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, March 2, 2015
• 6:30 PM - 8:35

• Don Ellis
• David Forest
• Ken Johnson
• Lee Lammert
• Andrew Latham
• Gary Meyer
• Stan Reichardt
• Don Weiman
• John Eto (1st time)

• Counting ballots before usual meeting items
• We had 27 eligible voter ballots
• Ballots separated from envelopes and counted
• SLUUG Board of Governors meeting held
  • Board member attendees:
    • Don Ellis
    • Stan Reichardt
    • Don Weiman
    • Absent members can verbally vote by proxie or mobile phone
  • Stan R. called board meeting to order
  • Board considered the results of the ballots
  • Board unanimously modified the results of the ballots
  • Ballot Results:
    • Board Member - Jeff Muse
    • Board Member - Stan Reichardt
    • President - Gary Meyer
    • Vice President -
    • Secretary - Craig Buchek
    • Treasurer - Lee Lammert
    • Chairman of STLLUG - Declined
  • Stan R. asked if there is any other business
    • No other business was brought up
  • Don Ellis moved to close the board meeting
    • Seconded by Don Weiman
• Board meeting adjourned

• Are there any other additions, deletions, or changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?
  • no

• Nothing to report.

• Balance as of February 1 $2309.05
• February expenses
  • SLUGS Meeting $80
  • Dotster $17.49
• Balance as of February 28 $ $2,211.56

• 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 February 2015:

• () - Number in parentheses is head count.
• xx - attendance was taken, numbers not yet recorded.
• ? - Question mark indicates attendance not taken or sheet missing.
• - - sLUGs is new STL Linux Users Group for Seniors initial meeting 8 January 2015
• - - 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 February 2015:

• xxx - Future Numbers.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of February 2015:

• 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
• Election balloting.
• Stan said it was nice, and if he could remember what all was done, he would say what they did

• SLUUG General Meeting
• Official annual meeting.
• Election balloting.
• BASE: Regular Expressions by Craig Buchek
  • Generally recognized as very good
• MAIN: Lightning Talks
  • Intro to 3D Printing by Lee Lammert delayed to April
  • Really nice variety of Lightning Talks topics this year.
    • Speech from Forrest about how he appreciates the group
    • Hands Up tutoring
    • Cat feeder with Raspberry Pi - Paul Berglund
    • Low resolution pics from Stan's desktop - nice change of pace
    • Craig Buchek - Regular Expressions. Reference to Noam Chomsky

• sLUGs is our new daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
• Election balloting.
  • Topics are expected to be determined by attendees. We expect to cover more than one topic.
• Attemp to install LinuxMint 17.1 on old laptop failed, instead installed AntiX ver M-14.3

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
• TOPIC: Novell ZenWorks Suite ~ A Video
• Stan R. forgot to bring Election ballots. Most attendees had already voted.
  • Very interesting presentation with absolutely no useful information - Lee

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Guacamole by Andrew Latham
• Election balloting.
• Amazing capabilities.
• Good audience participation
  • Offshoot discussion with additional topics
  • Close to 2 hours
  • appreciated & enjoyed by attendees
  • Headhunter attended & plans to return (boss required him to) (plans to hire people)

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
• Election balloting.
• Awesome experience - Noted expert got to answer questions & solve problems
  • Stan lost control much more quickly than usual; good results
  • Set up wireless bridge
  • Solved printing problms

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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.
• Counted votes - 3 members of board met and approved the vote

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • BASE: Community Workshop - bridging wireless connection to ethernet LAN
  • MAIN: How the Web Works (part 1) by Craig Buchek

• sLUGs is our daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
  • Topics are expected to be determined by attendees. We expect to cover more than one topic.

• 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.
• Web site lists a dozen or so topics to provide general directions from which to take off

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

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• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • MAIN: Intro to 3D Printing by Scott Rocca
    • Griffin 3D Printing
    • St Louis startup developing a line of Delta 3D printers as a Kickstarter project

• sLUGs is our daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
  • Topics are expected to be determined by attendees. We expect to cover more than one topic.
  • Web site lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off

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

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • TBD

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
  • Web site lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off

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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

• sLUGs is our daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
  • Topics are expected to be determined by attendees. We expect to cover more than one topic.
  • Web site lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)

• 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 To Be Determined (TBD)

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
  • Web site lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off

• Andrew has been applying updates
  • Ignoring Postfix until he understands our configuration.
• 2015-02-02
  • Need to apply patches for recent vulnerabilities (Glibc, PHP)
• 2015-03-02
  • Need to perform restart to enable kernel updates
  • Need to discuss update to more recent supported OS
  • Andrew proposes a weekend event to update & document the system
  • Perhaps migrate away from a legacy platform
  • Investigate Linnode as new/additional location
  • These concepts will be pursued in an email thread on sysadmin list

• Andrew still needs to finish up some stuff.
• 2015-02-02
  • Stan R. has built a separate web page for STL Linux Users Group for Seniors (sLUGs)
  • Lee added slugs.sluug.org DNS entry, and updated our docs.
• 2015-03-02
  • Andrew still needs to do things, requests more entertainment of problems to be solved.

• 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.
• 2015-03-02
  • 

• STLWEBDEV.ORG was renewed in December.
• STLLINUX.ORG was renewed in January.
• 2015-03-02
  • 

• 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
• 2015-03-02
  • Meetup site for SLUUG set up by Ken Johnson
  • Youtube
  • Google+

• Stan R. has continued updating pamphlets.
• Don Weimann has been printing pamphlets when Stan R. asks for them.
  • New paper is nicer.
• Stan R.has been working on a pamphlet on VIM.
• 2015-03-02
  • Stan has provided information to Graybar representative in response to request for information at last SLUUG meeting

• Andrew gave Gary a few more small penguins to pass out to guest presenters.
• 2015-03-02
  • Andrew has many marching penguins to give out at future meetings

• 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.
• Jessie Jackson has provided Craig's info to a manager at CenturyLink.
• 2015-03-02
  • No desire to move to Venture Cafe at this time
    • too noisy
    • no table space
    • theater style seating in meeting rooms

• Gary and Stan R. were volontold to be the nominating committee.
• Board seats up this year:
  • Stan Reichardt
  • Jeff Muse
• Next year seats up for election will be Valerie Bacon and Don Ellis
• Following year will be Don Wieman.
• 2015-03-02
  • Ballots were counted, Board reviewed, results will be posted

• Stan R. 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 R. asked if he could be reimbursed for this.
    • Consensus was YES.
• Initial meeting went well
• Built a separate web page: http://slugs.sluug.org/
• 2015-03-02
  • Potentially longer meetings subject to discussion with librarian
  • Currently 2 hours, could be 2 1/2 or 3 hours
  • Already paying maximum fee; nothing is on schedule afterwards, so no conflict

• Stan R. requested a book at the St. Louis Count Public Library.
  • Got some members to also make the request.
• 2015-03-02
  • No negative reply yet; so, maybe they're going to buy it.
  • Book is Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons by Carey Parker
  • Andrew L. bought book for Stan R. to read and review
  • Book is MS Windows and Apple OS-X specific step-by-step, otherwise exceptionally good
  • Chapter on passwords exceptionally well written
    • References Steve Gibsons Security Now podcast, among many others
  • Stan R. would recommend to anyone needing help spelling "password"

• 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
• After discussion, decided that current status is sufficient; no change is needed
• This section should be deleted for April Steercom meeting

• Anything?
• no

• Stan is awesome
• Thank Dave Forrest for glowing review of The Groups at February Lightning Talks
• Thank Ken J. for setting up SLUUG Meetup
• Thank Andrew L. for buying book for Stan R. to review
• Thank Lee L. for kicking mail server back into working status
• Also, Lee L. retired all wustl domain names

• Anything?

• 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.
• February 2016 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
• February 2016 - Renew STLLINUX.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.
• Lee L. - 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).
• Stan R. - Remind Gary M. to bring Penguins to meetings and hand out pamphlets.
• Gary M. - Build spreadsheet to track domain name registrations. http://bgp.he.net/ip/207.223.253.71#_dns
• Gary M. - Follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
• Don Ellis - work with Andrew Latham to upload older videos to YouTube.
• Andrew L. - work with Don Ellis to upload older videos to YouTube.
• Andrew L. - work on updates to web site.