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We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see a list of ideas if you're willing but lacking a topic.
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Technical Meeting: Thursday January 9th, 2014
Kyle Jervis will talk to us about bitcoin, including a lot of time for Q&A.
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Bitcoin is decentralized peer to peer money. There will be a brief overview of the system in the context of previous electronic money systems and show how bitcoin solves the problems encountered by them. There will also be a technical introduction to the inner workings of the system (cryptography, network, transactions, scripts, etc.) The remainder of the session will be Q&A/discussion. Questions on virtually any bitcoin-related topic are welcome.
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6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
Also on the agenda: The annual K-LUG coup attempt (ie officer elections), and round 1 of PCIG officer nominations. Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tim or Tina know.
Lunch: Thursday January 16th
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Planned Social: January 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 February 13th, 2014
Matt Bruzek will present on Juju. More details later.
6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
Planned Lunch: Thursday February 20th
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Planned Social: February 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 March 13th, 2014
Mark Diez will be coordinating an audience-driven "Andriod devices, apps, and accesories". The vision is thus:
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Folks are invited to bring their Android smartphones, tablets, and accessories to the meeting for show and tell. We will try to have a webcam or other continuously powered videocam attached to a PC that would project hardware- and screen-images to the wall-screen.
People will demo their favorite devices, apps, and accessories. Apps might include browsers (Chrome, ...), productivity (spreadsheet, document editor, time management, list management, ...), input/output (text to speech, speech to text, handwriting), readers (Nook, Kindle, Google, PDF readers, ...), sports and recreation (GPS, stopwatch, biking/running, hiking, boating), photography, idle-time games (solitaire, tetris, ...), security/availability (backup, anti-virus, remote-wiping, ...), utilities (task management, network monitors, ...). Any apps (excluding serious games) would be suitable to show off at the meeting.
Accessories might include styluses, covers/cases, desktop accessories (keyboards, stands), connectivity/audio/video stuff (connection to TV, earphones, ...).
We are soliciting participants and demo's, and request that anyone interested in participating contact Mark in advance of the meeting.
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6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
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: April 2014
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 April 17th
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Planned Social: April 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: 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
-Children's Museum. Don't have a kid and feel akward about wandering around to check the place out without one? This is your chance, we'll have at least one coming with the group to salve any feelings of stalking stranger's children.
-Rock climbing at Prairie Walls before they take down the sign we constructed for the Red Bull Creation contest.
-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.
-Parallax build contest ~Christmas
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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