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We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see a list of ideas if you're willing but lacking a topic.

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Planned Technical Meeting: June 12th - Android App Development - Jon Tollefson

Thursday, June 12th - 6:00 pm - 7:35 pm
Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
1926 College View Road SE, Rochester, MN 55904

Jon has developed a java based game and published it to open source. This talk will focus on how to setup for and code such an application for Android

Planned Lunch: Thursday June 19th

11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.

IEEE notification from Mike Fallenstein =

Annual Nano/Emerging Technology Day - Rushford, MN, June 14th, 2014

Knowledge Management, Project Management, Information Technology and Services. If you are interested in Nano technology here is your chance to learn more. They will both a youth STEM program (morning, free Nano camp) and free professional meetings (afternoon). They will provide Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) demonstrations and a tour of the RINTEK laboratory in Rushford. Visit http://www.rintek.org/html/nanotek_trek.html for conference agenda and information. rintek.org rintek.org rintek.org

Planned Social: May TBD

Ideas can be found here or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tim or Tina.

Planned Technical Meeting: June

Speaker needed, please let Tim or Tina know if you're willing to volunteer. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our requested topics page.

Planned Lunch: Thursday June 19th

11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.

Planned Social: June

Meet for Thursdays on First on Thursday the 26th at 6pm

Want to do something else for a meeting or social? Ideas can be found here or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tim or Tina.

Pending presentations

Oculus Rift, "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games"

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game

Peter Shabino

Planned Socials: Fall or winter

-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary

-Rock climbing at Prairie Walls

-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.

-MAME/foosball/ping pong at Tim Massaro's.

Upcoming Meeting Crisis!

Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2014. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Tim with suggestions for topics. Should we run some previous sessions again (maybe something you really wanted to see but missed out on)? What type of topics are good, what type are bad? Also see this page for a list of suggested topics http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings

Old News Items

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