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=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 11th ===
(Note the Plone meeting has been moved to February)


Paint Shop Pro by Tony Drumm, with PCIG.  This is not a truly Linux topic, but given the amount of interest in Robert Nix's GIMP presentation I thought there might be interest in comparing/contrasting.  Also,
=== Virtual Social: Thursday June 11th ===
==== KLUG officer elections ====
6 pm
Please submit your nominations for president, vice president, and treasurer to the email list prior to the day of the election.  Self nominations are accepted.


Meeting link removed.


=== Technical Meeting:  Tuesday December 12th ===
The December "technical" meeting (ie gaming) will be held at the standard day and time, Tuesday December 12th, 6 pm.  Since things just don't seem to be panning out for gaming at Cinemagic or Chateau (more details will remain below), we're going with the old standby of Lounge51 (formerly Xgames).
Location:  Lounge51, 115 North Broadway, this is next door to the Senior Center and just south of the railroad tracks.  This is NOT the old Xgames location.


When:  Tuesday December 12th, 6 pm.  However they open at 10 am, so you're welcome to start earlier.  Also, while Lounge51's posted closing time is 9 pm, if three or more people want to keep playing and they're paying hourly rates, Lounge51 stay open later.
=== Outside Social:  Geocaching, Thursday May 21st ===
6 pm


Cost: $5/hour if a non-member.  Other options are memberships or day passes.
Park and walk a park in NE Rochester, where [https://kroc.com/northern-heights-trail-new-hiking-trail-rochester-mn/ new trails went in] last year.
Snacking options:  Pop, sugar, snack foods, basically anything that doesn't actually require a food license for them to sell.


Park east of [https://k-lug.org/images/3/32/Northern_Heights_geocaching_parking_202605.jpg Churchill Elementary School] on Northern Heights Drive NE, looks like it might just be a curbside instead of a lot.  We'll walk from there through the two stages of [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCANZKD_northern-heights-park-technetium GCANZKD] in Northern Heights Park, and decide on the fly if we're taking a path out of the NE side of the park to also grab [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC9W5MG_two-of-a-kind GC9W5MG].


Games available (and # of simultaneous players allowed):    They have 24 computers.  See http://lounge51.com/content/Games.aspx for a 6-12 month old list of games.  Many more are now available.  As far as licensing, that varies.  Some games are available on every computer at once, and for those it's not available all at once it sounds like things are at least improved over Xgames' limitations.  Examples I was given on the phone were:


-Age of Empires (version not specified), all machines
=== Virtual Social: Thursday May 14th ===
6 pm


-Battlefield 2 - 10
Meeting link removed.


-Counter Strike 1.6 - 6


-Counter Strike Source - 12


-Warcraft III - all machines
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th ===
6:00 - 7:30 pm


If there is a particular game you want to know about, I can call to ask.  If there's a lot of interest in a particular game they don't currently have enough licenses for AND you are willing to pre-pay, they'd look into getting additional licenses for us.
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].
Besides computer games, they also have a big screen tv, with an Xbox, PS2, PS3, Gamecube, DDR pad, Guitar Hero, and lots of games to go with them.


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.


I did try to look into other options. For future reference, I dug up the following information on several possibilities:
As usual we are [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBM2PG teaming up with the geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.


-computer gaming at Lounge 51 (formerly Xgames) with a charge per hour.  Open to the public.


-Xbox gaming at Cinemagic, $6/half hour/person. At most 4 play at a time, and it sounds like only 1 room would be available.  Open to the public.
=== 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.


-Xbox gaming at Chateau late at night with a per person charge ($25, but good for 6 months and includes other goodies) and at most 4 play at a time per room but multiple rooms would be available.  Open to the public.  Friday and Saturday nights, 9-11 pm on whiteboards, then 11 pm - 3 am in the theaters.
Saturday April 25th


-Xbox gaming at Chateau with a room reservation fee ($35) with at most 4 play at a time
2 pm


-free board and collectable card games at Chateau. Open to the public.  Fridays starting at 8 pm.
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.


All of these things except the one where we have to commit to paying a room reservation fee are things that are open to the public.
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.


=== Social:  Monday November 27th ===
Outside trail walking.  Meet at Panera South by 6:30 pm, dress warm, prepare to walk ~1 hour 20 minutes with socializing and warming beverages at Panera afterwards.  Don't be late or you won't catch up with us.


=== Lunch Meeting: Thursday November 16th ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday April 9th ===
11:30 am near the Chinese restaurant in the Galleria.  Discussion about December gaming options or desired social activities would be appreciated.
6 pm


=== Technical Meeting: Swap Sale Thursday November 9th ===
Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72423514673?pwd=nxbyWzSz7nbG2J2n2KMtfIUFaGVHaz.1 here].


Swap meet!! 
Buy/Sell/Trade - at this annual event, even the general public can bring computer / gadget related gear to sell or trade, or just come to browse for the bargins. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm. We also plan to have a truck available to recycle old equipment at a price of $0.35 a pound When: Thurs, Nov 9th 6pm
Where: University Center Rochester Heintz Center in room HA108.
Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm.  Location:  RCTC room [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA108]  Attendance will include be members of [http://www.pcig.info PCIG], IBM Ham Radio Club, students from RCTC, and the general public. 


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K-LUG Club members, we NEED YOUR HELP!  How?


-Bring your stuff to sell/swap.
=== 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.


-Print and Show this [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/ef/Swapflyer_2006.pdf Sale Flyer] to friends


-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.
=== Virtual Social: Thursday March 12th ===
6 pm


-Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5). (Pat S. and Tim M.)
Meeting link removed.


-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).  (Steve F. and Steve S.)
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.


-Making some Ubuntu CDs to give away.  (Dave Berg)


-Posting


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


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


-KLUG mailing list and wiki - Tina W.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


-IBM calendar - Tim M.


-PCIG website - Tim M.


-Ham radio club - Tim M.
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 8th, 2026 ===
6 pm


-Mayo classifieds - Pat S.
Meeting link removed.


-Craigslist - Tim M.
KLUG officer elections.


-Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) - Steve F.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


-UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy - Ren T.


-RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy - Tim M.  (I've made up something already, go [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/ef/Swapflyer_2006.pdf here] and print)


-Wherever else you can think of


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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.
=== OLD SITE ===
 
Content from our old website can be accessed [http://k-lug.org/old.site/presentations/ here].
=== Mister House 2nd Opportunity:  Monday October 30th ===
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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=== 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.
 
=== Lunch Meeting:  Thursday October 19th ===
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 ===
Open source in Croatia, Croatian government.  Guest speaker Vlatko Kosturjak, from Croatia, temporarily in the US.  Room will be HA108, our new "permanent" location.
 
Wink has been postponed.  [http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Wink] software used for making demos of new products. Records screen sessions and audio.
 
=== 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 ===
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.
 
=== Social:  Thursday July 27 ===
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 ===
 
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.
 
=== 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 ===
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.
 
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.
 
=== Lunch: June 15 ===
 
Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.
 
=== Technical Meeting: Tuesday June 13 **Note location change** ===
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 ===
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.
 
=== Technical Meeting: Thursday May 11 ===
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 ===
Dennis DeLoreme on his !Supercomputer Cluster.
 
=== Lunch: March 16 ===
 
Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.
 
=== Technical Meeting: Thursday March 9 ===
Due to a death in the family, there will be no GIMP presentation.  Instead please bring topics for discussion.
 
To be rescheduled:
Robert Nix's presentation on using [http://www.gimp.org Gimp], the image editor.
 
=== Technical Meeting: October 11th ===
 
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.
 
=== Technical Meeting: August 9th ===
 
<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.
 
=== Social Meeting: August 4th ===
 
We're going to X-Games (downtown Rochester on Broadway) to play some LAN games.
 
=== Challenge and Puzzler: Round 3 ===
 
The third Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Tina Wood and John Steenbergen won the second round. Good luck!
 
 
=== Technical Meeting: July 14th ===
 
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.
 
=== Presentation Available ===
 
Dennis DeLorme's LCD initialization and operation presentation is now available.
 
=== 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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Virtual Social: Thursday June 11th

6 pm

Meeting link removed.


Outside Social: Geocaching, Thursday May 21st

6 pm

Park and walk a park in NE Rochester, where new trails went in last year.

Park east of Churchill Elementary School on Northern Heights Drive NE, looks like it might just be a curbside instead of a lot. We'll walk from there through the two stages of GCANZKD in Northern Heights Park, and decide on the fly if we're taking a path out of the NE side of the park to also grab GC9W5MG.


Virtual Social: Thursday May 14th

6 pm

Meeting link removed.


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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