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| === Social/Service Opportunity: Tuesday April 19th (during Earth Week) ===
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| There will be an opportunity to participate in Rochester's [http://www.rneighbors.org/?page_id=32 Litter Bit Better]. By doing trash clean up in coordination with LBB, the trash bags and hauling of trash are taken care of for us, we only have to actually put the junk and the recycling in the appropriate bags. Family and friends are welcome, this activity will also advertised to groups such as geocachers and the mentoring organization of Bolder Options. Talk to Tina for more details.<p>
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| 6:30 pm at Zumbro West Park, it's area 422 on [http://img.geocaching.com/cache/ea9294d2-d9bd-491b-b613-925d995887de.jpg this map]. Here's the geocaching.com [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC2QAGV posting].
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| | === Outside Social: Saturday February 24th === |
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| === Social: Sunday April 17th, 2 pm ===
| | It's supposed to be dry all week, there's no snow to fight with, the disc golf holes are present, and Saturday's forecast is for sunshine and a high of 46. So let's play disc golf! |
| Rockets + kites! That way we can play if there's no wind, lots of wind, basically anything other than a rain/snow storm. This'll be at 2 pm, at Century High School in their field.
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| | Meet outside the RCTC field house, 2 pm. Here is [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217033483939111930234.0004a3795f42da701ae0b&msa=0&ll=44.015742,-92.422206&spn=0.003541,0.006942&iwloc=0004a37962daae4746296 a map]. |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday April 14th ===
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| Brent Vrieze will present a demo of Asterisk PBX software, using third party software requiring little manual configuring. He's provided the following description:
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| "PBX in a Flash (PiaF) is an easy to install (super easy) Asterisk distribution that can be set up in an afternoon on either a virtual machine or an old beige box collecting dust. Asterisk is an open source PBX (Private Branch Exchange) phone system that PBX in a Flash puts a web based GUI of there the top of to make management and upgrading extremely easy in comparison to 2 years ago.
| | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th === |
| | Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics. |
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| If time permits I will show you an add on package to PiaF called Incredible PBX that using some free SIP phone providers and Google Voice will give you FREE, as in beer, phone service with a local number to anywhere in the US and Canada."
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| | Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know. |
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| -> When: Thursday April 14th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
| | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th, 2024 === |
| | Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics. |
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| -> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107 or nearby
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
| | And KLUG officer elections. |
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
| | Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know. |
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| === Planned Social: March TBD ===
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| Recent suggestions include:
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| -[http://artemis.eochu.com/ Artemis], a multiplayer spaceship bridge simulator for Windows
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| -SOLAR DEATH RAY!!! to burn stuff, like [http://inhabitat.com/19-year-old-teenager-makes-homemade-solar-death-ray/solarray3/ this].
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| But nobody's stepped up to lead these, let Tina know if you're willing to organize.
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| === Lunch: Thursday March 17th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday March 10th ===
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| Dennis DeLorme will present on a paper tape reader.<br>
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| "Want to move those 100's of bytes of data you put on paper tape back in
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| your misspent youth to 21st century media? (Any time spent with paper
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| tape was misspent.) Bring your paper tape and a flash drive to the K-LUG
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| tape fest On March 10. I will briefly describe the set up and then will
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| be ready to do transfers. I can transfer data as hex, binary, or binary
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| with the parity bit ignored. For 7 bit character data binary with parity
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| bit ignored is probably the preferred method."
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| Also:<br>
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| -PCIG final nominations and elections<br>
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| -Girl Scout cookies and pi/pie in an early celebration of pi day <br>
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| -Jon T will bring his hacked pandigital Android ereader for a show and tell afterwards (no demo, just to show off)
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| -> When: Thursday March 10th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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| -> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107 or nearby
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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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| Also, if you won't be attending the school district's only date/time for community input sessions on their superintendent search (same day at 7 pm), you can still contribute to the local school district by filling out their superintendent search [http://www.rochester.k12.mn.us/se3bin/clientgenie.cgi?schoolname=school85&statusFlag=goGenie&geniesite=484&myButton=g5plugin&db=g484_b4020 survey] by Thursday. Why can't you do both the input session and K-LUG? You can, if you leave K-LUG early, sessions are:
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| What: Community input sessions for new Rochester superintendent
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| When: 7 p.m. Thursday
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| Where: Gibbs Elementary School, 5525 56th St. N.W. OR Kellogg Middle School, 503 17th St. N.E. OR Willow Creek Middle School, 2425 11th Ave. S.E.
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| === Social: Thursday February 24th===
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| We'll be viewing the Linux documentary "Revolution OS". It runs ~1.5 hours, so we'll start at 6 pm. RCTC's Heintz Center, in or near our normal meeting room HA107. To try to make this a more "movie-like" atmosphere, please bring your own (non-alcoholic) beverage if you wish, and a quiet snack to share.
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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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| === Lunch: Thursday February 17th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday February 10th ===
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| Steve Severson has volunteered to present on Android apps at IBM and/or rooting an Android.
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| -> When: Thursday February 10th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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| -> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107 or nearby
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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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| === Social: Friday January 28th ===
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| We'll be bowling at Byron Lanes. Please try to be there at 6:45 so we can get through the ball/shoe obtainment process and hopefully figure out if we need any more/less lanes before it gets too crowded. Our reservation is for 7 pm, we've got 2 lanes at the moment.
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| Costs for bowling are $2/person/game, with shoe rental being $1. They have a full bar, and on Fridays they also serve pizza, if anyone is interested in a snack before or after the games.
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| This is a family/friends-friendly event, please let Tina know if you have young children coming so we can ask in advance for a bumper lane to be set up if necessary.
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| === Lunch: Thursday January 20th ===
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| 11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N.
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| === "Technical Meeting": Thursday January 13th, 6:00 pm ===
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| Next Meeting - Dennis DeLorme ZigBee Protocol and XBee wireless Communication modules demo.
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| -> When: Thursday January 13th - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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| -> Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA109
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| Room HA107 (or HA109 depending on construction issues)
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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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| Also '''Elections!''' Please submit your nominations for president, vice president, and treasurer.
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