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=== CANCELLED Social:  Saturday September 9th CANCELLED ===
Flatwater canoe trip down the Root River.  See the [[SocialMeeting]] page.  Please sign up by noon on Thursday.


=== Social:  Wednesday August 23rd ===
Frisbee golf, 6:30 pm, East Park.  Bring friends, bring frisbees.


=== Lunch:  August 17th ===
11:30 am at the Galleria, near the Chinese restaurant.


=== Technical Meeting:  Tuesday August 8th ===
We currently have no meeting topic.  You can come to RCTC's HA104, find a janitor to open the room, and discuss whatever geeky topic crosses your mind.  Or you can go to X-Games, although so far nobody has RSVP'd that they're going to be there.  And/or, if you have IBM campus privledges, you can attend PCIG's presentation on VMware on Thursday August 10th.


=== Social: Thursday July 27 ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday November 14th ===
Join us for a round of shoe throwing at East Park, 6:30 pm.  If people have better equipment to bring/share, we can hopefully upgrade from shoes to golf disks (if you missed the last social and are confused, we're playing frisbee golf).  Lightening or hail, stay home.  Otherwise we play rain or shine.
6 pm


=== Lunch: July 20 ===
Meeting link (removed)


Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.  We will be inviting the Mayo open-source-discussion email list participants to attend as well.
Agenda
-Sharing your new tech discoveries
-Socializing
-Choosing a December board game night (Friday December 6th, Friday December 13th, Saturday December 14th)


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday July 13 **Note location change** ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
'''Ruby on Rails''' by Jose de Leon. Ruby is an open source scripting language and Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that makes developing web applications easy. Jose will demo an application he has written in Ruby on Rails and will discuss the International Rails Conference (http://railsconf.org/) he recently attended.
This is a joint meeting with [http://www.pcig.info PCIG]. Construction continues in the computer lab wing, so this meeting will occur in [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA104].


=== Gimp Challenge I:  due date: July 8 ===
Also, thank you for your efforts at our fall trash cleanup.  The Public Works Department gave these summary measures of the city-wide efforts: "Over 620 pounds of litter was collected by A Litter Bit Better volunteers during the fall event. An estimated 1.179 volunteers picked up 64 sites that covered many locations around Rochester."  This was 12 loads of trash, removed from our environment!
Now that we all are skilled in the art of "The Gimp", Chris, Kevin and I thought we should have some fun with it.  The challenge is to pick your favorite two hated (or loved?) celebrites and Gimp together an image depicting a Celebrity Boxing style match. Who will it be? Gates vs Linus, Bush vs Clinton, Steve Fox vs The Gimp Circle Method? Start with one of the images suggested on the [[GimpChallenge]] Page or find/create your own. Images should be posted in gimp format (so we can see your tricks and techniques) and png format (cause we are lazy). Images are due July 8th so judging can occur prior to our meeting July 13th.


If you need an account to the wiki so you can post your picture, please send an email to the list.  Include the user name you wish to have.


=== Lunch: June 15 ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday October 10th ===
6 pm


Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.
Yes, timing worked out that you'll see us twice in the same week.


=== Technical Meeting: Tuesday June 13 **Note location change** ===
Meeting link removed.
Baring snowstorms or any other emergencies, Robert Nix will present on The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program, [http://www.gimp.org GIMP]).  There is summer construction in the computer lab wing, so this meeting will occur in [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html HA104].


=== Social:  Tuesday June 6 ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
Ice cream social to be held in a park near Steve Fox's, 7 pm.  For more details and to sign up for the ice cream related item you'll bring, see the [[SocialMeeting]] page.


=== Lunch: May 18 ===


Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.  Look for geeks.
=== Potential October outdoor social - 18 holes of mini golf ===
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/new-18-hole-mini-golf-course-coming-to-rochester
https://krocnews.com/rochester-mns-largest-mini-golf-course-is-about-to-open/


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday May 11 ===
Chris Abbey will present on SSH.


=== Lunch: April 20 ===
=== Socials brainstorming: Fall or winter ===
-Murder mystery.  The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started.


Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.
-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary


=== Technical Meeting: Tuesday April 11 ===
-Bowlocity laser tag.  5-6 people minimum needed.
Dennis DeLoreme on his !Supercomputer Cluster.


=== Lunch: March 16 ===
-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.


Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday March 9 ===
=== Pending potential presentations  ===
Due to a death in the family, there will be no GIMP presentation.  Instead please bring topics for discussion.


To be rescheduled:
Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize
Robert Nix's presentation on using [http://www.gimp.org Gimp], the image editor.


=== Technical Meeting: October 11th ===


Bob Techentin is giving a tcl/tk presentation. [[Minutes]]


=== Technical Meeting: September 9th ===
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Monday October 7th ===
6:15 - 7:30 pm


Luka Bajzer will be presenting the Ruby programming language. The first part of the presentation will focus on the history and features of the language, where to use it and where not to use it. The second (optional) portion of the presentation will be a more interactive format.
This is the first time Rochester is running a fall edition of Litter Bit Better, so we're going to go clean up a second time this year.  Pine Ridge Estates Park, which you may recognize as where we have previously ice cream picnicked, and flown kites.  [https://www.google.com/maps?q=N+43%C2%B0+59.280+W+092%C2%B0+29.070+(GCAYC0F)+ Map]


=== Technical Meeting: August 9th ===
Bags provided.  You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty.  No shoreline, yes woods (mowed park + woods = 5.1 acres), and you might want a headlamp.


<s>Luka Bajzer will be presenting the Ruby programming language. The first part of the presentation will focus on the history and features of the language, where to use it and where not to use it. The second (optional) portion of the presentation will be a more interactive format.</s> Reschedule due to bad weather.
As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCAYC0F_15-andahalf-cito-and-rochesters-litter-bit-better geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.


=== Social Meeting: August 4th ===


We're going to X-Games (downtown Rochester on Broadway) to play some LAN games.
=== Virtual Social: Thursday September 12th ===
6 pm


=== Challenge and Puzzler: Round 3 ===
Meeting link removed.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


The third Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Tina Wood and John Steenbergen won the second round. Good luck!




=== Technical Meeting: July 14th ===
=== Outside Social: Thursday September 5th ===


This will be a joint PCIG/K-LUG meeting. Gary Rolfs from PCIG will be presenting an introduction to Python programming.
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].


=== Meeting Minutes Available ===


The meeting minutes that Kevin Neff has been kind enough to take have now been posted.
=== Outside Social:  Friday August 30th ===


=== Presentation Available ===
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].


Dennis DeLorme's LCD initialization and operation presentation is now available.


=== Challenge and Puzzler: Round 2 ===


The second Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Tina Wood and Kevin Arhelger won the first round. Good luck!
=== Virtual Social: Thursday August 8th ===
6 pm


=== Technical Meeting: June 14th ===
Meeting link removed.


Dennis DeLorme will give a presentation on LCD initialization and operation.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


=== Challenge and Puzzler: Round 1 ===


The first Linux Challenge and Puzzler has been posted. Good luck!
=== Virtual Social: Thursday July 11th ===
6 pm
 
Meeting link removed.
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
 
 
 
=== Outdoor Social:  Thursday June 27th, 11:45 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.
 
Food trailers are supposed to be open by noon, 11:45 am will give us a little better chance at getting parking.
 
 
=== Virtual Social: Thursday June 13th ===
6 pm
 
Meeting link removed
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
 
 
=== Virtual Social: Thursday May 9th ===
6 pm
 
Meeting link removed
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
 
 
 
=== Geocaching in-person social (outside), Friday May 3rd ===
6 pm
 
Park and walk in a neighborhood in NE Rochester.
 
Park near [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3WQ84 1 - Odin] on Whiting Lane NE's cul de sac.  We'll walk from there to a couple of other geocaches ([https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC57FGC 2], [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4RPZ2 3]), then back to #1, and then decide if we're walking or driving to [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC8M3FP 4].
 
 
 
 
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 30th ===
6:15 - 7:30 pm
 
Back to our usual Cascade Lake Park.
 
Bags provided.  You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty.  There is shoreline.
 
As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCAMJX2 geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.
 
 
 
=== Virtual Social: Thursday April 11th ===
Come hang out virtually with your favorite geeks, and share what you've been up to or found interesting.
 
6 pm
 
Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74567357951?pwd=nQjQHcz7eKjaZ5YaHS2UGrat5UVUCv.1 here].
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
 
 
 
=== Virtual Technical Meeting: To be rescheduled ===
Acu Dorin will present on opensource AI software and an effort he and some other folks have made to create a private version of a chatGPT like AI interface
 
 
 
=== Outside Social:  Friday March 22nd, 6 pm ===
 
Geocaching!  The March equinox is an excuse to [https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2024/03/celebrating-the-march-equinox/ find 3 geocaches during the week of the equinox].  If you've never geocached before, this is a great time to join us.  Wear your hiking shoes, long sturdy pants, and otherwise dress for the weather.
 
We will chase 3 multi-caches that start to the east and north of St Marys Hospital
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6G6R5
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XDH0
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XEQV
 
If we have any DNF's, first choice replacement will be:
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC56K4K
 
I skimmed through the logs, and none of our regulars seem to have found these, so hopefully everyone will qualify for the achievement.
 
Parking:
There is a limited quantity of 2 hour parking in St. Marys Park proper.  However, the neighborhood parking permit restriction opens back up starting at 5:30, so by starting at 6 pm you should be able to park on the street (and not be competing with employees for spots) for the duration of our explorations.
 
 
=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday March 14th ===
Speaker cancelled due to illness, will reschedule.
 
Tim Massaro will come to our rescue, and will present on his Partyrock/Blackrock hackathon project, as well as brainstorming some future socials.
 
6 pm
 
Meeting link removed.
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
 
 
 
=== Outside Social:  Saturday February 24th ===
 
It's supposed to be dry all week, there's no snow to fight with, the disc golf holes are present, and Saturday's forecast is for sunshine and a high of 46. So let's play disc golf!
 
Meet outside the RCTC field house, 2 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].
 
 
=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th ===
Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics.
 
6 pm
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
 
 
=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th, 2024 ===
Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics.
 
6 pm
 
And KLUG officer elections.
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Virtual Social: Thursday November 14th

6 pm

Meeting link (removed)

Agenda -Sharing your new tech discoveries -Socializing -Choosing a December board game night (Friday December 6th, Friday December 13th, Saturday December 14th)

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

Also, thank you for your efforts at our fall trash cleanup. The Public Works Department gave these summary measures of the city-wide efforts: "Over 620 pounds of litter was collected by A Litter Bit Better volunteers during the fall event. An estimated 1.179 volunteers picked up 64 sites that covered many locations around Rochester." This was 12 loads of trash, removed from our environment!


Virtual Social: Thursday October 10th

6 pm

Yes, timing worked out that you'll see us twice in the same week.

Meeting link removed.

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


Potential October outdoor social - 18 holes of mini golf

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/new-18-hole-mini-golf-course-coming-to-rochester https://krocnews.com/rochester-mns-largest-mini-golf-course-is-about-to-open/


Socials brainstorming: Fall or winter

-Murder mystery. The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started.

-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary

-Bowlocity laser tag. 5-6 people minimum needed.

-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.


Pending potential presentations

Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize


Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Monday October 7th

6:15 - 7:30 pm

This is the first time Rochester is running a fall edition of Litter Bit Better, so we're going to go clean up a second time this year. Pine Ridge Estates Park, which you may recognize as where we have previously ice cream picnicked, and flown kites. Map

Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. No shoreline, yes woods (mowed park + woods = 5.1 acres), and you might want a headlamp.

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


Virtual Social: Thursday September 12th

6 pm

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


Outside Social: Thursday September 5th

Disc golf! Meet outside the RCTC field house, 6 pm. Here is a map.


Outside Social: Friday August 30th

Disc golf! Meet outside the RCTC field house, 6 pm. Here is a map.


Virtual Social: Thursday August 8th

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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


Virtual Social: Thursday July 11th

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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


Outdoor Social: Thursday June 27th, 11:45 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.

Food trailers are supposed to be open by noon, 11:45 am will give us a little better chance at getting parking.


Virtual Social: Thursday June 13th

6 pm

Meeting link removed

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


Virtual Social: Thursday May 9th

6 pm

Meeting link removed

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


Geocaching in-person social (outside), Friday May 3rd

6 pm

Park and walk in a neighborhood in NE Rochester.

Park near 1 - Odin on Whiting Lane NE's cul de sac. We'll walk from there to a couple of other geocaches (2, 3), then back to #1, and then decide if we're walking or driving to 4.



Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 30th

6:15 - 7:30 pm

Back to our usual Cascade Lake Park.

Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is shoreline.

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


Virtual Social: Thursday April 11th

Come hang out virtually with your favorite geeks, and share what you've been up to or found interesting.

6 pm

Meeting link here.

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


Virtual Technical Meeting: To be rescheduled

Acu Dorin will present on opensource AI software and an effort he and some other folks have made to create a private version of a chatGPT like AI interface


Outside Social: Friday March 22nd, 6 pm

Geocaching! The March equinox is an excuse to find 3 geocaches during the week of the equinox. If you've never geocached before, this is a great time to join us. Wear your hiking shoes, long sturdy pants, and otherwise dress for the weather.

We will chase 3 multi-caches that start to the east and north of St Marys Hospital https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6G6R5 https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XDH0 https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XEQV

If we have any DNF's, first choice replacement will be: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC56K4K

I skimmed through the logs, and none of our regulars seem to have found these, so hopefully everyone will qualify for the achievement.

Parking: There is a limited quantity of 2 hour parking in St. Marys Park proper. However, the neighborhood parking permit restriction opens back up starting at 5:30, so by starting at 6 pm you should be able to park on the street (and not be competing with employees for spots) for the duration of our explorations.


Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday March 14th

Speaker cancelled due to illness, will reschedule.

Tim Massaro will come to our rescue, and will present on his Partyrock/Blackrock hackathon project, as well as brainstorming some future socials.

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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


Outside Social: Saturday February 24th

It's supposed to be dry all week, there's no snow to fight with, the disc golf holes are present, and Saturday's forecast is for sunshine and a high of 46. So let's play disc golf!

Meet outside the RCTC field house, 2 pm. Here is a map.


Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th

Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics.

6 pm

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


Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th, 2024

Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics.

6 pm

And KLUG officer elections.

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




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