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| === Lunch: Thursday October 15th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a swarm of smartypants.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday October 8th === | | === Virtual Social: Thursday November 14th === |
| Jean Barmash has volunteered to speak on Grails, and has provded the following description and bio.
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| Grails - High Productivity Web Framework for the Java Platform.
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| Grails in a high-productivity framework that espouses convention over
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| configuration and takes a lot of good ideas from Ruby on Rails
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| framework. It is based on Groovy Language, a dynamic language
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| designed for easy integration with Java (Groovy is a super-set of
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| Java). Grails is a high-productivity framework by following the
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| Spring and Hibernate. In November 2008, G2One, the company behind
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| In this presentation, you will get a brief overview of Groovy's
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| Grails, and its plugin system, and how it can be used to rapidly
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| Jean Barmash is the CTO of EnergyScoreCards, a startup company that
| | 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! |
| helps benchmark energy efficiency of multi-family buildings, where he
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| | === Virtual Social: Thursday October 10th === |
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| === Lunch: Thursday September 17th ===
| | Yes, timing worked out that you'll see us twice in the same week. |
| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a gathering of geeks.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday September 10th ===
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| Jon Tollefson will present an intro to iPhone app development.
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| -RCTC Heintz Center | | === 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/ |
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| Room HA107 or there abouts.
| | === Socials brainstorming: Fall or winter === |
| | -Murder mystery. The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started. |
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
| | -Bowlocity laser tag. 5-6 people minimum needed. |
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| | -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. |
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| === Social: Geocaching canoe trip, August 22nd ===
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| The social this month is a canoeing/kayaking geocaching event. Yes, I'm again
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| piggybacking off activities organized by other people. You can paddle,
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| or paddle+geocache, but you can't just geocache. Follow the link for the [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC1VKY1 event details.] It's a
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| === Lunch: Thursday August 20th ===
| | Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize |
| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a gathering of geeks.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday August 13th Demo of Windows 7 ===
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| -> '''When:''' Thursday August 13th | | === Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Monday October 7th === |
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| | 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] |
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| | 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. |
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
| | === Virtual Social: Thursday September 12th === |
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| Microsoft has Windows 7 Betas available for free download and the product will be delivered in Oct 2009. So we thought it was high time the PC Club condense all the hype down and take a look at what is new. Bill Hanson and Tim Massaro will give an intro to Windows 7 and demo some of the features.
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| === Social: Free comedy show, Wednesday July 29th, 7 pm === | | === Outside Social: Thursday September 5th === |
| We're going to a free comedy show, it starts at 7 pm in the Peace Plaza. Several other activities going on down there that evening (4:30 pm Music by Royal T, 6:30-8 pm Vikings Cheerleaders, 7 pm Comedians [http://www.bobzany.com Bob Zany], Scott Hansen, and Jeff Gerbino), details on the [http://www.rtautismawareness.org/calendar/2009-07-29.php Autism Awareness website].
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| | Disc golf! Meet outside the RCTC field house, 6 pm. Here is [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217033483939111930234.0004a3795f42da701ae0b&msa=0&ll=44.015742,-92.422206&spn=0.003541,0.006942&iwloc=0004a37962daae4746296 a map]. |
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| === Lunch: Thursday July 16th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a gathering of geeks.
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| | === Outside Social: Friday August 30th === |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday July 9th Demo of Socialbrowse by Zack Garbo ===
| | Disc golf! Meet outside the RCTC field house, 6 pm. Here is [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217033483939111930234.0004a3795f42da701ae0b&msa=0&ll=44.015742,-92.422206&spn=0.003541,0.006942&iwloc=0004a37962daae4746296 a map]. |
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| Socialbrowse was conceived by co-founders Zachary Garbow and David Fowler as part of Silicon Valley's Y Combinator startup program. Socialbrowse aims to change the “static, individual” experience of browsing the Web into a more social and dynamic one. The first version of the product allows people who use the Firefox browser to install a program that creates a real-time sidebar of links and comments shared by their friends. After recently closing a seed stage round of funding, they will soon be launching an ambitious new version of Socialbrowse that serves as a platform for social browsing applications, which run on any web browser without any installation.
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| Zachary will provide a sneak peek of this new version, currently under development. He'll demonstrate how anyone can develop and deploy custom collaborative applications quickly and easily using the next generation of http://Socialbrowse.com
| | === Virtual Social: Thursday August 8th === |
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| === Lunch: Thursday June 18th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a convocation of geeks.
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| | === Virtual Social: Thursday July 11th === |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday June 11th Tour of the Digital and Analog Projection Booth's at Wehrenberg Theaters ===
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| K-LUG has an "in" at the local Wehrenberg theater and a few members attended an impromptu tour of the projection booth there a few weeks ago. It was so much fun we've decided to offer it for everyone this month as our main meeting topic. Let's meet at 6PM in the "drive-in" feature of the lobby. The tour will take 30mins to an hour. After the tour people can choose to stay and watch a movie or not. We are recommending the group attend the new animated 3D movie Up which is getting great reviews and is rated PG.
| | === 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. |
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| Other movies available too...see their website here http://www.wehrenberg.com/theatres.aspx#6
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| Prices are as follows. ADULT Price: $10.50 /ticket
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| CHILD Price: $7.50 /ticket
| | === Virtual Social: Thursday June 13th === |
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| SENIOR (over 60) Price: $8.50 /ticket
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| We'd like to let the theater know how many people to expect, so please email Tina if you plan to attend.
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| === Lunch: Thursday May 21st === | | === Virtual Social: Thursday May 9th === |
| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a convocation of geeks.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday May 21st ===
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| A field trip to see this year's Studio Academy FIRST Robotics League robot, we'll be at Studio Academy for their presentation, 6 pm.
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| === In town social: Thursday May 14th === | | === Geocaching in-person social (outside), Friday May 3rd === |
| 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.
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| === In Town Social: Wednesday April 22nd, 2009 ===
| | 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]. |
| 6:30 pm at Quarry Hill, park and roadside cleanup. We have areas #127 and #140 on [http://rneighbors.org/files/NEFinal.pdf this map]. I'm coordinating us with another group of people that tends to overlap, so all of the details can be found [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gc1ptcf here]. Bring your own gloves; bags and disposal will be provided because we're doing this as part of Rochester's [http://rneighbors.org/about_litter_bit_better Litter Bit Better] campaign. Headcounts to Tina would be appreciated.
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| === Lunch: Thursday April 16th, 2009 ===
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| 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.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday April 9th, 2009 === | | === Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 30th === |
| Mike Bleimeyer, aircrack-ng and Kismet demonstration. Usual place and time, 6 pm at [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html RCTC's Heintz Center] room [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA107].
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| === Out of town Social: Saturday April 4th, 8 am, 2009 ===
| | Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is shoreline. |
| A field trip to the Cities to watch the FIRST Robotics League [http://www.mnfirstregional.org/index.html Regional competition]. Carpools will depart at 8 am, see the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social page] for more details and to sign up. More info from the [http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:9t_nLgzGhXkJ:www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp%3Fz%3D22%26a%3D386152 PB].
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| | As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCAMJX2 geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage. |
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| We've started a new mailing list for people who are interested in (non-video) gaming. Currently we've been playing Munchkin and RoboRally. See the [http://lists.k-lug.org/mailman/listinfo/games link] in the site navigation menu to join the mailing list if you're interested in joining us.
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| === Want a K-Lug Shirt? === | | === Virtual Social: Thursday April 11th === |
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| | Come hang out virtually with your favorite geeks, and share what you've been up to or found interesting. |
| Our first batch of shirts came out rather nice, especially for the price. We have folk who didn't get in on the first order. Please [http://www.queensboro.com/closeouts browse the deals here], and contact Tim if interested. (We need a minimum order of 4)
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| === Lunch: Thursday March 19th, 2009 ===
| | Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74567357951?pwd=nQjQHcz7eKjaZ5YaHS2UGrat5UVUCv.1 here]. |
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| === Social: Tuesday March 17th, 2009 ===
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| We're celebrating Irish Heritage Day with potatoes, specifically potato guns! We'll also be constructing a Rube Goldberg device (including things like diet Coke and Mentos). People need to bring a contribution to make this social a success, more details and sign ups on the [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting Social page].
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday March 12th, 2009 === | | === Virtual Technical Meeting: To be rescheduled === |
| Mo Holahan will present Processing an Image Processing Programming language and development environment.
| | 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 |
| 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).
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| 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)
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| | 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. |
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| | https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6G6R5 |
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| === Lunch: Thursday February 19th, 2009 ===
| | If we have any DNF's, first choice replacement will be: |
| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a gaggle of gregarious geeks.
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| === Social: February 13th, 2009 6:30 pm ===
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| Make DVD episodes 1-4 will be shown at Tim M's house. Also available for viewing will be the Hackers R Peeps 2 video Kevin A brought us back from DefCon, and gaming for those who prefer it. Directions [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=116951360347447065495.00043977759b79d1e4f44&t=h&z=12 here]. It'd be nice if some people brought snacks/beverages to contribute. If you have allergies, beware they do have pets.
| | 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. |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday February 12th, 2009 === | | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday March 14th === |
| Dennis DeLorme will present on [http://www.arduino.cc/ Arduino]. The usual place: RCTC's [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Heintz Center] , [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Room HA107] , and time (6 pm).
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| '''Details on the Arduino Presentation'''
| | Tim Massaro will come to our rescue, and will present on his Partyrock/Blackrock hackathon project, as well as brainstorming some future socials. |
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| 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.
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| | 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! |
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| === Social: Saturday January 17th, 2009 ===
| | 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]. |
| You are invited to a gaming afternoon and potluck dinner at Tina's on Saturday January 17th. 2 pm gaming, with dinner at approximately 6 pm, feel free to join us for either or both. We'll play some [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchkin_(card_game) Munchkin Bites], and have a garlic-laden dinner. RSVP.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday January 15th, 2009 Hardcore computers === | | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th === |
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| | Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics. |
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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)
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
Yes, timing worked out that you'll see us twice in the same week.
Meeting link removed.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
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.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
Virtual Social: Thursday July 11th
6 pm
Meeting link removed.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
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
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
Virtual Social: Thursday May 9th
6 pm
Meeting link removed
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
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.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
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
Meeting link removed.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
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
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
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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