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Technical Meeting: Thursday October 9th
Note switch to regular 2nd Thursday nights
Brent Vrieze on the Asterisk phone system. Bring a laptop if you want to connect with a softphone to the Asterisk server (if wired, bring own cable).
Description: Free telephone system for your home or office. Asterisk is an open source PBX telephony solution. The presentation will consist of some simple background into telephony explaining some terms. From there I will show the set up files (.conf) and how to add users and program a simple dial plan also showing the Asterisk GUI. Then I will crank up an Asterisk server and we will connect some soft and hard phones to it and see if we can make some phone calls so bring your laptop. If time permits there is a ready to go ISO installer called Trixbox that makes setting up Asterisk extremely easy with a nice web based GUI.
The usual place and time: RCTC's Heintz Center , Room HA107 , 6 pm.
Other agenda items will include:
-October socials: Inside - election judges. Outside - corn maze.
-Possible mini-presentation by Robert Bleimeyer on the need for FIRST Robotics League mentors for the 2008-2009 school year.
-Lunch
-Google calendar
-Hardware project update
-November swap meet and vintage electronics show
-December game night
-January technical meeting - speaker, elections
If there's something that you think should be on this month's agenda and you don't see it here, please email Tina.
Social: Sunday October 12th, 1 pm
Wander the corn maze at Northwoods Orchard, just outside of Douglas. $5 for the adults and "older" kids for the larger corn maze, $3.25 for "younger" kids in the little corn maze (1 adult can follow the kid around for free), and coming back from the adult corn maze you can often grab a short tractor ride for free ($1 for the full farm tour). You can also purchase apples, gourds, pumpkins, etc, if you needed some fall supplies, and there's a small animal farm to entertain the kids with too. Yes, bring your friends and family. The kids maze takes ~15 minutes, the adults maze ~1 hour.
Planned Social: October TBD
Election judge experiences. Election judges needed. Will be held at a date and time convenient to the election judge(s), probably at a place that serves dinner and adult beverages. Have a preference? Tell Tina.
Planned Annual Swap/Sale, Vintage Electronics Show: Thursday November 13th
Set up at 6 pm
Sale/swap starts at 7 pm
RCTC main campus, East Hall, room 244 (2nd floor)
We will need volunteers for many jobs, including advertising, putting up signs, helping others carry in their goods, obtaining food and beverages, running the recycling station, bringing the recycling goods to the Olmsted County Recycling Center, and of course everyone should bring their stuff to sell/swap. We'll make use of volunteer labor and/or elevators to help get everything up to the second floor, no worries.
Planned Social: November TBD
Ideas can be found here or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tina.
Planned December "Technical Meeting" aka game night: Thursday December 11th
Our annual December gaming night in/out. Probably will occur at p0wned. More details later.
Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday January 8th
Speaker needed. Volunteers?
Also, elections
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