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=== Email ===
August 30, 2022:  Gmail is rejecting all of our emails, and our server has bounced all gmail addressed off the email list.  If you have another email address you'd like to subscribe with in the meantime until our email admin can decipher and unwind the problem, feel free to do so, links are on the leftnav panel.




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=== <strike>Technical Meeting</strike> PIZZA!  Thursday April 11th ===
=== Cancelled - <strike> Meatspace Social: Friday September 23rd </strike> ===
No speaker, bad weather, sounds like a great night for pizza and socializing.  The usual meeting date and time (6 pm, Thursday April 11th), but we'll relocate to the [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pizza+Ranch/@43.867592,-92.4914597,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x87f7564533a8f601:0x84f740738bc6192c!8m2!3d43.867592!4d-92.489271  Stewartville Pizza Ranch] pizza and chicken buffet. 
<strike> 6 pm


Let's all meet for some disc golf!  We'll go to the new [https://udisc.com/courses/driftless-18-J4mW Driftless] course at GameHaven.  Please try to arrive by 6:00 PM, but I'm sure you can catch us on the course if you're a little late. </strike>


Rain, wonderful rain!  But it's not so good for disc golf, we've cancelled for tonight.




=== Social:  April ===
What might you want to do?  Tell Tina.


=== Meatspace Social: Friday October 7th ===
==5 pm==


The RCTC disc golf course and an earlier than normal start time, as we try to race the impending darkness.  We're easy to spot if you arrive late.


=== Social:  Thursday May 2nd ===
Our annual clean up a corner of the world event, helping de-litter a local park as a part of Litter Bit Better. As usual we're teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC84AAK_11th-annual-cito-and-rochesters-litter-bit-better geocachers who get CITO credit].


Parking is [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B001'25.3%22N+92%C2%B029'52.8%22W/@44.0237038,-92.500194,17z here] or [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B001'24.7%22N+92%C2%B029'36.1%22W/@44.0235278,-92.4955498,17z here], in the SE or SW corners of the park. The official group gathering location is on the SE corner of the park.


6 pm start time.
=== Virtual Social: Thursday October 13th ===
6 pm


Bags and trash are provided, you need to provide your own gloves and a sense of civic duty. If anyone has some waterproof boots and/or grabbers for cleaning the marshy stream edge, that'd be great too.
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]
 
 
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday May 9th ===
TBD.  If you are willing to speak, or can suggest a speaker, please let us know.
 
6 pm, in or near what used to be RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.  We aren't moving, but the building numbering scheme is being re-done, so as of March 20th this room will now be known as H1411.  If anyone finds updated maps, please let us know.
 
[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]
 
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
 
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tina know.


Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tim or Tina know.




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=== Pending potential presentations  ===
=== Pending potential presentations  ===
[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
Oculus Rift], "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games" .  Peter Shabino


Jon Gullixson:  gnucash or www :: Mechanize
Jon Gullixson:  gnucash or www :: Mechanize




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-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary
-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary
-Rock climbing at Prairie Walls


-Bowlocity laser tag.  5-6 people minimum needed.
-Bowlocity laser tag.  5-6 people minimum needed.
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-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.
-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 ... can't be Tim Massaro's anymore...
-February or July armchair mapping aka road rally event,  http://home.earthlink.net/~oldmaltese/
=== Upcoming Meeting Crisis! ===
We need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2019. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina 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




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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

We generally meet monthly for technical presentations (2nd Thursday of the month, 6 pm, RCTC), and monthly for socializing (varies). We no longer meet monthly for lunches, if you are interested in reviving this tradition please contact an officer.


Email

August 30, 2022: Gmail is rejecting all of our emails, and our server has bounced all gmail addressed off the email list. If you have another email address you'd like to subscribe with in the meantime until our email admin can decipher and unwind the problem, feel free to do so, links are on the leftnav panel.





Cancelled - Meatspace Social: Friday September 23rd

6 pm

Let's all meet for some disc golf! We'll go to the new Driftless course at GameHaven. Please try to arrive by 6:00 PM, but I'm sure you can catch us on the course if you're a little late.

Rain, wonderful rain! But it's not so good for disc golf, we've cancelled for tonight.


Meatspace Social: Friday October 7th

5 pm

The RCTC disc golf course and an earlier than normal start time, as we try to race the impending darkness. We're easy to spot if you arrive late.


Virtual Social: Thursday October 13th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tim or Tina know.



Pending potential presentations

Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize


Planned Socials: Fall or winter

-Murder mystery. The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started.

-Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary

-Bowlocity laser tag. 5-6 people minimum needed.

-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.


Old News Items

See the OldNews page.



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