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

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    October 2011    
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• Wednesday, October 5, 2011
• 7:15 PM - 8:30 PM

• Don Ellis
• Lee Lammert
• Gary Meyer
• Stan Reichardt
• Jerry Stutte

• Are there any additions, deletions, or changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?

• Nothing to report.

• Balance as of 9/1: $2009.94
• Balance as of 9/30: $2009.94

• County Library: $ 10.00
• Deposit from NUI: $ 500.00 +
• SBE Booth: $ 125.00 -
• SBE Booth Electric: $ 70.00 -
• Thornhill SLACC Room: $ 60.00 -

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of September 2011:

• Numbers as end of each month.
• Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet. This will be much easier to do on Amber.
• 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

• Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets.
• Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at meetings.
• Blank attendance sheets are available here
• Attendance numbers, as of end of September 2011:

• NA - Not part of SLUUG. Jeff asked why this option is still listed.
• () - Number in parentheses is head count.
• xx - attendance was taken, numbers not yet recorded.
• ? - Question mark indicates attendance not taken or sheet missing.
• - - dash indicates no meeting.
• NOTE - Corrected STCLUG August 2010 and September 2010 counts.
• NOTE - February 2011 Steercom was via IRC #SLUUG channel on freenode.

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• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  • Problem with room reservations. Had been canceled because check not processed on time. Had to pay cash.

• SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
• BASE: LastPass by Jay Truesdale (firm commitment) via Stan Reichardt
  • Excellent treatment of vast capabilities.
• MAIN: Artificial Intelligence by Eric Xu via Gary Meyer
  • Eric does not build robots.

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: SuSE manager.
• Pre-recorded presentation, good information about centralized system management.

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Split presentation:
  • Part I: Yum repositories explored by Jeff Muse
  • Part II: Apt package tools by Craig Buchek
• Good compare-and-contrast and coverage of lesser-known features.

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.
• Two newcomers to Linux (man with wife). Both left with greater knowlege and sample Linux discs.

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• No topic previously selected, nor advertised.
• Stan R. gave singularly brilliant demonstration of using LibreOffice Mail-merge features to a virtually empty room.

    August 2011
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* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• Need to confirm room reservations re-instated.

* SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.

• BASE: LibreOffice Mail Merge Processing by Stan Reichardt
• MAIN: Migration of SLUUG services to AMBER by Jeff Muse (tentative pending completion of work)

* Technical mail merge difficulties cut into the main presentation time a bit, to the great relief of the presenter.

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: ZENworks Configuration Management 11
• Pre-recorded but good presentation by tech rep from Novell. A bit difficult to hear at times.

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: HIATUS per ITEN request (No meeting this month). Still had one attendee.

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Open discussion. One new attendee.

   September 2011
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* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• Needed to confirm room reservations re-instated.

* SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.

• BASE: NONE
• MAIN: Internet Security by Joseph J. Papes, former FBI agent, via Jerry Stutte
• BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • Generated a lot of interesting questions.
  • NO Q&A or Announcement No Call for help, presentation went right on through.

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Machine Vision & Facial Recognition by Chris Leighton, confirmed via Lee
• Good, lot of material. Needed a better introduction, lots of good examples.

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: Comparison of SuSE to other Linux distros.
• Inpromptu session was very engaging and had a lot of participation.

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Backup Techniques and Guitars
• Resolved to put into HIATUS until January.
• November and December were not going to be held anyway because of holidays.

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.
• User seeking help configuring netbook wireless, resolved that had no wireless driver. USB wireless worked fine.

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

    October 2011    
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* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• Confirmed room reservations re-instated.

* SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.

• BASE: Vim: Wrangling Registers & Mangling Macros by Bill Odom
• MAIN: AlienVault by Jerry Stutte
• BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD)

• Details to follow later.

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• OPTION1: Installation of SuSE on laptop - Don Ellis and Jerry Stutte
• OPTION2: Sustaining Link to Machine Behind a Firewall
• * Reverse SSH maintenance and start ups script - Donn Ellis and Jerry Stutte.
• OPTION3 Android suggested by Gary Meyer.
• BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD)

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• HIATUS: No more meetings until January 2012. Lack of interesting material combined with recent
  • disappointing attendance were cited by those attending as reason to not have meeting in October.
  • Plus, the upcoming holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas conflict with usual November and December dates.

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* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• Need to confirm room reservations re-instated.

* SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.

• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD). Ideas: Gary to investigate possibility of OpenIndiana.
• MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)
• BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD)

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD). Idea: Jeff and Jerry to investigate IPv6.
• BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD)

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• HIATUS: Because of Thanksgiving Day

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* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• Need to confirm room reservations re-instated.

* SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.

• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD). Ideas: Gary to investigate possibility of OpenIndiana.
• MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)
• BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD)

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD). Idea: Jeff and Jerry to investigate IPv6.
• BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD)

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• HIATUS: Because of Christmas Season

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• Need a copy of the SNUG by-laws.
  • Stan will get with Gary Hollingsworth to see if he can get us a copy.
• 2011-10 Not likely that we will find anything, consider moot.

• Craig finally handed Mike Knight a copy of the password card.
• Root passwords were changed at work party for Bud, Amber, and Redhook.
• Lee will get Don Ellis a copy of the card.
• 2011-10 Lee send PDF to Don, he needs to print a copy.

• Bud Light offline due to fan failure, is still offline.
• Michelob is dead.
  • Not sure anyone is willing to revive it.
  • If anyone is willing to spend the time, they are welcome.
• Work party took place May 21 at Lee's place.
  • Much progress made on a Budlight replacement.
  • Some websites moved over to Amber.
  • Mail is working on Amber but need to migrate user accounts.
    • This is being held up by old-style DES passwords still in use.
    • Jeff is trying to get them changed.
  • Amber build is documented at Base OS Config
  • We rebuilt Budlight on DL380 G2.
    • 4 x 73 GB disks (old servers have 4 x 18GB)
    • 3 GB RAM (old servers have 4 GB)
    • Server was built, but not put online yet at this point.
    • It is functional, but we need spare parts for whatever hardware we deploy.
    • Jay Truesdale is looking for a pair of DL380 G4 servers to use instead.
• Work party scheduled for July 9 at Lee's (9 AM).
  • Need to transition mail services to Amber.
  • Need to move wiki and www web services to Amber.
  • Stan has put a notice on the web page.
• 2010-07 - Renewed SLUUG.ORG domain during 9 July migration work party.
• 2011-08 - EveryDNS migration to DynDNS caught us unprepared. Craig moved us to buddyns.
  • Lee has made copies of zone files and we have BIND on amber now as an authoritative server.
• We should probably make sure buddyns has up-to-date contact info.
• 2011-10 Large number updates (~190) are pending. Need to apply.

• 2009-09 Jerry Stutte, Jeff Muse, and Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site.
• 2009-09 Gary Meyer is Captain.
• 2009-10 Captain is AWOL. Carl will be available in November or later.
• 2009-11 Captain was AWOL.
• 2009-12 Captain still AWOL.
• 2010-01 Captain still AWOL.
• 2010-02 Captain Gary Meyer still AWOL. Search party has not reported back.
• 2010-04 Pending until next month at the earliest.
• 2010-05 This project open since September 2009. Gary immediately left meeting.
• 2010-06 Gary not here, nothing resolved.
• 2010-07 Gary not here, nothing resolved.
• 2010-09 Gary will work on this.
• 2010-10 No progress. Stan questioned Gary's usefulness. Suggested that he is merely decorative.
• 2010-11 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
• 2010-12 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
• 2011-01 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
• 2011-02 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
• 2011-03 No progress. Gary is in Florida. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
• 2011-04 No progress.
• 2011-05 No progress.
• 2011-06 No progress. Unless there is rain Gary won't be attending until September.
• 2011-07 No progress.
• 2011-08 No progress
• 2011-09 Gary did a site survey and said "Someday….."
• 2011-10 Gary says to repeat above response, ie "Someday….."

• 2010-12
  • We have a voice recorder (VC) for recording meeting presentations and have posted some results on web site.
  • On 28 Oct Stan R. suggested buying an additional VC so that there wouldn't be a single point of failure.
    • We forget who has it.
    • We forget to bring it.
    • We forget to turn it on.
    • We forget fresh batteries.
    • We forget how to turn it on.
    • We forget to free up space on it.
  • There was some STEERCOM list banter but nothing was brought up at 3 November Steering Committee meeting.
  • Alternative of video recording suggested, huge size of video files was mentioned.
  • Stan R. passed voice recorder to Gary M. on 18 November and doesn't want it back.
  • Noah volunteered an old Digital8 recorder.
• 2011-01 Continued discussion, but no consensus.
• 2011-02 Not discussed during IRC meeting.
• 2011-03 Gary M. returned voice recorder to Stan R. before going to Florida.
  • Stan needs to pull February 2011 STLLUG recording and post it (on Amber).
    • And email it to the speaker (Igor Gueths).
• 2011-04 Stan R. passed on voice recorder to Phil Bunch, who should be at next general meeting.
• 2011-05 Phil B. passed voice recorder back to Stan R.
• 2011-05 Craig suggested getting another voice recorder (or 2), and extra batteries.
• 2011-06 Jeff wanted to move that we use some of the Novell money to buy a second recorder.
  • Did not have a quorum.
  • Stan suggested getting one that records in ideally OGG, but failing that, MP3.
    • Either would be better than the current uncompressed format.
• 2011-07 Group unanimously voted to buy 2 new voice recorders.
  • As long as they do not require Windows drivers.
  • Preferably record in OGG format, or MP3 at the least.
  • Upper limit $100 each.
  • Jerry and Lee will research and purchase.
• 2011-08 No progress
• 2011-09 Jerry has sent pricing information to Lee
• 2011-10 No action on voice recorders.
  • Much discussion about projectors. Jerry S. will research available units.

• 2011-01 Mike Knight's emails regarding web site.
  • Stan changed the copyright dates.
  • Good idea to list other Open Source friendly resources.
    • On a separate page from our own SIGs.
    • Sites like WITS, CVillage, Arch Reactor, 2600.
  • Our site layout has not changed for years.
    • Would take some effort to re-do it, and seems to be working for most people.
• 2011-02 Stan hasn't gotten around to building new resources page, yet.
• 2011-03 No change.
• 2011-04 No change.
• 2011-05 No change.
• 2011-06 There was brief discussion of implementing a CMS at the work party on 5/21. No decisions made.
• 2011-07 Gary noticed Wayback machine has STOPPED archiving our server as of about May 2009.
  • It would be good to get resumption of archiving at Wayback.
    • How can we accomplish this? We don't know; so, we appointed Gary M. to find a way.
• 2011-08 No progress.
• 2011-09 No progress.
• 2011-10 No progress.

• 2010-11 STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• STLLUG meetings are now hosted at IT Enterprises, which is affiliated with UMSL.
• Typically because of meeting space value we recognize host as sponsor on our web pages.
• Previously, some educational institutions (other than UMSL) did not want to be listed.
• Lee updated the SLUUG web site sponsors list
  • Also added PayPal button to SLUUG web site membership join page.
• 2010-12 No status change.
• We should push the PayPal usage.
• 2011-01 Stan suggested putting Hostirian at the bottom of all SIG web sites.
• 2011-02 Stan hasn't gotten around to the pages, yet.
  • Noticed .PNG file doesn't show up on old county library browsers. Do we have .JPG file anywhere?
  • Not discussed during IRC meeting.
• 2011-03 No change.
• 2011-04 No change.
• 2011-05 No change.
• 2011-06 No change. The spirit is willing but the schedule is weak.
• 2011-07 Stan R. added Historian logo stuff to bottom of home pages of all active Special Interest Groups.
• 2011-08 No progress.
• 2011-09 No progress.
• 2011-10 No progress.

• 2011-03 Craig brought up the topic of LUG attendance.
• Why is STLLUG attendance so low?
  • Is it the location?
  • Was it the change in location?
  • Is it because we have too many local meetings?
  • Is it the improving job market?
• With low attendance, we cannot bring in bigger names.
  • Telling Red Hat they'll have 15 people to speak with won't get them to come here.
• Craig will post a message to DISCUSS.
  • Explain why I'm asking.
  • Ask why people don't attend.
  • Ask what we could do to get people to attend more often.
  • Ask if we should combine some of the LUG meetings.
• 2011-04
  • Craig has created a survey – http://stllug.org/2011-member-survey
  • Need to have STEERCOM members look at it first, to make suggestions.
  • Craig will send out the URL to DISCUSS and ANNOUNCE once we're happy with it.
• 2011-07 - Craig WILL send out the survey to STEERCOM, then DISCUSS and ANNOUNCE.
• 2011-08 - No progress.
• 2011-09 - Jeff thinks the greater availability and ease-of-use is impacting us, and that fragmentation is
  • leading people who would otherwise have come to the LUG to go to Android/mobile/embedded/robotics groups.
• 2011-10 - No progress.

• Jerry recommended we create a Facebook group and page.
• Jerry recommended we post meeting notices on college campus bulletin boards.
  • Jerry will send out an email to Sanjiv.
• 2011-05
  • Several people were opposed to this idea. (CLARIFICATION 6/1: The opposition was specifically to facebook)
• 2011-07 Gary Meyer volunteered to do PR for the group to get younger members involved.
• 2011-08 - No progress.
• 2011-09 - No progress.
• 2011-10 - No progress.

• 2011-07 SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  • St. Louis County Library Thornhill Branch indicated room fee was not paid
  • All reservations had been canceled. Had to pay cash for meeting.
• Review of minutes indicated that check was hand carried to library.
• Don Ellis said he had receipt.
• Lee provided image of cancelled check to Stan R.
• Stan R. talked to Thornhill staff (Nick),
  • Confirmed room reservations re-instated, except for November and December conflicts.
• 2011-08 - No report
• 2011-09 - No report
• 2011-10 - November and December reservations for SLACC were moved to Bridgeton Trails Branch.
  • SLACC reservations at Thornhill Branch for CY 2012 were made, check to be hand carried by Stan R.

• 2011-10 - Hazelwood Linux Users Group reservations at Prairie Commons Branch for CY 2012 were made.
  • Check to be hand carried by Stan R.

• None.

• December 2011 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain.
• February 2012 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.
• February 2012 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
• March/April 2012 - St. Louis Business Expo
• April 2012 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• May 2012 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status.
• July 2012 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain.
• August 2012 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status (now every 2 years).
• October 2012 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• October 2012 - St. Louis Business Expo

• None.

• Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
• Who did what?
• Stan updated web sites.

• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• Craig - talk to Splunk reps about presenting.
• Craig - follow up on potential presentations.
  • Kyle Cordes - ffmpeg or other
  • GStreamer
• Jerry - find someone to talk to us about Android.
  • Talk to Joshua Frank and Bill Zimmerly.
  • Talk to Rich Siebel to see if Andrew Prunicki of OCI can talk to us.
  • See Announce list from February 2009 for speakers from Java SIG presentations.
• Noah - work on Amber build.
• Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
• Gary - get Wash U site cleaned up.