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Technical Meeting: Thursday October 11th
Mike Fallenstein has arranged with BestBuy for a BestBuy rep (Colin O'Driscoll) to come talk to us. He will talk and demo about tablets. For those of you wondering what happened to the other mobile items (phone), that's been pushed back to November because they believe they have a full 1.5 hours of presentation easily on each topic.
Colin's BestBuy title: Apple Expert, Tablet & PC Specialist
6 pm, RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
Social: Saturday October 13th
Photowalk at Oxbow/Zollman Zoo, led by Jon T. Followed by lunch aftewards for those interested. The full details are here, but here are some key details:
-10 am - bear feeding at the zoo
-11 am - a hawk or owl will be brought out of the cages for closer seeing/photographing without bars.
-A walk on some of the park trails will follow. People may go out to lunch together afterwards (Mantorville's Hubbell House?).
This is not a dog-friendly event, as they are not welcome at the zoo nor on the trails.
Lunch: Thursday October 18th
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Social: Saturday October 27th
Pumpking Tossing at Gamehaven Scout Camp. Based on last year's experience, I suggest a 10 am start time (full schedule is in one of the links below). If we don't get the timing right, we'll take a walk before/after along the nice trail there (some geocaches there, if you don't already have them).
Details are here:
http://www.gamehavenbsa.org/news.php
http://www.gamehavenbsa.org/documents/2012PumpkinChuckinRulesReg.pdf
http://www.gamehavenbsa.org/documents/2012PumpkinChuckinHandbill.pdf
Technical Meeting: Thursday November 8th
Mike Fallenstein has arranged with BestBuy for a BestBuy rep (Luke) to come talk to us. He will talk and demo mobile phones, including probably the iPhone 5 , the new Windows 8 phone, and the new Blackberry.
6 pm, RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
Planned Lunch: Thursday November 15th
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Planned Social: November TBD
Ideas can be found here or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tim or Tina.
Planned Technical Meeting: December TBD
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 December 20th
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Planned Social: December TBD
Ideas can be found here or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tim or Tina.
Planned Technical Meeting: January 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 Social: Mid-March to early April
Potato cannon courtesy of Dennis DeLorme, and Rube Goldberg device construction with whatever you bring. Date, time, location TBD.
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 2012. 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
See the OldNews page.