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Technical Meeting: Thursday April 14th

Brent Vrieze will present a demo of Asterisk PBX software, using third party software requiring little manual configuring. He's provided the following description:

"PBX in a Flash (PiaF) is an easy to install (super easy) Asterisk distribution that can be set up in an afternoon on either a virtual machine or an old beige box collecting dust. Asterisk is an open source PBX (Private Branch Exchange) phone system that PBX in a Flash puts a web based GUI of there the top of to make management and upgrading extremely easy in comparison to 2 years ago.

If time permits I will show you an add on package to PiaF called Incredible PBX that using some free SIP phone providers and Google Voice will give you FREE, as in beer, phone service with a local number to anywhere in the US and Canada."

-> When: Thursday April 14th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

-> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107 or nearby

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Social: Sunday April 17th, 2 pm

Rockets + kites! That way we can play if there's no wind, lots of wind, basically anything other than a rain/snow storm. This'll be at 2 pm, at Century High School in their field.

Social/Service Opportunity: Tuesday April 19th (during Earth Week)

There will be an opportunity to participate in Rochester's Litter Bit Better. By doing trash clean up in coordination with LBB, the trash bags and hauling of trash are taken care of for us, we only have to actually put the junk and the recycling in the appropriate bags. Family and friends are welcome, this activity will also advertised to groups such as geocachers and the mentoring organization of Bolder Options. Talk to Tina for more details.

6:30 pm at Zumbro West Park, it's area 422 on this map. Here's the geocaching.com posting.

Lunch: Thursday April 21st

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

Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday May 12th

Our May meeting is scheduled to be information about a new robotics league starting up in Rochester. Hopefully more details will be forthcoming.

Planned Lunch: Thursday May 19th

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

Planned Social: May TBD

Ideas can be found here or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina. She can organize basic stuff like a frisbee golf outing on her own, if you want something like dinner and a movie then she needs movie suggestions.

Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday June 9th

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 16th

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

Planned Social: June TBD

Ideas can be found here or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina. She can organize basic stuff like a frisbee golf outing on her own, if you want something like dinner and a movie then she needs movie suggestions.

Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday July 14th

Speaker needed, please let Tim know if you're willing to volunteer. Tim is in charge of all K-LUG things for July and August. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our requested topics page.

Planned Lunch: Thursday July 24th

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

Planned Social: July TBD

Ideas can be found here or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tim, he's in charge of all things K-LUG for July and August.

Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday August 11th

Speaker needed, please let Tim know if you're willing to volunteer. Tim is in charge of all K-LUG things for July and August. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our requested topics page.

Planned Lunch: Thursday August 18th

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

Planned Social: August TBD

Ideas can be found here or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tim, he's in charge of all things K-LUG for July and August.

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 2011. 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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