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Technical Meeting: Tuesday August 8th

We currently have no meeting topic. You can come to RCTC's HA104, find a janitor to open the room, and discuss whatever geeky topic crosses your mind. Or you can go to X-Games, although so far nobody has RSVP'd that they're going to be there. And/or, if you have IBM campus privledges, you can attend PCIG's presentation on VMware on Thursday August 10th.

Planned Lunch: August 17th

11:30 am at the Galleria, near the Chinese restaurant.

Planned Technical Meeting for Thursday, September 14th

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

Planned Technical Meeting for Tuesday October, 10th

Mister House - Home automation - possibly road trip to a Rochester home being controlled by computers.

Social: Thursday July 27

Join us for a round of shoe throwing at East Park, 6:30 pm. If people have better equipment to bring/share, we can hopefully upgrade from shoes to golf disks (if you missed the last social and are confused, we're playing frisbee golf). Lightening or hail, stay home. Otherwise we play rain or shine.

Lunch: July 20

Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant. We will be inviting the Mayo open-source-discussion email list participants to attend as well.

Technical Meeting: Thursday July 13 **Note location change**

Ruby on Rails by Jose de Leon. Ruby is an open source scripting language and Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that makes developing web applications easy. Jose will demo an application he has written in Ruby on Rails and will discuss the International Rails Conference (http://railsconf.org/) he recently attended. This is a joint meeting with PCIG. Construction continues in the computer lab wing, so this meeting will occur in HA104.

Gimp Challenge I: due date: July 8

Now that we all are skilled in the art of "The Gimp", Chris, Kevin and I thought we should have some fun with it. The challenge is to pick your favorite two hated (or loved?) celebrites and Gimp together an image depicting a Celebrity Boxing style match. Who will it be? Gates vs Linus, Bush vs Clinton, Steve Fox vs The Gimp Circle Method? Start with one of the images suggested on the GimpChallenge Page or find/create your own. Images should be posted in gimp format (so we can see your tricks and techniques) and png format (cause we are lazy). Images are due July 8th so judging can occur prior to our meeting July 13th.

If you need an account to the wiki so you can post your picture, please send an email to the list. Include the user name you wish to have.

Lunch: June 15

Lunch, 11:30 in the Galleria food court, next to the Chinese restaurant.

Technical Meeting: Tuesday June 13 **Note location change**

Baring snowstorms or any other emergencies, Robert Nix will present on The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program, GIMP). There is summer construction in the computer lab wing, so this meeting will occur in HA104.

Social: Tuesday June 6

Ice cream social to be held in a park near Steve Fox's, 7 pm. For more details and to sign up for the ice cream related item you'll bring, see the SocialMeeting page.

Links from Old News Items

the PC Interest Group's | UCR Heinz Center, Room HB117b | ForSaleorWanted | Gimp | OldNews