SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 3 February 2020
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
February 2020
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Start Meeting
Monday, February 3rd, 2020
QUESTION: When was meeting called to order?
Time: 6:50pm
Attendees
Listed alphabetically by last name:
* James Conroy
* Don Ellis Will be with Robotics group
* David Forrest
* Ken Johnson
* Lee Lammert
* Terry Linhardt
* Gary Meyer
* Stan Reichardt
* Steve Stegmann
Agenda Changes
Secretary Report
Don Ellis NOT coming.
2020-02-03
Treasurer Report
Balance as of 1 January | | | $3,734.15 |
DotstarBuddyNS | | -$17.49 | |
USPS - PO Box | | -$154.00 | |
Balance as of 31 December | | | $3,562.66 |
* January 2020 ~ Post Office Box Renewal due (for 300 year?) ~ Autodraft.
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. 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 January 2020:
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 | 155 | 130 | 144 | 157 | 179 | 182 | 127 | 2019 |
2020 | 157 | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | 2020 |
Greyed out areas indicate corrections or never previously reported counts.
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 January 2020:
Year | | | | | | | 2017 | | | | | | 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 | | | | | | | 2018 | | | | | | 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 | | | | | | | 2019 | | | | | | Year |
List | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | List |
MEETUP | 416 | 423 | 432 | 443 | 452 | 464 | 466 | 473 | 472 | 480 | 488 | 497 | MEETUP |
ANNOUNCE | 532 | 532 | 532 | 534 | 519 | 516 | 516 | 514 | 513 | 516 | 513 | 510 | ANNOUNCE |
DISCUSS | 184 | 182 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 183 | 191 | 190 | 191 | 191 | 190 | 190 | DISCUSS |
STEERCOM | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 32 | STEERCOM |
SYSADMIN | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | SYSADMIN |
Year | | | | | | | 2020 | | | | | | Year |
List | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | List |
MEETUP | 501 | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | MEETUP |
ANNOUNCE | 504 | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ANNOUNCE |
DISCUSS | 188 | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | DISCUSS |
STEERCOM | 31 | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | STEERCOM |
SYSADMIN | 16 | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | SYSADMIN |
Numbers as end of each month.
Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet. This will be much easier to do on BOCK.
ANNOUNCE mailing list.
Command used to generate these (as root on Bud):
Greyed out areas indicate corrections or never previously reported counts.
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
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 January 2020:
Year | | | | | | | 2017 | | | | | | 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 | | | | | | | 2018 | | | | | | 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 | | | | | | | 2019 | | | | | | Year |
Meeting | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Meeting |
Steercom | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | Steercom |
SLACC | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 9 | SLACC |
SLUUG | 15 | 14 | 13 | 18 | 12 | 15 | 17 | (20) | 18 | 14 | 17 | 25 | SLUUG |
STLLUG | 18 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 16 | 14 | 18 | 18 | 17 | STLLUG |
NEWLUG | 9 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 3 | NEWLUG |
Year | | | | | | | 2020 | | | | | | Year |
Meeting | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Meeting |
Steercom | 4 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Steercom |
SLACC | 9 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ?? | ?? | ? | ? | ? | SLACC |
SLUUG | 17 | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | SLUUG |
STLLUG | 18 | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | STLLUG |
NEWLUG | 6 | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | NEWLUG |
Greyed out areas indicate corrections or never previously reported counts.
xx - numbers not yet recorded, attendance not taken, or sheet missing.
?? - Future Numbers.
(9) - 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.
January 2020
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New Year Day - January 1 (Wednesday)
SLACC - January 2
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - January 8
COOKIE TIME ~ ANNOUNCEMENTS ~ CALL FOR HELP (Gooey Middle ):
STLLUG - January 16
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114
We want to have alternate topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
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STLLUG:
STATUS: Done
WHAT: CEPH File System
BY: Michael Carrington of SuSE (Kansas City)
SYNOPSIS:
Exact Title To Be Determined (TBD)
CEPH is a distributed network file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. CEPH is such a underutilized and misunderstood concept.
I would like to present something like Why CEPH is a skill set that every Unix admin should learn.
I can fully bet out the title to be * a little more creative. I don’t want to sell SUSE and SUSE Enterprise Storage, but more of convince Unix admins why a CEPH skill set will be worthwhile in acquiring. Thoughts?
WRANGLER: Gary
ABSTRACT: NO
BIO: NO
REMARKS: Michael Carrington of SuSE, Kansas City office:
Could not do scheduled October presentation because of work travel.
Could not do scheduled November presentation because of work travel.
Could not do scheduled December presentation because of work travel.
Expecting to be here in January. Gary needs to confirm thru abstract and get title of talk back on course.
CEPH Distributed Network File System
COMMENTS:
Stan R kept expecting to eventually see the nuts and bolts, "Where's the BEEF"?
Gary M threw out a number of questions trying to extract a more technical presentation.
He will be coming back to do an actual demonstration. We expect it to be very informative.
NEWLUG - January 28
NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
Meeting Schedule
SUMMARY:
We try to track prospects to give presentations at our SLUUG General meeting and LINUX meetings.
We try to segregate topic types as either BASE, MAIN or LINUX, with BASE and MAIN given at the SLUUG General meeting.
We always want to have alternative topics on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
BASE should be oriented toward simpler Personal Computing. MAIN should be oriented more toward advanced or Enterprise Computing.
Gary will continue to explore different computer manufacturers (ex: Cray) who might be able to do presentation "Where are they now?"
February 2020
February 2020
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STEERCOM - February 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.
Link to
planning Planning Schedule Report
SLACC - February 6
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG Annual Meeting and Elections - February 12
SLUUG - February 12
COOKIE TIME ~ ANNOUNCEMENTS ~ CALL FOR HELP (Gooey Middle ):
STLLUG - February 20
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114
We want to have alternate topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
NEWLUG - February 25
NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
March 2020
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STEERCOM - March 2
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.
Link to
planning Planning Schedule Report
SLUUG - March 11
COOKIE TIME ~ ANNOUNCEMENTS ~ CALL FOR HELP (Gooey Middle ):
MAIN:
STATUS: CONFIRMED
WHAT: Amateur Radio and Open Source Software
BY: Kyle King
SYNOPSIS: A brief sketchy summary goes here.
WRANGLER: Lee
ABSTRACT: NO
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REMARKS: Confirmed by email, 12/31.
SLACC - March 12
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
STLLUG - March 19
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114
We want to have alternate topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
STLLUG:
STATUS: Idea
WHAT: Oracle Linux
BY: Volunteer Speaker
SYNOPSIS: Oracle Linux is a Linux distribution packaged and freely distributed by Oracle, available partially under the GNU General Public License since late 2006. It is compiled from Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code, replacing Red Hat branding with Oracle's. It is also used by Oracle Cloud and Oracle Engineered Systems such as Oracle Exadata and others.
WRANGLER: Gary
ABSTRACT: NO
BIO: NO
REMARKS:
NEWLUG - March 24
NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
STEERCOM - March 30 for April
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.
Link to
planning Planning Schedule Report
April 2020
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SLACC - April 2
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - April 8
COOKIE TIME ~ ANNOUNCEMENTS ~ CALL FOR HELP (Gooey Middle ):
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TBD:
STATUS: Idea
WHAT: Collect all login session.
BY: Joe (JoeB) Bohnenstiehl
SYNOPSIS: Collect all login session.
WRANGLER: Gary
ABSTRACT: NO
BIO: NO
REMARKS: Only if project at work happens.
STLLUG - April 16
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114
We want to have alternate topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
STLLUG:
STATUS: Confirmed
WHAT: Linux at the Open Network Laboratory WUSTL
BY: Dr. Parwatkar of WUSTL
SYNOPSIS: A brief sketchy summary goes here.
WRANGLER: Ken Johnson
ABSTRACT: NO
BIO: NO
REMARKS:
NEWLUG - April 28
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 FOR THIS MONTH WERE LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
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: Verified this AM, .. stllug.org appears to be forwarding successfully to stllug.sluug.org, which matches the LE cert wild card. 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 spam be changed to indicate that?
2 QUESTION: Should high scoring spam be rejected and returned to sender?
3 QUESTION: Should moderate scoring spam be moved to a "junk" folder of the member's inbox by the system?
2019-06-03
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.
2019-08-05
2019-08-28
2019-09-30 (for October)
Mike Knight found issues with ClamAV daemon, and memory/swap shortage. System boot seemed to mostly clear up.
Lee has Bock virtual instance running on new hardware. Had some trouble transferring large files.
Lee upgraded Bock virtual host to 32G memory today.
Gary Meyer was not getting STEERCOM email on his Apple/MAC laptop.
2019-11-04
2019-12-02
Lee: System seems to be running smoothly since additional RAM was added to physical host.
Lee: Reminder that if anyone needs SLUUG critical info, it's stored on BOCK /home/SLUUG
2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
Christmas Day SLUUG certificate would not work with securing email. Did not disrupt web site availability, nor remote SSH access. Mike Knight and Craig Bucheck tackled problem.
Successful test completed in September, will repeat in December
2020-02-03
Our *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK test was successfully completed in September, was to be repeated in December.
There was a problem Christmas Day with SLUUG certificate holding up email.
QUESTION: Was this related?
QUESTION: Do we know what happened with SLUUG certificate not working with securing the email on Christmas Day?
cert was incorrect because cert renewal needed to be restarted. The patches in Dovecot didn't get in because the script hadn't run. Solution=Script is now set to run EVERY nite.
QUESTION: Do we have any documentation on the overall *automated* process for LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK?
Mike Knight is investigating why SLUUG was being throttled by Google. Possibly something to do with the SLUUG SPF record being regarded as "suspicious" by Google.
Web Site SLUUG.ORG Maintenance
SUMMARY: We have a traditional Internet presence with the existence of our main SLUUG web site.
Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed.
2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA FOR THIS MONTH WERE LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
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
2019-07-28 Lee: CERT renewed automatically. Performed quarterly
2019-08-05
2019-08-28
2019-09-30 (for October)
Stan R realized that he had been using
newcomer name while posting, despite that it had not been configured.
Got assistance from both Lee L and Chuck Doolittle.
Chuck found misconfiguration after Stan R had altered and reviewed config file 2 dozen going on 3 dozen times.
Stan R is seeing a lot more messages offering to "fix" our sites from hungry contractors.
2019-11-04
Same as usual. Yesterday
DNS issues interfered with doing any maintenance
2019-12-02
Stan R, did routine updating of home pages. Had no time for sorely needed cleanup, documentation, improvements, nor anything else.
2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
2020-02-03
Stan R, did routine updating of home pages. Had no time for sorely needed cleanup, documentation, improvements, nor anything else.
Stan R, still needs to put election notice with Ballot2020.pdf up on websites.
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Web Site MEETUP.COM Maintenance
SUMMARY: We have presence on MEETUP.COM.
Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed.
2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA FOR THIS MONTH WERE LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
2019-02-04
2019-03-04
2019-04-01
2019-04-29 (for MAY)
2019-06-03
2019-07-01
2019-08-05
2019-08-28
2019-09-30 (for October)
2019-11-04
2019-12-02
Lots of folks have joined, few have attended, even thought they indicate they will show up.
Continuing to work as expected, limping along.
Meetup.com continually asks if someone wants to start up a Unix/Linux group because of regional interest.
WTF?
Note to Ken: Can he start "Meetup pending Linux group" and then point it to our group?
2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
2020-02-03
Individuals that are not signed in with a MEETUP account do NOT see all of our events in the weekly calendar listings when checking for TECH events.
We suspect that it might be keyed to how many signed up folks have indicated that they will be attending.
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Continuing Location Requirements
SUMMARY: We need to continuously consider and track alternative meeting locations due to sudden unforeseen changes.
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.
Applications for the use of St. Louis County Library Meeting Spaces are accepted on the first Saturday in October for January thru June dates, and on the first Saturday in April for July thru December dates.
We can always check for available Library
spaces.
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Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed.
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2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA FOR THIS MONTH WERE LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
2019-02-04
2019-03-04
2019-04-01
2019-04-29 (for MAY)
2019-06-03
2019-07-01
2019-08-05
2019-08-28
SLUUG General ~ Stan R requested contingency reservations.
Reservation approved at STL County Mid-County Branch (MC) for 11 September.
Reservation approved at STL County Thornhill Branch (TH) for 9 October.
Reservation approved at STL County Daniel Boon Branch (DB) for 13 November.
Reservation approved at STL County Grand Glaize Branch (GG) for 11 December.
QUESTION: Should we consider making six month reservations (January thru June) for SLUUG General meetings?
ANSWER: Yes. Want to get them all at same branch.
2019-09-30 (for October)
2019-11-04
Phil Bunch and Stan R made reservations for SLACC, NEWLUG and contingency reservations for SLUUG Main.
Discussed changes to reservation system.
2019-12-02
SLUUG General meeting contingency reservations for Thornhill Branch do not require payment until day of meeting. We may be liable for payment, if we don't cancel day prior.
Stan R made our payment for NewLUG and SLACC reservations thru June 2020.
Stan R talked with two knowledgable Library Branch managers, their consensus is that the process will not improve by April
2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
2020-02-03
Stan R cancelled all contingency library reservations for the SLUUG General meetings.
Stan R continues to check for any library location that may become suddenly available at familiar locations.
Reservations will become important again in April.
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SUMMARY: We presume that our single web site isn't enough to draw younger crowd.
Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed.
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2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA FOR THIS MONTH WERE LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
2019-02-04
2019-03-04
2019-04-01
2019-04-29 (for MAY)
2019-06-03
2019-07-01
2019-08-05
2019-08-28
James Conroy will be posting our meeting announcement on
MASTODON for us.
2019-09-30 (for October)
2019-11-04
2019-12-02
2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
Gary had asked Terry to invite people to our meetings via LinkedIn.
QUESTION Are there any numbers we can gather to measure MASTODON or LinkedIn coverage? ANSWER: We don't know yet, process too nebulous, so far.
Apparently we have a Twitter account, we didn't know who did it. Turns out that Lee had created account in 2011. But, that ain't it.
2020-02-03
Uploading Presentations
SUMMARY: We have recorded many of our past meetings and made them available on the Internet.
Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed.
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2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA FOR THIS MONTH WERE LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
2019-02-04
2019-03-04
2019-04-01
2019-04-29 (for MAY)
2019-06-03
2019-07-01
2019-08-05
2019-08-28
2019-09-30 (for October)
2019-11-04
2019-12-02
2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
2020-02-03
Camera and Microphone
SUMMARY: We try to record many of our meetings.
Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed.
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2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA FOR THIS MONTH WERE 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 is in discussion with Stan regarding tripod operation.
Don still hasn't billed for camera acquisition
Don plans to acquire another camera system
2019-08-05
2019-08-28
2019-09-30 (for October)
2019-11-04
2019-12-02
2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
2020-02-03
SUMMARY: We seek financial support from the tech community.
HISTORY: We are not good at getting sponsors.
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Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed.
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2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA FOR THIS MONTH WERE LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
2019-02-04
2019-03-04
2019-04-01
2019-04-29 (for MAY)
2019-06-03
2019-07-01
2019-08-05
2019-08-28
2019-09-30 (for October)
2019-11-04
2019-12-02
2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
2020-02-03
ANNOUNCE Mailing List
SUMMARY: As a historical descendant of our monthly newsletter, the ANNOUNCE mailing had been a weekly extract of our SLUUG GOOGLE Calendar of Events.
Previous editors had also styled it less of 1 liners of the 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, which requires human input.
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Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed.
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2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA FOR THIS MONTH WERE LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
2019-02-04
2019-03-04
2019-04-01
2019-04-29 (for MAY)
2019-06-03
2019-07-01
2019-08-05
2019-08-28 Stan thinks we should spend less time displaying our Google calendar and show off our mailing list archives so as to encourage attendees to sign up during meetings. Relying on hand written adresses added to attendance sheets not super positive.
2019-09-30 (for October)
2019-11-04
2019-12-02
2019-12-02
2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
2020-02-03
Handouts
SUMMARY: We have informational handout PDFs available http://www.sluug.org/resources/handouts/.
HISTORY: The PDFs are generated using LibreOffice. The originating files are stored along with generated PDFs.
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Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed.
2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA FOR THIS MONTH WERE LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
2019-02-04
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.
2019-08-05
Stan R made another update to the Linux4Beginners.pdf
handout. Latest version is now at 7.0.
2019-08-28
2019-09-30 (for October)
2019-11-04
2019-12-02
2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
2020-02-03
Linux Stickers
SUMMARY: Ken Johnson really prefers stickers, rather than stuffed toys!
HISTORY: SWAG is good!
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Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed.
2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA FOR THIS MONTH WERE LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
2019-02-04
2019-03-04
2019-04-01
2019-04-29 (for MAY)
2019-06-03
2019-07-01
2019-08-05
2019-08-28
2019-09-30 (for October)
2019-11-04
2019-12-02
2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
2020-02-03
We Need Help
SUMMARY: We don't have enough volunteers to do everything consistently.
HISTORY: We need new members who want to do stuff. Same as every month.
QUESTION: Any new volunteers to help?
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Minutes narratives prior to 2019 have been removed.
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2019-01-02 MINUTES AND CHANGES TO AGENDA FOR THIS MONTH WERE LOST IN SERVER ACCIDENT!
2019-02-04
2019-03-04
2019-04-01
2019-04-29 (for MAY)
2019-06-03
2019-07-01
2019-08-05
2019-08-28
2019-09-30 (for October)
2019-11-04
2019-12-02
2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
2020-02-03
Turf War
New Business
Adam R. Motlik in Kansas city is our new potential contact.
RHCSA, Sec+, ITILv3, DCSE
Mobile: 314.266.8048
Gary met him at the Red Hat MeetUp held on Jan 15 at Granite City Brewery on Olive. (near WWT who seems to be a major customer.)
(yyyyyyyyyy was there. He has been to a number of our mtngs and has just changed jobs from Scott AFB to Boeing. Possibly we'll see more of him. Also Jim zzzzzz from Panera Bread. He is manager of a team and has been to a few of our mtngs.)
Adam said that nite that he may become more active with StL, (and particularly SLUUG).
The current contact for the Red Hat MeetUp in StL is <Robert Proffitt ="Monument, CO , Sr. Solution Architect”> who has been the contact for a few years now.
He seems familiar with a couple StL account customers, particularly WWT. He's neevr really seemed interested in co-ordinating w SLUUG. This time he seemed less enthusiastic about the actual mtup then previous trips into town. Perhaps he intends to change his role.
He generally seems to demur any knowledge or active role in organizing it, deferring to:
Crystal Murphy="Raleigh, NC . I manage the Meetup and User Group programs for North America for Red Hat. ",
Nicole Maselli '"Raleigh, NC. Field Marketing Intern. Supports Crystal Murphy on all NA RHUGs and Meetups".
I've talked to one of these ladies in the past. They SAY they will remember to contact us directly as the local group, but they never do. They seem to just be setting up a mtng schedule when told to do so and then tell Robert he needs to be there on that date with a speaker or 3.
Adam in KC followed up with an e-mail to me on Jan 21 saying …
"Please include me on future correspondence regarding SLUGG".
I don't know if there are internal maneuverings or if Adam is just more interested in being involved. There was also a Red Hatter from Chicago and one from southern Missouri (Springfield?) who both also seemed interested that we were having SuSE in town to speak on CEPF and wished they could stay and be at the CEPH talk! All 3 of these guys seem to be more eager to be involved with user groups. (I THINK I have the Chicago name & contact info also. )
Lee (or anyone else) -who else did we have as a contact with Red Hat?
So…for now, nothing official, but Adam & Chicago & South MO would seem to be our most likely/willing contacts.
Annual Meeting and Elections
2020-02-03
Election and Annual Meeting this month.
Was announced at all February meetings.
Stan R and Gary Meyer made ballot.
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Review Email Addresses
2020-02-03
Update SLUUG email addresses.
Stan R has extracted a list for our review and suggestions.
We need to add updating of email aliases to Reoccurring Events segment.
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Recurring Requirements
SUMMARY: We routinely rotate thru the following (just in case):
HISTORY: In past, we had missed critical government filings, dropped ball on domain renewals, and similar important items.
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November 2019 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
Note: Need documentation on this process!
Note: Completed last summer, 2019. The automation works.
Successful test completed in September, will repeat in December
December 2019 - STLWEBDEV.ORG is domain automatic renewal?
January 2020 - STLLINUX.ORG domain automatic renewal.
January 2020 ~ Post Office Box Renewal (automatic 6 months on credit card~ Lee handles.
February 2020 - SLUUG Annual Board meeting and elections.
March 2020 - Count Ballots
March 2020 - Updates to email aliases if required.
March 2020 - Updates to webpage contacts if required.
March 2020 - schedule workshops for July and August 2020
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.
July 2020 - SLUUG.ORG domain is domain automatic renewal? Is it with Dotster?
October 2020 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
Recognize Useful Efforts
SUMMARY: When anybody does something to help!
Follow-up and Action Items
SUMMARY: It may help a little to tag individuals with tasks:
Everyone - Review the STEERCOM minutes, make corrections, act!
Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
Everyone - Talk to all members about December Party.
Everyone - Stan R wants LibreOffice Planning database tested on multiple systems.
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Don Ellis ~ Update the Meetup page for December to show the bowling party.
Don Ellis ~ Test Stan's Planning database on Libreoffice on Mac.
Don Ellis ~ Upon return to town, clean tomato sauce off the Snowball microphone (there was minor accident at STLLUG).
Don Ellis ~ upload older videos to Google Photos and/or Google Docs & publish links.
Don Ellis ~ Possible presentation - 2018-07-18 he had suggested Apple interfaces and accessories for audio & video.
Terry Linhardt ~ Will request from STEERCOM who set up Twitter account.
Gary Meyer ~ Contact Steve Pidgeon for progress report.
Gary Meyer ~ Contact Steve Lembark about splitting presentation into two parts.
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Gary Meyer - Did not follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
Lee Lammert and Gary Meyer - Dave F saw that stlwebdev.org was not responding. Lee and Gary will followup, backing up any content and retiring the site.
Stan R. ~ Remind Gary Meyer to bring SWAG, Penguins or stickers to meetings and hand out pamphlets.
Stan and Gary should get together and discuss how ANNOUNCE was done.
Blue Sky Ideas
SUMMARY: Food for thought ~ anything not previously covered that provides mental stimulus for thinking about improvements or solutions.
Adjourn Meeting