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=== Planned Social:  Canoeing, August TBD ===
=== Planned Social:  Canoeing/Kayaking/Geocaching, August 29th, 2010  ===
Tim will be organizing a canoeing trip in Oronoco.  The trip is estimated to be ~4 hours of river time.  There is canoe and kayak rental as well as shuttle service up there.  Tim will round up some details and pick a date/time/location, and get back to us.  For those of you who geocache, there are a couple of caches along this stretch of river that some of us can stop to chase during a stretch break.
For August the K-Lug group is going to go canoe/kayak/geocaching
down the zumbro river out of Oronoco


Open to all, please let us know if you are interested and we can reserve boats
Some details
Date: Sunday August 29th
Time: Meet at Bolder Outfitters at 11:00
Cost: $35 per canoe, $25 per kayak, $15/$10 for a ride back if you have
your own boatage  (See Tim, I have some $5 discount coupons left)
Details listed here
http://www.boulderdamcanoe.com/
Bonus Geocaching....We are also going to search for the
10 or so caches on the river, starting where the canoe trip starts ...here:
http://geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=956c2899-a79e-4650-b277-bac269c2d5b9


=== Planned Technical Meeting:  Thursday September 9th ===
=== Planned Technical Meeting:  Thursday September 9th ===

Revision as of 16:01, 16 August 2010


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K-Lug Discount on This Little Program Went to Market

Last month after our presentation, Annette Godtland offered a discount to club members on her book, she wants to continue that discount to members who couldn't make the meeting. Please contact Tim or Aaron and we'll make arrangements to hand deliver the book.

This Little Program Went to Market: Retail $48.00 To PCIG/KLUG: $32.60 + 7.375% tax = $35.00 If paying by check, make checks payable to Godtland Software Corporation More details httpL//www.godtlandsoftware.com

Technical Meeting: Thursday Sept 9th

Jon Gullixson and Eldon Nelson will be Demoing How to Create ScreenCams for Demos and Tutorials. The usual time and location, which is 6 pm, RCTC's Heintz Center HA109 or HA107 depending on construction progress. See the Meetings page for more details on how to find the building and the room.

Lunch: Thursday August 19th

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


Planned Social: Canoeing/Kayaking/Geocaching, August 29th, 2010

For August the K-Lug group is going to go canoe/kayak/geocaching down the zumbro river out of Oronoco

Open to all, please let us know if you are interested and we can reserve boats

Some details Date: Sunday August 29th Time: Meet at Bolder Outfitters at 11:00

Cost: $35 per canoe, $25 per kayak, $15/$10 for a ride back if you have your own boatage (See Tim, I have some $5 discount coupons left) Details listed here http://www.boulderdamcanoe.com/

Bonus Geocaching....We are also going to search for the 10 or so caches on the river, starting where the canoe trip starts ...here: http://geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=956c2899-a79e-4650-b277-bac269c2d5b9

Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday September 9th

Eldon Nelson and Jon Gullixson will present on screen captures, the way they created their demonstration videos for the online storage presentation they gave in April.


Lunch: Thursday September 16th

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


Planned Social: September TBD

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


Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday October 14th

Speaker needed. If you're willing to speak but need some topic ideas, there's a list of things your fellow K-LUGgers have requested presentations on here.


Planned Social: October TBD

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


Free: Open Source Stickers for your Systems

Openstickers.com - download these images, print on sticker paper, cut and apply.


Upcoming Meeting Crisis!

Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2010. 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


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