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

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

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• Monday, July 1st, 2019
• Meeting called to order.
• Time:

Listed alphabetically by last name:

* Chuck Doolittle

* Don Ellis

* David Forrest

* Ken Johnson

* Lee Lammert

* Gary Meyer

* Stan Reichardt ~ might not be there

* Steve Stegmann

• Are there any additions, deletions, or other changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?
• 2019-07-01
  • Changes YES/NO? NO.

• Don Ellis
• 2019-07-01
  • Present

• 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. All sponsored events are shown in red.
• Items have been added and corrected by Stan R, Gary Meyer and Don Ellis.
• Items listed on this calendar were used to 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 June 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.

• SUMMARY Mailing List Report combined with MEETUP membership count, now called Subscriber Report.
• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of June 2019:

• 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 (This doesn't seem to work on Bock.)
• 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+
• Don will investigate Google+ status
• Don will place credentials for YouTube and any others on Bock /home/sluug

• 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 June 2019:

• 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.

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• 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
• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  • VENUE St. Louis County Library Thornhill Branch
  • 

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • VENUE Graybar Electric Company Inc., 11885 Lackland Road, St. Louis MO 63146
  • BASE (Personal Computing):
    • Intro to Bash Scripting ( 101 )
    • ( and how to exit VIM ) by Carolyn Peters, Mastercard
    • COORDINATOR: Gary
    • CONFIRMED: Yes
    • ABSTRACT: NO, advance draft of slides received.
    • BIO: NO, Stan made up short blurb.
    • REVIEW:
      • Brought a couple of MC people with her
      • Don: good basic introduction
  • MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
    • VeraCrypt by Stan Reichardt
    • BACKUP: VeraCrypt presentation was used!
    • COORDINATOR: Gary
    • CONFIRMED: Tuesday Afternoon
    • ABSTRACT: NO
    • BIO: Used SLUUG BIO link for Stan (once main page was done next day)
    • SCHEDULED NOT DONE: Programmable Gate Arrays vs ASICS vs RealTime Linux by Bryce Meyer
    • REVIEW:
      • Last month Stan had mentioned VeraCrypt, successor to Truecrypt. Tuesday afternoon, scheduled speaker was to be out of town.
      • SLUUG home page was NOT updated, Stan didn't have time.
      • SLUUG google calendar MAIN topic was updated.
      • SLUUG meetup MAIN topic was updated.
      • Was MAIN topic announced on DISCUSS or ANNOUNCE mailing list?
      • The 3rd floor HDMI projector system would not produce sound for the detailed 22 minute video about VeraCrypt. Maybe configuration issue?
      • Too short a time to produce relevant slides, so Stan winged it using previous TrueCrypt slides from 2012 presentation.
      • Resulting compare and contrast quality was excellent/fair/poor/bad?.
      • Gary: Slides worked out just fine with old slides. First time sound projector has been a problem, however we seldom use sound projection.

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114
  • TOPIC: Docker 103 SSL Certificates for containerized websites by Chuck Doolittle
    • COORDINATOR: Gary
    • CONFIRMED: Yes
    • ABSTRACT: NO
    • BIO: Used existing link
    • REVIEW:
      • Gary Meyer was not there. Stan R did poor job of introduction.
      • Steve Gomez seemed to be really into the subject.
      • Waitress got applause for her improved coverage.
      • Frank Siler (in StL about a year) had told Gary he intended to be there. Frank LOVED the 101!!! Had missed the 102 but wanted to see the recording. Said putting the recordings onto YuTube or Vimeo was "easy". Gary wonders if he could be recruited to assist in this effort. He said he would attend this 103. Did he?
      • Bill Molchan attended his 1st SLUUG at the Wed. Craig helped Gary encourage him. Said he'd be there for 103. Did he make it?
      • Did Grant from MicroCenter show up. He told Gary he would.
      • 

• NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
  • VENUE St. Louis County Library Prairie Commons Branch
  • TOPICS are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
    • NEWLUG home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off.
  • REVIEW:
    • Had one returning newcomer and two first time newcomers. Both new attendees well beyond novice level. One with a few years Linux experience.
    • Did install of LinuxMint Cinnamon 19.1 for one first time attendee on a problematic ACER laptop.
    • Laptop BIOS/UEIF did not appear to accept changes; finally, USB thumb drive installation booted and updated successfully anyway.
    • One NEWCOMER video USB drive was returned, one copied while there and one loaned out.
    • Was able to use library's HDMI projector connection. Did not have to use our projector.
    • Gave out a few of the new handouts.

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• 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
• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.

• First Thursday of month normally when SLACC meets. Will delay meeting for one week.

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • VENUE Graybar Electric Company Inc., 11885 Lackland Road, St. Louis MO 63146
  • BASE (Personal Computing):
    • TO BE DETERMINED (TBD)
    • TENTATIVE: Brian Bilgere on loading Raspberrian onto the new Pi4. Depends on if MicroCenter gets him a 4Gig Pi in the next few days. MicroCenter ran out.
    • TENTATIVE: Brian Bilgere on Kinky Boots. No, not the musical play at The Muny but rather a look at BSD's booting process vs Linux's boot.
    • TENTATIVE: Brian Bilgere on some BSD installation.
    • COORDINATOR: Gary
    • CONFIRMED: YES. He is still thinking as of 5pm July 1.
    • ABSTRACT: NO
    • BIO: YES. Old one.
    • BACKUP: We want to have on hand a backup topic.
      • (Alternative if primary presenter doesn't show)
      • Tentative: Transparent SSL Web Proxy (Squid) by Chuck D.
        • Is this what Chuck did at STLLUG on 20 June? *
        • Chuck has already done a lot recently. Maybe burnout coming. *
      • Tentative: Demonstration Using SSHFS by Stan R.
        • STILL NOT READY TO DO THIS *
        • How reliable is SSH connectivity out to BOCK? *
        • Short beginner type thing. Wants more experience using this, to figure
        • out the benefits, challenges, features, issues, problems, short comings,
        • and usefulness (use cases). Combined CLI and GUI usage.
      • Tentative:
      • 
  • MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
    • TO BE DETERMINED
    • COORDINATOR: Lee
    • CONFIRMED: Yes
    • ABSTRACT: TBD
    • BIO: On File

Managing system backups with git

Many folks don't use git to manage systems because git is thought to be complicated, .. this presentation will refute that theory and show how simple it actually is to backup your system configuration (and anything else) with git!

  Lee Lammert
  <stuff on file>

• PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED, BUT NOT DONE: Programmable Gate Arrays vs ASICS vs RealTime Linux by Bryce Meyer NOPE! Bryce told Gary on June 28 that the boss has him traveling that day.
• Tentative: Scott Granemann ~ topic needs to be negotiated.
• BACKUP: We want to have on hand a backup topic.
• (Alternative if primary presenter doesn't show)
• Tentative:
• 

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  • VENUE St. Louis County Library Thornhill Branch
  • Delayed one week due to Holiday
  • Potential new member Vicky to come maybe.
  • 

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114
    • Packet Capture session by Ken Johnson
    • * COORDINATOR: Gary
    • CONFIRMED: YES
    • ABSTRACT: NO
    • BIO: Use old
    • BACKUP: We want to have on hand a backup topic.
      • (Alternative if primary presenter doesn't show)
      • Tentative: IBM and Red Hat by Sami Allum of IBM
      • Tentative: Docker 104, upgrading website containers with no outage by Chuck
      • Tentative: Packet Capture session by Ken Johnson
      • Tentative:
      • 

• NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
  • VENUE St. Louis County Library Prairie Commons Branch
  • TOPICS are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
    • NEWLUG home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off
    • Potential new member Vicky to come maybe.
  • 

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• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  • VENUE St. Louis County Library Thornhill Branch
  • 

• 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
• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • 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
    • BACKUP: We want to have on hand a backup topic.
      • (Alternative if primary presenter doesn't show)
      • Tentative: Dave - command line history
        • Bang is initial history feature, now we can enter editing mode. Or, use history command and grep for desired string.
  • MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
    • TO BE DETERMINED (TBD)
    • COORDINATOR: Gary
    • CONFIRMED: NO
    • ABSTRACT: NO
    • BIO: NO
      • PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED, BUT NOT DONE: Programmable Gate Arrays vs ASICS vs RealTime Linux by Bryce Meyer
      • Tentative: Tentative: Scott Granneman ~ topic needs to be negotiated.
    • BACKUP: We want to have on hand a backup topic.
      • (Alternative if primary presenter doesn't show)
      • Tentative:
      • 
      • If Granneman teaches in September, Bryce may be able to present September
      • Probably solution: Scott in August, Bryce in September

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114
    • TO BE DETERMINED (TBD)
    • COORDINATOR: Gary
    • CONFIRMED: NO
    • ABSTRACT: NO
    • BIO: NO
    • BACKUP: We want to have on hand a backup topic.
      • (Alternative if primary presenter doesn't show)
      • Tentative: IBM and Red Hat by Sami Allum of IBM. Gary had face-to-face w Sami in April. Chuck talked to him in May? Gary had follow-up face-to-face w George of IBM Power Server group. He said Red Hat division is on a "quiet mode" w respect to initiatives w.i. IBM and for now just continuing as before. Hoping there will be announcements soon.
      • Tentative: Gary spoke on phone to Jeff Logullo of Oracle (our former Sun/Solaris contact) on June 14. He is researching if he can get a talk about Oracle Linux for us.
      • 
    • Gary will continue to explore different computer manufacturers (ex: Cray) who might be able to do presentation "Where are they now?"

• 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.
    • NEWLUG home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off
  • 

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• Do we need to delay or hold STEERCOM meeting early?

• 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
• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  • VENUE St. Louis County Library Thornhill Branch
  • 

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • 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
    • BACKUP: We want to have on hand a backup topic.
      • (Alternative if primary presenter doesn't show)
      • Tentative:
      • 
  • MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
    • TO BE DETERMINED (TBD)
    • TENTATIVE: Scott Granneman if not utilized in August and if not teaching Wed nite. Topic???
    • TENTATIVE: Erik Kaufman of St Louis Univ Research about research utilization of Linux at SLU. Offered possibility in May.
    • COORDINATOR: Gary
    • CONFIRMED: NO
    • ABSTRACT: NO
    • BIO: NO
    • BACKUP: We want to have on hand a backup topic.
      • Tentative:
      • 
      • Consider Erik the designated presenter, pending negotiation with Scott & Bryce

• The annual, traveling event is in St. L.
• We should:
  • try to make contact with organizers,
  • be allowed to introduce ourselves to the crowd,
  • leave pamphlets on tables.
• Since this is the 3rd Thurs, Gary had hoped to solicit them to have some speaker for us at STLlug that evening (the event ends at 4-5).
• ALERT!!! SuSE website no longer shows StL for users but still shows it for exhibitors & sponsors. ??? No hotel listed. ??? What's up?

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114
    • NIXos presentation from May 2 by Sam Hatfield (per Gary M)
    • COORDINATOR: Gary
    • CONFIRMED: NO
    • ABSTRACT: NO
    • BIO: NO
    • BACKUP: We want to have on hand a backup topic.
      • (Alternative if primary presenter doesn't show)
      • VERY Tentative: IBM and Red Hat by Sami Allum of IBM (per Gary M)
      • Tentative:
    • In NixOS, what are the unique & thoughtful features distinguishing it from others. Language or distro? Different attitude toward repository (called "store")
    • ALERT!!!! The annual, traveling SuSE Expert Days down as being Sept 19 in St. L. I.e TODAY!!! Gary had hoped to solicit them to have some speaker for us at STLlug that evening (their event at hotelends at 4-5). Now SuSE website seems confused as to IF THIS IS IN StL!?!?!?!? If SuSE does come thru, we may need to bump Sam's NIXos to a later month.

• NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
  • VENUE St. Louis County Library Prairie Commons Branch
  • TOPICS are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
    • NEWLUG home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off
  • 

• 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!
  • Lee Lammert and Mike Knight working on SpamAssassin. Extensive plan developed by Mike Knight.
  • QUESTION (Stan): Do we have to worry about losing ownership of the stllug.org domains?
  • ANSWER
• 2019-02-04
  • Lee: Everything's up and running thanks to Mike. New topic: DCC. What is it? Lee has no clue.
• 2019-03-04
  • Lee: Server is running.
  • ANSWER to previous question re Status of stllug.org: Lee is checking, something looks wonky.
• 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
  • Mike's still working on ClamAV, but too timid to pull switch on ClamAV or SpamAssassin.
    • Need consensus that settings are right
• 2019-04-29 (for MAY)
  • Gary would love to get a presentation on status of the servers, featuring Mike, Chuck, Lee
    • One possibility would be to have Andrew St Claire (or someone else) debrief them and give the presentation
  • 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?
      • ANSWER: no
    • 2 QUESTION: Should high scoring sp_m be rejected and returned to sender?
      • ANSWER: no
    • 3 QUESTION: Should moderate scoring sp_m be moved to a "junk" folder of the member's inbox by the system?
      • ANSWER: no
• 2019-06-03
  • Lee: It's running. Updates posted.
• 2019-07-01
  • Lee: no updates this month. ClamAV & SpamAssassin are running, SA is giving scores, but up to user to decide what to do with them.
  • Gary: good that things are running, but would be nice to get a presentation on what is there and what it does. Would be good for everyone to realize what's been done to make things work.

• SUMMARY: Our traditional Internet presence is with our main SLUUG web site.

•  Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed. 

• 2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
  • Stan R fixed error that kept website from displaying the ATTENDANCE sheets page.
  • QUESTION: Are there any other broken pages?
• 2019-02-04
  • ANSWER: Not that we know of. There's always one more
  • Stan is aware that there's a problem with top menu of main page, and it's not likely to be fixed in a long time.
• 2019-03-04
• 2019-04-01
• 2019-04-29 (for MAY)
• 2019-06-03
  • Stan: updated flyer is on the handouts page. Old material removed, added page of helpful links for the newcomer.
  • Stan has added a section on the main page with summaries of past meetings. Additional meetings will be added in near future.
• 2019-07-01
  • 

• SUMMARY: We have presence on MEETUP.COM.

•  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)
  • Procedure of last couple of months is working; i.e. changing the subject line to reflect current meeting flags the Meetup as having changed.
• 2019-06-03
  • Gary mentioned we've been changing the title to get updated on search results. Stan says it's been fixed and now no longer requires title change.
• 2019-07-01
  • 

• 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. 

• 2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
• 2019-02-04
  • This becomes important in April.
• 2019-03-04
  • Becomes important in April.
• 2019-04-01
  • It is now April. It's important
  • Stan's complaints:
  • Stan & Phil's notes posted to steercom last week, fill in later
• 2019-04-29 (for MAY)
  • Reservations for SLACC and NEWLUG made and paid.
• 2019-06-03
• 2019-07-01
  • 

• SUMMARY: We presume that our single web site isn't enough to draw younger crowd.

•  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
• 2019-07-01
  • Gary: need to get some kind of presence on Slack
  • Lee: not sure we want people who are on Slack. Not connected with actual servers.

• SUMMARY: We have recorded many of our past meetings and made them available on the Internet.

•  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
• 2019-07-01
  • Don: been thinking about it
  • Gary: Stan's been thinking about it

• SUMMARY: We try to record many of our meetings.

•  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
  • Don went to Schiller's & got camera, passed to Stan
• 2019-04-01
  • Don will go to Schiller's and check another camera
• 2019-04-29 (for MAY)
• 2019-06-03
  • Stan reports having problems with tripod stability. Handheld most of session.
• 2019-07-01
  • Don is in discussion with Stan regarding tripod operation.
  • Don still hasn't billed for camera acquisition
  • Don plans to acquire another camera system

• 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
• 2019-07-01
  • 

• SUMMARY: The ANNOUNCE mailing is a weekly extract of our SLUUG GOOGLE Calendar of Events. Historical descendant of our monthly newsletter. Previous editors have also styled it less of 1 liners of entire calendar and more of abstracts of OUR talks & outstanding interest items.
• 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
  • Scraping info from calendar into weekly ANNOUNCE; send ANNOUNCE to Meetup email address
    • Would not work because of MEETUP.COM message size limitation.
  • QUESTION: Would someone else (besides Stan R) take on generating the weekly ANNOUNCE mailing?
• 2019-03-04
• 2019-04-01
• 2019-04-29 (for MAY)
• 2019-06-03
  • Stan: numbers keep going down
• 2019-07-01
  • Gary: need a new editor. Stan stopped doing it earlier this year, only sending out occasionally
    • Trying to get someone to take over, unless a weekly announcement is no longer necessary

• SUMMARY: We have informational handout PDFs available http://www.sluug.org/resources/handouts/.
• HISTORY: The PDFs are generated with LibreOffice. The originating files are stored along with generated PDFs.

•  Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed. 

• 2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
• 2019-02-04
  • Linux User Group Name on the Beginner Handout will be changed from Hazelwood to Newcomer by Stan R..
• 2019-03-04
• 2019-04-01
• 2019-04-29 (for MAY)
• 2019-06-03
  • Stan R has updated the Linux4Beginners.pdf handout, updating LUG name and making major revisions.
  • The following is a test!
  • TEST:
  • Does anyone NOT KNOW where to get our handouts, so that they could print and fold them?
  • Does anyone KNOW where to get our handouts, so that they could print and fold them?
  • QUESTION: Would someone else (besides Stan R) take on printing and maintaining an inventory of our brochures?
• 2019-07-01
  • Lee's new printer is much more easy to use when printing our handouts.
  • Lee has printed about ~25 new Learn to use the VIM test editor pdf version 2.3 handouts for Stan. Half given to Carol Peters after BASE June tutorial.
  • Lee has printed about ~50 new Linux4Beginners.pdf versions 6.0 thru 6.4 handouts for Stan.
  • Lee has printed about ~25 new Why Use Linux pdf version 3.0 handouts for Stan.
  • Stan R made multiple updates to the Linux4Beginners.pdf handout. Latest version is now at 6.6.
  • 

•  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: Andrew is making some. Seen on StlTech.
• 2019-04-01
• 2019-04-29 (for MAY)
• 2019-06-03
• 2019-07-01
  • 

• SUMMARY: Thoughts about announcing workshops for summer meetings instead of actual topics. Prevent having to develop presentations. OTOH, would be helpful to have topics for the workshops, so not zero effort.
• 2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
• 2019-02-04
  • QUESTION: Should/Would someone set up a www.strawpoll.me questionnaire to promote and evaluate interest?
  • ANSWER: (Gary) Should: Yes. Would: No. No movement toward setting up and pushing questionnaire.
  • Still waiting for suggestions
  • Stan: more of a keyboard karaoke session
    • or maybe a hiatus through July & August
    • Gary: prefers keyboard karaoke over skipping
    • maybe tutorial
    • announce specific topic or make it a surprise?
• 2019-03-04
• 2019-04-01
• 2019-04-29 (for MAY)
• 2019-06-03
  • There will be no summer workshops this summer.
  • Stan: should some of these stanzas be deleted because of no interest?
• 2019-07-01
  • Gary: topic closed; end of discussion

• SUMMARY: We don't have enough volunteers to do everything consistently.
  • We need new members who want to do stuff. Same as every month.
  • QUESTION: Any new volunteers to help?

•  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
  • QUESTION: Any new volunteers to help?
• 2019-04-01
• 2019-04-29 (for MAY)
• 2019-06-03
• 2019-07-01
  • 

• 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
• 2019-07-01
  • No longer need to seek new location; N&E are doing much better now with new POS system

• 2019-06-03
• Grant from Micro Center will be attending to get back up to speed on Linux. Be nice to him.
• Ulysses S. (Gary: ask Stan)
• 2019-07-01
  • 

• 2019-06-03
• New name for group suggest by Gary: Start announcing as SLLUUG (St Louis Linux & Unix User Group)
• Discussion: Stan votes no, as we already have a STL Linux Users Group. Half the time Stan confuses it anyway.
• Ken votes yes. Others abstained.
• 2019-07-01
  • Gary: No further discussion now; will revisit at another time

• 2019-07-01
  • SUMMARY: We need to continuously consider alternative meeting locations due to often unforseen changes.
  • TENTATIVE: StL County Library locations sometimes available.
  • SLUUG General ~ Graybar
  • STLLUG ~ Nick and Elanias
  • 

• 2019-07-01
  • 

• SUMMARY: When anybody does something to help!
  • QUESTION: Did anyone do anything helpful?
• 2019-07-01
  • Gary: Thanks to all members of Steercom for doing stuff & attending steercom meeting

• SUMMARY: Food for thought ~ anything not previously covered that provides mental stimulus for thinking about improvements or problems.
  • Some ideas are Off-The-Record ~ NOT TO BE RECORDED!
  • Some ideas should be publicized.~ SHOULD BE RECORDED!
  • If a speaker believes something should not be recorded, the record operator needs to be notified.
  • Each speaker should initially declare whether an idea should be recorded or not.
  • Each speaker should initially declare whether GPS location should be recorded or not. (Stan R asks what the fsck is this line about?)
• 2019-07-01
  • 

• SUMMARY: We routinely rotate thru the following:
• 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.
  • Verify renewal of certs with LetsEncrypt
• 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.
  • https://bsd.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/BusinessEntityDetail.aspx?page=beSearch&ID=681250
  • Lee was considering changing mailing address

• 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
• Gary Meyer - Build spreadsheet to track domain name registrations. See http://bgp.he.net/ip/207.223.253.71#_dns
• Gary Meyer - Did not follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
  • SLACC.COM is now in use by someone else.
  • SLACC.ORG could be registered. SLACC.ORG available for sale ~ only $499
• 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 was done
• Next March or April 2020:
  • schedule workshops for July and August 2020
• Possible presentation - suggested 11/7/18
  • Apple interfaces and accessories for audio & video (by Don)
• Possible presentation (Stan R item) - suggested 12/3/18 by Lee (Stan R asks what the fsck is this line about?)
  • Identify/contact couple who attended Lee's Pi presentation, brought Pi cluster running Kubernetes
  • Can Stan locate signup sheet for the meeting and try to filter it and find the names?

• Monday, July 1st, 2019
  • QUESTION: When was meeting adjourned?
• 2019-07-01
  • Time: 8:44pm