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=== Socials: October 24th and 28th=== | |||
Chris Abbey is leading two photowalks. The nature/fall colors photowalk will be at Quarry Hill on Saturday October 24th, 2 pm. The architecture photowalk will be downtown on Wednesday October 28th, 11:30 am. For either/both, please RSVP off-list to Chris. | |||
More details about Saturday: <br> | |||
It's looking like we'll hit a | |||
good 75-80% color by then, plus there's a chance for fresh snow the night | |||
before. We'll meet at the 9th St NE entrance to Quarry Hill Park. Hopefully no | |||
one will have the picnic pavilion reserved and we can meet up there. If not | |||
we'll be at sign post 17. Plan is we'll probably chat for 10 to 15 minutes then | |||
take off along the following sequence of sign posts: 17, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, | |||
10, 7, 6, 3. There are a couple of variations along there, from 10 to 6 there | |||
are two ways to go, and after 6 there's a loop tht can be taken that will bring | |||
you back to the same point, but take you to a scenic overlook along the way. | |||
That will get us pretty much to the end of the wooded trails. From there you | |||
can take the most direct route back to where we started via points 5, 24/23, 18. | |||
Which will take you through both the pond/marsh and prairie areas... OR you can | |||
take a less direct route through the mine via 2, 4, 28, insanity, 21, 20, 18. If | |||
we time it right and we're heading out near sunset, the view from the scenic | |||
point between 25 and 27 should be stellar. I've been wanting to shoot the sunset | |||
from there for a while, and might take advantage of it. (After climbing up the | |||
hill from point 28, bear RIGHT when you hit the mine wall and bear right at all | |||
trail forks until you hit the end.) Weather forecast is for highs in the 40s | |||
Saturday, so expect it to be brisk. it looks to be about 2 miles. Post walk | |||
social gathering somewhere with hot chocolate, coffee, and/or soup I think. We | |||
can figure it out while we walk. Maybe great harvest? RSVP. | |||
[http://www.qhnc.org/documents/SummerTrailMap.pdf Map to make sense of all those numbers] | |||
Bad weather makeup will be 24 hours later, 2pm Sunday. | |||
More details about Wednesday:<br> | |||
DOWNTOWN/URBAN WALK: Wednesday October 28, 11:30am? Meet up in the foyer of the | |||
mall/university/shoppes formerly known as the galleria mall. I'm thinking around | |||
the area of where Z Pizza is... the chairs near the stairs coming down from the | |||
U of M (Why? because I plan to be there at about 11am to have a couple slices | |||
for lunch before heading off on this excursion. Feel free to join me.) Again | |||
we'll meet up and chat for a few minutes then head out. Rough route would be: S | |||
on Broadway to 3rd St S, W on 3rd to 1st ave, N on 1st ave to 2nd St, W on 2nd | |||
to 2nd Ave, N on 2nd ave to 1st St, E on 1st st (through pease plaza) back to | |||
where we started. An alternate, longer route if folks want to is to keep going W | |||
on 2nd down to 3rd or 4th Ave, then take either of them N to Center and come | |||
back S on 2nd to the entrance to peace plaza. If you're looking for buildings, | |||
this might get you more of the older ones. This route gives us a nice mix of | |||
buildings and architecture, plus people heading out for lunch and errands. | |||
Hopefully the weather will be nice enough for some folks to eat lunch in the | |||
plaza. I'm trying to hold this one to a shorter timeframe so folks can get away | |||
with a "long lunch" and participate... don't feel you have to stick around to | |||
the end, if you want to break off part way through and head back to work, go for it. RSVP. | |||
Bad weather makeup will be TBD. Maybe 24 hours later on Thursday... have to play | |||
this one by ear. | |||
Revision as of 19:14, 29 October 2009
Socials: October 24th and 28th
Chris Abbey is leading two photowalks. The nature/fall colors photowalk will be at Quarry Hill on Saturday October 24th, 2 pm. The architecture photowalk will be downtown on Wednesday October 28th, 11:30 am. For either/both, please RSVP off-list to Chris.
More details about Saturday:
It's looking like we'll hit a
good 75-80% color by then, plus there's a chance for fresh snow the night
before. We'll meet at the 9th St NE entrance to Quarry Hill Park. Hopefully no
one will have the picnic pavilion reserved and we can meet up there. If not
we'll be at sign post 17. Plan is we'll probably chat for 10 to 15 minutes then
take off along the following sequence of sign posts: 17, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11,
10, 7, 6, 3. There are a couple of variations along there, from 10 to 6 there
are two ways to go, and after 6 there's a loop tht can be taken that will bring
you back to the same point, but take you to a scenic overlook along the way.
That will get us pretty much to the end of the wooded trails. From there you
can take the most direct route back to where we started via points 5, 24/23, 18.
Which will take you through both the pond/marsh and prairie areas... OR you can
take a less direct route through the mine via 2, 4, 28, insanity, 21, 20, 18. If
we time it right and we're heading out near sunset, the view from the scenic
point between 25 and 27 should be stellar. I've been wanting to shoot the sunset
from there for a while, and might take advantage of it. (After climbing up the
hill from point 28, bear RIGHT when you hit the mine wall and bear right at all
trail forks until you hit the end.) Weather forecast is for highs in the 40s
Saturday, so expect it to be brisk. it looks to be about 2 miles. Post walk
social gathering somewhere with hot chocolate, coffee, and/or soup I think. We
can figure it out while we walk. Maybe great harvest? RSVP.
Map to make sense of all those numbers
Bad weather makeup will be 24 hours later, 2pm Sunday.
More details about Wednesday:
DOWNTOWN/URBAN WALK: Wednesday October 28, 11:30am? Meet up in the foyer of the
mall/university/shoppes formerly known as the galleria mall. I'm thinking around
the area of where Z Pizza is... the chairs near the stairs coming down from the
U of M (Why? because I plan to be there at about 11am to have a couple slices
for lunch before heading off on this excursion. Feel free to join me.) Again
we'll meet up and chat for a few minutes then head out. Rough route would be: S
on Broadway to 3rd St S, W on 3rd to 1st ave, N on 1st ave to 2nd St, W on 2nd
to 2nd Ave, N on 2nd ave to 1st St, E on 1st st (through pease plaza) back to
where we started. An alternate, longer route if folks want to is to keep going W
on 2nd down to 3rd or 4th Ave, then take either of them N to Center and come
back S on 2nd to the entrance to peace plaza. If you're looking for buildings,
this might get you more of the older ones. This route gives us a nice mix of
buildings and architecture, plus people heading out for lunch and errands.
Hopefully the weather will be nice enough for some folks to eat lunch in the
plaza. I'm trying to hold this one to a shorter timeframe so folks can get away
with a "long lunch" and participate... don't feel you have to stick around to
the end, if you want to break off part way through and head back to work, go for it. RSVP.
Bad weather makeup will be TBD. Maybe 24 hours later on Thursday... have to play this one by ear.
Lunch: Thursday October 15th
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a swarm of smartypants.
Technical Meeting: Thursday October 8th
Jean Barmash has volunteered to speak on Grails, and has provded the following description and bio.
Grails - High Productivity Web Framework for the Java Platform.
Grails in a high-productivity framework that espouses convention over configuration and takes a lot of good ideas from Ruby on Rails framework. It is based on Groovy Language, a dynamic language designed for easy integration with Java (Groovy is a super-set of Java). Grails is a high-productivity framework by following the "coding by convention" paradigm, providing a stand-alone development environment and hiding much of the configuration detail from the developer. Grails is built on top of proven Java frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. In November 2008, G2One, the company behind Groovy and Grails, was aqcuired by SpringSource, which in turn was acquired by VMWare just a few weeks ago. (For more, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grails_(framework) ).
In this presentation, you will get a brief overview of Groovy's capabilities, and then we'll learn about the key concepts behind Grails, and its plugin system, and how it can be used to rapidly prototype applications, and how it enables you to be much more productive programming web applications.
Jean Barmash is the CTO of EnergyScoreCards, a startup company that helps benchmark energy efficiency of multi-family buildings, where he is responsible for architecture and implementation of the SaaS software using the Grails framework. To his role, Jean brings a wealth of experience in different areas of technology creation. Most recently, he was Director of Technical Services at Alfresco Software, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management Company, where his responsibilities included architecture and hands-on development of content centric solutions, training, and working with open source community. He also worked as Sr. Consultant and Trainer at several Wall Street Firms. Well-versed in both .NET and Java, he is interested in the innovation going on in Web 2.0 and bringing it into the Enterprise. He is a frequent speaker on technology and architecture topics at various user groups and industry conferences such as Software Development Practices, Enterprise 2.0, Atlanta DevNexus, and others.
Here are the slides from Jean's presentation, PDF format.
Lunch: Thursday September 17th
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a gathering of geeks.
Technical Meeting: Thursday September 10th
Jon Tollefson will present an intro to iPhone app development.
-6 pm
-RCTC Heintz Center
1926 Collegeview Drive SE - Googlemaps link
Room HA107 or there abouts.
Social: Geocaching canoe trip, August 22nd
The social this month is a canoeing/kayaking geocaching event. Yes, I'm again piggybacking off activities organized by other people. You can paddle, or paddle+geocache, but you can't just geocache. Follow the link for the event details. It's a most of the day affair up in Cannon Falls.
Lunch: Thursday August 20th
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a gathering of geeks.
Technical Meeting: Thursday August 13th Demo of Windows 7
-> When: Thursday August 13th
-> 6pm - 7:30pm
-> Where:RCTC Heintz Center
1926 Collegeview Drive SE - Googlemaps link
Room HA107
Microsoft has Windows 7 Betas available for free download and the product will be delivered in Oct 2009. So we thought it was high time the PC Club condense all the hype down and take a look at what is new. Bill Hanson and Tim Massaro will give an intro to Windows 7 and demo some of the features.
Social: Free comedy show, Wednesday July 29th, 7 pm
We're going to a free comedy show, it starts at 7 pm in the Peace Plaza. Several other activities going on down there that evening (4:30 pm Music by Royal T, 6:30-8 pm Vikings Cheerleaders, 7 pm Comedians Bob Zany, Scott Hansen, and Jeff Gerbino), details on the Autism Awareness website. Add for Comedy Nite
Lunch: Thursday July 16th
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a gathering of geeks.
Technical Meeting: Thursday July 9th Demo of Socialbrowse by Zack Garbo
When: Thursday July 9th, 6pm - 7:30pm
Socialbrowse was conceived by co-founders Zachary Garbow and David Fowler as part of Silicon Valley's Y Combinator startup program. Socialbrowse aims to change the “static, individual” experience of browsing the Web into a more social and dynamic one. The first version of the product allows people who use the Firefox browser to install a program that creates a real-time sidebar of links and comments shared by their friends. After recently closing a seed stage round of funding, they will soon be launching an ambitious new version of Socialbrowse that serves as a platform for social browsing applications, which run on any web browser without any installation.
Zachary will provide a sneak peek of this new version, currently under development. He'll demonstrate how anyone can develop and deploy custom collaborative applications quickly and easily using the next generation of http://Socialbrowse.com
Lunch: Thursday June 18th
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a convocation of geeks.
Technical Meeting: Thursday June 11th Tour of the Digital and Analog Projection Booth's at Wehrenberg Theaters
-> When: Thursday June 11th
-> 6pm - 7pm
-> Where:Wehrenberg Theaters Rochester <- Note, not our normal meeting location
K-LUG has an "in" at the local Wehrenberg theater and a few members attended an impromptu tour of the projection booth there a few weeks ago. It was so much fun we've decided to offer it for everyone this month as our main meeting topic. Let's meet at 6PM in the "drive-in" feature of the lobby. The tour will take 30mins to an hour. After the tour people can choose to stay and watch a movie or not. We are recommending the group attend the new animated 3D movie Up which is getting great reviews and is rated PG.
Other movies available too...see their website here http://www.wehrenberg.com/theatres.aspx#6
Prices are as follows. ADULT Price: $10.50 /ticket
CHILD Price: $7.50 /ticket
SENIOR (over 60) Price: $8.50 /ticket
We'd like to let the theater know how many people to expect, so please email Tina if you plan to attend.
Thanks!
Lunch: Thursday May 21st
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a convocation of geeks.
Technical Meeting: Thursday May 21st
NOTE DATE AND LOCATION CHANGE
A field trip to see this year's Studio Academy FIRST Robotics League robot, we'll be at Studio Academy for their presentation, 6 pm.
Studio Academy is located at 415 16th St SW, Rochester, MN 55902 Our meeting and demo will be in the auditorium.
In town social: Thursday May 14th
Since we aren't having a technical meeting on our regular night, come socialize with your favorite geeks. We're going to see the new Star Trek movie! Exact time, theater, and screen size yet TBD.
In Town Social: Wednesday April 22nd, 2009
6:30 pm at Quarry Hill, park and roadside cleanup. We have areas #127 and #140 on this map. I'm coordinating us with another group of people that tends to overlap, so all of the details can be found here. Bring your own gloves; bags and disposal will be provided because we're doing this as part of Rochester's Litter Bit Better campaign. Headcounts to Tina would be appreciated.
Lunch: Thursday April 16th, 2009
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. I hope we're not like crows, a murder of geeks doesn't sound very good.
Technical Meeting: Thursday April 9th, 2009
Mike Bleimeyer, aircrack-ng and Kismet demonstration. Usual place and time, 6 pm at RCTC's Heintz Center room HA107.
Out of town Social: Saturday April 4th, 8 am, 2009
A field trip to the Cities to watch the FIRST Robotics League Regional competition. Carpools will depart at 8 am, see the Social page for more details and to sign up. More info from the PB.
Games mailing list
We've started a new mailing list for people who are interested in (non-video) gaming. Currently we've been playing Munchkin and RoboRally. See the link in the site navigation menu to join the mailing list if you're interested in joining us.
Want a K-Lug Shirt?
Our first batch of shirts came out rather nice, especially for the price. We have folk who didn't get in on the first order. Please browse the deals here, and contact Tim if interested. (We need a minimum order of 4)
We can now order screen printed tees from this company as well
Lunch: Thursday March 19th, 2009
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a convocation of geeks.
Social: Tuesday March 17th, 2009
We're celebrating Irish Heritage Day with potatoes, specifically potato guns! We'll also be constructing a Rube Goldberg device (including things like diet Coke and Mentos). People need to bring a contribution to make this social a success, more details and sign ups on the Social page.
Technical Meeting: Thursday March 12th, 2009
Mo Holahan will present Processing an Image Processing Programming language and development environment. Location: The usual place: RCTC's Heintz Center , Room HA107 , and time (6 pm).
Details on the Processing Presentation
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is also used in connection with Arduino (which was the subject of our Feb meeting)
We'll also be celebrating Pi day a little early.
Lunch: Thursday February 19th, 2009
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Look for a gaggle of gregarious geeks.
Social: February 13th, 2009 6:30 pm
Make DVD episodes 1-4 will be shown at Tim M's house. Also available for viewing will be the Hackers R Peeps 2 video Kevin A brought us back from DefCon, and gaming for those who prefer it. Directions here. It'd be nice if some people brought snacks/beverages to contribute. If you have allergies, beware they do have pets.
Technical Meeting: Thursday February 12th, 2009
Dennis DeLorme will present on Arduino. The usual place: RCTC's Heintz Center , Room HA107 , and time (6 pm).
Details on the Arduino Presentation
Arduino is an open source hardware and software project designed to make microcontrollers easy to use. It is based on the Atmel ATmega168, consisting of a defined hardware implementation with several form factors for different applications. The software development system is based on a C subset with predefined functions to take advantage of the hardware features. The intent is to provide an easy to use system for people to use in their creative endeavors - rather than worrying about low level details. See the http://www.arduino.cc homepage for more information.
Dennis DeLorme spent the majority of his career working on data base and file system implementation on the S/38, AS/400, and iSeries. Most recently he has been involved with the Roadrunner and Blue Gene supercomputing systems. For relaxation he enjoys the simplicity of working with microcontrollers. He has implemented a variety of projects using processors from Intel, Motorola, Microchip and now the Atmel AVR based Arduino.
Also on the agenda will be a mini-presentation by Jon Tollefson on syncing Google Calendar (where we've got Linux and social activities posted), which was originally scheduled for January but delayed due to a full agenda.
PCIG nominations
Social: Saturday January 17th, 2009
You are invited to a gaming afternoon and potluck dinner at Tina's on Saturday January 17th. 2 pm gaming, with dinner at approximately 6 pm, feel free to join us for either or both. We'll play some Munchkin Bites, and have a garlic-laden dinner. RSVP.
Technical Meeting: Thursday January 15th, 2009 Hardcore computers
NOTE DATE CHANGE
Daren Klum, president of Rochester based, Hardcore Computers will demonstrate their "Reactor" liquid cooled personal computers (that's right, think Cray 2)
An intro to the Reactor:
Every computer you've ever used has been limited by heat—until now. First-of-its-kind submersion technology allows for the maximum, most reliable and most sustainable component over-clocking. Submersion cooling provides benefits such as maximum performance, a superior gaming experience and extended service life
Mini-presentation by Ben Joslin and some students from Studio Academy on the FIRST Robotics League, in hopes of recruiting some of us as volunteers and mentors. They'll show the video of the 2009 game, show what parts they have to work with and what they have built so far.
Mini-presentation by Jon Tollefson on syncing Google Calendar (where we've got Linux and social activities posted). (held over until a future meeting due to a full agenda)
Also, elections
The usual place: RCTC's Heintz Center , Room HA107 , 6 pm.
Lunch: Thursday January 15th, 2009
11:30 am, at the Apache Mall food court near B&N. Just for Steve F we'll sit right near the main door and hope it's -20 ;) (It ended up being wind chills of -50 below that day, just in case anyone was curious)
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