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| | We generally meet monthly for technical presentations (2nd Thursday of the month, 6 pm, virtual), and monthly for socializing (varies). We no longer meet monthly for lunches, if you are interested in reviving this tradition please [http://k-lug.org/About contact an officer]. |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday January 9th, 2014 ===
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| 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
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| brief overview of the system in the context of previous electronic money
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| systems and show how bitcoin solves the problems encountered by them.
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| There will also be a technical introduction to the inner workings of the
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| system (cryptography, network, transactions, scripts, etc.) The
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| remainder of the session will be Q&A/discussion. Questions on virtually
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| -- | | === Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 30th === |
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| 6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
| | Back to our usual Cascade Lake Park. |
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
| | Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is shoreline. |
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map] | | As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCAMJX2 geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage. |
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| 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.
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| === Social: Saturday January 11th, 2014 ===
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| We're off to the [http://rochester.mcm.org/ Children's Museum]! The one here in Rochester, so no need for a big trip. Event 10 am - __, with plans to stay at least through 11:30 for the 11-11:30 special event physical activity since the kids need to burn off some extra energy.
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| Always felt too awkward to go to a Children's Museum without a kid of your own in tow, or your kids were "too old" to want to be used that way? Come hang out with the group, and feel better that at least some of us are bringing kids. Do be aware that the MCM-Rochester's policy on adults attending without kids is that you will be required to show photo ID.
| | === Geocaching in-person social (outside), Friday May 3rd === |
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| $5.50/person for ages >=1. $1 discount with proof of AAA or AARP membership, or military ID.
| | Park and walk in a neighborhood in NE Rochester. |
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| 1643 North Broadway Street, Suite A
| | Park near [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3WQ84 1 - Odin] on Whiting Lane NE's cul de sac. We'll walk from there to a couple of other geocaches ([https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC57FGC 2], [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4RPZ2 3]), then back to #1, and then decide if we're walking or driving to [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC8M3FP 4]. |
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| Rochester, MN 55906
| | === Virtual Social: Thursday May 9th === |
| | 6 pm |
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| That's across the street from Silver Lake Foods, in the same strip mall as La Fiesta, and across the parking lot from Wendy's.
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| | Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know. |
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| Afterwards, anyone interested can walk next door for lunch at Kingdom Buffet (Chinese). Prices here: http://www.kingdombuffetofrochester.com/rochester-mn-chinese-buffet.htm
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| Their re-designed website doesn't seem to have the discount coupon any more, let me know if you spot one.
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| === Lunch: Thursday January 16th === | | === Pending potential presentations === |
| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| | Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize |
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| === Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday February 13th, 2014 ===
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| Matt Bruzek will present on Juju. More details later.
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| 6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
| | === Socials brainstorming: Fall or winter === |
| | -Murder mystery. The host needs to buy a kit at a gaming store to get the event started. |
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| === Planned Lunch: Thursday February 20th ===
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| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| === Planned Social: February 2014 TBD ===
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| Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting 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.
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| === Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday March 13th, 2014 ===
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Accessories might include styluses, covers/cases, desktop accessories (keyboards, stands), connectivity/audio/video stuff (connection to TV, earphones, ...).
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| 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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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| === Planned Lunch: Thursday March 20th ===
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| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| === Planned Social: March 2014 TBD ===
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| Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting 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.
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| === Planned Technical Meeting: April 2014 ===
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| 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 [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list requested topics] page.
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| === Planned Lunch: Thursday April 17th ===
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| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| === Planned Social: April 2014 TBD ===
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| Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting 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.
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| === Planned Technical Meeting: March or later, 2013 ===
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| Oculus Rift, "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games"
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| http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
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| Peter Shabino
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| === Planned Socials: Fall or winter ===
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| -Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary | | -Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary |
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| -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. | | -Bowlocity laser tag. 5-6 people minimum needed. |
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| -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. |
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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.
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| -MAME/foosball/ping pong at Tim Massaro's.
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| -Parallax build contest ~Christmas
| | === Old News Items === |
| | See the [[OldNews]] page. |
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| === Upcoming Meeting Crisis! ===
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| 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
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| === Old News Items ===
| | MediaWiki help [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Text_color 1] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_color_formatting_help 2] |
| See the [[OldNews]] page.
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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, virtual), and monthly for socializing (varies). We no longer meet monthly for lunches, if you are interested in reviving this tradition please contact an officer.
Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 30th
6:15 - 7:30 pm
Back to our usual Cascade Lake Park.
Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is shoreline.
As usual we are teaming up with the geocachers to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.
Geocaching in-person social (outside), Friday May 3rd
6 pm
Park and walk in a neighborhood in NE Rochester.
Park near 1 - Odin on Whiting Lane NE's cul de sac. We'll walk from there to a couple of other geocaches (2, 3), then back to #1, and then decide if we're walking or driving to 4.
Virtual Social: Thursday May 9th
6 pm
Meeting link will be added here.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.
Pending potential presentations
Jon Gullixson: gnucash or www :: Mechanize
Socials brainstorming: 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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