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

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

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• Monday, January 5, 2015
• 6:45 PM - 8:15 PM

* Craig Buchek * David Forrest * Ken Johnson * Andrew Latham * Gary Meyer * Stan Reichardt

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

• Nothing to report.

• 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 December 2014:

• () - 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.

• SLUUG Calendar is a Google Calendar available on our web site.
• This is a calendar of technical events in the Greater St. Louis area and surrounding regions.
• Not all events are official/sponsored SLUUG events.
• Items have been added and corrected by Stan R, Gary Meyer and Don Ellis.
• Items listed on this calendar feed the ANNOUNCE weekly mailing.
• Events on HIATUS are NOT counted! Historical items are NOT counted! Only face to face meetings are counted!
• Count of number of events listed, each month, as of end of December 2014:

• xxx - Future Numbers.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of December 2014:

• 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
• xx - numbers not yet recorded.
• - - dash indicates list did not previously exist.

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• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
• NOTE: Monday of week prior to General Meeting.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • BASE: Upgrading SuSE by Lee Lammert
    • Stan was sick ~ didn't make it to the meeting.
  • MAIN: VPNs: OpenVPN v. IPsec by Andrew Latham
    • Good, but probably over many people's heads.

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
  • Scheduled one week earlier than usual, because of holiday.
    • Demo of TorSync and Syncthing (Pulse)
    • Installed Linux Mint 17.1 on new attendee's laptop

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
• TOPIC: ZenWorks
  • Terrible - worst in years
  • Canned (live) video presentation
    • Too many buzzwords, too much of a sales pitch, no technical content.

• Yearly meeting of non-athletics to roll a ball down a lane and argue about emacs and vi
• 7pm - 10pm
• Moolah Lanes look at the calendar it is likely correct

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Old Hardware day! Bring an old laptop and lets make it work with Linux "Power cords not optional"
  • Ken Johnson presented on CoLinux (Linux on Windows)
    • Good - nice style
  • Stan R. installed Linux Mint 17.1 on Ted Palmer's laptop ~ no other installs done by anybody else.
  • More group discussion than normal.

• Christmas Day

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• New Years Day

• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
• NOTE: Monday of week prior to General Meeting.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  • Delayed one week because of New Years Day holiday.

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • BASE: Intro to Penetration Testing by Wendell Barber (via Andrew)
  • MAIN: Core Boot - Aaron Durbin (via Andrew)

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Blender - Ed Wehner

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

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

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• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
• NOTE: Monday of week prior to General Meeting.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • BASE: Something by Stan Reichardt (tentative)
  • MAIN: Intro to 3D Printing by Lee Lammert
• Official annual meeting.
• Election balloting.

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

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Guacamole by Andrew Latham

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

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• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
• NOTE: Monday of week prior to General Meeting.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • MAIN: How the Web Works (part 1) by Craig Buchek

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

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • MAIN: How the Web Works (part 2) by Craig Buchek

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

• Andrew has been applying updates
  • Ignoring Postfix until he understands our configuration.

• Andrew still needs to finish up some stuff.

• Andrew uploaded many presentations and linked them via the sites.
  • Much more work needs done.
• Need to figure out how to get the slides published along with video.
• Need to get more old presentations uploaded.

• STLWEBDEV.ORG was renewed in December.

• Gary and Craig asked to reconsider MEETUP.COM.
  • It's a place to find meetings.
  • It does cost money ($12 / month).
  • It helps attendees of similar groups find our group.
  • DECISION: We'll ask for volunteers on DISCUSS to "own" the group.
  • Craig - Contact Ed Schneider about MEETUP.COM Group creation and maintenance.
  • Possible meetup volunteer - Brian Bilgere

• Stan has continued updating pamphlets.
• Don Weimann has been printing pamphlets when Stan R. asks for them.

• Andrew gave Gary a few more small penguins to pass out to guest presenters.

• Andrew added a remote control for presentations
  • It's in the projector case.

• Current St. Louis Linux Users Group (STLLUG) location is inconvenient, probably turning people off
• Craig spoke w/ Brian Button about hosting at CenturyLink.
• Craig spoke w/ Jessie Jackson of SBS Creatix about having her talk to CenturyLink.
• Venture Cafe will provide free beer for meetings hosted there.
  • They're only open Thursdays from 3 PM to 8 PM.
  • Didn't seem to be much interest from our group.

• Gary and Stan were volontold to be the nominating committee.
  • They're working on determining which board seats are open.

• Stan has started up the St. Louis Linux Users Group for Seniors (SLUGS).
  • Asked if we should make it an official SLUUG SIG.
    • Consensus was YES.
• Monthly meetings scheduled on every 2nd Friday, 1PM~3PM, at St. Louis County Library Prairie Commons Branch.
• The room fees of $80 have been paid up through August.
  • Stan asked if he could be reimbursed for this.
    • Consensus was YES.

• There's a site using our calendar without our permission.
  • They're not including official SLUUG events.
  • They're not attributing our work to us.
  • Gary is going to talk to a lawyer.
  • We changed our calendar to include our name in all events in the calendar.

• Stan converted the St. Louis County Older Computer Users group to a Linux group.

• Ken mentioned that Missouri has 2 kinds of non-profit corporations:
  • Standard corporation
  • Benevolent Corporation
    • Created by a circuit judge
    • No annual fee
    • Runs in perpetuity
    • Would require talking to a lawyer

• February 2015 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.
• February 2015 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
• April 2015 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• May 2015 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status.
• June 2015 - BuddyNS SLUUG account due.
• July 2015 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain with Dotster.
• August 2015 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status.
• October 2015 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• December 2015 - Transfer and renew STLWEBDEV.ORG domain.

• Everyone - Review the STEERCOM minutes, make corrections, act!
• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• Unassigned - Strategic Staffing
• Unassigned - Pamphlets or table at First Friday.
• Craig - Contact Ed Schneider about MEETUP.COM Group creation and maintenance.
• Lee - Check on running joint meeting with WEBDEV.
• Ed W. - newsgroups on hold until firmed up.
• Ed W. - Member Access Machines (MAM) in progress (bring up at General Meeting).
• Don Ellis - work with Andrew Latham to upload older videos to YouTube.
• Stan - Remind Gary to bring Penguins to meetings and hand out pamphlets.
• Gary - Build spreadsheet to track domain name registrations. http://bgp.he.net/ip/207.223.253.71#_dns
• Gary - Follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
• Andrew - remind Ken Johnson about STEERCOM meeting, give another talk
• Andrew - work with Don Ellis to upload older videos to YouTube.
• Andrew - work on updates to web site.