SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 1 May 2017 for May
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
May 2017
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Monday, May 1, 2017 For May
NOTE: Monday of week (9 days) prior to General Meeting.
6:30 PM -
Attendees
* Don Ellis
* David Forrest
* Ken Johnson
* Lee Lammert
* Gary Meyer
* Stan Reichardt
* Steve Stegmann
* Earnest Redwood
* Bob Gundlock
Agenda Changes
Secretary Report
Treasurer Report
Balance as of April 1 | $2,542.10 |
County Library | -$180 |
Memberships | $10 |
Balance as of April 30 | $2,372.10 |
Attendance Report
Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets.
Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at meetings.
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Attendance numbers, as of end of April 2017:
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 | Apr | Meeting |
Steercom | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | ? | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 6 | Steercom |
SLACC | 8 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 5 | SLACC |
sLUGs | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | (3) | 7 | 7 | - | - | - | 5 | (3) | 7 | 9 | 6 | 10 | ? | sLUGs |
SNUG SuSE | 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ? | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | - | 12 | 9 | 9 | 7 | SNUG SuSe |
SLUUG | 22 | 24 | 18 | 16 | 13 | (21) | 18 | 16 | 13 | 12 | 17 | 14 | 23 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 13 | 21 | (?) | 15 | 13 | 14 | 20 | 17 | 24 | 17 | SLUUG |
STLLUG | 15 | (16) | (16) | 18 | 19 | 16 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 13 | 13 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 15 | STLLUG |
HZWLUG | 12 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 8 | - | 8 | 9 | 10 | ? | 7 | HZWLUG |
() - 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 February 2015
- - dash indicates no meeting.
Calendar Report
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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 April 2017:
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 | 183 | 176 | 168 | 162 | 176 | 206 | 294 | 236 | 197 | 2015 |
2016 | 260 | 277 | 314 | 231 | 183 | 191 | 157 | 166 | 222 | 224 | 212 | 157 | 2016 |
2017 | 133 | xxx | xxx | 168 | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | 2017 |
xxx - numbers not yet recorded.
??? - Future Numbers.
Stopped counting general StL County Library events in May 2016.
Re-counted April 2016 without library events.
Mailing List Report
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 | Apr | List |
ANNOUNCE | 617 | 617 | 616 | 616 | 611 | 613 | 613 | 608 | 607 | 607 | 608 | 603 | 608 | 608 | 607 | 606 | 607 | 596 | 596 | 591 | 588 | 585 | 582 | 580 | 575 | 570 | ANNOUNCE |
DISCUSS | 222 | 208 | 207 | 208 | 204 | 205 | 212 | 213 | 204 | 204 | 206 | 208 | 206 | 204 | 201 | 201 | 201 | 203 | 202 | 202 | 200 | 199 | 197 | 196 | 193 | 190 | DISCUSS |
STEERCOM | 35 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 37 | 37 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 37 | 37 | 36 | 36 | 35 | 34 | STEERCOM |
SYSADMIN | 19 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 20 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 23 | SYSADMIN |
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.
Command used to generate these (as root on Bud):
xxx - numbers not yet recorded.
- - dash indicates list did not previously exist.
Other Kinda Stuff Report
Other | Feb | 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 | Apr | Other |
MEETUP | - | 39 | 59 | 77 | 92 | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | 172 | 179 | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | 259 | xxx | 273 | 285 | 291 | 299 | MEETUP |
YOUTUBE | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | YOUTUBE |
April 2017
April 2017
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STEERCOM - Steering Committee - April 3
SLACC - April 6
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - April 12
sLUGs - April 14
sLUGs is the StL Linux Users Group for Seniors.
Richard Stallman (Free Software Movement & EMACS author)) @ ACM, WUSTL's Danforth Center -April 14
ACM invited him. His secretary contacted info@SLUUG.org and asked us if anyone wanted to put him up. OMNItec sponsored his hotel room. Thanks Lee. Don drove him to hotel. Thanks Don! Bill Zimmerly drove him to the airport. Thanks Bill! Some of our brochures were on the table. Gary counted Don, Dave, Gary, & 2 other SLUUG faces. Maybe ~4~6 other "adults" were likely faculty.
At 50 min mark, ~8 students left.
At 70 min mark, more students were leaving. Stallman pointed to them and said…"But if you leave now, you'll miss the best part!" At ~90 mins he put on the disk platter halo and graduation gown and assumed his personna of St. Ignatius.
SNUG - April 15
SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
STLLUG - April 20
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
TOPIC: Don Ellis: Using Linux on a ChromeBook, with Crouton (chroot), Gallium (dual boot), Virtual Terminal, other solutions
Lots of good stuff
Maybe too much? No.
Hazelwood - April 25
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
*NOTE LOCATION CHANGE FOR MARCH 2017*
VENUE St. Louis County Library Indian Trails Branch
Schedule
May 2017
May 2017
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STEERCOM - Steering Committee - May 1
SLACC - May 4
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - May 10
sLUGs - May 12
sLUGs is the StL Linux Users Group for Seniors.
SNUG - May 17
SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
The next version of Microsoft SQL Server is coming to Linux and is already in preview.
In this session, Travis Wright, Principal Program Manager from Microsoft, will provide an introduction to SQL Server and how it runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and container platforms. The scope of the first release on Linux and schedule will be covered and deployment, configuration, high availability, storage, and performance/scale will be topics for a more technical drill in.
Recorded Feb 15 2017 58 mins
STLLUG - May 18
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
HOLIDAY - Memorial Day (Observed) - May 29
Hazelwood - May 30
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
*NOTE LOCATION CHANGE FOR MAY 2017*
VENUE St. Louis County Library Indian Trails Branch
June 2017
June 2017
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SLACC - June 1
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
STEERCOM - Steering Committee - June 5
sLUGs - June 9
sLUGs is the StL Linux Users Group for Seniors.
SLUUG - June 14
STLLUG - June 15
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
SNUG - June 21
SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
STEERCOM - Steering Committee - June 26 [Note date change!]
Hazelwood - June 27
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
*NOTE LOCATION CHANGE FOR JUNE 2017*
VENUE St. Louis County Library Indian Trails Branch
July 2017
July 2017
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STEERCOM - Steering Committee - Not July 3! Moved to June 26!
HOLIDAY - Independence Day - July 4
Should we move STEERCOM meeting?
SLACC - July 6
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - July 12
sLUGs - July 14
sLUGs is the StL Linux Users Group for Seniors.
SNUG - July 19
SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
STLLUG - July 20
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
Hazelwood - July 25
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
*NOTE LOCATION CHANGE FOR JUNE 2017*
VENUE St. Louis County Library Indian Trails Branch
Old Business
Server Admin
Andrew has been applying updates
2015-02-02
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
2015-05-05
Mike and Andrew were discussing a newer
OS, perhaps CentOS 7
Ken volunteered to help
2015-06-01
2015-08-03
2015-08-31
2016-02-29
2016-04-04
2016-07-05
2016-08-01
2016-09-05
Stan R. doesn't see different vim configuration. Anomaly must have been something he did wrong.
Arrange Earnest being introduced to the SLUUG servers, etc,… He will be helping doing SysAdmin
Earnest Redwood came to his 1st steercom tonite after a couple months of other mtngs.
He volunteered to be indoctrinated in SLUUG Server Lore (as Steve Stegman was 13 months ago).
Lee and Earnest have exchanged e-mail addresses and will arrange times for him to come in and see the machines and start getting organized.
Gary asked that WHEN POSSIBLE we make the mtngs known on SysAdmin in case others want to join and (re)learn.
2016-10-03
$ As of: Sun Oct 2 17:39:25 CDT 2016
$ AMBER uptime shows:
17:38:18 up 368 days, 12:09, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
2016-10-31
2016-12-05
$ As of: Mon Dec 5 15:05:24 CST 2016
$ AMBER uptime shows:
15:04:58 up 432 days, 10:36, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.08, 0.15
2017-01-02
2017-01-30
2017-02-27 For MARCH
Lee & Earnest visited Hostirian and recovered KVM hotkeys
Lee, Earnest, & Mike Knight are working on Bud login delays
Lee worked with Jeff M. on recovering MailMan PWs. New site PW in config.html
All SLUUG core info is on Amber in /home/SLUUG, accessible to anyone with admin access
2017-04-03 for APRIL
Lee visited Hostirian (Bock, Bud) wrt requirement to participate in Hostirian's revenue stream.
Lee discussed with Matthew Porter (who is leaving Contegix management role)
What revenue is being generated for Contegix (Amber, Nick)?
If he's leaving active management, we might lose VM presence, including SLUUG.org (Amber)
Need to inventory all servers and document status WRT
EOL.
2017-05-01 For MAY
Server Relocation
Free SSL Certificates
2015-06-01
We'd like to get SSL certificates.
2015-06-29
2015-10-05 - no volunteers to do it for us yet.
2016-02-01
2016-04-04
2016-05-02
2016-07-05 Don has automated a script. Don needs to document.
2016-08-01
2016-09-05
2016-10-03
2016-10-31
Need TLS certs onto a new
OS. Need a talk to tell people to stop saying SSL.
Lee has abandoned and is using CERTbot from repos.
Need a volunteer to move onto Nick but DirtyCow, etc is in play. CentOS not supported to upgrade online. Even SuSe allows it.
2016-12-05 for DECEMBER
2017-01-02 for JANUARY
2017-01-30 for FEBRUARY
2017-02-27 For MARCH
2017-04-03 For APRIL
2017-05-01 For MAY
Web Site Maintenance
2015-06
Sponsor logos in the main rotation have been purged of those we have not heard from in three years
SuSE had been asked multiple times about a local presentation, .. no response
Old
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
2015-06-29
Stan R. asked Valerie Bacon and John Hodge of Graybar about Gary's never asked question about beer.
Per John Hodge, Graybar no longer (as they once did) allows beer at meetings.
2015-08-03
Lee purged old sponsors from front page rotation.
Andrew checking with NEC Electonics contact, requesting sponsorship by way presentations.
Gary suggests rotating banners for other groups.
Lee suggest reserving primary appearance for sponsors that provide us with resources.
2015-08-31
2016-07-05
2016-08-01
2016-09-05
* It would be very nice to get some sponsors who might provide food/drink!! THINK!
2016-10-03
2016-10-31
2016-12-05
2017-01-02
2017-01-30
2017-02-27 For MARCH
2017-04-03 For APRIL
2017-05-01 For MAY
Uploading Presentations
Andrew uploaded many presentations and linked them via the sites.
Need to figure out how to get the slides published along with video.
Need to get more old presentations uploaded.
2015-06-29
2015-08-03
2016-02-01
2016-07-05
2016-08-01
2016-09-05
2016-10-03
2016-10-31
2016-12-05
2017-01-02
2017-01-30
2017-02-27 For MARCH
2017-04-03 For APRIL
2017-05-01 For MAY
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
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
2015-05-05
2015-06-01
A total of 61 are following our Google+ page
A total of 77 have joined with our MEETUP.COM site
Starting to see cross-promotional references with other groups.
2015-06-29
A total of xx are following our Google+ page
A total of 92 have joined with our MEETUP.COM site (as of 29 June)
However, new attendees are still just finding us by way of Google search or the SLUUG Google Calendar (per Stan R.)
2015-08-03
A total of 63 are following our Google+ page
A total of 1466 views and 29 subscribers are following our YouTube.
A total of 106 have joined with our MEETUP.COM site (as of 2 Aug)
Gary needs to learn how to post to MEETUP.COM, Stan R. offers to show him.
Lee has resubmitted narrative stuff to STEERCOM mailing list.
2015-08-31
Stan made the calendar color coded so you can sort though the many many events.
32 Subscribers on youtube
Hmm, there aren't any saint louis unix Meetups near you yet
2016-01-04
2016-02-01
2016-05-02
Return to doing Youtube recordings
Acquire camera and set of lavaliere cordless microphones
Steve volunteered to manage monthly recording process
Andy sent email to steercom suggesting we research & buy equipment
2016-07-05
2016-08-01
2016-09-05
2016-10-03
2016-10-31
2016-12-05
2017-01-02
2017-01-30
2017-02-27 For MARCH
2017-05-01 For MAY
Handouts
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Stan R. has continued updating pamphlets.
Don Weimann has been printing pamphlets when Stan R. asks for them.
Stan R. has been working on a pamphlet on VIM.
2015-03-02
2015-06-01
2015-10-05 We should request small business cards with all the websites and names of groups we care about.
2016-07-05
2016-08-01
2016-09-05
2016-10-03
2016-10-31
2016-12-05
2017-01-02
2017-01-30
2017-02-27 For MARCH
Need someone to work with Stan preparing handouts for SUSE Expert days
Raspberry Pi day at Science Center 3/11
First Friday at Science Center
2017-05-01 For MAY
Library Reservations
* Not all scheduled dates are on 4th Tuesday of each month; but, they are on Tuesday.
* Not all scheduled dates are on 2nd Friday of each month; but, they are on Friday.
Some other previously scheduled October, November or December reservations might be moved to Indian Trails, Prairie Commons, or Rock Road.
Next date for StL County Library room reservations will be first Saturday in April (1 April 2017).
2016-10-31
2016-12-05
StL County Library system has finally started sending email confermations again to Stan R.
Of course they are screwy. Stan R. will be double checking all reservations.
2017-01-02
2017-01-30
2017-02-27 For MARCH
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2017-05-01 For MAY
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Web Camera and Mic
We Need Help
New Business
Recognize Useful Efforts
Blue Sky Ideas
Recurring Requirements
May 2017 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status. e-postcard.
June 2017 - BuddyNS SLUUG account due?
July 2017 - SLUUG.ORG domain is domain automatic renewal? Is it with Dotster?
August 2017 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status due.
October 2017 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
December 2017 - STLWEBDEV.ORG is domain automatic renewal?
January 2018 - STLLINUX.ORG domain automatic renewal.
February 2018 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
April 2018 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
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.
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Lee L. - Check on running joint meeting with WEBDEV folks.
Don Ellis - upload older videos to YouTube [or copy videos to a hard drive].
Stan R. - Remind Gary M. to bring Penguins to meetings and hand out pamphlets.
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Gary M. - Did not follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
SLACC.ORG could be registered. SLACC.ORG available for sale ~ only $499
Gary M.
Lee Lammert: Reminder: If anyone needs SLUUG critical info, it's stored on Amber /home/admin