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Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday August 11th

The August meeting will be a two subject meeting Mo Holahan will present Google Sketchup and how to create 3D buildings in Google Earth Tim Schumann will present info on Bitcoins and how his bitcoin server is making out. The meeting will be Thursday August 11th at 6pm

RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107 1926 College View Road SE, Rochester, MN 55904

Here is the scoop on the Google Sketchup portion of the meeting:

Sketchup has become a popular 3D modeling program for everything from origami to professional architectural rendering. Currently available in free and pro versions from Google, the program has continued to evolve since its initial release in 2000 by @Last Software founders Brad Schell and Joe Esch. This presentation will focus on the free version 8. We'll introduce the basic geometry construction tools and demo features such as components, materials, styles, fog, shadows, scene animation, and the use of Ruby scripts to customize and extend Sketchup's capabilities. We'll visit Google's 3Dwarehouse to download models, and geo-locate a building on Google Earth. Whether you dream of turning your personal fabrication vision into a 3d prototype or just want to virtually rearrange your living room furniture, see if Sketchup might become a useful part of your toolset.

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. Minigolf has been suggested...are you in?

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.

Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday September 8th

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, and may therefore be setting up September. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our requested topics page.

Planned Lunch: Thursday September 15th

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 Tim, he's in charge of all things K-LUG for July and August, and may therefore be setting up September.

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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