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

• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
• 2021-06-02 comments:
  • Regular schedule would have had STEERCOM meeting on HOLIDAY - Memorial Day, consensus has moved it to 2nd June.
  • 

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• Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021
• 2021-06-02
  • QUESTION: When was meeting called to order?
  • TIME: 6:38 PM

Listed alphabetically by last name:

* James Conroy

* Don Ellis

* David Forrest

* Ken Johnson

* Lee Lammert

* Gary Meyer

* Stan Reichardt

* Steve Stegmann

SUMMARY: This is where we consider any additions, deletions, sequence, or other changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda.

  * HISTORY: 
  * We consider changes prior to all reviews, planning and OLD BUSINESS items by jumping ahead, then back, without altering agenda layout.
  * We will jump to old items then back to usual sequence.
  * We will jump to *New Business* section, create new item, consider, then jump back to usual sequence.
  * By not altering agenda layout, it is easier to build next month's agenda.  Moving a previous item out of sequence made editing difficult.

• AGENDA CHANGE:
• Are there any additions, deletions, sequence, or other changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?
• 2021-06-02
  • None

• 2021-06-02
  • Stan R acting as recording secretary.

• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • None

  * HISTORY: 
  * 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!

• SLUUG Calendar is a Google Calendar available on our web site.
• Count of number of events listed, each month, as of end of May 2021:

  * LEGEND:
  * 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 maintenance effort for March 2020 because CORONAVIRUS-19 self-isolation effects.
  * Started counting **moved** and **delayed** items in April 2020 as they were considered being useful.
  * Improvements in Google Calendar feature limits to five days processing at at time, takes about 10 times as long to perform. Much more tedious.

• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • Of the 172 total, 12 were cancelled, 0 defunct, 8 delayed, 8 as "x~" and 0 moved; so, leaving 144 active.
  • Gary marked some 8 as "x~". QUESTION: What is that? ANSWER: Shorthand for "canceled". So, 20 total cancelled.

• SUMMARY Mailing List Report combined with MEETUP membership count, now called Subscriber Report.
• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of May 2021:

  * LEGEND:
  * 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.

• ISSUES:
• 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

• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • Roughly standard increase for MEETUP dot COM. All else same.

  * HISTORY: 
  * Initial mail list subscriptions were prompted by attendance sheets.
  * Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at face-to-face meetings.
  * Remote session attendance with ZOOM does NOT work well.
  * Remote session attendance is best done using secondary recording with Linux SimpleScreenRecorder software. 

• Blank attendance sheets are available here
• Attendance numbers, as of end of May 2021:

  * LEGEND:
  * 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 (NEWLUG March 2020).

• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • Down little.

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

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• SLUUG General Meeting
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.

• 2021-05-03 Comments
  • Primary recording for this session being done with ZOOM thru OMNITEC provided remote video service.
  • Stan R will use Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make secondary recording.

• SLUUG General Meeting
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.

• 2021-05-03
  • Primary recording for this session being done with JITSI on https://nyx.omnitec.net/ remote video service.
  • Stan R will use Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make primary recording.

• SLUUG General Meeting
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.

• 2021-06-02 comments:
  • Primary recording for this session done with ZOOM thru OMNITEC provided remote video service.
  • Stan R used Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make secondary recording.
• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: Done
  • WHAT: Upgrading RAID6 with Zero Downtime from six 2TB to eight 4TB
  • BY: Lee Lammert
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: YES
  • REMARKS:
    • We do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • Will put off doing MP3 Player Music Box Follow Up to June or later.
  • 2021-06-02
    • We did not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • We thought it was good. Lee posted further results next day on DISCUSS.

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

• MAIN (Professional Computing):
  • STATUS: Done
  • WHAT: Red Hat Kickstart
  • BY: Steve Gomez
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
  • 2021-06-02
    • We did not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • Pretty interesting, almost as nice as SuSE version, Auto-YAST.

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.

• LINUX
  • STATUS: Done
  • WHAT: Syncthing
  • BY: Tyler Rudy
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: Yes
  • BIO: Yes
  • REMARKS:
    • We did not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • Very good, we liked it. Stan R. thought way more complicated than expected. OK, it was still very good.
    • Dave F also thought it was very good.

SUMMARY The NEWLUG home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which we could take off. Topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover way more than one topic.

• NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.

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

• We try to segregate topic types as either BASE, MAIN or LINUX, with BASE and MAIN given at the General meeting (SLUUG) .
• BASE topics should be oriented toward simpler Personal Computing. Usually given as General meeting (SLUUG). Short is good.
• MAIN topics should be oriented more toward advanced or Professional Computing. Usually given at General meeting (SLUUG).
• LINUX topics could be either at the General meeting or at the St. Louis Linux Users Group (STLLUG) meetings.
• We always want to have alternative topics on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
• 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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• SLUUG General Meeting
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.

• 2021-06-02 comments:
  • We are here, Gary was late as usual; because of crappy Mac thing.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux Workshop offering installation and configuration help - no presentation
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.

• 2021-06-02 comments:
  • None

• SLUUG General Meeting
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.

• 2021-06-02 comments:
  • Pick the primary recording service we used below, then delete other(s) (and this line):
  • Primary recording for this session being done with ZOOM thru OMNITEC provided remote video service.
  • Primary recording for this session being done with JITSI on https://nyx.omnitec.net/ remote video service.
  • Stan R ( will use | used ) Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make ( primary | secondary ) recording.
  • 

• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: Available
  • WHAT: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • BY: Any Volunteer
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: NO
  • REMARKS:
    • We did/do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 

• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: Confirming
  • WHAT: SQLite 3 Database
  • BY: Robert Hansen and Ed Howland
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Stan
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: NO
  • REMARKS:
    • Ed Howland did 2020-07-08 SLUUG Base presentation titled "A Gentle Introduction to Markdown"
    • Ed Howland did 2020-11-11 SLUUG Base presentation titled "Using make utility"
    • Robert Hansen did 2021-01-13 SLUUG Main presentation titled "Customised 'whereis' project"
    • Submitted DRAFT PDF done with LibreOffice Draw in portrait mode. Not visually good.
    • Stan R converted submission to LibreOffice Impress, added some recommended slides, and returned to Bob Hansen.
    • Stan R, Ed Howland and Bob Hansen, did a practice ZOOM session last week. Ed Howland's time went a bit long.
    • Ed Howland has reduced time on his portion. Another practice planned for tomorrow.
    • We need to emphasise that live questions and chat questions should NOT be done during Ed's portion (his voice reader confuses him).
    • Really pleased with Bob Hansen's content, at good level for beginners.
    • We do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.

• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: Consider
  • WHAT: Data Form in Calc (Demonstration) TENTATIVE
  • BY: Stan R.
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: NO
  • REMARKS:
    • Stan R wants to test display size before it can be done. Did once, would like to test again.
    • We do/did/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 

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

• MAIN (Professional Computing):
  • STATUS: Available
  • WHAT: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • BY: Any Volunteer
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
  • 2021-06-02 comments:
    • We do/did/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 

• MAIN (Professional Computing):
  • STATUS: Consider
  • WHAT: Amazon Linux 2 Replacing Linux AMI
  • BY: Jason de la Fuente
  • SYNOPSIS: Amazon AWS changed name. Their approved and maintained Linux version.
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
    • We do/do/did not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • Jason de la Fuente is group leader for St. Louis Amazon AWS group. He used to work at Greybar and attended SLUUG meetings.
    • 

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.

• LINUX
  • STATUS: Available
  • WHAT: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • BY: Any Volunteer
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
    • We did/do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 

• LINUX
  • STATUS: Idea
  • WHAT: More About Git
  • BY: Robert Citek
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
    • We did/do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 

SUMMARY The NEWLUG home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which we could take off. Topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover way more than one topic.

• NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.

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• 2021-06-02 comments:

• SLUUG General Meeting
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.

• 2021-06-02 comments:
  • This Monday, July 5th is a federal holiday, since Independence Day falls on Sunday.
  • Do we want to delay meeting to Tuesday or Wednesday?
  • Will delay it to Wednesday, the 7th of July. Consider changing as it gets closer.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux Workshop offering installation and configuration help - no presentation
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.

• 2021-06-02 comments:
  • 

• SLUUG General Meeting
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
  • 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: Any Volunteer
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: NO
  • REMARKS:
    • We do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 

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

• MAIN (Professional Computing):
  • STATUS: Available
  • WHAT: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • BY: Any Volunteer
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
    • We do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 
• MAIN (Professional Computing):
  • STATUS: Idea
  • WHAT: Firewalld ~ Ins and Outs
  • BY: Lee Lammert
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
  • 2021-05-03
    • We do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.

• LINUX
  • STATUS: Available
  • WHAT: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • BY: Any Volunteer
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
    • This is fourth Thursday of the month.
    • We do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 

SUMMARY The NEWLUG home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which we could take off. Topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover way more than one topic.

• NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.

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

• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Lee: Server performance should be substantially improved because of new fiber installation in Bat Cave
• 2020-10-05
  • Mike: Alerted us to broken SLUUG Members Page.
    • Stan: Legacy of something Stan thought had already been done but hadn't
  • Mike: Alerted us to transient failure of SpamAssassin rules download, rerun OK.
    • Gary: Apparently it's ok now.
• 2020-11-02
  • Reconsidered SPAM filtering. Stan R gets triple pay.
  • We should start testing SPAM filtering. Lee will post decision to SYSADMIN list.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Everything is fine.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Need to clarify below items taken from previous Recurring Requirements listings:
  • December 2020 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
  • Note: Need documentation on this process!
  • Mike Knight fixed o/a 6 October per email
  • Chuck did stuff.
  • Wiki documentation is so old as to becoming confusing and hard for Lee to document.
  • We are letting STLWEBDEV expire.
• 2021-04-05
  • Lets Encrypt blew up two weeks ago, Lee fixed and should do some documentation since fresh in his mind.
  • Febuary problem with Fail2Ban led to finding and fixing issues with mail.
  • o/a Oct 2020, the dovecot cert was reported invalid; Mike K investigated and found that the main SLUUG cert had been updated, but dovecot was not restarted.
  • Mike K created hooks in LE/renewal-hooks/deploy to restart devcot and postfix after installing a new CERT.
• 2021-05-03
  • No change
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • Mike Knight's changes have cut spam down about 90 percent. Tuning and reporting on SpamAssasin has been exceptionally wonderful.
  • The server (BOCK) is still running.

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

• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
  • Lee has added another 50G partition on Bock under /srv/media/
  • Please move all media files to this new partition.
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Stan: No progress
• 2020-10-05
  • Stan: No action taken to fix broken SLUUG Members Page pointed out by Mike Knight.
    • Stan: There is no link to the Members Page.
    • Lee: Why not rename the Members Page so any bookmarks to it are broken.
    • Gary mentioned article about CloudFlare and how to be sure our pages get onto the WayBack machine. Requires further investigation.
• 2020-11-02
  • Consider CloudFlare DNS so we would start showing up in the WayBack machine.
  • They likely are data mining any and all traffic.
  • Past members pages were being looked for.
  • November 2020 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • November 2020 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
  • Stan R asked for double of his pay. By unanamous vote, pay is now quadrupled.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Downloadable ballot PDF was placed on each home page (SLUUG,STLLUG,NEWLUG,SLACC).
  • Gary and Dave talking about using WAYBACK to give SLUUG greater presence there.
• 2021-04-05
  • Gary and Dave still need to discuss.
• 2021-05-03
  • No change
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • For 4 days all iframe presented calendars quit working for most browsers, except Opera and Safari.
  • Stan R added link to pull up sponsored events calendar if the iframe mini-calendar was to quit again.

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

• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
  • Lee added new 50G partition on Bock at /srv/media/
  • Don will contact Steve Pidgeon
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Stan: I'm behind. (Stan recorded August LUG meeting; needs to upload)
• 2020-10-05
  • Don will contact Steve Pidgeon
  • Unknown
• 2020-11-02
  • Don has not contact Steve Pidgeon
  • Stan pointed to https://www.sluug.org/steercom/ page.
  • Lee wonders if we need to keep recording of STEERCOM for a long time. Space is being burnt fast.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Nothing to say.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
  • The January ZOOM recordings were linked just today.
• 2021-03-01
  • Available Feruary ZOOM and JITSI recordings were uploaded and linked to Presentations Archives page.
  • QUESTION: Should existing presentation files be gradually moved to /srv/MEDIA partition?
    • ANSWER: Per Lee, good idea!
    • PLAN: Stan R will start moving currently uploaded existing presentations and modify HTML links as appropriate.
    • PLAN: Stan R has found additional presentations that are also to be uploaded and linked.
    • GOAL: Determine how significant are our meeting recordings to our membership, and how significant might expansion eventually task BOCK.
    • Stan R used to use Webalizer hitreport page;but, it has been so very long that he has forgotten exactly how to use it.
    • Stan R hopes to use Webalizer to measure downloads by members that are viewing the uploaded presentations.
    • Recent (on Sunday) initiation of hitreport produced the Webalizer https://www.sluug.org/hitreport/ page that seems quite limited.
    • QUESTIONS: Is Webalizer constantly capturing data so that we can use it? If not, could it be reconfigured?
    • Would be nice to know; but, we don't have staffing to explore expanding Webalizer nor YouTube at this time.
• 2021-04-05
  • Stan R pay trippled, even though has not checked into Webalizer capture of data. Not enough time.
    • We will have to revisit Webalizer hitreport page. Let Mikey do it (or some other minion).
• 2021-05-03
  • No change
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • One of the recordings we uploaded failed 10 minutes in, even though it said it was all there. Had to reupload to server.
  • In future, must check that full file has been uploaded by jumping all the way to the end.

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.
  • Lee ordered printer parts that should correct krinkle problem.
  • 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.
• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
  • Nothing being worked on this month.
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Stan will post to STEERCOM a draft evaluation cheat sheet for evaluating speakers.
• 2020-10-05
  • Stan is working on a handout entitled Evaluation. Give people what kind of questions to ask presenters. Key phrases to trigger the ideas that need to be applied to every presentation.
• 2020-11-02
  • Stan will add Evaluation sheet to handouts page after meeting. Gives presenters ideas about what kind of questions they may be asked.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Evaluation sheet Was added to handouts page.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
  • Nothing being updated for now.
• 2021-03-01
  • Nothing being updated for now.
• 2021-04-05
  • Nothing being updated for now.
• 2021-05-03
  • no change
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • Nothing being updated for now. Not enough time to work on it.

SUMMARY: We have LibreOffice BASE for tracking BASE, MAIN and STLLUG meeting topics and speakers.

• HISTORY:
  • Lee tested successfully on SUSE.
  • Gary & Stan have been loading.
  • Stan is working on allowing multiple user updates.
  • Don still needs to test Stan's database on Libreoffice on Mac. Everyone else should test the database on their own systems.
• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
  • Stan discovered a conversion feature using pdftotext that generates useful full text version from the pdf report.
  • Expects to provide a downloadable concurrent text version along with the pdf version.
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Stan's doing a great job. Every differently sorted report has to start from scratch. Might have to use two formats, maybe not worthwhile to build a new format.
• 2020-10-05
  • Don still needs to test Stan's database on Libreoffice on Mac. Everyone else should test the database on their own systems.
  • Gary: It's very useful. Everyone should try it out and see what changes need to be made.
• 2020-11-02
  • Stan outline state of LibreOffice BASE internal database. Awaiting update to go into repositories.
  • Neither Gary nor Don have tested on Apple boxes.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Data base likely won't be update until April 2021.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
  • Speed of transfer inprovements with using SSH public keys with upload script working considerably faster.
  • Anticipated availability of remote Firebase conversion in LibreOffice BASE has been delayed because of problems.
  • Firebird embedded database creation put back to experimental considering the number of bugs.
  • Other possibilities.
• 2021-03-01
  • General review and discussion.
• 2021-04-05
  • Good idea to do a BASE presentation to entire organization to introduce it to all.
  • Another thing for Stan to do.
  • LibreOffice BASE backed off on using Firebase RMDB because of bugs. So, still can not have multiple users at same time.
• 2021-05-03
  • With use the terminology is getting smoother and more efficient.
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • 
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • Good tool, Stan R has put a lot of time into. The "status" terminology continues to evolve. Hopefully for the better.

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 July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
  • Still no volunteer to do any kind of weekly or even monthly newsletter.
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
• 2020-10-05
  • Stan has manually added several people to be able to receive the Announce list
  • Included Ed Howland and several SUSE people
  • Stan: Note that joining the Announce list (or others) is not easy for the blind.
• 2020-11-02
  • Stan should go back and make sure SUSE people are on both ANNOUNCE and DISCUSS.
• 2020-11-30 (for December) * No change.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Nothing new.
• 2021-04-05
  • Stan R has no clue about placing SUSE people on both DISCUSS and ANNOUNCE list.
• 2021-05-03
  • Nothing new.
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • Nothing new. Lower content in recent times.

SUMMARY: We have presence on MEETUP.COM.

• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Gary: Stan suggested not putting streamer links in Meetup; go to our website for the links! (Save maintenance time & effort)
• 2020-10-05
  • As usual Gary agrees with Stan that Meetup sucks. Lee: It's a wonder how much Meetup charges for stuff that sucks.
• 2020-11-02
  • Ken Johnson was sharing cost with us. Haven't seen bill lately.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Stan R made changes for STLLUG no longer having any back-to-back meetings.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Stan R made changes to make clear that MEETUP users need to go to our web pages for connection instructions.
• 2021-04-05
  • Stan R believes we need a specific layout on MEETUP. Lee agrees those that can not follow links are not bright and a waste of our time.
  • MEETUP dot COM still sucks!
• 2021-05-03
  • MEETUP dot COM is terrible.
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • As much as we can avoid.

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

• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Media is socially distant
• 2020-10-05 * No change
• 2020-11-02
  • James Conroy will increase efforts. Considering RSS feed might be worthwhile.
  • Gary was considering a presentation about software with bad name.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • No progress to report.
• 2021-04-05
  • We want James Conroy to investigate. He is not here.
• 2021-05-03
  • No progress to report.
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • We are too old and can't remember jack. Actually, we just don't care.
  • Discord is new game in town. Much like snapchat or instagram. Pure social crud.
  • Charter is crap.
  • Charter sucks.

SUMMARY: We seek financial support from the tech community.

• HISTORY: We are not good at getting sponsors.
• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
  • If we get back to regular meetings, would be nice to have a sponsor for beer and pizza.
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Everyone think if there's anyone we can hit up to sponsor meeting platform software i.e. Zoom, Webex, Google, etc
  • Note that Webex doesn't allow hosting from Linux, i.e. master console, responsible for controlling session, sharing screen, etc.
• 2020-10-05
  • Gary: Can we get some sponsor interested in closed captioning to help elderly and/or hearing impaired to pay for [CC] in our Zoom account?
• 2020-11-02
  • Gary wonders if our recent benfactors should be listed as sponsors.
  • Agreed that we want to give credit to OMNITEC and Ken Johnson (his choice).
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Great company called Omnitec is providing our excellent support.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Nothing new.
• 2021-04-05
  • Thanks to Omnitec.
• 2021-05-03
  • Nothing new.
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • Nothing new.

SUMMARY: We try to record many of our meetings.

• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
  • Don & Lee will discuss status of Camera 1
  • Don will investigate Snowball/SpaghettiSauce mic
  • One Projector remains with Stan pending access to physical meeting rooms again
  • Other projector remains with Lee
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Lee: Testing Camera 1, got some good video
• 2020-10-05 * No change
• 2020-11-02 * No change
• 2020-11-30 (for December) * No change
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Nothing new. Don still has Gary's microphone and Lee's camera. Also hard drive with split video and sound recordings.
• 2021-04-05
  • Don E has Lee's camera.
  • Don E has Gary's microphone.
  • Don E has Stan R hard drive
  • Gary needs to corner Don E.
• 2021-05-03
  • Nothing new.
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • Nothing new. Gary needs to ask Don E again.

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

• HISTORY: SWAG is good!
  • Lee has sheet to pass on to Ken.
  • James Conroy will make background black so we can get what we want when ordered.
• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
• 2020-10-05
• 2020-11-02
  • Prototype from James C. sent to Lee.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Lee hasn't had time to print any. Testing needs to be done. We could make template available to others.
  • No news is good news.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Nothing new.
• 2021-04-05
  • Wrong row count on sticker template.
• 2021-05-03
  • Nothing new.
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • Nothing new.

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.
• Due to COVID19 restrictions, no library room reservations can be made until further notice.
• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July * No change
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September * No change
• 2020-10-05 * No change
• 2020-11-02 * Due to COVID19 restrictions, no library room reservations can be made until further notice.
• 2020-11-30 (for December) * No change
• 2021-01-04 * No change
• 2021-02-01 * No change
• 2021-03-01
  • No change
• 2021-04-05
  • No change
• 2021-05-03
  • Nothing new.
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • Nothing new. Would take Library lots of lead time to start reservation process.

SUMMARY: We have large box of hardcopy historical records concerning our organization. It has been floating around.

• 2020-10-05
  • Sunday night he returned and found cardboard box with old secretary material. Original Xeroxes of articles of corporation, etc. Historical interest. No idea who dropped it off.
• 2020-11-02
  • Gary has not gone thru box of old secretary material yet. Another thing to do.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Box still sitting there.
• 2021-01-04
  • Gary had to step over the box to attend this session (so he still has box).
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Box still there.
• 2021-04-05
  • Box still there.
• 2021-05-03
  • Box still there.
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • Box still there. Stinky salami sandwitch is festering.

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.
  • Tyler Rudie had volunteered to help with SLUUG Google calendar input.
  • Gary, Stan, & Tyler need to get together to review Tyler getting to work on Google Calendar modifications?
  • Tyler Rudie has been granted permissions to help with SLUUG Google calendar input. Not yet given guidance or instructions.
  • Gary needs to prompt him.
• QUESTION: Any new volunteers to help?
• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • We always need help of one kind or another
• 2020-10-05
  • Gary & Stan have to get more active with Tyler or someone working on the calendar.
• 2020-11-02
  • Gary still needs to contact with Tyler or someone else working on the calendar.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Gary still needs…
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Gary needs to find a good shrink.
• 2021-04-05
  • Gary needs to find a free good shrink.
• 2021-05-03
  • Gary wants to find a free good shrink.
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • Blanket request, help wanted posting doesn't seem to work well. Better to approach an individual.
  • We will need new LUG chair, James Conroy (not James Conway) will be moving to new job in Texas.
  • Gary has been remiss in bringing Tyler up to speed on doing Calendar maintnance.

• 2021-04-05
  • Lee provided 32 bit machines, 3 laptops and a tower, offered on DISCUSS
  • Snapped up by Gary and some guy named Leo.
• 2021-05-03
  • Gary still has hardware to hand out.
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • Gary still has hardware to hand out.

SUMMARY: After old business, we call for anything that we need to deal with:

• Do we have anything else, anything new that we need to deal with?
• 2021-06-02
  • None

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.
• January 2021 - STLLINUX.ORG domain automatic renewal.
• January 2021 - auto renew of STLWEBDEV was DISABLED 4 January 2021.
• 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 automatic renewal of certs with LetsEncrypt (every 90 days).
• February 2021 - Cancel auto renew of STLWEBDEV before 18 December 21.
• March 2021 - Count Ballots
• March 2021 - Updates to contacts on webpage if required.
• March 2021 - Updates to email aliases if required.
• March 2021 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
• March 2021 - Consider schedule workshops for July and August 2021
• March 2020 - schedule workshops for July and August
• March 2020 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK
• April 2021 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• April 2021 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status. e-postcard.
• May 2021 - LetsEncrypt renews every 60 days early (30 day grace period).
• June 2021 - BuddyNS SLUUG account due (Automated)
• June 2021 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status due.
  • https://bsd.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/BusinessEntityDetail.aspx?page=beSearch&ID=681250
• June 2021 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
• July 2021
• July 2021 ~ Post Office Box Renewal (automatic 6 months on credit card) ~ Lee handles.
• August 2021
• September 2021
• October 2021 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• November 2021
• December 2021

SUMMARY: When anybody does something to help!

• QUESTION: Did anyone do anything helpful or useful?
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.
  • Mike Knight amazing changes to SpamAsassin.
  • Stan R fine tuning Planning Schedule Report
  • Stan R assisting content development with Ed Howland and Robert Hansen

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 - 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. July 2020
• Don Ellis ~ will investigate Google+ status
• Don Ellis ~ will place credentials for YouTube and any others on Bock /home/sluug
• Lee Lammert - File IRS Form 1099. Online filing deadline is 31 March.
• Gary Meyer ~ Hassle Mike about Google throttling.
• 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.
  • Consider other TLDs than .com and .org for SLACC
• 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.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Gary and Stan need to go through this section.
• 2021-01-04
  • Gary and Stan need to go through this section.
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01 Comments for this month:
  • Stan went through this section, and moved and deleted much (but, there are still some that are becoming moot).
• 2021-04-05
• 2021-05-03
• 2021-06-02 Comments about May.

• Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021
• 2021-06-02
  • QUESTION: At what time was meeting adjourned?
  • TIME: 7:50 PM

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.
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Skies have been especially blue for this time of year, when not unusually cloudy.
  • Stan: Consider moving Blue Skies to after adjournment, so it would take place after formal end of meeting and would not be video recorded.
• 2021-01-04
  • We are moving Blue Skies segment to after adjournment, so it would take place after formal end of meeting and would not be video recorded.
• 2021-04-05
  • Blue Skies segment moved to after adjournment, takes place after formal end of meeting and is not video recorded.
• 2021-06-02 comments:

  * YYYY-MM-DD comments: (TEMPLATE)
    * :?: Pick the primary recording service we used below, then delete other(s) (and this line):
    * :?: Primary recording for this session being done with ZOOM thru OMNITEC provided remote video service.
    * :?: Primary recording for this session being done with JITSI on https://nyx.omnitec.net/ remote video service.
    * :?: Stan R ( will use | used ) Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make ( primary | secondary ) recording.
    * :?: