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=== Lunch: Thursday June 18th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a convocation of geeks.




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


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday June 11th Tour of the Digital and Analog Projection Booth's at Wehrenberg Theaters ===
Meeting link (removed)
-> When: Thursday June 11th


-> 6pm - 7pm
Agenda
-Sharing your new tech discoveries
-Socializing
-Choosing a December board game night (Friday December 6th, Friday December 13th, Saturday December 14th)


-> Where:Wehrenberg Theaters Rochester <- Note, not our normal meeting location
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


Also, thank you for your efforts at our fall trash cleanup.  The Public Works Department gave these summary measures of the city-wide efforts:  "Over 620 pounds of litter was collected by A Litter Bit Better volunteers during the fall event. An estimated 1.179 volunteers picked up 64 sites that covered many locations around Rochester."  This was 12 loads of trash, removed from our environment!




=== Virtual Social: Thursday October 10th ===
6 pm


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.  
Yes, timing worked out that you'll see us twice in the same week.


Other movies available too...see their website here http://www.wehrenberg.com/theatres.aspx#6
Meeting link removed.


Prices are as follows. ADULT Price: $10.50 /ticket
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


CHILD Price: $7.50 /ticket


SENIOR (over 60) Price: $8.50 /ticket
=== Potential October outdoor social - 18 holes of mini golf ===
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/new-18-hole-mini-golf-course-coming-to-rochester
https://krocnews.com/rochester-mns-largest-mini-golf-course-is-about-to-open/


We'd like to let the theater know how many people to expect, so please email Tina if you plan to attend.


Thanks!
=== Socials brainstorming: Fall or winter ===
-Murder mystery.  The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started.


=== Lunch:  Thursday May 21st ===
-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.  Look for a convocation of geeks.


-Bowlocity laser tag.  5-6 people minimum needed.


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday May 21st ===
-Liquid nitrogen ice cream. This needs a non-Tina organizer.  Dennis DeLorme has 2 recipes.  We need safety equipment and someone trained enough to keep us from freezing ourselves.
''' NOTE DATE AND LOCATION CHANGE '''<br>
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.


[[Image:IMG_0046.jpg]]


Studio Academy is located at
=== Pending potential presentations  ===
415 16th St SW, Rochester, MN 55902
Our meeting and demo will be in the auditorium.


=== In town social:  Thursday May 14th ===
Jon Gullixson:  gnucash or www :: Mechanize
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 Town Social:  Wednesday April 22nd, 2009 ===
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.


=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Monday October 7th ===
6:15 - 7:30 pm


=== Lunch: Thursday April 16th, 2009 ===
This is the first time Rochester is running a fall edition of Litter Bit Better, so we're going to go clean up a second time this year. Pine Ridge Estates Park, which you may recognize as where we have previously ice cream picnicked, and flown kites.  [https://www.google.com/maps?q=N+43%C2%B0+59.280+W+092%C2%B0+29.070+(GCAYC0F)+ Map]
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. I hope we're not like crows, a murder of geeks doesn't sound very good.


Bags provided.  You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty.  No shoreline, yes woods (mowed park + woods = 5.1 acres), and you might want a headlamp.


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday April 9th, 2009 ===
As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCAYC0F_15-andahalf-cito-and-rochesters-litter-bit-better geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.
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].




=== Out of town Social: Saturday April 4th, 8 am, 2009 ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday September 12th ===
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].
6 pm


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


=== Games mailing list ===
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.




=== Want a K-Lug Shirt? ===
=== Outside Social:  Thursday September 5th ===
[[Image:Klugpatchsm.png]]
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)
We can now order screen printed tees from this company as well


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].


=== Lunch:  Thursday March 19th, 2009 ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.  Look for a convocation of geeks.


=== Outside Social:  Friday August 30th ===


=== Social:  Tuesday March 17th, 2009 ===
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].
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].




=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday March 12th, 2009 ===
Mo Holahan will present Processing an Image Processing Programming language and development environment. 
Location: 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).


'''Details on the Processing Presentation'''
=== Virtual Social: Thursday August 8th ===
6 pm


http://processing.org/
Meeting link removed.


Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is also used in connection with Arduino (which was the subject of our Feb meeting)
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


We'll also be celebrating Pi day a little early.


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


=== Lunch:  Thursday February 19th, 2009 ===
Meeting link removed.
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.  Look for a gaggle of gregarious geeks.


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


=== Social:  February 13th, 2009 6:30 pm ===
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.




=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday February 12th, 2009 ===
=== Outdoor Social:  Thursday June 27th, 11:45 am ===
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).
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.


'''Details on the Arduino Presentation'''
Food trailers are supposed to be open by noon, 11:45 am will give us a little better chance at getting parking.


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.


Dennis DeLorme spent the majority of his career working on data base and file system implementation on the S/38, AS/400, and iSeries. Most recently he has been involved with the Roadrunner and Blue Gene supercomputing systems. For relaxation he enjoys the simplicity of working with microcontrollers. He has implemented a variety of projects using processors from Intel, Motorola, Microchip and now the Atmel AVR based Arduino.
=== Virtual Social: Thursday June 13th ===
6 pm


[[Image:Boarduino.jpg|300px]]
Meeting link removed


Also on the agenda will be a mini-presentation by Jon Tollefson on syncing Google Calendar (where we've got Linux and social activities posted), which was originally scheduled for January but delayed due to a full agenda.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


PCIG nominations


=== Virtual Social: Thursday May 9th ===
6 pm


Meeting link removed


=== Social:  Saturday January 17th, 2009 ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
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.




=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 15th, 2009 Hardcore computers ===
==== NOTE DATE CHANGE ====
[[Image:Hardcore.jpg]]


Daren Klum, president of Rochester based, Hardcore Computers will demonstrate their "Reactor" liquid cooled personal computers (that's right, think Cray 2)<br>
=== Geocaching in-person social (outside), Friday May 3rd ===
6 pm


An intro to the Reactor:
Park and walk in a neighborhood in NE Rochester.
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
<br>


Park near [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3WQ84 1 - Odin] on Whiting Lane NE's cul de sac.  We'll walk from there to a couple of other geocaches ([https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC57FGC 2], [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4RPZ2 3]), then back to #1, and then decide if we're walking or driving to [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC8M3FP 4].


Mini-presentation by Ben Joslin and some students from Studio Academy on the FIRST Robotics League, in hopes of recruiting some of us as volunteers and mentors.  They'll show the video of the 2009 game, show what parts they have to work with and what they have built so far.<br>




Mini-presentation by Jon Tollefson on syncing Google Calendar (where we've got Linux and social activities posted).  (held over until a future meeting due to a full agenda)


=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 30th ===
6:15 - 7:30 pm


Also, '''elections'''
Back to our usual Cascade Lake Park.
<br>


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] , 6 pm.
Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is shoreline.
<br>


As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCAMJX2 geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.


=== Lunch:  Thursday January 15th, 2009 ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.  Just for Steve F we'll sit right near the main door and hope it's -20 ;)  (It ended up being wind chills of -50 below that day, just in case anyone was curious)




=== Lunch: Thursday December 18th, 2008 ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday April 11th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
Come hang out virtually with your favorite geeks, and share what you've been up to or found interesting.


6 pm


Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74567357951?pwd=nQjQHcz7eKjaZ5YaHS2UGrat5UVUCv.1 here].


=== December "Technical Meeting" aka Game Night & End of Year Party:  Thursday December 11th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
Our annual December gaming night out.<br>
Location: [http://www.pwnedgamecenter.com Pwned]<br> 
212 N Broadway (near Nelson Cheese).  <br>
Cost: $5 for 3 Hrs (extra time can be used later) or $10 for 6-midnight. <br>
9 xbox 360s and 9 gaming pcs <br>
Not into computer games? They have tables available and open space, so some people can just play board games if they like, bring your favorites.  Also, plan to buy your beverages there, but volunteers to bring snacks would be appreciated.<br>
http://www.pwedgamecenter.com 507-206-4747


[[Image:Pwned_logo.jpg]]




=== Virtual Technical Meeting: To be rescheduled ===
Acu Dorin will present on opensource AI software and an effort he and some other folks have made to create a private version of a chatGPT like AI interface


=== Social:  Monday November 24th, 2008 ===
6:30 pm, walking off some of that extra holiday sluggishness.  Meet at Panera South (next to Hy-Vee.  The walk is ~1.25 hours, along the Zumbro River walking/biking trail.  Bring boots if it's snowed.  We walk rain/snow/shine, the only weather cancelation would be if it was hailing or lightening.




=== Lunch:  Thursday November 20th, 2008 ===
=== Outside Social:  Friday March 22nd, 6 pm ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.  Tina won't be present, you'll need to find some other "landmark" to home in on.


Geocaching!  The March equinox is an excuse to [https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2024/03/celebrating-the-march-equinox/ find 3 geocaches during the week of the equinox].  If you've never geocached before, this is a great time to join us.  Wear your hiking shoes, long sturdy pants, and otherwise dress for the weather.


===  Get Ready, It's our Annual Swap/Sale: Thursday November 13th ===
We will chase 3 multi-caches that start to the east and north of St Marys Hospital
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6G6R5
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XDH0
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XEQV


<b>New this year, Vintage PC, Video Game & Electronics Show! - Prizes awarded for crowd favorites</b>
If we have any DNF's, first choice replacement will be:
Set up at 6 pm<br>
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC56K4K
Sale/swap starts at 6:30 pm<br>
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/getting-to-ucr.html RCTC main campus], [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/buildingmaps.html East Hall], [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/easthall2.html Room 244 (2nd floor)] <br>
Come if you want to Sell Stuff! <br>
Come if you want to show off Stuff! (prizes awarded for crowd favorites)<br>
Come if you want to Buy Stuff! (K-Lug Tee shirts available too)<br>
Come if you want to eat Stuff! (Pizza and Pop available for a donation)<br>


We need volunteers for creating advertising, putting up signs, running the recycling station, and of course everyone should bring their stuff to sell/swap.  <br>
I skimmed through the logs, and none of our regulars seem to have found these, so hopefully everyone will qualify for the achievement.
We'll make use of volunteer labor and/or elevators to help get everything up to the second floor, no worries.


Parking:
There is a limited quantity of 2 hour parking in St. Marys Park proper.  However, the neighborhood parking permit restriction opens back up starting at 5:30, so by starting at 6 pm you should be able to park on the street (and not be competing with employees for spots) for the duration of our explorations.


<b>Job list - volunteers needed!</b><br>
-Bring your stuff to sell/swap.  Everyone.<br>
In previous years some of the folks higher priced stuff or a lot of stuff have pre-announced their "list of goodies" on the news group or our wiki...that might bring out more customers.


-Bring your stuff to show off in the Vintage Electronics show, and a “hat” if you want to submit an item for viewers choice award. Everyone
=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday March 14th ===
Speaker cancelled due to illness, will reschedule.


-Come up with a Vintage Electronics viewers choice award, be in charge of distributing 1 ticket per customer, tally and award at end of night. Eldon N (and Joel K?)
Tim Massaro will come to our rescue, and will present on his Partyrock/Blackrock hackathon project, as well as brainstorming some future socials.


-Create an advertising [http://www.k-lug.org/images/9/9b/Swapflyer_2008.pdf Sale Flyer (pdf)] that all the people responsible for posting can download and print.  Include who, when, where, and what (sale, swap, recycling, vintage, pizza, free CDs).  Steve S
6 pm


-Print and show [http://www.k-lug.org/images/9/9b/Swapflyer_2008.pdf this Sale Flyer] to friends.  Everyone.  
Meeting link removed.


-Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.10 per pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar for ease of making change).  Everyone.  
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


-Help others bring their stuff up to the room, down to their cars, via stairs or elevator.  Tina W, Aaron A., _____________


-Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge.  Steve S


-Man the recycling area, do the weighing, cost figuring, and providing of change. Steve S
=== Outside Social: Saturday February 24th ===


-Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5).  Brent V
It's supposed to be dry all week, there's no snow to fight with, the disc golf holes are present, and Saturday's forecast is for sunshine and a high of 46.  So let's play disc golf!


-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). Pizza supply list, for future reference: pizza (4 this year), pop (4 2L this year), paper plates, napkins, plastic cups, ice. We had ~1/2 a pizza and ~2L worth of pop left over, but we broke even on the donations, so we're good. The "fancier" pizza flavors were the faster movers, such as supreme went much faster than cheese. And root beer and Mt Dew went much faster than Sprite. Set up a sign indicating that the pizza and pop are in this part of the room, that's it's for donation. Also label a cup as the donation collection container.   Jose' dL
Meet outside the RCTC field house, 2 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].


-Making some (Ubuntu?) CDs to give away.  Jon T (5)


-Get a location (done) - Tina W
=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th ===
Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics.


-Posting. Volunteers are needed to [http://www.k-lug.org/images/9/9b/Swapflyer_2008.pdf post] to many locations. Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome): <br>
6 pm
-KLUG mailing list and wiki (done) - Tina W<br>
-IBM calendar - Tim M<br>
-IBM Beehive- Tim M<br>
-Ham Radio Club  _____________<br>
-PCIG Website - Tim M<br>
-Mayo classifieds  _____________<br>
-Craigslist, Think Bank  _____________<br>
-Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) - (this probably won't get done due to posting requirements)  _____________<br>
-UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy  _____________<br>
-RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy, bring your own push pins  _____________<br>
-IBM Building 107 - post hard copy  Steve S<br>
-IBM White Building(664) - post hard copy Steve S<br>
-Other IBM buildings - post hard copy  _____________<br>
-Venture Computer - send email of flyer, request posting  Steve S<br>
-NorLug?  Tim M<br>
-Area 51?  _____________<br>
-Computer Liquidator on 2nd street?  _____________<br>
-p0wned?  _____________<br>
-Other places/ways to advertise? Public access? Would we qualify for free advertising on the radio, newspaper, etc?<br>
-Wherever else you can think of.  _____________<br>


-Create illegal wayfinding “Tonight!” signs for posting at UCR on the evening of. ("Tonight!" with arrows in appropriate directions, highlighting of what the event is and the room number, advertise the free linux CDs on our signs, etc) ________________
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


-Arrive at UCR at 5:45 pm, post illegal wayfinding signs on all entry doors, nearby directional corners, and on the room door. Bring masking tape. Also responsible for taking down at the end of the night. Find a door stop so we can prop the room door open. The masking tape and a pen are also useful for posting a sign above the pizza/pop, saying it's available for donation. And for putting a label on a cup as being the donation collection container.  _____________


-Arrive at UCR before 6 pm, write welcome message on the chalk board, also list upcoming KLUG events and dates, K-LUG website address  _____________
=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th, 2024 ===
Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics.


-People could list what they haven't sold and haven't tossed, post-swap.  http://www.k-lug.org/ForSaleorWanted .  _____________
6 pm


-After it seemed like everyone was there and set up (~6:30-6:45 pm), we went around the room and let each seller advertise their highlights and freebies. Let buyers have a chance to ask if anyone had something in particular that hadn't been mentioned.  Advertised the recycling, and the food.
And KLUG officer elections.


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


=== Planned Social:  October TBD, 2008 ===
Election judge experiences.  Election judges needed.  Will be held at a date and time convenient to the election judge(s), probably at a place that serves dinner and adult beverages.  Have a preference?  Tell Tina.




=== Social: Sunday October 12th, 2008, 1 pm ===
Wander the corn maze at [http://www.northwoodsorchard.com/ Northwoods Orchard], just outside of Douglas. $5 for the adults and "older" kids for the larger corn maze, $3.25 for "younger" kids in the little corn maze (1 adult can follow the kid around for free), and coming back from the adult corn maze you can often grab a short tractor ride for free ($1 for the full farm tour). You can also purchase apples, gourds, pumpkins, etc, if you needed some fall supplies, and there's a small animal farm to entertain the kids with too. Yes, bring your friends and family. The kids maze takes ~15 minutes, the adults maze ~1 hour.




=== Technical Meeting: Thursday October 9th, 2008 === 
==== Note switch to regular 2nd Thursday nights ==== 
Brent Vrieze on the Asterisk phone system. Bring a laptop if you want to connect with a softphone to the Asterisk server (if wired, bring own cable). 
   
Description: Free telephone system for your home or office. Asterisk is an open source PBX telephony solution. The presentation will consist of some simple background into telephony explaining some terms. From there I will show the set up files (.conf) and how to add users and program a simple dial plan also showing the Asterisk GUI. Then I will crank up an Asterisk server and we will connect some soft and hard phones to it and see if we can make some phone calls so bring your laptop. If time permits there is a ready to go ISO installer called Trixbox that makes setting up Asterisk extremely easy with a nice web based GUI.
The usual place and time: RCTC's [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Heintz Center] , [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Room HA107] , 6 pm.
A copy of Brent's slides can be found at the [http://www.pcig.info/uploads/Reviews/Asterisk%20Presentation.ppt PCIG website].
Other agenda items will include:
-October socials: Inside - election judges. Outside - corn maze. <br>
-Possible mini-presentation by Robert Bleimeyer on the need for FIRST Robotics League mentors for the 2008-2009 school year.<br>
-Lunch<br>
-Google calendar<br>
-Hardware project update<br>
-November swap meet and vintage electronics show<br>
-December game night<br>
-January technical meeting - speaker, elections<br>
If there's something that you think should be on this month's agenda and you don't see it here, please email Tina.
=== Social:  Saturday September 27th, 2008 ===
Canoeing/kayaking and geocaching event happening on the Cannon River, from Cannon Falls to the Miesville Ravine landing, approximately 6.5 miles of paddling and geocaching.  All of the details are on their [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1FK43 webpage].<br>
Anyone wishing to carpool should be at the Walmart North parking lot (near Gander Mountain, same place as for the Science Museum carpooling) at 8:45 am.  Friends and family are welcome.  If you have a geocaching.com account, please log your own attendance and dish to share.  If you don't, tell Tina and she'll post for you.
=== Lunch:  Thursday September 18th, 2008 ===
'''Note location change''' <br>
11:30 am, '''Buffalo Wild Wings'''<br>
At the September technical meeting the desire to vary our lunch location was again expressed.  To that end, we will road trip this month to a destination that is friendly for a variable number of attendees.  Because there are not a wide variety of selections (ie a food court), we're not considering this for a full time destination change.  For those coming from downtown, it is on the bus route.  The 12D departs downtown at 11:15 and arrives at Walmart North at 11:35 am.  Or if you're running late, the 12D also leaves downtown at 11:35, arriving at 11:55.  Returning to downtown can be accomplished on the 12:20 (12:45) or 12:40 (1:00 pm) buses.  Not being familiar with the layout of BWW or where the IBM crew usually sits, if anyone wants to attend who is not familiar with our members by face, please speak up and we'll try to make ourselves easier to spot.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday September 11th, 2008 ===
Tim Massaro will give us a demo of Flock.  Stolen from the PCIG newsletter:  "Flock is a Firefox based webbrowser, customized specifically for social networking users. Flock makes it easy to share videos and URLS. Tim Massaro will show you how to keep up with your Facebook friends and more using Flock."
Also, Steve Fox will talk about a new hardware project for a future meeting or social activity.  The project turns a normal keyboard into an illuminated keyboard. For video preview, see Illuminate Your Keyboard Hack on the Reddit website http://www.reddit.com/r/KLUG/
The usual place and time:  RCTC's [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Heintz Center] , [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Room HA107] , 6 pm.
=== Lunch:  Thursday August 21st, 2008 ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N
=== Social:  Potluck picnic, Thursday August 14, 2008===
The picnic will be held at 6PM at the park near Steve Fox's house and Jon Tollefson's house (same place we had the picnic last July).
See the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social Meetings] page for directions and a sign-up form.
=== Technical Meeting:  Tuesday August 12th, 2008 ===
Kevin Arhelger will give us a report on his trip to [https://www.defcon.org/ Defcon 16].  The usual place and time:  RCTC's [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Heintz Center] , [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Room HA107] , 6 pm.
=== Lunch:  Thursday July 17th, 2008 ===
11:30 am.  Location options are up for discussion.  Please contribute to the discussion on the email list.
=== Social:  Friday July 11th, 2008 ===
Star Wars at the Science Museum!  Half or full day trip, departing at 8 am or 1 pm.  See the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social] page for details, how to purchase your tickets (recommended to purchase in advance) and to sign up for carpooling.  Some of us would like to make a full day of it, what else would you like to do while we're up there?
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday July 10th, 2008, Wacom Bamboo Tablet===
'''When:''' Thursday, July 10th, 7:30pm  '''Note special start time'''  If you show up at the normal 6 pm start time, just wander across the road to [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 East Park] to play frisbee golf with us.
'''Where:''' RCTC [[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html|Heinz Center]]. Room HA107. See this [[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html|building map]]
You've seen the Wacom drivers every time you boot or install Linux, come see what that device is about in person. Jon Tollefson will demonstrate the entry level drawing tablet from http://Wacom.com/bamboo called Bamboo (running on Linux even).
Express yourself more clearly when preparing slide presentations, sketching out new ideas and editing documents. Bamboo gives you intuitive pen-point precision when working with Mac, PC or Linux.
=== Lunch:  Thursday June 19th, 2008 ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near the B&N.
=== Technical Meeting:  Tuesday June 10th, 2008 ===
Intro to reddit.com and social bookmarking in general, and the [http://reddit.com/r/KLUG/ KLUG reddits] in particular, by Eldon Nelson.  6 pm in RCTC's Heintz Center room HA107, see [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings here].  Jointly with PCIG.
Do you have hundreds of bookmarks in your webbrowser?  Are those bookmarks unreachable, impossible to organize, and scroll beyond your screen?  Do you wish that your bookmarks would travel with you - regardless of what computer you are using.  Or, do you want to find uniquely entertaining articles and ideas that will expand your knowledge?  Social Bookmarking is for you!
Social Bookmarking has exploded in the past few years with a variety of services that each cater to different needs of their users.  This presentation will introduce you to three popular, and very different, social bookmarking sites "reddit.com", "digg.com", and "del.icio.us".  You will learn what you can do at each free service and how to apply it to your own internet use.  The community surrounding these services and plugins for your webbrowser to make them more accessible will be covered.
=== Social:  Tuesday June 3rd, 2008 ===
Frisbee golf at [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 East Park], 6:30 pm.  Bring your discs or bring your shoes.  And don't forget to bring some compact, heavy object for helping you remove that disc from the trees after a poor throw.
=== Lunch:  Thursday May 15th, 2008 ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday May 8th, 2008 ===
For May, we visit Rochester's Studio Academy School and visit their FIRST league robot. The Rochester Public School Robot Team will demo as well.  This will be a field trip, meet at Studio Academy, and we're currently planning on providing pizza and pop for a donation or fixed fee (e.g. $1/slice), so RSVPs will be requested - email Steve Fox or write on the wiki [http://www.k-lug.org/RSVP here].
Studio Academy is the former First Baptist Church, here is a [[http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=415+16th+St+SW,+Rochester,+MN+55902,+USA&ll=44.000054,-92.468448&spn=0.012533,0.026951&z=16&iwloc=addr |map to the location]]
Here is a peek at their machine, and a look at the competition:
[[Image:Team2488Robot.jpg|350px]]
=== Social:  Sunday May 4th, 2008 ===
Frisbee golf, 1:30 pm at Bear Cave Park, Stewartville.  If you're late because of church, etc, feel free to arrive when you can.  Anyone interested in spending more time outside is welcome to join Tina for some [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/gmnearest.aspx?lat=43.86061&lon=-92.50025 geocaching] afterwards.
Directions to Bear Cave Park:  Take Hwy 63 south to Stewartville.  Turn right (west) onto 10th Street NW, this is the 2nd possible right after the I-90 interchange.  The park will be on your left (south), find some place to [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Bear+Cave+Park,+Stewartville,+MN&ie=UTF8&ll=43.860525,-92.500505&spn=0.029953,0.048494&z=14&iwloc=addr park] - in March we parked at the snow dumping ground on the west end of the park.  If you get to 11th Ave NW, you've gone too far.
=== Social: Friday April 18th, 2008 ===
Arcade and video games at Mike Migliacio's and Lisa Walkosz's.<br>
6-10 pm <br>
See the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social page] for details.
=== Lunch:  Thursday April 17th, 2008 ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court near Barnes & Nobel.
=== Technical Meeting:  Tuesday April 8th, 2008 ===
OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project will be presented on by Jose' de Leon. [http://laptop.org/ OLPC website] and [http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/explore.php pictures].<br>
HA 107, 6 pm.  [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to the Heintz Center] building and [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA107] in particular.<br>
=== Sat Apr  5 23:26:02 EDT 2008 - derek ===
The main K-LUG webserver, miskatonic, has been upgraded to [http://www.freebsd.org FreeBSD] 7.0.
Please hop on IRC if you notice any problems. - derek
=== Lunch:  Thursday March 20th, 2008 ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, sort of near the Barnes & Noble
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday March 13th, 2008 ===
Tim Massaro and Jon Tollefson on building a home arcade.<br>
This session is based on the book Project Arcade by John St. Clair.
We'll discuss what is involved in building a computer based video arcade
machine
More details on the book can be found here<br>
http://www.projectarcade.com/about.html<br>
6 pm, HA107.  Jointly with PCIG.
[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Need directions?]. [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html This map] may help you find the specific room.
A review of the book is available [http://www.k-lug.org/ProjectArcade here], while slides from this presentation are available [http://www.pcig.info/uploads/Reviews/pcigarcade.pdf here].
=== Social:  Saturday March 1st, 2008 ===
1-4 pm<br>
Winter geocaching in Bear Cave Park, Stewartville<br>
Many more details, including what you need to bring, directions, exact caches (for those of you with www.geocaching.com accounts), sign-up, etc, are at the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social Meeting] page.
=== Lunch:  Thursday February 21st, 2008 ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, sort of near the Barnes & Noble
=== Social:  Sunday February 17th, 2008 ===
Ice skating at the Rec Center, North rink<br>
6-9 pm<br>
See the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social Meeting] page for more details.<br>
=== Technical Meeting:  Tuesday February 12th, 2008 ===
Bob Nix on cloning Linux images on a mainframe.  Heintz Center HA 107, 6 pm.  Many other agenda items for discussion as well, including:<br>
-The search for March and April presenters<br>
-Frequency of technical meetings<br>
-Reward future presenters?<br>
-Food and drink provided by volunteers?<br>
-Passing the hat for donations at each (technical?) meeting?<br>
-Helping IEEE with a presentation - Steve Fox + Eldon, any others?  Input?<br>
-Possibility of moving the location of future lunches<br>
-Upcoming socials<br>
-Use social networking for communication? For example...share interesting links with the group via Del.icio.us ...Norlug does this by posting links to:<br>
http://del.icio.us/tag/norlug<br>
Then automatically posts results to website, keeping it more dynamic.<br>
-Other items you wish to discuss?<br>
=== Social:  Saturday February 2nd, 2008 ===
1-3 pm<br>
Intro to curling, Owatonna<br>
See the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social Meeting] page.  There need to be at least 3 people besides Tina signed up by Thursday January 31st, otherwise we'll cancel due to lack of interest.
=== Lunch:  Thursday January 17th, 2008 ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, sort of near the Barnes & Noble
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 10th, 2008, 6pm ===
We have a meeting room!  RCTC Heintz Center, room HA107<br>
Topic: Freemind - Mind Mapping Software - Mo Holahan
Our January meeting will feature "mind mapping" software and a product called Freemind. Freemind is especially good at "fast" brainstorming, with graphical forking or branching to new ideas. With Freemind it's easy to move information around and re-associate it, assign attributes, etc. There is a linux version available and there are several other "brands" of mind mapping software. Mo Holahan will be doing this demo for us.
Also on the agenda: <br>
-KLUG officer elections<br>
-Planning the January social<br>
-Planning the February social?
=== "Technical" Meeting:  Thursday December 13th, 2007 ===
6 pm.  DDR/Wii/other game systems, plus board/card games.  You bring it, we'll play it.  Held at Brian's house, 948 Byron Ave N in Byron.  He says the Mapquest directions will get you there, but it's easier to follow these:<br>
1. Head West on Highway 14 towards Byron  -  go 8 miles(approx) to 2nd Ave NW/County Road 5(Kwik Trip/2nd stop light) <br>
2. Take right on 2nd Ave NW(Kwik Trip/2nd stop light)  -  go 9 blocks to 9th Street NW<br>
3. Take right on 9th Street    -  go 2 blocks to Byron Ave N<br>
4. Take left on Byron Ave N  -  at the very end on Byron Ave N cul-de-sac is my house a split entry with attached garage<br>
Jointly with PCIG.  So that others can see what may be available and Brian knows how many the descending hoard will contain (and therefore need seating), please sign up below.
{| border="1" cellpadding="5"
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| '''Name''' || '''# of self/family/friends''' || '''game system bringing''' || '''game system games bringing''' || '''board/card games bringing''' || '''food/beverage you will bring''' || '''what you really wish someone else would bring'''
|-
| Tina || 1 || NA || NA || Munchkin || pumpernickel bread & spinach dip || Anything
|-
| Tim M || 1 || PS3 (need tv) ||  Madden/MotorStorm || NA || Pop || Bomberman
|-
| Mike Nelson || 1 || NA ||  NA || NA || RoboRally ||
|-
| Phil Medes || 1 || NA ||  NA || RISK (if I remember) || I'm thinking a pizza || Leisure Suit Larry
|-
| Mark Diez || 1 || NA ||  NA || NA || Chips and Dip ||
|-
| Aaron Albertson || 1 || Wii ||  Mario Party 8 || RoboRally || TBD || NA
|-
| Jon Tollefson || 1 || Dreamcast? || NA || NA || cookies || RoboRally
|-
| Your Name Here || x || x ||  x || x || x || x
|-
|}
=== Social:  Night at the Planetarium, Tuesday December 4th, 2007 ===
7-8 pm at the Mayo High School Planetarium.  This is a Community Ed class so you must pre-register with them, more details available at [http://www.rochester.k12.mn.us/ their website], -> Enrichment -> Adult -> Adults.  Or sign up [https://activenet6.active.com/rochesterce/servlet/adet.sdi?activity_id=23872 online].<br>
Description: <br>
Explore the nightly environment that is overhead with a visit to the planetarium. A tour of the heavenly sights is planned that will feature special sights specific to the month. Cosponsored with Rochester Astronomy Club. The planetarium is located at Mayo High School.<br>
Code Day/Date Time Sessions Fee<br>
8380.143 T Dec. 4 7-8 PM 1 $5<br>
Location: Mayo-Rm. 1-226<br>
Instructor: Rochester Astronomy Club
=== Social:  Friday November 16th, 2007 ===
Video games, MAME, and whatever board/card games you bring to MJ Thompson's house.  Friday, November 16th, 6:30-11 pm.  More details on the [[SocialMeeting]] page.
=== Lunch: Thursday November 15th, 2007 ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.
=== Technical Meeting:  Swap/Sale Thursday November 8th, 2007 ===
Swap meet!! 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, rounded up to the nearest dollar.
When: Thursday, November 8th, 6pm
Where: [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/getting-to-ucr.html UCR Main Campus], [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/buildingmaps.html#ucr East Hall], [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/easthall.html room 128].  Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm.
Attendance will include KLUG, members of PCIG, IBM Ham Radio Club, students from RCTC, and the general public.
'''We need your help!'''  In order to make this a success, we need all of you to pitch in.  How?  There's all sorts of ways you can help, please sign up for these tasks below.
-Bring your stuff to sell/swap.  Everyone.
-Print and show this revised [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/e0/Flyer07.pdf Sale Flyer] to friends.  Everyone.
-Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.35 per pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar for ease of making change).  Everyone.
-Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge.  Tim Massaro
-Man the recycling area, do the weighing, cost figuring, and providing of change. -Steve Severson
-Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5).  Tim Massaro
-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 Fox
-Making some (Ubuntu?) CDs to give away. - Steve Fox
-Get a location (done) - Tina W.
-Posting.  Volunteers are needed to post to many locations. Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome):
-KLUG mailing list and wiki (done) - Tina W.
-IBM calendar, Ham Radio Club and PCIG Website (done) -    Tim Massaro
-Mayo classifieds -  Eric Amundsen
-Craigslist, Think Bank (done) -  Tim Massaro
-Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) -    (this probably won't get done due to posting requirements)Volunteer_needed_here
-UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy -  Ren
-RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy -  Volunteer_needed_here
-IBM White Building(664) - post hard copy (done)- Steve Severson
-Venture Computer - send email of flyer, request posting (done)- Steve Severson
-Wherever else you can think of.  Volunteer_needed_here
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.
Post-swap discussion<br>
Things to remember, and what we could do to be better next year:<br>
-Who ever posts at Heintz Center should bring push pins as well as the fliers
-Additional volunteer job - arrive at UCR at 5:45 pm, post illegal wayfinding ("Tonight!"  with arrows in appropriate directions, highlighting of what the event is and the room number, etc) signs on all entry doors, nearby directional corners, and on the room door.  Bring masking tape.  Also responsible for taking down at the end of the night.  Find a door stop so we can prop the room door open.  The masking tape and a pen are also useful for posting a sign above the pizza/pop, saying it's available for donation.  And for putting a label on a cup as being the donation collection container.
-Convince Dean to come to the swap meet, make sure he forgets to lock his car, and save ourselves the trouble of taking a trip to the recycling center by dropping all of that in his back seat  ;)
-Additional volunteer job - Arrive at UCR before 6 pm, write welcome message on the chalk board, also list upcoming KLUG events and dates, K-LUG website address
-Other places/ways to advertise?  Public access?  Would we qualify for free advertising on the radio, newspaper, etc?
-We had less sellers and less buyers this year than previously, how do we avoid losing them, or gaining new people?  Do we really want to do a swap again next November?
-I can't remember what the context was, but there was a request for cheerleaders.  If someone can find some to sell, fine, just duct tape their mouths shut for the duration of the swap.  I don't want to have to listen to them spelling the same words at volume over and over again - we know how to spell, thank you.
-Pizza supply list, for future reference:  pizza (4 this year), pop (4 2L this year), paper plates, napkins, plastic cups, ice.  We had ~1/2 a pizza and ~2L worth of pop left over, but we broke even on the donations, so we're good.  The "fancier" pizza flavors were the faster movers, such as supreme went much faster than cheese.  And root beer and Mt Dew went much faster than Sprite.  Set up a sign indicating that the pizza and pop are in this part of the room, that's it's for donation.  Also label a cup as the donation collection container.
-We had some potential buyers present at 6:10, who stuck around until 6:20 pm and then gave up and left before the straggler sellers (who had the most variety and volume of stuff to sell) showed up.  Do we need to push back our set-up time?  And/or  our start time?  Or are our sellers just going to be perpetually late and we just have to accept having disappointed people (who cared enough to show up once, which is great, but probably won't show up to one of these events again, bad)?  We were entirely done, cleaned up, and out of the parking lot by 8:30 pm, so there's room to push the schedule back if that would work better.
-Have a bigger room
-A location more well known, bigger and with closer in parking might be nice...put up signs earlier, advertise the free linux CDs on our signs, door prizes? (no not a free serial joystick or monitor)  We have tried to involve the Ham Radio Club and the Retirees club, but I don't think that has worked...are there other groups who would like to participate in this event (NorLug maybe?, Area 51?, Computer Liquidator on 2nd street?).<br>
In previous years some of the folks higher priced stuff or a lot of
stuff have pre-announced their "list of goodies" on the news group or
our wiki...that might bring out more customers.
-People could list what they haven't sold and haven't tossed,  post-swap.
What did work well?<br>
-After it seemed like everyone was there and set up (~6:45ish?), we went around the room and let each seller advertise their highlights and freebies.  Let buyers have a chance to ask if anyone had something in particular that hadn't been mentioned.  Advertised the recycling, and the food.
-For the second year in a row, we did not lose money on the food!
=== Lunch:  Thursday October 18th, 2007 ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.
=== Slashdot 10yr Anniversary Party:  Tuesday October 16th, 2007 ===
October 16, 2007, 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. <br>
West Fire Grill<br>
2043 Superior Drive NW<br>
Rochester, MN, US Host: grungewolf (1164849)
=== Technical Meeting: Flood Relief...Date Flexible, 2007 ===
Location CompuSwap - (Near Whistle Binkies South)
The current proposal for our Oct meeting is that we dig in and help Steve Severson with a United Way Flood Relief Project.
The recent flood in SE Minnesota meant that many victims lost their computers. The United Way Tech Team (and Steve) are coordinating a couple of hardware build parties to ready 200+ CompuSwap systems for deployment to people, nonprofits and schools throughout SE MN.
K-Lug helped with this type of event after Katrina and it is actually a lot of fun! A little cleaning, a little installing of diskdrives and memory and a little boot testing.
We plan to volunteer during one or more of these time sessions
Wed, Oct 03, 2007 08:00 am to 12:00 pm: (20 slots) [[https://vsadmin.united-e-way.org/olmsted/user/events/register.tcl?slot_id=10249729394 Register]]<br>
Wed, Oct 03, 2007 01:00 pm to 05:00 pm: (20 slots) [[https://vsadmin.united-e-way.org/olmsted/user/events/register.tcl?slot_id=10249729394 Register]]<br>
Sat, Oct 13, 2007 09:00 am to 01:00 pm: (20 slots) [[https://vsadmin.united-e-way.org/olmsted/user/events/register.tcl?slot_id=10249729470 Register]]<br>
Sat, Oct 27, 2007 09:00 am to 01:00 pm: (20 slots) [[https://vsadmin.united-e-way.org/olmsted/user/events/register.tcl?slot_id=10249729394 Register]]<br>
=== Social:  Thursday October 4th, 2007 ===
RoboRally and whatever other board/card games you wish to bring, so far we're also expecting Puerto Rico, Power Grid, and Munchkin.  6:30 pm, at Steve Fox's house (N 43° 59.263, W 092° 29.033, house number [http://www.k-lug.org/images/a/a5/Park-map.PNG 1538]).  Consider bringing food/drink to share.
=== Social:  Thursday September 27th, 2007 ===
6:30 pm, East Park, for Frisbee golf.  If you don't have a frisbee, you can probably borrow one from another K-LUGger, or bring a shoe to throw.
=== Lunch:  Thursday September 20th, 2007 ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court.  Look 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 Technical Meeting:  Thursday September 13th, 2007 ===
No presenter, no meeting.
=== Social:  Tuesday September 11th, 2007 ===
6:30 pm, East Park, for Frisbee golf.  If you don't have a frisbee, you can probably borrow one from another K-LUGger, or bring a shoe to throw.
=== Lunch:  Thursday August 16th, 2007 ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court.  Look 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.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday August 9th, 2007 ===
==== UCR main campus, East Hall, room 119, 6pm  ====
Wii, with PCIG.  Hopefully two units will be present so lots of people can play. 
=== Social:  Geocaching and potluck, Saturday August 4th, 2007 ===
Geocaching followed by potluck/picnic/ice cream.  Come for either or both as your interest level and time allows.  Many more details and the sign-up sheet can be found on the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social page].
=== Lunch:  Thursday July 19th, 2007 ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court.  Look 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.
=== "Technical" Meeting:  Thursday July 12th, 2007 ===
We're having a picnic and relaxing evening instead.  See the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social Meetings page] for more details and to sign up.
=== Social:  Thursday June 14th and Tuesday June 26th, 2007 ===
6:30 pm, East Park, for Frisbee golf.  If you don't have a frisbee, you can probably borrow one from another K-LUGger, or throw shoes.  We've learned the hard way that shoes are not very aerodynamic.
We're having highly organized events occuring for socials in July and August (paintball and geocaching+picnic, respectively), so we're sticking with low key for June.
Cancelled or rescheduled in the event of lightening or hail.
=== Lunch:  Thursday June 21st, 2007 ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court.  Look 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.
=== Technical Meeting:  Tuesday June 12th, 2007 ===
==== UCR main campus, East Hall, room 102, 6pm  ====
Steve Fox on LEGO Mindstorms NXT.  Also, PCIG will be having their Thursday June 14th meeting on LEGO Mindstorms as well.
Still not back in the RCTC Heintz Center location.  Instead 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].
=== Social:  Thursday May 17th and 24th, 2007 ===
6:30 pm, East Park, for Frisbee golf.  If you don't have a frisbee, you can probably borrow one from another K-LUGger.
=== Lunch:  Thursday May 17th, 2007 ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court.  Look 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.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday May 10th, 2007 ===
==== 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].
=== Social:  Wednesday April 25th, 2007 ===
6 pm, road clean up with a few members of the Ski Patrol.  Oronoco - meet at County 18 and County 12, clean a section going north from there.  Recommended items to bring: garbage bags, reflective clothes, work gloves.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboRally Robo Rally] will hopefully make an appearance in the future.
=== Logo Contest:  Deciding on a printer and products, 2007 ===
[[LogoPage]] The winning logo is Anon #1's green state shaped logo.  We need you to look into finding printing locations, prices, and products available to print on.  So far we have information on the following:
-local print shop such as Superior Screeners. Probably would require bulk order.  More details needed, someone please do some research.
-Printfection, bulk discount information available [http://www.printfection.com/customer/custom.php?tab=3 here].  This was the source of the blue K-LUG shirt Tim brought to the Second Life March meeting. 
-www.cafepress.com. Probably slightly more expensive, but would not require a bulk order.  We've been warned they won't look great.  For items that can be printed on, see [http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/ Cafe Press].  Tim has already done some research, see the following pages:  [http://www.cafepress.com/k_lug 1] , [http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/help/help_bulkpricing.aspx 2].
-Robert Nix has a source for weaving the logo into items such as afghans, pillows, tote bags.  70 x 54 inch woven blankets of the logo for $70 each.
-Nametags??
-Other products or sources you've done some research on?
=== Lunch:  Thursday April 19th, 2007 ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.  If the weather is nice, people from downtown may choose to walk together to lunch, it is supposedly an ~15 minute walk.
=== Technical Meeting:  Tuesday April 10th, 2007 ===
==== UCR main campus, East Hall, room 121 ====
Carl Albing will be presenting on bash.  Carl is one of the co-authors of the O'Reilley book [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bashckbk/ bash Cookbook].  Topics will include:  do we still need command line tools, a rapid fly-by of bash as a programming language, a few power-user features of bash, (time permitting) a short discussion of "so you want to write a technical book".
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].
=== Social:  Bowling, Saturday March 24th, 2007 ===
noon-2 pm.  See the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social page] for more details.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday February 8th, 2007 ===
'''Plone by Eldon Nelson,'''
Combined meeting with PCIG.
'''When:''' Thursday, Feb 8th, 6pm
'''Where:''' University Center Rochester, Heinz Center in room HA108
[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions ]
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Building Map ]
'''Description of Plone:'''
Plone is a web based open source content management system (CMS) built off of the Python programming language.    What do I need a content management system for?  I'm not a book publisher or magazine; even though my glossy finish might make you think that way.  The person that needs a content management system is every knowledge worker - which today, is everyone.  We all need ways of managing the knowledge we work with and content types that are flexible to match the work we do.  In the past, I've loved wiki for filling part of this role, but as I look at what wiki gets you it is not the whole picture.  Sometimes, you need a tool chest instead of a hammer - this is where Plone fits in as your own secret tool chest.
What you get with Plone is a scalable, object oriented, pluggable system that handles all of your content management needs.  Plone itself is actually a collection of plugins that give you the code to represent the objects that will eventually represent your data.  So you might ask, on what is Plone built upon if it is just a collection of plugins?  It is actually built off a very complete web framework for the Python scripting language named Zope.  So yes, it is a collection of utilities from Python -> Zope -> Plone to get to the tool, but all of that hierarchy gives you a full framework to do everything and hooks and methods ready for your use.
With Plone you get rock solid access control that can be as granular as you want.  You can integrate Plone plugins into your site to transform it to include seamlessly complex structures such as: bulletin boards, issue trackers, picture galleries, and more or use out of the box calendaring.  Pretty much, Plone quickly, without the need for any coding, turns into your Swiss Army knife of web interactivity – all the while, maintaining a coherent look and feel and security of Plone.
During my Plone presentation I will be doing things a little differently than traditional KLUG or PCIG meetings.  I’ll be showing part of my presentation through the use of screencasts to demonstrate activities that I have recorded before and edited into consumable nuggets of interest.  I’ll also be using screencasts from the Plone.org website itself, so you may or may not want to watch their intro videos before you come – depending on how entertained you will be by them.  I’ll be bringing some popcorn to keep you engaged – so look forward to a treat!  Of course, a technical meeting isn’t any good without some hands on, in the dirt, demonstration.  For that, I’ll be doing some live manipulation of Plone before your very eyes.
I hope you will enjoy this fun presentation.
Eldon Nelson ( eldon_nelson@ieee.org )
[http://www.plone.org Plone]
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 11th, 2007 ===
(Note the Plone meeting has been moved to February)
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,
==== KLUG officer elections ====
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.
=== Technical Meeting:  Tuesday December 12th, 2006 ===
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).
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.
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.
Cost:  $5/hour if a non-member.  Other options are memberships or day passes.
Snacking options:  Pop, sugar, snack foods, basically anything that doesn't actually require a food license for them to sell.
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:
-Age of Empires (version not specified), all machines
-Battlefield 2 - 10
-Counter Strike 1.6 - 6
-Counter Strike Source - 12
-Warcraft III - all machines
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.
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.
I did try to look into other options.  For future reference, I dug up the following information on several possibilities:
-computer gaming at Lounge 51 (formerly Xgames) with a charge per hour.  Open to the public.
-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.
-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.
-Xbox gaming at Chateau with a room reservation fee ($35) with at most 4 play at a time
-free board and collectable card games at Chateau.  Open to the public.  Fridays starting at 8 pm.
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.
=== Social:  Monday November 27th, 2006 ===
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.
=== Lunch Meeting:  Thursday November 16th, 2006 ===
11:30 am near the Chinese restaurant in the Galleria.  Discussion about December gaming options or desired social activities would be appreciated.
=== Technical Meeting:  Swap Sale Thursday November 9th, 2006 ===
Swap meet!! 
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
Where: University Center Rochester Heintz Center in room HA108.
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?
-Bring your stuff to sell/swap.
-Print and Show this [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/ef/Swapflyer_2006.pdf Sale Flyer] to friends
-Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.35/pound).
-Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge.
-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.)
-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.)
-Making some Ubuntu CDs to give away.  (Dave Berg)
-Posting
Volunteers are needed to post to many locations.  Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome):
-KLUG mailing list and wiki - Tina W.
-IBM calendar - Tim M.
-PCIG website - Tim M.
-Ham radio club - Tim M.
-Mayo classifieds - Pat S.
-Craigslist - Tim M.
-Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) - Steve F.
-UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy - Ren T.
-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)
-Wherever else you can think of
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.
=== Mister House 2nd Opportunity:  Monday October 30th ===
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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|Robert Bleimeyer || 3
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|Jos&eacute; de Leon || 1
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|Mark Diez || 1
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|Bill Marshall || 1
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|Joe Sedelmeyer || 1
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|Mike Fallenstein || 2
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=== Social:  Thursday October 26th, 2006 ===
5:30 pm  Frisbee golf at East Park.  Weather-related cancellation will be announced around noon to email list and wiki if necessary.
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.
=== Lunch Meeting:  Thursday October 19th, 2006 ===
Come one, come all, at 11:30 am to the vicinity of the Chinese resturant in the Galleria food court.
=== Technical Meeting:  Tuesday October 10th, 2006 ===
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.
Some details on Mr House: http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/
Directions and map to Mister House can be found [http://brucewinter.googlepages.com/directionstomyhouse here].
=== Technical Meeting: Thursday, September 14th, 2006 ===
Open source in Croatia, Croatian government.  Guest speaker Vlatko Kosturjak, from Croatia, temporarily in the US.  Room will be HA108, our new "permanent" location.
Wink has been postponed.  [http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Wink] software used for making demos of new products. Records screen sessions and audio.
=== CANCELLED Social:  Saturday September 9th, 2006 CANCELLED ===
Flatwater canoe trip down the Root River.  See the [[SocialMeeting]] page.  Please sign up by noon on Thursday.
=== Social:  Wednesday August 23rd, 2006 ===
Frisbee golf, 6:30 pm, East Park.  Bring friends, bring frisbees.
=== Lunch:  August 17th, 2006 ===
11:30 am at the Galleria, near the Chinese restaurant.
=== Technical Meeting:  Tuesday August 8th, 2006 ===
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.
=== Social:  Thursday July 27, 2006 ===
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.
=== Lunch: July 20, 2006 ===
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.
=== Technical Meeting: Thursday July 13, 2006 **Note location change** ===
'''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.
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].
=== Gimp Challenge I:  due date: July 8 ===
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.
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.
=== Lunch: June 15, 2006 ===
Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.
=== Technical Meeting: Tuesday June 13, 2006 **Note location change** ===
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].
=== Social:  Tuesday June 6, 2006 ===
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, 2006 ===
Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.  Look for geeks.
=== Technical Meeting: Thursday May 11, 2006 ===
Chris Abbey will present on SSH.
=== Lunch: April 20, 2006 ===
Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.
=== Technical Meeting: Tuesday April 11, 2006 ===
Dennis DeLoreme on his !Supercomputer Cluster.
=== Lunch: March 16, 2006 ===
Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.
=== Technical Meeting: Thursday March 9, 2005 ===
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.
=== Technical Meeting: October 11th, 2005 ===
Bob Techentin is giving a tcl/tk presentation. [[Minutes]]
=== Technical Meeting: September 9th, 2005 ===
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.
=== Technical Meeting: August 9th, 2005 ===
<s>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.</s> Reschedule due to bad weather.
=== Social Meeting: August 4th, 2005 ===
We're going to X-Games (downtown Rochester on Broadway) to play some LAN games.
=== Challenge and Puzzler: Round 3 ===
The third Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Tina Wood and John Steenbergen won the second round. Good luck!
=== Technical Meeting: July 14th, 2005 ===
This will be a joint PCIG/K-LUG meeting. Gary Rolfs from PCIG will be presenting an introduction to Python programming.
=== Meeting Minutes Available ===
The meeting minutes that Kevin Neff has been kind enough to take have now been posted.
=== Presentation Available ===
Dennis DeLorme's LCD initialization and operation presentation is [http://www.k-lug.org/LCDPresentation_View_Online now available].
=== Challenge and Puzzler: Round 2 ===
The second Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Tina Wood and Kevin Arhelger won the first round. Good luck!
=== Technical Meeting: June 14th, 2005 ===
Dennis DeLorme will give a presentation on LCD initialization and operation.
=== Challenge and Puzzler: Round 1 ===
The first Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Good luck!


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Virtual Social: Thursday November 14th

6 pm

Meeting link (removed)

Agenda -Sharing your new tech discoveries -Socializing -Choosing a December board game night (Friday December 6th, Friday December 13th, Saturday December 14th)

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Also, thank you for your efforts at our fall trash cleanup. The Public Works Department gave these summary measures of the city-wide efforts: "Over 620 pounds of litter was collected by A Litter Bit Better volunteers during the fall event. An estimated 1.179 volunteers picked up 64 sites that covered many locations around Rochester." This was 12 loads of trash, removed from our environment!


Virtual Social: Thursday October 10th

6 pm

Yes, timing worked out that you'll see us twice in the same week.

Meeting link removed.

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Potential October outdoor social - 18 holes of mini golf

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/new-18-hole-mini-golf-course-coming-to-rochester https://krocnews.com/rochester-mns-largest-mini-golf-course-is-about-to-open/


Socials brainstorming: Fall or winter

-Murder mystery. The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started.

-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary

-Bowlocity laser tag. 5-6 people minimum needed.

-Liquid nitrogen ice cream. This needs a non-Tina organizer. Dennis DeLorme has 2 recipes. We need safety equipment and someone trained enough to keep us from freezing ourselves.


Pending potential presentations

Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize


Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Monday October 7th

6:15 - 7:30 pm

This is the first time Rochester is running a fall edition of Litter Bit Better, so we're going to go clean up a second time this year. Pine Ridge Estates Park, which you may recognize as where we have previously ice cream picnicked, and flown kites. Map

Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. No shoreline, yes woods (mowed park + woods = 5.1 acres), and you might want a headlamp.

As usual we are teaming up with the geocachers to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.


Virtual Social: Thursday September 12th

6 pm

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


Outside Social: Thursday September 5th

Disc golf! Meet outside the RCTC field house, 6 pm. Here is a map.


Outside Social: Friday August 30th

Disc golf! Meet outside the RCTC field house, 6 pm. Here is a map.


Virtual Social: Thursday August 8th

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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Virtual Social: Thursday July 11th

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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Outdoor Social: Thursday June 27th, 11:45 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.

Food trailers are supposed to be open by noon, 11:45 am will give us a little better chance at getting parking.


Virtual Social: Thursday June 13th

6 pm

Meeting link removed

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Virtual Social: Thursday May 9th

6 pm

Meeting link removed

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Geocaching in-person social (outside), Friday May 3rd

6 pm

Park and walk in a neighborhood in NE Rochester.

Park near 1 - Odin on Whiting Lane NE's cul de sac. We'll walk from there to a couple of other geocaches (2, 3), then back to #1, and then decide if we're walking or driving to 4.



Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 30th

6:15 - 7:30 pm

Back to our usual Cascade Lake Park.

Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is shoreline.

As usual we are teaming up with the geocachers to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.


Virtual Social: Thursday April 11th

Come hang out virtually with your favorite geeks, and share what you've been up to or found interesting.

6 pm

Meeting link here.

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Virtual Technical Meeting: To be rescheduled

Acu Dorin will present on opensource AI software and an effort he and some other folks have made to create a private version of a chatGPT like AI interface


Outside Social: Friday March 22nd, 6 pm

Geocaching! The March equinox is an excuse to find 3 geocaches during the week of the equinox. If you've never geocached before, this is a great time to join us. Wear your hiking shoes, long sturdy pants, and otherwise dress for the weather.

We will chase 3 multi-caches that start to the east and north of St Marys Hospital https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6G6R5 https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XDH0 https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XEQV

If we have any DNF's, first choice replacement will be: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC56K4K

I skimmed through the logs, and none of our regulars seem to have found these, so hopefully everyone will qualify for the achievement.

Parking: There is a limited quantity of 2 hour parking in St. Marys Park proper. However, the neighborhood parking permit restriction opens back up starting at 5:30, so by starting at 6 pm you should be able to park on the street (and not be competing with employees for spots) for the duration of our explorations.


Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday March 14th

Speaker cancelled due to illness, will reschedule.

Tim Massaro will come to our rescue, and will present on his Partyrock/Blackrock hackathon project, as well as brainstorming some future socials.

6 pm

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Outside Social: Saturday February 24th

It's supposed to be dry all week, there's no snow to fight with, the disc golf holes are present, and Saturday's forecast is for sunshine and a high of 46. So let's play disc golf!

Meet outside the RCTC field house, 2 pm. Here is a map.


Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th

Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics.

6 pm

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Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th, 2024

Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics.

6 pm

And KLUG officer elections.

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




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