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

SUMMARY: A meeting for guiding, planning, reviewing and running this volunteer organization.

• STEERCOM has a webpage pointing to agenda, minutes, projects, reports, schedules, videos and wiki.
  • Usually held on first Monday of of each month, about nine ( 9 ) days prior to the SLUUG MAIN General meeting.
  • Holidays will frequently alter the scheduled date.
  • Open to all members, so attendance determines what is covered.

• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we would like to continue video meetings in conjunction with physical meetings.
• 2025-02-03 Comments: Remote ZOOM session
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

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

  * HISTORY: 
  * We can consider changes prior to all reviews, planning and OLD BUSINESS items.
    * By jumping ahead, then back, without altering agenda layout sequence.
  * Do NOT alter agenda layout sequence, during current meeting.
  * Moving a listed item out of sequence makes later editing difficult.
  * 
  * We can jump to **Old Business** items, consider, then back to usual sequence.
  * We can jump to **New Business** section, create new item, consider, then jump back to usual sequence.
  * By NOT altering agenda layout sequence during the meeting, that will keep it easier to build the next agenda.

• AGENDA CHANGE:
• QUESTION: Are there any additions, deletions, or other changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?
• 2024-02-05 Comments:
  • Last month the decision was to jump to business for Sean Twiehaus so that he could leave early.
  • However; Stan R went right on into doing normal routine reports and nobody stopped him.
  • We could have done it better, allowing Sean to leave much earlier. Sorry.
• 2024-03-04 Comments: Count Ballots before the rest of the meeting. Yes.
• 2024-04-01 Comments:
  • Sean T will not be able to stay for whole meeting.
  • Yes, we will jump ahead, so that he can demonstrate topic he has been working on.
• 2024-04-29 Comments for May 2024: None
• 2024-06-03 Comments: None
• 2024-07-03 Comments:
  • Sean T will not be able to stay for whole meeting.
  • Yes, we will jump ahead, so that he can demonstrate topic he has been working on.
• 2024-08-05 Comments:
  • No agenda changes identified.
• 2024-09-04 Comments: None
• 2024-09-30 Comments for October:
• 2024-11-04 Comments:
  • Sean T will not be able to stay for whole meeting.
  • Yes, we will jump ahead, so that we can cover topic he has been working on.
  • Sean Twiehause will cover the "Web Presence" update first.
  • Not getting a lot of traction on Twitter.
  • Meetup page SLUUG 19 sign ups LUG 20 Signups.
• 2024-12-02 Comments: None
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments: None
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
  • If Grant Taylor attends, he expects to need to leave early.
  • We will discuss certificates first, so Grant can leave early.
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Grant will continue with TLS certificates sand web redirects fro SIGS.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
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• QUESTION: Have the recorders been started ( they should be, before call to order )?
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • TIME:

• QUESTION: When was STEERCOM meeting called to order?
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • TIME: :1900:

Listed alphabetically by last name

* Ken Johnson

* Lee Lammert

* Gary Meyer

* Stan Reichardt

* Grant Taylor

* Sean Twiehaus

* Steve Stegmann

SUMMARY: Somebody has to build the agenda and then record the minutes.

• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • TIME:

SUMMARY: Lee Lammert has been posting balances from bank statements.

* The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.

• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
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SUMMARY: We maintain a calendar of technical events in the Greater St. Louis area and surrounding regions.

  * HISTORY: 
  * 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 were counted!
  * Detailed breakdown showing cancelled, defunct, delayed, missed, moved, and postponed meetings was being done.
  * The page has been altered to allow showing separate displays of supported meetings from sponsored meetings.
  * Stan R has discontinued doing detailed breakdown of calendar entries believing it is too much effort for too little value.

• SLUUG Calendar is a Google Calendar available on our web site.
• Count of number of events listed, each month, as of end of March 2025:

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  * LEGEND:
  * Greyed out areas indicate corrections or never previously reported counts.
  * xxx - numbers not recorded.
  * ??? - Future Numbers.
  * Stopped counting general Saint Louis 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 considered being useful.
  * Improvements in Google Calendar feature limits to five days processing at at time, takes
    * about 10 times as long to perform counting. Much more tedious.
  * Five day limitation "improvement" gone, no longer takes so much longer to count.

• ISSUES:
• Originally only local STL face-to-face meetings were counted. Started adding remote meetings.
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
  • Gary is working on clearing out old non-active calendar entries. Some meetings and events stopped happening and those need to go away.
  • There is a 'hiatus' status that clears the item from the calendar but doesn't discard the information. It was suggested that Gary
  • might share this work.
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Have included December 2024, January 2025 count, and will add February 2025 numbers later.
  • Gary has been cleaning up calendar items slowly.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

SUMMARY: Mailing List Report combined with MEETUP membership count, now called Subscriber Report.

  * HISTORY: 
  * We counted how many were on each SLUUG mailing list, then started using MEETUP dot COM site. 
  * These numbers roughly estimate size of our community over time. Both growth and shrinkage.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of March 2025:

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  * LEGEND:
  * Numbers as of 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/lib/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.

• ISSUES:
• 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 was to investigate Google+ status
• Don was to place credentials for YouTube and any others on Bock /home/sluug
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
  • Grant suggests using a feature of mailman to say "you need to say that you want to be on the list" for the various mailing list. There is a disable delivery option.
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

SUMMARY: Somewhat reflects the community interest in topics. Or, how well we publicised event.

  * HISTORY: 
  * Initial mail list subscriptions were prompted by attendance sheets.
  * Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at face-to-face meetings.
  * Remote session attendance display with ZOOM does NOT work automatically.
  * Remote session attendance done best using extra recording with Linux SimpleScreenRecorder software. 

• Blank attendance sheets are available here
• Attendance numbers, as of end of March 2025:

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Proposed layout for next year, without parenthases. Was agreed upon during December 2023 meeting.

  * LEGEND:
  * 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 (NEWLUG March 2020).

• ISSUES:
• Remote ZOOM sessions do not provide record of attendance. Currently done by Stan R with separate video recording.
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Stan finds both NEWLINUX and SLACC provide a very interesting meeting.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

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

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• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Counted ballots.
  • Steve Stegmann to retain seat for 3 year term.
  • Other seat remaining balance of one year to be filled by Grant Taylor.
  • Tie votes requires balancing potential resignation of one seat.
  • Gary needs to confirm resignation or participation.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • Gary confirmed Stanford's resignation.

• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• Planning for month of February.
  • Now.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • Grant accepted appointment to fulfill Stanford's term.

SUMMARY: Usually no presentation; so, held as a Configuration Workshop offering installation and configuration help. Hardware, Operating System and Vendor agnostic.

• SLACC is the Saint Louis Area Computer Club.
  • First Thursday of each month. Free format; so attendance determines what is covered.
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • Attendees very friendly, helpful with topics that were all over the map.
  • Discussed LinuxMint Desktop Environment start button config, FreeBSD upgrade failure,
  • search for calendar tasking, software update managers, I.A. as shopping assistance,
  • I.A. for vehicle history, mentioned IPV6, tools: lsof, strace
  • 

SUMMARY: Formal presentations usually focused on all Unix and Unix like Operating Systems. BASE Something fundamental, introductory, instructive, short, simple or small. Mostly for Personal Computing. MAIN Something more advanced, detailed, important, new, profound, significant, timely or useful. More for Professional Computing.

• SLUUG General Meeting
• Planning Schedule Report
• Second Wednesday of the month.
• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: DONE
  • WHAT: Adding Additional Domain Names to CertBot Certificates
  • BY: Grant Taylor
  • SYNOPSIS: NA
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NA
  • BIO: NA
• REMARKS:
  • We did not have an alternative ( secondary ) topic on hand.
  • December SLUUG BASE was GCE Vulnerability Scanner with Docker by Lee Lammert
  • January SLUUG BASE was Andrew Cell reception tool by Lee Lammert
  • February SLUUG BASE was SSH Keys in three easy steps by Grant Taylor
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
  • Ken Johnson had offered Wiping Solid State Disk Drives
  • Ken says not in February.
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Gary has asked Robert Citek to approach students to provide quick "interesting command".
  • Grant suggesting interactive coaching session of some that has not started using SSH Keys.
  • Ken Johnson has family issues that prohibit participation for next few months.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

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

• SLUUG General Meeting
• Planning Schedule Report
• Second Wednesday of the month.
• MAIN (Professional Computing):
  • STATUS: DONE
  • WHAT: Problems Solved with ChatGPT - A.I.
  • DUET: Scott Granneman
  • DUET: Jans Carton
  • SYNOPSIS: NA
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: YES
  • REMARKS:
    • We did not have an alternative ( secondary ) topic on hand.
    • December SLUUG Main was Distrobox by Tom Clark
    • January SLUUG Main was LIVE Debian 10 upgrade to Debian 11 by Lee Lammert and Grant Taylor
    • February SLUUG Main was Systemd Logging by Andrew Denner
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
  • Possibly K. Joe on pwnagotchi – WiFi mischief
  • Pwnagotchi is an A2C-based “AI” powered by bettercap and running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W that learns from its surrounding WiFi environment in order to maximize the crackable WPA key material it captures (either through passive sniffing or by performing deauthentication and association attacks). This material is collected on disk as PCAP files containing any form of handshake supported by hashcat, including full and half WPA handshakes as well as PMKIDs.
  • U-KamikazeJoe Cathell: KamikazeJoe@gmail.com
• 2025-02-03 Comments: Maybe Brian and VMs on BSD someday
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • Advertised title was "8 Problems Solved with ChatGPT", Scott and Jans did 2 or 3; but, went into great detail.
  • 

SUMMARY: Formal presentations usually focused on LINUX Operating System

• STLLINUX is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• Planning Schedule Report
  • Eight days after SLUUG MAIN General Meeting.
• LINUX
  • STATUS: Confirmed
  • WHAT: Using dsub with Google Cloud Platform
  • BY: Robert Citek
  • SYNOPSIS: NA
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: Yes
  • BIO: Yes
  • REMARKS:
    • We did not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • December Computing from 1990 to 1999 by Scott Granneman
    • January WiFi packet capture with Pwangochi by Joe Cathell ( KamazeeJoe )
    • February Managing Storage Using Partitions, LVM, and Stratis by Sean Twiehaus
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
  • Sean T. on Toolbox? (a related to to Distrobox) – No. Sean has taken a teaching position.
• 2025-02-03 Comments: Nothing yet
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Details on using dsub submits jobs to the Cloud.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • Veeerrryyy intresting!!
  • Robert C. & Ken J. both have reputation for going into great detail.

SUMMARY: Free format Beginner Workshop for anyone new to using Linux. Previously named Hazelwood LUG (HZWLUG), then Newcomer LUG (NEWLUG). Now, Newcomer Linux User Group is designated as NEWLINUX. The NEWLINUX home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which we could start. Usually no presentation; so, held as a Beginner Workshop offering installation and configuration help. Topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover way more than one topic.

• NEWLUG was how we named our Linux Users Group (LUG) for Linux Newcomers.
  • NEWLINUX is name that we can frequently use for our Newcomer Linux Users Group.
  • Fourth Tuesday of each month. Free format; so attendance determines what is covered.
  • Either five ( 5 ) or twelve ( 12 ) days after Saint Louis Linux meeting, depending on month.
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • Very small attendance. Was having connectivity issues. Difficulty with sound and lost connectivity a few times.
  • Review of the ZOOM recording showed a loss of sound for about last 10 to 15 minutes of session;
  • so, may have been that connectivity to ZOOM may have been problems. Maybe other regions could not connect at all.
  • Days later, Stan R finally rebooted his AT&T router, which clear up more DNS and other connectivity with MUMBLE.
  • PICNIC?

SUMMARY: Anticipated that this meeting would provide live code combination, methods, procedures, and work flow instruction on the transition to the new SLUUG website developed by Sean Twiehaus.

• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • Advanced mailing of ANNOUNCE and DISCUSS was done Sunday.
  • Posting to SLUUG Calendar and MEETUP scheduling was not done until Wednesday afternoon.
  • ZOOM connection instructions sent to both ANNOUNCE and DISCUSS Wednesday afternoon.
  • Thursday attendance peek was 9, about 6 were on during bulk of session.
  • The development was done with site.sluug.org .
  • Sean T. provided great insight into how the site is built.
  • Intense discussions with Sean T. and Grant T. regarding building our "pipeline".

• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Planning for month of April.
  • Scheduling is hard.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • Raise your hand if you're not here?

SUMMARY: This is where we discuss available and confirmed meeting topics. GOAL: To map out meeting topics for as much as 3 months out.

• No physical face-to-face meetings until further notice.
• When we again have physical meetings, we would like to continue video meetings in conjunction with any physical meetings.
• We try to track prospects to give presentations at our SLUUG General (SLUUG) meeting and LINUX (STLLINUX) 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 at General meeting (SLUUG).
• Short is good. Something fundamental, introductory, instructive or simple.
• MAIN topics should be oriented more toward advanced or Professional Computing. Usually given at General meeting (SLUUG).
• Something more advanced, detailed, important, profound, new, significant, timely or useful.
• LINUX topics often could be either at the General meeting or at the St. Louis Linux Users Group (STLLINUX) meetings.
• We want to have alternative (secondary) topic 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: Usually no presentation; so, held as a Configuration Workshop offering installation and configuration help. Hardware, Operating System and Vendor agnostic.

• SLACC is the Saint Louis Area Computer Club.
  • First Thursday of each month. Free format; so attendance determines what is covered.
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • None

SUMMARY: Formal presentations usually focused on all Unix and Unix like Operating Systems. BASE Something fundamental, introductory, instructive, short, simple or small. Mostly for Personal Computing. MAIN Something more advanced, detailed, important, new, profound, significant, timely or useful. More for Professional Computing.

• SLUUG General Meeting
• Planning Schedule Report
• Second Wednesday of the month.
• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: Confirmed with exceptions
  • WHAT: Bash Variable Difficulties
  • BY: Ed Howland
  • SYNOPSIS: NA
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NA
  • BIO: NA
• REMARKS:
  • We did not have an alternative ( secondary ) topic on hand.
  • December SLUUG BASE was GCE Vulnerability Scanner with Docker by Lee Lammert
  • January SLUUG BASE was Andrew Cell reception tool by Lee Lammert
  • February SLUUG BASE was SSH Keys in three easy steps by Grant Taylor
  • March SLUUG BASE was Adding Additional Domain Names to CertBot Certificates by Grant Taylor
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
  • Ken Johnson had offered Wiping Solid State Disk Drives
  • Ken says not in February.
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Gary has asked Robert Citek to approach students to provide quick "interesting command".
  • Grant suggesting interactive coaching session of some that has not started using SSH Keys.
  • Ken Johnson has family issues that prohibit participation for next few months.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • We need to have alternative available!
  • As of today, Ed has completed 33 slides.

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

• SLUUG General Meeting
• Planning Schedule Report
• Second Wednesday of the month.
• MAIN (Professional Computing):
  • STATUS: Available
  • WHAT: To Be Determined
  • BY: Any Volunteer
  • SYNOPSIS: NA
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NO
  • BIO: YES
  • REMARKS:
    • We did not have an alternative ( secondary ) topic on hand.
    • December SLUUG Main was Distrobox by Tom Clark
    • January SLUUG Main was LIVE Debian 10 upgrade to Debian 11 by Lee Lammert and Grant Taylor
    • February SLUUG Main was Systemd Logging by Andrew Denner
    • March SLUUG Main was Problems Solved with ChatGPT - A.I. by Scott Granneman and Jans Colton
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
  • Possibly K. Joe on pwnagotchi – WiFi mischief
  • Pwnagotchi is an A2C-based “AI” powered by bettercap and running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W that learns from its surrounding WiFi environment in order to maximize the crackable WPA key material it captures (either through passive sniffing or by performing deauthentication and association attacks). This material is collected on disk as PCAP files containing any form of handshake supported by hashcat, including full and half WPA handshakes as well as PMKIDs.
  • U-KamikazeJoe Cathell: KamikazeJoe@gmail.com
• 2025-02-03 Comments: Maybe Brian and VMs on BSD someday
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • Advertised title was "8 Problems Solved with ChatGPT", Scott and Jans did 2 or 3; but, went into great detail.
  • 

SUMMARY: Formal presentations usually focused on LINUX Operating System

• STLLINUX is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• Planning Schedule Report
  • Eight days after SLUUG MAIN General Meeting.
• LINUX
  • STATUS: Available
  • WHAT: To Be Determined
  • BY: Any Volunteer
  • SYNOPSIS: NA
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: No
  • BIO: No
  • REMARKS:
    • We did not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • December Computing from 1990 to 1999 by Scott Granneman
    • January WiFi packet capture with Pwangochi by Joe Cathell ( KamazeeJoe )
    • February Managing Storage Using Partitions, LVM, and Stratis by Sean Twiehaus
    • March Using dsub with Google Cloud Platform by Robert Citek
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
  • Sean T. on Toolbox? (a related to to Distrobox) – No. Sean has taken a teaching position.
• 2025-02-03 Comments: Nothing yet
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Details on using dsub submits jobs to the Cloud.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

SUMMARY: Free format Beginner Workshop for anyone new to using Linux. Previously named Hazelwood LUG (HZWLUG), then Newcomer LUG (NEWLUG). Now, Newcomer Linux User Group is designated as NEWLINUX. The NEWLINUX home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which we could start. Usually no presentation; so, held as a Beginner Workshop offering installation and configuration help. Topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover way more than one topic.

• NEWLUG was how we named our Linux Users Group (LUG) for Linux Newcomers.
  • NEWLINUX is name that we can frequently use for our Newcomer Linux Users Group.
  • Fourth Tuesday of each month. Free format; so attendance determines what is covered.
  • Either five ( 5 ) or twelve ( 12 ) days after Saint Louis Linux meeting, depending on month.
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

* Craig B. planning on doing two!

• VOICE - Voice to text, voice commands
  • Apple offerings
  • Talon (cross platform)
• AI usage, especially for programming
• Initial presentation will be introduction
• 2nd presentation will be programming

* Craig B. 2nd talk!

Grant suggests surveying top 3 intersting topics.

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

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• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Bock Upgrade has been completed to Debian 11 Bullsye.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
  • Mike Knight observation BOCK2 URL in Ukraine
  • On 8 Jan 2025, an IP address in Ukraine for BOCK2 was added to /etc/hosts on BOCK. Removed as of 2 Feb 2025 by Lee. Thanks to Mike K. for finding this issue. Grant suggests someone wanted to place a non-usable name into /etc/hosts, and chose the IP address poorly.
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Bock Upgrade has been completed to Debian 11 Bullsye.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 10-11 done
  • 11-12 pending resolution of Mailman upgrade

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

• Usage statistics for Bock Web Pages https://www.sluug.org/hitreport/.
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
  • Our status seems to be that in November we said go ahead, but Sean's new job may mean he has not and will not (?) have time.
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
  • TLS Certificates
  • Grant suggests that we fix up our certificates so that redirects will work smoothly. Discussion is favorable toward this change. sluug.org, stllinux.org, slacc.org, newlinux.org (spelling not checked). No objections heard.
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • We confirmed that project was worthwhile.
  • Grant stuck out foot, and tripped self, suggesting to do BASE covering "Adding additional domains to an existing Cert-Bot Certificate."
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • Making progress on building our 'pipeline' - suggest watching the Special Web Meeting by Sean T.

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

• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
  • We don't think that there is a December 2024 Steercom recording.
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
  • No Steercom December 2024 Steercom recording. ZOOM was not activated, backup SimpleScreenRecorder sound too weak..
  • Sean Twiehaus apparently has started a teaching job, limiting his activity.
  • Information on the Newer development site [https://site.sluug.org] stops at 11 December 2024.
    • The development site Updates include 11 December 2024, the SLUUG BASE and MAIN sessions.
  • The Older production [https://www.sluug.org/resources/presentations/body.html] Presentation Archives is current.
    • STLLINUX 19 December recordings and files are on Presentation Archives.
    • SLUUG 8 January and 16 STLLINUX recordings and files are on Presentation Archives.
  • QUESTION: Can we get a volunteer that can assist, learn and take over new site?
  • We need to get support from Sean to help us know how to support the new style site and get the new style site put in place. Can we spread some of this work out?
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Sean Twiehaus will teach us how to administer the new website. Expecting do a remote session sometime toward end of March.
  • Seans work on new site has been appreciated, we just need guidance and instructions.
  • Stan R has continued to upload recordings to our Presentation Archive ( these do not include new site and YouTube uploads ).
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • Web transition will be available, with links to Steercom for review

SUMMARY: We have presence on https://www.meetup.com/Saint-Louis-Unix-Users-Group/.

• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
  • Gary's error on the meeting for last month ⇒ we probably have people who look for scheduling information on Meetup.
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Meetup sucks. We get some new folks thru them. Pain to administer. We seldom respond to questions there.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • More of the same.

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

• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
  • Some discussion of Discord in a general way, not so much specific to SLUUG.
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • We are dinosaurs. Watch out for the tar pits. Stay in the cave.
  • There are good and interesting folks on some social media venues.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • Nobody on SLUUG IRC! Do we have any mentions to remove?

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.

• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • It is still there. Slow decreasing.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

SUMMARY: We try to record many of our meetings.

• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Stan R still has our main projector.
  • Don Ellis might still have disc drive.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

SUMMARY: We use for head count tracking and for member voting qualification during each Calendar Year (CY)

  * HISTORY: 
  * Attendance tracking necessary for member qualifications to vote in our annual elections.
  * At face-to-face meetings we would pass around clipboard with sign-in sheet.
  * The standard remote video recordings do not automatically show participants.
  * Stan R runs a second connection to each video meeting named **Anonymous Coward** to record attendance. 

• LibreOffice BASE Attendance database file is available for download from https://www.sluug.org/steercom/ page.
• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

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

  * HISTORY: 
  * A running database helps Gary schedule meetings.

• LibreOffice BASE Planning database is available from https://www.sluug.org/steercom webpage.
• Go to https://www.sluug.org/steercom/ has link to planning.pdf
• or directly to report at Planning Schedule Report
• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
  • Concensus last month was that only three years of attendance need to be kept.
  • Stan didn't have time this month to actually remove old attendance data due to unexpected trip.
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

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 crinkle 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.

• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Stan has been reviewing handouts and still plans to first update the *Linux For Beginners* one.
  • Stan didn't have time this month to actually modify or update any handouts due.
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

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

  * **HISTORY:** 2020-10-05 Gary found cardboard box with old secretary material. Original Xeroxes of articles of corporation, etc. Historical interest. No idea who dropped it off.

• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
• Gary saw the box THIS WEEK!!

SUMMARY: We seek financial support from the tech community.

  * **HISTORY:** We are not good at getting sponsors.

• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

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

• QUESTION: Do we have anything else, anything new that we need to deal with?
• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
  • Items from this existing sections needs to be extracted, removed and/or split up into new categories.
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
• IRC not used, probably should be removed?

• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

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.

• December 2025 - Ticket ( ballot ) nominations should be solicited.
• January 2025 ~ Post Office Box Renewal ( automatic 6 months on credit card ) ~ Lee handles.
• January 2025 ~ Bribes early to Stan R so your name won't be on ballot.
• February 2025 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status. Due by April. e-postcard.
• February 2025 - STLLINUX.ORG domain automatic renewal.
• February 2025 - SLUUG Annual Board meeting and elections.
• March 2025 - Count Ballots
• March 2025 - Updates to contacts on webpage if required.
• March 2025 - Updates to email aliases if required.
• March 2025 - BuddyNS SLUUG account due (Automated) * WAS RENEWED.
• May 2025 - LetsEncrypt renews every 60 days early ( 30 day grace period ).
• June 2025 - BuddyNS SLUUG account due (Automated) * WAS RENEWED.
• June 2025 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status due. DUE 2024 ( every two years now )
  • https://bsd.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/BusinessEntityDetail.aspx?page=beSearch&ID=681250
• June 2025 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
• July 2025 - SLUUG.ORG account due (Automated) done in June.
• July 2025 ~ Post Office Box Renewal (automatic 6 months on credit card) ~ Lee handles on SLUUG card.
• August 2025 - Missouri Tax Holiday ( on our calendar )
• August 2025 - NEWLINUX.ORG domain renewal. Stan R.
• August 2025 - SLACC.ORG domain renewal. Stan R.
• August 2025 - Grant suggests buying 2 years once, then one additional year each year. So, when you renew each year, you have a year left, rather than a few days.
• September 2025
• October 2025
• November 2025 - Search for upcoming Technical Group Xmas parties to put on our calendar.
  • Gary has placed StL GameDev & MS' (Azure, etc,…) Holiday Parties onto calendar and into Discuss.
• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments: Reviewed list of required items from February 2024.
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

SUMMARY: When anybody does something to help!

• QUESTION: Did anyone do anything helpful or useful?
• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments: Mike K. for discovery of rogue IP addresses, Grant for session and sysadmin help.
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • Sean did a singularly outstanding job with the 'pipeline'!
  • Lee was superman keeping Bock alive during the three day power outage!

• QUESTION: Will we have Blue Sky Idea session to record or not record?
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments: None
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

• QUESTION: At what time was STEERCOM meeting adjourned?
• Monday, March 31st, 2025
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • TIME

• QUESTION: Have the recorders been turned off?
  • Yes/No
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • TIME

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 recording operator needs to be notified.
    * ** Each speaker would initially declare whether an idea should be recorded or not. ** 

• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2024 Steercom have been removed.
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments: None
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • TIME

• QUESTION: Have the recorders been turned off?
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • TIME

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• 2025-02-03 Comments: Planning for month of February.
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

SUMMARY: Usually no presentation; so, held as a Configuration Workshop offering installation and configuration help. Hardware, Operating System and Vendor agnostic.

• SLACC is the Saint Louis Area Computer Club.
  • First Thursday of each month. Free format; so attendance determines what is covered.
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-31 Comments for April 2025:
  • 

• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Usual brief meeting.

SUMMARY: Formal presentations usually focused on all Unix and Unix like Operating Systems. BASE Something fundamental, introductory, instructive, short, simple or small. Mostly for Personal Computing. MAIN Something more advanced, detailed, important, new, profound, significant, timely or useful. More for Professional Computing.

• SLUUG General Meeting
• Planning Schedule Report
• Second Wednesday of the month.
• BASE (Personal Computing):
  • STATUS: DONE
  • WHAT: SSH Keys in three easy steps
  • BY: Grant Taylor
  • SYNOPSIS: NA
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NA
  • BIO: NA
• REMARKS:
  • We did not have an alternative ( secondary ) topic on hand.
  • December SLUUG BASE was GCE Vulnerability Scanner with Docker by Lee Lammert
  • January SLUUG BASE was Andrew Cell reception tool by Lee Lammert
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
  • Ken Johnson had offered Wiping Solid State Disk Drives
  • Ken says not in February.
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Being very brief and concise it invited a lot of comentary. Good job.

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

• SLUUG General Meeting
• Planning Schedule Report
• Second Wednesday of the month.
• MAIN (Professional Computing):
  • STATUS: DONE
  • WHAT: Systemd Logging
  • BY: Andrew Denner
  • SYNOPSIS: NA
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NA
  • BIO: NA
  • REMARKS:
    • We did not have an alternative ( secondary ) topic on hand.
    • December SLUUG Main was Distrobox by Tom Clark
    • January SLUUG Main was LIVE Debian 10 upgrade to Debian 11 by Lee Lammert and Grant Taylor
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
  • Possibly K. Joe on pwnagotchi – WiFi mischief
  • Pwnagotchi is an A2C-based “AI” powered by bettercap and running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W that learns from its surrounding WiFi environment in order to maximize the crackable WPA key material it captures (either through passive sniffing or by performing deauthentication and association attacks). This material is collected on disk as PCAP files containing any form of handshake supported by hashcat, including full and half WPA handshakes as well as PMKIDs.
  • U-KamikazeJoe Cathell: KamikazeJoe@gmail.com
• 2025-02-03 Comments: Maybe Brian and VMs on BSD someday
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Grant and others appreciated fielding of audience questions and admission when he did not know answer to a question.

SUMMARY: Formal presentations usually focused on LINUX Operating System

• STLLINUX is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• Planning Schedule Report
  • Eight days after SLUUG MAIN General Meeting.
• LINUX
  • STATUS: DONE
  • WHAT: Managing Storage Using Partitions, LVM, and Stratis
  • BY: Sean Twiehaus
  • SYNOPSIS: NA
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NA
  • BIO: Yes
  • REMARKS:
    • We did not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
    • December Computing from 1990 to 1999 by Scott Granneman
    • January WiFi packet capture with Pwangochi by Joe Cathell ( KamazeeJoe )
• 2024-03-04 Comments: None
• 2024-04-01 Comments:
  • Original draft title: Demonstration of Local LLM by Sean Twiehause
• 2024-04-29 Comments for May 2024:
  • Gary may get co-hosted session with local R Language group.
  • Also, with the local ladies R Language group, which is still very active.
  • Alex may be distracted by university class work.
• 2024-06-03 Comments:
  • Moved WHAT: Loading R Library into Linux by Alex Towell to Idea SLUUG MAIN July 10th
  • SYNOPSIS: R Language is used for statistics and charts.
  • Alex Towell facing re-occuring health issues; no longer replying to Gary's email.
  • Originally ( Craig Buchek had tentative offering something about Ruby on Rails; but, exact topic was not clear.
  • https://blueridgeruby.com/speakers_2024/craig-buchek/
  • Craig will attempt something more Linux specific for July or later.
• 2024-07-03 Comments:
  • Stan found the Debian Upgrade Work Session very helpful.
  • Title: Architectures Big and Small by Craig Buchek
  • Blurb: A look at how software patterns came from patterns in building architectures, and what we can learn.
• 2024-08-05 Comments: Nothing at this time.
• 2024-09-04 Comments: None
• 2024-09-30 Comments for October: Discussion of another X vs. Y session, suggested by Sean. tmux vs. Kitty was mentioned, Lee vs. Sean.
• 2024-11-04 Comments: Nothing yet.
• 2024-12-02 Comments:
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
  • Sean T. on Toolbox? (a related to to Distrobox) – No. Sean has taken a teaching position.
• 2025-02-03 Comments: Nothing yet
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Lee considered it a very good review. Since done as lecture material for class time, it was very well done.

SUMMARY: Free format Beginner Workshop for anyone new to using Linux. Previously named Hazelwood LUG (HZWLUG), then Newcomer LUG (NEWLUG). Now, Newcomer Linux User Group is designated as NEWLINUX. The NEWLINUX home page lists a number of topics to provide general directions from which we could start. Usually no presentation; so, held as a Beginner Workshop offering installation and configuration help. Topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover way more than one topic.

• NEWLUG was how we named our Linux Users Group (LUG) for Linux Newcomers.
  • NEWLINUX is name that we can frequently use for our Newcomer Linux Users Group.
  • Fourth Tuesday of each month. Free format; so attendance determines what is covered.
  • Either five ( 5 ) or twelve ( 12 ) days after Saint Louis Linux meeting, depending on month.
• 2024-09-30 Comments for October: Stan will be out of town but expects to have internet access and run the meeting about as usual.
• 2024-11-04 Comments: As usual.
• 2024-12-02 Comments:
• 2024-12-30 for 2025-01 Comments:
• 2025-02-03 Comments:
• 2025-03-03 Comments:
  • Good that others were very helpful for individual that had problems.