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Our first batch of shirts came out rather nice, especially for the price. We have folk who didn't get in on the first order. Please browse the deals here, and contact Tim if interested. (We need a minimum order of 4)

Technical Meeting: Flood Relief...Date Flexible

Location CompuSwap - (Near Whistle Binkies South)

The current proposal for our Oct meeting is that we dig in and help Steve Severson with a United Way Flood Relief Project. The recent flood in SE Minnesota meant that many victims lost their computers. The United Way Tech Team (and Steve) are coordinating a couple of hardware build parties to ready 200+ CompuSwap systems for deployment to people, nonprofits and schools throughout SE MN. K-Lug helped with this type of event after Katrina and it is actually a lot of fun! A little cleaning, a little installing of diskdrives and memory and a little boot testing.

We plan to volunteer during one or more of these time sessions

Wed, Oct 03, 2007 08:00 am to 12:00 pm: (20 slots) [Register]
Wed, Oct 03, 2007 01:00 pm to 05:00 pm: (20 slots) [Register]
Sat, Oct 13, 2007 09:00 am to 01:00 pm: (20 slots) [Register]
Sat, Oct 27, 2007 09:00 am to 01:00 pm: (20 slots) [Register]

Lunch: Thursday October 18th

11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

Technical Meeting: Swap/Sale Thursday November 8th

Swap meet!! 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, rounded up to the nearest dollar.

When: Thursday, November 8th, 6pm

Where: TBD. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm.

Attendance will include KLUG, members of PCIG, IBM Ham Radio Club(?), students from RCTC, and the general public.

We need your help! In order to make this a success, we need all of you to pitch in. How? There's all sorts of ways you can help, please sign up for these tasks below.

-Bring your stuff to sell/swap. Everyone.

-Update our sale flier from last year with the new logo, date, location, etc. Volunteer_needed_here

-Print and show this revised Sale Flyer to friends. Everyone.

-Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.35 per pound, rounded up to the nearest dollar for ease of making change). Everyone.

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

-Man the recycling area, do the weighing, cost figuring, and providing of change. Volunteer_needed_here

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

-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 Fox

-Making some (Ubuntu?) CDs to give away. - Steve Fox

-Get a location - Tina W.

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

-KLUG mailing list and wiki - Tina W.

-IBM calendar - Tim Massaro

-PCIG website - Tim Massaro

-Ham radio club - by way of Tim Massaro

-Mayo classifieds - Volunteer_needed_here

-Craigslist - Tim Massaro

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

-UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy - Volunteer_needed_here

-RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy - Volunteer_needed_here

-IBM White Building(664) - post hard copy - Steve Severson

-Venture Computer - send email of flyer, request posting - Steve Severson

-Wherever else you can think of. Volunteer_needed_here

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.

Planned Social: November, TBD

What would you like to do? Please submit suggestions/requests to the email list or off-list directly to Tina.

Planned Lunch: Thursday November 15th

11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday December 13th

Gaming night at Lounge51 (formerly Xgames) with PCIG, unless someone else wants to research other options. Research I did last year on other options can be found at the Old News page. Lounge51 details that were current as of December 2006:

Location: Lounge51, 115 North Broadway, this is next door to the Senior Center and just south of the railroad tracks. This is NOT the old Xgames location. If you're not sure about finding parking, there's free parking after 5 pm just around the corner in the Center Street ramp.

When: Thursday December 13th, 6 pm. However they open at 10 am, so you're welcome to start earlier. Also, while Lounge51's posted closing time is 9 pm, if three or more people want to keep playing and they're paying hourly rates, Lounge51 will stay open later.

Cost: $5/hour if a non-member. Other options are memberships or day passes. Snacking options: Pop, sugar, snack foods, basically anything that doesn't actually require a food license for them to sell.

Games available (and # of simultaneous players allowed): They have 24 computers. See here for an old list of games. Many more are now available. As far as licensing, that varies. Some games are available on every computer at once, and for those it's not available all at once it sounds like things are at least improved over Xgames' limitations. Examples I was given on the phone were:

-Age of Empires (version not specified), all machines

-Battlefield 2 - 10

-Counter Strike 1.6 - 6

-Counter Strike Source - 12

-Warcraft III - all machines

If there is a particular game you want to know about, I can call to ask. If there's a lot of interest in a particular game they don't currently have enough licenses for AND you are willing to pre-pay, they'd look into getting additional licenses for us. Besides computer games, they also have a big screen tv, with an Xbox, PS2, PS3, Gamecube, DDR pad, Guitar Hero, and lots of games to go with them.

Planned Lunch: Thursday December 21st

11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

Planned Social: December, TBD

Does anyone want to do anything else in the month of December? Input requested.

Planned Technical Meeting: Tuesday January 8th

Presenter needed. See our list of requests if you need some ideas.

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.

Planned Social: January 2008, TBD

What would you like to do? Some ideas can be found here, or feel free to be original.

Planned Lunch: Thursday January 18th

11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court sort of near Barnes&Noble.

Future Social: TBD

Paintball at Skyline Raceway. Exact date and time will be announced when known. More details on the Social page, or pester Paul Kessler.

Old News Items

See the OldNews page.