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SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 30 March 2015

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

Location

Saint Louis Bread Company,
(at Old Olive and Olive),
10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

Date and Time

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     April 2015     
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  • Monday, March 30, 2015
  • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Attendees

  • Craig Buchek
  • David Forrest
  • Ken Johnson
  • Lee Lammert
  • Gary Meyer
  • Stan Reichardt
  • Don Weiman

Agenda Changes

  • Are there any additions, deletions, or changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?
    • no

Secretary Report

  • Nothing to report.

Treasurer Report

  • Balance as of March 1 $2,211.56
  • Balance as of March 31 $2,211.56
  • Outstanding bills:
    • Meetup.com $89.94

Attendance Report

  • 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 March 2015:
Meeting Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
Steercom 5 4 4 3 5 3 6 4 5 8 5 6 6 7 9 9 5 6 4 9 9 7 6 8 9
SLACC 4 7 6 ? 6 7 10 9 10 4 7 7 9 8 5 9 ? 8 7 7 5 9 12 9 8
sLUGs - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 9 10 8
SLUUG 7 17 20 16 9 16 34 17 14 16 13 27 20 12 21 (16) 17 15 17 15 16 16 15 18 21
SNUG SuSE - 7 7 9 9 - 8 9 9 8 10 8 10 10 10 10 (8) 6 6 8 10 7 12 8 8
STLLUG ? ?? 17 15 14 6 - 11 12 14 15 17 15 14 11 15 14 15 14 (14) 10 12 17 15 (16)
HZWLUG 10 8 10 10 9 12 7 13 13 10 17 15 14 13 13 10 12 11 10 12 9 9 12 12 12
  • () - 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.

Calendar Report

  • 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 March 2015:
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
2011 ? ? 105 108 103 117 105 105 105 113 103 96 2011
2012 110 104 122 123 138 111 99 124 122 133 114 111 2012
2013 123 128 136 147 144 146 139 119 145 167 153 140 2013
2014 143 159 174 165 188 165 132 136 173 165 141 107 2014
2015 171 179 177 xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx 2015
  • xxx - Future Numbers.

Mailing List Report

  • Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of March 2015:
List Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
ANNOUNCE 637 635 635 635 625 623 631 624 621 622 628 624 626 627 629 626 621 618 618 624 621 622 620 622 617
DISCUSS 209 209 208 208 210 211 214 214 216 220 221 222 224 225 224 224 224 225 224 225 226 224 224 221 222
STEERCOM 32 32 31 31 32 32 33 33 33 33 33 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 35
SYSADMIN 17 17 17 17 17 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19
  • 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.

Meeting Review and Comments

March 2015

     March 2015     
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STEERCOM - Steering Committee - March 2

  • Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
  • NOTE: Monday of week prior to General Meeting.
  • Counted votes - 3 members of board met and approved the vote

SLACC - March 5

  • SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

SLUUG - March 11

    • BASE: Community Workshop - bridging wireless connection to Ethernet LAN by Lee
      • It worked!
    • MAIN: How the Web Works (part 1) by Craig Buchek
      • Good. Interesting. Informative.

sLUGs - March 13

  • sLUGs is our daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
    • Topics are expected to be determined by attendees. We expect to cover more than one topic.

SNUG - March 18

  • SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
  • TOPIC: End User Management with ZenWorks (live video)
    • Better than usual

STLLUG - March 19

  • STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
    • MAIN: How the Web Works (part 2) by Craig Buchek
      • Lots of good detail. More meat than part 1.
      • A few terms didn't have good definitions.

Hazelwood - March 24

  • HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
  • Web site lists a dozen or so topics to provide general directions from which to take off
    • Meeting review posted to DISCUSS mailing list by Stan R.

STEERCOM - Steering Committee - March 30

Schedule

April 2015

     April 2015     
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SLACC - April 2

  • SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

SLACC - April 4

  • First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
    • SLACC
    • sLUGs
    • HZWLUG

SLUUG - April 8

    • BASE: Mutt by Ken Johnson
    • MAIN: Intro to 3D Printing by Scott Rocca
      • Griffin 3D Printing
      • St Louis startup, developing a line of Delta 3D printers as a Kickstarter project
      • Bio and outline already sent to editor

sLUGs - April 10

  • sLUGs is our daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
    • Topics are expected to be determined by attendees. We expect to cover more than one topic.
    • Web site lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off

SNUG - April 15

  • SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
  • For the next four months we’ll be replaying a series from Dell on SUSE OpenStack.
  • TOPIC Introduction To Openstack And The DELL SUSE Openstack Cloud Solution, Powered By Openstack

STLLUG - April 16

  • STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
    • PLAN A: Something by Adam Thornton (tentative, via Andrew or Craig)
    • PLAN B: Kali by Tony Z (tentative, via Lee)

Hazelwood - April 28

  • HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
    • Web site lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off

May 2015

      May 2015      
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STEERCOM - Steering Committee - May 4

SLACC - May 7

  • SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

sLUGs - May 8

  • sLUGs is our daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
    • Topics are expected to be determined by attendees. We expect to cover more than one topic.
    • Web site lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off

SLUUG - May 13

SNUG - May 20

  • SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
  • For the next three months we’ll be replaying a series from Dell on SUSE OpenStack.
    • TOPIC Deploying And Configuring The DELL SUSE Openstack Cloud Solution, Powered By Openstack

STLLUG - May 21

  • STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
    • TOPIC To Be Determined (TBD)

Hazelwood - May 26

  • HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
    • Web site lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off

June 2015

     June 2015      
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
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STEERCOM - Steering Committee - June 1

SLACC - June 4

  • SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

SLUUG - June 10

sLUGs - June 12

  • sLUGs is our daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
    • Topics are expected to be determined by attendees. We expect to cover more than one topic.
    • Web site lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off

SNUG - June 17

  • SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
  • For the next two months we’ll be replaying a series from Dell on SUSE OpenStack.
    • TOPIC Simplifying Openstack Administration And Devops With SUSE Openstack Cloud And DELL

STLLUG - June 18

  • STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
    • TOPIC Immutable Infrastructure by Craig Buchek

Hazelwood - June 23

  • HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
    • Web site lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off

Old Business

Server Admin

  • Andrew has been applying updates
    • Ignoring Postfix until he understands our configuration.
  • 2015-02-02
    • Need to apply patches for recent vulnerabilities (Glibc, PHP)
  • 2015-03-02
    • Need to perform restart to enable kernel updates
    • Need to discuss update to more recent supported OS
    • Andrew proposes a weekend event to update & document the system
    • Perhaps migrate away from a legacy platform
    • Investigate Linode as new/additional location
    • These concepts will be pursued in an email thread on sysadmin list
  • 2015-03-30
    • New server VM has been deployed at Contegix
      • Named "nick", after owner of Nick & Elena's who passed away
      • Will migrate functionality of Amber to it
      • CentOS 6
    • Craig suggested looking at Digital Ocean as new/additional location
      • Cheap ($5 month)
      • Really nice APIs

Web Site Maintenance

  • 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.
  • 2015-03-02
    • Andrew still needs to do things, requests more entertainment of problems to be solved.
  • 2015-03-30

Uploading Presentations

  • 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.

Domain Name Tracking

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

Internet Presence (Social Media)

  • 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
  • 2015-03-02
    • Meetup site for SLUUG set up by Ken Johnson
    • Youtube
    • Google+
  • 2015-03-30
    • A total of 39 have joined with our Meetup site
    • Had 1 person come to SLUUG meeting after seeing it
    • Had 1 person come to STLLUG meeting after seeing it
    • Had 2 people come to HZWLUG meeting after seeing it

Pamphlets

  • Stan R. has continued updating pamphlets.
  • Don Weimann has been printing pamphlets when Stan R. asks for them.
    • New paper is nicer.
  • Stan R.has been working on a pamphlet on VIM.
  • 2015-03-02
    • Stan has provided information to Graybar representative in response to request for information at last SLUUG meeting

Penguin Honorarium

  • Andrew gave Gary a few more small penguins to pass out to guest presenters.
  • 2015-03-02
    • Andrew has many marching penguins to give out at future meetings

STLLUG Location

  • 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.
  • 2015-03-02
    • No desire to move to Venture Cafe at this time
      • too noisy
      • no table space
      • theater style seating in meeting rooms

St. Louis County Library Book Requests

  • Stan R. requested a book at the St. Louis Count Public Library.
    • Got some members to also make the request.
  • 2015-03-02
    • No negative reply yet; so, maybe they're going to buy it.
    • Book is Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons by Carey Parker
    • Andrew L. bought book for Stan R. to read and review
    • Book is MS Windows and Apple OS-X specific step-by-step, otherwise exceptionally good
    • Chapter on passwords exceptionally well written
      • References Steve Gibson's Security Now podcast, among many others
    • Stan R. would recommend to anyone needing help spelling "password"

New Business

SLCL Room Reservations - April 4

  • First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
    • SLACC ~ Thornhill should be no problem
    • sLUGs ~ Possible scheduling problems as Prairie Commons Branch expected to shutdown in Fall
    • HZWLUG ~ Possible scheduling problems as Prairie Commons Branch expected to shutdown in Fall
  • The additional Branch Closure and Renovation Dates for 2015 are still To Be Determined
  • Bridgeton Trails Branch may be best alternative location
  • All reservations must be paid for within 14 days or lost

Anything Else?

  • Gary and Lee spoke with folks from SuSE
    • At SuSE Linux Expert Days
    • Lee got a bunch a schwag to pass out over the next few months
    • Might be able to bring some of these guys into town for talks
  • Craig had a recruiter offer to sponsor upcoming meetings
    • Will follow up

Recognize Useful Efforts

  • Stan put useful info into MEETUP.COM

Blue Sky Ideas

  • Anything?

Recurring Requirements

  • 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 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
  • February 2016 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.

Follow-up and Action Items

  • 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.
  • Lee L. - 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).
  • Stan R. - Remind Gary M. to bring Penguins to meetings and hand out pamphlets.
  • Gary M. - Build spreadsheet to track domain name registrations. http://bgp.he.net/ip/207.223.253.71#_dns
  • Gary M. - Follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
  • Don Ellis - work with Andrew Latham to upload older videos to YouTube.
  • Andrew L. - work with Don Ellis to upload older videos to YouTube.
  • Andrew L. - work on updates to web site.
steercom/2015-04.txt · Last modified: 2015/03/30 19:52 by SLUUG Administration