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== LUG News ==
== LUG News ==


=== Planned Technical Meeting:  May - Intro to Node.js and Amazon EC2 - Tim Massaro ===
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].
Thursday, May 8th - 6:00 pm - 7:35 pm
  Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
1926 College View Road SE, Rochester, MN 55904


Node.js is a server side javascript platform currently very popular for easily building fast, scalable web applications. This presentation will be an introduction to node and will demo how you can set up a free (for 1 yr) hosting environment on Amazon's cloud based hosting service called EC2.


=== Planned Lunch:  Thursday May 15th  ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.




=== Planned Social:  May TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own.  What would you like to do?  Tell Tim or Tina.




=== Planned Technical Meeting:  June ===
Speaker needed, please let Tim or Tina know if you're willing to volunteer.  Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list requested topics] page.




=== Planned Lunch:  Thursday June 19th  ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.




=== Planned Social:  June TBD ===
=== Outside Social:  Friday July 24th ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own.  What would you like to do?  Tell Tim or Tina.


Disc golf! Meet outside the RCTC field house, 6 pm.  Here is [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217033483939111930234.0004a3795f42da701ae0b&msa=0&ll=44.015742,-92.422206&spn=0.003541,0.006942&iwloc=0004a37962daae4746296 a map].


(I was going to have us go to the Byron disc golf course for something different, but they've apparently got wild parsnip on half the course)






=== Planned Technical Meeting: March or later, 2013 ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday August 13th ===
Oculus Rift, "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games"
6 pm


http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
Meeting link here eventually.


Peter Shabino




=== Upcoming Outdoor Socials TBD  ===
We're planning pickleball once it's cooler again.




=== Planned Socials: Fall or winter ===
=== Old News Items ===
-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary
See the [[OldNews]] page.
 
-Rock climbing at Prairie Walls
 
-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.
 
-MAME/foosball/ping pong at Tim Massaro's.
 






=== Upcoming Meeting Crisis! ===
Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2014. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Tim 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




=== Old News Items ===
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See the [[OldNews]] page.

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We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see a list of ideas if you're willing but lacking a topic.


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.






Outside Social: Friday July 24th

Disc golf! Meet outside the RCTC field house, 6 pm. Here is a map.

(I was going to have us go to the Byron disc golf course for something different, but they've apparently got wild parsnip on half the course)


Virtual Social: Thursday August 13th

6 pm

Meeting link here eventually.


Upcoming Outdoor Socials TBD

We're planning pickleball once it's cooler again.


Old News Items

See the OldNews page.



MediaWiki help 1 2

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