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

• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
  • Pick the recording service we used below, then delete others (and this line):
  • This session may be done with ZOOM thru OMNITEC provided remote video service, to make primary recording.
  • This session may be done with JITSI on https://nyx.omnitec.net/ remote video service, to make primary recording.
  • Stan R ( will use | used ) Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make ( primary | secondary | additional ) recording.
  • 

• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
  • Pick the recording service we used below, then delete others (and this line):
  • This session may be done with ZOOM thru the OMNITEC provided remote video service, to make primary recording.
  • Stan R used Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make secondary additional recording.
• 2021-01-04
  • Again the SimpleScreenRecorder sound messed up.

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• Monday, March 1st, 2020
• 2021-03-01
  • QUESTION: When was meeting called to order?
    • TIME: 18:47

Listed alphabetically by last name:

* James Conroy

* Don Ellis

* David Forrest

* Ken Johnson

* Lee Lammert

* Gary Meyer

* Stan Reichardt

* Steve Stegmann

SUMMARY: This is where we consider any additions, deletions, sequence, or other changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda.

• HISTORY:
• We consider changes prior to all reviews, planning and OLD BUSINESS items by jumping ahead, then back, without altering agenda layout.
• We jump to old items then back to usual sequence.
• We jump to *New Business* section, create new item, consider, then jump back to usual sequence.
• By not altering agenda layout, it is easier to build next month's agenda. Moving a previous item out of sequence made editing difficult.

• NEW BUSINESS: Any other new business?
• Are there any additions, deletions, sequence, or other changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?
• 2021-03-01
  • Submit ballot counts to Board.

• 2021-03-01
  • Don Ellis no longer available as Secretary.
  • Stan R acting as recording secretary.

• 2021-02-01 Comments for last month:
  • Lee unable to file 1099 IRS form on line. Web site broken on government end.
  • Auto renew of STLWEBDEV was DISABLED on 4 January 2021.
• 2021-03-01 Comments for this month:
  • Lee will try to file IRS Form 1099 again. Online filing deadline is 31 March.

• 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. All sponsored events are shown in red.
• Items have been added and corrected by Stan R, Gary Meyer and Don Ellis.
• Items listed on this calendar were used to 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 2020:

• Greyed out areas indicate corrections or never previously reported counts.
• xxx - numbers not recorded.
• ??? - Future Numbers.
• Stopped counting general StL County Library events in May 2016.
• Re-counted April 2016 without library events.
• Count of calendar entries for May is down from previous months. No explanation is given.
• Count of calendar entries for March 2020 misleading because of
• Limited maintenance effort for March 2020 because CORONAVIRUS-19 self-isolation effects.
• Started counting moved and delayed items in April 2020 as they were considered being useful.
• Improvements in Google Calendar feature limits to five days processing at at time, takes about 10 times as long to perform. Much more tedious.

• 2021-03-01 Comments this month:
  • Of the 170 total, 37 were cancelled, 7 delayed, and 3 moved; so, leaving 123 active.

• SUMMARY Mailing List Report combined with MEETUP membership count, now called Subscriber Report.
• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of February 2020:

• Numbers as end of each month.
• Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet. This will be much easier to do on BOCK.
• 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 (This doesn't seem to work on Bock.)
• Greyed out areas indicate corrections or never previously reported counts.
• xxx - numbers not recorded.
• ??? - Future Numbers.
• - - 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+
• Don will investigate Google+ status
• Don will place credentials for YouTube and any others on Bock /home/sluug

• 2021-03-01 Comments this month:
  • Gary will try to get Don to explain what he had in mind about Gloogle+ status.
  • Google+ has been cancelled, so will delete reference tasks..

• 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 2020:

• Greyed out areas indicate corrections or never previously reported counts.
• xx - numbers not yet recorded, attendance not taken, or sheet missing.
• ?? - Future Numbers.
• (9) - 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.

• 2021-03-01 Comments this month:
  • Numbers do not include Fellow Jitsters, because they sometimes turn into named participants, may be duplicate reconnects, or just drop off.
  • SLACC recording with Jitsi and Firefox did not work correctly. I think there were about 8 or 10 that attended.
  • Recorded SLACC attendee names in spreadsheet; but, I corrupted the spreadsheet. Fumble fingers all the way around.
  • Per Gary year 2020 remote attendance seems a bit higher.
• 2021-03-03 Special followup comment:
  • SLACC recording with Jitsi and Chromium browser was discovered to exist; so, was able to include headcount of 9 and add names to attendance spreadsheet.

• SUMMARY: We try to analyse what happened or was presented at the previous months meetings.

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• SLACC usually holds a Linux Workshop offering installation and configuration help - no presentation
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
• 2021-02-01
  • Did not record with ZOOM.
  • SLACC recording with Jitsi and Firefox did not work correctly. I think there were about 8 or 10 that attended.
  • Recorded SLACC attendee names in spreadsheet; but, I corrupted the spreadsheet. Fumble fingers all the way around.
  • Suspect updates to browser being a problem, might have caused recording issues.

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
  • This session done with JITSI on https://nyx.omnitec.net/ remote video service.
  • Stan R used Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make primary recording.

• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: Done
  • WHAT: Speedbar
  • BY: Steve Stegmann
  • SYNOPSIS: File and Directory navigation builtin to EMACS
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: YES
  • BIO: OLD
  • REMARKS:
    • 2021-01-04 (STEERCOM)
    • 2021-02-01 (STEERCOM)
      • Steve had injured arm, just started making notes for abstract.
    • 2021-03-01 (STEERCOM)
      • We did not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
      • Interesting and got a lot of participation.

COOKIE TIME ~ ANNOUNCEMENTS ~ CALL FOR HELP (Gooey Middle ):

• MAIN
  • STATUS: Done
  • WHAT: A Gentle Intorduction to git
  • BY: Robert Citek
  • SYNOPSIS: Using git to track files
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: YES, JULY 2020, Minimal, Need Better
  • REMARKS:
    • We are assuming this will be a MAIN level talk, might not be.
    • Phone number was not currently available. Sent emails. Was moving.
    • As of this meeting we have not received ANY confirmation back.
  • 2021-01-04 (STEERCOM)
    • Topic title changed from prior listings.
    • We now have good phone number for him. Awaiting abstract and bio updates.
  • 2021-02-01 (STEERCOM)
    • As of 2021-01-06 Robert can't do January, offered February 10th.
  • 2021-03-01 (STEERCOM)
    • We did not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • Combined Linux SimpleScreenRecorder video uploaded to Presentation Archives page.
    • Gary really enjoyed. Really excellent, impressive presentation.

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
• 2021-03-01
  • This session done with ZOOM to make primary recording.
  • Stan R used Linux SimpleScreenRecorder with Firefox browser to make additional recording. Successful.

• LINUX
  • STATUS: Done
  • WHAT: Update on SuSE
  • BY: Michael Carrington
  • SYNOPSIS: Including Rancher Labs acquistion (Kubernettes system) and SuSE Storage update.
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
    • We did not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • Combined ZOOM video uploaded to Presentation Archives page.
    • Presentation content was vauge from begining. We were not provided with abstract ahead of time.
    • We thought interesting; but not normal flow of technical information. More of a very general SuSE overview.
    • May have been required to avoid specific topics because of SuSE corporate policy.

SUMMARY The NEWLUG home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which we could take off. Topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover way more than one topic.

• NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
• 2021-03-01
  • REMARKS:
  • Did not record with ZOOM.
  • This session was done with JITSI on https://nyx.omnitec.net/ remote video service.
  • Stan R used Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make primary recording.
  • Recording with Jitsi and Firefox did not work correctly, again possibly because of browser updates. However, did record all attendee names in spreadsheet.
  • Awaiting avalanche migration away from MS Windows 10.
  • Consistently getting one or two newcomers each month spanning last quarter.

SUMMARY * We try to track prospects to give presentations at our SLUUG General (SLUUG) meeting and LINUX (STLLUG) meetings.

• We try to segregate topic types as either BASE, MAIN or LINUX, with BASE and MAIN given at the General meeting (SLUUG) .
• BASE topics should be oriented toward simpler Personal Computing. Usually given as General meeting (SLUUG). Short is good.
• MAIN topics should be oriented more toward advanced or Enterprise Computing. Usually given at General meeting (SLUUG).
• LINUX topics could be either at the General meeting or at the St. Louis Linux Users Group (STLLUG) meetings.
• We always want to have alternative topics on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
• Gary will continue to explore different computer manufacturers (ex: Cray) who might be able to do presentation "Where are they now?"
  • 

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SUMMARY: We count ballots before STEERCOM meeting and submit to board meeting for approval. Board members usually help.

• Volunteers count ballots
• Ballots counted by Gary, Lee and Stan
• Submitted results to Board for review

• QUESTION: When was meeting called to order?
  • TIME:
• Review Board count results
• Review Officer advisory count results
• Determine results
• QUESTION: At what time was meeting adjourned?
• Adjourn meeting
  • TIME:

• Selected Officers convene meeting
  • QUESTION: When was meeting called to order?
  • TIME:

• SLACC usually holds a Linux Workshop offering installation and configuration help - no presentation
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
  • Pick the recording service we used below, then delete others (and this line):
  • This session may be done with ZOOM thru the OMNITEC provided remote video service, to make primary recording.
  • This session may be done with JITSI on https://nyx.omnitec.net/ remote video service, to make primary recording.
  • Stan R ( will use | used ) Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make ( primary | secondary | additional ) recording.
• 2021-01-04
  • Might not record with ZOOM
  • May record with Jitsi.

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
  • Pick the recording service we used below, then delete others (and this line):
  • This session may be done with ZOOM thru the OMNITEC provided remote video service, to make primary recording.
  • This session may be done with JITSI on https://nyx.omnitec.net/ remote video service, to make primary recording.
  • Stan R ( will use | used ) Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make ( primary | secondary | additional) recording.
• 2021-03-01
  • No commitments yets, not even a nibble..
  • Might not record with ZOOM?
  • May record with Jitsi?
  • 

• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: Available
  • WHAT: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • BY: Any Volunteer
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: NO
  • REMARKS:
    • We do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.

• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: Confirming
  • WHAT: Follow up on MP3 Player
  • BY: Lee Lammert
  • SYNOPSIS: Followup to prior January 2021 BASE presentation.
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: NO
  • REMARKS:
    • We do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.

• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: Confirming
  • WHAT: Anything Andrew Wants To Do In 30 Minutes
  • BY: Andrew Denner, CIALUG.ORG
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: NO
  • REMARKS:
    • We do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 
• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: Confirming
  • WHAT: Anything Scott Wants To Do In 30 Minutes
  • BY: Scott Granneman
  • SYNOPSIS: A dramatic reading from the Linux Phrase Book
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: YES
  • REMARKS:
    • We did/do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 

COOKIE TIME ~ ANNOUNCEMENTS ~ CALL FOR HELP (Gooey Middle ):

• MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
  • STATUS: Available
  • WHAT: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • BY: Any Volunteer
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
  • 2021-03-01
    • We do/do/did not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 

• MAIN (Enterprise Computing):
  • STATUS: Confirming
  • WHAT: Data with PostgresSQL
  • BY: Steven Lembark
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: NO
  • REMARKS:
    • We do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 
• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: Confirming
  • WHAT: Anything Scott Wants To Do In 30 Minutes
  • BY: Scott Granneman
  • SYNOPSIS: A dramatic reading from the Linux Phrase Book
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: YES
  • REMARKS:
    • We did/do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
  • Pick the recording service we used below, then delete others (and this line):
  • This session may be done with ZOOM thru the OMNITEC provided remote video service, to make primary recording.
  • This session may be done with JITSI on https://nyx.omnitec.net/ remote video service, to make primary recording.
  • Stan R ( will use | used ) Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make ( primary | secondary | additional ) recording.
• 2021-03-01
  • Might not record with ZOOM?
  • May record with Jitsi?
  • Gary hitting James Conroy to beat the bushes.
  • 

• LINUX
  • STATUS: Available
  • WHAT: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • BY: Any Volunteer
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
  • 2021-03-01
    • This meeting will be on the 4th Thursday of the month.
    • Gary hitting James Conroy to beat the bushes.
    • 

SUMMARY The NEWLUG home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which we could take off. Topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover way more than one topic.

• NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
    • Pick the recording service we used below, then delete others (and this line):
    • This session may be done with ZOOM thru the OMNITEC provided remote video service, to make primary recording.
    • This session may be done with JITSI on https://nyx.omnitec.net/ remote video service, to make primary recording.
    • Stan R ( will use | used ) Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make ( primary | secondary | additional ) recording.
  • 2021-03-01
    • Might not record with ZOOM
    • May record with Jitsi.

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• SLACC usually holds a Linux Workshop offering installation and configuration help - no presentation
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
    • Pick the recording service we used below, then delete others (and this line):
    • This session may be done with ZOOM thru the OMNITEC provided remote video service, to make primary recording.
    • This session may be done with JITSI on https://nyx.omnitec.net/ remote video service, to make primary recording.
    • Stan R ( will use | used ) Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make ( primary | secondary | additional ) recording.
  • 2021-03-01
    • Might not record with ZOOM
    • May record with Jitsi.

• SLUUG General Meeting
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
    • Pick the recording service we used below, then delete others (and this line):
    • This session may be done with ZOOM thru the OMNITEC provided remote video service, to make primary recording.
    • This session may be done with JITSI on https://nyx.omnitec.net/ remote video service, to make primary recording.
    • Stan R ( will use | used ) Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make ( primary | secondary | additional) recording.
  • 2021-03-01
    • Might not record with ZOOM
    • May record with Jitsi.

• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: Available
  • WHAT: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • BY: Any Volunteer
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: NO
  • REMARKS:
    • We did/do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 

• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: Confirming
  • WHAT: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • BY: Any Volunteer
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: NO
  • REMARKS:
    • We did/do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • We want to have alternative (secondary) topic on hand if primary speaker doesn't show.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
    • Pick the recording service we used below, then delete others (and this line):
    • This session may be done with ZOOM thru the OMNITEC provided remote video service, to make primary recording.
    • This session may be done with JITSI on https://nyx.omnitec.net/ remote video service, to make primary recording.
    • Stan R ( will use | used ) Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make ( primary | secondary | additional ) recording.
  • 2021-03-01
    • Might not record with ZOOM
    • May record with Jitsi.

• LINUX
  • STATUS: Available
  • WHAT: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • BY: Any Volunteer
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
  • 2021-03-01
    • This meeting will be on the 4th Thursday of the month.
    • We did/do/do not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • 

SUMMARY The NEWLUG home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which we could take off. Topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover way more than one topic.

• NEWLUG Our Linux Users Group for Linux Newcomers.
• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we want to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
    • Pick the recording service we used below, then delete others (and this line):
    • This session may be done with ZOOM thru the OMNITEC provided remote video service, to make primary recording.
    • This session may be done with JITSI on https://nyx.omnitec.net/ remote video service, to make primary recording.
    • Stan R ( will use | used ) Linux SimpleScreenRecorder to make ( primary | secondary | additional ) recording.
  • 2021-03-01
    • Might not record with ZOOM
    • May record with Jitsi.

SUMMARY: We put up a server on the Internet for email, it grew, and now we have to maintain it.

• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Lee: Server performance should be substantially improved because of new fiber installation in Bat Cave
• 2020-10-05
  • Mike: Alerted us to broken SLUUG Members Page.
    • Stan: Legacy of something Stan thought had already been done but hadn't
  • Mike: Alerted us to transient failure of SpamAssassin rules download, rerun OK.
    • Gary: Apparently it's ok now.
• 2020-11-02
  • Reconsidered SPAM filtering. Stan R gets triple pay.
  • We should start testing SPAM filtering. Lee will post decision to SYSADMIN list.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Everything is fine.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Need to clarify below items taken from previous Recurring Requirements listings:
  • December 2020 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
  • Note: Need documentation on this process!
  • Mike Knight fixed o/a 6 October per email
  • Chuck did stuff.
  • Wiki documentation is so old as to becoming confusing and hard for Lee to document.
  • We are letting STLWEBDEV expire.

SUMMARY: We have a traditional Internet presence with the existence of our main SLUUG web site.

• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
  • Lee has added another 50G partition on Bock under /srv/media/
  • Please move all media files to this new partition.
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Stan: No progress
• 2020-10-05
  • Stan: No action taken to fix broken SLUUG Members Page pointed out by Mike Knight.
    • Stan: There is no link to the Members Page.
    • Lee: Why not rename the Members Page so any bookmarks to it are broken.
    • Gary mentioned article about CloudFlare and how to be sure our pages get onto the WayBack machine. Requires further investigation.
• 2020-11-02
  • Consider CloudFlare DNS so we would start showing up in the WayBack machine.
  • They likely are data mining any and all traffic.
  • Past members pages were being looked for.
  • November 2020 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • November 2020 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
  • Stan R asked for double of his pay. By unanamous vote, pay is now quadrupled.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Downloadable ballot PDF was placed on each home page (SLUUG,STLLUG,NEWLUG,SLACC).
  • Gary and Dave talking about using WAYBACK to give SLUUG greater presence there.

SUMMARY: We have recorded many of our past meetings and made them available on the Internet.

• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
  • Lee added new 50G partition on Bock at /srv/media/
  • Don will contact Steve Pidgeon
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Stan: I'm behind. (Stan recorded August LUG meeting; needs to upload)
• 2020-10-05
  • Don will contact Steve Pidgeon
  • Unknown
• 2020-11-02
  • Don has not contact Steve Pidgeon
  • Stan pointed to https://www.sluug.org/steercom/ page.
  • Lee wonders if we need to keep recording of STEERCOM for a long time. Space is being burnt fast.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Nothing to say.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
  • The January ZOOM recordings were linked just today.
• 2021-03-01
  • Available Feruary ZOOM and JITSI recordings were uploaded and linked to Presentations Archives page.
  • QUESTION: Should existing presentation files be gradually moved to /srv/MEDIA partition?
    • ANSWER: Per Lee, good idea!
    • PLAN: Stan R will start moving currently uploaded existing presentations and modify HTML links as appropriate.
    • PLAN: Stan R has found additional presentations that are also to be uploaded and linked.
  • GOAL: Determine how significant are our meeting recordings to our membership, and how significant might expansion eventually task BOCK.
    • Stan R used to use Webalizer hitreport page;but, it has been so very long that he has forgotten exactly how to use it.
    • Stan R hopes to use Webalizer to measure downloads by members that are viewing the uploaded presentations.
    • Recent (on Sunday) initiation of hitreport produced the Webalizer https://www.sluug.org/hitreport/ page that seems quite limited.
    • QUESTIONS: Is Webalizer constantly capturing data so that we can use it? If not, could it be reconfigured?
    • Would be nice to know; but, we don't have staffing to explore expanding Webalizer nor YouTube at this time.

SUMMARY: We have informational handout PDFs available http://www.sluug.org/resources/handouts/.

• HISTORY: The PDFs are generated using LibreOffice. The originating files are stored along with generated PDFs.
  • Lee ordered printer parts that should correct krinkle problem.
  • Stan R has been modifying a Linux Presentation Day from 2015 found on the Internet. It has excellent content.
    • Difficult to modify, as it is extremely graphically intense. Built and modified with the Scribus application.
    • Likely too complex to print, may wind up splitting content to make a slide show presentation.
• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
  • Nothing being worked on this month.
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Stan will post to STEERCOM a draft evaluation cheat sheet for evaluating speakers.
• 2020-10-05
  • Stan is working on a handout entitled Evaluation. Give people what kind of questions to ask presenters. Key phrases to trigger the ideas that need to be applied to every presentation.
• 2020-11-02
  • Stan will add Evaluation sheet to handouts page after meeting. Gives presenters ideas about what kind of questions they may be asked.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Evaluation sheet Was added to handouts page.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
  • Nothing being updated for now.
• 2021-03-01
  • Nothing being updated for now.

SUMMARY: We have LibreOffice BASE for tracking BASE, MAIN and STLLUG meeting topics and speakers.

• HISTORY:
  • Lee tested successfully on SUSE.
  • Gary & Stan have been loading.
  • Stan is working on allowing multiple user updates.
  • Don still needs to test Stan's database on Libreoffice on Mac. Everyone else should test the database on their own systems.
• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
  • Stan discovered a conversion feature using pdftotext that generates useful full text version from the pdf report.
  • Expects to provide a downloadable concurrent text version along with the pdf version.
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Stan's doing a great job. Every differently sorted report has to start from scratch. Might have to use two formats, maybe not worthwhile to build a new format.
• 2020-10-05
  • Don still needs to test Stan's database on Libreoffice on Mac. Everyone else should test the database on their own systems.
  • Gary: It's very useful. Everyone should try it out and see what changes need to be made.
• 2020-11-02
  • Stan outline state of LibreOffice BASE internal database. Awaiting update to go into repositories.
  • Neither Gary nor Don have tested on Apple boxes.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Data base likely won't be update until April 2021.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
  • Speed of transfer inprovements with using SSH public keys with upload script working considerably faster.
  • Anticipated availability of remote Firebase conversion in LibreOffice BASE has been delayed because of problems.
  • Firebird embedded database creation put back to experimental considering the number of bugs.
  • Other possibilities.
• 2021-03-01
  • General review and discussion.

• 2020-10-05
  • Don wants to consider a trial of editing the minutes in Google Docs. Stan suggests using vim or emacs. Further investigation.
• 2020-11-02
  • Don has not done any testing.
• 2020-11-30 (for December) * No change.
• 2021-01-04
  • Don has not done any testing.
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Alternative editing process that Don was considering not progressing; so, we should consider this all moot.
  • Stan R requests this section be removed from AGENDA for next month.
  • Remove this next month.

SUMMARY: As a historical descendant of our monthly newsletter, the ANNOUNCE mailing had been a weekly extract of our SLUUG GOOGLE Calendar of Events. Previous editors had also styled it less of 1 liners of the entire calendar and more of abstracts of OUR talks & outstanding interest items.

• HISTORY: The subscriber list has been populated from attendance sheets by a nominating subscription process, which requires human input.
• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
  • Still no volunteer to do any kind of weekly or even monthly newsletter.
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
• 2020-10-05
  • Stan has manually added several people to be able to receive the Announce list
    • Included Ed Howland and several SUSE people
    • Stan: Note that joining the Announce list (or others) is not easy for the blind.
• 2020-11-02
  • Stan should go back and make sure SUSE people are on both ANNOUNCE and DISCUSS.
• 2020-11-30 (for December) * No change.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Nothing new.

SUMMARY: We have presence on MEETUP.COM.

• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Gary: Stan suggested not putting streamer links in Meetup; go to our website for the links! (Save maintenance time & effort)
• 2020-10-05
  • As usual Gary agrees with Stan that Meetup sucks. Lee: It's a wonder how much Meetup charges for stuff that sucks.
• 2020-11-02
  • Ken Johnson was sharing cost with us. Haven't seen bill lately.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Stan R made changes for STLLUG no longer having any back-to-back meetings.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Stan R made changes to make clear that MEETUP users need to go to our web pages for connection instructions.

SUMMARY: We don't want to constantly rely on someone else's ZOOM capability and want something with closed captioning ability.

• HISTORY: We have mostly been using DELL's ZOOM sessions.
  • Lee visited Chicago LUG - using Big Blue Button (BBB)
• Lee has set up BBB server. Issues with separate recordings Display, Audio and Whiteboard.
  • Stan suggested some frequent weekly testing of alternate Remote Video Conferencing Service packages
• *Minutes narratives prior to December 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • We haven't had time, staff or energy to test anything new.
  • Bigbluebutton just recently was discovered to have major bug.
• 2021-01-04
  • Google meet is free, doesn't archive.
  • We find ZOOM and Jitsi mostly sufficient.
  • We can remove all above November 30 (for December).
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Current JITSI and ZOOM fine, except FireFox and Chrome Browsers seem to cause recording problems.

SUMMARY: We presume that our single web site isn't enough to draw younger crowd.

• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Media is socially distant
• 2020-10-05 * No change
• 2020-11-02
  • James Conroy will increase efforts. Considering RSS feed might be worthwhile.
  • Gary was considering a presentation about software with bad name.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • No progress to report.

SUMMARY: We seek financial support from the tech community.

• HISTORY: We are not good at getting sponsors.
• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
  • If we get back to regular meetings, would be nice to have a sponsor for beer and pizza.
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Everyone think if there's anyone we can hit up to sponsor meeting platform software i.e. Zoom, Webex, Google, etc
  • Note that Webex doesn't allow hosting from Linux, i.e. master console, responsible for controlling session, sharing screen, etc.
• 2020-10-05
  • Gary: Can we get some sponsor interested in closed captioning to help elderly and/or hearing impaired to pay for [CC] in our Zoom account?
• 2020-11-02
  • Gary wonders if our recent benfactors should be listed as sponsors.
  • Agreed that we want to give credit to OMNITEC and Ken Johnson (his choice).
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Great company called Omnitec is providing our excellent support.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Nothing new.

• 2021-02-01
  • Considered using fax machines to collect ballots. Rejected as too complicated.
  • 7:56 Board meeting.
  • Approved suspending the rules. Election committee can make it up as we go.
  • 7:57 Board meeting ajourned.
• 2021-03-01
  • Stan R requests this section be removed from AGENDA for next month.
  • Remove this next month.

• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Need committee.
  • Does Anonymous Coward get a vote?
• 2021-01-04
  • We need to announce elections and official annual meeting 30 days prior.
  • We need to remember to mail ANNOUNCE/DISCUSS with election results.
  • Lee suggested voting should be done by paper ballots.
  • Does anyone else want to be on committee.
  • QUEStiON Must official annual meeting be at main General meeting?
  • ANSWER Per Gary we did annual meeting at STLLUG meeting one year, and nobody objected.
  • Do we have rules?
• 2021-02-01
  • Gary invited James Conway to join the election process committee.
  • Any additional nomination for ballot?
• 2021-03-01
  • Downloadable ballot PDF was placed on each home page (SLUUG,STLLUG,NEWLUG,SLACC).
  • Absentee voting process discussed at February meetings.
  • Attendees encouraged to vote early (and often).
  • Stan R requests this section be removed from AGENDA for next month.
  • Remove this next month.

SUMMARY: Sheltering in Place precludes use of physical attendance sheets

• HISTORY: Our attendance records were used to determine qualification to vote in our annual February balloting.
  • Gary M. posted background and issues to STEERCOM mailing list.
  • 2020-05-28 Subject: Election voter rolls
  • No physical meetings until further notice, we can not use attendance sheets.
  • We expect that remote participation should qualify as attendance.
  • Therefore we need to record and count remote participation as qualifying attendance.
  • Further we need to develop process for voting at our annual February meeting.
• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
  • If one of us remembers during the meeting, take a snapshot of the participant list. Experiment with viewing the recording and see if the participant list is available.
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • In past we've always posted that ballots could be mailed in, as early as possible.
• 2020-10-05
  • Stan R wants to know how we should record attendance once we have combined meetings? Listing both physical and remote numbers might be difficult within this wiki layout.
  • Gary: Since we don't pass around a signup sheet, we don't tell people how their attendance is being recorded. Stan reviews the video and copies the attendee list.
  • Stan: This whole topic can be put up on Discuss list, giving the procedure.
  • Gary: The masses need to see how the sausage is made.
• 2020-11-02
  • Gary discussed individual confirmation of meeting attendance.
  • We may have to check SLUUG charter and bylaw rules.
  • Absentee secret ballot mail in has been done in past.
  • Lee will post suggested motion to suspend election rules to STEERCOM mailing list.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • QUESTION: Did Lee post suggested motion to suspend election rules to STEERCOM mailing list.
  • ANSWER: Motion to suspend the rules sent to STEERCOM mailing list..
• 2021-01-04
  • If we suspend the rules, what do we do instead?
  • Moved to open Board meeting to consider
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Stan R requests this section be removed from AGENDA for next month.
  • Remove this next month.

SUMMARY: We try to record many of our meetings.

• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
  • Don & Lee will discuss status of Camera 1
  • Don will investigate Snowball/SpaghettiSauce mic
  • One Projector remains with Stan pending access to physical meeting rooms again
  • Other projector remains with Lee
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Lee: Testing Camera 1, got some good video
• 2020-10-05 * No change
• 2020-11-02 * No change
• 2020-11-30 (for December) * No change
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Nothing new. Don still has Gary's microphone and Lee's camera. Also hard drive with split video and sound recordings.

SUMMARY: Ken Johnson really prefers stickers, rather than stuffed toys!

• HISTORY: SWAG is good!
  • Lee has sheet to pass on to Ken.
  • James Conroy will make background black so we can get what we want when ordered.
• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
• 2020-10-05
• 2020-11-02
  • Prototype from James C. sent to Lee.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Lee hasn't had time to print any. Testing needs to be done. We could make template available to others.
  • No news is good news.
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Nothing new.

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.
• Applications for the use of St. Louis County Library Meeting Spaces are accepted on the first Saturday in October for January thru June dates, and on the first Saturday in April for July thru December dates.
• We can always check for available Library spaces.
• Due to COVID19 restrictions, no library room reservations can be made until further notice.
• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July * No change
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September * No change
• 2020-10-05 * No change
• 2020-11-02 * Due to COVID19 restrictions, no library room reservations can be made until further notice.
• 2020-11-30 (for December) * No change
• 2021-01-04 * No change
• 2021-02-01 * No change
• 2021-03-01
  • No change

SUMMARY: We have large box of hardcopy historical records concerning our organization. It has been floating around.

• 2020-10-05
  • Sunday night he returned and found cardboard box with old secretary material. Original Xeroxes of articles of corporation, etc. Historical interest. No idea who dropped it off.
• 2020-11-02
  • Gary has not gone thru box of old secretary material yet. Another thing to do.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Box still sitting there.
• 2021-01-04
  • Gary had to step over the box to attend this session (so he still has box).
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Box still there.

SUMMARY: We don't have enough volunteers to do everything consistently.

• HISTORY: We need new members who want to do stuff. Same as every month.
  • Tyler Rudie had volunteered to help with SLUUG Google calendar input.
  • Gary, Stan, & Tyler need to get together to review Tyler getting to work on Google Calendar modifications?
  • Tyler Rudie has been granted permissions to help with SLUUG Google calendar input. Not yet given guidance or instructions.
  • Gary needs to prompt him.
• QUESTION: Any new volunteers to help?
• *Minutes narratives prior to July 2020 Steercom have been removed.*
• 2020-06-29 for July
• 2020-08-03
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • We always need help of one kind or another
• 2020-10-05
  • Gary & Stan have to get more active with Tyler or someone working on the calendar.
• 2020-11-02
  • Gary still needs to contact with Tyler or someone else working on the calendar.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Gary still needs…
• 2021-01-04
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01
  • Gary needs to find a good shrink.

SUMMARY: After old business, we call for anything that we need to deal with:

• Do we have anything else, anything new that we need to deal with?
• 2021-03-01
  • None

SUMMARY: We routinely rotate thru the following (just in case):

• HISTORY: In past, we had missed critical government filings, dropped ball on domain renewals, and similar important items.
• January 2021 - STLLINUX.ORG domain automatic renewal.
• January 2021 - auto renew of STLWEBDEV was DISABLED 4 January 2021.
• January 2021 ~ Post Office Box Renewal (automatic 6 months on credit card) ~ Lee handles.
• February 2021 - SLUUG Annual Board meeting and elections.
• February 2021 - Verify automatic renewal of certs with LetsEncrypt (every 90 days).
• February 2021 - Cancel auto renew of STLWEBDEV before 18 December 21.
• March 2021 - Count Ballots
• March 2021 - Updates to contacts on webpage if required.
• March 2021 - Updates to email aliases if required.
• March 2021 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
• March 2021 - Consider schedule workshops for July and August 2021
• March 2020 - schedule workshops for July and August
• March 2020 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK
• April 2021 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• April 2021 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status. e-postcard.
• May 2021
• June 2021 - BuddyNS SLUUG account due
• June 2021 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status due.
  • https://bsd.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/BusinessEntityDetail.aspx?page=beSearch&ID=681250
• June 2021 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
• July 2021
• July 2021 ~ Post Office Box Renewal (automatic 6 months on credit card) ~ Lee handles.
• August 2021
• September 2021
• October 2021 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• November 2021
• December 2021

SUMMARY: When anybody does something to help!

• QUESTION: Did anyone do anything helpful or useful?
• 2021-03-01
  • Stan is wonderful and needs another pay raise.

SUMMARY: It may help a little to tag individuals with tasks:

• Everyone - Review the STEERCOM minutes, make corrections, act!
• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• Everyone - Stan R wants LibreOffice Planning database tested on multiple systems.
• Don Ellis ~ Test Stan's Planning database on Libreoffice on Mac.
• Don Ellis ~ Upon return to town, clean tomato sauce off the Snowball microphone (there was minor accident at STLLUG).
• Don Ellis ~ upload older videos to Google Photos and/or Google Docs & publish links.
• Don Ellis ~ Possible presentation - 2018-07-18 he had suggested Apple interfaces and accessories for audio & video.
• Don Ellis ~ Possible presentation on new ChromeBook Linux interface. July 2020
• Don Ellis ~ will investigate Google+ status
• Don Ellis ~ will place credentials for YouTube and any others on Bock /home/sluug
• Lee Lammert - File IRS Form 1099. Online filing deadline is 31 March.
• Gary Meyer ~ Hassle Mike about Google throttling.
• Gary Meyer ~ Contact Steve Pidgeon for progress report.
• Gary Meyer ~ Contact Steve Lembark about splitting presentation into two parts.
• 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 held by someone else (squatter).
  • SLACC.ORG could be registered. SLACC.ORG available for sale ~ only $499.
  • Consider other TLDs than .com and .org for SLACC
• Stan R. ~ Remind Gary Meyer to bring SWAG, Penguins or stickers to meetings and hand out pamphlets.
• Stan and Gary should get together and discuss how ANNOUNCE was done.
• 2020-11-30 (for December)
  • Gary and Stan need to go through this section.
• 2021-01-04
  • Gary and Stan need to go through this section.
• 2021-02-01
• 2021-03-01 Comments for this month:
  • Stan went through this seciton, and moved and deleted much (but, there are still some that are becoming moot).

• Monday, March 1st, 2021
• 2021-03-01
  • QUESTION: At what time was meeting adjourned?
  • TIME: 8:38

SUMMARY: Food for thought ~ anything not previously covered that provides mental stimulus for thinking about improvements or solutions.

• HISTORY: Stimulate creativity by planting the seed of an idea. Current action or response not required.
  • 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.
• 2020-08-31 for September
  • Skies have been especially blue for this time of year, when not unusually cloudy.
  • Stan: Consider moving Blue Skies to after adjournment, so it would take place after formal end of meeting and would not be video recorded.
• 2021-01-04
  • We are moving Blue Skies segment to after adjournment, so it would take place after formal end of meeting and would not be video recorded.
• 2021-03-01
  •