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SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 2 January 2019

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

Location

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

Date and Time

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Start Meeting

  • Wednesday, January 2, 2019
    • Meeting called to order.
  • Time: 6:50pm

Attendees

Listed alphabetically by last name:

* Don Ellis

* David Forrest

* Ken Johnson

* Lee Lammert

* Gary Meyer

* Stan Reichardt

:?: * Steve Stegmann

:?: * Andrew St. Clair

Agenda Changes

  • Are there any additions, deletions, or other changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?
  • 2019-01-02
    • :?:

Secretary Report

  • Don Ellis
  • 2018-02-06
    • Stan: Instead of having just one individual edit wiki minutes, could we routinely round robin updating minutes?
    • Unattributed consensus: Good idea. Let's do it.
  • 2018-04-02
    • We did some of that during March meeting. Seemed to help improve recording somewhat.
  • 2018-04-30 for MAY
  • 2018-06-04
  • 2018-07-02
  • 2018-07-30 for AUGUST
  • 2018-08-27 for SEPTEMBER
  • 2018-10-01
  • 2018-11-07
    • Gary is in Long Island, attending remotely
  • 2018-12-03
    • Gary is in Long Island, attending remotely
  • 2019-01-02
    • :?:

Treasurer Report

Balance as of 1 November $4,594.88
Balance as of 30 November $4,594.88

Calendar Report

  • 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 2018:
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 171 179 177 183 176 168 162 176 206 294 236 197 2015
2016 260 277 314 231 183 191 157 166 222 224 212 157 2016
2017 133 141 177 168 137 143 124 158 173 163 168 129 2017
2018 165 177 166 179 162 165 147 176 166 184 163 113 2018
2019 ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? 2018
  • xxx - numbers not yet recorded.
  • ??? - Future Numbers.
  • Stopped counting general StL County Library events in May 2016.
  • Re-counted April 2016 without library events.

Subscriber Report

  • SUMMARY Mailing List Report combined with MEETUP membership count, now called Subscriber Report.
  • Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of December 2018:
Year '17 '18 Year
List Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec List
MEETUP 273 285 291 299 301 302 304 315 319 325 336 340 348 360 367 372 375 377 385 390 393 402 408 416 MEETUP
ANNOUNCE 582 580 575 570 569 569 569 568 566 562 562 559 556 544 543 543 545 542 535 534 533 531 531 533 ANNOUNCE
DISCUSS 197 196 193 190 191 192 191 192 191 189 188 189 188 188 187 187 187 187 187 185 184 184 185 183 DISCUSS
STEERCOM 36 36 35 34 34 34 34 34 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 32 32 32 32 32 31 31 31 STEERCOM
SYSADMIN 20 20 20 23 23 23 23 23 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 SYSADMIN
  • 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
  • xxx - numbers were not recorded.
  • - - dash indicates list did not previously exist.
  • We do NOT have any account access or control to our presence and videos on Google+ or YouTube.
  • We do NOT know how or what to count in Google+ NOR do we know how to metric videos.
  • We do NOT know how or what to count in YouTube NOR do we know how to metric videos.
  • No way to change meeting dates or set temporary hiatus in Google+

Attendance Report

  •  Hazelwood LUG renamed to Newcomer LUG. 
  • 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 2018:
Year '17 '18 Year
Meeting Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Meeting
Steercom 8 6 8 6 7 7 5 6 6 4 6 3 7 3 6 7 6 6 5 5 7 5 5 4 Steercom
SLACC 7 12 10 5 7 (10) 6 7 8 11 ?? 6 6 6 7 9 6 6 7 6 7 4 4 5 SLACC
SLUUG 20 17 24 17 10 13 7 13 12 21 14 16 14 13 13 18 15 11 8 15 14 14 10 13 SLUUG
STLLUG 14 15 18 14 15 14 18 16 16 12 (27) ?? 12 8 13 11 13 10 11 15 13 ?? 9 9 STLLUG
NEWLUG 9 10 ? 7 7 8 7 5 8 5 7 9 8 11 8 11 11 9 10 12 9 7 10 5 NEWLUG
sLUGs 9 6 10 4 3 3 4 4 3 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * sLUGs
SNUG SuSE 12 9 9 7 6 8 5 8 8 6 8 12 * * * * * * * * * * * * SNUG SuSe
  • xx - attendance was taken, numbers not yet recorded.
  • ?? - Question marks indicate attendance not taken or sheet missing.
  • () - Number in parentheses is head count. Use head count if greater than attendance sheet count (or sheet missing).
  • * - sLUGs was STL Linux Users Group for Seniors with initial meeting 8 February 2015. Discontinued October 2017.
  • * - SNUG SuSe was STL Novell Users Group with lunch meeting. Discontinued December 2017.
  • - - dash indicates no meeting.

Meeting Review Comments

December 2018

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STEERCOM - December 3

  • HISTORY: Steering Committee usually meets on Monday of the week prior to (9 days) General Meeting.
  • VENUE Panera ~ St. Louis Bread Co., 10550 Old Olive Street Rd, Creve Coeur, MO 63141
  • Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
  • :?:

SLACC - December 6

  • SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
    • VENUE St. Louis County Library Rock Road Branch

Annual Tech Bowling Party - December 10

  • VENUE Moolah Lanes, 3821 Lindell Blvd # 2, St. Louis, MO 63108

SLUUG - December 12

    • VENUE Graybar Electric Company Inc., 11885 Lackland Road, St. Louis MO 63146
    • BASE (Personal Computing):
      • Automatic (and free) video captioning (by Don Ellis)
      • COORDINATOR: Don Ellis
      • CONFIRMED: YES
      • TENTATIVE: Ryan Coleman of Paradowski= Slack presenter via Gary Meyer
        • RColeman@Paradowski.com. (314)349-7489 349 Marshall Ave. Webster 63119
        • Lee: takes about 10 minutes to explain Slack
          • Ryan had scheduling conflicts in both Oct & Nov (per Gary on Tues Oct 2).
      • VERY TENTATIVE: Dustin Turpin, host of Open Street Map: How to be a good Slack user
        • Was not available for November, out of town. Focusing on finishing up his semester. Per email reply 2018-11-07
        • All about Slack. Describes his material as only taking 10-15 minutes.
        • As of 11/7, Dustin looks available for December 12, but not committed yet
        • Ryan also only 10-15 minutes
        • Consider joint presentation
      • Gary: One or both might not show
      • :?:
      • MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
        • Networking 101 (by Dave Forrest)
      • COORDINATOR: Dave Forrest
      • CONFIRMED: YES
      • TENTATIVE: Apple interfaces and accessories for audio & video (by Don)
      • TENTATIVE: Bill Odom could say something about vim.
      • Note: Stan served Penguin Cheddar Snack Crackers!

NEWLUG - December 18 (Third Tuesday)

  •  Hazelwood LUG renamed to Newcomer LUG. 
    • Note: We changed name to reflect that this LUG rarely meets in Hazelwood.
  • NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
    • TOPICS are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
      • NEWLUG home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off
    • VENUE St. Louis County Library Rock Road Branch
      • NOTICE Date is Holiday schedule and LOCATION is due to library issues.
      • DATE and LOCATION previously scheduled at Indian Trails. Old library reservation failed, under new system an opening was found.
      • Day prior to the meeting the Library sent out reminders for both Indian Trails and Rock Road rooms.

STLLUG - December 20

  • STLLUG is the primary St. Louis Linux Users Group.
    • VENUE Graybar Electric Company Inc., 11885 Lackland Road, St. Louis MO 63146
      • QUESTION Might holiday season cause us to lose out on this meeting space?
      • ANSWER Lee contacted Nick and Elena Pizzaria and learned they had a holiday party scheduled.
    • TOPIC: MySQL Workbench (by Lee Lammert)
      • COORDINATOR: Lee Lammert
      • CONFIRMED: YES
      • Lee: If we don't do MySQL Workbench at SLUUG Main, could push it to the LUG
      • Gary remembers speaking to a young couple at October meeting about doing presentation on RMS distro
        • Bug Gary about following up with the guy
      • :?:

Christmas Eve - December 24 (Monday)

Christmas Day - December 25 (Tuesday)

New Year Eve - December 31 (Monday)

Schedule

January 2019

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New Year Day - HOLIDAY - January 1 (Tuesday)

STEERCOM - January 2 (Wednesday)

NORMAL rotation would conflict with New Year Eve and New Year Day!!!!

  • HISTORY Steering Committee usually meets on Monday of the week prior to (9 days) General Meeting.
  • PRIMARY selected alternative is Wednesday 2nd of January
  • SECONDARY considered alternative was January 7th
  • VENUE Panera ~ St. Louis Bread Co., 10550 Old Olive Street Rd, Creve Coeur, MO 63141
  • Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
  • :?:

SLACC - January 3

  • SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
    • VENUE St. Louis County Library Rock Road Branch

SLUUG - January 9

    • VENUE Graybar Electric Company Inc., 11885 Lackland Road, St. Louis MO 63146
    • BASE (Personal Computing):
      • To Be Determined (TBD)
      • COORDINATOR: :?:
      • CONFIRMED: NO
      • :?:
    • MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
      • To Be Determined (TBD)
      • COORDINATOR: :?:
      • CONFIRMED: NO
      • :?:

STLLUG - January 17

  • STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
    • VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114
      • Make sure that the waiter/waitress/server puts a name on every order ticket.
    • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
      • COORDINATOR: :?:
      • CONFIRMED: NO
      • :?:

NEWLUG - January 22

  • NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
    • TOPICS are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
      • NEWLUG home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off
    • VENUE St. Louis County Library Rock Road Branch

February 2019

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STEERCOM - February 4

  • HISTORY Steering Committee usually meets on Monday of the week prior to (9 days) General Meeting.
  • VENUE Panera ~ St. Louis Bread Co., 10550 Old Olive Street Rd, Creve Coeur, MO 63141
  • Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
  • Start talking up the upcoming election
    • talk about the board
    • get people to help with operations
    • get people to attend meetings

SLACC - February 7

  • SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
    • Ballots should be made available.
    • VENUE St. Louis County Library Rock Road Branch

SLUUG - February 13

    • ANNUAL Board meeting and election.
    • Ballots should be made available.
    • VENUE Graybar Electric Company Inc., 11885 Lackland Road, St. Louis MO 63146
    • BASE (Personal Computing):
      • To Be Determined (TBD)
        • COORDINATOR: :?:
        • CONFIRMED: NO
        • :?:
    • MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
      • To Be Determined (TBD)
        • COORDINATOR: :?:
        • CONFIRMED: NO
        • :?:

STLLUG - February 21

  • STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
    • Ballots should be made available.
    • REQUIRED SLUUG Annual Board Meeting and elections.
    • VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114
    • TOPIC: OpenVAS by Tony Zafiropoulos
      • COORDINATOR: Gary Meyer
      • CONFIRMED: NO
      • :?:

NEWLUG - February 26

  • NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
    • Ballots should be made available.
    • TOPICS are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
      • NEWLUG home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off
    • VENUE St. Louis County Library Rock Road Branch

March 2019

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STEERCOM - Steering Committee - March 4

  • HISTORY Steering Committee usually meets on Monday of the week prior to (9 days) General Meeting.
  • VENUE Panera ~ St. Louis Bread Co., 10550 Old Olive Street Rd, Creve Coeur, MO 63141
  • Link to potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
  • Board to count ballots and announce results

SLACC - March 7

  • SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
    • VENUE St. Louis County Library Rock Road Branch
    • Announce election results.

SLUUG - March 13

    • Announce election results.
    • VENUE Graybar Electric Company Inc., 11885 Lackland Road, St. Louis MO 63146
    • BASE (Personal Computing):
      • To Be Determined (TBD)
        • COORDINATOR: :?:
        • CONFIRMED: NO
        • :?:
    • MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
      • To Be Determined (TBD)
        • COORDINATOR: :?:
        • CONFIRMED: NO
        • :?:

STLLUG - March 21

  • STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
    • Announce election results.
    • VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114
    • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
      • COORDINATOR: :?:
      • CONFIRMED: NO
      • :?:

NEWLUG - March 26

  • NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
    • Announce election results.
    • TOPICS are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
      • NEWLUG home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which to take off
    • VENUE St. Louis County Library Rock Road Branch

Old Business

Server Admin

  • SUMMARY: We put up a server on the Internet for email, it grew, and now we have to maintain it.
  •  Agenda item narratives prior to 2018 have been removed. 
  • 2018-01-02
  • 2018-02-06
  • 2018-03-05
    • Situation at Contegix remains, running obsolete CentOS
    • Contegix has requested we move to more modern host system at much reduced monthly cost over standard rates (getting it free for past 10 years); have not yet received proposal.
  • 2018-04-02
    • Mike Knight has been cleaning house to reduce volume [of Gary's email] that needs to be migrated
    • Lee has been discussing terms with Contegix for continued service
    • Lee has explored Digital Ocean – they can't send valid confirmation mail
    • Lee is willing to put up server in Bat Cave
    • Lee will attempt a June 30 target date for migration
  • 2018-04-30 for MAY
    • We have new VPS (Virtual Private Server) – Michelob, abbreviation "m"
      • Located in Bat Cave
      • Debian 9
      • See Lee for access
    • Set goal to configure Michelob to go live by end of May
      • Work days to be scheduled
        • Web first half May
        • email & mailing lists second half May
  • 2018-06-04
    • BOCK Transition Team met in Bat Cave on Wednesday 23 and Wednesday 30 May. Next session will be Wednesday 6 June.
    • BOCK Transition Team members Chuck Doolittle, Don Ellis (23 May), Mike Knight, Lee Lammert, Andrew St Clair, Stan Reichardt, and Steve Stegmann
    • Chuck Doolittle volunteered to set up *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
    • Andrew: We have running todo list on sysadmin tasks
  • 2018-07-02
    • BOCK Transition Team met in Bat Cave on …
    • BOCK Transition Team members Chuck Doolittle, Don Ellis (23 May), Mike Knight, Lee Lammert, Andrew St Clair, Stan Reichardt, Steve Stegmann, and Gary Meyer.
    • Ongoing AMBER replacement wiki documentation
    •  NOTE Surrounding pasted notes with < code > and < / code > tags improve display ~ stanr.  
    • The XFER of all functions to BOCK on the VM at OMNItec (and off of Amber at Contegix) will happen TONITE after this SteerCom mtng. Lee has tested mail clients.
  • 2018-07-30 for AUGUST
    • Stan reports that we need to arrange to set up separate cert for stllug.org domain since it doesn’t match wildcard. Must be sure and continue paying for it!
      • Lee points out we can set up Stllinux.org to redirect to stllinux.sluug.org and avoid the warnings.
  • 2018-08-27 for SEPTEMBER
  • 2018-10-01
    • Bock is humming
    • Lee has to install SpamAssassin
    • At some time may need to move to different hosts, but that won’t affect anything other than maybe a few hours downtime.
  • 2018-11-07
    • November 2018 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
    • Lee reported it as done in October.
    • Consider that URLs www.stllinux.org and www.stllug.org both transition to http://stllug.sluug.org
    • Lee: Servers are running. Still need to do email filtering.
    • QUESTION (Stan): Do we have to worry about losing ownership of those two domains?
  • 2018-12-03
    • ANSWER (Lee): Autorenew via Dotster – sluug, stllinux, stlwebdev
  • 2019-01-02
    • Lee Lammert and Mike Knight working on SpamAssassin. Extensive plan developed by Mike Knight.
    • QUESTION (Stan): Do we have to worry about losing ownership of the stllug.org domains?
    • ANSWER
    • :?:

Rename HZWLUG to NEWLUG

  • 2018-12-03
    • QUESTION: Is there any new business to consider?
    • YES, Stan R would like to rename the Hazelwood LUG to the Newcomer LUG.
    • BACKGROUND: Phil Bunch commented that the November HZWLUG was finally meeting in Hazelwood.
    • Stan R and Gary Meyer discussed, realized that the Hazelwood LUG name was confusing to new attendees.
    • Stan R would like to transition web site from https://hzwlug.sluug.org/ to https://newlug.sluug.org/.
    • Stan R would rather use term newcomer instead of newbie or beginner whenever possible.
      • Consensus: Lee, Dave, Don, & Gary concur
  • 2019-01-02
    • Chuck and Lee made DNS changes.
    • Stan R duplicated HZWLUG to NEWLUG directories and made initial name changes in HTML files.
    • :?:

Web Site SLUUG.ORG Maintenance

  • SUMMARY: Our traditional Internet presence is with our main SLUUG web site.
  •  Agenda item narratives prior to 2018 have been removed. 
  • 2018-01-02
  • 2018-02-06
    • Copyright date on web page footer changed.
    • Appearance of the drop down list of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) has been completely cleaned up by removing defunct groups.
    • Stan R has been experimenting with altering the SLUUG General Meeting current design with new structure TEST design.
      • This structure is same as the one Andrew Latham provided for the STL LUG and is now being used for all of our active LUGs.
      • Have not yet been able to figure out color scheme coding.
      • Setting the right sequence of sections for smart phone display will be important; but, is proving to be quite hard to manipulate.
      • Most sections look fine on desktop FireFox browser display; but, some are missing on smart phone display possibly because of considerable errors in HTML.
  • 2018-03-05
    • Stan R had wrong meeting date on SLUUG main page (it still showed January date) and failed to update SLUUG February topics on MEETUP page.
    • Lee Lammert updated SLUUG February topics on the MEETUP page.
    • Above errors, delays and omissions may have affected SLUUG general meeting February attendance.
    • ANNOUNCE for the week and our Google Calendar entries had correct information.
  • 2018-04-02
  • 2018-04-30 for MAY
    • Stan R has updated SLACC and Hazelwood meeting dates on respective update pages.
  • 2018-06-04
    • Stan R is updating HTML pages on BOCK.
    • Special Interest Group meeting sites SLACC, STLLINUX and Hazelwood have been updated for June.
    • General meeting home page is a work in progress. What sponsor do I remove?
      • Lee: better question is "what sponsors do I keep?"
  • 2018-07-02
    • Somehow the Sponsored Events half of the SLUUG Google Calendar lost permissions and had to be reset. That had caused loss of our abbreviated calendars on all web sites.
    • Andrew Latham provided some very constructive criticism on Stan R's effort to develop future replacement main SLUUG test page.
  • 2018-07-30 for AUGUST
    • Stan is the magician
    • Stan: what happens come January?
      • Lee: we’ll just make sure Stan can’t sell the house.
  • 2018-08-27 for SEPTEMBER
  • 2018-10-01
    • Stan R had switched main SLUUG home page style to smartphone friendlier format.
    • Stanford B complained about incorrect feature. Stan R suggested Stanford B could volunteer to fix. (Sound of crickets chirping.)
  • 2018-11-07
  • 2018-12-03
    • QUESTION: Are there any significant problems with the new home page style?
    • ANSWER: (Don) I had problem selecting the Wiki from top menu. Menu vanished when I scrolled down below item #6. Menu is white text, transparent over pale blue background. I scrolled all the way to bottom to get another list of links. Dave suggested clicking on the menu head, which opens another page of links.
  • 2019-01-02
    • Stan R fixed error that kept website from displaying the ATTENDANCE sheets page.
    • QUESTION: Are there any other broken pages?
    • :?:

Web Site MEETUP.COM Maintenance

  • SUMMARY: We have presence on MEETUP.COM.
  •  Agenda item narratives prior to 2018 have been removed. 
  • 2018-01-02
    • As of 31 December a total of 340 have joined with our MEETUP.COM site. See counts in the Other Kinda Stuff Report above.
    • (Stan) – Meetup is a PITA and he ends up missing things.
  • 2018-02-06
  • 2018-03-05
    • A total of 360 have joined with our MEETUP.COM site, as of this February. Compared to ??? last February.
    • Unknown number have actually attended.
  • 2018-04-02
    • A total of 367 have joined with our MEETUP.COM site, as of this March. Compared to 291 last March.
    • Stan wants someone else to respond to email inquiries and update calendar entries
    • One person attended March SLUUG meeting due to Meetup contact
  • 2018-04-30 for MAY
    • A total of 372 have joined with our MEETUP.COM site, as of this April. Compared to 299 last April.
  • 2018-06-04
    • Transferred other social media issues to separate category.
    • We continue to need someone to help utilize MEETUP.COM resource.
  • 2018-07-02
  • 2018-07-30 for AUGUST
    • Stan: Meetup maintenance is a PITA
  • 2018-08-27 for SEPTEMBER
  • 2018-10-01
  • 2018-11-07
    • Gary Meyer has signed up with MEETUP. Stan R elevated him to CO-ORGANIZER status so he can maintain pages and events.
  • 2018-12-03
    • QUESTION: Should anyone else be elevated to CO-ORGANIZE status?
    • ANSWER: (Gary) Yes. Any volunteers?
  • 2019-01-02
    • :?:

Saint Louis County Library Room Reservations

  • SUMMARY: Room reservations at Saint Louis County Library Branches are available on each first Saturday of October and April.
  • HISTORY: We routinely reserve and pay fees for monthly SIG meetings at various Saint Louis County Library Branches.
  •  Agenda item narratives prior to 2018 have been removed. 
  • 2018-01-02
  • 2018-02-06
    • Thanks to Phil Bunch the April SLACC meeting date has been restored to the first Thursday of month pattern.
  • 2018-03-05
    • Only the March SLACC meeting date remains out of sequence. Phil keeps an eye out for an 8 March opening.
    • Next deadline for reservations is 7 April; Stan & Phil Bunch will take care of it.
  • 2018-04-02
    • Needed by SLACC and HZWLUG for last half of year
    • Stan & Phil have it under control
  • 2018-04-30 for MAY
    • Phil Bunch had success with all SLACC meeting dates and using Rock Road locations. Stan missed Saturday registration for HZWLUG.
    • All preferred Prairie Commons dates were Library reserved anyway, and differing dates and locations had to be found. The Indian Trails Branch messed up confirmations.
    • STL County Library Reservation made for SLACC and HZWLUG done, two payments still needed. i
    • Our web page schedules updated, still need to update location information on our Google calendar and all MEETUP information.
    • Problem with activating new Regions bank card used to make payments.
  • 2018-06-04
    • Was able to pay for rooms with new Regions bank card; but, one of the meetings may not be properly credited by library.
    • The new Regions bank card may need to be realigned with different Federal account number.
  • 2018-07-02
  • 2018-07-30 for AUGUST
  • 2018-08-27 for SEPTEMBER
  • 2018-10-01
    • Saint Louis County Library Room Reservations for SLACC and HZWLUG to be made October 6
    • Stan R unavailable; Phil Bunch had volunteered and Dave F. was to check in with him Tue 10/2
    • Phil agreed to handle making SLACC and HZWLUG reservations. Stan R provided paperwork to Phil.
  • 2018-11-07
    • Library had new reservation system.
    • New reservation system revealed that one December 2018 session had not been booked.
    • Unfamiliar staff booked some HZWLUG meetings to wrong branch.
    • Corrected reservations, confirmed all and paid all.
    • HZWLUG and SLACC home pages have been updated to indicate scheduled dates and room codes.
    • The next reservation cycle will begin again the first Saturday of April.
  • 2018-12-03
    • Gary: System wide county library have changed reservation procedures around Oct 2018; working out bugs, had problems a month or so, but now seems to be working well.
  • 2019-01-02
    • :?:

Internet Presence on Other Social Media

  • SUMMARY: We presume that our single web site isn't enough to draw younger crowd.
  •  Agenda item narratives prior to 2018 have been removed. 
  • 2018-06-04
    • Internet Presence on Social Media other than MEETUP.COM site needs to be addressed separately.
    • Transferred other social media issues from Internet Presence to separate stanzas here.
    • We have no presence on FACEBOOK or TWITTER.
    • We have lost control of our presence on GOOGLE+ and YOUTUBE. We don't even know how to count anything there.
    • See counts in the Other Kinda Stuff Report above.
  • 2018-07-02
  • 2018-07-30 for AUGUST
  • 2018-08-27 for SEPTEMBER
    • Stan stated MEETUP.COM editing is problematic.
    • Stan stated that we STILL don’t have control of Google+ and YouTube
  • 2018-10-01
    • Andrew MAY have been creator of G+ and YouTube presence
  • 2018-11-07
  • 2018-12-03
    • We do NOT know how or what to count in Google+ NOR do we know how to metric videos.
    • We do NOT know how or what to count in YouTube NOR do we know how to metric videos.
    • We do NOT have any account access or control to our presence and videos on Google+ or YouTube.
    • No way to change meeting dates or set temporary hiatus in Google+
    • NOTE: Google+ will be shut down by the end of August 2019
    • What do we do about videos that are up there? Do we have them archived? Do we need to capture them? Move them to U-Tube? Do we do nothing?
    • Stan R obtained hard drive containing Don's videos and voice recordings without having made any progress in trying to combine them.
    • QUESTION: Does it matter, do we know what to do, or does anyone care?
    • ANSWER: Gary will pursue G+; Don will pursue YouTube
      • Credentials, etc
  • 2019-01-02
    • :?:

Uploading Presentations

  • SUMMARY: We have recorded many of our past meetings and made them available on the Internet.
  •  Agenda item narratives prior to 2018 have been removed. 
  • 2018-01-02
    • Don is presenting on this on Wed Jan 10
  • 2018-02-06
    • Stan R gave 1 TB USB Hard Drive to Don E for copying video and voice files.
  • 2018-03-05
    • Don brought HD back to Stan R so he can mess around with it and get something done.
  • 2018-04-02
    • With any luck, Stan R will report progress before moving to Vegas
  • 2018-04-30 for MAY
    • Stan R has not yet made progress
  • 2018-06-04
    • Stan: HD is still in plastic bag
  • 2018-07-02
  • 2018-07-30 for AUGUST
  • 2018-08-27 for SEPTEMBER
  • 2018-10-01
    • Dave suggested finding auto CC system. Requires research
  • 2018-11-07
    • Stan R obtained hard drive containing Don's videos and voice recordings without having made any progress in trying to combine them.
    • QUESTION: Does it matter, do we know what to do, or does anyone care?
      • Stan will be using his stream editor to combine the videos
    • Lee: Don needs to discover SLUUG video credentials and place them at bock:/home/SLUUG
    • QUESTION: Please explain "Share gmail data with screichardt@gmail.com"
  • 2018-12-03
  • 2019-01-02
    • :?:

Camera and Microphone

  • SUMMARY: We try to record many of our meetings.
  •  Agenda item narratives prior to 2018 have been removed. 
  • 2018-01-02
  • 2018-02-06
  • 2018-03-05
    • See how Stan's editing comes out and decide if we need to buy more.
  • 2018-04-02
    • Don acquired 2 GoPro Hero4 cameras for evaluation.
    • Don will visit Schiller again to get quote for solution to requirements
      • Need external power, microphone, auxiliary lens, & remoter control for two cameras
      • Will get quote so we can allocate funds
  • 2018-04-30 for MAY
    • Don returned 2 GoPro Hero4
      • one DOA
      • second camera demonstrated that file format is too bulky
        • second camera was defective
    • Don acquired directional microphone and mic mount for iPhone, and tripod for mic mounted assembly
      • Don is testing revised configuration
  • 2018-06-04
    • Don: No progress yet – will revisit next month
  • 2018-07-02
  • 2018-07-30 for AUGUST
  • 2018-08-27 for SEPTEMBER
  • 2018-10-01
  • 2018-11-07
    • Stan R obtained hard drive containing Don's videos and voice recordings without having made any progress in trying to combine them.
    • QUESTION: Does it matter, do we know what to do, or does anyone care?
    • Don: Microphone bought online is not adequate; will continue to search
    • Lee suggested going to Schiller's and getting shotgun mic with 3.5mm
  • 2018-12-03
    • ANSWER: see under "Uploading Presentations" above
    • Don needs to visit Schiller's again
  • 2019-01-02
    • :?:

Sponsorships

  • SUMMARY: We seek financial support from the tech community.
  • HISTORY: We are not good at it.
  •  Agenda item narratives prior to 2018 have been removed. 
  • 2018-01-02
  • 2018-02-06
  • 2018-03-05
  • 2018-04-02
  • 2018-04-30 for MAY
  • 2018-06-04
    • Nada
  • 2018-07-02
  • 2018-07-30
  • 2018-07-30 for AUGUST
  • 2018-08-27 for SEPTEMBER
  • 2018-10-01
    • Gary commented on last week’s DevOps meeting - poor presentation but good food resulted in good attendance.
    • How do we get headhunters & job hunters to attend, resulting in good food.
    • Or, how to get commercial software vendors to sponsor meeting if we’re not in market for the software?
  • 2018-11-07
    • The new style SLUUG home page no longer features a rotating sponsor logo display.
    • QUESTION: Does it matter, do we know what to do, or does anyone care?
      • Consider this a moot point, since we don't have enough to rotate (other than Lee).
  • 2018-12-03
    • ANSWER: Ads are gone on new website
  • 2019-01-02
    • :?:

ANNOUNCE Mailing List

  • SUMMARY: The ANNOUNCE mailing is a weekly extract of our SLUUG GOOGLE Calendar of Events.
  • HISTORY: The subscriber list has been populated from attendance sheets by a nominating subscription process.
  • 2018-04-30 for MAY
    • Stan found himself remiss in nominating attendee email addresses from attendance sheets.
      • Procrastination is ugly. Until this weekend, none of email addresses for all of 2017 were nominated to ANNOUNCE and DISCUSS mailing lists.
      • Suggest we emphasise self registration at each meeting by way of our web resource sign up pages.
      • Print more cards with sign up procedure to hand out at meetings
      • If nobody other than Stan R will build weekly ANNOUNCE mailing, why bother with ANNOUNCE list?
  • 2018-06-04
    • At a few meetings in May we pointed new attendees to self registration by way of our web resource sign up pages.
    • With the transition from AMBER to BOCK we switched to using web pages on BOCK where mailing list sign ups are broken.
    • Magnanimous Mike Knight provided a DNS procedure with local /etc/host which provided a work-around process.
    • Stan R was able to send out the ANNOUNCE mailing using that work-around process.
    • Andrew St Clair wrote a script to help massage ANNOUNCE text; but, GOOGLE changed calendar text structure, negating effort.
    • Gary M never got together with Stan R to see how ANNOUNCE was assembled and deployed (Outstanding action item since 2017-06).
  • 2018-07-02
  • 2018-07-30 for AUGUST
  • 2018-08-27 for SEPTEMBER
  • 2018-10-01
    • Lee loves it, scans it every time it comes out
  • 2018-11-07
    • Stan R failed to provide 1 November SLACC meeting listing with extra expanded editing to stand out in the 29 October mailing.
    • Subsequent posting to DISCUSS list used extra expanded editing features.
  • 2018-12-03
    • QUESTION: Would someone else (besides Stan R) take on generating the weekly ANNOUNCE mailing?
    • NEW IDEA: Per Lee: Send Announce email to Meetup group instead of updating Meetup page every month
    • PROPOSAL: scrape info from calendar into weekly ANNOUNCE; send ANNOUNCE to Meetup email address
  • 2019-01-02
    • Scraping info from calendar into weekly ANNOUNCE; send ANNOUNCE to Meetup email address
      • Would not work because of MEETUP.COM message size limitation.
    • QUESTION: Would someone else (besides Stan R) take on generating the weekly ANNOUNCE mailing?
    • :?:

Handouts

  • SUMMARY: We have informational handout PDFs available http://www.sluug.org/resources/handouts/.
  • HISTORY: The PDFs are generated with LibreOffice. The originating files are stored along with generated PDFs.
  •  Agenda item narratives prior to 2018 have been removed. 
  • 2018-01-02
  • 2018-02-06
  • 2018-03-05
  • 2018-04-02
  • 2018-04-30 for MAY
    • Would be nice to have handouts to leave at ARIN meeting
    • Handouts would be excellent test of capabilities of Lee's new printer
  • 2018-06-04
    • Does anyone NOT KNOW where to get our handouts, so that they could print and fold them?
  • 2018-07-02
    • Does anyone KNOW where to get our handouts, so that they could print and fold them?
  • 2018-07-30 for AUGUST
  • 2018-08-27 for SEPTEMBER
  • 2018-10-01
    • Should get handouts for SUSE meeting
    • If Lee can find right PDF, can make 20-30 copies
    • Lee has new printer
    • Stan was volunteered to tell Lee which brochures to print. Stan didn't volunteer.
  • 2018-11-07
  • 2018-12-03
    • QUESTION: Would someone else (besides Stan R) take on printing and maintaining an inventory of our brochures?
    • ANSWER: Lee will print them if someone will tell him what they want.
    • Gary: We still need someone to dictate content of handouts
  • 2019-01-02
    • Linux User Group Name on the Beginner Handout will be changed from Hazelwood to Newcomer by Stan R..
    • :?:

Linux Stickers

  • 2018-10-01
    • Gary suggests buying several of the packs @$1 to give out at meetings.
    • see unixstickers.com stickermule.com (same site)
    • Board ad hoc approved that Gary will purchase some stickers to use as giveaways.
  • 2018-11-07
  • 2018-11-07
    • Gary didn't realize that he was volunteered, since he is out of town momentum will likely be slow.
  • 2018-12-03
    • QUESTION: Would someone else (besides Gary M) assume the mission?
    • ANSWER: Lee can't find source for printing tux key stickers
  • 2019-01-02
    • :?:

Summer Workshops

  • 2018-06-04
    • Thoughts about announcing workshops for summer meetings instead of actual topics. Prevent having to develop presentations. OTOH, would be helpful to have topics for the workshops, so not zero effort.
  • 2018-07-02
    • Stan R posted to DISCUSS mailing list an item with SUBJECT: Possible SLUUG Summer Workshops, inviting feedback on the topic.
  • 2018-07-30 for AUGUST
    • Stan: Being in the middle of summer, seems a little late to try anything, other than gather opinions for next year.
  • 2018-08-27 for SEPTEMBER
    • Start planning next April for summertime hiatus
    • Schedule “workshops” in July & August
  • 2018-10-01
  • 2018-11-07
  • 2018-12-03
    • QUESTION: Should/Would someone set up a www.strawpoll.me questionnaire to promote and evaluate interest?
    • ANSWER: (Gary) Should: Yes. Would: No. No movement toward setting up and pushing questionnaire.
  • 2019-01-02
    • :?:

We Need Help

  • SUMMARY: We don't have enough volunteers to do everything consistently.
  • Need new members who want to do stuff. Same as every month.
  •  Agenda item narratives prior to 2018 have been removed. 
  • 2018-01-02
    • Lee has clipboard; has to give it to Don for entry into minutes
    • Stan has been snowed under & would like help updating list of previous presentations
  • 2018-02-06
  • 2018-03-05
  • 2018-04-02
    • During Xmas break, grad student from Mississippi came to SNUG, SLUUG, & Linux. Gary needs to reach out to him and request the help he offered. Check sign up sheets from meetings.
    • Gary expresses concern that we're not getting new members. Need to find ways to connect. Do we need to cut back on presentations or find new people?
  • 2018-04-30 for MAY
    • Two or three potential new members among new attendees
  • 2018-06-04
  • 2018-07-02
  • 2018-07-30 for AUGUST
  • 2018-08-27 for SEPTEMBER
  • 2018-10-01
    • Stan has done awesome work. Promises to leave by around January.
      • If Stan leaves, many tasks he does will have to be done by someone else
    • How can we get someone to perform these tasks?
      • Website?
      • Weekly announce list?
    • Might have to reduce meetings
      • Main vs Linux?
      • Hazelwood, SLACC?
  • 2018-11-07
  • 2018-12-03
    • QUESTION: Any new volunteers to help?
  • 2019-01-02
    • QUESTION: Any new volunteers to help?
    • :?:

New Business

Any New Business

  • 2019-01-02
    • :?:

Recognize Useful Efforts

  • SUMMARY: When somebody does something to help!
    • QUESTION: Did anyone do anything helpful?
  • 2019-01-02
    • :?:

Blue Sky Ideas

  • SUMMARY: Food for thought ~ anything not previously covered that provides mental stimulus for thinking about improvements or problems.
    • Some ideas are Off-The-Record ~ NOT TO BE RECORDED!
    • Some ideas should be publicized.~ SHOULD BE RECORDED!
    • If a speaker believes something should not be recorded, the record operator needs to be notified.
    • Each speaker should initially declare whether an idea should be recorded or not.
    • Each speaker should initially declare whether GPS location should be recorded or not.
  • 2019-01-02
    • :?:

Adjourn Meeting

  • Wednesday, January 2, 2019
    • QUESTION: When was meeting adjourned?
    • Time: 8:50pm

Recurring Requirements

  • November 2018 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
    • Lee reports it is done
  • January 2019 - STLLINUX.ORG domain automatic renewal.
  • February 2019 - SLUUG Annual Board meeting and elections.
    • Verify renewal of certs with LetsEncrypt
  • March 2019 - Count Ballots
  • April 2019 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
  • June 2019 - BuddyNS SLUUG account due
    • Lee is updating account
  • June 2019 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status due.
  • July 2019 - SLUUG.ORG domain is domain automatic renewal? Is it with Dotster?
    • Lee was going to update credit card info. Done.
  • October 2019 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
  • December 2019 - STLWEBDEV.ORG is domain automatic renewal?
  • April 2020 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
  • January 2020 - STLLINUX.ORG domain automatic renewal.
  • February 2020 - SLUUG Annual Board meeting and elections.
  • March 2020 - Count Ballots
  • May 2020 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status. e-postcard.

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.
  • Don Ellis - upload older videos to Google Photos and/or Google Docs & publish links
  • Gary Meyer - Build spreadsheet to track domain name registrations. See http://bgp.he.net/ip/207.223.253.71#_dns
  • Gary Meyer - Did not follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
    • SLACC.COM is now in use by someone else.
    • SLACC.ORG could be registered. SLACC.ORG available for sale ~ only $499
  • Lee Lammert - Reminder: If anyone needs SLUUG critical info, it's stored on Amber /home/SLUUG
  • Stan R. ~ Remind Gary Meyer to bring Penguins to meetings and hand out pamphlets.
  • Stan and Gary should get together and discuss how ANNOUNCE is done
  • Next March or April:
    • schedule workshops for July and August
  • Possible presentation - suggested 11/7/18
    • Apple interfaces and accessories for audio & video (by Don)
  • Possible presentation (Stan R item) - suggested 12/3/18 by Lee
    • Identify/contact couple who attended Lee's Pi presentation, brought Pi cluster running Kubernetes
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