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=== Virtual Social: Thursday November 13th ===
 
=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday November 9th ===
Want to be a speaker, or have ideas you'd like others to present on?  Let us know.
 
6 pm
6 pm


[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]
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 Technical Meeting: Thursday October 12th ===
Want to be a speaker, or have ideas you'd like others to present on?  Let us know.


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


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


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




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


Geocaching!  We're celebrating International Earth Cache Day by geocaching at Quarry Hill, primarily to find [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1T557 the earth cache there].  But depending on everyone's walking stamina these days, we'll also [https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2023/09/new-souvenir-international-earthcache-day-2023/ hunt other geocaches in the park].  If you've never geocached before, this is a great time to join us.  Wear your hiking shoes, long sturdy pants, and otherwise dress for the weather.
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Monday October 6th ===
6:00 - 7:30 pm


1 pm, Quarry Hill Park, at the Nature Center [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Quarry+Hill+Park/@44.0299058,-92.4292345,464m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m10!1m2!2m1!1squarry+hill+nature+center+parking+lot!3m6!1s0x87f9e1b4e1a125cb:0x38572654fae57d23!8m2!3d44.0296706!4d-92.4297814!15sCiVxdWFycnkgaGlsbCBuYXR1cmUgY2VudGVyIHBhcmtpbmcgbG90kgEEcGFya-ABAA!16s%2Fg%2F1tqyg1my?entry=ttu parking lot].
[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.


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


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


Disc golf! Meet at the Byron Links disc golf course, 6 pm.  General description of the course is here, including where it is:  https://udisc.com/courses/byron-links-dgc-421X
=== Walking Cascade Lake in-person social (outside), Monday September 15th ===
6:00 pm


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


[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]  Presentation notes [here http://k-lug.org/images/2/28/Home_media_streaming.pdf]
Meeting link removed.


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






=== Outside Social:  Friday September 8th ===
=== 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].
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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=== Outside Social: Monday August 14th ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday August 14th ===
 
6 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].
 


Meeting link  removed.


=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday August 10th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
Aaron Albertson will talk about the IBM LEGO Education Outreach (ILEO) program, the process of designing challenges, and the capabilities of the LEGO robots that the ILEO program currently makes use of.


6 pm


[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]
=== Outdoor Social: Monday July 21st  ===
Olmsted County Fair night!  6 pm.


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


[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.




=== Virtual Social: Thursday July 13th ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday July 10th, 2025 ===
6 pm
6 pm


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


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


=== Outside Social:  Tuesday June 27th, 6:30 pm ===
Food trailers are supposed to be open by 11 am, 11:30 am will give us a little better chance at getting parking.


Disc golf! Meet outside the RCTC field house, 6:30 pm.  Here is [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217033483939111930234.0004a3795f42da701ae0b&msa=0&ll=44.015742,-92.422206&spn=0.003541,0.006942&iwloc=0004a37962daae4746296 a map].


 
=== Virtual Social: Thursday June 12th, 2025 ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday June 8th, 2023 ===
6 pm
6 pm


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


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




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


=== Outside Social:  Thursday May 25th, 6 pm ===
Blue Lagoon mini golf, the new mini golf place that opened late last fall, on the NW side of town


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].
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.






=== Virtual Social: Thursday May 11th, 2023 ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday May 8th, 2025 ===
6 pm
6 pm


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


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






=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 25th ===
=== Litter Bit Better outside social, Tuesday April 22nd ===
6:15 - 7:30 pm
6:15 - 7:30 pm


A new to us park!  [https://goo.gl/maps/CBxuPMLC8GqAydq88 Manor Park], which can be entered from 3rd St NW, we will be gathering just off the edge of the parking lot.
A new to us park, Weatherstone, on the far NW corner of town.


Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, mask if desired, and sense of civic duty. This park doesn't have any shoreline, so hopefully we can leave the muck boots at home and bring home dry children.
Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is a pond in this park.


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.




As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCA5Y11 geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.  I'll be arriving a little late, so you'll need to look for the group.


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


Meeting link removed.


=== CANCELLED <strike>Disc Golf in-person social (outside), Friday April 21st</strike> ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
<strike>The ground is drying up, and the holes are posted, so it's time to start disc golfing!
 
6:30 pm - the new disc golf course in Zumbrota, at the Covered Bridge Park.
 
Park around [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B017'52.2%22N+92%C2%B040'16.5%22W/@44.297828,-92.67124,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d44.297828!4d-92.67124 here].  If it's already full, there's more parking further down the road to the west.


First hole is around [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B017'49.4%22N+92%C2%B040'17.9%22W/@44.29706,-92.671626,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d44.29706!4d-92.671626 here].
</strike>


Don't worry, there will hopefully be lots of disc golf this summer.  Just not this time.
=== Outdoor Social: Geocaching hike, equinox weekend, Friday March 21st ===


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


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


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




=== Virtual Social: Thursday March 9th, 2023 ===
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday March 13th, 2025 ===
6 pm
6 pm


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


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






=== Technical presentation: Thursday February 9th, 2023 ===
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday February 13th, 2025 ===
 
Tim Massaro will give us a demonstration on Dalle2:
 
Is anyone interested or knowledgeable in chatGPT, I haven't had time to look into it enough for a demo, but I have looked into Dalle2 enough to present a short demo. My understanding is Dalle2 uses ChatGTP to dynamically produce very interesting artwork based on user input such as "show me an impressionistic image of a Monkey riding a dinosaur along a beach at sunset".
 
[http://k-lug.org/images/b/bb/Dall-e_2.pdf Slides here], including those links that came up in the social discussion.
 
6 pm
6 pm


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


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






 
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 9th, 2025 ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday January 12th, 2023 ===
6 pm
6 pm


[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]
Meeting link removed.
 
Also on the agenda - KLUG annual officer elections.
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tim or Tina know.
 
 


=== Email ===
KLUG officer elections.
August 30, 2022:  Gmail is rejecting all of our emails, and our server has bounced all gmail addressed off the email list.  If you have another email address you'd like to subscribe with in the meantime until our email admin can decipher and unwind the problem, feel free to do so, links are on the leftnav panel.


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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