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= K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group =


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


=== Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday November 9th ===
We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see [http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings a list of ideas] if you're willing but lacking a topic.
Swap meet!!  Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm. Also hopefully in attendance will be members of PCIG, ham radio club, students from RCTC, and the general public. But in order to do this, we NEED YOUR HELP!  How?


-Bring your stuff to sell/swap.


-Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.35/pound).
== LUG News ==


-Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge.
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].


-Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5).


-Coordinate the pizza fundraiser, buy pizza and pop plus bring paper plates and disposable cups in quantities sufficient for those who show up.  Will be reimbursed out of the profits from the fundraiser (charge is a donation).


-Making some Ubuntu CDs to give away


-Posting




Volunteers are needed to post to many locations. Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome):
=== 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.


-KLUG mailing list and wiki - Tina W.
Saturday April 25th


-IBM calendar - Tim M.
2 pm


-PCIG website - Tim M.
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.


-Ham radio club - Tim M.
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.


-Mayo classifieds
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.


-Craigslist - Tim M.


-Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap)


-RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy (I've made up something already, go [[Link here]] and print)
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th ===
6:00 - 7:30 pm


-Wherever else you can think of
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].


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.


Please RSVP for what tasks you can help with. If I haven't heard from anyone on a task, I'll have to start pestering people. This has got to be a group effort to be successful.
As usual we are [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBM2PG teaming up with the geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.


=== Planned Lunch Meeting:  Thursday November 16th ===
11:30 am near the Chinese restaurant in the Galleria.


=== Planned Social:  TBD, November ===
Suggestions welcome.


=== Planned Technical Meeting: TBD, December ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday May 14th ===
Our traditional December meeting is gaming somewhere.  Some ideas have been gathered (will be typed up and posted soon).  Feel free to suggest other ideas.
6 pm


=== Planned Social:  Monday December 18th ===
Meeting link here eventually.
Long version:  Being a couch or computer potato and eating all of that good food is just too tempting this time of year.  Join us for an evening away from both of those.  Meet with other geeks to walk for ~1 hour and 20 minutes, and plan for time afterwards to socialize over a cup of something warm.  6:30 pm, Panera South (just inside the doors to the right).  Please don't be late, it'd be hard to catch up with us.  Dress warm, we're walking outside for the whole time, no matter what the weather.  This is a regularly occuring event on Monday evenings, so if you can't make this one feel free to join us for others.


Short version:  6:30 pm, Panera South, dress warm we're walking outside, don't plan to be done until at least 8 pm.




=== Mister House 2nd Opportunity: Monday October 30th ===
=== Upcoming Outdoor Socials TBD ===  
A second opportunity for you to see the Mister House presentation!  7 pm, directions are [http://brucewinter.googlepages.com/directionstomyhouse here].
We're planning pickleball, and a geocaching hike on a new trail at Northern Heights Park (start on the WSW side and walk clockwise).


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| '''Name''' || '''# of attendees'''
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|Robert Bleimeyer || 3
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|José de Leon || 1
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|Mark Diez || 1
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|Bill Marshall || 1
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|Joe Sedelmeyer || 1
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|Mike Fallenstein || 2
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=== Social:  Thursday October 26th ===
=== Old News Items ===
5:30 pm  Frisbee golf at East Park.  Weather-related cancellation will be announced around noon to email list and wiki if necessary.
See the [[OldNews]] page.
 
6:30 pm  Warming beverages and/or dinner at Whistle Binkies.  You do not have to play frisbee golf to attend this portion, just meet us there.  This will occur whether or not we have to cancel frisbee golf.
 
=== Lunch Meeting:  Thursday October 19th ===
Come one, come all, at 11:30 am to the vicinity of the Chinese resturant in the Galleria food court.


=== Technical Meeting:  Tuesday October 10th ===
Mister House - Home automation - road trip to a Rochester home being controlled by computers.  We're limited to ~25 participants.  If there are closer to 50, we might be able to split and have a second session.  Please sign up, in order, below or email Tina to get added.  Indicate if you could only attend if it were not the original October 10th date, you'd be at the head of the list if we had a second date.
Some details on Mr House: http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/


Directions and map to Mister House can be found [http://brucewinter.googlepages.com/directionstomyhouse here].


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday, September 14th ===
Open source in Croatia, Croatian government.  Guest speaker Vlatko Kosturjak, from Croatia, temporarily in the US.  Room will be HA108, our new "permanent" location.


Wink has been postponed.  [http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Wink] software used for making demos of new products. Records screen sessions and audio.


=== Old News Items ===
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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.



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