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SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 29 June 2015
NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial.
Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative.
(Some more tentative than others!)
Location
Saint Louis Bread Company,
(at Old Olive and Olive),
10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141
Date and Time
June 2015
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July 2015
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Monday, June 29, 2015
6:30 PM -
Attendees
* Craig Buchek
* Don Ellis
* Lee Lammert
* Gary Meyer (out of town, back too late to make meeting)
* Stan Reichardt
* Jerry Stutte
* Don Weiman
Agenda Changes
Secretary Report
Treasurer Report
Balance as of April 1 $2,641.61
Expense: BuddyNS $36-
Balance as of April 30 $2,425.61
Attendance Report
Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets.
Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at meetings.
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Attendance numbers, as of end of June 2015:
Meeting | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun |
Steercom | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 |
SLACC | ? | 6 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 9 | ? | 8 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 8 |
sLUGs | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 |
SLUUG | 16 | 9 | 16 | 34 | 17 | 14 | 16 | 13 | 27 | 20 | 12 | 21 | (16) | 17 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 24 | 18 | 16 |
SNUG SuSE | 9 | 9 | - | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | (8) | 6 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
STLLUG | 15 | 14 | 6 | - | 11 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 14 | (14) | 10 | 12 | 17 | 15 | (16) | (16) | 18 | 19 |
HZWLUG | 10 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 7 |
() - 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.
Calendar Report
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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 June 2015:
Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
2011 | ? | ? | 105 | 108 | 103 | 117 | 105 | 105 | 105 | 113 | 103 | 96 | 2011 |
2012 | 110 | 104 | 122 | 123 | 138 | 111 | 99 | 124 | 122 | 133 | 114 | 111 | 2012 |
2013 | 123 | 128 | 136 | 147 | 144 | 146 | 139 | 119 | 145 | 167 | 153 | 140 | 2013 |
2014 | 143 | 159 | 174 | 165 | 188 | 165 | 132 | 136 | 173 | 165 | 141 | 107 | 2014 |
2015 | 171 | 179 | 177 | 183 | 176 | 168 | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | 2015 |
Mailing List Report
List | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun |
ANNOUNCE | 635 | 625 | 623 | 631 | 624 | 621 | 622 | 628 | 624 | 626 | 627 | 629 | 626 | 621 | 618 | 618 | 624 | 621 | 622 | 620 | 622 | 617 | 617 | 616 | 616 |
DISCUSS | 208 | 210 | 211 | 214 | 214 | 216 | 220 | 221 | 222 | 224 | 225 | 224 | 224 | 224 | 225 | 224 | 225 | 226 | 224 | 224 | 221 | 222 | 208 | 207 | 208 |
STEERCOM | 31 | 32 | 32 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 34 |
SYSADMIN | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 21 | 21 |
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.
Command used to generate these (as root on Bud):
xx - numbers not yet recorded.
- - dash indicates list did not previously exist.
June 2015
June 2015
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STEERCOM - Steering Committee - June 1
SLACC - June 4
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - June 10
Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends
and "what just happened to kill our performance?" problems. It is designed to be very
plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work.
sLUGs - June 12
sLUGs is our daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
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Besides Phil Bunch fixing Tony's Broadcom WiFi, we covered other areas.
Demonstrating folding in VIM from our handout.
Futility of Forged Email SPAM as outlined.
Phil also provided some command line tips.
SNUG - June 17
SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
STLLUG - June 18
Hazelwood - June 23
HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
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Some topics covered:
Password strategies.
Rainbow tables, hashes and salts.
Yubikey and second factor tools.
Keepass demonstration and comparisons with Lastpass.
DuckDuckGo comparison with Google search.
Google Domain service features and registrations.
PC Engines apu system boards.
BIOS, UEFI and coreboot Linux issues.
Epic software engineering problem resolution with RPS techniques.
Fantastic hardware donations by Andrew L. to attendees topped off
the meeting. Then we ran out of time at the library.
STEERCOM - Steering Committee - June 29
Schedule
July 2015
July 2015
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SLACC - July 2
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - July 8
sLUGs - July 10
sLUGs is our daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
SNUG - July 15
SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
STLLUG - July 16
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
Hazelwood - July 28
HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
August 2015
August 2015
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STEERCOM - Steering Committee - August 3
SLACC - August 6
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - August 12
sLUGs - August 14
sLUGs is our daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
SNUG - August 19
STLLUG - August 20
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
Hazelwood - August 25
HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
STEERCOM - Steering Committee - August 31
September 2015
September 2015
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27 28 29 30
SLACC - September 3
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - September 9
sLUGs - September 11
sLUGs is our daytime STL Linux Users Group for Seniors
SNUG - September 16
SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
STLLUG - September 17
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
Hazelwood - September 22
HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
Old Business
Server Admin
Web Site Maintenance
* Per John Hodge, Graybar no longer (as they once did) allows beer at meetings.
Uploading Presentations
Andrew uploaded many presentations and linked them via the sites.
Need to figure out how to get the slides published along with video.
Need to get more old presentations uploaded.
2015-06-29
Domain Name Tracking
STLWEBDEV.ORG was renewed in December.
STLLINUX.ORG was renewed in January.
SLUUG.ORG will need to be renewed in July.
2015-06-29
Handouts
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Stan R. has continued updating pamphlets.
Don Weimann has been printing pamphlets when Stan R. asks for them.
Stan R. has been working on a pamphlet on VIM.
2015-03-02
2015-06-01
2015-06-29
Speaker Honorarium
Hostirian hosting
Free SSL Certificates
New Business
Revival of BSD Special Interest Group
Anything Else?
Recognize Useful Efforts
Blue Sky Ideas
Recurring Requirements
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.
April 2016 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
May 2016 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status.
June 2016 - BuddyNS SLUUG account due.
Follow-up and Action Items
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 folks.
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.
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Gary M. - Follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
Don Ellis - upload older videos to YouTube.
Andrew L. - work on updates to web site.