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SLUUG Steering Committee - 2 November 2020

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Location

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Start Meeting

Attendees

Listed alphabetically by last name:

* James Conroy

:?: * Don Ellis

* David Forrest

:?: * Ken Johnson

* Lee Lammert

* Gary Meyer

* Stan Reichardt

* Steve Stegmann

Agenda Changes

Secretary Report

Treasurer Report

Balance as of 1 October $3,528.62
Balance as of 31 October $3,528.62

Calendar Report

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 157 172 188 147 152 174 171 154 ??? ??? ??? ??? 2020

Subscriber Report

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 501 514 516 521 527 535 547 555 564 ??? ??? ??? MEETUP
ANNOUNCE 504 502 501 501 500 499 497 495 492 ??? ??? ??? ANNOUNCE
DISCUSS 188 190 189 191 191 189 189 188 188 ??? ??? ??? DISCUSS
STEERCOM 31 31 31 30 30 30 30 24 23 ?? ?? ?? STEERCOM
SYSADMIN 16 16 16 16 15 15 15 15 15 ?? ?? ?? SYSADMIN

Attendance Report

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 6 6 (8) (5) (7) (6) (6) (7) (6) ? ? Steercom
SLACC 9 8 (6) (8) (7) (9)(11) (7) (10) (?) ? ? SLACC
SLUUG 17 13 xx (??) (18) (22)(29) (22) (16) (??) ?? ?? SLUUG
STLLUG 18 12 (12) (??) (20) (19)(25) (10) (16) (??) ?? ?? STLLUG
NEWLUG 6 6 - (10) (13) (13)(12) (11) (11) (??) ?? ?? NEWLUG

Meeting Review Comments

October 2020

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SLACC - October 1

STEERCOM - October 5

SLUUG - October 14

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


STLLUG - October 22 (Note: Moved to 4th Thursday!)

NEWLUG - October 27

HOLLOWEEN - October 31

Meeting Schedule

SUMMARY * We try to track prospects to give presentations at our SLUUG General (SLUUG) meeting and LINUX (STLLUG) meetings.

November 2020

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STEERCOM - November 2

SLACC - November 5

Vetrans Day HOLIDAY - November 11

SLUUG - November 11


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


STLLUG - November 19

NEWLUG - November 24

THANKSGIVING - November 26

STEERCOM - November 30 for December

December 2020

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SLACC - December 3

SLUUG - December 9

NEWLUG - December 15

STLLUG - December 17

Christmas Eve - December 24

Christmas Day HOLIDAY - December 25

New Year Eve - December 31

New Year Day HOLIDAY - January 1, 2021

STEERCOM - January 4th, 2021

Old Business

Server Admin

SUMMARY: We put up a server on the Internet for email, it grew, and now we have to maintain it.

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

#MAILTO=""

/usr/bin/certbot renew

Web Site SLUUG.ORG Maintenance

SUMMARY: We have a traditional Internet presence with the existence of our main SLUUG web site.

Web Site MEETUP.COM Maintenance

SUMMARY: We have presence on MEETUP.COM.

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.

Internet Presence on Other Social Media

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

Uploading Presentations

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

Camera and Microphone and Projectors

SUMMARY: We try to record many of our meetings.

Sponsorships

SUMMARY: We seek financial support from the tech community.

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.

Planning Schedule Database

SUMMARY:

Handouts

SUMMARY: We have informational handout PDFs available http://www.sluug.org/resources/handouts/.

Linux Stickers

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

We Need Help

SUMMARY: We don't have enough volunteers to do everything consistently.

Alternative Remote Video Conferencing Services

SUMMARY: We don't want to constantly rely on someone else's ZOOM capability and want something with closed captioning ability.

Eliminate Back-To-Back Meetings

SUMMARY: Stop any potential Back-To-Back meetings

Attendance and Voting

SUMMARY: Sheltering in Place precludes use of physical attendance sheets

Two/Three Items

New Business

Anything Else

Recurring Requirements

SUMMARY: We routinely rotate thru the following (just in case):

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:

Adjourn Meeting

Blue Sky Ideas

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