at once it sounds like things are at least improved over Xgames' limitations. Examples I was given on the phone were:
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| -Age of Empires (version not specified), all machines
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| -Battlefield 2 - 10
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| -Counter Strike 1.6 - 6
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| -Counter Strike Source - 12
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| -Warcraft III - all machines
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| If there is a particular game you want to know about, I can call to ask. If there's a lot of interest in a particular game they don't currently have enough licenses for AND you are willing to pre-pay, they'd look into getting additional licenses for us.
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| Besides computer games, they also have a big screen tv, with an Xbox, PS2, PS3, Gamecube, DDR pad, Guitar Hero, and lots of games to go with them.
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| I did try to look into other options. For future reference, I dug up the following information on several possibilities:
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| -computer gaming at Lounge 51 (formerly Xgames) with a charge per hour. Open to the public.
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| -Xbox gaming at Cinemagic, $6/half hour/person. At most 4 play at a time, and it sounds like only 1 room would be available. Open to the public.
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| -Xbox gaming at Chateau late at night with a per person charge ($25, but good for 6 months and includes other goodies) and at most 4 play at a time per room but multiple rooms would be available. Open to the public. Friday and Saturday nights, 9-11 pm on whiteboards, then 11 pm - 3 am in the theaters.
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| -Xbox gaming at Chateau with a room reservation fee ($35) with at most 4 play at a time
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| -free board and collectable card games at Chateau. Open to the public. Fridays starting at 8 pm.
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| All of these things except the one where we have to commit to paying a room reservation fee are things that are open to the public.
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| === Social: Monday November 27th ===
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| Outside trail walking. Meet at Panera South by 6:30 pm, dress warm, prepare to walk ~1 hour 20 minutes with socializing and warming beverages at Panera afterwards. Don't be late or you won't catch up with us.
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| === Lunch Meeting: Thursday November 16th ===
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| 11:30 am near the Chinese restaurant in the Galleria. Discussion about December gaming options or desired social activities would be appreciated.
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| === Technical Meeting: Swap Sale Thursday November 9th ===
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| Swap meet!!
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| Buy/Sell/Trade - at this annual event, even the general public can bring computer / gadget related gear to sell or trade, or just come to browse for the bargins. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm. We also plan to have a truck available to recycle old equipment at a price of $0.35 a pound When: Thurs, Nov 9th 6pm
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| Where: University Center Rochester Heintz Center in room HA108.
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| Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm. Location: RCTC room [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA108] Attendance will include be members of [http://www.pcig.info PCIG], IBM Ham Radio Club, students from RCTC, and the general public.
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| K-LUG Club members, we NEED YOUR HELP! How?
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| -Bring your stuff to sell/swap.
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| -Print and Show this [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/ef/Swapflyer_2006.pdf Sale Flyer] to friends
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| -Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.35/pound).
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| -Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge.
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| -Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5). (Pat S. and Tim M.)
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| -Coordinate the pizza fundraiser, buy pizza and pop plus bring paper plates and disposable cups in quantities sufficient for those who show up. Will be reimbursed out of the profits from the fundraiser (charge is a donation). (Steve F. and Steve S.)
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| -Making some Ubuntu CDs to give away. (Dave Berg)
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| -Posting
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| Volunteers are needed to post to many locations. Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome):
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| -KLUG mailing list and wiki - Tina W.
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| -IBM calendar - Tim M.
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| -PCIG website - Tim M.
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| -Ham radio club - Tim M.
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| -Mayo classifieds - Pat S.
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| -Craigslist - Tim M.
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| -Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) - Steve F.
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| -UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy - Ren T.
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| -RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy - Tim M. (I've made up something already, go [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/ef/Swapflyer_2006.pdf here] and print)
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| -Wherever else you can think of
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| Please RSVP for what tasks you can help with. If I haven't heard from anyone on a task, I'll have to start pestering people. This has got to be a group effort to be successful.
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| === Mister House 2nd Opportunity: Monday October 30th ===
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| A second opportunity for you to see the Mister House presentation! 7 pm, directions are [http://brucewinter.googlepages.com/directionstomyhouse here].
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| === Social: Thursday October 26th ===
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| 5:30 pm Frisbee golf at East Park. Weather-related cancellation will be announced around noon to email list and wiki if necessary.
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| 6:30 pm Warming beverages and/or dinner at Whistle Binkies. You do not have to play frisbee golf to attend this portion, just meet us there. This will occur whether or not we have to cancel frisbee golf.
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| === Lunch Meeting: Thursday October 19th ===
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| Come one, come all, at 11:30 am to the vicinity of the Chinese resturant in the Galleria food court.
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| === Technical Meeting: Tuesday October 10th ===
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| Mister House - Home automation - road trip to a Rochester home being controlled by computers. We're limited to ~25 participants. If there are closer to 50, we might be able to split and have a second session. Please sign up, in order, below or email Tina to get added. Indicate if you could only attend if it were not the original October 10th date, you'd be at the head of the list if we had a second date.
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| Some details on Mr House: http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/
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| Directions and map to Mister House can be found [http://brucewinter.googlepages.com/directionstomyhouse here].
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday, September 14th ===
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| Open source in Croatia, Croatian government. Guest speaker Vlatko Kosturjak, from Croatia, temporarily in the US. Room will be HA108, our new "permanent" location.
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| Wink has been postponed. [http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Wink] software used for making demos of new products. Records screen sessions and audio.
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| === CANCELLED Social: Saturday September 9th CANCELLED ===
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| Flatwater canoe trip down the Root River. See the [[SocialMeeting]] page. Please sign up by noon on Thursday.
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| === Social: Wednesday August 23rd ===
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| Frisbee golf, 6:30 pm, East Park. Bring friends, bring frisbees.
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| === Lunch: August 17th ===
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| 11:30 am at the Galleria, near the Chinese restaurant.
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| === Technical Meeting: Tuesday August 8th ===
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| We currently have no meeting topic. You can come to RCTC's HA104, find a janitor to open the room, and discuss whatever geeky topic crosses your mind. Or you can go to X-Games, although so far nobody has RSVP'd that they're going to be there. And/or, if you have IBM campus privledges, you can attend PCIG's presentation on VMware on Thursday August 10th.
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| === Social: Thursday July 27 ===
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| Join us for a round of shoe throwing at East Park, 6:30 pm. If people have better equipment to bring/share, we can hopefully upgrade from shoes to golf disks (if you missed the last social and are confused, we're playing frisbee golf). Lightening or hail, stay home. Otherwise we play rain or shine.
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| === Lunch: July 20 ===
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| Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant. We will be inviting the Mayo open-source-discussion email list participants to attend as well.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday July 13 **Note location change** ===
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| '''Ruby on Rails''' by Jose de Leon. Ruby is an open source scripting language and Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that makes developing web applications easy. Jose will demo an application he has written in Ruby on Rails and will discuss the International Rails Conference (http://railsconf.org/) he recently attended.
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| This is a joint meeting with [http://www.pcig.info PCIG]. Construction continues in the computer lab wing, so this meeting will occur in [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA104].
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| === Gimp Challenge I: due date: July 8 ===
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| Now that we all are skilled in the art of "The Gimp", Chris, Kevin and I thought we should have some fun with it. The challenge is to pick your favorite two hated (or loved?) celebrites and Gimp together an image depicting a Celebrity Boxing style match. Who will it be? Gates vs Linus, Bush vs Clinton, Steve Fox vs The Gimp Circle Method? Start with one of the images suggested on the [[GimpChallenge]] Page or find/create your own. Images should be posted in gimp format (so we can see your tricks and techniques) and png format (cause we are lazy). Images are due July 8th so judging can occur prior to our meeting July 13th.
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| If you need an account to the wiki so you can post your picture, please send an email to the list. Include the user name you wish to have.
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| === Lunch: June 15 ===
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| Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.
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| === Technical Meeting: Tuesday June 13 **Note location change** ===
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| Baring snowstorms or any other emergencies, Robert Nix will present on The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program, [http://www.gimp.org GIMP]). There is summer construction in the computer lab wing, so this meeting will occur in [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA104].
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| === Social: Tuesday June 6 ===
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| Ice cream social to be held in a park near Steve Fox's, 7 pm. For more details and to sign up for the ice cream related item you'll bring, see the [[SocialMeeting]] page.
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| === Lunch: May 18 ===
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| Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant. Look for geeks.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday May 11 ===
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| Chris Abbey will present on SSH.
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| === Lunch: April 20 ===
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| Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.
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| === Technical Meeting: Tuesday April 11 ===
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| Dennis DeLoreme on his !Supercomputer Cluster.
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| === Lunch: March 16 ===
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| Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday March 9 ===
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| Due to a death in the family, there will be no GIMP presentation. Instead please bring topics for discussion.
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| To be rescheduled:
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| Robert Nix's presentation on using [http://www.gimp.org Gimp], the image editor.
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| === Technical Meeting: October 11th ===
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| Bob Techentin is giving a tcl/tk presentation. [[Minutes]]
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| === Technical Meeting: September 9th ===
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| Luka Bajzer will be presenting the Ruby programming language. The first part of the presentation will focus on the history and features of the language, where to use it and where not to use it. The second (optional) portion of the presentation will be a more interactive format.
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| === Technical Meeting: August 9th ===
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| <s>Luka Bajzer will be presenting the Ruby programming language. The first part of the presentation will focus on the history and features of the language, where to use it and where not to use it. The second (optional) portion of the presentation will be a more interactive format.</s> Reschedule due to bad weather.
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| === Social Meeting: August 4th ===
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| We're going to X-Games (downtown Rochester on Broadway) to play some LAN games.
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| === Challenge and Puzzler: Round 3 ===
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| The third Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Tina Wood and John Steenbergen won the second round. Good luck!
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| === Technical Meeting: July 14th ===
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| This will be a joint PCIG/K-LUG meeting. Gary Rolfs from PCIG will be presenting an introduction to Python programming.
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| === Meeting Minutes Available ===
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| The meeting minutes that Kevin Neff has been kind enough to take have now been posted.
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| === Presentation Available ===
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| Dennis DeLorme's LCD initialization and operation presentation is now available.
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| === Challenge and Puzzler: Round 2 ===
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| The second Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Tina Wood and Kevin Arhelger won the first round. Good luck!
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| === Technical Meeting: June 14th ===
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| Dennis DeLorme will give a presentation on LCD initialization and operation.
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| === Challenge and Puzzler: Round 1 ===
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| The first Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Good luck!
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