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

NO PHYSICAL MEETING

Expect to remotely stream online across the Internet with some yet to be determined video software.

2020-05-04 – attempting meeting with Jit.si software.

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

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• Monday, May 4th, 2020
• QUESTION: When was meeting called to order?
• 2020-05-04
• Time: 7:12pm (1912hrs)

Listed alphabetically by last name:

* James Conroy

* Don Ellis

* David Forrest

* Ken Johnson

* Lee Lammert

* Terry Linhardt

* Gary Meyer

* Stan Reichardt

* Steve Stegmann

• Are there any additions, deletions, or other changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?
• 2020-05-04
  • No

• 2020-05-04
  • Secretary is 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 March 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.
• Count of calendar entries for March 2020 misleading because of
• Limited maintence effort for March 2020 because CORONAVIRUS-19 self-isolation effects.

• SUMMARY Mailing List Report combined with MEETUP membership count, now called Subscriber Report.
• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of March 2020:

• 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.
  • 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.)
• 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

• 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 March 2020:

• 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.

• SUMMARY: We try to analyse what happened or was presented at the previous months meetings.

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• Did meeting with Jit.si remote video conferencing software.
• The rabbit came out of the hat. Steercom members should be commended for pulling it off successfully!

• SLACC usually holds a Linux Workshop installation and configuration help - no presentation
  • No physical meeting untill further notice
  • Stan R is conducted a Video meeting using JITSI thru https://meet.jit.si/
  • St. Louis County Library cancelled all meeting room reservations thru 31 May 2020 (now thru 30 June as of May 4).
  • VENUE St. Louis County Library Bridgeton Trails Branch
  • 

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • No physical meeting untill further notice
  • VENUE SIEMENS * Siemens, 13690 Riverport Dr, Maryland Heights, MO 63043
    • All contingency location reservations with STL County Library have been cancelled.
    • Please wait to discuss future locations within the New Location Requirements Business segment.
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.

• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: DONE
  • WHAT: Working On Line
  • BY: Stan Reichardt
  • SYNOPSIS: A brief sketchy summary goes here.
  • WRANGLER:
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: Yes
  • REMARKS:
    • This slide show presentation was pre-recorded as an MKV video file for sharing using "simplescreenrecorder" software .
    • The MKV video file, the slide show presentation PDF and also a JITSI Keyboard Shortcuts PDF are are available for download.

COOKIE TIME ~ ANNOUNCEMENTS ~ CALL FOR HELP (Gooey Middle ):

• MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
  • STATUS: DONE
  • WHAT: Django
  • BY: Tyler Rudie
  • SYNOPSIS: A brief sketchy summary goes here.
  • WRANGLER:
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
    • Lee: I thought it was pretty dmn good.
    • Gary: It was all new novel stuff. Need to review; haven't done so yet

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • No physical meeting untill further notice
  • 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.

• 
• This session was done with remote video service ZOOM.
• Join Zoom Meeting: https://Dell.zoom.us/j/95935051797
• Password: STLLUG (all caps password)
• 

• STLLUG:
  • STATUS: DONE
  • 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:
    • Gary: was looking forward to it. Found it interesting
    • Lee: was pretty amazing the kinds of things they were doing there
    • Dave: Informative. Not the kind of things I do
    • Gary: Doing network testing, deliberately pushing bounds of capacity. Interested in presentation dynamics.
      • Was good that presenter brought along another person from lab to answer certain technical questions
      • The more she talked, reinforced idea that they don't normally present on the topic. "A lot of what we do is for commercial contracts. Can't go into a lot more detail." Reticent.
      • Appreciated the talk. Surprised that lab seems to have shrunk in size. Used to have larger operation.

• NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
  • No physical meeting untill further notice
  • Stan R conducted a Video meeting using JITSI thru https://nyx.omnitec.net/
  • St. Louis County Library cancelled all meeting room reservations thru 31 May 2020 (now thru 30 June).
  • 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
      • Stan: Son joined as lurker; later reported attendance of 10
        • Lots of questions from 2 people who'd never attended one of our meetings before
        • What I used, and why. Stan told how he'd started the group. Redhat background. Switched to Ubuntu until Unity. Went to Mint. Normal spiel. Led to questions about different distros and desktops.

• 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.
  • We want BASE topics that are oriented toward simpler Personal Computing. Short is good.
  • We want MAIN topics that are oriented more toward advanced or Enterprise Computing.
  • LINUX topics could be either at the General meeting or at the St. Louis Linux Users Group (STLLUG) meetings.
  • Gary will continue to explore different computer manufacturers (ex: Cray) who might be able to do presentation "Where are they now?"
    • 

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• HISTORY Steering Committee usually meets on Monday of the week prior to (9 days) General Meeting.
  • No physical meeting untill further notice
  • 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. We want to incorporate this into Planning Database.
• Link to planning Planning Schedule Report from Database.
  • This session was done with remote video service
  • Were unable to ask Chad early enough in advance to get Zoom; continued with Jit.si

• SLACC usually holds a Linux Workshop installation and configuration help - no presentation
  • No physical meeting untill further notice
  • Stan R is planning to conduct a Video meeting using JITSI thru https://nyx.omnitec.net/
  • St. Louis County Library cancelled all meeting room reservations thru 31 May 2020 (now thru 30 June as of 4 May).
  • VENUE St. Louis County Library Bridgeton Trails Branch
  • Note date changed back to regular first Thursday. Location changed. Had been 14 May at Thornhill.
  • 

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • No physical meeting untill further notice
  • VENUE SIEMENS Siemens, 13690 Riverport Dr, Maryland Heights, MO 63043
    • Please wait to discuss future locations within the New Location Requirements Business segment.
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
  • BASE (Personal Computing):
    • STATUS: Available
    • WHAT: SLUUG Jeopardy
    • BY: Panel of celebrity guests
    • SYNOPSIS: Who has the questions to all the answers about how SLUUG technology works
    • WRANGLER:
    • ABSTRACT: No
    • BIO: No
    • REMARKS:
      • We ( do have/ do not) have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
      • 

—- COOKIE TIME ~ ANNOUNCEMENTS ~ CALL FOR HELP (Gooey Middle ):

• MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
  • STATUS: Available
  • WHAT: Containers 201: Securing multiple websites with a single letsencrypt container
  • BY: Chuck, but since he's not available, Lee will cover it.
  • SYNOPSIS: A brief sketchy summary goes here.
  • WRANGLER:
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
    • We ( do have/ do not) have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 
    • Frank Seible another option

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • No physical meeting untill further notice
  • 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: Available
    • WHAT: Bash tricks, part 2
    • BY: Stephen Lembark
    • SYNOPSIS: TBD
    • WRANGLER:
    • ABSTRACT: NO
    • BIO: NO
    • REMARKS:
      • We ( do have/ do not) have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
      • 

• NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
  • No physical meeting untill further notice
  • Stan R is planning to conduct a Video meeting using JITSI thru https://meet.jit.si/
  • St. Louis County Library cancelled all meeting room reservations thru 31 May 2020 (now thru 30 June).
  • VENUE St. Louis County Library Indian 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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• HISTORY Steering Committee usually meets on Monday of the week prior to (9 days) General Meeting.
  • We don't yet know if we will be able to have physical meeting
    • When we do have physical meetings, we would like to continue video meetings in conjunction with the physical meetings.
  • 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. We want to incorporate this into Planning Database.
• Link to planning Planning Schedule Report from Database.
  • 

• SLACC usually holds a Linux Workshop installation and configuration help - no presentation
  • We don't yet know if we will be able to have physical meeting
    • Check is being returned by the library for this meeting
    • SLACC will continue to be held on Jit.si
  • St. Louis County Library cancelled all meeting room reservations thru 31 May 2020 (now thru 30 June as of 4 May).
  • We still had paid June room reservation
  • VENUE St. Louis County Prairie Commons Branch
  • 

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • We don't yet know if we will be able to have physical meeting
  • VENUE
    • SIEMENS Siemens, 13690 Riverport Dr, Maryland Heights, MO 63043
    • Please wait to discuss future locations within the New Location Requirements Business segment.
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
  • BASE (Personal Computing):
    • STATUS: Available
    • WHAT: To Be Determined (TBD)
    • BY: Volunteer Speaker
    • SYNOPSIS: A brief sketchy summary goes here.
    • WRANGLER:
    • ABSTRACT: No
    • BIO: No
    • REMARKS:
      • We ( do have/ do not) have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
      • 

—- COOKIE TIME ~ ANNOUNCEMENTS ~ CALL FOR HELP (Gooey Middle ):

• MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
  • STATUS: Available
  • WHAT: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • BY: Volunteer Speaker
  • SYNOPSIS: A brief sketchy summary goes here.
  • WRANGLER:
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
    • We ( do have/ do not) have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • We don't yet know if we will be able to have physical meeting
  • VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114
    • Physical meeting will not resume before end of June (as of 4 May)
    • Will continue to have video meeting in conjunction with physical meeting after physical meetings resume.
  • We want to have alternate topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
  • STLLUG:
    • STATUS: Available
    • WHAT: To Be Determined (TBD)
    • BY: Volunteer Speaker
    • SYNOPSIS: A brief sketchy summary goes here.
    • WRANGLER:
    • ABSTRACT: NO
    • BIO: NO
    • REMARKS:
      • We ( do have/ do not) have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
      • 

• NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
  • We don't yet know if we will be able to have physical meeting
    • Refund check for meeting reservation will be in the mail pending reply from Stan
    • We will continue to have video meetings in conjunction with physical meetings after physical meetings resume
  • St. Louis County Library cancelled all meeting room reservations thru 31 May 2020 (now thru 30 June as of 4 May).
  • We still have paid June room reservation
  • 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 FOR THIS MONTH WERE 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 wild card. 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.
• 2019-08-05
• 2019-08-28
  • Lee will be switching our VM to new hardware in the fall.
• 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?
      • Mike Knight created and tested some scripts dealing with our LetsEncrypt setup.
    • QUESTION: Do we know what happened with SLUUG certificate not working with securing the email on Christmas Day?
      • Certificate had expired, was renewed, but IMAP server didn't get restarted to incorporate new cert.
      • Now the process is scripted. A post renewal script for LetsEncrypt has been added to restart Courier (IMAP)
    • QUESTION: Do we have any documentation on the overall *automated* process for LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK?
  • Mike Knight is invesigating why SLUUG was being throttled by Google. Possibly something to do with the SLUUG SPF record being regarded as "suspicious" by Google.
• 2020-03-02
• 2020-03-30 (for April)
• 2020-05-04
  • QUESTION: Do we have any documentation on the overall *automated* process for LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK?

# cat /etc/cron.daily/checkcert
#!/bin/bash

#MAILTO=""

/usr/bin/certbot renew

• Mike Knight is invesigating why SLUUG was being throttled by Google. Possibly something to do with the SLUUG SPF record being regarded as "suspicious" by Google.
  • Mike? Answer?

• Automated renewal system crashed Christmas day 2019 and didn't recover. Mike has adjusted it to work properly and it appears to work as of March 2020.

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!
  • 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
• 2019-07-28 Lee: CERT renewed automatically. Performed quarterly
• 2019-08-05
  • The SLUUG web page has been expanded with "…a not-for-profit professional 501c(6) association…" introductory narrative description of our organization.
  • The SLUUG web page Reference section did not have a link to our SLUUG YouTube channel. This has been corrected.
  • All SLUUG web pages were not referencing the other sponsored group web pages. This has been corrected.
  • The NEWLUG sub menu "cdrom" files renamed to menu to match up with replacing DVDs with USB thumb drives and eliminate some confusion. Had to hard link NEWLUG "cdrom.html" to "menu.html" because of existing handout link reference. Hard link should NOT be removed.
  • All SLUUG web page links to defunct "Google+" changed to link to Mailing Lists.
  • The SLUUG web page links to attendance sheets updated.
  • The SLUUG web page links to handouts updated. Removed link to ancient and insufficient "Password Guidelines for Beginners" PDF.
  • The NEWLUG menu reference to "Password Guidelines for Beginners" PDF replaced with link to Creating Strong Passwords .
  • Added new logo with Arch
• 2019-08-28
  • Usual.
• 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.
• 2020-03-02
• 2020-03-30 (for April)
• 2020-05-04
  • Stan tried doing website maintenance via smartphone; Google calendar got messed up; don't try editing with smartphone
  • Stan: SLACC and NewLUG meeting websites have been done for May

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)
  • 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
• 2019-08-05
• 2019-08-28
  • Usual.
• 2019-09-30 (for October)
  • Meetup still sucks. Set SLUUG General Meeting sessions to show our contingency library locations until we settle on new venue.
• 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)
  • All NEWLUG entries for 2020 had to be created. Might have been because of wrong end date.
• 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.
• 2020-03-02
  • For Don: be sure we get info for March Wednesday meeting into Meetup.
• 2020-03-30 (for April)
• 2020-05-04
  • 

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.
• 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
  • 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
• 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)
  • Stan R talked to knowledgeable St Louis County staff members about reservations policies.
• 2019-11-04
  • Phil Bunch and Stan R made reservations for SLACC, NEWLUG and contingency reservations for SLUUG Main.
  • Discussed changes to reservation system.
    • Login is not secure.
    • No calendar visibility of who is reserving (unlike previously) and for what.
    • The new system changes are not well implemented.
• 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)
  • Stan R dreading next round of reservations, will be just as difficult.
• 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.
• 2020-03-02
  • One month warning. This has to be dealt with in April.
• 2020-03-30 (for April)
• 2020-05-04
  • Due to COVID19 restrictions, no library room reservations can be made until further notice.

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 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
  • 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.
• 2019-08-05
• 2019-08-28
  • James Conroy will be posting our meeting announcement on MASTODON for us.
• 2019-09-30 (for October)
  • James Conroy has posted some information and gotten some responses.
  • New and shiny.
• 2019-11-04
  • Classical Internet applications are passe. Need to learn new media.
• 2019-12-02
  • James Conroy will automate a process to cover our meetings on MASTODON, since he's working night shift.
• 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
  • QUESTION for Terry Linhardt ~ Terry was going to check. Did he find out who set up Twitter account?
  • Terry never got feedback from those he asked.
• 2020-03-02
  • James has script to pull our info and put up on MASTODON. Not ready yet, but coming soon.
• 2020-03-30 (for April)
• 2020-05-04
  • Continuing to wait for James to report status of Mastodon upload process

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 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: been thinking about it
  • Gary: Stan's been thinking about it
• 2019-08-05
  • Stan has uploaded 3 recordings. 1.5hr to render (with pitivi), 1.5hr to upload, 15min processing at other end. Net: 3+ hrs to send up recording.
  • Don was to Contact Stephen Pidgeon pidgeon [dot] stephen [at] gmail [dot] com, who is interested in helping with videos.
• 2019-08-28
  • Don really really committed to getting with Stephen Pidgeon to start uploading stuff.
• 2019-09-30 (for October)
  • Steve Pidgen has been doing something with cameras.
• 2019-11-04
  • Gary Meyer will contact Steve Pidgeon for progress report
• 2019-12-02
  • Gary Meyer will contact Steve Pidgeon for progress report
• 2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
  • Gary Meyer will contact Steve Pidgeon for progress report
• 2020-02-03
  • Gary Meyer will contact Steve Pidgeon for progress report
• 2020-03-02
  • Don will contact Steve Pidgeon for progress report
• 2020-03-30 (for April)
• 2020-05-04
  • Continuing to wait for Don & Steve to report

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 FOR THIS MONTH WERE 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
• 2019-08-05
• 2019-08-28
  • Don acquired another camera system and submitted bill.
• 2019-09-30 (for October)
  • Don tested camera 2.
• 2019-11-04
• 2019-12-02
  • Both Canon cameras have been tested and working. Stan & Don have been careful to back up all files to local storage. Birthday party sound was excessive for Camera 1 on November meeting. Camera 2 may have better sound.
• 2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
• 2020-02-03
  • Don Ellis has been traveling extensive last month.
• 2020-03-02
  • Don will contact vendor about battery replacement.
• 2020-03-30 (for April)
  • Don will search for replacement battery online
• 2020-05-04
  • 

SUMMARY: We seek financial support from the tech community.

• HISTORY: We are not good at getting sponsors.
• 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
  • Lee: Budget is sufficient at this time for another 5-6 years before we seriously need to find sponsorship.
• 2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
• 2020-02-03
  • SuSE rep paid for pizzas at Nick and Elanna's STLLUG meeting.
• 2020-03-02
• 2020-03-30 (for April)
• 2020-05-04
  • 

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.
• 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
  • 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
• 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
  • Stan had problems getting into Announce list because email system has been bogged down lately. Mailing lists are being processed much more slowly than normal.
• 2019-12-02
• 2019-12-02
  • Don needs to test Stan's database on Libreoffice on Mac. Everyone else should test the database on their own systems.
• 2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
  • Don and Gary needs to test Stan's database on Libreoffice on Mac. Everyone else should test the database on their own systems.
  • Lee tested successfully on SUSE.
• 2020-02-03
  • Nothing new.
• 2020-03-02
  • Don still needs to do his test. Gary & Stan have been loading. Stan is working on allowing multiple user updates.
• 2020-03-30 (for April)
• 2020-05-04
  • Don, Gary, Stan will review this stanza offline and have this verbiage in minutes repaired for next month.

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.
• 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
  • 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.
• 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
  • Stan R, whenever he needs more handouts, he asks Lee.
• 2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
  • Lee ordered printer parts that should correct krinkle problem.
• 2020-02-03
  • Stan R has been modifying a Linux Presentation Day from 2015 found on the Internet. It has excellent content.
    • Difficult to modify, as it is extremely graphically intense. Built and modified with the Scribus application.
    • Likely too complex to print, may wind up splitting content to make a slide show presentation.
• 2020-03-02
  • Lee: If anybody needs handouts, send me a PDF and a quantity.
• 2020-03-30 (for April)
• 2020-05-04
  • Stan has been working on a PDF that will probably just be published as PDF plus presentation, not printed

SUMMARY: Ken Johnson really prefers stickers, rather than stuffed toys!

• HISTORY: SWAG is good!
• 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
  • Lee: Andrew is making some. Seen on StlTech.
• 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
  • Lee hasn't figured out how to make a black background on stickers.
• 2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
  • Lee has sheet to pass on to Ken.
• 2020-02-03
  • Nothing new.
• 2020-03-02
  • James Conroy will make background black so we can get what we want when ordered.
• 2020-03-30 (for April)
• 2020-05-04
  • 

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?
• 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
  • QUESTION: Any new volunteers to help?
• 2019-04-01
• 2019-04-29 (for MAY)
• 2019-06-03
• 2019-07-01
• 2019-08-05
• 2019-08-28
  • James Conroy and Stephen Pidgeon are notable new assets.
• 2019-09-30 (for October)
• 2019-11-04
  • Terry Linhardt has returned to see how his steercom has developed since his last visit.
    • ready to do presentations on debugging uucp
• 2019-12-02
  • Gary: Stan is overworked with all the stuff he's doing. We need to keep an eye out for a newbie who would be willing to learn how and help to maintain the calendar.
• 2019-12-30 (for January 2020)
  • Tyler Rudie had volunteered to help with SLUUG Google calendar input.
• 2020-02-03
  • Tyler Rudie has been granted permissions to help with SLUUG Google calendar input. Not yet given guidance or instructions.
  • Gary needs to prompt him.
• 2020-03-02
  • Gary, Stan, & Tyler need to get together to review Tyler getting to work on Google Calendar modifications.
• 2020-03-30 (for April)
• 2020-05-04
  • Gary, Stan, & Tyler need to get together to review Tyler getting to work on Google Calendar modifications?

SUMMARY: After elections, items need to be updated. They haven't been done consistently.

• 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.
  • Gary kept review list with revisions to share with Stan R later.
• 2020-03-02
  • Gary passed review list with revisions to Stan R.
  • Stan R has not yet made any revisions. Election results may impact.
    • After election: Election results have had no impact
• 2020-03-30 (for April)
  • Stan R updated most of the aliases.
• 2020-05-04
  • Stan discussed with Gary a couple of weeks ago
  • Needs to be done & checked after every election year

• 2020-02-03
  • Notes on Red Hat Contact:

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.

• 2020-03-02
• 2020-03-30 (for April)
• 2020-05-04
  • Somebody needs to kick Gary in the butt to be sure this is done

• Do we have anything new to deal with?
• 2020-05-04
  • Set up Big Blue Button on different hostname for testing

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.
• 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
• March 2020 - schedule workshops for July and August 2020
• March 2020 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK
• April 2020 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• 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
• June 2020 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
• September 2020 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
• October 2020 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• November 2020 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
  • Note: Need documentation on this process!
• December 2020 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
• December 2020 - STLWEBDEV.ORG is domain automatic renewal?
  • (No longer a web page, just a mailing list)
  • Consider cutting it off sometime next year, ie 2020
• January 2021 - STLLINUX.ORG domain automatic renewal.
• January 2021 ~ Post Office Box Renewal (automatic 6 months on credit card~ Lee handles.
• February 2021 - SLUUG Annual Board meeting and elections.
• February 2021 - Verify renewal of certs with LetsEncrypt
• March 2021 - Count Ballots
• March 2021 - Updates to email aliases if required.
• March 2021 - Updates to webpage contacts if required.
• March 2021 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
• March 2021 - Consider schedule workshops for July and August 2021
• April 2021 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status. e-postcard.
• April 2021 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• 2020-05-04
  • Automated renewal system crashed Christmas day 2019 and didn't recover. Mike has adjusted it to work properly and it appears to work as of March 2020.

SUMMARY: When anybody does something to help!

• QUESTION: Did anyone do anything helpful?
• 2020-05-04
  • Stan has been working 3times harder than usual
  • Lee has been keeping the servers running and keeping financial stuff straight
  • Ken & Lee have been putting together the Jit.si server
  • Dave has made some good suggestions in mail
  • Don has been trying to keep up with all changes and needed things

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.
• 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.
• Don Ellis ~ Possible presentation on new ChromeBook Linux interface.
• 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.
• 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 held by someone else (squatter).
  • SLACC.ORG could be registered. SLACC.ORG available for sale ~ only $499.
• 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.

SUMMARY: Food for thought ~ anything not previously covered that provides mental stimulus for thinking about improvements or solutions.

• HISTORY: Stimulate creativity by planting the seed of an idea. Current action or response not required.
  • 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?)
• 2020-05-04
  • Off Topic
    • Lee visited Chicago LUG - using Big Blue Button
      • How to download recording from server and combine streams into single video stream
      • Any other issues?

• Monday, May 4th, 2020
• QUESTION: At what time was meeting adjourned?
• 2020-03-30 (for April)
  • 9:34pm (2134hrs)