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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th ===
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| Paint Shop Pro by Tony Drumm, with PCIG. This is not a truly Linux topic, but given the amount of interest in Robert Nix's GIMP presentation I thought there might be interest in comparing/contrasting. Also,
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| ==== KLUG officer elections ====
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| Please submit your nominations for president, vice president, and treasurer to the email list prior to the day of the election. Self nominations are accepted.
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| === Technical Meeting: Tuesday December 12th === | | === Litter Bit Better outside social, Monday October 5th === |
| The December "technical" meeting (ie gaming) will be held at the standard day and time, Tuesday December 12th, 6 pm. Since things just don't seem to be panning out for gaming at Cinemagic or Chateau (more details will remain below), we're going with the old standby of Lounge51 (formerly Xgames).
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| Location: Lounge51, 115 North Broadway, this is next door to the Senior Center and just south of the railroad tracks. This is NOT the old Xgames location.
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| When: Tuesday December 12th, 6 pm. However they open at 10 am, so you're welcome to start earlier. Also, while Lounge51's posted closing time is 9 pm, if three or more people want to keep playing and they're paying hourly rates, Lounge51 stay open later.
| | 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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| Cost: $5/hour if a non-member. Other options are memberships or day passes.
| | 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]. |
| Snacking options: Pop, sugar, snack foods, basically anything that doesn't actually require a food license for them to sell.
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| Games available (and # of simultaneous players allowed): They have 24 computers. See http://lounge51.com/content/Games.aspx for a 6-12 month old list of games. Many more are now available. As far as licensing, that varies. Some games are available on every computer at once, and for those it's not available all at once it sounds like things are at least improved over Xgames' limitations. Examples I was given on the phone were:
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| -Age of Empires (version not specified), all machines
| | === 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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| -Counter Strike 1.6 - 6
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| -Warcraft III - all machines
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| If there is a particular game you want to know about, I can call to ask. If there's a lot of interest in a particular game they don't currently have enough licenses for AND you are willing to pre-pay, they'd look into getting additional licenses for us.
| | === Outside Social: Thursday September 17th === |
| Besides computer games, they also have a big screen tv, with an Xbox, PS2, PS3, Gamecube, DDR pad, Guitar Hero, and lots of games to go with them.
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| | 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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| I did try to look into other options. For future reference, I dug up the following information on several possibilities:
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| -computer gaming at Lounge 51 (formerly Xgames) with a charge per hour. Open to the public.
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| -Xbox gaming at Cinemagic, $6/half hour/person. At most 4 play at a time, and it sounds like only 1 room would be available. Open to the public.
| | === 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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| -Xbox gaming at Chateau late at night with a per person charge ($25, but good for 6 months and includes other goodies) and at most 4 play at a time per room but multiple rooms would be available. Open to the public. Friday and Saturday nights, 9-11 pm on whiteboards, then 11 pm - 3 am in the theaters.
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| -Xbox gaming at Chateau with a room reservation fee ($35) with at most 4 play at a time
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| -free board and collectable card games at Chateau. Open to the public. Fridays starting at 8 pm.
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| All of these things except the one where we have to commit to paying a room reservation fee are things that are open to the public.
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| | === Outside Social: Thursday August 20th === |
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| === Social: Monday November 27th ===
| | 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]. |
| Outside trail walking. Meet at Panera South by 6:30 pm, dress warm, prepare to walk ~1 hour 20 minutes with socializing and warming beverages at Panera afterwards. Don't be late or you won't catch up with us.
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| === Lunch Meeting: Thursday November 16th ===
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| 11:30 am near the Chinese restaurant in the Galleria. Discussion about December gaming options or desired social activities would be appreciated.
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| === Technical Meeting: Swap Sale Thursday November 9th ===
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| Swap meet!!
| | === Technical Presentation: Thursday August 13th === |
| Buy/Sell/Trade - at this annual event, even the general public can bring computer / gadget related gear to sell or trade, or just come to browse for the bargins. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm. We also plan to have a truck available to recycle old equipment at a price of $0.35 a pound When: Thurs, Nov 9th 6pm
| | 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]. |
| Where: University Center Rochester Heintz Center in room HA108.
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| Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm. Location: RCTC room [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA108] Attendance will include be members of [http://www.pcig.info PCIG], IBM Ham Radio Club, students from RCTC, and the general public.
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| K-LUG Club members, we NEED YOUR HELP! How?
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| -Bring your stuff to sell/swap.
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| -Print and Show this [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/ef/Swapflyer_2006.pdf Sale Flyer] to friends
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| -Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.35/pound).
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| -Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge.
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| -Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5). (Pat S. and Tim M.)
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| -Coordinate the pizza fundraiser, buy pizza and pop plus bring paper plates and disposable cups in quantities sufficient for those who show up. Will be reimbursed out of the profits from the fundraiser (charge is a donation). (Steve F. and Steve S.)
| | === Outside Social: Friday July 24th === |
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| -Making some Ubuntu CDs to give away. (Dave Berg) | | 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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| Volunteers are needed to post to many locations. Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome):
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| -KLUG mailing list and wiki - Tina W.
| | === Virtual Social: Thursday July 9th === |
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| -IBM calendar - Tim M.
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| -PCIG website - Tim M.
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| -Ham radio club - Tim M.
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| -Mayo classifieds - Pat S.
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| -Craigslist - Tim M.
| | === 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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| -Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) - Steve F.
| | [https://www.rochesterfest.com/faq Rochesterfest FAQs] has some transportation & parking suggestions & miscellaneous information. |
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| -UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy - Ren T.
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| -RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy - Tim M. (I've made up something already, go [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/ef/Swapflyer_2006.pdf here] and print)
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| -Wherever else you can think of
| | === Virtual Social: Thursday June 11th === |
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| Please RSVP for what tasks you can help with. If I haven't heard from anyone on a task, I'll have to start pestering people. This has got to be a group effort to be successful.
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| === Mister House 2nd Opportunity: Monday October 30th === | | === Outside Social: Geocaching, Thursday May 21st === |
| A second opportunity for you to see the Mister House presentation! 7 pm, directions are [http://brucewinter.googlepages.com/directionstomyhouse here].
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| === Social: Thursday October 26th ===
| | 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]. |
| 5:30 pm Frisbee golf at East Park. Weather-related cancellation will be announced around noon to email list and wiki if necessary.
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| 6:30 pm Warming beverages and/or dinner at Whistle Binkies. You do not have to play frisbee golf to attend this portion, just meet us there. This will occur whether or not we have to cancel frisbee golf.
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| === Lunch Meeting: Thursday October 19th === | | === Virtual Social: Thursday May 14th === |
| Come one, come all, at 11:30 am to the vicinity of the Chinese resturant in the Galleria food court.
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| === Technical Meeting: Tuesday October 10th ===
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| Mister House - Home automation - road trip to a Rochester home being controlled by computers. We're limited to ~25 participants. If there are closer to 50, we might be able to split and have a second session. Please sign up, in order, below or email Tina to get added. Indicate if you could only attend if it were not the original October 10th date, you'd be at the head of the list if we had a second date.
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| Some details on Mr House: http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/
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| Directions and map to Mister House can be found [http://brucewinter.googlepages.com/directionstomyhouse here].
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday, September 14th ===
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| Open source in Croatia, Croatian government. Guest speaker Vlatko Kosturjak, from Croatia, temporarily in the US. Room will be HA108, our new "permanent" location.
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| Wink has been postponed. [http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Wink] software used for making demos of new products. Records screen sessions and audio.
| | === Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th === |
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| === CANCELLED Social: Saturday September 9th CANCELLED ===
| | 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]. |
| Flatwater canoe trip down the Root River. See the [[SocialMeeting]] page. Please sign up by noon on Thursday.
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| === Social: Wednesday August 23rd ===
| | 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. |
| Frisbee golf, 6:30 pm, East Park. Bring friends, bring frisbees.
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| === Lunch: August 17th ===
| | As usual we are [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBM2PG teaming up with the geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage. |
| 11:30 am at the Galleria, near the Chinese restaurant.
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| === Technical Meeting: Tuesday August 8th ===
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| We currently have no meeting topic. You can come to RCTC's HA104, find a janitor to open the room, and discuss whatever geeky topic crosses your mind. Or you can go to X-Games, although so far nobody has RSVP'd that they're going to be there. And/or, if you have IBM campus privledges, you can attend PCIG's presentation on VMware on Thursday August 10th.
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| === Social: Thursday July 27 === | | === Outdoor Social: Saturday April 25 === |
| Join us for a round of shoe throwing at East Park, 6:30 pm. If people have better equipment to bring/share, we can hopefully upgrade from shoes to golf disks (if you missed the last social and are confused, we're playing frisbee golf). Lightening or hail, stay home. Otherwise we play rain or shine.
| | 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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| === Lunch: July 20 ===
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| Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant. We will be inviting the Mayo open-source-discussion email list participants to attend as well.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday July 13 **Note location change** ===
| | 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. |
| '''Ruby on Rails''' by Jose de Leon. Ruby is an open source scripting language and Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that makes developing web applications easy. Jose will demo an application he has written in Ruby on Rails and will discuss the International Rails Conference (http://railsconf.org/) he recently attended.
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| This is a joint meeting with [http://www.pcig.info PCIG]. Construction continues in the computer lab wing, so this meeting will occur in [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA104].
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| === Gimp Challenge I: due date: July 8 ===
| | 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. |
| 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.
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| If you need an account to the wiki so you can post your picture, please send an email to the list. Include the user name you wish to have. | | 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: Tuesday June 13 **Note location change** ===
| | Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72423514673?pwd=nxbyWzSz7nbG2J2n2KMtfIUFaGVHaz.1 here]. |
| 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].
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| === Social: Tuesday June 6 ===
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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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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday May 11 ===
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| Chris Abbey will present on SSH.
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| | 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. |
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| Robert Nix's presentation on using [http://www.gimp.org Gimp], the image editor.
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| Bob Techentin is giving a tcl/tk presentation. [[Minutes]]
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| Luka Bajzer will be presenting the Ruby programming language. The first part of the presentation will focus on the history and features of the language, where to use it and where not to use it. The second (optional) portion of the presentation will be a more interactive format.
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| === Social Meeting: August 4th ===
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| The third Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Tina Wood and John Steenbergen won the second round. Good luck!
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| === Technical Meeting: July 14th === | | === Older News === |
| | * [[OldNews2025]] |
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| | * [[OldNews2021]] |
| | * [[OldNews2020]] |
| | * [[OldNews2019]] |
| | * [[OldNews2018]] |
| | * [[OldNews2017]] |
| | * [[OldNews2016]] |
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| | * [[OldNews2014]] |
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| This will be a joint PCIG/K-LUG meeting. Gary Rolfs from PCIG will be presenting an introduction to Python programming.
| | === OLD SITE === |
| | | Content from our old website can be accessed [http://k-lug.org/old.site/presentations/ here]. |
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| The meeting minutes that Kevin Neff has been kind enough to take have now been posted.
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| Dennis DeLorme's LCD initialization and operation presentation is now available.
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| === Challenge and Puzzler: Round 2 ===
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| The second Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Tina Wood and Kevin Arhelger won the first round. Good luck!
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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
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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.
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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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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
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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
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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.
Rochesterfest FAQs has some transportation & parking suggestions & miscellaneous information.
Virtual Social: Thursday June 11th
6 pm
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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
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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
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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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