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= K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group =


== LUG News ==
Note: To request a wiki account, please join the mailing list and post a message.


=== Mister House 2nd Opportunity:  Monday October 30th ===
We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings a list of ideas] if you're willing but lacking a topic.
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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| '''Name''' || '''# of attendees'''
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|Robert Bleimeyer || 3
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|José de Leon || 1
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|Mark Diez || 1
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|Bill Marshall || 1
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|Joe Sedelmeyer || 1
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|Mike Fallenstein || 2
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=== Planned Technical Meeting:  Thursday November 9th ===
== LUG News ==
Swap meet!!  Also hopefully in attendance will be members of PCIG, ham radio club, students from RCTC, and the general public.  But in order to do this, we NEED YOUR HELP!  How?


-Bring your stuff to sell/swap.
We generally meet monthly for technical presentations (2nd Thursday of the month, 6 pm, virtual), and monthly for socializing (varies).  We no longer meet monthly for lunches, if you are interested in reviving this tradition please [http://k-lug.org/About contact an officer].


-Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.35/pound).


-Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge.


-Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5).


-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).


-Making some Ubuntu CDs to give away


-Posting
=== Outdoor Social:  Saturday April 25  ===
In celebration of [https://nationalkitemonth.org/ National Kite Month], bring your kites and come join us as we try to fly them.


Saturday April 25th


Volunteers are needed to post to many locations.  Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome):
2 pm


-Craigslist
Location:  [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Redwood+Ln+SW,+Rochester,+MN+55902/@43.989365,-92.4843012,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87f758cbe6ddd805:0xcbd56f452d52bbef That park by Steve Fox's house], officially known as Pine Ridge Estates Park, on Redwood Lane SW.


-IBM calendar - Tim M.
This park has a nice playground for the littles, picnic tables, and room to fly kites, as well as usually being unpopulated.  The lack of trees and being on top of a hill mean it's pretty bug free (not that we should hopefully have to worry about that in April) even when there's not enough breeze to fly the kites.


-PCIG website - Tim M.
Please bring your family and friends who might want to hang out.  Bring your own kites.  If you don't want to sit at the picnic tables or on the playground equipment, bring your own folding chair.  And bring your own beverage.  Since it's April, we're skipping the traditional ice cream.


-Ham radio club - Tim M.


-Mayo classifieds


-Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap)
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th ===
6:00 - 7:30 pm


-RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy
Summit Pointe Park, in NW Rochester.  [https://k-lug.org/images/3/38/Summit_Pointe_Park_parking_and_trash_cleanup_boundaries.jpg Park on Shetland Drive NW, and observe the north/south boundaries in the linked map].


Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. Some pond shoreline.  Unlike our fall CITOs, in the spring we've got plenty of daylight.


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.
As usual we are [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBM2PG teaming up with the geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.


=== Planned Lunch Meeting:  Thursday November 16th ===
11:30 am near the Chinese restaurant in the Galleria.


=== Social:  Thursday October 26th ===
5:30 pm  Frisbee golf at East Park.  Weather-related cancellation will be announced around noon to email list and wiki if necessary.


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.
=== Virtual Social: Thursday May 14th ===
6 pm


=== Lunch Meeting:  Thursday October 19th ===
Meeting link here eventually.
Come one, come all, at 11:30 am to the vicinity of the Chinese resturant in the Galleria food court.


=== Technical Meeting:  Tuesday October 10th ===
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.
Some details on Mr House: http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/


Directions and map to Mister House can be found [http://brucewinter.googlepages.com/directionstomyhouse here].


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday, September 14th ===
=== Upcoming Outdoor Socials TBD  ===  
Open source in Croatia, Croatian government.  Guest speaker Vlatko Kosturjak, from Croatia, temporarily in the US.  Room will be HA108, our new "permanent" location.
We're planning pickleball, and a geocaching hike on a new trail at Northern Heights Park (start on the WSW side and walk clockwise).


Wink has been postponed.  [http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Wink] software used for making demos of new products. Records screen sessions and audio.


=== Old News Items ===
=== Old News Items ===
See the [[OldNews]] page.
See the [[OldNews]] page.
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K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group

Note: To request a wiki account, please join the mailing list and post a message.

We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see a list of ideas if you're willing but lacking a topic.


LUG News

We generally meet monthly for technical presentations (2nd Thursday of the month, 6 pm, virtual), and monthly for socializing (varies). We no longer meet monthly for lunches, if you are interested in reviving this tradition please contact an officer.




Outdoor Social: Saturday April 25

In celebration of National Kite Month, bring your kites and come join us as we try to fly them.

Saturday April 25th

2 pm

Location: That park by Steve Fox's house, officially known as Pine Ridge Estates Park, on Redwood Lane SW.

This park has a nice playground for the littles, picnic tables, and room to fly kites, as well as usually being unpopulated. The lack of trees and being on top of a hill mean it's pretty bug free (not that we should hopefully have to worry about that in April) even when there's not enough breeze to fly the kites.

Please bring your family and friends who might want to hang out. Bring your own kites. If you don't want to sit at the picnic tables or on the playground equipment, bring your own folding chair. And bring your own beverage. Since it's April, we're skipping the traditional ice cream.


Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th

6:00 - 7:30 pm

Summit Pointe Park, in NW Rochester. Park on Shetland Drive NW, and observe the north/south boundaries in the linked map.

Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. Some pond shoreline. Unlike our fall CITOs, in the spring we've got plenty of daylight.

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


Virtual Social: Thursday May 14th

6 pm

Meeting link here eventually.


Upcoming Outdoor Socials TBD

We're planning pickleball, and a geocaching hike on a new trail at Northern Heights Park (start on the WSW side and walk clockwise).


Old News Items

See the OldNews page.



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