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| | = K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group = |
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| == LUG News ==
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| === Lunch Meeting: Thursday November 16th ===
| | 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. |
| 11:30 am near the Chinese restaurant in the Galleria.
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| === Planned Social: TBD, November ===
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| Suggestions welcome. If no suggestions, will be a walking night on Monday November 27th. Meet at Panera South by 6:30 pm, dress warm, prepare to walk ~1 hour 20 minutes with socializing and warming beverages at Panera afterwards. Arriving late will make it hard for you to catch up with us.
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| === Planned Technical Meeting: TBD, December === | | == LUG News == |
| Our traditional December meeting is gaming somewhere. Some ideas have been gathered (below). Feel free to suggest other ideas.
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| Investigated possibilities here include
| | 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]. |
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| -computer gaming at Lounge 51 (formerly Xgames) with a charge per hour
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| -Xbox gaming at Chateau late at night with a per person charge and at most 4 play at a time per room but multiple rooms would be available
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| -Xbox gaming at Chateau with a room reservation fee with at most 4 play at a time
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| -free board games at Chateau for free with other families
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| All of these things except the one where we have to commit to paying a room reservation fee are things that are open to the public. Again, suggestions are welcome for date, time, or activity. Our scheduled December meeting date is Tuesday December 12th. We currently do not have a room reserved in RCTC, since I assumed this activity would take place off-campus, but I could work on getting it for us if we thought we'd need it.
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| | === 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. |
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| === Planned Social: Monday December 18th ===
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| 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 on Monday December 18th. 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.
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| Short version: Monday December 18th, 6:30 pm, Panera South, dress warm we're walking outside, don't plan to be done until at least 8 pm.
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| === Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th ===
| | 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. |
| Plone by Eldon Nelson, with PCIG.
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| === Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th ===
| | 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. |
| Paint Shop Pro, with PCIG. Note this is not our usual date, nor a truly Linux option, but given the amount of interest in Robert Nix's GIMP presentation I thought there might be interest in comparing/contrasting.
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| | 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. |
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| === Technical Meeting: Swap Sale Thursday November 9th ===
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| Swap meet!!
| | === Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th === |
| Buy/Sell/Trade - at this annual event, even the general public can bring computer / gadget related gear to sell or trade, or just come to browse for the bargins. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm. We also plan to have a truck available to recycle old equipment at a price of $0.35 a pound When: Thurs, Nov 9th 6pm
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| Where: University Center Rochester Heintz Center in room HA108.
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| Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm. Location: RCTC room [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA108] Attendance will include be members of [http://www.pcig.info PCIG], IBM Ham Radio Club, students from RCTC, and the general public.
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| ---- | | 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]. |
| K-LUG Club members, we NEED YOUR HELP! How?
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| -Bring your stuff to sell/swap.
| | 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. |
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| -Print and Show this [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/ef/Swapflyer_2006.pdf Sale Flyer] to friends
| | As usual we are [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBM2PG teaming up with the geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage. |
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| -Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.35/pound).
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| -Bring a bathroom scale that's accurate at low weight ranges, so we can figure out the appropriate recycling fee to charge.
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| -Bring your truck and be willing to take a load to the recycling during the recycling center's open hours (Mondays-Saturdays, 8-5). (Pat S. and Tim M.)
| | === Virtual Social: Thursday May 14th === |
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| -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). (Steve F. and Steve S.)
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| -Making some Ubuntu CDs to give away. (Dave Berg)
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| -Posting
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| | === 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). |
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| Volunteers are needed to post to many locations. Please sign up to be the poster for the following (suggestions welcome):
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| -KLUG mailing list and wiki - Tina W.
| | === Old News Items === |
| | | See the [[OldNews]] page. |
| -IBM calendar - Tim M.
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| -PCIG website - Tim M.
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| -Ham radio club - Tim M.
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| -Mayo classifieds - Pat S.
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| -Craigslist - Tim M.
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| -Rochester Freecycle (limited to free pick-up of non-swapped items headed for recycling at the end of the swap) - Steve F.
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| -UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy - Ren T.
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| -RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy - Tim M. (I've made up something already, go [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/ef/Swapflyer_2006.pdf here] and print)
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| -Wherever else you can think of
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| 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.
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| === Mister House 2nd Opportunity: Monday October 30th ===
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| A second opportunity for you to see the Mister House presentation! 7 pm, directions are [http://brucewinter.googlepages.com/directionstomyhouse here].
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| === Social: Thursday October 26th ===
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| 5:30 pm Frisbee golf at East Park. Weather-related cancellation will be announced around noon to email list and wiki if necessary.
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| 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.
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| === Lunch Meeting: Thursday October 19th ===
| | MediaWiki help [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Text_color 1] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_color_formatting_help 2] |
| Come one, come all, at 11:30 am to the vicinity of the Chinese resturant in the Galleria food court.
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| === Technical Meeting: Tuesday October 10th ===
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| 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.
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| Some details on Mr House: http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/
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| Directions and map to Mister House can be found [http://brucewinter.googlepages.com/directionstomyhouse here].
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday, September 14th ===
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| Open source in Croatia, Croatian government. Guest speaker Vlatko Kosturjak, from Croatia, temporarily in the US. Room will be HA108, our new "permanent" location.
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| Wink has been postponed. [http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Wink] software used for making demos of new products. Records screen sessions and audio.
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| === Old News Items ===
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| See the [[OldNews]] page.
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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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