NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!)

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• Monday, February 2, 2015
• 6:45 PM - 7:45 PM

• Don Ellis
• Ken Johnson
• Lee Lammert
• Andrew Latham
• Gary Meyer
• Stan Reichardt
• Don Weiman
• John Eto

• Are there any additions, deletions, or changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?

• Nothing to report.

• Balance as of December 1: $2344.03
• December expenses:
  • Dotster $17.49
• Balance as of December 31: $2326.54
• January expenses:
  • Dotster $17.49
• Balance as of January 31: $2309.05

• Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets.
• Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at meetings.
• Blank attendance sheets are available here
• Attendance numbers, as of end of January 2015:

• () - Number in parentheses is head count.
• xx - attendance was taken, numbers not yet recorded.
• ? - Question mark indicates attendance not taken or sheet missing.
• - - sLUGs is new STL Linux Users Group for Seniors initial meeting 8 January 2015
• - - dash indicates no meeting.

• SLUUG Calendar is a Google Calendar available on our web site.
• This is a calendar of technical events in the Greater St. Louis area and surrounding regions.
• Not all events are official/sponsored SLUUG events.
• Items have been added and corrected by Stan R, Gary Meyer and Don Ellis.
• Items listed on this calendar feed the ANNOUNCE weekly mailing.
• Events on HIATUS are NOT counted! Historical items are NOT counted! Only face to face meetings are counted!
• Count of number of events listed, each month, as of end of January 2015:

• xxx - Future Numbers.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of January 2015:

• Numbers as end of each month.
• Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet. This will be much easier to do on Amber.
• ANNOUNCE mailing list.
  • Still no volunteer editor to do a quarterly or monthly newsletter.
• Command used to generate these (as root on Bud):
  • /usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members list_name | wc -l
• xx - numbers not yet recorded.
• - - dash indicates list did not previously exist.

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• New Years Day

• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
• NOTE: Monday of week prior to General Meeting.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  • Delayed one week because of New Years Day holiday.
  • A couple new guys showed up.
  • Lots of little discussions.

• sLUGs
  • Our new daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
• VENUE St. Louis County Library Prairie Commons Branch
• Meetings scheduled from 1:00PM to 3:00PM every 2nd Friday of month
  • Initial meeting went well, expected 12, 9 showed, weather was bad
  • Need to build a separate web page (DONE)

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • BASE: Intro to Penetration Testing by Wendell Barber (via Andrew)
    • Really good.
  • MAIN: Core Boot - Aaron Durbin (via Andrew)
    • Went well. Got better as he realized how technical the audience was.

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Blender - Ed Wehner
  • Everyone had an enjoyable time.
  • A lot more advanced than last time he presented on Blender.

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
• TOPIC: Updating SuSE by Lee Lammert
  • Live update of 13.1 to 13.2
  • Good.

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
  • Gary Meyer spent some time demonstrating SpinRite repair of rather sick laptop disk.

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• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
• NOTE: Monday of week prior to General Meeting.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
• Election balloting.

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • BASE: Regular Expressions by Craig Buchek
  • MAIN: Lightning Talks
• Intro to 3D Printing by Lee Lammert delayed to April
• Official annual meeting.
• Election balloting.

• sLUGs topics are expected to be determined by attendees. We expect to cover more than one topic.
  • Our new daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
• Meetings scheduled from 1:00PM to 3:00PM every 2nd Friday of month
• VENUE St. Louis County Library Prairie Commons Branch
• Election balloting.

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
• TOPIC: Novell ZenWorks Suite ~ A Video
• Election balloting.

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Guacamole by Andrew Latham
• Election balloting.

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
• Election balloting.

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• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
• NOTE: Monday of week prior to General Meeting.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • BASE: TBD by Stan Reichardt
  • MAIN: How the Web Works (part 1) by Craig Buchek

• sLUGs topics are expected to be determined by attendees. We expect to cover more than one topic.
  • Our new daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
• Meetings scheduled from 1:00PM to 3:00PM every 2nd Friday of month
• VENUE St. Louis County Library Prairie Commons Branch

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • MAIN: How the Web Works (part 2) by Craig Buchek

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.

• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
• NOTE: Monday of week prior to General Meeting.

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• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • MAIN: Intro to 3D Printing by Lee Lammert

• sLUGs topics are expected to be determined by attendees. We expect to cover more than one topic.
  • Our new daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
  • Need to build a separate web page
• Meetings scheduled from 1:00PM to 3:00PM every 2nd Friday of month
• VENUE St. Louis County Library Prairie Commons Branch

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • MAIN: TBD

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.

• Andrew has been applying updates
  • Ignoring Postfix until he understands our configuration.
• 2015-02-02
  • Need to apply patches for recent vulnerabilities (Glibc, PHP)

• Andrew still needs to finish up some stuff.
• 2015-02-02
  • Stan R. has built a separate web page for STL Linux Users Group for Seniors (sLUGs)
  • Lee added slugs.sluug.org DNS entry, and updated our docs.

• Andrew uploaded many presentations and linked them via the sites.
  • Much more work needs done.
• Need to figure out how to get the slides published along with video.
• Need to get more old presentations uploaded.

• STLWEBDEV.ORG was renewed in December.
• STLLINUX.ORG was renewed in January.

• Gary and Craig asked to reconsider MEETUP.COM.
  • It's a place to find meetings.
  • It does cost money ($12 / month).
  • It helps attendees of similar groups find our group.
  • DECISION: We'll ask for volunteers on DISCUSS to "own" the group.
  • Craig - Contact Ed Schneider about MEETUP.COM Group creation and maintenance.
  • Possible meetup volunteer - Brian Bilgere

• Stan has continued updating pamphlets.
• Don Weimann has been printing pamphlets when Stan R. asks for them.
  • New paper is nicer.

• Andrew gave Gary a few more small penguins to pass out to guest presenters.

• Current St. Louis Linux Users Group (STLLUG) location is inconvenient, probably turning people off
• Craig spoke w/ Brian Button about hosting at CenturyLink.
• Craig spoke w/ Jessie Jackson of SBS Creatix about having her talk to CenturyLink.
• Venture Cafe will provide free beer for meetings hosted there.
  • They're only open Thursdays from 3 PM to 8 PM.
  • Didn't seem to be much interest from our group.
• Jessie Jackson has provided Craig's info to a manager at CenturyLink.

• Gary and Stan were volontold to be the nominating committee.
• Board seats up this year:
  • Stan Reichardt
  • Jeff Muse
• Next year will be Valerie Bacon and Don Ellis
• Following year will be Don Wieman.
• Stan will print the ballots, and post a PDF link.

• Stan has started up the St. Louis Linux Users Group for Seniors (SLUGS).
  • Asked if we should make it an official SLUUG SIG.
    • Consensus was YES.
• Monthly meetings scheduled on every 2nd Friday, 1PM~3PM, at St. Louis County Library Prairie Commons Branch.
• The room fees of $80 have been paid up through August.
  • Stan asked if he could be reimbursed for this.
    • Consensus was YES.
• Initial meeting went well
• Built a separate web page: http://slugs.sluug.org/

• Anything?

• Stan requested a book at the St. Louis Count Public Library.
  • Got some members to also make the request.

• Anything?

• Anything by anybody?

• Ken mentioned that Missouri has 2 kinds of non-profit corporations:
  • Standard corporation
  • Benevolent Corporation
    • Created by a circuit judge
    • No annual fee
    • Runs in perpetuity
    • Would require talking to a lawyer

• Stan has been working on a pamphlet on Vim.

• February 2015 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
• April 2015 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• May 2015 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status.
• June 2015 - BuddyNS SLUUG account due.
• July 2015 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain with Dotster.
• August 2015 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status.
• October 2015 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• December 2015 - Transfer and renew STLWEBDEV.ORG domain.
• February 2016 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.

• Everyone - Review the STEERCOM minutes, make corrections, act!
• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• Unassigned - Strategic Staffing
• Unassigned - Pamphlets or table at First Friday.
• Craig - Contact Ed Schneider about MEETUP.COM Group creation and maintenance.
• Lee - Check on running joint meeting with WEBDEV.
• Ed W. - newsgroups on hold until firmed up.
• Ed W. - Member Access Machines (MAM) in progress (bring up at General Meeting).
• Don Ellis - work with Andrew Latham to upload older videos to YouTube.
• Stan - Remind Gary to bring Penguins to meetings and hand out pamphlets.
• Gary - Build spreadsheet to track domain name registrations. http://bgp.he.net/ip/207.223.253.71#_dns
• Gary - Follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
• Andrew - remind Ken Johnson about STEERCOM meeting, give another talk
• Andrew - work with Don Ellis to upload older videos to YouTube.
• Andrew - work on updates to web site.