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| === Lunch: Thursday October 15th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a swarm of smartypants.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday October 8th === | | === Litter Bit Better outside social, Monday October 5th === |
| Jean Barmash has volunteered to speak on Grails, and has provded the following description and bio.
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| Grails - High Productivity Web Framework for the Java Platform.
| | 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. |
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| Grails in a high-productivity framework that espouses convention over
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| In this presentation, you will get a brief overview of Groovy's
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| Grails, and its plugin system, and how it can be used to rapidly
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| Jean Barmash is the CTO of EnergyScoreCards, a startup company that
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| the Open Source Enterprise Content Management Company, where his
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| Wall Street Firms. Well-versed in both .NET and Java, he is interested
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| [http://www.k-lug.org/images/c/c0/2009OctKLUG-GroovyGrails.pdf Here are the slides] from Jean's presentation, PDF format.
| | === 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. |
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| === Lunch: Thursday September 17th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a gathering of geeks.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday September 10th === | | === Outside Social: Thursday September 17th === |
| Jon Tollefson will present an intro to iPhone app development.
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| -6 pm | | 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. |
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| Room HA107 or there abouts.
| | === Virtual Technical Presentation: Thursday September 10th === |
| | David Davis on TalkBoard VR — a virtual reality language classroom, and the server behind it. |
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| === Social: Geocaching canoe trip, August 22nd ===
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| The social this month is a canoeing/kayaking geocaching event. Yes, I'm again
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| piggybacking off activities organized by other people. You can paddle,
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| or paddle+geocache, but you can't just geocache. Follow the link for the [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1VKY1 event details.] It's a
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| | === Outside Social: Thursday August 20th === |
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| === Lunch: Thursday August 20th ===
| | 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]. |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday August 13th Demo of Windows 7 ===
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| | === 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]. |
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| Microsoft has Windows 7 Betas available for free download and the product will be delivered in Oct 2009. So we thought it was high time the PC Club condense all the hype down and take a look at what is new. Bill Hanson and Tim Massaro will give an intro to Windows 7 and demo some of the features.
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| === Social: Free comedy show, Wednesday July 29th, 7 pm ===
| | (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) |
| We're going to a free comedy show, it starts at 7 pm in the Peace Plaza. Several other activities going on down there that evening (4:30 pm Music by Royal T, 6:30-8 pm Vikings Cheerleaders, 7 pm Comedians [http://www.bobzany.com Bob Zany], Scott Hansen, and Jeff Gerbino), details on the [http://www.rtautismawareness.org/calendar/2009-07-29.php Autism Awareness website].
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| === Lunch: Thursday July 16th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a gathering of geeks.
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| | === Virtual Social: Thursday July 9th === |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday July 9th Demo of Socialbrowse by Zack Garbo ===
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| Socialbrowse was conceived by co-founders Zachary Garbow and David Fowler as part of Silicon Valley's Y Combinator startup program. Socialbrowse aims to change the “static, individual” experience of browsing the Web into a more social and dynamic one. The first version of the product allows people who use the Firefox browser to install a program that creates a real-time sidebar of links and comments shared by their friends. After recently closing a seed stage round of funding, they will soon be launching an ambitious new version of Socialbrowse that serves as a platform for social browsing applications, which run on any web browser without any installation.
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| Zachary will provide a sneak peek of this new version, currently under development. He'll demonstrate how anyone can develop and deploy custom collaborative applications quickly and easily using the next generation of http://Socialbrowse.com
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| | === 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. |
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| === Lunch: Thursday June 18th ===
| | [https://www.rochesterfest.com/faq Rochesterfest FAQs] has some transportation & parking suggestions & miscellaneous information. |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday June 11th Tour of the Digital and Analog Projection Booth's at Wehrenberg Theaters === | | === Virtual Social: Thursday June 11th === |
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| -> Where:Wehrenberg Theaters Rochester <- Note, not our normal meeting location
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| | === Outside Social: Geocaching, Thursday May 21st === |
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| K-LUG has an "in" at the local Wehrenberg theater and a few members attended an impromptu tour of the projection booth there a few weeks ago. It was so much fun we've decided to offer it for everyone this month as our main meeting topic. Let's meet at 6PM in the "drive-in" feature of the lobby. The tour will take 30mins to an hour. After the tour people can choose to stay and watch a movie or not. We are recommending the group attend the new animated 3D movie Up which is getting great reviews and is rated PG.
| | 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. |
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| Other movies available too...see their website here http://www.wehrenberg.com/theatres.aspx#6
| | 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]. |
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| CHILD Price: $7.50 /ticket
| | === Virtual Social: Thursday May 14th === |
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| SENIOR (over 60) Price: $8.50 /ticket
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| We'd like to let the theater know how many people to expect, so please email Tina if you plan to attend.
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| === Lunch: Thursday May 21st === | | === Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th === |
| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a convocation of geeks.
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| | 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]. |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday May 21st ===
| | 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. |
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| A field trip to see this year's Studio Academy FIRST Robotics League robot, we'll be at Studio Academy for their presentation, 6 pm.
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| === In town social: Thursday May 14th === | | === Outdoor Social: Saturday April 25 === |
| Since we aren't having a technical meeting on our regular night, come socialize with your favorite geeks. We're going to see the new Star Trek movie! Exact time, theater, and screen size yet TBD.
| | In celebration of [https://nationalkitemonth.org/ National Kite Month], bring your kites and come join us as we try to fly them. |
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| === In Town Social: Wednesday April 22nd, 2009 ===
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| 6:30 pm at Quarry Hill, park and roadside cleanup. We have areas #127 and #140 on [http://rneighbors.org/files/NEFinal.pdf this map]. I'm coordinating us with another group of people that tends to overlap, so all of the details can be found [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gc1ptcf here]. Bring your own gloves; bags and disposal will be provided because we're doing this as part of Rochester's [http://rneighbors.org/about_litter_bit_better Litter Bit Better] campaign. Headcounts to Tina would be appreciated.
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| === Lunch: Thursday April 16th, 2009 ===
| | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday April 9th, 2009 ===
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| Mike Bleimeyer, aircrack-ng and Kismet demonstration. Usual place and time, 6 pm at [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html RCTC's Heintz Center] room [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA107].
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| | === Virtual Social: Thursday April 9th === |
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| === Out of town Social: Saturday April 4th, 8 am, 2009 ===
| | Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72423514673?pwd=nxbyWzSz7nbG2J2n2KMtfIUFaGVHaz.1 here]. |
| A field trip to the Cities to watch the FIRST Robotics League [http://www.mnfirstregional.org/index.html Regional competition]. Carpools will depart at 8 am, see the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social page] for more details and to sign up. More info from the [http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:9t_nLgzGhXkJ:www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp%3Fz%3D22%26a%3D386152 PB].
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| === Games mailing list ===
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| We've started a new mailing list for people who are interested in (non-video) gaming. Currently we've been playing Munchkin and RoboRally. See the [http://lists.k-lug.org/mailman/listinfo/games link] in the site navigation menu to join the mailing list if you're interested in joining us.
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| | === 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. |
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| === Want a K-Lug Shirt? ===
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| Our first batch of shirts came out rather nice, especially for the price. We have folk who didn't get in on the first order. Please [http://www.queensboro.com/closeouts browse the deals here], and contact Tim if interested. (We need a minimum order of 4)
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| === Lunch: Thursday March 19th, 2009 === | | === Virtual Social: Thursday March 12th === |
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| === Social: Tuesday March 17th, 2009 ===
| | 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. |
| We're celebrating Irish Heritage Day with potatoes, specifically potato guns! We'll also be constructing a Rube Goldberg device (including things like diet Coke and Mentos). People need to bring a contribution to make this social a success, more details and sign ups on the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social page].
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday March 12th, 2009 ===
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| Mo Holahan will present Processing an Image Processing Programming language and development environment.
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| '''Details on the Processing Presentation'''
| | === Virtual Social: Thursday February 12th, 2026 === |
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| === Lunch: Thursday February 19th, 2009 === | | === Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 8th, 2026 === |
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| === Social: February 13th, 2009 6:30 pm ===
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| Make DVD episodes 1-4 will be shown at Tim M's house. Also available for viewing will be the Hackers R Peeps 2 video Kevin A brought us back from DefCon, and gaming for those who prefer it. Directions [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=116951360347447065495.00043977759b79d1e4f44&t=h&z=12 here]. It'd be nice if some people brought snacks/beverages to contribute. If you have allergies, beware they do have pets.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday February 12th, 2009 ===
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| Dennis DeLorme will present on [http://www.arduino.cc/ Arduino]. The usual place: RCTC's [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Heintz Center] , [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Room HA107] , and time (6 pm).
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| Arduino is an open source hardware and software project designed to make microcontrollers easy to use. It is based on the Atmel ATmega168, consisting of a defined hardware implementation with several form factors for different applications. The software development system is based on a C subset with predefined functions to take advantage of the hardware features. The intent is to provide an easy to use system for people to use in their creative endeavors - rather than worrying about low level details. See the http://www.arduino.cc homepage for more information.
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| === Social: Saturday January 17th, 2009 ===
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| You are invited to a gaming afternoon and potluck dinner at Tina's on Saturday January 17th. 2 pm gaming, with dinner at approximately 6 pm, feel free to join us for either or both. We'll play some [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchkin_(card_game) Munchkin Bites], and have a garlic-laden dinner. RSVP.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday January 15th, 2009 Hardcore computers ===
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| Daren Klum, president of Rochester based, Hardcore Computers will demonstrate their "Reactor" liquid cooled personal computers (that's right, think Cray 2)<br>
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| Every computer you've ever used has been limited by heat—until now. First-of-its-kind submersion technology allows for the maximum, most reliable and most sustainable component over-clocking. Submersion cooling provides benefits such as maximum performance, a superior gaming experience and extended service life
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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 removed.
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
Virtual Technical Presentation: Thursday September 10th
David Davis on TalkBoard VR — a virtual reality language classroom, and the server behind it.
6 pm
Meeting link removed.
Outside Social: Thursday August 20th
Disc golf! Meet outside the RCTC field house, 6 pm. Here is a map.
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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