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=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday May 8th 2014===


Next Meeting: - Node.js and Amazon EC2 free tier hosting - Tim Massaro
=== Virtual Social: Thursday May 9th ===
When: Thursday, May 8th - 6:00 pm - 7:35 pm
6 pm
Where: RCTC Heintz Center Room HA107
1926 College View Road SE, Rochester, MN 55904


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.
Meeting link removed


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


=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday April 10th ===
Dennis DeLorme, on Beaglebone Black.


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Small scale computing is becoming more affordable as technology
=== Geocaching in-person social (outside), Friday May 3rd ===
advances. For low cost simple 8 (or occasionally 16) bit micocontrollers
6 pm
were the norm. This trend lead to the Arduino microcontroller on a
board. The low cost and popular support have made it a very popular system.


A few years ago the Raspberry Pi project was started to bring the cost
Park and walk in a neighborhood in NE Rochester.
of a full computer on a board into the Arduino price range. This was
followed by the Beaglebone Black, a lower cost version of the Beaglebone
family. These new systems, which have price points under $50, are
significantly different than the Arduino level systems. They have
similar I/O capabilities but much more computational power than the
Arduino. They are also more complex to use effectively.


In this presentation I will briefly compare the differences and than
Park near [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3WQ84 1 - Odin] on Whiting Lane NE's cul de sac.  We'll walk from there to a couple of other geocaches ([https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC57FGC 2], [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4RPZ2 3]), then back to #1, and then decide if we're walking or driving to [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC8M3FP 4].
discuss some Beaglebone Black features. Unlike the Arduino, development
can be done directly on the Beaglebone as a stand alone system. I will
also talk about VNC which allows a PC to remotely control the Beaglebone
GUI.


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. 


[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]
=== Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 30th ===
6:15 - 7:30 pm


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
Back to our usual Cascade Lake Park.


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.
Bags provided.  You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty.  There is shoreline.


=== Planned Social:  March 2014 TBD ===
As usual we are teaming up with the [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCAMJX2 geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.
<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>


Tina didn't get anything organized, sorry.




=== Lunch: Thursday March 20th  ===
=== Virtual Social: Thursday April 11th ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
Come hang out virtually with your favorite geeks, and share what you've been up to or found interesting.


6 pm


=== Technical Meeting: Thursday March 13th, 2014 ===
Meeting link [https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74567357951?pwd=nQjQHcz7eKjaZ5YaHS2UGrat5UVUCv.1 here].
Mark Diez will be coordinating an audience-driven "Andriod devices, apps, and accesories".  


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


ALL THINGS ANDROID – BYO – SHOW ‘N’ TELL


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.


BRING YOUR FAVORITE ANDROID DEVICES, APPS, and ACCESSORIES.
=== Virtual Technical Meeting: To be rescheduled ===
Acu Dorin will present on opensource AI software and an effort he and some other folks have made to create a private version of a chatGPT like AI interface


• Devices: Android phones and tablets, direct-attached hardware, Bluetooth-attached hardware, …


• Apps: backup, anti-virus/firewall, VPN, productivity, utilities, development, fun stuff, …


• Accessories: covers, stands, …
=== Outside Social: Friday March 22nd, 6 pm ===


• Tips/techniques
Geocaching!  The March equinox is an excuse to [https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2024/03/celebrating-the-march-equinox/ find 3 geocaches during the week of the equinox].  If you've never geocached before, this is a great time to join us.  Wear your hiking shoes, long sturdy pants, and otherwise dress for the weather.


We will chase 3 multi-caches that start to the east and north of St Marys Hospital
Here are some items that are likely to arrive. Mark Diez and Mo Holahan will be hosting the show’n’tell.  
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6G6R5
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XDH0
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XEQV


• Devices discussion: Nook HD+, Nook HD, Samsung cricket SCH-R720
If we have any DNF's, first choice replacement will be:
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC56K4K


• Android For Nook  (AFN): putting Cyanogenmod Android on your Nook HD and HD+ device via commercial microSD card.
I skimmed through the logs, and none of our regulars seem to have found these, so hopefully everyone will qualify for the achievement.


• Non-traditional keyboard input apps:  Dasher, Dvorak, GKOS, Hacker's, Messagease
Parking:
There is a limited quantity of 2 hour parking in St. Marys Park proper. However, the neighborhood parking permit restriction opens back up starting at 5:30, so by starting at 6 pm you should be able to park on the street (and not be competing with employees for spots) for the duration of our explorations.


• Handwritten text input app: MyScript Stylus


• Editor: Jota+
=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday March 14th ===
Speaker cancelled due to illness, will reschedule.


• Office apps: Kingsoft Office, OfficeSuite Pro 7.2
Tim Massaro will come to our rescue, and will present on his Partyrock/Blackrock hackathon project, as well as brainstorming some future socials.


• File and task managers:  ES File Manager, ES Task Manager
6 pm


• Cloud file management: Dropbox (including offline access of files)
Meeting link removed.


• Chromecast – YouTube
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


• Skype – audio only, video and audio


• E-book readers:  Moon+ Pro (paid), EBookDroid (free), FBReader(free)


• Miscellaneous favorites: Stopwatch, Yukon Gold Solitaire
=== Outside Social: Saturday February 24th ===


• Other interesting apps:  Google My Tracks (GPS/mapping), Physics Toolbox (sensor, accelerometer readers), Autodesk Force Effect, Force Effect Motion, simulation of mechanical linkages
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!
   


Contact Mark Diez for further info or if you have questions or suggestions.
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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6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th ===
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]
6 pm


[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
Anything else you want to see on the agenda? Let us know.


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.


=== Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th, 2024 ===
Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics.


6 pm


=== Lunch:  Thursday February 20th  ===
And KLUG officer elections.
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.


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






=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday February 13th, 2014 ===
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].
6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
=== Social:  Saturday February 1st ===
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).
Meet at 12:30 at the Rochester Art Center.  Saturday February 1st.
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.
=== Lunch:  Thursday January 16th  ===
11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
=== Social:  Saturday January 11th, 2014 ===
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.
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.
$5.50/person for ages >=1.  $1 discount with proof of AAA or AARP membership, or military ID.
1643 North Broadway Street, Suite A
River Center Plaza
Rochester, MN 55906
That's across the street from Silver Lake Foods, in the same strip mall as La Fiesta, and across the parking lot from Wendy's.
Afterwards, anyone interested can walk next door for lunch at Kingdom Buffet (Chinese).  Prices here:  http://www.kingdombuffetofrochester.com/rochester-mn-chinese-buffet.htm
Their re-designed website doesn't seem to have the discount coupon any more, let me know if you spot one.
=== Technical Meeting:  Thursday January 9th, 2014 ===
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
brief overview of the system in the context of previous electronic money
systems and show how bitcoin solves the problems encountered by them. 
There will also be a technical introduction to the inner workings of the
system (cryptography, network, transactions, scripts, etc.)  The
remainder of the session will be Q&A/discussion.  Questions on virtually
any bitcoin-related topic are welcome.
--
Here are the [http://k-lug.org/images/8/89/Bitcoin.pdf slides] from his presentation.
6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
[http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html  Directions to Campus]
[http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html  Heintz Center Building Map]
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.
I'm sure we'll have something eventually....  ;)






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Virtual Social: Thursday May 9th

6 pm

Meeting link removed

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


Geocaching in-person social (outside), Friday May 3rd

6 pm

Park and walk in a neighborhood in NE Rochester.

Park near 1 - Odin on Whiting Lane NE's cul de sac. We'll walk from there to a couple of other geocaches (2, 3), then back to #1, and then decide if we're walking or driving to 4.



Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 30th

6:15 - 7:30 pm

Back to our usual Cascade Lake Park.

Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. There is shoreline.

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


Virtual Social: Thursday April 11th

Come hang out virtually with your favorite geeks, and share what you've been up to or found interesting.

6 pm

Meeting link here.

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


Virtual Technical Meeting: To be rescheduled

Acu Dorin will present on opensource AI software and an effort he and some other folks have made to create a private version of a chatGPT like AI interface


Outside Social: Friday March 22nd, 6 pm

Geocaching! The March equinox is an excuse to find 3 geocaches during the week of the equinox. If you've never geocached before, this is a great time to join us. Wear your hiking shoes, long sturdy pants, and otherwise dress for the weather.

We will chase 3 multi-caches that start to the east and north of St Marys Hospital https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6G6R5 https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XDH0 https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5XEQV

If we have any DNF's, first choice replacement will be: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC56K4K

I skimmed through the logs, and none of our regulars seem to have found these, so hopefully everyone will qualify for the achievement.

Parking: There is a limited quantity of 2 hour parking in St. Marys Park proper. However, the neighborhood parking permit restriction opens back up starting at 5:30, so by starting at 6 pm you should be able to park on the street (and not be competing with employees for spots) for the duration of our explorations.


Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday March 14th

Speaker cancelled due to illness, will reschedule.

Tim Massaro will come to our rescue, and will present on his Partyrock/Blackrock hackathon project, as well as brainstorming some future socials.

6 pm

Meeting link removed.

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


Outside Social: Saturday February 24th

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!

Meet outside the RCTC field house, 2 pm. Here is a map.


Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday February 8th

Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics.

6 pm

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


Virtual Technical Meeting: Thursday January 11th, 2024

Aaron Albertson will present a wrap up of this season's volunteer work with student robotics.

6 pm

And KLUG officer elections.

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




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