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=== Lunch: May 18 ===


Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.  Look for geeks.


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday May 11 ===
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th ===
Chris Abbey will present on SSH.
6:00 - 7:30 pm


=== Lunch: April 20 ===
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].


Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.
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.


=== Technical Meeting: Tuesday April 11 ===
As usual we are [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBM2PG teaming up with the geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.
Dennis DeLoreme on his !Supercomputer Cluster.


=== Lunch: March 16 ===


Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.
=== 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.


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday March 9 ===
Saturday April 25th
Due to a death in the family, there will be no GIMP presentation.  Instead please bring topics for discussion.


To be rescheduled:
2 pm
Robert Nix's presentation on using [http://www.gimp.org Gimp], the image editor.


=== Technical Meeting: October 11th ===
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.


Bob Techentin is giving a tcl/tk presentation. [[Minutes]]
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.


=== Technical Meeting: September 9th ===
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.


Luka Bajzer will be presenting the Ruby programming language. The first part of the presentation will focus on the history and features of the language, where to use it and where not to use it. The second (optional) portion of the presentation will be a more interactive format.


=== Technical Meeting: August 9th ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday April 9th ===
6 pm


<s>Luka Bajzer will be presenting the Ruby programming language. The first part of the presentation will focus on the history and features of the language, where to use it and where not to use it. The second (optional) portion of the presentation will be a more interactive format.</s> Reschedule due to bad weather.
Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72423514673?pwd=nxbyWzSz7nbG2J2n2KMtfIUFaGVHaz.1 here].


=== Social Meeting: August 4th ===


We're going to X-Games (downtown Rochester on Broadway) to play some LAN games.


=== Challenge and Puzzler: Round 3 ===
=== 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.


The third Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Tina Wood and John Steenbergen won the second round. Good luck!




=== Technical Meeting: July 14th ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday March 12th ===
6 pm


This will be a joint PCIG/K-LUG meeting. Gary Rolfs from PCIG will be presenting an introduction to Python programming.
Meeting link removed.


=== Meeting Minutes Available ===
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.


The meeting minutes that Kevin Neff has been kind enough to take have now been posted.


=== Presentation Available ===


Dennis DeLorme's LCD initialization and operation presentation is now available.
=== Virtual Social: Thursday February 12th, 2026 ===
6 pm


=== Challenge and Puzzler: Round 2 ===
Meeting link removed.


The second Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Tina Wood and Kevin Arhelger won the first round. Good luck!
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


=== Technical Meeting: June 14th ===


Dennis DeLorme will give a presentation on LCD initialization and operation.


=== Challenge and Puzzler: Round 1 ===
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 8th, 2026 ===
6 pm


The first Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Good luck!
Meeting link removed.
 
KLUG officer elections.
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
 
 
 
 
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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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