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=== CANCELLED Social:  Saturday September 9th CANCELLED ===
Flatwater canoe trip down the Root River.  See the [[SocialMeeting]] page.  Please sign up by noon on Thursday.


=== Social:  Wednesday August 23rd ===
Frisbee golf, 6:30 pm, East Park.  Bring friends, bring frisbees.


=== Lunch:  August 17th ===
11:30 am at the Galleria, near the Chinese restaurant.


=== Technical Meeting:  Tuesday August 8th ===
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th ===
We currently have no meeting topic.  You can come to RCTC's HA104, find a janitor to open the room, and discuss whatever geeky topic crosses your mind.  Or you can go to X-Games, although so far nobody has RSVP'd that they're going to be there.  And/or, if you have IBM campus privledges, you can attend PCIG's presentation on VMware on Thursday August 10th.
6:00 - 7:30 pm


=== Social:  Thursday July 27 ===
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].
Join us for a round of shoe throwing at East Park, 6:30 pm. If people have better equipment to bring/share, we can hopefully upgrade from shoes to golf disks (if you missed the last social and are confused, we're playing frisbee golf).  Lightening or hail, stay home.  Otherwise we play rain or shine.


=== Lunch: July 20 ===
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.


Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant. We will be inviting the Mayo open-source-discussion email list participants to attend as well.
As usual we are [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBM2PG teaming up with the geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday July 13 **Note location change** ===
'''Ruby on Rails''' by Jose de Leon. Ruby is an open source scripting language and Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that makes developing web applications easy. Jose will demo an application he has written in Ruby on Rails and will discuss the International Rails Conference (http://railsconf.org/) he recently attended.
This is a joint meeting with [http://www.pcig.info PCIG]. Construction continues in the computer lab wing, so this meeting will occur in [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA104].


=== Gimp Challenge I:  due date: July 8 ===
=== Outdoor Social:  Saturday April 25  ===  
Now that we all are skilled in the art of "The Gimp", Chris, Kevin and I thought we should have some fun with it.  The challenge is to pick your favorite two hated (or loved?) celebrites and Gimp together an image depicting a Celebrity Boxing style match. Who will it be? Gates vs Linus, Bush vs Clinton, Steve Fox vs The Gimp Circle Method?  Start with one of the images suggested on the [[GimpChallenge]] Page or find/create your own. Images should be posted in gimp format (so we can see your tricks and techniques) and png format (cause we are lazy). Images are due July 8th so judging can occur prior to our meeting July 13th.
In celebration of [https://nationalkitemonth.org/ National Kite Month], bring your kites and come join us as we try to fly them.


If you need an account to the wiki so you can post your picture, please send an email to the list.  Include the user name you wish to have.
Saturday April 25th


=== Lunch: June 15 ===
2 pm


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


=== Technical Meeting: Tuesday June 13 **Note location change** ===
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.
Baring snowstorms or any other emergencies, Robert Nix will present on The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program, [http://www.gimp.org GIMP]).  There is summer construction in the computer lab wing, so this meeting will occur in [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA104].


=== Social: Tuesday June 6 ===
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.
Ice cream social to be held in a park near Steve Fox's, 7 pm.  For more details and to sign up for the ice cream related item you'll bring, see the [[SocialMeeting]] page.


=== Lunch: May 18 ===


Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.  Look for geeks.
=== Virtual Social: Thursday April 9th ===
6 pm


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday May 11 ===
Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72423514673?pwd=nxbyWzSz7nbG2J2n2KMtfIUFaGVHaz.1 here].
Chris Abbey will present on SSH.


=== Lunch: April 20 ===


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


=== Technical Meeting: Tuesday April 11 ===
=== Outdoor Social: TBD, Friday March 13th - Sunday March 15th ===
Dennis DeLoreme on his !Supercomputer Cluster.
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.


=== Lunch: March 16 ===


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


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday March 9 ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday March 12th ===
Due to a death in the family, there will be no GIMP presentation.  Instead please bring topics for discussion.
6 pm


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


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


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


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


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.
=== Virtual Social: Thursday February 12th, 2026 ===
6 pm


=== Technical Meeting: August 9th ===
Meeting link removed.


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


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


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


=== Challenge and Puzzler: Round 3 ===
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 8th, 2026 ===
6 pm


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


KLUG officer elections.


=== Technical Meeting: July 14th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


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


=== Meeting Minutes Available ===


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


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Dennis DeLorme's LCD initialization and operation presentation is now available.
=== OLD SITE ===
 
Content from our old website can be accessed [http://k-lug.org/old.site/presentations/ here].
=== Challenge and Puzzler: Round 2 ===
 
The second Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Tina Wood and Kevin Arhelger won the first round. Good luck!
 
=== Technical Meeting: June 14th ===
 
Dennis DeLorme will give a presentation on LCD initialization and operation.
 
=== Challenge and Puzzler: Round 1 ===
 
The first Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Good luck!

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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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