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= K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group =


K-LUG - Linux Users Group.
Note: To request a wiki account, please join the mailing list and post a message.
 
We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings a list of ideas] if you're willing but lacking a topic.




== LUG News ==
== 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 [http://k-lug.org/About contact an officer].
=== Outside Social:  Thursday September 17th ===
Disc golf! This time we're going to Byron.  The [https://udisc.com/courses/byron-links-dgc-421X course] is just south of the Byron west stoplight.  We waited until fall to let the wild parsnip flower heads (reported location of the 2nd half of the course) quit shedding pollen everywhere; but you still don't want to touch the plant.  If the course turns out to still be too unenjoyable, we'll shift a few blocks NW to [https://udisc.com/courses/klingvall-park-kXgO Kingvall Park], and try their disc golf course instead.
6 pm




=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday May 10th ===
==== UCR main campus, East Hall, room 102 ====
Robert Nix (and Pat ___?) on running Linux on a different hardware platform.  They will be showing us zVM, then doing a network install of SuSE.


Our meeting cannot be held at the normal RCTC location, due to asbestos removal closing down the whole building.  We'll be on the UCR main campus, which is south and east of the Heintz Center building.  See [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/getting-to-ucr.html directions to UCR], the [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/buildingmaps.html#ucr general campus building layout], and the [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/easthall.html floor plan of East Hall].
=== Litter Bit Better outside social, Monday October 5th ===
6:00 - 7:30 pm


Fall opportunity to take care of our community by picking up trash and getting some geocaching credit while we're at it.  Bring your own gloves, but no water edge to deal with this time.


=== Planned Lunch: Thursday May 17th ===
As usual, [https://coord.info/GCBXZE7 teaming up with the geocachers]McQuillin Field in SE Rochester, we've got the 7 ball fields and two parking lots, there's a Litter Bit Better map [https://img.geocaching.com/7a2cf0b0-a808-4769-9eda-8efeeb11a235.jpg here].
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food courtLook for geeks sort of near Barnes&Noble.  If the weather is nice, people from downtown may choose to walk together to lunch, it's a 30 minute walk.




=== Planned Social:  May, TBD ===
Suggestions welcome.  Ideas can be new, or selected from the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social Meetings] page.


=== Virtual Technical Presentation: Thursday October 8th ===
Tim Massaro will do a trip report on his attendance at the Bay Area Maker Faire. It's the 20th anniversary of the mother of all Maker Faires originally started by Make Magazine.


=== Planned Technical Meeting:  Tuesday June 12th ===
6 pm
==== Watch for coming location ====
Steve Fox on LEGO Mindstorms NXT


Meeting link here later.




=== OpenSourceHowTo.org:  ===
[[OpenSourceHowTo.org]] OpenSourceHowto.org is a place that users of open source server side software can come and look at instructional guides, how-to's, forums, wiki's and all sorts of other information about setting up software on Linux for both windows and Linux based networks.[http:///www.opensourcehowto.org]


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




=== Old News Items ===
=== Old News Items ===
See the [[OldNews]] page.
See the [[OldNews]] page.
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K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group

Note: To request a wiki account, please join the mailing list and post a message.

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: Thursday September 17th

Disc golf! This time we're going to Byron. The course is just south of the Byron west stoplight. We waited until fall to let the wild parsnip flower heads (reported location of the 2nd half of the course) quit shedding pollen everywhere; but you still don't want to touch the plant. If the course turns out to still be too unenjoyable, we'll shift a few blocks NW to Kingvall Park, and try their disc golf course instead.

6 pm


Litter Bit Better outside social, Monday October 5th

6:00 - 7:30 pm

Fall opportunity to take care of our community by picking up trash and getting some geocaching credit while we're at it. Bring your own gloves, but no water edge to deal with this time.

As usual, teaming up with the geocachers. McQuillin Field in SE Rochester, we've got the 7 ball fields and two parking lots, there's a Litter Bit Better map here.


Virtual Technical Presentation: Thursday October 8th

Tim Massaro will do a trip report on his attendance at the Bay Area Maker Faire. It's the 20th anniversary of the mother of all Maker Faires originally started by Make Magazine.

6 pm

Meeting link here later.


Upcoming Outdoor Socials TBD

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


Old News Items

See the OldNews page.



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