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=== Technical Meeting: Thursday, May 9th - FIRST Robotics Competition Demo at Byron High School ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday November 13th ===
The Byron High School FIRST Robotics Competition team, just back from the Minnesota 10000 Lakes Regional, will fill us in on their experience in this exciting celebration of science, engineering and technology.
6 pm


We will meet in the Byron High School Commons / Dining Hall at 6:30PM
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.


Agenda:


5 min Overview of FRC and Byron Robotics


5 min Technical stuff on Bot
=== Virtual Social: Thursday October 9th ===
6 pm


5 min Lessons Learned
Meeting link removed.


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


20-40 min Ultimate Ascent game


There will be a "driver station" and arena mock up setup.


That will allow a few of us to try our luck at scoring within the standard 2 minute period.
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Monday October 6th ===
6:00 - 7:30 pm


The team only has two batteries so will probably run on last about 20 minutes or so.
[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.


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.


Address:
As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBCE7R geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.


1887 2nd Ave NW, Byron, MN 55920


Enter through doors by the flagpole. Note there is a choir concert at 7pm in the Auditorium
=== Walking Cascade Lake in-person social (outside), Monday September 15th ===
6:00 pm


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.




=== Virtual Social: Thursday September 11th ===
6 pm


Meeting link removed.


=== Non-workday social:  Wednesday April 24th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know - Tim is running this meeting.
Civic responsibility opportunity, participate in the Litter Bit Better campaign, geocache, and hang out with some K-LUGgers and geocachers.


5:30 pm, Quarry Hill


http://coord.info/GC3D7D5


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


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 April 18th  ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.




=== Virtual Social: Thursday August 14th ===
6 pm


=== Show off and Networking event: Saturday and Sunday, April 13-14th ===
Meeting link removed.
K-Lug will have a booth at the Minne-Maker Faire, partially to demo our Deconstruction 2013 projects but mostly to network, see other team projects and have some fun. Open to the public, Cost is $8, online, and $10 at the door. Children under 15 free ...stop by and say hi!


Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 11:00 AM - 5pm  Sunday, April 14, 2013 11am - 5:00 PM (CDT)
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


The Hack Factory (http://www.tcmaker.org/blog/hack-factory/)


3119 E 26th St Minneapolis, MN 55406
=== Outdoor Social: Monday July 21st ===
Olmsted County Fair night!  6 pm.


More details and pre-order tix http://minnefaire.org/
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.


Talk to Tim or to Matt Bruzek if you want to try to arrange anything as a group (carpooling, dinner, after-hours activities, etc).
[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.
We plan to bike the greenway and visit axe-man




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


=== <strike>Social:  Friday April 12th</strike> ===
Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76063786273?pwd=SxxHm75TEnLIHSstcVTPHKxzwpZuUs.1 here.]
<strike>2-5 pm:  Rocket show, as part of the [http://ncral2013.com/schedule-of-events/ 67th Annual Convention of the North Central Region of the Astronomical League] . The map and directions to the launch site can be found [http://ncral2013.com/maps/ here].</strike>


Cancelled due to bad weather forecasts.
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.


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday April 11th===
Food trailers are supposed to be open by 11 am, 11:30 am will give us a little better chance at getting parking.
Jim Walts, retired IBMer is about to launch a new web based business called QPonCompass.com
This business includes a website, database, an iphone and Win/7 based app (in fact he's looking for help porting his app to Android and wondered if anyone on this email list is interested in taking that on?)
The meeting will be this Thursday:


What: April K-lug/PCIG meeting QPonCompass.com - Jim Walts


When: Thursday April 11th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
=== Virtual Social: Thursday June 12th, 2025 ===
6 pm


Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
Meeting link removed.


Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
More details about QPonCompass.com:
We are technology lovers who saw a better way to share/deliver/distribute coupons. We recognized the dependence and love people have with their mobile devices, and how integrated into their lives these devices have become. 
Qpon Compass was created to provide shoppers with deals in the new venue they live in. The speed and movement of information makes paper coupons obsolete and bothersome.  We created a program that makes it easy to publish, learn about, purchase, and redeem deals for both the shopper and the business owner.
After spending time working for "mammoth technology companies", Jim and Kevin applied their skills and experience to the challenges of small business owners. Jim is passionate about making new technologies fun and practical; Kevin is a penny-pincher who strives to simplify daily tasks.
Qpon Compass was born!
Always forward-thinking, we are already looking at how we can make Qpon Compass better!




=== 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


=== Social:  Sunday March 24th ===
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.
Potato cannon courtesy of Dennis DeLorme, and Rube Goldberg device construction with whatever you bring.  Please sign up with what you are bringing so we can brainstorm some in advance, as Tina doesn't have a well stocked workshop to be raiding.  http://k-lug.org/SocialMeeting


1 pm, Tina's house (address and directions via the email list)




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


=== Lunch:  Thursday March 21st  ===
Meeting link removed
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.


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




=== Technical Meeting:  FIELD TRIP, Thursday March 14th ===
How to solder.  Kits will have been available for pre-order at the February technical meeting, or bring your own current project.  If you own your own soldering iron and are willing to bring it to share, that's great please do so.  Also needed for loan for the evening are folding chairs and tables.


Pre-orderable kits:
=== Litter Bit Better outside social, Tuesday April 22nd ===
1)  http://www.parallax.com/tabid/768/ProductID/832/Default.aspx  for $7, a colored lights robot badge.<br>
6:15 - 7:30 pm
2)  http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2131207_-1  for $8, a two option decision maker.<br>
3)  http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2136999_-1  for $11, Simon Says.<br>


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.


We're meeting at the Toymakers hacker/maker space again.  http://tymkrs.com/rabbithole/  
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.


547 Northern Heights Dr NE


Rochester MN 55906


6-9 pm
=== Virtual Social: Thursday April 10th, 2025 ===
6 pm


For anyone who didn't go there in January, their house is on the north side of the road up a steep and twisted driveway; park on the road with a parking brake.  Walk up the driveway, <strike>up the steps, and ring the doorbell.</strike> into the open garage door, and into the house without needing to ring the doorbell.
Meeting link removed.


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


Also, PCIG elections.


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


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 February ''21st'' ===
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday March 13th, 2025 ===
Dean Johnson, on "How I Work".  Slides are [http://k-lug.org/HowIWork here] or [https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8U2owv7iPY8bHFuSENHNGFNdmM/edit?usp=sharing&pli=1 here].
6 pm


Meeting link removed.


As regularly scheduled, this would fall on Valentine's Day.  So as to not get anyone in trouble with their significant other, or to cause decreased attendance for our speaker, we've pushed this one back a week.  Yes, you now can see your favorite geeks twice in one day if you also attend lunch.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
 
 
Other agenda topics:<br>
-Our delayed K-LUG officer elections (president, vice president, treasurer) and PCIG nominations.<br>
-"How to solder" group kit orders, for March hands-on technical meeting.  Please bring cash in exact change!<br>
1)  http://www.parallax.com/tabid/768/ProductID/832/Default.aspx  for $7, a colored lights robot badge.<br>
2)  http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2131207_-1  for $8, a two option decision maker.<br>
3)  http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_2136999_-1  for $11, Simon Says.<br>
-What else?
 
 
When: Thursday February 21st - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
 
Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
 
[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 Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday February 13th, 2025 ===
6 pm


Meeting link removed.


=== Lunch:  Thursday February 21st  ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.






=== Unofficial social: Thursday February 14th ===
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 9th, 2025 ===
Who needs hearts when you can eat BRAINS!  Zombie-themed game night at Tina's.  Family and friends are welcome.  It'd be nice if you could bring a drink or snack to share, or some folding chairs.
 
6 pm
6 pm


Meeting link removed.


=== Social:  Saturday February 2nd, 1 pm ===
KLUG officer elections.
Let's piggyback on Winterfest. 
 
http://www.rochestermn.gov/departments/park/activities/winter/WinterFest/WinterFest_Calendar.asp
 
I've tried to pick something cheap or free for the official social, but I'll also cite one activity that may be of interest for group members that has a higher entry fee if anyone wants an unofficial social (sorry, my family won't be making that one).
 
What:  Horse drawn sleigh rides and bonfire, hot cocoa and cookies, plus free museum day at the History Center Museum.<br>
Where:  [http://www.olmstedhistory.com/events/1111/sleigh-rides-and-free-museum-day/ The History Center of Olmsted County], 1195 West Circle Drive SW<br>
When:  Saturday February 2nd, 1 pm<br>
Cost:  free will donation, which goes to Rochester Special Olympics.
 
 
 
Unofficial:  Thursday February 7th, Bacon Fest!  $20.  http://baconfestrochester.wordpress.com/ <br>
Event runs 5-9 pm, I'll set a K-LUG meeting time of 6 pm.  You'll have to look for someone else to gather around though, my family won't be attending this one.<br>
Canadian Honker Event Center at the Ramada Hotel, 1517 16th St SW<br>
At the door:  CASH ONLY<br>
Alternate method of payment: Tickets can also be purchased online by making a $25 donation to the Sunset Terrace Playground project. The deadline is Wednesday, February 6th at midnight. Tickets purchased online can be picked up at the event.
 
 
 
=== Social:  Saturday, January 19th ===
The following schedule is tentative, because the official movie schedule is released on Wednesday or Thursday in a week for that weekend.  That's not a lot of notice for planning a group event.  But I've been informed by someone who movie-goes more than my ~1x/year that schedules don't tend to vary *too* much from week to week, so we'll use the current info to plan around.
 
 
Saturday January 19th<br>
1 pm - lunch at Kingdom Buffet<br>
3:20 pm - The Hobbit (2D) at Cinemagic<br>
Not the fastest route, but the most straight forward, if you're unfamiliar with either location:  http://goo.gl/maps/jnGFw
 
 
Details:<br>
Lunch at Kingdom Buffet, followed by a movie.  Feature movie is The Hobbit (2D), but there are several others starting in that same general timeframe if you'd rather attend something else.  Alternatively, you can do just lunch or just the movie.  We'll meet for lunch at 1 pm, 1639 N Broadway.  The Hobbit is at 3:20 at Cinemagic (2171 Superior Drive N.W., by the old Westfire).  If Chinese isn't your favorite, please don't be intimidated; Kingdom Buffet does have several buffet items that are more Midwestern acceptable (bbq ribs, teriyaki chicken shishkabobs, salad bar with jello, pudding, hard boiled eggs and fruit, ice cream, etc), it's our preferred spot to feed our toddler when we're out and need to put food in front of her immediately but don't want fast food.
 
 
Other movies being shown at approximately the same timeframe at Cinemagic:<br>
3:00 - Parental Guidance (PG)<br>
3:25 - A Haunted House (R)<br>
3:40 - Zero Dark Thirty (R)<br>
3:50 - Les Miserables (PG-13)<br>
(unfortunately this is a much shorter list than it had been last weekend, we lost ~1/2 the options)
 
Both Mayo and Think Bank have discounted movie ticket rates, but I think those are only valid on non-matinee priced movies.
 
 
 
=== Lunch:  Thursday January 17th  ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
 
 
 
=== Technical Meeting:  FIELD TRIP, FRIDAY, January 11th, 2013 ===
We're checking out a local hacker/maker space.  6 pm, we'll be tagging along to their standard monthly meeting.  Their website:  http://tymkrs.com/rabbithole/
 
547 Northern Heights Dr NE
 
Rochester MN 55906
 
 
If it's easy for you, throw in a folding chair.  We'll provide the leftover pop from the December party, and some treats as usual.  They've said if you have a project to work on, you should bring it with you.
 
Because of the rescheduling and the field trip, we'll put off officer elections until February.


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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.

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