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| We generally meet monthly for technical presentations (2nd Thursday of the month, 6 pm, RCTC), 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]. | | 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]. |
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| | === 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. |
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| === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday May 21st ===
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| Note the date change! One week later than usual. But it'll still be a Thursday, and still at our usual 6 pm start time. Probably no business portion to start due to virtual format, so presenter content may start closer to the top of the hour than you're used to. Matt Bruzek will tell us about his Texas experiments in robotic lawn mowing, since their lawn mowing season started well ahead of ours.
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| -- | | 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. |
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| So you are surviving the pandemic apocalypse but your lawn still needs to be mowed. Make a robot mow your lawn instead of you! Matt Bruzek will talk about the robot lawn mowers and give some tips and lessons learned from his adventures in robot lawn mowing.
| | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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| | === Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th === |
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| | 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]. |
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| | 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. |
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| === CANCELLED Social: Monday May 18th ===
| | As usual we are [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBM2PG teaming up with the geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage. |
| All of Rochester's Litter Bit Better has been pushed to October, so we've been delayed until October 6th, see below.
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| Our annual clean up a corner of the world event, helping de-litter a local park as a part of Litter Bit Better. As usual we're teaming up with the [https://coord.info/GC8M8JA geocachers who get CITO credit].
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| Parking is [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B001'25.3%22N+92%C2%B029'52.8%22W/@44.0237038,-92.500194,17z here] or [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B001'24.7%22N+92%C2%B029'36.1%22W/@44.0235278,-92.4955498,17z here], in the SE or SW corners of the park. The official group gathering location is on the SE corner of the park.
| | === Virtual Social: Thursday May 14th === |
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| | Meeting link here eventually. |
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| Bags and trash are provided, you need to provide your own gloves and a sense of civic duty. If anyone has some waterproof boots and/or grabbers for cleaning the marshy stream edge, that'd be great too.
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| | | === Upcoming Outdoor Socials TBD === |
| === Technical Meeting: Thursday June 11th === | | We're planning pickleball, and a geocaching hike on a new trail at Northern Heights Park (start on the WSW side and walk clockwise). |
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| Presenter needed. Willing to volunteer? Tell Tina.
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| 6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's H1411 (note: For those of you that have been coming for a long time, we are still in the same place, the rooms in the Heintz Center were renumbered. Prior to March 20th this room had been known as HA108. If anyone finds updated maps, please let us know.)
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| [https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.
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| === Social: June 2020 ===
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| What might you want to do? Tell Tina.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday July 9th ===
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| Presenter needed. Willing to volunteer? Tell Tina.
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| 6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's H1411 (note: For those of you that have been coming for a long time, we are still in the same place, the rooms in the Heintz Center were renumbered. Prior to March 20th this room had been known as HA108. If anyone finds updated maps, please let us know.)
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| [https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.
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| === Social: July 2020 ===
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| === Social: Tuesday October 6th ===
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| Hoping by now we'll be far enough out we can do things outside together.
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| Litter Bit Better!
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| Our annual clean up a corner of the world event, helping de-litter a local park as a part of Litter Bit Better. As usual we're teaming up with the [https://coord.info/GC8M8JA geocachers who get CITO credit].
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| Parking is [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B001'25.3%22N+92%C2%B029'52.8%22W/@44.0237038,-92.500194,17z here] or [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B001'24.7%22N+92%C2%B029'36.1%22W/@44.0235278,-92.4955498,17z here], in the SE or SW corners of the park. The official group gathering location is on the SE corner of the park.
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| Bags and trash are provided, you need to provide your own gloves and a sense of civic duty. If anyone has some waterproof boots and/or grabbers for cleaning the marshy stream edge, that'd be great too.
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| === Pending potential presentations ===
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| [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
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| Oculus Rift], "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games" . Peter Shabino
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| Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize
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| === Planned Socials: Fall or winter ===
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| -Murder mystery. The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started.
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| -Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary
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| -Rock climbing at Prairie Walls
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| -Bowlocity laser tag. 5-6 people minimum needed.
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| -Liquid nitrogen ice cream. This needs a non-Tina organizer. Dennis DeLorme has 2 recipes. We need safety equipment and someone trained enough to keep us from freezing ourselves.
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| -MAME/foosball/ping pong at ... can't be Tim Massaro's anymore...
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| -February or July armchair mapping aka road rally event, http://home.earthlink.net/~oldmaltese/
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| === Upcoming Meeting Crisis! ===
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| We need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2019. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina with suggestions for topics. Should we run some previous sessions again (maybe something you really wanted to see but missed out on)? What type of topics are good, what type are bad? Also see this page for a list of suggested topics http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings
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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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