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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 [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings a list of ideas] if you're willing but lacking a topic.




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


=== Social:  Friday June 16 ===
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].
Frisbee golf, East Park, 6 pm.  Bring your frisbee golf disc if you have one, a frisbee if you don't.  Bring extras in case someone has neither.  [http://www.ci.rochester.mn.us/departments/park/parks/pdf/main-all-web.pdf Location: #18, grid H7]  Course starts near the horseshoe pit.
 
 
 
 
 
=== 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
 
 
 
=== 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.


=== Gimp Challenge 1 ===
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].
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.  


=== Lunch: June 15 ===


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


=== Technical Meeting: Tuesday June 13 **Note location change** ===
=== Virtual Technical Presentation: Thursday October 8th ===
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].
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.


=== Social:  Tuesday June 6 ===
6 pm
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 ===
Meeting link here later.


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


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


=== Technical Meeting: Tuesday April 11 ===
=== Old News Items ===
Dennis DeLoreme on his !Supercomputer Cluster.
See the [[OldNews]] page.


=== 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.


=== Links from Old News Items ===
MediaWiki help [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Text_color 1] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_color_formatting_help 2]
[http://www.pcig.info the PC Interest Group's] | [[UCR Heinz Center, Room HB117b]]
| [[ForSaleorWanted]] | [[OldNews]]

Latest revision as of 04:09, 17 September 2026


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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