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=== Technical Meeting + Disc Golf: Thursday September 13th ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday November 13th ===
BestBuy had to bow out.  Our substitute is Jon G on Perl.  This is planned to be a short presentation, followed by anyone interested heading over to East Park (walk) or RCTC's main campus by the sports stadium (very short drive) to play disc golf.
6 pm


6 pm, RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
Meeting link removed.


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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.


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




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


=== Social #2:  Friday August 24th ===
Meeting link removed.
6 pm.  Skyline Raceway for miniature golf.  $5/person, cash only.  They also have gokarts and "panning".


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




=== Social #1:  <strike>Sunday August 12th</strike> Thursday August 16th ===
Rockets and kites!


<strike>Noon.</strike> Rescheduled due to rain to Thursday August 16th, 6 pm
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Monday October 6th ===
6:00 - 7:30 pm


At the Century High School field, on the north side of the building.
[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.


Bring your rockets and your kites, your family and friends.  Kevin Arhleger has volunteered to be our Launch Master again. Rockets if it's not windy, kites if it is - last year we managed to skirt the line and do both, this spring it was rockets only.
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 [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBCE7R geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.


Details from the Launch Master:


Rain, tornado warnings, acts of god (frogs, locusts, etc.) are all cause for cancellation.
=== Walking Cascade Lake in-person social (outside), Monday September 15th ===
6:00 pm


I'll play it by ear for rockets, if the wind speed is above 15mph our field won't be big enough.
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.




If you have a rocket make sure to have:
=== Virtual Social: Thursday September 11th ===
6 pm


- rocket engine, smaller is better--our biggest launch took half a mile to come down I recommend A and B engines if you want your rocket back
Meeting link removed.


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


- wadding, most engine packs come with it (look for the ones that do)--this helps prevent your parachute cord from melting mid flight


- Hobby Lobby sells rockets (kits and complete rockets) as well as engines.  They're not open on Sundays.  Tim volunteered:  There is a [http://www.hobbylobby.com/weekly/coupon.cfm
40% off coupon] at Hobby Lobby in case anyone needs a new  Millennium Falcon, antimatter fuel, e10 engine or something


- Everything Hobby has a wider selection of engines as well as igniters and wadding if you have old engines you would like to use. They're also not open on Sundays.
=== Outside Social: Thursday August 28th ===


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 August 16th  ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.




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


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday August 9th ===
Meeting link removed.
Kevin A will present on DEF CON.


DEF CON is one of the oldest continuous running hacker conventions around, and also one of the largest. Kevin has attended several times and just got back from this year, he's eager to share his experiences.  He says this year (DEFCON 20) was the biggest ever!  At his presentation, he will talk about the conference, and computer security in general.  Questions will be welcome, come prepared.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


6 pm, RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]
=== Outdoor Social: Monday July 21st  ===
Olmsted County Fair night!  6 pm.


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


[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.


=== Social:  Thursday July 26th ===
Disc golf! 6 pm at RCTC.  If you don't have your own disc that's fine, come out anyway.  Don't know where to meet?  Here's a [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217033483939111930234.0004a3795f42da701ae0b&msa=0&ll=44.015742,-92.422206&spn=0.003541,0.006942&iwloc=0004a37962daae4746296 map].


=== Virtual Social: Thursday July 10th, 2025 ===
6 pm


=== Lunch: Thursday July 19th  ===
Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76063786273?pwd=SxxHm75TEnLIHSstcVTPHKxzwpZuUs.1 here.]
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.


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


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday July 12th===
Robert Nix will present on Raspberry Pi.
---------
Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer...very low cost $25 or $35,
HD output, USB connections or keyboard.  GPIO input...We'll have a
couple systems on hand to demo and inspect (Debian and XBMC).
See more at  http://www.raspberrypi.org or see it in person Thursday!
---------


6 pm, RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
=== 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.


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]
Food trailers are supposed to be open by 11 am, 11:30 am will give us a little better chance at getting parking.


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


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


And here are Robert's [http://www.rpural.net/The%20Raspberry%20Pi%20-%207-12-2012.pdf slides]
Meeting link removed.


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




=== Lunch:  Thursday June 21st ===
=== Mini golf outside social, Wednesday May 14th ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
6 pm


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


=== Planned Technical Meeting:  June TBD ===
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.
<strike> Speaker needed, please let Tim or Tina know if you're willing to volunteer.  Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list requested topics] page. </strike>


No presenter stepped forward, so we'll have a social instead.




=== Social: Thursday June 15th ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday May 8th, 2025 ===
Replacing our speakerless technical meeting with a social.  Standard day and time (Thursday June 15th, 6 pm), at Skyline Raceway for miniature golf.  $5/person, cash only.  They also have gokarts and "panning".
6 pm


Meeting link removed


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


=== Lunch:  Thursday May 17th ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.




=== 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.


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday May 10th ===
Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is a pond in this park.
Acu Ilie Dorin will return with a presentation on Bioinformatics.


6 pm, RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
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.


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]


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


Acu provided this summary.
=== Virtual Social: Thursday April 10th, 2025 ===
6 pm


Meeting link removed.


Title:  Open Source Based Applied Bioinformatics
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


Presenter: Acu Ilie Dorin Ph.D.


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


Aproximately two hundred billion cells divide daily to ensure tissue replacemet and turnover essential for our health and longevity. The division and function of each of ~ 6 X10^13 cells that make our body, are carefully and tightly regulated through intricate and redundant signaling networking. However, due to inherent genetic and/or environmental factors, the basal rate of biochemical and cellular aberations increases, and leads to aging, disease and death.
6 pm
Today's clinical practice and biomedical research  generates unprecedented amount of potential valuable data, to be used in discovery, innovation or  medicine.  Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field whereby biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics are integrated with the sole purpose to bring rhyme, reason, meaning and functional context to the newly generated data, which can then be integrated into models and practice for an optimal life style or personalized medicine.


Using Debian GNU/Linux as main operating system, I am going to present a brief practical overview of few major Open Source bioinformatics applications such as EMBOSS (European Molecular Biology Open Source Software - in-silico gene and protein processing, MEV (microarray gene profiling), ImageJ quantification and analysis of 2 and 3D images) and
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).
Pymol: biomolecular crystal structure analysis(Pymol) and others.
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].
For more informations you can visit 
http://www.acucorporation.com/index.php/Training/Applied-Bioinformatics


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].




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


=== Social:  Sunday May 6th ===
Meeting link removed.
Kites + Rockets


1 pm at the Century High School field, on the north side of the building.  Bring your rockets and your kites, your family and friends.  Kevin Arhleger has volunteered to be our Launch Master again.  Rockets if it's not windy, kites if it is, last year we managed to skirt the line and do both.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.




Details from the Launch Master:


Rain, tornado warnings, acts of god (frogs, locusts, etc.) are all cause for cancellation.
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday February 13th, 2025 ===
6 pm


I'll play it by ear for rockets, if the wind speed is above 15mph our field won't be big enough.
Meeting link removed.


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


If you have a rocket make sure to have:


- rocket engine, smaller is better--our biggest launch took half a mile to come down I recommend A and B engines if you want your rocket back


- igniter
=== Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 9th, 2025 ===
6 pm


- wadding, most engine packs come with it (look for the ones that do)--this helps prevent your parachute cord from melting mid flight
Meeting link removed.


KLUG officer elections.


- Hobby Lobby sells rockets (kits and complete rockets) as well as engines.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


- Everything Hobby has a wider selection of engines as well as igniters and wadding if you have old engines you would like to use.






=== Social:  Thursday April 26th ===
Disc golf! 6 pm at RCTC.  If you don't have your own disc that's fine, come out anyway.  Don't know where to meet?  Here's a [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217033483939111930234.0004a3795f42da701ae0b&msa=0&ll=44.015742,-92.422206&spn=0.003541,0.006942&iwloc=0004a37962daae4746296 map].
=== Lunch:  Thursday April 19th ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday April 12th ===
Tim Massaro will present on 3D printing.
"Fun with 3D Printing, Shapeways.com
Remember the replicator from Star Trek where personnel could press a button and out would pop food, spare starship parts or other everyday objects? Well technology is not ready yet to allow us to manipulate molecular structure at this level, but 3D Printing is the next best thing. 3D printing involves using a machine that looks like a proprinter on steroids, the machine takes a design file and through an additive process builds a three dimensional object. 3D printing is now accessible enough so that nearly anyone can design a 3D object using drawing software such as Google Sketchup, upload the design to a site like Shapeways.com, submit credit card information and receive a physical 3D copy of their design in the mail. I know because I recently took the time to do just that. This month, come learn a bit about 3D printing and have a look at my first creation, a Caesar Cipher Decoder Ring."
6 pm, RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
=== Social:  Thursday March 30th ===
Disc golf!  6 pm at RCTC.  If you don't have your own disc that's fine, but it helps if you let us know in advance if you'll need to borrow one.
=== Lunch:  Thursday March 15th ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday March 8th ===
We'll be field tripping to the Premier Bank building downtown, for a presentation on KVM.  The details:
Open Source Virtualization and Cloud Computing with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)
PRESENTER: Acu Ilie Dorin Ph.D.
TIME : Thursday 8 March 6:00 PM
LOCATION:
ACU Corporation
421 First AVE SW Suite 305 - Rochester MN 55902
Third Floor on Premier Professional Building
Park Free (after 5:30 PM) on the Back of the Premier Bank Professional Building -
Enter on the Back Entrance Follow the Signs to ACU Corporation
Also, PCIG elections.
=== Social - Dinner and a Movie:  Friday February 24th ===
<strike>We have some options.
If there's enough snow, there will be a cardboard sled challenge on Saturday February 4th, as part of WinterFest.  This is being organized by Gamehaven Boy Scouts, we could spectate at Willow Creek Golf Course.  This year's flier is available at http://www.gamehavenbsa.org/documents/CardboardSledChallengePoster2012.pdf .  (Last year's flier is available [http://www.gamehavenbsa.org/documents/2011sledflyer2.pdf here]).  It looks like 9:45 am would be a good time to arrive, to see the sleds before they are raced/demolished.</strike>
The Cardboard Sled Challenge was cancelled due to lack of snow.
Dinner at BB's Pizzaria at 6:15 pm.  The exact movie schedule for Chateau (East Circle Drive, near Shopko N) isn't released yet, but there should be ~7-7:45 pm showings of various movies that are potentially of interest, including Ghost Rider and Star Wars Episode 1 (3D).
RSVP's to Tina for dinner would be appreciated so we know how big a table to get, although hopefully we've chosen a restaurant where if you suddenly find yourself in need of dinner and company on Friday night you can still join us.  Reservations as of Friday midday are for 7 adults and 2 high chairs, under "Tina".
=== Lunch:  Thursday February 16th ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
=== Technical Meeting:  February 9th ===
Matt Bruzek on BackTrack.
BackTrack is a Linux operating system that contains a unique collection of tools for security experts and penetration testers.  The presentation will cover an overview of the system and some of its features. 
-> When: Thursday February 9th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
-> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
Also, PCIG nominations.
=== Lunch: Thursday January 19th ===
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
=== Social:  Friday January 13th ===
We'll be bowling at Byron Lanes.  7 pm.  This is a family/friends-friendly event, hope to see you there.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 12th ===
Our own Kevin Arhelger will reprise his 2008 presentation, telling us about [http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-19/dc-19-index.html Defcon 19 (2011)].
Short demo by Lad Roering on Windows 8 (development version).
Also, K-LUG officer elections (president, vice president, treasurer) and PCIG nominations.


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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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