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Planned Technical Meeting: Swap Sale Thursday November 9th

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 $.35 a pound When: Thurs, Nov 9th 6pm Where: University Center Rochester Heintz Center in room HA108. Set-up will be at 6 pm, with an estimated swap start time of 6:15 pm. Location: RCTC room HA108 Attendance will include be members of 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?

-Bring your stuff to sell/swap.

-Print and Show this Sale Flyer to friends

-Bring your computer stuff that needs to go to the recycling ($0.35/pound).

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

-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.)

-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).

-Making some Ubuntu CDs to give away. (Dave Berg)

-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 M.

-PCIG website - Tim M.

-Ham radio club - Tim M.

-Mayo classifieds - Pat S.

-Craigslist - Tim M.

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

-UCR bulletin boards - in hard copy - Ren T.

-RCTC bulletin boards - in hard copy - Tim M. (I've made up something already, go here and print)

-Wherever else you can think of

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 Lunch Meeting: Thursday November 16th

11:30 am near the Chinese restaurant in the Galleria.

Planned Social: TBD, November

Suggestions welcome.

Planned Technical Meeting: TBD, December

Our traditional December meeting is gaming somewhere. Some ideas have been gathered (will be typed up and posted soon). Feel free to suggest other ideas.

Planned Social: Monday December 18th

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. 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.

Short version: 6:30 pm, Panera South, dress warm we're walking outside, don't plan to be done until at least 8 pm.

Mister House 2nd Opportunity: Monday October 30th

A second opportunity for you to see the Mister House presentation! 7 pm, directions are here.

Name	# of attendees
Robert Bleimeyer	3
José de Leon	1
Mark Diez	1
Bill Marshall	1
Joe Sedelmeyer	1
Mike Fallenstein	2

Social: Thursday October 26th

5:30 pm Frisbee golf at East Park. Weather-related cancellation will be announced around noon to email list and wiki if necessary.

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.

Lunch Meeting: Thursday October 19th

Come one, come all, at 11:30 am to the vicinity of the Chinese resturant in the Galleria food court.

Technical Meeting: Tuesday October 10th

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. Some details on Mr House: http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/

Directions and map to Mister House can be found here.

Technical Meeting: Thursday, September 14th

Open source in Croatia, Croatian government. Guest speaker Vlatko Kosturjak, from Croatia, temporarily in the US. Room will be HA108, our new "permanent" location.

Wink has been postponed. Wink software used for making demos of new products. Records screen sessions and audio.

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