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Technical Meeting: Thursday March 13th, 2014

Mark Diez will be coordinating an audience-driven "Andriod devices, apps, and accesories".

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ALL THINGS ANDROID – BYO – SHOW ‘N’ TELL

K-LUG/PCIG members and guests will demo favorite and interesting Android stuff – including devices (phones, tablets, other?), apps, accessories, and tips/techniques. Attendees are invited to bring their own or just come to see what others have brought in a wide-ranging demo and discussion of EVERYTHING ANDROID.

BRING YOUR FAVORITE ANDROID DEVICES, APPS, and ACCESSORIES.

• Devices: Android phones and tablets, direct-attached hardware, Bluetooth-attached hardware, …

• Apps: backup, anti-virus/firewall, VPN, productivity, utilities, development, fun stuff, …

• Accessories: covers, stands, …

• Tips/techniques

Here are some items that are likely to arrive. Mark Diez and Mo Holahan will be hosting the show’n’tell.

• Devices discussion: Nook HD+, Nook HD, Samsung cricket SCH-R720

• Android For Nook (AFN): putting Cyanogenmod Android on your Nook HD and HD+ device via commercial microSD card.

• Non-traditional keyboard input apps: Dasher, Dvorak, GKOS, Hacker's, Messagease

• Handwritten text input app: MyScript Stylus

• Editor: Jota+

• Office apps: Kingsoft Office, OfficeSuite Pro 7.2

• File and task managers: ES File Manager, ES Task Manager

• Cloud file management: Dropbox (including offline access of files)

• Chromecast – YouTube

• Skype – audio only, video and audio

• E-book readers: Moon+ Pro (paid), EBookDroid (free), FBReader(free)

• Miscellaneous favorites: Stopwatch, Yukon Gold Solitaire

• Other interesting apps: Google My Tracks (GPS/mapping), Physics Toolbox (sensor, accelerometer readers), Autodesk Force Effect, Force Effect Motion, simulation of mechanical linkages

Contact Mark Diez for further info or if you have questions or suggestions.

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

Directions to Campus

Heintz Center Building Map

Other items on the agenda include pie to celebrate Pi day, PCIG elections and potentially a PCIG future discussion, and a request for March/April/May social ideas.

Planned Lunch: Thursday March 20th

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

Planned Social: March 2014 TBD

Ideas can be found here or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tim or Tina. We've got lots of potential indoor activities at the bottom of this page, speak up if you have preferences.

Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday April 10th

Dennis DeLorme, on Beaglebone Black. He'll be looking for input on what's most of interest to the group so he knows where to focus his presentation, feel free to drop him an email.

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

Directions to Campus

Heintz Center Building Map

Planned Lunch: Thursday April 17th

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

Planned Social: April TBD

Ideas can be found here or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tim or Tina. We've got lots of potential indoor activities at the bottom of this page, speak up if you have preferences.

Planned Technical Meeting: May - FIELD TRIP

Field trip to Lake City for to see the shop, meet the team, and check out their robot that just completed a season of FIRST robotics league. Tim Massaro and Mo Holahan were involved in coaching this FIRST team.

Time and location details TBA.

Planned Lunch: Thursday May 15th

11:30 am, 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 Tim or Tina. We've got lots of potential indoor activities at the bottom of this page, speak up if you have preferences.

Planned Technical Meeting: June

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 19th

11:30 am, 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 Tim or Tina. We've got lots of potential indoor activities at the bottom of this page, speak up if you have preferences.

Planned Technical Meeting: March or later, 2013

Oculus Rift, "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games"

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game

Peter Shabino

Planned Socials: Fall or winter

-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary

-Rock climbing at Prairie Walls

-Liquid nitrogen ice cream. This needs a non-Tina organizer. Dennis DeLorme has 2 recipes. We need safety equipment and someone trained enough to keep us from freezing ourselves.

-MAME/foosball/ping pong at Tim Massaro's.

Upcoming Meeting Crisis!

Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2014. 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

Old News Items

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