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=== Planned Social: September TBD ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday November 13th ===
<del>Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own.  What would you like to do?  Tell Tina. </del>
6 pm


Tina never got around to planning something, sorry, see you in October.
Meeting link removed.


Bring your calendars, so we can schedule the December virtual board gaming night.  Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


=== Lunch: Thursday September 16th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.




=== Technical Meeting: Thursday Sept 9th ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday October 9th ===
Jon Gullixson and Eldon Nelson will be demoing "Producing and Publishing Great Screencasts".
6 pm


'''When''': Thursday September 9th - 6pm - 7:30pm<br />
Meeting link removed.
'''Where''': RCTC Heintz Center HA109 or HA107 depending on construction progress - [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings Meetings page] for more details on how to find the building and the room.<br />
[http://www.k-lug.org/September_2010_Minutes more information]


Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know - Aaron is running this meeting.


=== Social:  Canoeing/Kayaking/Geocaching, August 29th, 2010  ===
For August the K-Lug group is going to go canoe/kayak/geocaching
down the zumbro river out of Oronoco


Open to all, please let us know if you are interested and we can reserve boats


Some details
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Monday October 6th ===
Date: Sunday August 29th
6:00 - 7:30 pm
Time: Meet at Bolder Outfitters at 11:00


Cost: $35 per canoe, $25 per kayak, $15/$10 for a ride back if you have
[https://www.google.com/maps/@43.9993974,-92.4222823,457m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgzMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D Joyce Park], in the SE corner of town.  Use the on-street parking on 15th St SE to be near the LBB-required waiver and bags.
your own boatage  (See Tim, I have some $5 discount coupons left)
Details listed here
http://www.boulderdamcanoe.com/


Bonus Geocaching....We are also going to search for the
Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. Some pond shoreline, yes woods (mowed park + woods = 35.2 acres), and you might want a headlamp because sunset is at 6:41 pm.
10 or so caches on the river, starting where the canoe trip starts ...here:
http://geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=956c2899-a79e-4650-b277-bac269c2d5b9


Post social report:
As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBCE7R geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.
9 folks (and a puppy) attended the PCIG/K-Lug August social. This was a peaceful canoe ride down the Zumbro River from Oronoco to the Sandy Point landing. Most of the crew enjoyed geocaching along the way too.  There were [http://www.pcig.info/uploads/Newsletter/GeoCrewSm.jpg pictures] taken!




=== K-Lug Discount on This Little Program Went to Market ===
=== Walking Cascade Lake in-person social (outside), Monday September 15th ===
Last month after our presentation, Annette Godtland offered a discount to club members on her book, she wants to continue that discount to members who couldn't make the meeting. Please contact Tim or Aaron and we'll make arrangements to hand deliver the book.
6:00 pm


This Little Program Went to Market: Retail $48.00
Park in the [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cascade+Lake+Park/@44.0243718,-92.4981303,1827m/ Cascade Lake Park parking lot], you may recognize this park from previous Litter Bit Better trash cleanups. We'll walk counter-clockwise, if you're trying to play catch-up.
To PCIG/KLUG: $32.60 + 7.375% tax = $35.00
If paying by check, make checks payable to Godtland Software Corporation
More details http://www.godtlandsoftware.com




=== Lunch: Thursday August 19th ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday September 11th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
6 pm


Meeting link removed.


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday August 12th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know - Tim is running this meeting.
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.






=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday July 15th *** NOTE DATE CHANGE ===
=== Outside Social:  Thursday August 28th ===
Brent Vrieze will present SquareSpace and demo the website he created for his ambulance garage.


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].


=== Lunch:  Thursday July 15th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.  Yes, the same day as our technical meeting.




=== Social: June 29th===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday August 14th ===
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.
6 pm


Meeting link  removed.


=== Lunch:  Thursday June 17th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.




=== CANCELED June Technical Meeting ===
=== Outdoor Social: Monday July 21st  ===  
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.
Olmsted County Fair night! 6 pm.


My experience with going on Monday night last year was that on-site parking was easy and free, some of the food trucks were open (including the milkshake stand), and many of the animals were already present including horse showings.  I’ve also been told that many craft projects will already be present, so we can do a scavenger hunt for projects by people we know.


=== Social: Thursday May 20th ===
[https://k-lug.org/images/c/c8/Fairgrounds_meeting_places_2025.jpg Map here].  At 6 pm we’ll meet at the parking lot (red star on the map, central to the “block”), and if you want to catch up to us a little later, try around the Graham Arena buildings adjacent to the green star on the south end of the fairgrounds.  
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.




=== Lunch: Thursday May 20th ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday July 10th, 2025 ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
6 pm


Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76063786273?pwd=SxxHm75TEnLIHSstcVTPHKxzwpZuUs.1 here.]


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday May 13th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
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!




=== Social:  Thursday April 22nd ===
=== Outdoor Social: Thursday June 26th, 11:30 am ===  
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.
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.  Also trying to get line of sight on the pet events, like frisbee dogs.


Food trailers are supposed to be open by 11 am, 11:30 am will give us a little better chance at getting parking.


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday April 8th ===
Eldon Nelson and Jon Gullixson will speak on online storage, and securing your online storage.<br>
'''When:''' Thursday April 8th - 6pm - 8:30pm<br>
'''Where:'''RCTC Heintz Center HA109 or HA107 depending on construction progress<br>
[http://www.k-lug.org/April_2010_Minutes more information]


=== Virtual Social: Thursday June 12th, 2025 ===
6 pm


=== Lunch:  Thursday March 18th ===
Meeting link removed.
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.


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


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday March 11th ===
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".


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.
=== Mini golf outside social, Wednesday May 14th ===
6 pm


'''Slides from Jose's presentation can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/images/b/bc/Drupal_Winona360.pdf here].'''
Blue Lagoon mini golf, the new mini golf place that opened late last fall, on the NW side of town


Also, PCIG elections.
Unlike most of our events, this social is not free, pricing is [https://bluelagoonminigolf.com/pricing here].  The second round is significantly cheaper ($5/person), so if we finish in good time we might try to squeeze in a second round before they close at 8 pm.




=== Social:  Sunday March 7th ===
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


=== Virtual Social: Thursday May 8th, 2025 ===
6 pm


=== Alternate social:  Sunday February 21st ===
Meeting link removed
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.


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


=== Lunch:  Thursday February 18th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.




=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday February 11th ===
=== Litter Bit Better outside social, Tuesday April 22nd ===
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.
6:15 - 7:30 pm


Also, PCIG nominations.
A new to us park, Weatherstone, on the far NW corner of town.


Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is a pond in this park.


=== Social: Thursday February 4th ===
As usual we are [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCB48NR_16th-annual-cito-and-rochesters-litter-bit-better teaming up with the geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.
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.




=== Lunch:  Thursday January 21st ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.


=== Virtual Social: Thursday April 10th, 2025 ===
6 pm


=== Social:  January 16th ===
Meeting link removed.


Potluck dinner and game night at Tina's.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


6 pm dinner - Tina will provide pork based something for the main dish


7 pm games - we'll play whatever you bring
=== Outdoor Social: Geocaching hike, equinox weekend, Friday March 21st ===


Please RSVP to Tina
6 pm


We'll start at the [https://k-lug.org/images/c/c1/20250321_hike_plan.jpg dog park just north of Essex Park] (red circle) for a short walk.  Then depending on the walking conditions, we'll walk or drive to the two caches NE of that dog park (orange circle), and then down to the one Essex Park cache that we haven't chased recently (yellow circle).
Join us at the March 13th meeting to help pick a day/time/location to help us meet the [https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2025/03/a-new-season-and-new-souvenir/ equinox souvenir criteria].


Afterwards, we'll drive to 25th Street and 25th Avenue NW, in the residential neighborhood just south of IBM park, for a [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCA2025 locationless geocache].


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 14 - IBM SameTime 3D - Virtual Collaboration in 3D Meeting Rooms - Demo by Tim Massaro ===


-> '''When:''' Thursday Jan 14th, 6-7:30pm
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday March 13th, 2025 ===
6 pm


-> '''Where:'''RCTC Heintz Center
Meeting link removed.


Room HA107 (or HA109)
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus] <br>
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]


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.


Why use 3D for Meetings?
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday February 13th, 2025 ===
6 pm


Meetings are about people getting together to do things - with 3D meetings you see all the others as avatars throughout the meeting.  
Meeting link removed.


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


Work in 3D. Organize in 3D, build in 3D, present and interact in 3D




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.
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 9th, 2025 ===
6 pm
 
Meeting link removed.
 
KLUG officer elections.
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
 


Also, '''elections''' are coming up please consider volunteering.






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Latest revision as of 02:04, 14 November 2025


Virtual Social: Thursday November 13th

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

Bring your calendars, so we can schedule the December virtual board gaming night. Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


Virtual Social: Thursday October 9th

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know - Aaron is running this meeting.


Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Monday October 6th

6:00 - 7:30 pm

Joyce Park, in the SE corner of town. Use the on-street parking on 15th St SE to be near the LBB-required waiver and bags.

Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. Some pond shoreline, yes woods (mowed park + woods = 35.2 acres), and you might want a headlamp because sunset is at 6:41 pm.

As usual we are teaming up with the geocachers to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.


Walking Cascade Lake in-person social (outside), Monday September 15th

6:00 pm

Park in the Cascade Lake Park parking lot, you may recognize this park from previous Litter Bit Better trash cleanups. We'll walk counter-clockwise, if you're trying to play catch-up.


Virtual Social: Thursday September 11th

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know - Tim is running this meeting.


Outside Social: Thursday August 28th

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


Virtual Social: Thursday August 14th

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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


Outdoor Social: Monday July 21st

Olmsted County Fair night! 6 pm.

My experience with going on Monday night last year was that on-site parking was easy and free, some of the food trucks were open (including the milkshake stand), and many of the animals were already present including horse showings. I’ve also been told that many craft projects will already be present, so we can do a scavenger hunt for projects by people we know.

Map here. At 6 pm we’ll meet at the parking lot (red star on the map, central to the “block”), and if you want to catch up to us a little later, try around the Graham Arena buildings adjacent to the green star on the south end of the fairgrounds.


Virtual Social: Thursday July 10th, 2025

6 pm

Meeting link here.

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


Outdoor Social: Thursday June 26th, 11:30 am

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. Also trying to get line of sight on the pet events, like frisbee dogs.

Food trailers are supposed to be open by 11 am, 11:30 am will give us a little better chance at getting parking.


Virtual Social: Thursday June 12th, 2025

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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


Mini golf outside social, Wednesday May 14th

6 pm

Blue Lagoon mini golf, the new mini golf place that opened late last fall, on the NW side of town

Unlike most of our events, this social is not free, pricing is here. The second round is significantly cheaper ($5/person), so if we finish in good time we might try to squeeze in a second round before they close at 8 pm.


Virtual Social: Thursday May 8th, 2025

6 pm

Meeting link removed

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


Litter Bit Better outside social, Tuesday April 22nd

6:15 - 7:30 pm

A new to us park, Weatherstone, on the far NW corner of town.

Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is a pond in this park.

As usual we are teaming up with the geocachers to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.


Virtual Social: Thursday April 10th, 2025

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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


Outdoor Social: Geocaching hike, equinox weekend, Friday March 21st

6 pm

We'll start at the dog park just north of Essex Park (red circle) for a short walk. Then depending on the walking conditions, we'll walk or drive to the two caches NE of that dog park (orange circle), and then down to the one Essex Park cache that we haven't chased recently (yellow circle). Join us at the March 13th meeting to help pick a day/time/location to help us meet the equinox souvenir criteria.

Afterwards, we'll drive to 25th Street and 25th Avenue NW, in the residential neighborhood just south of IBM park, for a locationless geocache.


Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday March 13th, 2025

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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


Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday February 13th, 2025

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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


Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 9th, 2025

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

KLUG officer elections.

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



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