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 would like to continue video meetings in conjunction with physical meetings.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Using Zoom

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.
  * Do not altering agenda layout, during current meeting.
  * We will jump to *Old Business* 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?
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • 

SUMMARY: We count ballots before STEERCOM meeting and submit to board meeting for approval. Board members usually help.

• Volunteers count https://www.sluug.org/ballot2022.pdf ballots
• Submit ballot results to Board for review and appointment of Officers
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • 

• QUESTION: When was BOARD meeting called to order?
  • TIME: 6;57pm
• Review Ballot Board of Governors count results
  • Board Seat: Stanford Baldwin
  • Board Seat: Lee Lammert
• Board Reviews Officer advisory count results
  • President…..: Gary Meyer
  • Vice-President: Stan Reichardt
  • Treasurer…..: Lee Lammert
  • Secretary…..: Stanford Balwin
• STLLINUX……..: James Conroy
• QUESTION: At what time was BOARD meeting adjourned?
• Adjourn meeting
  • TIME: 6:59pm

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• Monday, February 28th, 2022 for March
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Newly appointed Officers convene meeting
  • QUESTION: When was STEERCOM meeting called to order?
  • TIME: 7:00pm
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • 

Listed alphabetically by last name:

* Stanford Balwin (expressed interest; verbal, have no email address)

* James Conroy

* Jonathan Drews (now on Steercom list under mail.com address, sent bc gmail address)

* Don Ellis

* David Forrest

* Robert Hansen (expressed interest; bc email sent)

* Susan Hurst (expressed interest; bc email sent)

* Ed Howland (expressed interest; bc email sent)

* Ken Johnson

* Lee Lammert

* Gary Meyer

* Stan Reichardt

* Steve Stegmann

• 2021-11-01 comments:
  • Stan R created AGENDA from previous MINUTES.
• * Stan R re-worded the comment about removing the narratives in the minutes prior to January 2021 Steercom.
  • Stan R referred to the site https://www.federalpay.org/holidays to show observed holidays.
  • Stan R acting only as recording secretary.
  • We would like someone else to be main secretary and do a better job.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • Stan R acting only as recording secretary.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • Stan R acting only as recording secretary. Made a few grammatical corrections to prior stanzas.
• 2022-01-31 Comments for February:
  • Stan R acting only as recording secretary.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Stan R acting only as recording secretary.
  • 

• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • 

SUMMARY: We maintain a calendar of technical events in the Greater St. Louis area and surrounding regions.

  * HISTORY: 
  * 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 were counted!

• SLUUG Calendar is a Google Calendar available on our web site.
• Count of number of events listed, each month, as of end of January 2022:

  * LEGEND:
  * Greyed out areas indicate corrections or never previously reported counts.
  * xxx - numbers not recorded.
  * ??? - Future Numbers.
  * Stopped counting general Saint Louis 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 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.

• 2021-08-30 comments about August:
  • Of the 179 total, 38 were cancelled (x~), 1 defunct, 8 delayed, and 2 moved; so, leaving 130 active.

• 2021-10-04 comments about September:
  • Of the 187 total, 34 were cancelled (x~), 1 defunct, 3 delayed, and 2 moved; so, leaving 147 active.

• 2021-11-01 comments about October:
  • Of the 176 total, 38 were cancelled (x~), 1 defunct, 4 delayed, and 2 moved, and 1 postponed; so, leaving 130 active.

• 2021-11-29 Comments about November:
  • Of the 194 total, 6 were cancelled (x~), 0 defunct, 12 delayed, and 1 moved, and 0 postponed; so, leaving 175 active.
  • Count added after meeting.

• 2022-01-10 Comments about December:
  • Of the 193 total, 41 were cancelled (x~), 0 defunct, 13 delayed, and 8 moved, and 1 postponed; so, leaving 130 active.

• 2022-01-31 Comments about January:
  • Of the 210 total, 5 were cancelled (x~), 0 defunct, 6 delayed, and 4 moved, and 0 postponed; so, leaving 195 active.

• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Of the ??? total, ? were cancelled (x~), ? defunct, ? delayed, and ? moved, and ? postponed; so, leaving ??? active.
  • 

SUMMARY: Mailing List Report combined with MEETUP membership count, now called Subscriber Report.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of January 2022:

  * LEGEND:
  * Numbers as of 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

• 2021-11-01 comments about October: * None

• 2021-11-29 Comments about November: * Counts added after meeting.

• 2022-01-10 Comments about December: * None

• 2022-01-31 Comments about January:
  • Slight increases.

• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Per Gary looking at last 4 years, DISCUSS slow rebuilding very slowly, ANNOUNCE rebuilt about 10 to 16 people, from large loss of about 100.
  • ANNOUNCE used to be monthly newsletter, then Stan R used it for a weekly highlite. Now mostly just to spread ZOOM and JITSI links.

SUMMARY: Somewhat reflects the community interest in topics. Or, how well we publicised event.

  * 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 display with ZOOM does NOT work automatically.
  * Remote session attendance done best using extra recording with Linux SimpleScreenRecorder software. 

• Blank attendance sheets are available here
• Attendance numbers, as of end of January 2022:

  * 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).

• 2021-11-01 comments about October:
  • Checking SLUUG January 2021 SimpleScreenRecorder video to collect names, found previous report of 14 to be actually 15 attendees.
  • Checking STLLINUX January 2021 SimpleScreenRecorder video to collect names, found previous report of 17 to be actually 20 attendees.
  • Checking NEWLINUX January 2021 SimpleScreenRecorder video to collect names, found previous report of 11 to be actually 13 attendees.
  • Remote attendee names for the Calendar Year up thru September had been collected in a LibreOffice (LO) Calc spreadsheet.
  • Names from that LO Calc spreadsheet have been transferred into a rudimentary LibreOffice BASE Attendance database.
  • All names for the Calendar Year to date, are now in the LO BASE Attendance database. Currently the file is 86 kB in size.
  • Anticipate that we will have to work more with the Attendance database to figure out how to make it more useful.

• 2021-11-29 Comments about November:
  • Good number increases continue. Had initially given Scott Granemann an erroneous high count, later had to correct.

• 2022-01-10 Comments about December:
  • Auditing counts using Query feature in LibreOffice BASE Attendance database found:
    • Previously reported count for 2021-02-18 STLLINUX of 20 was actually 19.
    • Previously reported count for 2021-04-14 SLUUG of 26 was actually 25.
    • Previously reported count for 2021-06-03 SLACC of 11 was actually 10.
    • Previously reported count for 2021-08-11 SLUUG of 17 was actually 18.
    • Corrected counts have been verified and highlighted above for this session.
    • As of December 28, the LibreOffice (LO) BASE Attendance database ODB file is 143 kB in size.
    • Attendance for the calendar year 2021 is completely recorded, and the ODB file is available for download from the https://www.sluug.org/steercom/ menu.

• 2022-01-31 Comments about January:
  • Highest STLLINUX meeting attendance in last few years.

• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Stan R was out of state and fumble fingered recording NEWLUG attendance. Believed that total was at least 10, with one new participant.

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

• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • 

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• SLACC
  • Usually holds a Linux Workshop offering installation and configuration help - no presentation
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • Will let them know about ballot.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Will let them know this comming Thursday.

• SLUUG General Meeting
• Planning Schedule Report
• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: Done
  • WHAT: Dot Files
  • BY: Ed Howland
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Stan
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: NO
  • REMARKS:
    • We did/do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
• 2021-11-29 Comments: * None
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • 
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Ed had some technical problems, and felt that he didn't do a good job. Considering problems, we (Stan,James, Dave) consider he did an excellent job.
  • Dave Forrest and Lee were very impressed with thoroughness and great detail. Gary though despite problems was very worthwhile presentation.

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

• Planning Schedule Report
• MAIN (Professional Computing):
  • STATUS: Done
  • WHAT: What's New in Solaris 11.4
  • BY: Robert Netherton (Solaris Developer at Oracle Corp.)
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: Need to find BIO.
  • REMARKS:
    • We did/do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
• 2021-11-29 Comments: None
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • Annual meeting and election. List of all CY 2021 attendees is available.
• 2022-01-31 Comments:
  • Previously scheduled Build and Run a PDP-11 by By Dante Catalfamo could not be done because of Canadian Truck Strike.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • We were happy to get him back again. Actual material was intersting to Gary and Steve. We didn't know it still existed.
  • Corporate Oracle doesn't promote or acknowlege Solaris still works.
  • We don't do enough after the fact DISCUSS conversation. We anticipate they would eventually show at Pizza and Beer establishments.

• STLLINUX is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• Planning Schedule Report
  • Nine days after SLUUG MAIN General Meeting.
• LINUX
  • STATUS: Done
  • WHAT: SuSE Liberty Linux, Rancher, Harvester
  • BY: Michael Carrington (SuSE Kansas City)
  • SYNOPSIS: SuSE Liberty Replacement for CentOS
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
    • We did/do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
• 2022-01-10 Comments: None
• 2022-01-31 Comments: We will be considering as possible alternative "OpenVAS GreenBone on Kali Linux (security distro)" by Tony Z.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Stan R went back to view video and got more the second time around.
  • Stan R or somebody caused the recording to stop early.
  • Harvest aimed at enterprise level. We would have preferred separate meetings on the 3 topics.

SUMMARY: Previously named Hazelwood LUG (HZWLUG), then Newcomer LUG (NEWLUG). Now, Newcomer Linux User Group is designated as NEWLINUX. The NEWLINUX home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which we could start. Topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover way more than one topic.

• NEWLUG was how we named our Linux Users Group (LUG) for Linux Newcomers.
  • NEWLINUX is name that we can frequently use for our Newcomer Linux Users Group.
• 2021-11-29 Comments: * None
• 2022-01-10 Comments: * None
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Had one new person. Recording not found.

SUMMARY: This is where we discuss available and confirmed meeting topics.

GOAL: To map out meeting topics for as much as 3 months out.

• No physical face-to-face meetings until further notice.
• When we again have physical meetings, we would like to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.

• We try to track prospects to give presentations at our SLUUG General (SLUUG) meeting and LINUX (STLLINUX) 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.
  • *BASE* Something fundamental, introductory, instructive or simple.
• * *MAIN* topics should be oriented more toward advanced or Professional Computing. Usually given at General meeting (SLUUG).
  • *MAIN* Something more advanced, detailed, important, profound, new, significant, timely or useful.
• * *LINUX* topics often could be either at the General meeting or at the St. Louis Linux Users Group (STLLINUX) meetings.
• We want to have alternative (secondary) topic 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?"

• SLUUG Steering Committee Meeting
  • Nine days prior to SLUUG MAIN General Meeting.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • 
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • We are here.

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• SLACC
  • Usually holds a Linux Workshop offering installation and configuration help - no presentation
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • 
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • 

• SLUUG General Meeting
• Planning Schedule Report
• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: Confirmed
  • WHAT: Introduction to Crombooks
  • BY: Robert Citek
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: NO
  • REMARKS:
    • We did/do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • 
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Once again a chance for fresh blood. We need to identify any that are currently using Cromebooks.
  • 

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

• Planning Schedule Report
• MAIN (Professional Computing):
  • STATUS: Confirmed
  • WHAT: FreeBSD Topic
  • BY: Deb Goodkin
  • SYNOPSIS: Possibly a installation demonstration.
  • WRANGLER: Jonathan Drews
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO:
  • REMARKS:
    • We did/do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • 
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Once again a chance for fresh blood. Invite back the Beastie Boys and other BSD users.
  • 

• STLLINUX is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• Planning Schedule Report
  • Nine days after SLUUG MAIN General Meeting.
• LINUX
  • STATUS: Confirmed
  • WHAT: OpenVAS/Greenbone presentation on Kali Linux
  • BY: Tony Z
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
    • We did/do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • 
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Topic should be a real draw for those focused on security issues.

SUMMARY: Previously named Hazelwood LUG (HZWLUG), then Newcomer LUG (NEWLUG). Now, Newcomer Linux User Group is designated as NEWLINUX. The NEWLINUX home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which we could start. Topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover way more than one topic.

• NEWLUG was how we named our Linux Users Group (LUG) for Linux Newcomers.
  • NEWLINUX is name that we can frequently use for our Newcomer Linux Users Group.
• 2021-11-29 Comments: * None
• 2022-01-10 Comments: * None
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March: * None

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

• * The narratives in the minutes prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Need to clarify below items taken from previous Recurring Requirements listings:
  • December 2020 - *automated* Lets Encrypt 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.
  • February 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.
• 2021-07-05
  • We are very happy with spam reduction.
  • Mike Knight posted about Fail2Ban was see fewer attempts.
  • We are considering disabling password login and only use keys on BOCK.
  • However, with Fail2Ban jail watching, not a large problem. So, continue as we are doing. No need to expand to using keys only.
  • Something to think about in future.
  • FYI:

     $ whatis hostnamectl
     $ hostnamectl (1)      - Control the system hostname
     $ hostnamectl
        Static hostname: bock
             Icon name: computer-vm
               Chassis: vm
            Machine ID: c7c5f69d3b794f2ab664662badab1fcc
               Boot ID: 70237f72032f4d73ac23013966c95d1e
        Virtualization: xen
      Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)
                Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-14-amd64
          Architecture: x86-64

• We should consider upgrading to Debian 10 near end of this calendar year.
• 2021-08-02
• We covered it all last month.
• 2021-08-30
• Debian 11, codenamed bullseye, has been released. Maybe we should plan to upgrade from Debian 9 to Debian 10.
• Lee highly recommends upgrading to Debian 10 first, before going to Debian 11.
• 2021-10-04
• Lee added extra 50, then 150 GB to MEDIA. Total of 200 GB, however system won't yet recognize, won't extend partition table.
• 2021-11-01 comments:
• We need to insure that James C. is added to SysAdmin email list.
• Lee resolved the partition extended file system issue, built upon Mike Knights finding error.
• Possible upgrade of Debian 9 to 10 come December or later.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
• Mike Knight pointed out lots of multiple login failures from Red Chinese bots, idendtified potental Fail2Ban filters.
• Lee then added Fail2ban jail and filter for SMTP login failures.
• Lee listed fail2ban stats results in chat:

# f2bstat
              Current   Total   Total
Jail          Banned    Banned  Failed
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dovecot            0       163   8669
postfix            0         0    101
postfix-failedauth 1       750  13826
sshd               0         0      0
--------------------------------------

• Some discussion of significance was attempted. Gary questioned relationship of Total Banned to Total Failed.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
• Debian 9 “Stretch” End of Life is scheduled to be June 30, 2022.
• Debian 11 has been released.
• Debian 10 should be next target.
• 2022-01-31 Comments:
• Lee and Mike Knight upgraded to Debian 10 on Friday 21st. No trauma, only minor issue with BIND directory permissions..
• Stan R having intermitten problem accessing IMAP mail. Previously was able to sign in concurrently multiple times. Now, sometimes can not.
• Lee has increased IMAP connection count to 15 in DoveCot.
• Lee recommends waiting a year before moving up to Debian 11 release.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
• Mike Knight tracked some SPAM issue with WEB DEV mailing list. Will kill the list.

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

• * The narratives in the minutes prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Downloadable ballot PDF was placed on each home page (SLUUG,STLLINUX,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.
• 2021-07-05
  • Routine security evaluation of websites available from this site:
  • > SSL Server Test (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs)
  • > https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
  • Sites are rated on scale of A, B, C, D, or F.
  • To see our site:
  • > SSL Server Test
  • > https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.sluug.org
  • We have tested 2021-06-08, 2021-06-10, 2021-06-23
  • Our current Overall Rating: B
  • Now we know about this, maybe worry more later.
• 2021-08-02
  • Our current Overall Rating still: B as in Bravo
  • To see our site visit:
  • > SSL Server Test
  • > https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.sluug.org
  • MORE INFO » https://blog.qualys.com/ssllabs/2018/11/19/grade-change-for-tls-1-0-and-tls-1-1-protocols
  • Comments in above indicate major browsers have dropped support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in CYR 2020.
  • All we might have to do, would be remove support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1. This might be what caps us to B rating.
  • The link above seemed to show what to do. Read the link Gary, but not now.
• 2021-08-30 comments about August:
  • Stan R combined all daily calendar occurrences of 4 or more historical events into one display item.
  • Stan R added descriptive narratives on SLUUG General site comparing BASE and MAIN topics:
    • BASE: Something fundamental, introductory, instructive or simple.
    • MAIN: Something more advanced, detailed, important, profound, new, significant, timely or useful.
  • Stan R aligned the SLACC and NEWLINUX starting times on the SLUUG Google calendar to 1800 hrs.
    • The other meeting start times were already aligned to 1800 hrs.
    • The 1800 hrs time allows lead time of camera and microphone testing for remote sessions.
    • Informal discussion during set up time beneficial; however, we should continue designating a formal start of meeting.
    • There was significant interesting discussion prior to STLLINUX regular start time.
  • Stan R obtained the domain NEWLINUX dot ORG
  • Stan R obtained the domain SLACC dot ORG
• 2021-10-04
  • Buy Stan a beer for keeping WEB SITE running.
  • Mike Knight raising issues about off site backup. We lack band width, 15 Mb per second up to run backups. More than we have externally at other end.
  • Mike Knight found Fail2Ban problems are reoccurring.
  • Stan R suggest using Public Key Authorization (PKA) to completely avoid Password login attempts.
  • James Conroy suggests trying to use CrowdSEC dot COM.
• 2021-11-01 comments:
  • Use of SLACC dot ORG domain not yet worked out.
  • Use of NEWLUG dot ORG domain not yet worked out.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • Normal stuff.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • Normal stuff. Stan R gets matching funds for his IRA.
• 2022-01-31 Comments:
  • Normal stuff.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Normal stuff. Keeping up, kinda.

SUMMARY: We have presence on MEETUP.COM.

• * The narratives in the minutes prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 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 * As much as we can avoid.
• 2021-07-05
  • Number increases still don't give us actual new attendees.
  • For a few months now, Gary started splitting BASE and MAIN meeting into two meetings to emphasise two distinct topics.
  • Gets us twice as many listings. More for free is nice.
• 2021-08-02
  • Stan R tried to respond to new person inquiry and when I sent URL, my message was flagged.
    • Work-around was to use "WWW dot SLUUG dot ORG" in my response.
  • MEETUP dot COM still sucks!
• 2021-08-30 * Nothing new.
• 2021-10-04 * Still sucks.
• 2021-11-01 comments:
  • Changed the narrative for NEWLUG meetings. The December 2021 NEWLUG meeting might be on the third Tuesday.
  • Will decide this after discussion during the next meeting.
  • Signing up is so easy; but, has nothing to do with actual attendance.
  • Nobody here likes it, we are just there for advertisement.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • Nothing good, nothing worse, nothing better. No news.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • Looks like they moved stuff around again.
• 2022-01-31 Comments:
  • Gary has been diligently using MEETUP to promote last few meetings.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Gary concurs that MEETUP sucks. This month they seemed to have changed number of tags on meetings. Searching is very unuseful.
  • Gary tried to put in specific tags without sucess.

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

• * The narratives in the minutes prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 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.
• 2021-07-05
  • Using many things like SLACK doesn't make any sense to us (the older crowd).
  • We need new young fresh blood.
• 2021-08-02 * Need help.
• 2021-08-30 * Nothing new.
• 2021-10-04 * Got nothing.
• 2021-11-01 comments:
  • IRC with better organization and lots of colors.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • Nothing.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • We should go back to IRC.
• 2022-01-31 Comments:
  • James is not here; so we are going to move EVERYTHING over to Mastadon, so that he can handle it all.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • James may or may not be here. We dinasours don't understand it.

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.
• * The narratives in the minutes prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 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 * Nothing new. Would take Library lots of lead time to start reservation process.
• 2021-07-05 * Library's using rooms for storage. No foreseeable opening up.
• 2021-08-02
  • Stan gets question at every meeting, about when we have face-to-face meetings.
  • Stan doesn't want to go face-to-face any time soon. Old and cranky.
  • Dave F finds that face-to-face with masks not something doable.
  • Nothing new that we know about.
• 2021-08-30 * Nothing new.
• 2021-10-04
  • October 2022 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches did not happen.
  • Room Reservation Applications still are not being accepted at this time.
  • Mike Knight found that Saint Louis County Library Board voted to remove room fees. Still no timeline or reservation openings.
• 2021-11-01 comments:
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • Nothing.
• 2022-01-10 Comments: Nothing.
• 2022-01-31 Comments: No changes.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Gary has hope. Guessing last day of May, lockdowns may end. Per Stan the library won't react swiftly.

SUMMARY: Combine recording physical plus remote meetings

  * HISTORY: 
      * We have for the longest time been saying: 
      * **No physical face-to-face meetings until further notice.**
      * When we again have physical meetings, we would like to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
      * So, in anticipation of future openings of libraries and restaurants,
        * reduction of lock-down, we need to work toward perfecting the technology. 

• 2021-07-05
  • Project considerations
    • Locations
    • Schedule ~ Timeline
  • Assets
    • Staffing
      • Project Leader ~ Lee Lammert (at least Point Of Contact)
      • Project Wrangler ~ Steve Stegmann (if he will remember)
      • Recording Hardware ~ Lee Lammert
      • Recording Software ~ Tyler Rudie (had been experimenting with OBS during July STLLINUX meeting)
      • Remote Virtual Software ~ ZOOM or Jitsi (maybe better) ?
      • Head Count (local clipboard and remote software participant panel to capture attendance).
      • Production Chief(s) ~
        • does recording and archives.
        • one for remote and one for live location
      • Minions
    • Equipment ~ inventory ~ splitter ~ projectors ~ microphones ~ cameras ~ smartphone cameras ~ portability
      • avoid condenser microphones ~ want dynamic microphones (which may be more expensive)
    • Servers ~ ZOOM ~ Jitsi
    • Software ~ OBS ~ Discord? ~
      • Capabilities ~ Remote Video ~ Chat ~ Recording ~ Screen Sharing ~ YouTube Streaming?
      • Documentation ~ Diagrams ~ Limitations
      • Testing ~ Bat Cave? ~ Restaurant?
  • Discussion:
    • Gary M virtual remote experience at 2600 club was not good. They did not have splitter for hybrid session.
    • Lee figures harder, quite difficult, do we want to really do it. How do we do recordings?
    • Stan R says local noise too much at restaurants.
    • Head counts need to be considered. Gary once shared ZOOM participant panel. We need to promote sharing participant panel(s) for count heads.
    • Stan R has less problem using Jitsi.
    • Stan R thought Jitsi does not have built in recording (may not be true).
    • Stan R uses Linux SimpleScreenRecorder (SSR) to record all remote sessions. Specifically activates participant panel while recording sessions with SSR.
    • We must consider when will libraries open up. Also, Siemens, Nick and Elena's restaurant.
    • Gary suggests we move this topic earlier in agenda. We don't expect to make much progress right away; but, need to keep in mind.
• 2021-08-02 * Lee and Tyler still to combine efforts.
• 2021-08-30 comments about August:
  • Lee and Tyler still to combine efforts.
    • Tyler used OpenShot software for a presentation.
    • Lee has secondary display and splitter, would allow presenter display for remote viewing..
• 2021-10-04
  • Suggest Office Hours dot Global web site and video (will post link later).
  • This added later: https://officehours.global/focus-on/focus-on-producing/
• 2021-11-01 comments:
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • We want to keep searching for advice and help.
  • Gary found site, Nova Scribe has tips and tricks, how to do ZOOM meetings.
  • Lee may contact friend that does professional Internet meeting support.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • No major ideas. Sound will be major issue. Speaker should repeat questions.
• 2022-01-31 Comments:
  • Lee has some small table-top tripods and spare cameras.
  • Stan R still has one of the projectors.
  • Nothing really new.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • No progress. We SHOULD seek volunteers on DISCUSS to work on audio technique.
  • https://officehours.global has professional daily audio and visual experts.

SUMMARY: We try to record many of our meetings.

• * The narratives in the minutes prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 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 * Nothing new. Gary needs to ask Don E again.
• 2021-07-05 * Nothing new. Gary needs to ask Don E again.
• 2021-08-02
  • Stan R still has the SLUUG projector.
  • Gary asking Don E.; but Don hasn't found items yet.
• 2021-08-30 * Gary needs to bug Don E about one of SLUUG's cameras, and a hard drive with presentations, and Gary's maranara sauce mic.
• 2021-10-04 * Nothing new.
• 2021-11-01 comments: * Nothing new.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • Nothing back from Don Ellis. Busy with Granddaughter, First Robtics and Maid on Delmar project.
  • No progress, nothing new.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • Don Ellis still has camera and microphone. We want to know if he has USB cable to feed camera image for meetings.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Don Ellis still has hardware in unknow location.

SUMMARY: Attendance head count tracking for member voting qualification during Calendar Year (CY)

• 2021-11-01 comments for October:
  • Remote attendee names for the Calendar Year up thru September had been collected in a LibreOffice (LO) Calc spreadsheet.
  • Names from that LO Calc spreadsheet have been transferred into a rudimentary LibreOffice BASE Attendance database.
  • All names for the Calendar Year to date, are now in the LO BASE Attendance database. Currently the file is 86 Kb in size.
  • Anticipate that we will have to work more with the Attendance database to figure out how to make it more useful.
• 2021-11-29 Comments for December:
  • Nothing specified as new business during session; but, mention was made of this.
  • Stan R has moved all data captured in spread sheets to a flat database.
  • Input is a bit awkward; but, way better than spread sheet input.
  • Can't figure out how to print any reports; however, not actually needed because individual attendance verification is easy.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • Depends on when we go back to meetings.
• 2022-01-31 Comments:
  • Stan has names for last two meetings; but, broke the ATTENDANCE database. Did however get it to count meetings.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Stan has recovered database and restore functionality. Works well, when he doesn't loose the video of the meeting. Am relying for ATTENDANCE counts.

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

• HISTORY:
• * Minutes narratives prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• Go to https://www.sluug.org/steercom/ has link to planning.pdf
• or directly to report at Planning Schedule Report
• • 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 January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
  • Speed of transfer improvements 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 * Good tool, Stan R has put a lot of time into. The "status" terminology continues to evolve. Hopefully for the better.
• 2021-07-05
  • We have gotten to the point, where we are only listing confirming or confirmed items in the minutes.
  • Discussion can be done while displaying the Planning Schedule Report during Steering Committee meeting session.
  • Demonstration with using the database, was being done during this meeting, to include showing filtering of entries.
• 2021-08-02
  • Stan R believes that he entered all the stuff that Lee sent for input into Planning Schedule.
  • Go to https://www.sluug.org/steercom/ has link to planning.pdf
  • or directly to report
  • https://www.sluug.org/planning.pdf
• 2021-08-30
  • Stan R moved the CentOS topics to future. Multiple items were cluttering up recent consideration.
  • OEM (Original Equipment Manufacture) has been listed as a future TBD Idea on the Planning Schedule Report database.
• 2021-10-04
  • Added possible repeat topic TOR (The Onion Router) by Lee L .
  • Added possible topic "Convert Email to Database" by Tyler Rudie.
  • Added possible topic "Remote multi-machine management tools". Includes the likes of Ansible, Chef, ClusterSSH, Puppet, and Salt.
• 2021-11-01 comments:
  • OEM Linux Installations (technique) has been listed as a future To Be Determined (TBD) Idea on the Planning Schedule Report database.
  • Confirmed MAIN for December repeat topic TOR (The Onion Router) by Lee L . This is backup topic if nothing else comes about.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • Will be adding tonights info ~ Stan R.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • Stan R restuctured a number of items again.
• 2022-01-31 Comments:
  • Stan R did not break it this month. It still works fine.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Works well. Lee will provide info to Stan to work on transition to a different database backend.

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

• * The narratives in the minutes prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
  • The January ZOOM recordings were linked just today.
• 2021-03-01
  • Available February 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 hit report 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 hit report 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 tripled, even though has not checked into Webalizer capture of data. Not enough time.
  • We will have to revisit Webalizer hit report page. Let Mikey do it (or some other minion).
• 2021-05-03 * No change
• 2021-06-02
  • 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.
• 2021-07-05
  • Found that we had not uploaded and linked (because of misconfiguration
  • as MKV) Bryce Meyer's STLLINUX Using Open Tools to Sell Your Art video
  • session from August 2020. Uploaded and linked.
  • Discovered that Open HandBreak can by default convert MKV files to MP4. It does,
  • however, even on 16GB workstation take full playback time to process the conversion.
  • The STLLINUX CEPH File System Followup by Michael Carringon and Uyuni
  • Project by Patrick Swarts from September 2020 needed to be converted
  • from MKV to MP4, upload and linked for useable access. Uploaded and linked.
  • We finally finished video processing (using the "Shotcut" video editor to
  • blur some scenes) required within Scott Graneman's BASE 1Password session.
  • Accidental and unexpected transitions had shown some of his passwords.
  • Even though he had changed any compromises, it seemed a better idea to
  • not show anything questionable.
  • This was combined with Steven Lembark's MAIN The Raku (Perl 6) Language
  • session from March 2021. Uploaded and linked.
  • We called attention to the BASE "1Password" video portion in a DISCUSS
  • posting, without highlighting the processing delay.
  • Found that we had uploaded James Conroy's BASE Create Your Own Shell
  • Function session, combined with Steven Borrelli's MAIN COSI (a new API)
  • session from April 2021; but, had failed to link on web page. Uploaded and linked.
  • Also we had not uploaded and linked DeWayne Hughes's STLLINUX IBM Z and
  • LinuxOne video session from April 2021. Uploaded and linked.
  • Despite all of these delays, failures and mistakes, we received no complaints
  • that things were missing. Not even from the presenters. Currently we have
  • no way of knowing if or when anyone views these recordings. Would be nice to know;
  • but, we don't have staffing to explore expanding Webalizer nor YouTube at this time.
• 2021-08-02
• 2021-08-30
• 2021-10-04 * Work is on-going.
• 2021-11-01 comments: * Work is on-going.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • Work is on-going. Statistics would be nice. Webalizer up and working, we just haven't been look at it.
  • Lee says it is up and running. Also, narrated some of the results.
  • https://www.sluug.org/hitreport or
  • https://sluug.org/hitreport
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • Doing as we can.
• 2022-01-31 Comments:
  • Keeping up to date.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Stan will look into if need to use different STLLINUX recording for February presentation archives.

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 crinkle 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.
• * The narratives in the minutes prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 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 * Nothing being updated for now. Not enough time to work on it.
• 2021-07-05 * Nothing being updated for now. Not enough time to work on it.
• 2021-08-02
• 2021-08-30 * Nothing.
• 2021-10-04 * Crinkle problem resolved last year. Stan R started to change two handouts; but, ran out of time this week.
• 2021-11-01 comments: * Nothing lately, too little time.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • Still useful as downloads for Linux newcomers.
  • Stan R has two potential handout topics that he hasn't had time to get to them. One topic based on European Load Linux Day.
  • Nothing else new.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • Not enough time in each day.
• 2022-01-01 Comments:
  • Not enough time in each day.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Not enough time in each day.

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.
• * The narratives in the minutes prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 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 * Nothing new. Lower content in recent times.
• 2021-07-05 * Nothing new. Would be nice to get "another" editor to provide more content.
• 2021-08-02
• 2021-08-30 * One new user added.
• 2021-10-04 * One new user added.
• 2021-11-01 comments:
  • Gary will be asking a few folks that might be interested in helping.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • Would be nice to have a volunteer to make use of it.
  • Gary is wants name suggestions for a volunteer to exercise using this list. Some members preferred mail over viewing our calendar page.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • We would like a draftee.
• 2022-01-31 Comments:
  • We need to know which google name Tyler Rudie wants to use, so that we can authorize his access to our Google calendar.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Gary needs to talk with Tyler Rudie.

SUMMARY: We seek financial support from the tech community.

• HISTORY: We are not good at getting sponsors.
• * The narratives in the minutes prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 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 * Nothing new.
• 2021-07-05 * Nothing new.
• 2021-08-02 * Nothing new.
• 2021-08-30 * Nothing new. Only Omnitec is outstanding in supporting us. We should list Ken Johnson as a sponsor.
• 2021-10-04 * Nothing new.
• 2021-11-01 comments:
  • Nothing new. Omnitec and Ken Johnson keeps us alive.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • Thank you Omnitec and Ken Johnson.
  • We consider MEETUP bulk of new names to be phony. We get a few new attendees. MEETUP is crap.
• 2022-01-10 Comments: Nothing new.
• 2022-01-31 Comments:
  • Nothing new.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Nothing new.

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.
• * The narratives in the minutes prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 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 * Nothing new.
• 2021-07-05 * Lee hasn't had time to tweak counts on template layout.
• 2021-08-02 * Nothing new.
• 2021-08-30 * Nothing new.
• 2021-10-04 * Nothing new.
• 2021-11-01 comments:
  • Lee hasn't had time to tweak counts on template layout.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • We asked James, he had passed it on to Lee. Lee may want to give it back to James.
  • No progress.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • Nothing new. Neither James, nor Lee are here right now.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Lee will pass template to Stan. Maybe Stan and sister-in-law can get results on her Carver/Cutter imaging machine.

SUMMARY: We have large box of hard copy historical records concerning our organization. It has been floating around. HISTORY: * 2020-10-05 * Gary found cardboard box with old secretary material. Original Xeroxes of articles of corporation, etc. Historical interest. No idea who dropped it off.

• * The narratives in the minutes prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 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 * Box still there. Stinky salami sandwich is festering.
• 2021-07-05
  • Box still there. Per Rich Sieble the year of incorporation was 1992. Would make this our 29th year.
  • Lee checked with Missouri Secretary of State site, found it to be July 9th 1992.
  • Terry Linhardt did all of the presentations in year before incorporation.
  • We have question as is when did our News Letter start? Will explore this latter.
• 2021-08-02 * Gary again missed the opportunity.
• 2021-08-30 * Box still there. Well within one year spoilage time.
• 2021-10-04 * One year anniversary. It's still there.
• 2021-11-01 comments: * Box is in different room from Gary.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • Box is still there. It's a box. It's cubical.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • Gary THINKS he knows where it is.
• 2022-01-31 Comments:
  • Gary says no change.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Gary assumes still there.

• 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 * Gary still has hardware to hand out.
• 2021-07-05
  • Gary wants to get with Stan to install LinuxMint MATE on at least one laptop.
  • One box missing battery. All may work better with 32 bit distros. Likely all low performance boxes.
  • Gary should coordinate with Leo on doing an installation on one more of the boxes.
  • Stan offered to do it remotely using GITSO remote software connection.
  • Today Stan R has been using Ventoy to boot multiple ISOs from single USB thumb drive.
  • Stan R successfully tested with a dozen ISOs. Ventoy is known to work with 200 plus ISOs.
• 2021-08-02
  • Stan worked with Gary to put LinuxMint MATE 20.x on one of the machines.
  • Stan gave Gary a Ventoy thumb drive. Ventoy thumb drives are not perfectly reliable. Depends on target machine and BIOS/EIFEIOU crap.
• 2021-08-30 * Gary still has two box to distribute.
• 2021-10-04 * Gary still has two boxes staring at him. Looking forward to helping one female user.
• 2021-11-01 comments:
  • Gary still has the two machines. We want Gary to buy new $4000 Apple box.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • Gary still has the two machines (laptops). Needs to call Leo what he would like from us. Maybe pre-install LinuxMint or not.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • Gary still has machines. Stan R still willing to help install Linux remotely using GITSO.
• 2022-01-31 Comments:
  • No change.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Gary got Chromebook from Jay Truesdale, has passed it along to new user. Still has one of laptops for Leo.

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?
• * The narratives in the minutes prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 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
  • 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 maintenance.
• 2021-07-05 * Same as always, we need all the help we can get.
• 2021-08-02 * Same as always, we need all the help we can get.
• 2021-08-30 * Same as always, we need all the help we can get.
• 2021-10-04 * Stan R posted "Looking for a few Good Presenters" on DISCUSS this morning. So far, nothing in response.
• 2021-11-01 * Same.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • We still would like any additional help.
  • Stan R wants a mandatory retirement package.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • Stan R doesn't need mandatory retirement package. Stan R given Lead Parachute package with matching IRA funds.
• 2022-01-31 Comments:
  • Always.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Always.

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?
• 2021-11-01 * None
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • Nothing specified as new business; but, mention was made of Attendance Data.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • None.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • 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.
• November 2021
• December 2021
• January 2022 - STLLINUX.ORG domain automatic renewal.
• January 2022 ~ Post Office Box Renewal (automatic 6 months on credit card) ~ Lee handles.
• January 2022 ~ Bribes early to Stan R so your name won't be on ballot.
• February 2022 - SLUUG Annual Board meeting and elections.
• February 2022 - Verify automatic renewal of certs with LetsEncrypt (every 90 days).
• March 2022 - Count Ballots
• March 2022 - Updates to contacts on webpage if required.
• March 2022 - Updates to email aliases if required.
• March 2022 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
• March 2022 - 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 2022 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• April 2022 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status. e-postcard.
• May 2022 - LetsEncrypt renews every 60 days early (30 day grace period).
• June 2022 - BuddyNS SLUUG account due (Automated)
• June 2022 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status due.
  • https://bsd.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/BusinessEntityDetail.aspx?page=beSearch&ID=681250
• June 2022 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
• July 2022 ~ Post Office Box Renewal (automatic 6 months on credit card) ~ Lee handles.
• August 2022 - NEWLINUX.ORG domain renewal.
• August 2022 - SLACC.ORG domain renewal.
• September 2022
• October 2022 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• November 2022
• December 2022
• 2021-08-02 * Nothing coming up this next two months. And October thing NOT likely to happen.
• 2021-08-30 * Nothing coming up this next two months. And October thing NOT likely to happen.
• 2021-10-04 * Nothing new for October, November and December.
• 2021-11-01 * Nothing new for November, December.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • 
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • 
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • 

SUMMARY: When anybody does something to help!

• QUESTION: Did anyone do anything helpful or useful?
• 2021-11-01 * James suggesting substracting a dollar from gary's pay.
• 2021-11-29 Comments:
  • Usual suspects receive thanks. Lee keeps machines oiled.
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • Stan R made attendance data base, availble on https://www.sluug.org/steercom/ page.
• 2022-01-31 Comments:
  • Lee Lammert and Mike Knight upgrade BOCK to Debian 10 was amazing and painless for others.
  • Jonathan Drews has provided us with some interesting speakers.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • Stan R converted sister-in-law to LinuxMint.

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 STLLINUX).
• 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
• 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.
• * Minutes narratives prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2021-01-04 * Gary and Stan need to go through this section.
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01 * 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
• 2021-07-05 * Not reviewed at this time.
• 2021-08-02
• 2021-08-30
• 2021-10-04 * Not reviewed at this time.
• 2021-11-01 * Not reviewed at this time.
• 2021-11-29 Comments: * Not reviewed at this time.
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March: * Not reviewed at this time.

• Monday, February 28th, 2022
• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • QUESTION: At what time was STEERCOM meeting adjourned?
  • TIME: 8:31pm

• 2022-02-28 Comments for March:
  • 

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 recording operator needs to be notified.
    * ** Each speaker would initially declare whether an idea should be recorded or not. ** 

• * Minutes narratives prior to January 2021 Steercom have been removed.*
• 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:
• 2021-08-30 comments:
  • Gary wanted to hold off stopping recording to after Blue Sky.
  • We need to draft more help. Encourage participants. Thin bleeding edge is the current state of affairs.
  • What topic content should we be aiming at?
    • What are we not doing well?
    • Need to expand speaker base.
• 2021-10-04 * None
• 2021-11-01 comments:
  • 
• 2022-01-10 Comments:
  • 

SUMMARY: Frequently used to track efforts, errors, problems and successes with multiple recording services, when meetings are recorded.

  * 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.
    * :?: