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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• Tuesday, September 29, 2014
• 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

• Craig Buchek
• Don Ellis
• Ken Johnson
• Lee Lammert
• Andrew Latham
• Ed Wehner
• Don Weiman
• Stan Reichardt
• Gary Meyer

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

• Nothing to report.

Outstanding:

• $150 for business expo

• 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 September 2014:

• () - Number in parentheses is head count.
• xx - attendance was taken, numbers not yet recorded.
• ? - Question mark indicates attendance not taken or sheet missing.
• - - 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 September 2014:

• xxx - Future Numbers.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of September 2014:

• 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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• Labor Day

• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
• NOTE: Moved committee meeting date from Wednesday to Monday (in this case to Tuesday) of week prior to General Meeting.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • BASE: Intro to DNS by Andrew
    • Kind of long (but scheduled)
  • MAIN: HAProxy Load Balancing by Adam
    • Great job - exactly what we were looking for

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
• TOPIC: Like Teleporting to the Office by Lothar Wegner, Novell

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Graphics with Krita by Scott Petrovic (via Gary)
  • First-time presenter
  • No slides - just demoed and talked
    • Ended up being better for the audience

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
  • Assisted new attendee with configuring Apache on Ubuntu Linux server

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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: Voting Machines by Scott Granneman
  • MAIN: Voting Rights by Denise Lieberman

• Room reservations

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

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: DIY Mail Server Tips by Ken Johnson

• BOOTH: To Be Determined (TBD)

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

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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: Synergy (Keyboard / Mouse Sharing) by Don Ellis
  • MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)

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

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Vile by Steven Lembark (tentative, via Gary or Craig)
• Plan B: Kallithea by Andrew Latham via Andrew Latham

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

• Thanksgiving Day

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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: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
  • Scheduled one week earlier than usual, because of holiday.

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

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

• Christmas Day

• Fixed GoldenWheat (1U server)
• Acquired 2x2U Dell and 2x2U IBM sets of HW
• Configured one as a new VM server
• ToDo (from Noah Lance):
• Finalize Network (openvswitch isn't happy with Linux 3.1), Web GUI, Host monitoring/management configurations
• Build storage configuration - NFS server for images (templates) and home dirs for all VMs
• Validate Web GUI functionality
• Setup Debian 6 VMs for Bud & Budlight
• Attempt p2v of Amber so updates can be tested before pushing to production
• Possible future enhancement - LDAP/Kerberos for SSO to production servers?
• Need to resolve CNAME/A Record issue for sluug.org?
• 2010-07 - Renewed SLUUG.ORG domain during 9 July migration work party.
• 2011-08 - EveryDNS migration to DynDNS caught us unprepared. Craig moved us to buddyns.
  • Lee has made copies of zone files and we have BIND on amber now as an authoritative server.
  • We should probably make sure buddyns has up-to-date contact info.
• 2011-12 Michelob is dead.
  • Joe B. Volunteers to do fix on Michelob, will get together with Gary M.
• 2012-02 Lee installed Webalizer on the new servers, per Stan R's request.
• 2012-03 Stan R is getting some technical response of his email problem.
  • Much discussion of Mike Knight's research and possible work around.
  • Don and Gary did some testing using Apple mail clients, with results showing same problems.
• 2012-04 Need to run updates on AMBER or plan for alternate virtual install to migrate over.
• 2012-05 Jeff Muse updated AMBER HTTPS cert.
  • Altho we believed the change would only effect that, unexpectedly, Gary's Apple eMAIL client complained about the certificate on IMAP.
• 2012-06 Noah got 3 new servers up at Hostirian.
  • Bud (replacement) - 600 GB storage array
    • Storage for VMs
    • Storage for media (audio/video recordings of meetings)
  • Golden Wheat (replacement)
  • XenPRI - platform to run VMs
• 2012-06 Noah has been updating docs on wiki.
• 2012-07 (late June) No report.
• 2012-08 No update
• 2012-09 No update
• 2012-10 Problem getting to AMBER o/a 19/20 September.
  • DNS was broken because of zone file configuration error on 20 August.
  • BuddyNS stopped resolving after 30 days.
  • We aren't logging or documenting very well.
  • Mike Knight suggested extending size of root bash history.
• Mike Knight testing of timestamps for root bash history ran into some problems.
  • Mike Knight is authorized to continue this investigation and remediation.
• 2012-11 Lee recycled the old Compaq ProLiant 6400s.
• 2012-12 Vim config was messed up temporarily.
  • Don had gotten the config for backup files wrong.
  • We need to be sure to notify the group and document any changes we make.
• 2013-01 No news.
• 2013-02 No news.
• 2013-03 No news.
• 2013-04 Up to 401 patches pending on amber.
• 2013-05 No news.
• 2013-06 Mike Knight notice mail virus scanner failed.
• 2013-09 Ed Wehner wants to resurrect user shell access.
  • Has gotten access on Bud.
  • Will send out a survey to the group on what they want.
    • Usenet news groups?
    • VMs?
• 2013-10
  • Ed has results from of survey - 21 responses
    • Will send spreadsheet with summary
  • Assuming bandwidth won't be noticeably over-whelming continue exploring
  • We need to consider choke points.
  • Still need to work inventory to understand what is working, or dead.
  • Explore additional sites at universities, etc.
  • USENET server, local newsgroups, looking for news server feed
  • Open discussion at General meetings calling for working group volunteers.
• 2013-12
  • Do we have enough interest in building this out to continue?
    • Yes, we have at least 3 or 4 folks interested.
    • Ed will set up a time and place to get together to plan/work.
  • Do we have or can we get the hardware?
    • Need CPU and SAN.
  • Craig - Get Andrew access to help with STLLUG site.
• 2014-01 Some discussion on how to move forward.
• 2014-02 No movement.
• 2014-03 No movement.
• 2014-04 No movement.
• 2014-05
  • Heartbleed not a problem because AMBER uses older version of OpenSSL that was not vulnerable.
  • Andrew updated a few packages on Amber.
• 2014-06
  • Andrew updated Amber.
    • Set autofsck to yes so that any future reboot would auto approve the fsck operations
    • Updated all non-email server packages that required updates.
• 2014-08 No movement.
• 2014-09-29
  • Mike Knight patched Amber bash bug CVE-2014-6271
  • Andrew Latham patched Amber for the 2nd and 3rd bash patches
  • Lee reports that Bud has been back up as of August 21

• 2011-01 Mike Knight's emails regarding web site.
  • Stan R changed the copyright dates.
  • Good idea to list other Open Source friendly resources.
    • On a separate page from our own SIGs.
    • Sites like WITS, CVillage, Arch Reactor, 2600.
  • Our site layout has not changed for years.
    • Would take some effort to re-do it, and seems to be working for most people.
• 2011-02 Stan R hasn't gotten around to building new resources page, yet.
  • Noticed .PNG file doesn't show up on old county library browsers. Do we have .JPG file anywhere?
  • Not discussed during IRC meeting.
• 2011-03 No change.
• 2011-04 No change.
• 2011-05 No change.
• 2011-06 There was brief discussion of implementing a CMS at the work party on 5/21. No decisions made.
• 2011-07 Gary noticed Wayback machine has STOPPED archiving our server as of about May 2009.
  • It would be good to get resumption of archiving at Wayback.
    • How can we accomplish this? We don't know; so, we appointed Gary M to find a way.
• 2011-08 No progress.
• 2011-09 No progress.
• 2011-10 No progress.
• 2011-11 No progress by Stan R.
• 2011-12 Table - No progress by Stan R, but will work on.
• 2012-03 Low priority
• 2012-04 Will need to check out WebDev site stlwebdev.org
• 2012-05 Gary M suggests calendar page to highlight OUR, i.e. SLUUG's mtngs.
  • After all, part of the idea of maintaining the calendar is to drive traffic to our own mtngs!
    • Could be highlights on the Google calendar itself &/or additional 1-2 lines written outside the Google calendar.
    • Lee pointed out that advanced users may pull RSS that would not see the "off-Google" lines.
• 2012-07 (late June) Low priority
• 2012-08 Low priority
• 2012-09 Low priority
• 2012-10 No report.
• 2012-11 No report.
• 2012-12 Low priority.
• 2013-01 Noah has a prototype StCLUG website at STCLUG.DARKIT.ORG
• 2013-02 No action.
• 2013-03 No action.
• 2013-04 Stan needs to update front page of sluug.org
• 2013-05 SLUUG ⇒ resources ⇒ presentation page listings updated. Much of end of last year was not listed.
• 2013-09 No change.
• 2013-10
  • STLLUG Meeting Notes listing updated (not done since January).
  • SLUUG Presentation Archives page updated (not done since April).
  • SLUUG Calendar ~ Stan R build a combined web page that uses a separate SLUUG events calendar to highlight our meetings in red
  • Ryan Dowell volunteered (in August) to code magic to automatically pull in Calendar items. Gary to follow up.
  • Troubleshooting over 3 day period removed errant extra web entries from SIU.
  • Some buffering problems remain that disappear when browser clients are rebooted.
  • Note that this week, someone other than Stan R put a link to SLUUG calendar in a DISCUSS posting.
• 2013-12
  • Craig working on finishing new STLLUG site.
  • Craig to get Andrew accounts and passwords.
• 2014-01
  • Andrew has access, but needs some permission changes.
  • Andrew has root access on Amber now.
• 2014-04
  • SLUUG Calendar ~ Stan R combined Historical Events per an idea suggestion from Andrew L.
  • Bootstrap is working ok, verbal discussion of using calendar API to get event contents.
  • Need to train Stan et al on Boot strap and show how it works.
• 2014-05
  • Andrew has updated the STLLUG site to a new design.
  • Andrew can proceed with the same with the SLUUG site.
• 2014-07
  • Nothing to report, life is getting in the way.
  • Lee added our YouTube channel to the SLUUG.ORG home page list of resources.
• 2014-08 No movement.
• 2014-09-29
  • With some nudging, Andrew will work on SLUUG site again

• 2012-03 Gary M renewed the STLLUG.ORG domain.
• 2012-04 This points to Craig's 2011 membership survey web page. Will re-designate to current active site.
• 2012-05 Yet to be done.
• 2012-06 Craig to take a look at this.
• 2012-07 (late June) No report.
• 2012-08 No update
• 2012-09
  • SLUUG.ORG Last Updated On:11-Jul-2012 01:23:13 UTC
    • SLACC.COM Noel has renewed and offered to donate domain to SLUUG.
    • How do we complete this transfer?
    • Do we really care anymore? NO!
    • Suggested we just continue with subdomains (slacc.sluug.org).
• 2012-11
  • STCLUG.ORG is coming up for renewal.
    • Agreed that we could let this one go, in favor of STCLUG.SLUUG.ORG.
• 2013-01
  • STLWEBDEV.ORG expired
    • Alan Trick's daughter advised us last week the domain was expiring; she offered to renew it for two years. Lee will send her a check.
• 2013-02
  • Gary needs to renew STLLINUX.ORG domain before 2/8.
  • Gary needs to transfer STLWEBDEV.ORG account to SLUUG Dotster control.
• 2013-03
  • Gary renewed STLLINUX.ORG domain.
  • Stephanie Trick renewed STLWEBDEV.ORG domain for 2 years.
  • Need to transfer STLWEBDEV.ORG domain and consolidate in Dotster.
  • Stan asked Gary to work up a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet listing info
    • Domain name, expiration date, vendor, cost, etc.
• 2013-04 No progress on spreadsheet listing info
• 2013-05 No progress on spreadsheet listing info
• 2013-07 Lee renewed SLUUG.ORG domain.
• 2013-09 No movement.
• 2013-10 No Cooperation from Gary.
• 2013-12 Still need to document domains.
• 2014-01 No movement.
• 2014-02 Gary renewed STLLINUX.ORG; needs to document the process.
• 2014-03 Lee has them set to auto-renew.
• 2014-04 No movement.
• 2014-07 Gary renewed SLUUG.ORG domain.
• 2014-08 No movement.

• 2013-05
  • ISSUE: Don Ellis has been recording many of the meetings. Where/When/How can he start uploading.
  • NEED: Volunteer to setup media storage on one of the SLUUG machines at Hostirian.
• 2013-07 Lee found we have some space to store media.
  • On Bud on /srv/storage/.
• 2013-09 No movement.
• 2013-11 Don E. - Working on Uploading presentations.
• 2013-12 A bit of movement
  • Stan uploaded Scott Granneman's last presentation.
  • We may look into uploading to YouTube, via Google+.
• 2014-01
  • We tried using Google Hangouts On Air at STLLUG and HZWLUG meetings.
    • These post to YouTube automatically.
    • Already have over 10 views on Google+ each.
    • Worked relatively well.
    • Problem with camera and power, so we only got first parts of meetings.
• 2014-03
  • Andrew would like some feedback.
  • Sound quality is really good.
  • He's been using a Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 ($80)
• 2014-04 No movement.
• 2014-05
  • Andrew uploaded recent presentations.
    • Needs to upload some more.
  • Need to figure out where we have enough disk space for everything.
    • Lee seems to be able help.
• 2014-06
  • Uploading (or recording directly) to YouTube seems to be working well.
    • Might try recording the slides (via screen sharing) in addition to video.
  • Need to find a way to attach the presentation slides.
• 2014-08 No movement.
• 2014-09-29
  • Need to figure out how to get the slides published along with video.

• 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.
• 2013-03 Craig to take this up.
• 2013-04 No action - Craig missing
• 2013-05
  • Need volunteer to maintain and publicize!
  • No report from Craig
• 2013-07 Got a volunteer by email.
  • Craig, Stan, or Gary will follow up.
• 2013-09 Gary got a volunteer to help us.
  • Will need to reply to him and get him money.
• 2013-12
  • Craig - Contact Ed Schneider about MEETUP.COM Group creation and maintenance.
  • Andrew - Google+ page with Youtube account for large videos https://plus.google.com/114654162617367865312/about
• 2014-01
  • No movement on MEETUP.COM
  • Andrew did the video uploads via Google Hangouts On Air
• 2014-03
  • Andrew did more stuff on the Google+ pages.
• 2014-04 No movement.
• 2014-08 No movement.

• FYI Webalizer report.
• Both Noah Lance and Craig Buchek have worked on "new" web pages in the past.
• 2014-03: Scott Granneman indicated our current web site sucks for mobile users.
  • He proposed we switch over to using their service for minimal monthly fee.
  • They would redesign the site for us and host on their CMS.
  • Learning to manage content on their CMS shouldn't be significant.
    • Harry (John) Hodges of Graybar offered assistance.
• 2014-03: Our needs:
  • We have 2 web sites that we need to update.
  • Better appearance
    • Especially on mobile
  • Easier to maintain
    • Web interface
    • Easier for multiple people to edit
  • Our on-going issue is finding people to find the time to help.
• 2014-03: Andrew's proposal:
  • First, redesign static content of existing site(s)
    • LUG first, then UUG page
    • Using Bootstrap CSS framework (helps with mobile)
  • Second, use Monstra (static site builder with no DB required)
• 2014-03: Steering committee decided to go with Andrew's proposal for now.
  • Keeps our current hosting.
  • Smaller incremental changes, that we're more comfortable with.
  • More done by our members.
• 2014-08 No movement.

• 2013-06 Strategic Staffing Offered to do something.
  • Pizza for STLLUG?
• 2013-07 SBS Creatix sponsored pizza and soda at the June meeting. [Which meeting SLUUG or STLLUG?]
  • Thanks!
• 2013-09 No movement.
• Melissa from Contegix offered to sponsor pizzas. [Which meeting SLUUG or STLLUG?]
• 2014-01 No movement.
• 2014-02 No movement.
• 2014-03 No movement.
• 2014-04 No movement.
• 2014-05
  • Lee needs to work with Hostirian again for free hosting.
  • We should all hit the Hostirian link on our front page and ask for a quote.
• 2014-08 No movement.
• 2014-09-29

• 2013-09 Publicity.
  • Gary M says we're not good at this.
  • Flyers for meetings (like this month) will help.
  • Mention them at other meetings.
  • Mention that the SLUUG calendar covers lots of groups.
• 2013-12 Andrew has been talking to some college kids.
  • Inviting them to meetings.
• 2014-01
  • Not too much movement.
  • Might want to hand out business cards.
• 2014-03
  • The SLUUG calendar is being referenced at other groups.
    • It's a nice way for us to keep our name out there.
  • The Google Plus group is also helping a bit.
• 2014-04 No discussion.
• 2014-08 No movement.
• 2014-09-29

• 2012-04 - Stan R with considerable help from Christine Wanta has produced a pamphlet on Free Open Source Software (FOSS).
  • It should be very complementary to what we hawk at the St. Louis Business Expo Linux Booth.
    • The pamphlet has been added to the SLUUG Resources Handouts page
    • Another pamphlet is planned to highlight our Google calendar and list regular meeting days of the month.
    • Lee suggested a single page calendar poster also.
• 2012-05 Stan R built new pamphlet for Calendar and Free Open Source Software (FOSS).
• 2012-06 New pamphlets have been posted to our web site http://www.sluug.org/resources/handouts/
• 2012-06 Stan will go to Lee's to print out some copies.
  • Good for handing out, especially at Business Expo.
• 2012-06 Stan has more ideas.
  • Troubleshooting
• 2012-07 (late June) No report.
• 2012-08
  • Stan R. - printed approximately 100 each of Calendar, FOSS, GNU/Linux for Beginners, and GNU/Linux Resources pamphlets.
  • Minor spacing revisions have been made to the GNU/Linux for Beginners pamphlet, stock on hand can be used.
  • Significant revision being made to the Password Guidelines for Beginners pamphlet before printing.
  • Suggested minor revisions will be made to FOSS pamphlet, stock on hand can be used.
  • Our General Information pamphlet will have to be revised before STL Business Expo on 16 October.
• 2012-09 Lee will update and send on to Stan R.
• 2012-10 Stan has 100 of each, but needs to continue working on the "General" pamphlet.
• 2012-11 Stan doesn't have any more pamphlets.
  • Gary McGee might have ended up with the remaining.
• 2012-12
  • Gary McGee returned pamphlets to Stan R.
  • We have at least 80 of each.
  • Will take them to the upcoming SBE event at the library.
• 2013-01 Stan R. - gave available folded pamphlets to Gary M. There were only about 30 to 40 each (not 80) on hand.
  • At the Bat Cave Stan R. - printed 100 each of the 3 topical pamphlets (Beginner, Calendar, FOSS). Yet to be folded.
• 2013-02 Stan will redo 2 of the older brochures.
• 2013-03 Stan working on these for the business expo.
• 2013-09 No movement.
• 2014-01
  • No movement.
• 2014-03
  • Stan is burnt out.
• 2014-04
  • SLUUG pamphlets are available on our Resources/Handout page.
  • Pamphlets built with Scribus are being converted to LibreOffice Writer format in order to use more familiar editing features.
  • Single remaining Scribus based pamphlet titled Password Guidelines for Beginners will be converted later.
  • Pamphlet source .ODT documents are uploaded along side corresponding .PDF files (just not listed on web page).
  • Created 1 new pamphlet titled Why Use Linux? We should expect that the narratives currently used will be changed.
  • Updated 3 other pamphlets, Calendar, FOSS, and GNU/Linux for Beginners.
  • The Password Guidlines for Beginners and GNU/Linux Resources pamphlets are being worked on.
  • No progress has been made to adapt ideas in Christine Wanta's handout from last year. Has good points that need to be adapted.
  • Nothing has been done to review or update the SLUUG general information handout.
  • Would like to print 100 each of the (4) new and updated pamphlets to have on hand for 8 April STL Business Expo.
  • We expect that last minute spacing adjustments will be required to match printer alignment for nice folding.
• 2014-05
  • SLUUG pamphlets are available on our Resources/Handout page. The source .ODT files are availible in same location (just change .PDF to .ODT to download).
  • The GNU/Linux Resources pamphlet has been updated.
  • The Why Use Linux pamphlet has also been updated, incorporating suggestions from members.
  • The SLUUG general information pamphlet is being worked on.
  • The Password Guidelines for Beginners pamphlet needs to be worked on.
  • All printed pamphlets have been handed off to Gary.
    • Now he can hand them out when he's at various events.
• 2014-06
  • The Why Use Linux pamphlet has been updated yet again.
  • Gathering notes for building a Which Linux Distro to Use pamphlet.
  • No other pamplets have been worked on.
• 2014-07
  • New phamplets have been printed and are in process of being folded
• 2014-08
  • Don Weimann has been printing pamphlets, in preparation for STL Business Expo (SBE).
  • Gary suggested taking some pamphlets to Strange Loop.
• 2014-09-29
  • Stan R. has 45 each, following pamphlets on hand Calendar, FOSS, and GNU/Linux for Beginners, and Why Use Linux?.
  • Minor revision to the FOSS pamphlet needs to be made, stock on hand can be used.
  • Gary Meyer has additional pamphlets hidden somewhere in his car.

• 2012-09 Gary bought some Penguins and gave one out as gift to STLLUG presenter last month.
• 2012-10 Gary still has more penguins. Considering giving them away at SBE.
• 2012-11 Gary will give these out as speaker prizes.
• 2013-01 Gary still has penguins to give away. Jeff will not give presentation SLUUG 2013/01 without a penguin.
  • Finally, someone got a penguin!
• 2013-02 Gary - bring the penguins.
• 2013-03 Gary brought a penguin for Craig to give to Jessica.
• 2013-04 Jess got her penguin. Only place with more penguins in the area is the zoo.
• 2013-09 Gary still has some to hand out.
• 2013-12 Andrew has been sewing penguins.
• 2014-01 Andrew gave Gary a penguin he found at Goodwill for $0.50.
• 2014-02 Andrew gave Gary a large penguin he found at Goodwill for $2.00.
• 2014-03 Andrew has not made it to Goodwill lately, but finished sewing his 1st penguin.
• 2014-04 No movement.
• 2014-05
  • Stan R. suggests we provide SLUUG swag (cups, etc.) as optional items for presenters
  • Good idea - give the presenter a choice of swag.
• 2014-06
  • Gary forgot to give Shane Carr a penguin.
• 2014-08 No movement.
• 2014-09-29

• 2014-06
  • We have a new ViewSonic projector and Penguin case.
    • Resolution: 1080P
    • Connectors: HDMI, VGA, S-Video, RCA
  • Stan R. took it from STEERCOM to SLAAC.
• 2014-07
  • Used at SLACC meeting ~ one of attendees inadvertantly unplugged before cool down cycle completed.
  • Used at SLUUG meeting ~
  • Used at STLLUG meeting ~ new HDMI cable placed in case.
  • Used at HZWLUG meeting ~ stan r. was unable to get HDMI cable working with ALIENWARE M11 laptop.
  • Observations:
    • Documentation is pretty and very convoluted and obtuse.
    • Factory default had cool down turned off! Had to turn that on, now uses full 60 second cool down.
    • The hand controller is somewhat easier to use than on-the-box buttons.
    • The hand controller uses InfraRed and works only from front.
    • The hand controller brings up menus that then require (counter intuitive) right-or-left selection.
    • Overall attendees at each meeting are very impressed with resolution and some even want one for home use.
  • As of now, Stan R. has the projector.
• 2014-08 No discussion
• 2014-09-29
  • Stan R. uploaded 84 page projector User Guide to http://www.sluug.org/pdf/projector.pdf
  • Stan currently has it.

• 2014-02
  • Current St. Louis Linux Users Group (STLLUG) location is inconvenient, probably turning people off
  • Craig needs to look into Savvis
  • Andrew will look into Richmond Heights Community Center
• 2014-03 No movement.
• 2014-04 Stan R suggests reserving STL County Library Thornhill Br Auditorium.
• 2014-05
  • STL County Library Thornhill Br Auditorium was reserved for library use, not available to public.
• 2014-08
  • Craig spoke w/ Brian Button about hosting at CenturyLink.
    • Have not heard back.
• 2014-09-29
  • No update. Will see about contacting others at CenturyLink.

• 2014-09-29
  • Event is twice a year, occurs next on 22 October.
  • We have been holding a Linux demontration booth there for a number of years.
  • EPC has been providing laptops for our use.
  • Booth has primarily been manned by Lee Lammert, Phil Bunch, Gary McKee and Stan R.
  • Some discussion has already been done on STEERCOM mailing list.
  • We've not been getting much traffic through lately.
  • Consensus seems to be to stop going.
  • No interest from anyone to continue.

• 2014-09-29
  • Reservations for the next 6 months need to be made on 4 October, the first Saturday in October.
  • Reservations for up to 3 hours can be made for $10 each.
  • Reservations are granted on first come basis.
  • Payment for all reservations must be made within 14 days.
  • We reserve and pay fee for the SLACC meetings.
  • The session can not go beyond 9:00 PM, or there is an extra charge every ten minutes.
  • Donations of $1 are collected from attendees.
  • Stan will make reservations on Saturday.

• Anything?

• Mike Knight and Andrew Latham updating bash security patches.
• Andrew Latham updating all patches.

• Anything?

• October 2014 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• January 2015 - Transfer and renew STLWEBDEV.ORG domain.
• February 2015 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.
• 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.

• 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.
• Craig or Gary - talk to Steven Lembark about Vile talk at November STLLUG.
• 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.
• Gary - Move phone book to new phone.
• Gary - Talk to Ryan Dowell about automating SLUUG Calendar.
• 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.
• Gary - Transfer STLWEBDEV.ORG account to SLUUG Dotster control.
• 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.