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=== Virtual Social: Thursday November 13th ===
6 pm


=== Social:  Free comedy show, Wednesday July 29th, 7 pm ===
Meeting link removed.
We're going to a free comedy show, it starts at 7 pm in the Peace Plaza. Several other activities going on down there that evening (4:30 pm Music by Royal T, 6:30-8 pm Vikings Cheerleaders, 7 pm Comedians [http://www.bobzany.com Bob Zany], Scott Hansen, and Jeff Gerbino), details on the [http://www.rtautismawareness.org/calendar/2009-07-29.php Autism Awareness website].
[http://www.k-lug.org/images/f/f5/Comedy.pdf Add for Comedy Nite ]


Bring your calendars, so we can schedule the December virtual board gaming night.  Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


=== Lunch:  Thursday July 16th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.  Look for a gathering of geeks.




=== Technical Meeting: Thursday July 9th Demo of Socialbrowse by Zack Garbo ===  
=== Virtual Social: Thursday October 9th ===
   
6 pm
'''When:''' Thursday July 9th, 6pm - 7:30pm


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
Meeting link removed.


Socialbrowse was conceived by co-founders Zachary Garbow and David Fowler as part of Silicon Valley's Y Combinator startup program. Socialbrowse aims to change the “static, individual” experience of browsing the Web into a more social and dynamic one. The first version of the product allows people who use the Firefox browser to install a program that creates a real-time sidebar of links and comments shared by their friends. After recently closing a seed stage round of funding, they will soon be launching an ambitious new version of Socialbrowse that serves as a platform for social browsing applications, which run on any web browser without any installation.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know - Aaron is running this meeting.


Zachary will provide a sneak peek of this new version, currently under development. He'll demonstrate how anyone can develop and deploy custom collaborative applications quickly and easily using the next generation of http://Socialbrowse.com




=== Lunch: Thursday June 18th ===
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Monday October 6th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a convocation of geeks.
6:00 - 7:30 pm


[https://www.google.com/maps/@43.9993974,-92.4222823,457m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgzMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D Joyce Park], in the SE corner of town.  Use the on-street parking on 15th St SE to be near the LBB-required waiver and bags.


Bags provided.  You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty.  Some pond shoreline, yes woods (mowed park + woods = 35.2 acres), and you might want a headlamp because sunset is at 6:41 pm.


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday June 11th Tour of the Digital and Analog Projection Booth's at Wehrenberg Theaters ===
As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBCE7R geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.
-> When: Thursday June 11th


-> 6pm - 7pm


-> Where:Wehrenberg Theaters Rochester <- Note, not our normal meeting location
=== Walking Cascade Lake in-person social (outside), Monday September 15th ===
6:00 pm


Park in the [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cascade+Lake+Park/@44.0243718,-92.4981303,1827m/ Cascade Lake Park parking lot], you may recognize this park from previous Litter Bit Better trash cleanups.  We'll walk counter-clockwise, if you're trying to play catch-up.


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.


Other movies available too...see their website here http://www.wehrenberg.com/theatres.aspx#6  
=== Virtual Social: Thursday September 11th ===
6 pm


Prices are as follows. ADULT Price: $10.50 /ticket
Meeting link removed.


CHILD Price: $7.50 /ticket
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know - Tim is running this meeting.


SENIOR (over 60) Price: $8.50 /ticket


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


Thanks!
=== Outside Social:  Thursday August 28th ===


=== Lunch: Thursday May 21st ===
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].
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a convocation of geeks.




=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday May 21st ===
''' 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]]
=== Virtual Social: Thursday August 14th ===
6 pm


Studio Academy is located at
Meeting link  removed.
415 16th St SW, Rochester, MN 55902
Our meeting and demo will be in the auditorium.


=== In town social:  Thursday May 14th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
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 ===
=== Outdoor Social: Monday July 21st ===  
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.
Olmsted County Fair night!  6 pm.


My experience with going on Monday night last year was that on-site parking was easy and free, some of the food trucks were open (including the milkshake stand), and many of the animals were already present including horse showings.  I’ve also been told that many craft projects will already be present, so we can do a scavenger hunt for projects by people we know.


=== Lunch:  Thursday April 16th, 2009 ===
[https://k-lug.org/images/c/c8/Fairgrounds_meeting_places_2025.jpg Map here]. At 6 pm we’ll meet at the parking lot (red star on the map, central to the “block”), and if you want to catch up to us a little later, try around the Graham Arena buildings adjacent to the green star on the south end of the fairgrounds.  
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.




=== Technical Meeting: Thursday April 9th, 2009 ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday July 10th, 2025 ===
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].
6 pm


Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76063786273?pwd=SxxHm75TEnLIHSstcVTPHKxzwpZuUs.1 here.]


=== Out of town Social:  Saturday April 4th, 8 am, 2009 ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
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].




=== Games mailing list ===
=== Outdoor Social: Thursday June 26th, 11:30 am  ===  
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.
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. Also trying to get line of sight on the pet events, like frisbee dogs.


Food trailers are supposed to be open by 11 am, 11:30 am will give us a little better chance at getting parking.


=== Want a K-Lug Shirt? ===
[[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


=== Virtual Social: Thursday June 12th, 2025 ===
6 pm


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


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


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


=== Mini golf outside social, Wednesday May 14th ===
6 pm


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday March 12th, 2009 ===
Blue Lagoon mini golf, the new mini golf place that opened late last fall, on the NW side of town
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'''
Unlike most of our events, this social is not free, pricing is [https://bluelagoonminigolf.com/pricing here].  The second round is significantly cheaper ($5/person), so if we finish in good time we might try to squeeze in a second round before they close at 8 pm.


http://processing.org/


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)


We'll also be celebrating Pi day a little early.
=== Virtual Social: Thursday May 8th, 2025 ===
6 pm


Meeting link removed


=== Lunch:  Thursday February 19th, 2009 ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.  Look for a gaggle of gregarious geeks.




=== 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.


=== Litter Bit Better outside social, Tuesday April 22nd ===
6:15 - 7:30 pm


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday February 12th, 2009 ===
A new to us park, Weatherstone, on the far NW corner of town.
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).


'''Details on the Arduino Presentation'''
Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is a pond in this park.


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.
As usual we are [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCB48NR_16th-annual-cito-and-rochesters-litter-bit-better teaming up with the geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.


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.


[[Image:Boarduino.jpg|300px]]


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.
=== Virtual Social: Thursday April 10th, 2025 ===
6 pm


PCIG nominations
Meeting link removed.


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




=== Social: Saturday January 17th, 2009 ===
=== Outdoor Social: Geocaching hike, equinox weekend, Friday March 21st ===
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.


6 pm


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 15th, 2009 Hardcore computers ===
We'll start at the [https://k-lug.org/images/c/c1/20250321_hike_plan.jpg dog park just north of Essex Park] (red circle) for a short walk. Then depending on the walking conditions, we'll walk or drive to the two caches NE of that dog park (orange circle), and then down to the one Essex Park cache that we haven't chased recently (yellow circle).
==== NOTE DATE CHANGE ====
Join us at the March 13th meeting to help pick a day/time/location to help us meet the [https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2025/03/a-new-season-and-new-souvenir/ equinox souvenir criteria].
[[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>
Afterwards, we'll drive to 25th Street and 25th Avenue NW, in the residential neighborhood just south of IBM park, for a [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCA2025 locationless geocache].


An intro to the Reactor:
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>


=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday March 13th, 2025 ===
6 pm


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>
Meeting link removed.


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


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)




Also, '''elections'''
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday February 13th, 2025 ===
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6 pm
 
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Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
 
 
 
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 9th, 2025 ===
6 pm
 
Meeting link removed.
 
KLUG officer elections.
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
 


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.
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=== 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)


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Latest revision as of 02:04, 14 November 2025


Virtual Social: Thursday November 13th

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

Bring your calendars, so we can schedule the December virtual board gaming night. Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


Virtual Social: Thursday October 9th

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know - Aaron is running this meeting.


Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Monday October 6th

6:00 - 7:30 pm

Joyce Park, in the SE corner of town. Use the on-street parking on 15th St SE to be near the LBB-required waiver and bags.

Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. Some pond shoreline, yes woods (mowed park + woods = 35.2 acres), and you might want a headlamp because sunset is at 6:41 pm.

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


Walking Cascade Lake in-person social (outside), Monday September 15th

6:00 pm

Park in the Cascade Lake Park parking lot, you may recognize this park from previous Litter Bit Better trash cleanups. We'll walk counter-clockwise, if you're trying to play catch-up.


Virtual Social: Thursday September 11th

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know - Tim is running this meeting.


Outside Social: Thursday August 28th

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


Virtual Social: Thursday August 14th

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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


Outdoor Social: Monday July 21st

Olmsted County Fair night! 6 pm.

My experience with going on Monday night last year was that on-site parking was easy and free, some of the food trucks were open (including the milkshake stand), and many of the animals were already present including horse showings. I’ve also been told that many craft projects will already be present, so we can do a scavenger hunt for projects by people we know.

Map here. At 6 pm we’ll meet at the parking lot (red star on the map, central to the “block”), and if you want to catch up to us a little later, try around the Graham Arena buildings adjacent to the green star on the south end of the fairgrounds.


Virtual Social: Thursday July 10th, 2025

6 pm

Meeting link here.

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


Outdoor Social: Thursday June 26th, 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. Also trying to get line of sight on the pet events, like frisbee dogs.

Food trailers are supposed to be open by 11 am, 11:30 am will give us a little better chance at getting parking.


Virtual Social: Thursday June 12th, 2025

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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


Mini golf outside social, Wednesday May 14th

6 pm

Blue Lagoon mini golf, the new mini golf place that opened late last fall, on the NW side of town

Unlike most of our events, this social is not free, pricing is here. The second round is significantly cheaper ($5/person), so if we finish in good time we might try to squeeze in a second round before they close at 8 pm.


Virtual Social: Thursday May 8th, 2025

6 pm

Meeting link removed

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


Litter Bit Better outside social, Tuesday April 22nd

6:15 - 7:30 pm

A new to us park, Weatherstone, on the far NW corner of town.

Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is a pond in this park.

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


Virtual Social: Thursday April 10th, 2025

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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


Outdoor Social: Geocaching hike, equinox weekend, Friday March 21st

6 pm

We'll start at the dog park just north of Essex Park (red circle) for a short walk. Then depending on the walking conditions, we'll walk or drive to the two caches NE of that dog park (orange circle), and then down to the one Essex Park cache that we haven't chased recently (yellow circle). Join us at the March 13th meeting to help pick a day/time/location to help us meet the equinox souvenir criteria.

Afterwards, we'll drive to 25th Street and 25th Avenue NW, in the residential neighborhood just south of IBM park, for a locationless geocache.


Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday March 13th, 2025

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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


Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday February 13th, 2025

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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


Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 9th, 2025

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

KLUG officer elections.

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



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