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K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group

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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.


LUG News

Lunch: Thursday April 17th

Note location change!

11:30 am, 1st Avenue food court (downtown)

Many more details in your email, including a list of your potential choices and parking information.


Social: Tuesday April 22nd

6th annual participation in CITO/LBB trash clean up. Cascade Lake soccer fields, 6:30 pm.

Bring your own gloves and beverage. If possible, also bring waterproof boots or waders, as there’s some shoreline. Trash and recycling bags are provided, along with the disposal. More details at http://coord.info/GC4ZNJ1 .


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.


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.



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

See the OldNews page.