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=== "Technical Meeting": Friday December 10th, 6:30 pm ===
Due to lack of input as well as former hosting sites such as p0wned having gone out of business, Tina is hosting a gaming night at her house.  Email her if you need address and/or directions.  Start time is 6:30 pm.  Note that this is NOT our usual second Thursday, we pushed it back one night so people don't have to deal with getting to work in the morning.


We play whatever you bring.  Please consider bringing a folding table and chairs, board games, card games, video games, video game system accessories, and/or snacks and beverages.  RSVP's of the types of stuff you're bringing would be appreciated so we don't have overstocks of some items such as four people hauling their folding table and chairs, or everyone bringing chips.


'''Sign up'''<br>
=== Technical Presentation: Thursday August 13th ===
Updates on the Med City Makerspace, by Tim Massaro.  Tim's slides can be found [https://k-lug.org/images/6/62/PcigAug13MedCityMakerspace_3.pdf here].


{| border="1" cellpadding="5"
6 pm
|-
| '''Name''' || '''# of self/family/friends''' || '''Electronic games''' || '''Board/card games''' || '''Food/beverage contributions''' || '''Other'''
|-
| Tina || 3 || two tv's, a Wii with some games + 2 controllers, a PS2 with some games + 2 controllers + DDR with one dance pad  || Pandemic, Ticket to Ride, Munchkin, Great Dalmuti, Fluxx, EcoFluxx || diet A&W rootbeer || one table, ~7 chairs, lots of floor space, a large yard with some floodlights
|-
| Aaron || 1 || N/A  || I'll bring a bag o' games, will avoid the ones Tina and Rob have || Those candy covered pretzel things || My tiny car, the clothes on my back, one (1) canvas bag
|-
| Your name here || x || x  || x || x || x
|-
|}


=== Lunch: Thursday December 16th ===
Meeting link removed.
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.  




=== Planned Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 13th ===
Speaker needed.  If you're willing to speak but need some topic ideas, there's a list of things your fellow K-LUGgers have requested presentations on [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings#Requested_topics_list here].






=== Social:  Friday November 19th ===
=== Outside Social:  Friday July 24th ===
We will be attending dinner at Outback Steakhouse and the movie "Unstoppable" on Friday, November 19th. 


Dinner:<br>
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].
5:30 pm, Outback Steakhouse<br>
1201 S. Broadway<br>
Menu and prices can be found [http://www.outback.com/menu/pdf/C26.pdf here] if you're the type to want to check it out in advance.  Try to be there on time so we can get them to seat all of us together.


Movie:<br>
(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)
Meet in the lobby at 6:50 pm<br>
7:05 showing at Wehrenberg Theater, near Fleet Farm<br>
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477080/ "Unstoppable"] , "A massive unmanned locomotive, nicknamed "The Beast" and loaded with toxic cargo, roars through the countryside, vaporizing anything put in front of it. A veteran engineer and a young conductor, aboard another train in the runaway's path, devise an incredible plan to try and stop it -- and prevent certain disaster in a heavily populated area."<br>
PG-13, 1 hr 38 minutes<br>


Tickets are $9.50 for adults.  Mayo employees, there's a Wehrenberg discount if you check out the L&L activities office website, must purchase tickets in advance; IBM'ers, hopefully you already know if/how there's a discount available to you.




=== Lunch: Thursday November 18th ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday July 9th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
6 pm


Meeting link removed.


=== Technical meeting:  Thursday November 11th ===
Due to low enthusiasm levels we've cancelled the annual swap/sale this year.  Instead we'll have another presentation on our regular night.


6 pm in RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.  Jon Tollefson will present on Android Kernel Internals -
comparing Android to Linux with details especially useful for Android App developers.




=== Social:  Saturday October 30 ===
=== Outdoor Social: Rochesterfest lunch, Thursday June 25th, 11:30 am ===  
1 pm shooting off of rockets.  Details:
Lunch at RochesterFest. We'll be sitting at a picnic table on the far side of the tent from the music, to hopefully lower the decibel level enough to still talk.  Gather around our organizer Mark.


Since Amazon has a sale on Estes Rockets and Kevin Arhelger has a launcher and
[https://www.rochesterfest.com/faq Rochesterfest FAQs] has some transportation & parking suggestions & miscellaneous information.
we like to blow things up, the social is scheduled to be Rocket
Launching
Sat Oct 30th 1pm at the practice field behind Century High school
We'll have to postpone to Sunday if it happens to be windy
There are several rockets as low as $4.75 here
http://amzn.to/dAJviv
(engines sold separately)
Should also be available from hobby lobby and walmart in town




=== Lunch: Thursday October 21st ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.


=== Virtual Social: Thursday June 11th ===
6 pm


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday October 14th ===
Meeting link removed.
Chris Abbey - Linux on the drobo.  The usual time and location, which is 6 pm, RCTC's Heintz Center HA109 or HA107 depending on construction progress.  See the [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings Meetings page] for more details on how to find the building and the room.




=== Planned Social:  September TBD ===
=== Outside Social:  Geocaching, Thursday May 21st ===
<del>Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own.  What would you like to do?  Tell Tina. </del>
6 pm


Tina never got around to planning something, sorry, see you in October.
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.


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].


=== Lunch: Thursday September 16th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.


=== Virtual Social: Thursday May 14th ===
6 pm


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday Sept 9th ===
Meeting link removed.
Jon Gullixson and Eldon Nelson will be demoing "Producing and Publishing Great Screencasts".


'''When''': Thursday September 9th - 6pm - 7:30pm<br />
'''Where''': RCTC Heintz Center HA109 or HA107 depending on construction progress - [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings Meetings page] for more details on how to find the building and the room.<br />
[http://www.k-lug.org/September_2010_Minutes more information]




=== Social:  Canoeing/Kayaking/Geocaching, August 29th, 2010  ===
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th ===
For August the K-Lug group is going to go canoe/kayak/geocaching
6:00 - 7:30 pm
down the zumbro river out of Oronoco


Open to all, please let us know if you are interested and we can reserve boats
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].


Some details
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.
Date: Sunday August 29th
Time: Meet at Bolder Outfitters at 11:00


Cost: $35 per canoe, $25 per kayak, $15/$10 for a ride back if you have
As usual we are [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBM2PG teaming up with the geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.
your own boatage  (See Tim, I have some $5 discount coupons left)
Details listed here
http://www.boulderdamcanoe.com/


Bonus Geocaching....We are also going to search for the
10 or so caches on the river, starting where the canoe trip starts ...here:
http://geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=956c2899-a79e-4650-b277-bac269c2d5b9


Post social report:
=== Outdoor Social: Saturday April 25  ===
9 folks (and a puppy) attended the PCIG/K-Lug August social. This was a peaceful canoe ride down the Zumbro River from Oronoco to the Sandy Point landing. Most of the crew enjoyed geocaching along the way too.  There were [http://www.pcig.info/uploads/Newsletter/GeoCrewSm.jpg pictures] taken!
In celebration of [https://nationalkitemonth.org/ National Kite Month], bring your kites and come join us as we try to fly them.


Saturday April 25th


=== K-Lug Discount on This Little Program Went to Market ===
2 pm
Last month after our presentation, Annette Godtland offered a discount to club members on her book, she wants to continue that discount to members who couldn't make the meeting. Please contact Tim or Aaron and we'll make arrangements to hand deliver the book.


This Little Program Went to Market: Retail $48.00
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.
To PCIG/KLUG: $32.60 + 7.375% tax = $35.00
If paying by check, make checks payable to Godtland Software Corporation
More details http://www.godtlandsoftware.com


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.


=== Lunch: Thursday August 19th ===
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.
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.  




=== Technical Meeting: Thursday August 12th ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday April 9th ===
Author Annette Godtland on her book "This Little Program Went to Market". The book describes how to Create, Deploy, Distribute, Sell, and Market Software and More on the Internet at Little or No Cost to You. Find out more at her website. The usual time and location, which is 6 pm, RCTC's Heintz Center HA109 or HA107 depending on construction progress. See the Meetings page for more details on how to find the building and the room.
6 pm


Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72423514673?pwd=nxbyWzSz7nbG2J2n2KMtfIUFaGVHaz.1 here].




=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday July 15th *** NOTE DATE CHANGE ===
Brent Vrieze will present SquareSpace and demo the website he created for his ambulance garage.


=== 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.


=== Lunch:  Thursday July 15th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.  Yes, the same day as our technical meeting.




=== Social: June 29th===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday March 12th ===
Frisbee golf, 7 pm, East Park.  That's kitty-corner from the Heintz Center building, here's a [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=East+Park,+Rochester,+MN&ie=UTF8&ll=44.022447,-92.443299&spn=0.007468,0.012124&z=16 map], email Tina if you need more detailed directions.  You're welcome even if you don't own your own discs, or if you've never played.  If you don't own your own, you can throw your shoe (entertaining but highly inefficient), or try to let us know in advance to bring a spare for you to borrow.
6 pm


Meeting link removed.


=== Lunch: Thursday June 17th ===
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.
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.




=== CANCELED June Technical Meeting ===
Tim and Tina are both unavailable to run a meeting, and we have no speaker.  Past history suggests low summer attendance anyway.  So in the usual arbitrary and capricious manner, this meeting has been canceled.  Speakers are needed to volunteer for upcoming months.


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


=== Social:  Thursday May 20th ===
Meeting link removed.
Yes, the same day as lunch, hope you're not sick of us yet.  Disc golf at East Park (kitty-corner from RCTC's Heintz Center), 7 pm.  You're welcome even if you don't own your own discs, or if you've never played.  If you don't own your own, you can throw your shoe (entertaining but highly inefficient), or try to let us know in advance to bring a spare for you to borrow.


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


=== Lunch:  Thursday May 20th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.




=== Technical Meeting: Thursday May 13th ===
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 8th, 2026 ===
The featured speakers this month are José de Leon of Winona State University and Bonnie Gabrick, a Winona State University student in Management Information Systems. They will talk about iPhone web development with the rapid web-development framework Ruby on Rails. Bonnie and José worked on a database-backed site in Rails, describing the technology inventory in each classroom at Winona State, and developed a mobile version of the website that exists alongside the default site. Like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, two cool technologies that go great together!
6 pm


Meeting link removed.


=== Social:  Thursday April 22nd ===
KLUG officer elections.
We'll be participating in Rochester's A Litter Bit Better campaign by helping to clean up [http://www.k-lug.org/images/8/8d/LitterBitBetter_2010_AdoptionArea.pdf section 346] of [http://www.rneighbors.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/SE-Final.pdf Bear Creek Park].  6:30 pm start, meet at the south end of the McQuillin Field parking lot, more details can be found [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC25WX0 here].  Bring your own gloves, and anyone interested in geocaching the park can do both at the same time (plan is to get a few FTF options out of there to encourage the geocachers).  Since we're participating in [http://www.rneighbors.org/?p=2688 LBB], the City provides the empty trash bags, picks up the full bags, and covers the disposal costs.


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


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday April 8th ===
Eldon Nelson and Jon Gullixson will speak on online storage, and securing your online storage.<br>
'''When:''' Thursday April 8th - 6pm - 8:30pm<br>
'''Where:'''RCTC Heintz Center HA109 or HA107 depending on construction progress<br>
[http://www.k-lug.org/April_2010_Minutes more information]
=== Lunch:  Thursday March 18th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday March 11th ===
The usual time and close to the usual place - 6 pm in RCTC's Heintz Center near HA107 (room under construction).  Maps and directions are on our [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings Meetings] page.  Jose de Leon will present on "Winona360 and Drupal".
Winona360 (edutech.tlt.winona.edu/winona360) is an online journalism site that was built for the Mass Communications Department of Winona State University. The site was built using the open-source content management system Drupal, and the talk will be more focused upon some working with some of the advanced Drupal features, and what was done with them to make the site work.
'''Slides from Jose's presentation can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/images/b/bc/Drupal_Winona360.pdf here].'''
Also, PCIG elections.
=== Social:  Sunday March 7th ===
On Sunday March 7th in Owatonna, the Owatonna Curling Club will be holding an open house.  This is your opportunity to see live curling, learn about curling and even try curling for free. They're no longer allowing individual small groups to come for free as Tina's taken some of you in the past, so this may be your best option. Don't forget to bring clean tennis shoes. Details can be found on the club website http://owatonnacc.org
=== Alternate social:  Sunday February 21st ===
Celebrate the Chinese New Year by going out for Chinese with your fellow K-LUGgers.  The Chinese New Year is actually on Valentine's Day this year, which I figured was asking for trouble for trying to get enough seats in a restaurant, so we'll go a week late.  6 pm, Hunan at 844 South Broadway near Kmart.  RSVP's are due to Tina by lunchtime on Wednesday February 17th so reservations can be made.
=== Lunch:  Thursday February 18th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday February 11th ===
Chris Abbey on digital photo processing.  Those of you who went on the October social photowalks, send your pictures to Chris in advance or bring them to the meeting.  Culling is the first step, so don't feel like you need to reduce in advance the pictures you took.
Also, PCIG nominations.
=== Social:  Thursday February 4th ===
For a February social there's an IBMer that Tim knows who is a good public speaker, he's doing a Community Ed class on Woodstock.  Details are code 7071.221, Thursday February 4th, 7-8:30 pm, Northrop 319.  You must register with Community Ed to attend, the class fee is $7.
=== Lunch:  Thursday January 21st ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
=== Social:  January 16th ===
Potluck dinner and game night at Tina's.
6 pm dinner - Tina will provide pork based something for the main dish
7 pm games - we'll play whatever you bring
Please RSVP to Tina
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 14 - IBM SameTime 3D - Virtual Collaboration in 3D Meeting Rooms - Demo by Tim Massaro ===
-> '''When:''' Thursday Jan 14th, 6-7:30pm
-> '''Where:'''RCTC Heintz Center
Room HA107 (or HA109)
[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus] <br>
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
SameTime 3D allows users to collaborate via voice, textchat, avatars and various meeting specific tools. Upload a presentation and invite others to join you in a virtual 3D meeting space.
Why use 3D for Meetings?
Meetings are about people getting together to do things - with 3D meetings you see all the others as avatars throughout the meeting.
Social interactions are more natural with avatars. The expressiveness of avatars help co-workers communicate in a natural and personal way that helps them get to know each other - leading to more trust and better collaboration.
Work in 3D. Organize in 3D, build in 3D, present and interact in 3D
We'll also go over topics for future meetings...Need some ideas?  [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list Here are topics] your fellow K-LUGgers have requested.
Also, '''elections''' are coming up please consider volunteering.






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Technical Presentation: Thursday August 13th

Updates on the Med City Makerspace, by Tim Massaro. Tim's slides can be found here.

6 pm

Meeting link removed.



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 July 9th

6 pm

Meeting link removed.



Outdoor Social: Rochesterfest lunch, Thursday June 25th, 11:30 am

Lunch at RochesterFest. We'll be sitting at a picnic table on the far side of the tent from the music, to hopefully lower the decibel level enough to still talk. Gather around our organizer Mark.

Rochesterfest FAQs has some transportation & parking suggestions & miscellaneous information.


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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