Main Page: Difference between revisions

From K-LUG Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
mNo edit summary
 
(376 intermediate revisions by 8 users not shown)
Line 10: Line 10:
== LUG News ==
== LUG News ==


We generally meet monthly for technical presentations (2nd Thursday of the month, 6 pm, virtual), and monthly for socializing (varies).  We no longer meet monthly for lunches, if you are interested in reviving this tradition please [http://k-lug.org/About contact an officer].








=== Social:  Tuesday September 16th===
Disc golf!


6:30 pm - disc golf 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].


=== Outdoor Social:  Saturday April 25  ===
In celebration of [https://nationalkitemonth.org/ National Kite Month], bring your kites and come join us as we try to fly them.


=== Planned Technical Meeting:  Thursday October 9th ===
Saturday April 25th
Marc Thomas, from NORLUG.  "Re-cloudify your life. Moving to your own cloud"


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
2 pm


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]
Location:  [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Redwood+Ln+SW,+Rochester,+MN+55902/@43.989365,-92.4843012,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87f758cbe6ddd805:0xcbd56f452d52bbef That park by Steve Fox's house], officially known as Pine Ridge Estates Park, on Redwood Lane SW.


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
This park has a nice playground for the littles, picnic tables, and room to fly kites, as well as usually being unpopulated. The lack of trees and being on top of a hill mean it's pretty bug free (not that we should hopefully have to worry about that in April) even when there's not enough breeze to fly the kites.


Please bring your family and friends who might want to hang out.  Bring your own kites.  If you don't want to sit at the picnic tables or on the playground equipment, bring your own folding chair.  And bring your own beverage.  Since it's April, we're skipping the traditional ice cream.




=== Planned Lunch:  Thursday October 16th  ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.


=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th ===
6:00 - 7:30 pm


=== Planned Social: October TBD ===
Summit Pointe Park, in NW Rochester. [https://k-lug.org/images/3/38/Summit_Pointe_Park_parking_and_trash_cleanup_boundaries.jpg Park on Shetland Drive NW, and observe the north/south boundaries in the linked map].
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own.  What would you like to do?  Tell Tina or Jon G.


Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. Some pond shoreline.  Unlike our fall CITOs, in the spring we've got plenty of daylight.


=== Planned Technical Meeting:  Thursday November 13th ===
As usual we are [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBM2PG teaming up with the geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.
Speaker needed, please let Tina or Jon G 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.




=== Planned Lunch:  Thursday November 20th  ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.


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


=== Planned Social:  November TBD ===
Meeting link here eventually.
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own.  What would you like to do?  Tell Tina or Jon G.






=== Technical Meeting / Social: December TBD ===
=== Upcoming Outdoor Socials TBD ===  
In December we do something like board or card games, video games, etc because it's just too close to Thanksgiving and Christmas to fit in a social and a speaker.  Have a venue of interest, a type of gaming you want to do, or want to volunteer to host something?  Tell Tina.
We're planning pickleball, and a geocaching hike on a new trail at Northern Heights Park (start on the WSW side and walk clockwise).




=== Planned Lunch:  Thursday December 18th  ===
=== Old News Items ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
See the [[OldNews]] page.
 
 
=== Planned Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 9th, 2015 ===
Speaker needed, please let Tina or Jon G 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.




=== Planned Lunch:  Thursday January 16th, 2015  ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.




=== Planned Social:  January 2015 TBD ===
Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own.  What would you like to do?  Tell Tina or Jon G.


 
MediaWiki help [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Text_color 1] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_color_formatting_help 2]
 
 
=== Pending potential presentations  ===
[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
Oculus Rift], "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games" .  Peter Shabino
 
Jon Gullixson:  gnucash or www :: Mechanize
 
 
=== Planned Socials: Fall or winter ===
-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary
 
-Rock climbing at Prairie Walls
 
-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.
 
-MAME/foosball/ping pong at ... can't be Tim Massaro's anymore...
 
 
 
 
=== Upcoming Meeting Crisis! ===
Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2014. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Tim with suggestions for topics. Should we run some previous sessions again (maybe something you really wanted to see but missed out on)? What type of topics are good, what type are bad?  Also see this page for a list of suggested topics http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings
 
 
=== Old News Items ===
See the [[OldNews]] page.

Latest revision as of 22:45, 18 April 2026


K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group

Note: To request a wiki account, please join the mailing list and post a message.

We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see a list of ideas if you're willing but lacking a topic.


LUG News

We generally meet monthly for technical presentations (2nd Thursday of the month, 6 pm, virtual), and monthly for socializing (varies). We no longer meet monthly for lunches, if you are interested in reviving this tradition please contact an officer.




Outdoor Social: Saturday April 25

In celebration of National Kite Month, bring your kites and come join us as we try to fly them.

Saturday April 25th

2 pm

Location: That park by Steve Fox's house, officially known as Pine Ridge Estates Park, on Redwood Lane SW.

This park has a nice playground for the littles, picnic tables, and room to fly kites, as well as usually being unpopulated. The lack of trees and being on top of a hill mean it's pretty bug free (not that we should hopefully have to worry about that in April) even when there's not enough breeze to fly the kites.

Please bring your family and friends who might want to hang out. Bring your own kites. If you don't want to sit at the picnic tables or on the playground equipment, bring your own folding chair. And bring your own beverage. Since it's April, we're skipping the traditional ice cream.


Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th

6:00 - 7:30 pm

Summit Pointe Park, in NW Rochester. Park on Shetland Drive NW, and observe the north/south boundaries in the linked map.

Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. Some pond shoreline. Unlike our fall CITOs, in the spring we've got plenty of daylight.

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


Virtual Social: Thursday May 14th

6 pm

Meeting link here eventually.


Upcoming Outdoor Socials TBD

We're planning pickleball, and a geocaching hike on a new trail at Northern Heights Park (start on the WSW side and walk clockwise).


Old News Items

See the OldNews page.



MediaWiki help 1 2