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| | = K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group = |
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| == LUG News ==
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| === Thursday December 14th ===
| | 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. |
| If you missed gaming on Tuesday but still want known faces to play with, join the PCIG on Thursday for their gaming night. Same place, same time.
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| === Planned Social: Monday December 18th === | | == LUG News == |
| 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: Similar to November. 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.
| | 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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| === Planned Lunch: Thursday December 21st ===
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| Meet up with those geeks who aren't or haven't yet left town for the holidays. 11:30 am, near the Chinese restaurant in the Galleria
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| === New Years Eve party? === | | === In person, indoor social: Tuesday December 3rd === |
| The idea has been brought up to have a party, somewhere, on New Years Eve. Suggestions (volunteers?) are needed for where to host this. Are you willing to volunteer your house? If you're willing to open your home we can definintely make it a potluck, you wouldn't be stuck providing food/beverages. Or do you know of a place that wouldn't be too packed? As of the November 21st page update, there was no positive response for this idea.
| | Mayo Planetarium, for a Community Education presentation on Cosmology. Ages 12+. |
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| | 6:30-8 pm, pre-registration required |
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| === Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th ===
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| Plone by Eldon Nelson, with PCIG. Also, KLUG officer elections. Please submit your nominations for president, vice president, and treasurer to the email list prior to the day of the election. Self nominations are accepted.
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| Description of Plone:
| | https://rochester.ce.eleyo.com/course/22993/2024-fall-adult-catalog/mayo-planetarium-s-cosmology |
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| Plone is a web based open source content management system (CMS) built off of the Python programming language. What do I need a content management system for? I'm not a book publisher or magazine; even though my glossy finish might make you think that way. The person that needs a content management system is every knowledge worker - which today, is everyone. We all need ways of managing the knowledge we work with and content types that are flexible to match the work we do. In the past, I've loved wiki for filling part of this role, but as I look at what wiki gets you it is not the whole picture. Sometimes, you need a tool chest instead of a hammer - this is where Plone fits in as your own secret tool chest.
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| What you get with Plone is a scalable, object oriented, pluggable system that handles all of your content management needs. Plone itself is actually a collection of plugins that give you the code to represent the objects that will eventually represent your data. So you might ask, on what is Plone built upon if it is just a collection of plugins? It is actually built off a very complete web framework for the Python scripting language named Zope. So yes, it is a collection of utilities from Python -> Zope -> Plone to get to the tool, but all of that hierarchy gives you a full framework to do everything and hooks and methods ready for your use.
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| With Plone you get rock solid access control that can be as granular as you want. You can integrate Plone plugins into your site to transform it to include seamlessly complex structures such as: bulletin boards, issue trackers, picture galleries, and more or use out of the box calendaring. Pretty much, Plone quickly, without the need for any coding, turns into your Swiss Army knife of web interactivity – all the while, maintaining a coherent look and feel and security of Plone.
| | === Virtual Board Gaming Social: Friday December 6th === |
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| During my Plone presentation I will be doing things a little differently than traditional KLUG or PCIG meetings. I’ll be showing part of my presentation through the use of screencasts to demonstrate activities that I have recorded before and edited into consumable nuggets of interest. I’ll also be using screencasts from the Plone.org website itself, so you may or may not want to watch their intro videos before you come – depending on how entertained you will be by them. I’ll be bringing some popcorn to keep you engaged – so look forward to a treat! Of course, a technical meeting isn’t any good without some hands on, in the dirt, demonstration. For that, I’ll be doing some live manipulation of Plone before your very eyes.
| | Meeting link to socialize [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/71720268402?pwd=4OgDhJavJVW4zVshAMBE2O8SaoOA7Y.1 here]. Play at [https://en.boardgamearena.com/ Board Game Arena]. |
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| I hope you will enjoy this fun presentation.
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| Eldon Nelson ( eldon_nelson@ieee.org )
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| Plone
| | === Virtual Technical Meeting or Social: Thursday January 9th, 2025 === |
| http://www.plone.org
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| | Meeting link to be here later. |
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| === Planned Social: TBD, January ===
| | KLUG officer elections. |
| Some interest has been expressed in having an introduction to curling. Due to limited ice availability in the curling season, the hands on intro would have to be a weekend activity in January. You'd need to plan on at least half a day, since we'd have to go to Owatonna. Please let me know your interest level on this potential activity.
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| | Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know. |
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| === Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th ===
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| 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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| === Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday March 8th ===
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| Second Life, with PCIG. Part of the presentation will be virtual, if you can't attend because you're home with the kids maybe you'd still want to tune in for that portion.
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| === Social: Monday November 27th ===
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| Outside trail walking. 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. Don't be late or you won't catch up with us.
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| === Lunch Meeting: Thursday November 16th ===
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| 11:30 am near the Chinese restaurant in the Galleria. Discussion about December gaming options or desired social activities would be appreciated.
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| === Technical Meeting: Swap Sale Thursday November 9th === | | === Old News Items === |
| | | See the [[OldNews]] page. |
| Swap meet!!
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| 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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| K-LUG Club members, we NEED YOUR HELP! How?
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| -Bring your stuff to sell/swap.
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| -Print and Show this [http://www.k-lug.org/images/e/ef/Swapflyer_2006.pdf Sale Flyer] to friends
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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.)
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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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| | | MediaWiki help [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Text_color 1] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_color_formatting_help 2] |
| 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.
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| -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 ===
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| 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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