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Fwd: KC LUG cancellation at Central
by Billy Croan 03 Oct '22

03 Oct '22

KC's Central Library will no longer be open after 7pm. I doubt we want to move our meeting earlier in the day, so we need to find another location. Our current sponsor, Nicole, suggested Plaza Branch <https://kclibrary.org/library-locations/plaza-branch> and I think that's our best bet. It's not available this Wednesday though. So any suggestions? ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Nicole Brewer <NicoleBrewer(a)kclibrary.org> Date: Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 10:57 AM Subject: KC LUG cancellation at Central To: Billy Croan <Billy(a)croan.org> Hey Billy, Central just changed hours <https://kclibrary.org/blog/library-hours-updating-fall-2022> to close at 7pm and I thought I would be able to keep the KC LUG program going at its normal hours, since it’s a library event, but no luck. We can still have your meetings here, but you would have to be done by 7. The Plaza branch is still open until 9pm if you would like to move there – you would just need a new sponsor. And Trails West, Waldo, Northeast, and Bluford are open until 8pm. I can get you in touch with someone, just let me know! ------------------------------ <https://www.kclibrary.org/> *Nicole Brewer *she/her Customer Services Supervisor Kansas City Public Library <http://kclibrary.org> 816.701.3454 *NicoleBrewer(a)kclibrary.org <NicoleBrewer(a)kclibrary.org>* *Currently reading**: * [image: Husband Material by Alexis Hall] <https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15227990> [image: The Anthropocene Reviewed, written by John Green, read by the author] <https://kclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S120C2813115> Click on the cover to find a copy!

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Check out the library's GNU+Linux loaner laptops Wednesday
by Billy Croan 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

Our next meeting is Wednesday August 3rd at the downtown public library. Library staff will come by early on to tell us about a free event that happens to be going on before our second August meeting with music and free 'mocktails'. So I guess we can give our normal bartender the night off on the 16th. I also heard about free take-home Chrome-book (Linux based) laptops that the library is offering, and I think I might check one out before the meeting this week so we can all take a look at it. I'm curious just how much admin access they grant on the things. They come with their own 4g LTE modems. We shouldn't reinstall them, but can they boot a usb live linux distribution, for example? Can they act as a gateway for a home network? Can you install your own Chrome extensions, and how smoothly do all of your settings/customizations 'just work' when you log in for the first time? We'll pass one around August 3rd and look at what it can do, and if you like it, you can pick up your own downstairs to bring back within 3 weeks. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Nicole Brewer <NicoleBrewer(a)kclibrary.org> Date: Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 2:17 PM Subject: FYI - event before 8/16 meeting To: Billy Croan <Billy(a)croan.org> Hey Billy! I’m going to swing by at the beginning of the meeting this Wednesday to share that we have an event at 5:30pm before your Tuesday 8/16 get together that you all are welcome to. Free music and mocktails! If for some reason I’m not able to make it up there, the event information is below. See you then! https://kclibrary.org/events-activities-calendar/adults/music-mocktails-far… ------------------------------ <https://www.kclibrary.org/> *Nicole Brewer *she/her/hers Customer Services Supervisor Kansas City Public Library <http://kclibrary.org> 816.701.3454 *NicoleBrewer(a)kclibrary.org <NicoleBrewer(a)kclibrary.org>* *Currently reading**: * The Anthropocene Reviewed <https://kclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S120C2813115> written and read by John Green

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Re: Meetings
by Jonathan Hutchins 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

On 2022-07-14 14:36, Patrick Denes wrote: > It seems a lot of groups have moved to discord servers. Is that > something that would be good to move to? I don't know if any of the other "new" media like twitter or tiktok already have a KCLUG presence. My concern with starting something like discord is that it could further fragment the community. We already have physical vs. email vs. irc. -- Jonathan

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Meetings
by Jonathan Hutchins 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

Is anybody showing up for the meetings these days? We're still active on ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697 #kclug but there aren't many left. -- Jonathan

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Tuesday meeting tomorrow
by Billy Croan 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

at downtown library If you park in the garage, take your ticket to the front desk or floor 3 desk and let them know thatNicole Brewer approved free parking for this 'library sponsored event', and they can validate your ticket on the computer so that it doesn't bill you at the garage. Take a photo of your validated ticket, and if you do get billed anyway ($3 last time it happened to me), please share it with the librarian the next day, or email it to me and I will ask her about it. Street parking is free and exercise most of us can use anyway. See yall there.

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2022-04-19 KCLUG Meeting, Parking, and Room Reservations
by Billy Croan 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Greetings Everyone, I've gotten various questions from individuals and I wanted to answer them to all in one message. KCLUG is a member-supported "dis-"organization. So if you show up for a meeting, there is a meeting. If you don't, there isn't. Nobody is paid or obligated to run the group, so if there's something you think someone should be doing, "patches welcome", in the spirit of libre software :-) Anyone is free to book the room. I have no unique authority or title to enable me to do so. You don't have to live in KCMO, or even MO. I just asked Nicole Brewer (at the library) nicely last month and said I wanted to try to start the group up again and she was happy to oblige! She said she'd like to stop by sometime, so let's all be welcoming! I decided to try to re-activate the group again last month, so it's happening. I'll work on the website tomorrow at the meeting, at least the list-email-going-to-spam problem. This will be a good opportunity to show off opendkim and email signing. And I'm signing others up with shell accounts on the server to help with other website updates. This is a community project. KCLUG is, what all of you, choose to make of it. It's probably long overdue to replace the static html website with some CMS, so I'm accepting volunteers to take that on, and it's a great opportunity to resume-build. I can not guarantee I will be able or willing to do any specific task myself, on any schedule, but I'll try to make it to the meetings more going forward. "Breakfast" on the website, refers to the group heading to a restaurant after the meeting. It's always been sort of an 'afterparty thing' that folks talk about as they're packing up in the library and pick a spot. The Denny's that we went to before covid burned down again last year I think, and they didn't rebuild this time. I'll miss the free life entertainment that location provided.... We have the 1st Wed and 3rd Tue through June, reserved for room 312 in the downtown public library. (The original corner room we had). As we go forward if people always attend, we will get more reservations on the calendar. Each of us can demonstrate a technology or program to the group each week, so email the list with what you want to share and when to drum up attendance. The KCLUG meeting at the downtown location is a 'Library Sponsored Event'. Not that they're literally paying us, but they're providing the room for free. So if you park in the library's garage (to the west of the library itself) tell the front desk it's a library event when you come in, and let the librarian validate your parking ticket, not using the self-service validator on the south counter which is only good to discount 120 minutes to $3. -- If the librarian validates it, then it's free through the end of the night. The garage is more secure than the street, right next to the library, free now, and never full. Unless you drive a chevy bolt apparently. There's a big no-bolt or no-volt sign at the gate. I guess someone caught fire before that recall! They have a DC fast charger in the garage, but no L2 charger I have a few more 3d prints to share tomorrow, and I'll demonstrate setting up DKIM on linux tomorrow, because that seems to be something affecting our mailing list. (Hope this message finds you all well) -Billy Croan

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Re: KCLUG meeting tomorrow?
by David Nicol 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Mr Johnson, you are welcome to try and revitalize kclug. On Mon, Apr 18, 2022, 07:26 <richdj(a)northcs.com> wrote: > > 4/18/22 > > David & Billy > > I emailed David in March re attempting to attend a > KCLUG meeting and found no one in attendance. The > library had no knowledge of there being a meeting. > > Unable to make the one on Wed April 6 but want to > try for tomorrow evening. Soooo. The big question is, > is there going to be one? Is the room reserved? > > If not then maybe it's time to update the web site > with information. > > Re information-the web site mentions the location of > a breakfast meeting but not mention of date or time. > Makes it a bit hard to make plans. > > Also. There is a 'webmaster(a)kclug.org' email listed > but that bounces. So does 'admin(a)kclug.org'. Is there > a point of contact? Maybe the group is basically no > longer active. If so, maybe it's time to take down > the website. > > Thanks. > > Richard Johnson > richdj(a)northcs.com > 816-741-8089 > >

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Re: Wed 2022-04-06 @ downtown library
by Jonathan Hale 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

64130 most of the time now.. but rarely ever go downtown (as I hate how narrow the streets are there.. and parking..) Plus, I work at the TMO campus in OPKS and think I was still at or near the campus till around 830-9pm today/tonight.. -----Original Message----- From: Billy Croan Sent: Apr 6, 2022 9:39 PM To: kclug , Monty Harder Subject: Re: Wed 2022-04-06 @ downtown library Well, we had 5 people today, and two new guys, Nick and Leeland. Thanks everyone for coming. I shared some 3d prints and tools (FossCAD, OpenSCAD, TinkerCAD), and the Wine tool PlayOnLinux. If you could check your email for a message from me on On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, 1:19 PM, I would appreciate it. That's when I first wrote the list. Let me know if you see it in your spam folder, why it is there is your see an answer, or send it to me with headers if you can. Also please let me know where you're coming from before the meetings and where you're going to afterwards if that's different. Just a zip code is probably fine if you want. I want to put pins on a map and validate if the downtown library is still the best location before I try to get the downtown library system to approve us again for free room use. :wq -Billy Croan On Wed, Apr 6, 2022, 4:29 PM Billy Croan wrote: I'll get there between 630 and 645 today. I'm going to bring some 3d printing examples too. Who else is coming? On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, 1:19 PM Billy Croan wrote: I got our old corner room, 312, at the downtown KC public library reserved for this Wednesday the 6th. I can show off xpra and some 3d printing/design stuff I've done lately. I can't go to breakfast afterwards like before, but should be at the library by 7 at the latest, and hope to see some of you there for the first time since covid.

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Wed 2022-04-06 @ downtown library
by Billy Croan 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

I got our old corner room, 312, at the downtown KC public library reserved for this Wednesday the 6th. I can show off xpra and some 3d printing/design stuff I've done lately. I can't go to breakfast afterwards like before, but should be at the library by 7 at the latest, and hope to see some of you there for the first time since covid.

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Please unsubscribe me
by JanChris Hoelscher 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

I've moved away from the KC area, and would like to be unsubscribed. -- Thanks - Chris.

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