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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• Monday, November 2, 2015
• 6:30 PM -

* Lee Lammert

* Gary Meyer

* Stan Reichardt

* David Forest

* Andrew Latham

* Steven Stegmann

• None at this time - David F.
• Review Launch-code Calendar - Gary - Crystal Martin
• Discuss the sponsorship options. What questions might be asked an how can we answer these questions quickly in a repeatable fashion.
  • how do I sponsor - food, drinks, money, gear, swag, advertising on website
  • what do I sponsor - meetings, speakers, swag, website
  • when do I sponsor - annually, monthly, other
  • why would I sponsor - visibility, recruitment, sales
• Respond to Teksystems

• Craig Buchek has resigned.
• Gary was volunteered to record
• We need a secretary

• 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 October 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 September 2015:

• ??? - numbers not yet recorded.
• xxx - Future Numbers.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of October 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
• ??? - numbers not yet recorded.
• - - dash indicates list did not previously exist.

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• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
• Did stuff, Stan can't remember

• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
• NOTE: Monday of week (9 days) prior to General Meeting.

• 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
  • Nothing interesting happened.

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • BASE: OwnCloud by Lee L.
    • Terrible per Steven and Gary (Sarcasm)
    • Head nod from David
  • MAIN: To Be Determined Modeling in farms in space - Bryce Myer
    • Good talk
    • advertisement for Martian movie
    • Thought provoking

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • TOPIC: Validating and testing your firewall. - Andrew L. and David F.
    • Target audience mentioned some scoped topics like firewalls on laptops
    • light attendance

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
  • TOPIC: Buy more Suse, send them money - have chicken pot pie
  • Security something

• 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
  • Light attendance, excellent discussion

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• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
• NOTE: Monday of week (9 days) prior to General Meeting.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  • Moved because of scheduling conflicts

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • BASE: Libre Office Product Overview (Hidden Stuff) - Stan R.
  • MAIN: Steven Lembark - Logical Volume Manager - why I like it

• 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: Chicken Pot Pie, Buy more Suse

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • TOPIC: Maybe Stan talking about Libre Office Base, maybe Andrew talking about FOG Project, maybe Andrew talking about Centreon, maybe something else or conscripting volunteers. Firewall redux in deep..

• 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

• Link to past minutes and agenda.
• Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
• NOTE: Monday of week (9 days) prior to General Meeting.

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• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • BASE: Brian Bilgere - Choosing a BSD distro
  • MAIN: Steven Stegmann - EMACS - Get started

• 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: Stan prefers security in December - Turning off services. Misdirection - Social Engineering

• 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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David F. can do a talk about Mint with pre-post rule firewall decision making

• 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 Linode as new/additional location
  • These concepts will be pursued in an email thread on sysadmin list
• 2015-03-30
  • New server VM has been deployed at Contegix
    • Named "nick", after owner of Nick & Elena's who passed away
    • Will migrate functionality of Amber to it
    • CentOS 6
  • Craig suggested looking at Digital Ocean as new/additional location
    • Cheap ($5 month)
    • Really nice APIs
• 2015-05-05
  • Mike and Andrew were discussing a newer OS, perhaps CentOS 7
    • Not clear about console access to our VMs
  • Ken volunteered to help
    • Andrew added him to SYSADMIN mailing list
• 2015-06-01
  • Ken is set up on both servers, but no other movement.
• 2015-06-29
• 2015-08-03
  • Mike Knight is doing a great job.
• 2015-08-31
  • Steve S volunteered to be indoctrinated in SLUUG Server Lore

• Stan to update schedule for sLUGs & HZWLUG due to location updates (Library construction moved back to December)
• 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.
• 2015-06-29
• 2015-08-03
  • Dave suggests a button to add a link to contextual item viewed to viewers calendar.
• 2015-08-31
• Andrew still needs to finish up some stuff.

2015/06
* Sponsor logos in the main rotation have been purged of those we have not heard from in three years
* SuSE had been asked multiple times about a local presentation, .. no response

Old
* Gary and Lee spoke with folks from SuSE
  * At SuSE Linux Expert Days
  * Lee got a bunch a schwag to pass out over the next few months
  * Might be able to bring some of these guys into town for talks
* Craig had a recruiter offer to sponsor upcoming meetings
  * Will follow up
* 2015-06-29
  * Stan R. asked Valerie Bacon and John Hodge of Graybar about Gary's never asked question about beer.
  * Per John Hodge, Graybar no longer (as they once did) allows beer at meetings.
* 2015-08-03
  * Lee purged old sponsors from front page rotation. 
  * Andrew checking with NEC Electonics contact, requesting sponsorship by way presentations.
* Gary suggests rotating banners for other groups.
* Lee suggest reserving primary appearence for sponsors that provide us with resources.
* 2015-08-31
* Teksystems - Lee
* look at agenda items for discussion

• 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.
• 2015-06-29
  • Andrew showed Don Ellis how to stream sessions directly up to YouTube/Google+
• 2015-08-03
  • We need an intervention.
• 2015-08-31

• STLWEBDEV.ORG was renewed in December.
• STLLINUX.ORG renewed in January.
• SLUUG.ORG renewed in July.
• 2015-06-29
  • SLUUG.ORG renewed by Dodster thru Gary M. credit card
• 2015-08-03
  • Lee believes that all the domanins are off of Gary's credit card. Replaced with SLUUG credit card.
• 2015-08-31
• Nothing happen in Oct…

• 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+
• 2015-03-30
  • A total of 39 have joined with our Meetup site
  • Had 1 person come to SLUUG meeting after seeing it
  • Had 1 person come to STLLUG meeting after seeing it
  • Had 2 people come to HZWLUG meeting after seeing it
• 2015-05-05
  • A total of 59 have joined with our MEETUP.COM site
  • A total of 24 people are tracking our YouTube channel
• 2015-06-01
  • A total of 61 are following our Google+ page
  • A total of 77 have joined with our MEETUP.COM site
  • Starting to see cross-promotional references with other groups.
• 2015-06-29
  • A total of xx are following our Google+ page
  • A total of 92 have joined with our MEETUP.COM site (as of 29 June)
  • However, new attendees are still just finding us by way of Google search or the SLUUG Google Calendar (per Stan R.)
• 2015-08-03
  • A total of 63 are following our Google+ page
  • A total of 1466 views and 29 subscribers are following our YouTube.
  • A total of 106 have joined with our MEETUP.COM site (as of 2 Aug)
• Gary needs to learn how to post to MEETUP.COM, Stan R. offers to show him.
• Lee has resubmitted narrative stuff to STEERCOM mailing list.
• 2015-08-31
• Stan made the calendar color coded so you can sort though the many many events.
• 32 Subscribers on youtube
• Hmm, there aren't any saint louis unix Meetups near you yet

• Link to SLUUG Handouts
• 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.
• 2015-06-01
  • Revised Learn to use the VIM text editor pamphlet.
    • Update includes section on VIM folding.
  • Stan updated the Free Open Source Software (FOSS) pamphlet.
    • Updated application links, statistics, and added link to Senior Linux (sLUGs).
  • Don W. printed some more copies.
• 2015-06-29
• 2015-08-03
  • No update.
• 2015-08-31
• 2015-10-05 - Small cards with all the websites and names of groups we care about.

• 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
• 2015-06-01
  • Stan suggested giving speakers the option of SLUUG mugs or stickers
• 2015-06-29
• 2015-08-03
  • No update.
• 2015-08-31

• 2015-06-01
• We'd like to get SSL certificates.
  • StartSSL is free for non-profits.
    • But we'd have to prove paperwork.
  • Let's Encrypt will be providing certs for free to everyone later this year.
• 2015-06-29
  • Let's Encrypt announced to be available during week of 14 September 2015.
• 2015-08-03
  • No update.
• 2015-08-31
• 2015-10-05 - no volunteers to do it for us yet.

• 2015-06-29
• Recent question at SLUUG General meeting has spurred some interest
• Lee Lamert has volunteered to chair
• We have an existing http://stlbsd.sluug.org/ web page, showing status as HIATUS.
  • So that URL will work if we were to reactivate and update links.
  • Web page could easily be updated to resemble the newer SIG designs.
• 2015-08-03
  • No update. We might [have] BSD presentation in September that [may] drive up interest.
• 2015-08-31
  • NextBSD announced on 8/23!

• See new logo samples; questions for the group:
  • St. Louis, SLUUG, <old byline> - any other main points to communicate?
    • "Unix, BSD, Linux"?
    • ??
  • First thought is something more landscape - others?
  • Should we also do SIG logos?
    • If so, which should be 'Tux'd?
    • Any other SIG logos? OpenSuSE? BSDs?
  • Is our old byline still usable?
• 2015-08-03
  • Lee L. will post reference to STEERCOM mailing list of samples.
  • Andrew L. submitting ideas to STEERCOM mailing list on keywords and graphic sequences.
  • Gary M. confused about community/share/open source references.
• 2015-08-31
  • Need to review and get feedback

• Anything?

* Need more Indians!

• Stan R for bird-dogging room changes at SLCL!
• Steve inventoried hardware

• Anything?

• 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.
• July 2016 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain with Dotster.
• August 2016 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status.
  • https://bsd.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/BusinessEntityDetail.aspx?page=beSearch&ID=681250

• 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.
• 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 - upload older videos to YouTube [or copy videos to a hard drive].
• Andrew L. - work on updates to web site.