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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. | 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. | ||
=== Social: Saturday January 11th, 2014 === | |||
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. | |||
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. | |||
$5.50/person for ages >=1. $1 discount with proof of MCM, AAA, or AARP membership, or military ID. | |||
1643 North Broadway Street, Suite A | |||
River Center Plaza | |||
Rochester, MN 55906 | |||
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. | |||
Afterwards, anyone interested can walk next door for lunch at Kingdom Buffet (Chinese). Prices here: http://www.kingdombuffetofrochester.com/rochester-mn-chinese-buffet.htm | |||
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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11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N. | 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N. | ||
Revision as of 19:40, 3 January 2014
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
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.
Social: Saturday January 11th, 2014
We're off to the 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.
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.
$5.50/person for ages >=1. $1 discount with proof of MCM, AAA, or AARP membership, or military ID.
1643 North Broadway Street, Suite A
River Center Plaza
Rochester, MN 55906
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.
Afterwards, anyone interested can walk next door for lunch at Kingdom Buffet (Chinese). Prices here: http://www.kingdombuffetofrochester.com/rochester-mn-chinese-buffet.htm Their re-designed website doesn't seem to have the discount coupon any more, let me know if you spot one.
Lunch: Thursday January 16th
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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
See the OldNews page.