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| === Social: Thursday September 22nd === | | === Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th === |
| A geocaching adventure...see http://www.activelivingrochester.org for details...are you in?
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| At 6 pm on Thursday September 22nd we'll be meeting for:
| | 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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| -Pursing the Quarry Hill Trails to Treasure geocache. This isn't an ordinary geocache, it's part of a contest sponsored by Olmsted County Public Health to promote trails and exercise. Our own Tim Massaro helped with hiding several of the caches in this contest. Contest does indeed imply potential prizes, including iPods, cameras, a GPS, and gift cards. Start at http://www.co.olmsted.mn.us/news/Pages/TrailstoTreasureContest.aspx if you want more details, or https://sites.google.com/site/trailstotreasure/contest-rules for the Trails cache locations
| | 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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| -Taking a walk for some outside socializing time
| | As usual we are [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBM2PG teaming up with the geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage. |
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| -Hauling along a camera, for a mini version of fall 2009's photo safari
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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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| Meet at the west entrance of Quarry Hill, the parking lot at the corner of 9th Street and 19th Avenue NE, near the playground and tennis courts.
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| If there's desire, the group can split after finding the geocache or all proceed to Kutzky park, to pursue another Trails to Treasure geocache if that's of interest.
| | 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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| | 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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| No GPS or RSVP required.
| | 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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| | === Virtual Social: Thursday April 9th === |
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| === Lunch: Thursday September 15th ===
| | Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72423514673?pwd=nxbyWzSz7nbG2J2n2KMtfIUFaGVHaz.1 here]. |
| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday September 8th ===
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| When: Thursday September 8th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
| | === Outdoor Social: TBD, Friday March 13th - Sunday March 15th === |
| | Plan to do some [https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2026/02/pi-day-2026-3-14-sweet-ways-to-celebrate-with-three-new-souvenirs-to-earn/ puzzle solving geocaching over the weekend of March 13-15th]. Tim will be leading this one. |
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| Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
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| 1926 College View Road SE, Rochester, MN 55904
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| | === Virtual Social: Thursday March 12th === |
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| We'll demo and discuss various tablet devices. Scheduled to appear are an iPad, a Pantech Android tablet, an HP TouchPad with Web OS and a Nook Feel free to bring your own tablet device and informally show off the highlights and lowlights
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| | Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Aaron is running this meeting for us, so let him know. Also, plan to do some [https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2026/02/pi-day-2026-3-14-sweet-ways-to-celebrate-with-three-new-souvenirs-to-earn/ puzzle solving geocaching over the weekend of March 13-15th] with the crew, bring your calendar and your solved or stuck puzzles to share. |
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| === Planned Social: August TBD ===
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| <strike>Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tim, he's in charge of all things K-LUG for July and August.</strike>
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| A social didn't happen this month, look for something next month.
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| | === Virtual Social: Thursday February 12th, 2026 === |
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| === Lunch: Thursday August 18th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday August 11th ===
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| The August meeting will be a two subject meeting
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| Mo Holahan will present Google Sketchup and how to create 3D buildings in Google Earth
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| Tim Schumann will present info on Bitcoins and how his bitcoin server is making out.
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| The meeting will be Thursday August 11th at 6pm
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| RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
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| 1926 College View Road SE, Rochester, MN 55904
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| Here is the scoop on the Google Sketchup portion of the meeting:
| | === Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 8th, 2026 === |
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| Sketchup has become a popular 3D modeling program for everything from origami to
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| professional architectural rendering. Currently available in free and pro versions
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| from Google, the program has continued to evolve since its initial release in 2000
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| by @Last Software founders Brad Schell and Joe Esch.
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| This presentation will focus on the free version 8. We'll introduce the basic
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| geometry construction tools and demo features such as components, materials, styles,
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| fog, shadows, scene animation, and the use of Ruby scripts to customize and extend
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| Sketchup's capabilities. We'll visit Google's 3Dwarehouse to download models, and
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| geo-locate a building on Google Earth. Whether you dream of turning your personal
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| fabrication vision into a 3d prototype or just want to virtually rearrange your
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| living room furniture, see if Sketchup might become a useful part of your toolset.
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| === Planned Social: July TBD ===
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| <strike>Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tim, he's in charge of all things K-LUG for July and August.</strike>
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| === Lunch: Thursday July 24th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday July 14th ===
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| Speed Talks Something new for K-LUG, Speed Talks are a no preparation required, quick talk on a favorite App, Website, Hobby, Gadget, Upcoming Event or whatever currently has your interest. We'll limit the time to 5-10 minutes each and just open it to whoever has a topic to share. We'll have a pc hooked up to the projector, or you can bring your own if you like. This should work out well as we had a short similar session on favorite android apps after one of our recent meetings.
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| -> When: Thursday July 14th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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| -> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107 or nearby
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| === Planned Social: June TBD ===
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| We ended up without one.
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| === Lunch: Thursday June 16th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday June 9th ===
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| Andy Tolbert and Chris Lohfink.
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| 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.
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| If you have any other agenda items, please submit them to Tim as he'll be running the meeting.
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| === Disc Golf Social: Thursday May 19th, 6:30 pm ===
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| 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].
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| 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.]
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| 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.
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| === Lunch: Thursday May 19th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday May 12th ===
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| Our May meeting is scheduled to be information about a new robotics league starting up in Rochester.
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| 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].
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| -> When: Thursday May 12th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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| -> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107 or nearby
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| === Lunch: Thursday April 21st ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| === Social/Service Opportunity: Tuesday April 19th (during Earth Week) ===
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| 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>
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| 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].
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| === Social: Sunday April 17th, 2 pm ===
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| 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.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday April 14th ===
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| Brent Vrieze will present a demo of Asterisk PBX software, using third party software requiring little manual configuring. He's provided the following description:
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| "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.
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| 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."
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| === Planned Social: March TBD ===
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| -[http://artemis.eochu.com/ Artemis], a multiplayer spaceship bridge simulator for Windows
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| -SOLAR DEATH RAY!!! to burn stuff, like [http://inhabitat.com/19-year-old-teenager-makes-homemade-solar-death-ray/solarray3/ this].
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| But nobody's stepped up to lead these, let Tina know if you're willing to organize.
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| === Lunch: Thursday March 17th ===
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday March 10th ===
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| Dennis DeLorme will present on a paper tape reader.<br>
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| "Want to move those 100's of bytes of data you put on paper tape back in
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| your misspent youth to 21st century media? (Any time spent with paper
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| tape was misspent.) Bring your paper tape and a flash drive to the K-LUG
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| -Girl Scout cookies and pi/pie in an early celebration of pi day <br>
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| -Jon T will bring his hacked pandigital Android ereader for a show and tell afterwards (no demo, just to show off)
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| -> When: Thursday March 10th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| 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:
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| What: Community input sessions for new Rochester superintendent
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| When: 7 p.m. Thursday
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| 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.
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| === Social: Thursday February 24th===
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| === Lunch: Thursday February 17th ===
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday February 10th ===
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| Steve Severson has volunteered to present on Android apps at IBM and/or rooting an Android.
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| === Social: Friday January 28th ===
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| === Lunch: Thursday January 20th ===
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| === "Technical Meeting": Thursday January 13th, 6:00 pm ===
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| Next Meeting - Dennis DeLorme ZigBee Protocol and XBee wireless Communication modules demo.
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| -> When: Thursday January 13th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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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.
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.
Virtual Social: Thursday April 9th
6 pm
Meeting link here.
Outdoor Social: TBD, Friday March 13th - Sunday March 15th
Plan to do some puzzle solving geocaching over the weekend of March 13-15th. Tim will be leading this one.
Virtual Social: Thursday March 12th
6 pm
Meeting link removed.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Aaron is running this meeting for us, so let him know. Also, plan to do some puzzle solving geocaching over the weekend of March 13-15th with the crew, bring your calendar and your solved or stuck puzzles to share.
Virtual Social: Thursday February 12th, 2026
6 pm
Meeting link removed.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 8th, 2026
6 pm
Meeting link removed.
KLUG officer elections.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
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