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| We submit for your participation a two part social on Saturday October 22nd. Flying pumpkins! We didn't get our act together to fling some pumpkins of our own, but we can watch [http://www.gamehavenbsa.org/documents/2011PumpkinChuckinFlyer.pdf Scouts toss them]. Park back from the launch area, to avoid collateral damage. Dress warm, we've been warned it's exposed and windy terrain. Spectators are welcome at any time during the event. However, if you wish to hang out with your fellow K-LUGgers, here's our planned schedule
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| -Watch flying pumpkins starting at '''1:30 pm'''
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| -At '''2:30 pm''', those who need to move for exercise, ADHD, or to stay warm are welcome to go for a hike with us. The hike will take the trail west out of the parking lot to the city/county property of the Gamehaven Reservoir Park. For those who need a goal to purpose their hike, there are several geocaches in the area. Snacks, water, and layered clothing would be appropriate. | | 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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| Meet at the Gamehaven Scout Camp parking lot, '''1:30 or 2:30 pm''', Saturday October 22nd. 5015 Simpson Rd SE, that's next to "Stars - Fleur de lis" if you're looking at the geocaching map, http://www.geocaching.com/map/beta/?ll=43.951476,-92.432907&z=15&mt=hybrid .
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| Here's the Scouts full schedule for their event:
| | 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! |
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| 8:00 AM Registration Begins
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| 8:30 AM Opening
| | === Virtual Social: Thursday October 10th === |
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| 8:45 AM-9:00 AM Leaders Meeting (SM, ASM, SPL)
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| 9:15 AM-12:00 PM Setup and test fire pumpkin chuckers
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| 12:00 PM-1:00 PM Lunch (bring your own lunch)
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| 1:15 PM-??? The Chuck’n
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| ???? Award Ceremony and cleanup will take place immediately
| | === 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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| === Lunch: Thursday October 20th === | | === Socials brainstorming: Fall or winter === |
| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
| | -Murder mystery. The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started. |
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| | -Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary |
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| === October Technical Meeting: Thursday October 13th===
| | -Bowlocity laser tag. 5-6 people minimum needed. |
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| Steve Connor Ability Built Computers & BEAM Initiative
| | -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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| ABC Has excess hardware...I have a large inventory of refurbished PDS P4 3.0GHz machines with 1GB RAM and 80GB HD for $75 with 15" flat screen monitors, keyboard, mouse, cables and no OS. If someone wants one loaded with a linux distro, I'm happy to look at it -- it'd probably cost $10 for the labor. I have a large inventory of 15" flat screen monitors for $25. Many have speakers, though I can't guarantee sound. I also have of random hardware including a handful of used Dell rack-mounted servers. I should note that qualifying individuals I can include a copy of Windows XP Pro on the machines. It requires an application and is only available for folks at 280% of poverty (actually quite a bit of money - $60k for a family of 5), individuals with disabilities, schools and 501(c)(3) non-profits. I'm happy to go through this with anyone in more detail if there's interest.
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| -> When: Thursday October 13th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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| -> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
| | Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize |
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| | === Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Monday October 7th === |
| | 6:15 - 7:30 pm |
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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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| === Social: Thursday September 22nd ===
| | 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. |
| A geocaching adventure...see http://www.activelivingrochester.org for details...are you in?
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| At 6 pm on Thursday September 22nd we'll be meeting for:
| | 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. |
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| -Pursing the Quarry Hill Trails to Treasure geocache. This isn't an ordinary geocache, it's part of a contest sponsored by Olmsted County Public Health to promote trails and exercise. Our own Tim Massaro helped with hiding several of the caches in this contest. Contest does indeed imply potential prizes, including iPods, cameras, a GPS, and gift cards. Start at http://www.co.olmsted.mn.us/news/Pages/TrailstoTreasureContest.aspx if you want more details, or https://sites.google.com/site/trailstotreasure/contest-rules for the Trails cache locations
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| -Taking a walk for some outside socializing time
| | === Virtual Social: Thursday September 12th === |
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| -Hauling along a camera, for a mini version of fall 2009's photo safari
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| Meet at the west entrance of Quarry Hill, the parking lot at the corner of 9th Street and 19th Avenue NE, near the playground and tennis courts.
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| | === Outside Social: Thursday September 5th === |
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| If there's desire, the group can split after finding the geocache or all proceed to Kutzky park, to pursue another Trails to Treasure geocache if that's of interest.
| | 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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| No GPS or RSVP required.
| | === Outside Social: Friday August 30th === |
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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 September 15th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| | === Virtual Social: Thursday August 8th === |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday September 8th ===
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| When: Thursday September 8th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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| Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
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| 1926 College View Road SE, Rochester, MN 55904
| | === Virtual Social: Thursday July 11th === |
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| We'll demo and discuss various tablet devices. Scheduled to appear are an iPad, a Pantech Android tablet, an HP TouchPad with Web OS and a Nook Feel free to bring your own tablet device and informally show off the highlights and lowlights
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| === Planned Social: August TBD ===
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| <strike>Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tim, he's in charge of all things K-LUG for July and August.</strike>
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| A social didn't happen this month, look for something next month.
| | === 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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| | Food trailers are supposed to be open by noon, 11:45 am will give us a little better chance at getting parking. |
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| === Lunch: Thursday August 18th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| | === Virtual Social: Thursday June 13th === |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday August 11th ===
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| The August meeting will be a two subject meeting
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| Mo Holahan will present Google Sketchup and how to create 3D buildings in Google Earth
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| Tim Schumann will present info on Bitcoins and how his bitcoin server is making out.
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| The meeting will be Thursday August 11th at 6pm
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| RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
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| 1926 College View Road SE, Rochester, MN 55904
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| Here is the scoop on the Google Sketchup portion of the meeting:
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| Sketchup has become a popular 3D modeling program for everything from origami to
| | === Virtual Social: Thursday May 9th === |
| professional architectural rendering. Currently available in free and pro versions
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| from Google, the program has continued to evolve since its initial release in 2000
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| by @Last Software founders Brad Schell and Joe Esch.
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| geometry construction tools and demo features such as components, materials, styles,
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| fog, shadows, scene animation, and the use of Ruby scripts to customize and extend
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| Sketchup's capabilities. We'll visit Google's 3Dwarehouse to download models, and
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| geo-locate a building on Google Earth. Whether you dream of turning your personal
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| living room furniture, see if Sketchup might become a useful part of your toolset.
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| === Planned Social: July TBD ===
| | Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know. |
| <strike>Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tim, he's in charge of all things K-LUG for July and August.</strike>
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| | === Geocaching in-person social (outside), Friday May 3rd === |
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| === Lunch: Thursday July 24th ===
| | Park and walk in a neighborhood in NE Rochester. |
| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| | 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]. |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday July 14th ===
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| Speed Talks Something new for K-LUG, Speed Talks are a no preparation required, quick talk on a favorite App, Website, Hobby, Gadget, Upcoming Event or whatever currently has your interest. We'll limit the time to 5-10 minutes each and just open it to whoever has a topic to share. We'll have a pc hooked up to the projector, or you can bring your own if you like. This should work out well as we had a short similar session on favorite android apps after one of our recent meetings.
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
| | Back to our usual Cascade Lake Park. |
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
| | Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is shoreline. |
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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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| === Planned Social: June TBD ===
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| | === Virtual Social: Thursday April 11th === |
| | Come hang out virtually with your favorite geeks, and share what you've been up to or found interesting. |
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| === Lunch: Thursday June 16th ===
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| | Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74567357951?pwd=nQjQHcz7eKjaZ5YaHS2UGrat5UVUCv.1 here]. |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday June 9th ===
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| Wireless Device Connectivity with ZigBee – An overview of the ZigBee specification and demonstration of using an XBee Module with an Arduino and a Digi Ethernet/XBee Gateway to interface with the Arduino from the Web. The demonstration will include examples of controlling the Arduino via XBee in addition to monitoring device state.
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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 |
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| | === Outside Social: Friday March 22nd, 6 pm === |
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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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| === Disc Golf Social: Thursday May 19th, 6:30 pm ===
| | We will chase 3 multi-caches that start to the east and north of St Marys Hospital |
| Disc Golf at UCR. This is a new course to us and we didn't find hole #1, so we're just going to meet outside of the UCR sports complex and near the football/lacrosse field, at the NE corner of the parking lot, see the [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&aq=&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Rochester,+Olmsted,+Minnesota&msa=0&ll=44.017694,-92.420425&spn=0.009181,0.014184&t=h&z=16&msid=217033483939111930234.0004a3795f42da701ae0b map].
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| If you haven't played before and would like to borrow a disc that's usually not a problem, although it helps if we know you're in that situation.
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| | 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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| === Lunch: Thursday May 19th ===
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| | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday March 14th === |
| | Speaker cancelled due to illness, will reschedule. |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday May 12th ===
| | Tim Massaro will come to our rescue, and will present on his Partyrock/Blackrock hackathon project, as well as brainstorming some future socials. |
| Our May meeting is scheduled to be information about a new robotics league starting up in Rochester.
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| Rochester Tabletop Robotics League is a "tabletop" robotics, all the robots should therefore be small and relatively inexpensive. Peter Shabino will describe this league and even demo a quick and easy robot he built from a $9.99 Walmart remote controlled car. See [http://www.wire2wire.org/rtrl/index.html his website].
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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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| | 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]. |
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| | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th === |
| | Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics. |
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| === Social: Sunday April 17th, 2 pm ===
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| Rockets + kites! That way we can play if there's no wind, lots of wind, basically anything other than a rain/snow storm. This'll be at 2 pm, at Century High School in their field.
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| Brent Vrieze will present a demo of Asterisk PBX software, using third party software requiring little manual configuring. He's provided the following description:
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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. |
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| If time permits I will show you an add on package to PiaF called Incredible PBX that using some free SIP phone providers and Google Voice will give you FREE, as in beer, phone service with a local number to anywhere in the US and Canada."
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| -[http://artemis.eochu.com/ Artemis], a multiplayer spaceship bridge simulator for Windows
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| -SOLAR DEATH RAY!!! to burn stuff, like [http://inhabitat.com/19-year-old-teenager-makes-homemade-solar-death-ray/solarray3/ this].
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| Dennis DeLorme will present on a paper tape reader.<br>
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| "Want to move those 100's of bytes of data you put on paper tape back in
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| your misspent youth to 21st century media? (Any time spent with paper
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| tape was misspent.) Bring your paper tape and a flash drive to the K-LUG
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| -Jon T will bring his hacked pandigital Android ereader for a show and tell afterwards (no demo, just to show off)
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| Also, if you won't be attending the school district's only date/time for community input sessions on their superintendent search (same day at 7 pm), you can still contribute to the local school district by filling out their superintendent search [http://www.rochester.k12.mn.us/se3bin/clientgenie.cgi?schoolname=school85&statusFlag=goGenie&geniesite=484&myButton=g5plugin&db=g484_b4020 survey] by Thursday. Why can't you do both the input session and K-LUG? You can, if you leave K-LUG early, sessions are:
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| What: Community input sessions for new Rochester superintendent
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| When: 7 p.m. Thursday
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| Where: Gibbs Elementary School, 5525 56th St. N.W. OR Kellogg Middle School, 503 17th St. N.E. OR Willow Creek Middle School, 2425 11th Ave. S.E.
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| === Social: Thursday February 24th===
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| We'll be viewing the Linux documentary "Revolution OS". It runs ~1.5 hours, so we'll start at 6 pm. RCTC's Heintz Center, in or near our normal meeting room HA107. To try to make this a more "movie-like" atmosphere, please bring your own (non-alcoholic) beverage if you wish, and a quiet snack to share.
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| === Lunch: Thursday February 17th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday February 10th ===
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| Steve Severson has volunteered to present on Android apps at IBM and/or rooting an Android.
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| -> When: Thursday February 10th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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| -> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107 or nearby
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| === Social: Friday January 28th ===
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| We'll be bowling at Byron Lanes. Please try to be there at 6:45 so we can get through the ball/shoe obtainment process and hopefully figure out if we need any more/less lanes before it gets too crowded. Our reservation is for 7 pm, we've got 2 lanes at the moment.
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| Costs for bowling are $2/person/game, with shoe rental being $1. They have a full bar, and on Fridays they also serve pizza, if anyone is interested in a snack before or after the games.
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| This is a family/friends-friendly event, please let Tina know if you have young children coming so we can ask in advance for a bumper lane to be set up if necessary.
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| === Lunch: Thursday January 20th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| === "Technical Meeting": Thursday January 13th, 6:00 pm ===
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| Next Meeting - Dennis DeLorme ZigBee Protocol and XBee wireless Communication modules demo.
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| -> When: Thursday January 13th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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| -> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA109
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| Room HA107 (or HA109 depending on construction issues)
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| Also '''Elections!''' Please submit your nominations for president, vice president, and treasurer.
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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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