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Technical Meeting: Thursday March 10th

Marc Thomas, from NORLUG, on setting up and maintaining your own media server.

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Everything you need to know to set up your own media server, as ethically and legally as possible. From video codecs and containers, compression algorithms, DRM decryption and circumvention, transcoding, storage, organization, consumption, and all the tools that make this possible, all under Linux!

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Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:

-PCIG elections

-Discussions of the K-LUG email list

-Choice of a March social event. Possibly a locked room escape?

-Requests for an April speaker

-Consumption of semi-homemade Pi Day pie (peach, raspberry, strawberry; I cheated and bought crusts). Please bring your donation for the "hat".

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

Directions to Campus

Heintz Center Building Map

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

Downtown Lunch: Thursday March 10th

11:30 am, 1st Avenue food court downtown, at the bigger tables near the entrance. The Mexican place has closed, an Indian restaurant will replace it "soon". Mango Thai has opened.

Lunch: Thursday February 18th

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

"January" Social: Fridays February 12th, 19th, plus others

We're going to try a map-based (eg armchair) road rally, http://home.earthlink.net/~oldmaltese/Massacre.html . Due to there having been a start-up cost for this event, I will be asking for contributions (say $5-10/family?) for those who come participate. Anyone bringing an additional "11x15 100-page-plus 2016 Rand McNally Road Atlas" (this same large scale copy MSRP $20, Amazon has for $15) will have their fee waived for their assistance uncrowding the map table.

I anticipate this being much better done by small groups, and it seems a bit lengthy. So we are going to host two pre-specified nights of map reading, and if Friday nights don't work well for you then email me off-list to request your available T/W/Sat/Sun timeframe and we'll see if we can work something out. Fees per family won't be re-collected at subsequent attendances.

6:30 pm at Tina's house (email for directions). Snack/beverage potluck only (come with dinner already in your belly).

Postmark deadline for submission of this for scoring is Monday February 29th, which realistically means we're going to have to mail it on Saturday the 27th, so our last potential night is Friday February 26th.

Technical Meeting: Thursday February 11th

Robert Nix, on LVM.

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Using Logical Volume Manager can simplify your disk space management on both large and small Linux systems. This will be both an overview, and a look at specific commands and results. See how LVM can be used to streamline your Linux installation and maintenance.

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Here are his slides from the meeting.

Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:

-PCIG second round of officer nominations (with elections in March)

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

Directions to Campus

Heintz Center Building Map

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

Downtown Lunch: Thursday February 11th

11:30 am, 1st Avenue food court downtown, at the bigger tables near the entrance.

Social: Sunday, February 7th 2016

Winterfest cardboard sled race spectating for our February social, Sunday February 7th, 1 pm. There IS an indoor viewing area, per the description, so no trekking through the snow required.

http://www.rochesterwinterfest.com/2015/01/07/cardboard-sled-race/

Rochester Golf and Country Club 3100 Country Club Road SW

Lunch: Thursday January 21st

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

Technical Meeting: Thursday January 14th

Dennis DeLorme on a recent basement project - the $2 wireless link.

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Do you wish there was an easy, cheap way for your micro-controllers to talk to each other over a wireless link? If so, come and learn about the Nordic nrf24L01+ type modules. These allow short range wireless communication in the 2.4 GHz band. The nrf24L01+ is designed for PC keyboard/mouse, remote controls, home automation, toys etc.

There is available software to use the nrf24L01+ modules with common boards such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone Black. The nrf24L01+ module can be added to these boards for about $1 per node, if ordered directly from China. I'll talk a little about my experience ordering directly from China.

I will talk about the features of the nrf24L01+ and the software to use it. I will demo a sensor star network with a couple of them on Arduinos (what else?) sending data to an Arduino attached to a laptop as the base unit.

If you are ready to break your New Years Resolutions, I will be bringing German Chocolate cup cakes with coconut pecan frosting.

-- Post-meeting addition - here are the slides he has provided. Here is the code in Open Office format because upload of text or code files is not supported.

6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.

Directions to Campus

Heintz Center Building Map

Also on the agenda for the technical meeting:

-K-LUG’s annual officer elections – president, vice president, treasurer. Nominations or self-nominations for these positions please.

-Annual financial report from our treasurer.

-PCIG first round of officer nominations (with elections in March)

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

Downtown Lunch: Thursday January 14th

11:30 am, 1st Avenue food court downtown, at the bigger tables near the entrance.

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