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=== Virtual Board Game Night:  Friday December 3rd ===
6 pm


=== CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER<strike> Social Ice: Thursday February 7th, right after the Technical Presentation </strike> ===
Board gamesTime to play. We're going to use the same option we used in 2020: [https://en.boardgamearena.com/ Board Game Arena] - it is known, many of us already have accounts, and it is freeIf you didn't play with us last year, you can save a little time on Friday night by creating your account ahead of time.
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Looking for a host to choose a time and location, and preferably at least one other person to commit to meeting up then/there, for this to happen yet tonightPlease email the list.


And because it's more fun to video chat while we game together, don't forget to also log into our [https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig video chat room].




We're headed to Social Ice (aka SocialICE), an [https://www.downtownrochestermn.com/events/socialice outdoor ice bar on the downtown Peace Plaza], which if the -25 degree windchills as I'm writing this is any indication, will have no issues with melting or crowding this year (it's Minnesota, that may change).


For those of you who also love photography, note that SocialIce 2019 is holding a photo contest, each of 6 winners will receive a $50 gift card, details on the SocialICE Page.
=== Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot:  Thursday November 11th ===
6 pm


When and where?  The group attending the technical meeting will head there whenever it's a good time to have wrapped up the presentation, and they'll have their own meet up location chosen. So plan to attend the technical meeting first.
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]
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There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.


Agenda - what would you like to do for our virtual board game night in December?  Do we want a typical 1 hour slot on our usual 2nd Thursday schedule, since there's only so long we can stare at screens?  Or do we want to move to a Friday night and have a longer window, as we would often have historically done in-person?


=== CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER!! <strike>Technical Meeting:  Thursday February 7th <- Note date change! </strike> ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tim or Tina know.


Due to weather, RCTC is closed, so there will be no technical meeting tonight.  Rescheduled for the usual 2nd Thursday, but in March.




=== Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot:  Thursday October 14th ===
6 pm


<strike> This meeting has been moved to avoid Valentines Day!  I don't want to be in trouble with anyone's spouse or significant other.
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]


Arhelger, on Wifi and Home Networking.
There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.


Everyone asks Kevin what he recommends for Wifi routers, so he's going to put all of his thoughts into slide form to document it for posterity. He'll cover the explosion of options over the past few years to help you figure out what the best option for your situation. If you're looking to upgrade, have complaints about Netflix constantly buffering, or want to make sure your network is secure, this ones for you.
Agenda - what would you like to do for our virtual board game night in December?  Do we want a typical 1 hour slot on our usual 2nd Thursday schedule, since there's only so long we can stare at screens?  Or do we want to move to a Friday night and have a longer window, as we would often have historically done in-person?


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


This presentation will be recorded, FYI if that bothers you.  For those of you who don't make it, look for the recording afterwards.


We may also have a mini-presentation by someone new to town, on wifiphisher, we'll let you know when we have more details ironed out.


=== Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot:  Thursday September 9th ===
6 pm


Immediately afterwards, at whatever time the meeting wraps up, those interested will go to Social Ice downtown on the Peace Plaza for our February social, led by Arhelger. So if you want to attend this social, make sure you attend the meeting, or have coordinated communication with Arhelger in advance. See the separate Social Ice posting below too.
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]


More presentation details expected to be posted on Friday February 1st.
There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.


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


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.


[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]
=== Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot: Thursday August 12th ===
6 pm


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.


Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know - but Tina won't be running this meeting, I'll let you know when I know who will be.
Agenda: Zoom in-app games, starting at 6:20 pm, for those who wish.  Link in your email.


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






=== Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot:  Thursday July 8th ===
6 pm


=== "January" Social:  Saturday February 2nd ===
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]
Sleigh rides!  We will go for a [https://www.rochesterwinterfest.com/events/sleighrides sleigh ride at WinterFest] for our "January" social.  This is an annual favorite with the smaller geekazoids.  In fact I think we've even made the advertising photo for this public event, I suspect that mini-Schmidt is in pink on the top of the snowpile and my own blaze orange snowpants can be seen behind the horses to the right of mini-Schmidt.


Saturday, February 2nd, at 10 am.  
There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.


Park along the road on Salem Road, the sleigh rides are north of the road behind the History Center.  
Agenda:  Tell us about your holiday weekend.  Maybe we can get an LED wall update.  Hopefully we're all enjoying cooler, damper weather.


Plan to gather around the Schmidt family. Sorry, no easily identifiable blaze orange to gather around this year.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tim or Tina know.






=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 10th, 2019 ===
=== Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot:  Thursday June 10th ===
Dennis DeLorme on his Garagenator (that's garage doing the work of a refrigerator), involving WiFi/Web based temperature sensor/logger:
6 pm


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Did you have the family gathering at your place for Thanksgiving? Did you run out of space in the refrigerator? Did you wonder if the garage temperature was safe for overflow food storage? If so you needed the GARAGERATOR - the WiFi/Web solution to garage temperature monitoring.


In this presentation I'll describe how to use an under $10 WiFi module as a web server to monitor and log temperature. The "user interface" is via a web browser on a laptop, tablet, or cell phone. No special hardware or software is needed on the user side.
There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.


I will demonstrate the web server as an Access Point (a stand alone
Agenda:  Nothing in particular.
network) to collect and download data. This requires no additional networking, so it is not dependent on a local network.


It can also be connected as a station on a local network and accessible to any device on the local network. I will describe how to do this (it is only a few lines of code difference). I don't know that I will be able to demonstrate this on the RCTC network - as I recall they had some additional interactions to sign on to their open network.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tim or Tina know.


I will cover the hardware and software used in the project. For those that want to get a head start - the hardware is an ESP8266 module, a
DS3231 rtc, and a DS18B20 temperature sensor. The software is developed using the Arduino IDE with extensions for the ESP8266 (https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino).


NOTE: This is not an "Internet Of Things" (IOT) presentation. It could be connected directly to the Internet, but I lack the security knowledge (or, alternately, the level of stupidity) required to do that. It can, of course, access the internet via a local network - like other devices on a local network.
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=== Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot:  Thursday May 13th ===
6 pm


[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]


KLUG officer nominations and elections (president, vice president, treasurer).
There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.


PCIG officer nominations.
Agenda:  Nothing in particular.


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tim or Tina know.




[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]
=== Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot: Thursday April 8th ===
6 pm


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.
 
Agenda:  Nothing in particular.
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tim or Tina know.
 
 
 
=== Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot:  Thursday March 11th ===
6 pm
 
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]
 
There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.
 
Agenda includes:
 
PCIG officer nominations and elections
 
Discussions of your plans for Pi day on Sunday, how you plan to compensate for the lost hour of sleep, possibly Texas infrastructure outage stories, anything else you care to share.
 
 
=== Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot:  Thursday February 11th ===
 
6 pm
 
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]
 
There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.
 
Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tim or Tina know.
 
 
 
 
 
=== Virtual Social during our Technical Meeting timeslot:  Thursday January 14th ===
 
6 pm
 
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]
 
There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.
 
KLUG officer elections, PCIG officer nominations.


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




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Virtual Board Game Night: Friday December 3rd

6 pm

Board games! Time to play. We're going to use the same option we used in 2020: Board Game Arena - it is known, many of us already have accounts, and it is free. If you didn't play with us last year, you can save a little time on Friday night by creating your account ahead of time.

And because it's more fun to video chat while we game together, don't forget to also log into our video chat room.


Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot: Thursday November 11th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.

Agenda - what would you like to do for our virtual board game night in December? Do we want a typical 1 hour slot on our usual 2nd Thursday schedule, since there's only so long we can stare at screens? Or do we want to move to a Friday night and have a longer window, as we would often have historically done in-person?

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


Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot: Thursday October 14th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.

Agenda - what would you like to do for our virtual board game night in December? Do we want a typical 1 hour slot on our usual 2nd Thursday schedule, since there's only so long we can stare at screens? Or do we want to move to a Friday night and have a longer window, as we would often have historically done in-person?

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


Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot: Thursday September 9th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.

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


Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot: Thursday August 12th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.

Agenda: Zoom in-app games, starting at 6:20 pm, for those who wish. Link in your email.

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


Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot: Thursday July 8th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.

Agenda: Tell us about your holiday weekend. Maybe we can get an LED wall update. Hopefully we're all enjoying cooler, damper weather.

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


Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot: Thursday June 10th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.

Agenda: Nothing in particular.

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


Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot: Thursday May 13th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.

Agenda: Nothing in particular.

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


Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot: Thursday April 8th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.

Agenda: Nothing in particular.

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


Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot: Thursday March 11th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.

Agenda includes:

PCIG officer nominations and elections

Discussions of your plans for Pi day on Sunday, how you plan to compensate for the lost hour of sleep, possibly Texas infrastructure outage stories, anything else you care to share.


Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot: Thursday February 11th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.

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



Virtual Social during our Technical Meeting timeslot: Thursday January 14th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

There is no moderator when using this software, so if we get invaded we will have to bail and figure out a different session ID and then also definitely use a password, that'd go out by email and/or wiki update ASAP.

KLUG officer elections, PCIG officer nominations.

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





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