SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 3 June 2019
NOTE: Minutes posted on the Wiki are always unofficial.
Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative.
(Some more tentative than others!)
Location
Panera ~ Saint Louis Bread Company,
(at Old Olive and Olive),
10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141
Date and Time
June 2019
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Start Meeting
Monday, June 3rd, 2019
Meeting called to order.
Time:
Attendees
Listed alphabetically by last name:
* Chuck Doolittle
* Don Ellis
* David Forrest
* Ken Johnson
* Lee Lammert
* Gary Meyer
* Stan Reichardt
* Steve Stegmann
Agenda Changes
Secretary Report
Treasurer Report
Balance as of 1 May | | $4,286.41 |
Balance as of 30 May | | $4,268.41 |
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 May 2019:
Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
2011 | xxx | xxx | 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 | 141 | 177 | 168 | 137 | 143 | 124 | 158 | 173 | 163 | 168 | 129 | 2017 |
2018 | 165 | 177 | 166 | 179 | 162 | 165 | 147 | 176 | 166 | 184 | 163 | 113 | 2018 |
2019 | 131 | 160 | 173 | 171 | 145 | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | 2019 |
xxx - numbers not recorded.
??? - Future Numbers.
Stopped counting general StL County Library events in May 2016.
Re-counted April 2016 without library events.
Count of calendar entries for May is down from previous months. No explanation is given.
Subscriber Report
SUMMARY Mailing List Report combined with MEETUP membership count, now called Subscriber Report.
Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of May 2019:
Year | | | | | | | '17 | | | | | | Year |
List | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | List |
MEETUP | 273 | 285 | 291 | 299 | 301 | 302 | 304 | 315 | 319 | 325 | 336 | 340 | MEETUP |
ANNOUNCE | 582 | 580 | 575 | 570 | 569 | 569 | 569 | 568 | 566 | 562 | 562 | 559 | ANNOUNCE |
DISCUSS | 197 | 196 | 193 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 191 | 192 | 191 | 189 | 188 | 189 | DISCUSS |
STEERCOM | 36 | 36 | 35 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | STEERCOM |
SYSADMIN | 20 | 20 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | SYSADMIN |
Year | | | | | | | '18 | | | | | | Year |
List | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | List |
MEETUP | 348 | 360 | 367 | 372 | 375 | 377 | 385 | 390 | 393 | 402 | 408 | 416 | MEETUP |
ANNOUNCE | 556 | 544 | 543 | 543 | 545 | 542 | 535 | 534 | 533 | 531 | 531 | 533 | ANNOUNCE |
DISCUSS | 188 | 188 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 187 | 185 | 184 | 184 | 185 | 183 | DISCUSS |
STEERCOM | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 31 | 31 | 31 | STEERCOM |
SYSADMIN | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | SYSADMIN |
Year | | | | | | | '19 | | | | | | Year |
List | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | List |
MEETUP | 416 | 423 | 432 | 443 | 452 | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | MEETUP |
ANNOUNCE | 532 | 532 | 532 | 534 | 519 | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ANNOUNCE |
DISCUSS | 184 | 182 | 181 | 182 | 183 | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | DISCUSS |
STEERCOM | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | STEERCOM |
SYSADMIN | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | 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 recorded.
??? - Future Numbers.
- - dash indicates list did not previously exist.
We do NOT have any account access or control to our presence and videos on Google+ or YouTube.
We do NOT know how or what to count in Google+ NOR do we know how to metric videos.
We do NOT know how or what to count in YouTube NOR do we know how to metric videos.
No way to change meeting dates or set temporary hiatus in Google+
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 May 2019:
Year | | | | | | | '17 | | | | | | Year |
Meeting | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Meeting |
Steercom | 8 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | Steercom |
SLACC | 7 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 7 | (10) | 6 | 7 | 8 | 11 | xx | 6 | SLACC |
SLUUG | 20 | 17 | 24 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 12 | 21 | 14 | 16 | SLUUG |
STLLUG | 14 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 12 | (27) | xx | STLLUG |
NEWLUG | 9 | 10 | xx | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 9 | NEWLUG |
Year | | | | | | | '18 | | | | | | Year |
Meeting | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Meeting |
Steercom | 7 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Steercom |
SLACC | 6 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | SLACC |
SLUUG | 14 | 13 | 13 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 13 | SLUUG |
STLLUG | 12 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 13 | xx | 9 | 9 | STLLUG |
NEWLUG | 8 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 5 | NEWLUG |
Year | | | | | | | '19 | | | | | | Year |
Meeting | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Meeting |
Steercom | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Steercom |
SLACC | 6 | 6 | 7 | (6) | 8 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | SLACC |
SLUUG | 15 | 14 | 13 | 18 | 12 | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | SLUUG |
STLLUG | 18 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 12 | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | STLLUG |
NEWLUG | 9 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 8 | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | NEWLUG |
xx - numbers not yet recorded, attendance not taken, or sheet missing.
?? - Future Numbers.
() - Number in parentheses is head count. Use head count if greater than attendance sheet count (or sheet missing).
* - sLUGs was STL Linux Users Group for Seniors with initial meeting 8 February 2015. Discontinued October 2017.
* - SNUG SuSe was STL Novell Users Group with lunch meeting. Discontinued December 2017.
- - dash indicates no meeting.
May 2019
May 2019
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SLACC - May 2
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - May 8
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VENUE Graybar Electric Company Inc., 11885 Lackland Road, St. Louis MO 63146
BASE (Personal Computing):
NOT DONE: Carolyn Peters (Mastercard): Bash for relatively new user. Long enough for main presentation, or do hour long intro followed by shorter main.
COORDINATOR: Gary
CONFIRMED: Yes
ABSTRACT: Yes
BIO: No
TOPIC: Newcomer Resources by Stan Reichardt
REVIEW:
Covered contents of 32 Gb USB thumb drive collection of handouts, PDF cheat sheets, videos and podcast audio files.
Lots of good useful stuff.
STLLUG - May 16
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114
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TOPIC: Docker 102: Multiple web sites on the same server by Chuck Doolittle
COORDINATOR: Gary
CONFIRMED: YES
ABSTRACT: YES
BIO: YES
REVIEW:
Stan thinks it was good but title was not informative enough. Confused about what was going to happen. Stan's normal state of confusion.
Will discuss the location under new business.
Chuck did a good review of last month's talk to lead into this one.
NEWLUG - May 28
NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
VENUE St. Louis County Library Bridgeton Trails Branch
TOPICS are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
REVIEW:
We had 3 newcomers. One had LinuxMint loaded. Two were in a RedHat work environment.
Loaned out 3 Newcomer Resources USB thumb drives.
Hooked up laptop to library projector with HDMI sound, demonstrated parts of some videos. Went thru parts of some of the NEWLUG website slides.
Dave says some attendees were impressed.
Stan says some new attendees are getting into Red Hat at work. He likes to point out similarities and differences.
Meeting Schedule
June 2019
June 2019
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STEERCOM - June 3
HISTORY Steering Committee usually meets on Monday of the week prior to (9 days) General Meeting.
VENUE Panera ~ St. Louis Bread Co., 10550 Old Olive Street Rd, Creve Coeur, MO 63141
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Link to
potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
SLACC - June 6
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - June 12
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VENUE Graybar Electric Company Inc., 11885 Lackland Road, St. Louis MO 63146
BASE (Personal Computing):
TO BE DETERMINED (TBD)
COORDINATOR: NONE
CONFIRMED: NO
ABSTRACT: NO
BIO: NO
MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
STLLUG - June 20
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114
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TOPIC: Docker 103 SSL Certificates for containerized websites by Chuck
COORDINATOR: Gary
CONFIRMED: Yes
ABSTRACT: NO
BIO: NO
NEWLUG - June 25
NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
July 2019
July 2019
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STEERCOM - July 1
HISTORY Steering Committee usually meets on Monday of the week prior to (9 days) General Meeting.
VENUE Panera ~ St. Louis Bread Co., 10550 Old Olive Street Rd, Creve Coeur, MO 63141
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Link to
potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
Independence Day - July 4 HOLIDAY
SLUUG - July 10
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VENUE Graybar Electric Company Inc., 11885 Lackland Road, St. Louis MO 63146
BASE (Personal Computing):
TO BE DETERMINED (TBD)
COORDINATOR: NONE
CONFIRMED: NO
ABSTRACT: NO
BIO: NO
MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
TO BE DETERMINED (TBD)
COORDINATOR: Gary
CONFIRMED: NO
ABSTRACT: NO
BIO: NO
SLACC - July 11
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
STLLUG - July 18
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
NEWLUG - July 23
NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
August 2019
August 2019
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SLACC - August 1
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
STEERCOM - 5 August
HISTORY Steering Committee usually meets on Monday of the week prior to (9 days) General Meeting.
VENUE Panera ~ St. Louis Bread Co., 10550 Old Olive Street Rd, Creve Coeur, MO 63141
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Link to
potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
SLUUG - August 14
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VENUE Graybar Electric Company Inc., 11885 Lackland Road, St. Louis MO 63146
BASE (Personal Computing):
TO BE DETERMINED (TBD)
COORDINATOR: NONE
CONFIRMED: NO
ABSTRACT: NO
BIO: NO
MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
TO BE DETERMINED (TBD)
COORDINATOR: Gary
CONFIRMED: NO
ABSTRACT: NO
BIO: NO
STLLUG - August 15
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
NEWLUG - August 27
NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
Old Business
Server Admin
SUMMARY: We put up a server on the Internet for email, it grew, and now we have to maintain it.
Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed.
2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
2019-02-04
2019-03-04
Lee: Verified this AM, .. stllug.org appears to be forwarding successfully to stllug.sluug.org, which matches the LE cert wildcard. Please check for other issues.
2019-04-01
2019-04-29 (for MAY)
Gary would love to get a presentation on status of the servers, featuring Mike, Chuck, Lee
Another possibility would be Lee could give a presentation on massive data recovery being performed evening of 2019-04-29
Dave has noticed different handling of possible spam by SLUUG email system, and would like presentation on evolution of the email system.
Dave & Stan would like long 'spammy' tag not inserted into subject line on SLUUG STEERCOM emails
From Mike Knight's email 3:31am 2019-04-28:
1 QUESTION: Should the "Subject:" of probable sp_m be changed to indicate that?
2 QUESTION: Should high scoring sp_m be rejected and returned to sender?
3 QUESTION: Should moderate scoring sp_m be moved to a "junk" folder of the member's inbox by the system?
2019-06-03
Web Site SLUUG.ORG Maintenance
Web Site MEETUP.COM Maintenance
Saint Louis County Library Room Reservations
SUMMARY: Room reservations at Saint Louis County Library Branches are available on each first Saturday of October and April.
HISTORY: We routinely reserve and pay fees for monthly SIG meetings at various Saint Louis County Library Branches.
Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed.
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2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
2019-02-04
2019-03-04
2019-04-01
2019-04-29 (for MAY)
2019-06-03
Uploading Presentations
Camera and Microphone
SUMMARY: We seek financial support from the tech community.
HISTORY: We are not good at it.
Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed.
2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
2019-02-04
2019-03-04
2019-04-01
2019-04-29 (for MAY)
2019-06-03
ANNOUNCE Mailing List
SUMMARY: The ANNOUNCE mailing is a weekly extract of our SLUUG GOOGLE Calendar of Events.
HISTORY: The subscriber list has been populated from attendance sheets by a nominating subscription process.
Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed.
2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
2019-02-04
2019-03-04
2019-04-01
2019-04-29 (for MAY)
2019-06-03
Handouts
Linux Stickers
Summer Workshops
We Need Help
New Business
Any New Business
2019-06-03
Nick & Elena's has new staff who don't know how to use new ordering system for individual orders.
Decreasing enthusiasm about splitting bills.
problems with interrupting presentations to serve product.
Problem finding venue with space and projector.
J Greene's have heavy business on Thursday nights
Fallon's at Olive & 170 has trivia on Thursday; very crowded
Suggestions for other venues are welcome
Grant from Micro Center will be attending to get back up to speed on Linux. Be nice to him.
New name for group suggest by Gary: Start announcing as SLLUUG (St Louis Linux & Unix User Group)
Recognize Useful Efforts
Blue Sky Ideas
Recurring Requirements
SUMMARY: We routinely rotate thru the following:
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July 2019 - SLUUG.ORG domain is domain automatic renewal? Is it with Dotster?
October 2019 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
November 2019 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
December 2019 - STLWEBDEV.ORG is domain automatic renewal?
January 2020 - STLLINUX.ORG domain automatic renewal.
February 2020 - SLUUG Annual Board meeting and elections.
March 2020 - Count Ballots
April 2020 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
April 2020 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status. e-postcard.
June 2020 - BuddyNS SLUUG account due
June 2020 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status due.
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.
Don Ellis - upload older videos to Google Photos and/or Google Docs & publish links
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Gary Meyer - Did not follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
Lee Lammert - Reminder: If anyone needs SLUUG critical info, it's stored on Amber /home/SLUUG
Stan R. ~ Remind Gary Meyer to bring Penguins to meetings and hand out pamphlets.
Stan and Gary should get together and discuss how ANNOUNCE is done
Next March or April:
Possible presentation - suggested 11/7/18
Possible presentation (Stan R item) - suggested 12/3/18 by Lee
Adjourn Meeting