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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday October 9th ===
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| Marc Thomas, from NORLUG. "Re-cloudify your life. Moving to your own cloud".
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| Tired of wondering what all those companies are doing with your data? It's time to recloudify your life and move to your own cloud!
| | === Outside Social: Saturday February 24th === |
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| Marc is a software developer, designer and hacker with experience in web, database, server and desktop Linux. He has worked in the education, medical, and manufacturing industries and has several open source projects hosted on Github.
| | 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! |
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| Marc is also a technology advocator in the fields of Linux, FLOSS, security, and privacy. He is also the organizer of the Northfield Linux User Group (NORLUG).
| | 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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| | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th === |
| | | Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics. |
| His slides are [http://k-lug.org/images/4/40/Recloudify.odp here].
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| 6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
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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: Tuesday September 16th===
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| Disc golf!
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| 6:30 pm - disc golf at RCTC. If you don't have your own disc that's fine, come out anyway. Don't know where to meet? Here's a [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217033483939111930234.0004a3795f42da701ae0b&msa=0&ll=44.015742,-92.422206&spn=0.003541,0.006942&iwloc=0004a37962daae4746296 map].
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday September 11th === | |
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| Chris Abbey on Ingress.
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| Want to learn about a game that ticks every possible game checkbox? cabbey will be talking about Ingress, It's a Cooperative Team Based Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Combat Farming Geo-Aware Layered Reality version of Capture the Flag.
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| And here's his after action report:
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| Here's the slide deck I used last night:
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| https://docs.google.com/a/cabbey.net/presentation/d/1w-ni8qEfG8GNawdP6_X8yB7LNinAysZ8D_Y2zMMYF0k
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| If you're reading along at home, be sure to check the speaker notes where a lot of what I said is at least hinted at, if not written down.
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| The video I played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss-Z-QjFUio
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| The demographics report I mentioned: http://simulacrum.cc/2013/01/23/the-demographics-of-ingress/
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| This is also a great site for learning about the game mechanics: http://decodeingress.me
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| The video I didn't play due to time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zyibi6niWA
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| Another video of another epic outing a friend of mine went on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvmiE0yhYG8 and the second one, filmed by Niantic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D92gLsvbXvI (slicker production values, but more content free)
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| Ignore the fact that all of those are green operations, the so called "enlightened" (remember what we learned, they're the alien invaders seeking to crush humanity) seem to be a bit more vain about filming their victories. The resistance has mounted a number of equally epic operations... we just tend not to toot our own horns. (and yes, my self imposed restriction on trying to recruit is over.)
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| RESIST. Its Humanity's Only Hope.
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| <strike>Kevin A - DefCon 2014 summary</strike> This has been delayed.
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| 6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
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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: Monday August 25th - Minigolf ===
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| Monday, August 25th, 6 pm - minigolf at Skyline Raceway. There's a coupon in the half-sized local mailed coupon book for $2 off a round, these coupon books can also be picked up in the entryway of many local stores. http://www.skylineracewayrochester.com/mini-golf.html
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| === Planned Social: August TBD ===
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| <strike>Rocket launch and picnic. Saturday August 30th, time and location TBA by launch master Kevin Arhelger.</strike>
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| This fell through.
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| === Planned Lunch: Thursday August 21st ===
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| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| | Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know. |
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday August 14th ===
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| <strike>Speaker needed, please let Tina or Jon G know if you're willing to volunteer. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list requested topics] page.
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| 6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
| | === Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th, 2024 === |
| | | Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics. |
| [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]</strike>
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| === Next Meeting: - No Meeting, but Disc Golf === | |
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| ->'''When:''' Thursday, August 14th - 6:00 pm - 7:35 pm
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| ->'''Where:''' meet at the RCTC Campus for disc golf, park in the UCR Gym lot
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| === Social: Wednesday July 30th ===
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| 6:30 pm - disc golf at RCTC. If you don't have your own disc that's fine, come out anyway. Don't know where to meet? Here's a [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217033483939111930234.0004a3795f42da701ae0b&msa=0&ll=44.015742,-92.422206&spn=0.003541,0.006942&iwloc=0004a37962daae4746296 map].
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| === Social Preparation for August: Friday July 25th ===
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| Last rocket build night at the Rabbit Hole.
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| http://tymkrs.com/rabbithole/
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| 547 Northern Heights Dr NE
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| Rochester MN 55906
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| | And KLUG officer elections. |
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| | | Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let Tina know. |
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| === "Technical Meeting", aka ice cream social: Sunday July 20th ===
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| No speaker volunteers (typical for summer) and no officer energy to kick behinds, we're having ice cream and flying kites instead.
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| Location: [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Redwood+Ln+SW,+Rochester,+MN+55902/@43.989365,-92.4843012,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87f758cbe6ddd805:0xcbd56f452d52bbef That park by Steve Fox's house], officially known as Pine Ridge Estates Park, on Redwood Lane SW.
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| 1:30 pm
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| This park has a nice playground for the littles, picnic tables, and room to fly kites, as well as usually being unpopulated. The lack of trees and being on top of a hill mean it's pretty bug free even when there's not enough breeze to fly the kites.
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| Please bring your family and friends who might want to hang out. If you don't want to sit at the picnic tables or on the playground equipment, bring your own folding chair. And bring your own beverage.
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| === Special second lunch: Thursday June 26th, downtown ===
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| Take advantage of Thursdays on First PLUS the RochesterFest vendors.
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| 11:30 am, the tent by the RochesterFest sound stage, downtown (by the library and civic center)
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| === Lunch: Thursday June 19th ===
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| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| === Technical Meeting: June 12th - Android App Development - Jon Tollefson ===
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| Thursday, June 12th - 6:00 pm - 7:35 pm
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| Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
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| 1926 College View Road SE, Rochester, MN 55904
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| Jon has developed a java based game and published it to open source. This talk will focus on how to setup for and code such an application for Android
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| === Lunch: Thursday May 15th ===
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| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday May 8th 2014===
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| Next Meeting: - Node.js and Amazon EC2 free tier hosting - Tim Massaro
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| When: Thursday, May 8th - 6:00 pm - 7:35 pm
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| Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
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| 1926 College View Road SE, Rochester, MN 55904
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| Presentation summary: Node.js is a server side javascript platform currently very popular for easily building fast, scalable web applications. This presentation will be an introduction to node and will demo how you can set up a free (for 1 yr) hosting environment on Amazon's cloud based hosting service called EC2.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday April 10th ===
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| Dennis DeLorme, on Beaglebone Black.
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| Small scale computing is becoming more affordable as technology
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| advances. For low cost simple 8 (or occasionally 16) bit micocontrollers
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| A few years ago the Raspberry Pi project was started to bring the cost
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| of a full computer on a board into the Arduino price range. This was
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| followed by the Beaglebone Black, a lower cost version of the Beaglebone
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| family. These new systems, which have price points under $50, are
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| significantly different than the Arduino level systems. They have
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| similar I/O capabilities but much more computational power than the
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| Arduino. They are also more complex to use effectively.
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| In this presentation I will briefly compare the differences and than
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| discuss some Beaglebone Black features. Unlike the Arduino, development
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| can be done directly on the Beaglebone as a stand alone system. I will
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| also talk about VNC which allows a PC to remotely control the Beaglebone
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| Dennis' slides are [http://k-lug.org/images/d/de/Beaglbone.pdf here].
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| 6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's '''HA109'''. Please note we're going to try meeting in the computer lab just across the bigger hallway (to the west) from our usual room, due to hardware differences between the two rooms.
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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 a reminder that Tim will be running this meeting, along with all things K-LUG for May-August (thanks Tim!). If you have any agenda items to add, please make sure Tim knows about them in advance.
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| === Planned Social: March 2014 TBD ===
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| <strike> Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting 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.</strike>
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| Tina didn't get anything organized, sorry.
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| === Lunch: Thursday March 20th ===
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| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday March 13th, 2014 ===
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| Mark Diez will be coordinating an audience-driven "Andriod devices, apps, and accesories".
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| ALL THINGS ANDROID – BYO – SHOW ‘N’ TELL
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| K-LUG/PCIG members and guests will demo favorite and interesting Android stuff – including devices (phones, tablets, other?), apps, accessories, and tips/techniques. Attendees are invited to bring their own or just come to see what others have brought in a wide-ranging demo and discussion of EVERYTHING ANDROID.
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| BRING YOUR FAVORITE ANDROID DEVICES, APPS, and ACCESSORIES.
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| • Devices: Android phones and tablets, direct-attached hardware, Bluetooth-attached hardware, …
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| • Apps: backup, anti-virus/firewall, VPN, productivity, utilities, development, fun stuff, …
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| • Accessories: covers, stands, …
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| Here are some items that are likely to arrive. Mark Diez and Mo Holahan will be hosting the show’n’tell.
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| • Devices discussion: Nook HD+, Nook HD, Samsung cricket SCH-R720
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| • Android For Nook (AFN): putting Cyanogenmod Android on your Nook HD and HD+ device via commercial microSD card.
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| • Non-traditional keyboard input apps: Dasher, Dvorak, GKOS, Hacker's, Messagease
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| • Handwritten text input app: MyScript Stylus
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| • Editor: Jota+
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| • Office apps: Kingsoft Office, OfficeSuite Pro 7.2
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| • File and task managers: ES File Manager, ES Task Manager
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| • Cloud file management: Dropbox (including offline access of files)
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| • Chromecast – YouTube
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| • Skype – audio only, video and audio
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| • E-book readers: Moon+ Pro (paid), EBookDroid (free), FBReader(free)
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| • Miscellaneous favorites: Stopwatch, Yukon Gold Solitaire
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| • Other interesting apps: Google My Tracks (GPS/mapping), Physics Toolbox (sensor, accelerometer readers), Autodesk Force Effect, Force Effect Motion, simulation of mechanical linkages
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| Contact Mark Diez for further info or if you have questions or suggestions.
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| 6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
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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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| Other items on the agenda include pie to celebrate Pi day, PCIG elections and potentially a PCIG future discussion, and a request for March/April/May social ideas.
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| === Lunch: Thursday February 20th ===
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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday February 13th, 2014 ===
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| Matt Bruzek will present on Juju.
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| Juju is an open source cloud orchestration tool that allows you to configure, manage and deploy on a public or private cloud environments. The presentation will describe what Juju does and what Charms are, and a live demo of the tools.
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| A copy of Matt's slides are [http://prezi.com/7xgiezaajjek/juju/ here].
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| === Social: Saturday February 1st ===
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| As a part of [http://www.rochestermn.gov/departments/park/activities/winter/WinterFest/days/2_saturday.asp Rochester's WinterFest], there's free admission and a free snow globe making session at the Art Center (which is on the south side of the Civic Center downtown).
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| Meet at 12:30 at the Rochester Art Center. Saturday February 1st.
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| The admission to exhibits is open and free from 10-5. The snow globe making activity runs from 1-4. So those who want to participate in snow globes will have a half an hour to browse the exhibits before showing up for the first round of instructions at 1 pm, in the 3rd floor studios. Anyone wanting to avoid snow globes can continue to browse the exhibits. I'm having a hard time with the exhibit schedule on the [http://rochesterartcenter.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.html art center's website], as it looks like most of the current exhibits ended recently and they haven't updated their website with what's new. So if what they're exhibiting matters to you, keep an eye on their website or give them a call, and let the rest of us know what you find out.
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| === Lunch: Thursday January 16th ===
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| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| === Social: Saturday January 11th, 2014 ===
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| $5.50/person for ages >=1. $1 discount with proof of AAA or AARP membership, or military ID.
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| Afterwards, anyone interested can walk next door for lunch at Kingdom Buffet (Chinese). Prices here: http://www.kingdombuffetofrochester.com/rochester-mn-chinese-buffet.htm
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| 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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| === Technical Meeting: Thursday January 9th, 2014 ===
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| 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
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| There will also be a technical introduction to the inner workings of the
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| Here are the [http://k-lug.org/images/8/89/Bitcoin.pdf slides] from his presentation.
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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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.
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