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=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday June 9th ===


Andy Tolbert and Chris Lohfink.
=== Virtual Social: Thursday November 13th ===
6 pm


Wireless Device Connectivity with ZigBee – An overview of the ZigBee specification  and demonstration of using an XBee Module with an Arduino and a Digi Ethernet/XBee Gateway to interface with the Arduino from the Web.  The demonstration will include examples of controlling the Arduino via XBee in addition to monitoring device state.
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.


If you have any other agenda items, please submit them to Tim as he'll be running the meeting.




=== Virtual Social: Thursday October 9th ===
6 pm


Meeting link removed.


=== Disc Golf Social:  Thursday May 19th, 6:30 pm ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know - Aaron is running this meeting.
Disc Golf at UCR.  This is a new course to us and we didn't find hole #1, so we're just going to meet outside of the UCR sports complex and near the football/lacrosse field, at the NE corner of the parking lot, see the [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&aq=&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Rochester,+Olmsted,+Minnesota&msa=0&ll=44.017694,-92.420425&spn=0.009181,0.014184&t=h&z=16&msid=217033483939111930234.0004a3795f42da701ae0b map].


If the temporary holes have been removed due to the end of the school year we'll revert back to the East Park disc golf course, [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=217033483939111930234.0004a379c4172da19682b&ll=44.02311,-92.440456&spn=0.004606,0.007092&t=h&z=17 map.]


If you haven't played before and would like to borrow a disc that's usually not a problem, although it helps if we know you're in that situation.


=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Monday October 6th ===
6:00 - 7:30 pm


=== Lunch: Thursday May 19th ===
[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.
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.  


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.


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday May 12th ===
As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBCE7R geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.
Our May meeting is scheduled to be information about a new robotics league starting up in Rochester.
Rochester Tabletop Robotics League is a "tabletop" robotics, all the robots should therefore be small and relatively inexpensive.  Peter Shabino will describe this league and even demo a quick and easy robot he built from a $9.99 Walmart remote controlled car. See [http://www.wire2wire.org/rtrl/index.html his website].


If you have any other agenda items, please submit them to Tim as he'll be running the meeting.


-> When: Thursday May 12th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
=== Walking Cascade Lake in-person social (outside), Monday September 15th ===
6:00 pm


-> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107 or nearby
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.


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
=== Virtual Social: Thursday September 11th ===
6 pm


Meeting link removed.


=== Lunch: Thursday April 21st ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know - Tim is running this meeting.
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.  




=== Social/Service Opportunity:  Tuesday April 19th (during Earth Week) ===
There will be an opportunity to participate in Rochester's [http://www.rneighbors.org/?page_id=32 Litter Bit Better].  By doing trash clean up in coordination with LBB, the trash bags and hauling of trash are taken care of for us, we only have to actually put the junk and the recycling in the appropriate bags.  Family and friends are welcome, this activity will also advertised to groups such as geocachers and the mentoring organization of Bolder Options.  Talk to Tina for more details.<p>
6:30 pm at Zumbro West Park, it's area 422 on [http://img.geocaching.com/cache/ea9294d2-d9bd-491b-b613-925d995887de.jpg this map].  Here's the geocaching.com [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC2QAGV posting].


=== Outside Social:  Thursday August 28th ===


=== Social:  Sunday April 17th, 2 pm ===
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].
Rockets + kites!  That way we can play if there's no wind, lots of wind, basically anything other than a rain/snow storm.  This'll be at 2 pm, at Century High School in their field.




=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday April 14th ===
Brent Vrieze will present a demo of Asterisk PBX software, using third party software requiring little manual configuring.  He's provided the following description:


"PBX in a Flash (PiaF) is an easy to install (super easy) Asterisk distribution that can be set up in an afternoon on either a virtual machine or an old beige box collecting dust.  Asterisk is an open source PBX (Private Branch Exchange) phone system that PBX in a Flash puts a web based GUI of there the top of to make management and upgrading extremely easy in comparison to 2 years ago.
=== Virtual Social: Thursday August 14th ===
6 pm


If time permits I will show you an add on package to PiaF called Incredible PBX that using some free SIP phone providers and Google Voice will give you FREE, as in beer, phone service with a local number to anywhere in the US and Canada."
Meeting link  removed.


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




-> When: Thursday April 14th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
=== Outdoor Social: Monday July 21st  ===
Olmsted County Fair night!  6 pm.


-> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107 or nearby
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.


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
[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.


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]


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


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


=== Planned Social:  March TBD ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
Recent suggestions include:


-[http://artemis.eochu.com/ Artemis], a multiplayer spaceship bridge simulator for Windows


-SOLAR DEATH RAY!!! to burn stuff, like [http://inhabitat.com/19-year-old-teenager-makes-homemade-solar-death-ray/solarray3/ this].
=== 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.


But nobody's stepped up to lead these, let Tina know if you're willing to organize.
Food trailers are supposed to be open by 11 am, 11:30 am will give us a little better chance at getting parking.




=== Lunch: Thursday March 17th ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday June 12th, 2025 ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
6 pm


Meeting link removed.


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday March 10th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
Dennis DeLorme will present on a paper tape reader.<br>
"Want to move those 100's of bytes of data you put on paper tape back in
your misspent youth to 21st century media? (Any time spent with paper
tape was misspent.) Bring your paper tape and a flash drive to the K-LUG
tape fest On March 10. I will briefly describe the set up and then will
be ready to do transfers. I can transfer data as hex, binary, or binary
with the parity bit ignored. For 7 bit character data binary with parity
bit ignored is probably the preferred method."


Also:<br>
-PCIG final nominations and elections<br>
-Girl Scout cookies and pi/pie in an early celebration of pi day <br>
-Jon T will bring his hacked pandigital Android ereader for a show and tell afterwards (no demo, just to show off)


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


-> When: Thursday March 10th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Blue Lagoon mini golf, the new mini golf place that opened late last fall, on the NW side of town


-> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107 or nearby
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.


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]


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


Also, if you won't be attending the school district's only date/time for community input sessions on their superintendent search (same day at 7 pm), you can still contribute to the local school district by filling out their superintendent search [http://www.rochester.k12.mn.us/se3bin/clientgenie.cgi?schoolname=school85&statusFlag=goGenie&geniesite=484&myButton=g5plugin&db=g484_b4020 survey] by Thursday.  Why can't you do both the input session and K-LUG?  You can, if you leave K-LUG early, sessions are:
Meeting link removed


What: Community input sessions for new Rochester superintendent
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


When: 7 p.m. Thursday


Where: Gibbs Elementary School, 5525 56th St. N.W.  OR    Kellogg Middle School, 503 17th St. N.E.        OR        Willow Creek Middle School, 2425 11th Ave. S.E.


=== Litter Bit Better outside social, Tuesday April 22nd ===
6:15 - 7:30 pm


=== Social:  Thursday February 24th===
A new to us park, Weatherstone, on the far NW corner of town.
We'll be viewing the Linux documentary "Revolution OS".  It runs ~1.5 hours, so we'll start at 6 pm.  RCTC's Heintz Center, in or near our normal meeting room HA107.  To try to make this a more "movie-like" atmosphere, please bring your own (non-alcoholic) beverage if you wish, and a quiet snack to share.


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]
Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is a pond in this park.


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
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.




=== Lunch: Thursday February 17th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.


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


Meeting link removed.


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday February 10th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
Steve Severson has volunteered to present on Android apps at IBM and/or rooting an Android.


-> When: Thursday February 10th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm


-> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107 or nearby
=== Outdoor Social: Geocaching hike, equinox weekend, Friday March 21st ===


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]
6 pm


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
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].




=== Social: Friday January 28th ===
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday March 13th, 2025 ===
We'll be bowling at Byron Lanes.  Please try to be there at 6:45 so we can get through the ball/shoe obtainment process and hopefully figure out if we need any more/less lanes before it gets too crowded.  Our reservation is for 7 pm, we've got 2 lanes at the moment.
6 pm


Costs for bowling are $2/person/game, with shoe rental being $1.  They have a full bar, and on Fridays they also serve pizza, if anyone is interested in a snack before or after the games.
Meeting link removed.


This is a family/friends-friendly event, please let Tina know if you have young children coming so we can ask in advance for a bumper lane to be set up if necessary.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.




=== Lunch: Thursday January 20th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.


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


=== "Technical Meeting": Thursday January 13th, 6:00 pm ===
Meeting link removed.
Next Meeting - Dennis DeLorme ZigBee Protocol and XBee wireless Communication modules demo.


-> When: Thursday January 13th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


-> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA109


Room HA107 (or HA109 depending on construction issues)


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 9th, 2025 ===
6 pm


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
Meeting link removed.


Also '''Elections!'''  Please submit your nominations for president, vice president, and treasurer.
KLUG officer elections.


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




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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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