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=== Virtual Social: Thursday November 10th ===
6 pm


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


=== December Technical Meeting / Social:  Saturday December 15th, 1-4 pm ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tim or Tina know.
Dennis and Connie are hosting!  They'll provide snacks, but it's bring your own beverage/beverage to share.  Also, bring your favorite board or card games.  




=== Virtual Social: Thursday October 13th ===
6 pm


'''Sign up'''<br>
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]


{| border="1" cellpadding="5"
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tim or Tina know.
|-
| '''Name''' || '''# of self/family/friends''' || '''Board/card games''' || '''Beverage contributions'''
|-
| Dennis || 2 || x || hosts - providing the snacks instead
|-
| Tina || 4 total (2 adults, 2 kids) || Castle Panic, Old MacDonald had a farm, Isle of Monsters || 2 2L of diet root beer, 1 2L of Crush
|-
| Erik || 2 || x  || x
|-
| madam || 1 || x  || x
|-
| Aaron || 1 || I will bring something, not sure what yet  || Diet Dr. Pepper for myself and others should they so desire
|-
| Your name here || x || x  || x
|-
| Your name here || x || x  || x
|-
|}






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


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday November 8th ===
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.
Med City Drone presentation by founder Ryan Kuisle.




MedCity Drones is Rochester's first drone racing club run in accordance with MultiGP safety guidelines.  We are still growing and learning, but are happy to share what knowledge we have gained.  In our presentation we will go over drone basics (drone builds, control, first person view) along with a racing overview.  At the end we will have some show and tell and time for questions.


=== Cancelled - <strike> Meatspace Social: Friday September 23rd </strike> ===
<strike> 6 pm


If anyone has any questions they know in advance, please send them to Tina, Ryan wants to incorporate them into his presentation.  But be aware that the meeting will be run by Nix, so any last minute items need to go to him.
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.


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 Social: Thursday September 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]
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tim or Tina know.


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




=== November social ===
=== Meatspace Social: Thursday September 1st ===
We avoid having a November social, to keep the scheduling burden on families as light as possible during the holiday season.
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.


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


(We didn't end up having one, sorry)




=== Virtual Social: Thursday August 11th ===
6 pm


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday October 11th ===
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]
This month will be a field trip!  A limited group of pre-registrants (~15 people total) will be attending a tour of our local Rochester waste water treatment plant. The registration option will be published by email first so everyone can get in on this first come, first serve opportunity.


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.


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday September 13th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tim or Tina know.


DefCon review is cancelled, sorry.  Instead Nix will lead a round-table discussion of whatever people want to chat about; show up at the usual place, and depending on preferences the group may adjourn to a suitable nearby site offering snacks and beverages.




6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.
=== Virtual Social: Thursday July 14th ===
6 pm


[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]
[https://meet.jit.si/klugpcig Meeting link here.]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
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.


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tim or Tina know.


Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tina know, but also know that Nix will be in charge of this meeting.




=== Social: August ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday June 9th ===
What might you want to do?  Tell Tina.
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.


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday August 9th ===
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tim or Tina know.


Andrew Eggenberger, on his attendance at [https://srccon.org/ srccon] in June.


About srccon from srccon.org


SRCCON is a hands-on conference, full of conversations and workshops focused on the practical challenges that news technology and data teams encounter every day. We work to make it an inclusive and welcoming event where people can feel comfortable digging into complex problems.
=== Virtual Technical Meeting:  Thursday May 12th ===
Presenter needed. Willing to volunteer?  Tell Tim or Tina.


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]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday May 3rd ===
6 - 7:30 pm


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
West side of [https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B001'25.8%22N+92%C2%B029'50.8%22W/@44.0238371,-92.499622,17z/ Cascade Lake park].  NOT our historical east side neighborhood parking.


Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know, but also know that Aaron will be in charge of this meeting.
Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, mask if desired, and sense of civic duty.






=== Social:  Saturday July 21st, 10:30 am ===
As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC9QP21 geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.
Join us at the Rochester Public Library's presentation about the [https://root.evanced.info/rochester/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=35929 40th anniversary of the 1979 flood.]   "This July marks the 40th anniversary of the historic flooding of Rochester. Come to this program to learn about what happened during the flood from the people who lived it and find out how the city planned and built the flood control system that protects us today."  In the RPL auditorium.






=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday July 12th ===
=== Virtual Social:  Thursday April 14th ===
6 pm


Kyle Gilbertson (IBM LEGO Education Outreach core team member and a prolific volunteer for other efforts as well) has agreed to be a speaker at an upcoming K-LUG meeting. As part of Kyle's volunteering both for ILEO and for other LEGO related STEM outreach he has had the occasion to want to produce instructions for constructing a LEGO model. This is actually difficult to do and have it look like you would expect LEGO instructions to look. Kyle was able to chain several different open source tools together to produce a quality set of instructions. He has volunteered to share the lessons he learned during this process with us.  (And he says that no, it's not a presentation for kids, sorry.)
[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.


Build digital 3D LEGO models on your computer. Create build instructions for your design. Learn the tools and avoid pitfalls to produce great results.
This emphasizes LEGO robot models, but this all works for standard studded builds. Using what you learn, consider contributing a robot design and instructions for use in this fall's IBM LEGO Education Outreach classes.




=== Virtual Meeting + Social:  Thursday March 10th ===
6 pm


Slides are [https://ibm.box.com/ILEO here,] open the 'Robot Build Instructions' folder.
[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 - IBM Club update for PCIG.  Then eating a slice of your favorite pie in early celebration of Pi(e) Day, and socializing.


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]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/ Campus layout]


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/heintz/heintz-a.html Heintz Center Building Map]
=== Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot: Thursday February 10th ===
6 pm


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


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday June 14th ===
Agenda - Socialize!


3D printing, by Roger Southwick.
Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tim or Tina know.


--


Roger Southwick has been a software engineer at IBM for 30 years and an electronics hobbyist since the late 1970s.  He assembled a Rostock Max 3D printer and will share experiences from 2 years of experimentation in a brief presentation including a printer demonstration, display of some interesting print samples, and time for discussion.


--
=== Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot:  Thursday January 13th, 2022 ===
6 pm


Picture [http://k-lug.org/images/e/ef/3dprinting201806.jpg here].  His [http://k-lug.org/images/7/79/Home_3d_printing.pdf slides are here.]
[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.


6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA108.
Agenda - KLUG elections, PCIG nominations.  Tim will present briefly on the Alexa skill that he updated over his break, described as "it is a vocabulary word of the day skill which now displays output nicely on an alexa echo show".


[https://www.google.com/maps/place/1926+Collegeview+Rd+E,+Rochester,+MN+55904/@44.021027,-92.4379617,17z/ Directions to Campus]
Anything else you want to see on the agenda?  Let Tim or Tina know.


[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.




=== Social:  Thursday June 7th ===
Disc golf! Just up the road outside the RCTC field house. Meet at the parking lot edge / field house doors, 6:30 pm.




=== Social:  Tuesday May 15th ===
Disc golf! Just up the road outside the RCTC field house. Meet at the parking lot edge / field house doors, 6:30 pm.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday May 10th ===
Arhelger, giving us a preview of his MongoDB World presentation.
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]
[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.
=== CITO Social:  Thursday April 26th ===
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/GC7KHXD_10th-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.
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.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday April 12th ===
No speaker, we'll have "show and tell", socialize, and spectate the PCIG officer elections.
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]
[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.
=== Social:  Monday March 12th ===
Early PI day, with pie at [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bakers+Square+Restaurant+%26+Bakery/@44.0063638,-92.4830637,15z/ Baker's Square (the one by Apache Mall)].  7 pm so you can have a healthy dinner at home first, for health and cost reasons (of course, if you wanted to go to Baker's Square and want to use this for an excuse, you're welcome to blame me).
=== Technical Meeting: March 8th, 2018 ===
Cancelled due to no speaker.  The PCIG elections will happen at the April meeting, beware!  ;)
Volunteers or request for an April+ speaker, or the March+ social, would be appreciated.  Please email Tina.
=== Technical Meeting: February 8th, 2018 ===
Dennis DeLorme, "Arduino at Sea".
--
The original plan was to update the "Solar UV Intensity" project I did three years ago on a Pacific island cruise. I presented some of the Arduino to Android interface changes last July.
But what else does an Arduino addict do when faced with an 80 day Asia/Pacific cruise? Put a bunch of extra Arduinos and I/O modules in a box and put it in his carry-on "just in case".
In addition to the UV measurement results I will talk about 2 other projects...
1) A scrolling Halloween message on an LCD display - they did some Halloween themed things on Oct 31. I used the user defined character feature to build a pumpkin image as part of the message.
2) A temperature data logger that recorded the temperatures in 6 min intervals for several hours to document problems with the A/C in our cabin. I uploaded the data from the Arduino to our laptop via Bluetooth and used LibraOffice to to graph the data.
I will talk about the hardware and software for these projects and do a couple of demos.
--
Also, PCIG officer nominations.
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]
[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.
=== Social:  Saturday February 3rd ===
We will go for a [https://www.rochesterwinterfest.com/events/2018/2/3/sleigh-rides sleigh ride at WinterFest] for our February social.  That's Saturday, February 3rd, at 10 am. 
[https://www.google.com/maps/place/44%C2%B000'14.4%22N+92%C2%B030'46.4%22W/@44.0040188,-92.5150877,17z/ Park along the road on Salem Road], the sleigh rides are north of the road behind the History Center.
Plan to gather around the Schmidt family.
=== Social:  Saturday January 20th ===
2 pm - Ice skating!  On the Soldier's Field track oval (same place where recent RochesterFest summer lunches have been).  Plan to gather around the Schmidt family.
https://www.rochesterwinterfest.com/events/2018/1/20/ice-skating-on-the-oval
=== Technical Meeting: January 11th, 2018 ===
Discuss job hunting, from local options, to telecommute jobs, current interviewing strategies, networking, build your own job, build your own company.  No specific speaker, we'll go around the room and let people talk about what's worked for them and what hasn't.
Special thanks to our mini-speakers who turned out despite the bad weather, here are the presentations given by [http://k-lug.org/images/8/85/Survival_in_technology.pdf Matt Bruzek] and [http://k-lug.org/images/7/7e/Job_Hunting_Options.pdf Mike Fallenstein].
Also, K-LUG officer elections, and PCIG officer nominations.
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]
[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.




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Revision as of 17:01, 14 November 2022


Virtual Social: Thursday November 10th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

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


Virtual Social: Thursday October 13th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

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


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.


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.


Virtual Social: Thursday September 8th

6 pm

Meeting link here.

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


Meatspace Social: Thursday September 1st

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.



Virtual Social: Thursday August 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: Thursday July 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.

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


Virtual Social: Thursday June 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 Technical Meeting: Thursday May 12th

Presenter needed. Willing to volunteer? Tell Tim or Tina.

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



Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday May 3rd

6 - 7:30 pm

West side of Cascade Lake park. NOT our historical east side neighborhood parking.

Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, mask if desired, and sense of civic duty.


As usual we are teaming up with the geocachers to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.


Virtual Social: Thursday April 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.

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


Virtual Meeting + Social: Thursday March 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 - IBM Club update for PCIG. Then eating a slice of your favorite pie in early celebration of Pi(e) Day, and socializing.

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


Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot: Thursday February 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 - Socialize!

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


Virtual pandemic social during our technical meeting timeslot: Thursday January 13th, 2022

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 - KLUG elections, PCIG nominations. Tim will present briefly on the Alexa skill that he updated over his break, described as "it is a vocabulary word of the day skill which now displays output nicely on an alexa echo show".

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







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