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. Catch the pig. Kill the pig. Skin the pig. Gut the pig. Boil the pig. Make sausage.

  * HISTORY: 
  * [[http://www.sluug.org/steercom/ |STEERCOM]] is a webpage pointing to 
      * agenda, minutes, projects, reports, schedules, videos and wiki.  
    * Not restricted to Board members, nor appointed officers;
    * Open to all members, so attendance determines what is covered.
    * 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.
    * Any members expressing interest are given attendance instructions.

• No physical meeting until further notice
  • When we again have physical meetings, we would like to continue video meetings in conjunction with physical meetings.
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to July 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2025-06-30 Comments for July: None
• 2025-08-04 Comments: Remote ZOOM and Bat Cave
• 2025-09-03 Comments: Remote ZOOM and Bat Cave
• 2025-09-10 Comments: Remote ZOOM
• 2025-09-29 for October Comments: Remote Zoom and BatCave
• 2025-11-03 Comments: Remote Zoom and BatCave
• 2025-12-01 Comments: Remote Zoom and BatCave
• 2026-01-05 Comments: Remote Zoom and BatCave
• 2026-02-02 Comments: Remote Zoom and BatCave
• 2026-02-03 Comments: Remote Zoom and BatCave
• 2026-03-03 Comments: Remote Zoom and BatCave
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • 

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?
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to July 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2025-06-30 Comments for July: None
• 2025-08-04 Comments: None
• 2025-09-03 Comments: None
• 2025-09-29 for October Comments: None
• 2025-11-03 Comments: None
• 2025-12-01 Comments: None
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None, other than end we will trash MicroSoft.
• 2026-03-02 Comments:
  • Quick vote about ballot counting.
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
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• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
• QUESTION: Have the recorders been started ( they should be, before call to order )?
  • 6:35pm

• Monday, March 30th, 2026
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
• QUESTION: When was STEERCOM meeting called to order?
  • 6:35pm

Listed alphabetically by last name.

* Tony Cigna

* Ken Johnson

Lee Lammert ( bat cave )

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 Jan 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: Stan R. Acting only as recording secretary.
• 2026-02-02 Comments: Stan R. Acting only as recording secretary.
• 2026-03-02 Comments: Stan R. Acting only as recording secretary.
  • When you're all there is, you're the best there is.
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April: Stan R. Acting only as recording secretary.

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

* The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to Jan 2026 Steercom have been removed.

• 2026-01-05 Comments:
  • Lee will insert numbers later.
  • Steve Gomez donated $200.
  • BuddyDNS is no longer bill larger amount. We are back to regular account size.
  • More money, more money, more money would be nice.
• 2026-02-02 Comments:
  • No money spent, Lee will add numbers later.
  • One domain renewal coming up later in this month.
• 2026-03-02 Comments: Lee will add numbers later.
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Lee will add numbers later.

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 2026:

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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 June 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2025-06-09 Comments: Gary still doing alone ( also with mouse in his pocket ).
• 2025-06-30 Comments for July: None
• 2025-08-04 Comments: Still not training an assistant.
• 2025-09-03 Comments: Gary has been pruning some old entries. No accomplice yet.
• 2025-09-29 for October Comments: None.
• 2025-11-03 Comments:
  • Not done, ran out of energy. Will do later, tomorrow.
  • Actually updated later ( 2025-11-12 ).
• 2025-12-01 Comments: None
• 2026-01-05 Comments:
  • Gary starting to prune more listings.
  • Gary needs to get Rudie involved and not wait.
• 2026-02-02 Comments:
  • Bean count yet to be done. Stan R. will do tomorrow and add.
  • Bean count added (later).
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Gary needs to train somebody to edit our calendar.
  • Don Ellis was suprised First Robotics compition was not on calendar. Nobody submitted.

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 2026:

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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 June 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2025-06-09 Comments: One Discuss and Announce sign up was from crew that attended our Face to Face Pizza meeting.
• 2025-06-30 Comments for July: None
• 2025-08-04 Comments: None.
• 2025-09-03 Comments: None.
• 2025-09-29 for October Comments: None.
• 2025-11-03 Comments: Stan R and Lee L conspire to purge names off of SYSADMIN and STEERCOM.
• 2025-12-01 Comments: Stan didn't get with Lee for purge of SYSADMIN and STEERCOM lists.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments:
  • Because of slight increase in DISCUSS and ANNOUNCE we talked about efforts at NEWLINUX meeting
  • when we attempted to assist newcomers sign up. We found the confirmation email sign up messages
  • were going into SPAM folders. Grant Taylor had them forward the email so that he could
  • examine the headers. Stan R indicated that mail he had been sending out to two mailing lists
  • also their recipients seemed to only be getting mail in their SPAM folders.
  • Lee L and Grant T will continue searching issue.
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • 

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 2026:

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Proposed layout for next year, without parentheses. 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 Jan 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: Stan R believes Linux interest is picking up slightly.
  • We agree that too many Microsoft questions burden the NEWLINUX meetings.
  • Such should politely be redirect to the SLACC meeting if possible.
• 2026-03-02 Comments: Looking tonight at www.sluug.org/hitreport
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Numbers are what they are. We can not manufacure interest. Lots of competing interests.
  • Per Gary experience most meetings are not above a dozen or two.

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

    * **GOAL:** **To give us and idea of topic appeal and speaker ability.**

• 2026-03-30 Comments for April: None.

• 2026-03-02 Comments:
  • Stan R mailed secret ballot 13 February. USPS returned marked as "Insufficient Address".
  • Stan R mailed secret ballot 28 February, just because still February.
  • Essentially we had been saying "thru February and before STEERCOM".
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Lee Lammert had gone to Post Office and found USPS Post Office box location mix-up.
  • We announced counting delay during meetings due to USPS Post Office box location mix-up.
  • Board approved: Lee and Grant continue on board. Officers continued.

SUMMARY: Catch the pig. Kill the pig. Skin the pig. Gut the pig. Boil the pig. Make sausage.

  * [[http://www.sluug.org/steercom/ |STEERCOM]] is the Saint Louis Unix User Group Steering Committee.
    * Not restricted to Board members, nor appointed officers; so, attendance determines what is covered.
    * Any members expressing interest are given attendance instructions.
    * Usually on a Monday, the week prior to the main general SLUUG meeting.
    * Often about nine days prior.

• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to July 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2025-06-30 Comments for July: Murphy's fun time. New and "improved" ZOOM, isn't improved.
• 2025-08-04 Comments: None
• 2025-09-03 Comments: None
• 2025-09-29 for October Comments: We're here!
• 2025-11-03 Comments: Stan R and Grant T were not able to attend. ZOOM recording failed.
• 2025-12-01 Comments: We are here. Steve made it.
• 2026-01-05 Comments:
  • Tony C requested access instructions to attend.
  • Tony C is now wanting to leave the meeting, since we volunteered him to do a presentation.
• 2026-02-02 Comments: Thanks all for attending.
• 2026-03-02 Comments: Reminder: March is Women's History Month.
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • ZOOM session screwed. BOCK problem stopped networking. Communications broke. Interrupted meeting.

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 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments:
  • Usual meeting date would have been on NEW YEAR DAY holiday; so, has been delayed to the 8th.
  • Stan R made adjustments to SLUUG calendar and MEETUP webpages.
  • MEETUP sucks, per Gary M and Stan R.
• 2026-02-02 Comments:
  • Tony C we need to find methods to encourage audience participation.
  • Stan R will go to sleep.
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • A bit large and a few new faces. Very interesting.

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):
  • WHAT: Skipped
  • BY: None
  • BIO: YYYY-MM-DD
  • STATUS: Skipped
  • SYNOPSIS: Skipped to provide extra time for MAIN.
  • WRANGLER: NA
  • ABSTRACT: NA
  • PRIOR:
  • 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
  • April SLUUG BASE was Minimum Viable Git by Grant Taylor
  • May SLUUG BASE was Bypassing AT&T eMAIL Blocking by Lee Lammert
  • June SLUUG BASE was skipped to provide extra time for MAIN.
  • July SLUUG BASE was Into to Ansible (using YAML) by Sean Triehaus
  • August SLUUG BASE was Various Tricks by Lee Lammert
  • September SLUUG BASE was Android Apps for Network Troubleshooting by Ken Johnson
  • October SLUUG BASE was Design Failures by Scott Granneman
  • November SLUUG BASE was Round Robin Database by Grant Taylor
  • December SLUUG BASE was What is a Router/Firewall by Grant Taylor
  • January SLUUG BASE was HOSTALIASES by Grant Taylor
  • February SLUUG BASE was The Life of a DNS request by Grant Taylor and volunteers
  • March SLUUG BASE was skipped to provide extra time for MAIN.
• REMARKS:
  • We did not have an alternative ( secondary ) topic on hand.
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments:
  • Grant T has outline, slides forthcoming. Will be developing from actual work in progress.
  • A very good work in progress. Happy, happy, joy, joy. Yeah!!!!
• 2026-02-02 Comments:
  • If we can get Scott Granneman to do another 10 years of history, we might skip BASE.
  • Or, anything that falls out of the sky.
  • Gary M will make calls, and narrow down what SLUUG Main meeting topics will be confirmed.
  • Annual meeting should be ….
  • If not two distinct Stan R can't figure it out.
• 2026-03-02 Comments:
  • 
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • 

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

• SLUUG General Meeting
• Planning Schedule Report
• Second Wednesday of the month.
• MAIN (Professional Computing):
  • WHAT: Computer History from 2010 to 2019
  • BY: Scott Granneman
  • BIO: 2020-10-08
  • STATUS: Done
  • SYNOPSIS: NA
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NA
  • PRIOR:
  • 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
  • April SLUUG Main was Rescue Router when SHTF by Lee Lammert
  • May SLUUG Main was Voice Technology by Craig Buchek
  • June SLUUG Main was Computer History from 2000 to 2009 by Scott Granneman
  • July SLUUG Main was Ansible-Pull by Sean Twiehaus
  • August SLUUG Main was Local LLMs for Local IA by Andrew Denner
  • September SLUUG Main was Network Time Protocol by Andrew Denner
  • October SLUUG Main was Securing MS-Windows with FOSS by Lee Lammert
  • November SLUUG Main was Evolving "ifconfig an route" to "ip route" by Lee Lammert
  • December SLUUG Main was Btrfs File System ~ "Level 100 Introduction" by Lee Lammert
  • January SLUUG Main was Build a Router With Spare Parts by Lee Lammert
  • February SLUUG Main was What is DNS by Grant Taylor
• REMARKS:
  • We did not have an alternative ( secondary ) topic on hand.
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to June 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2025-06-09 Comments: Gary will go to calendar and explicitly state about no regular BASE, just a Call for Help.
• 2025-06-30 Comments for July:
  • Gary and Grant think it might be interesting. New and shiny toys are always interesting.
• 2025-08-04 Comments:
  • Same comments as above.
  • The way the BASE came across blended quite well with MAIN topic.
• 2025-08-04 Comments:
  • Possibles:
    • Andrew Denner
    • Scott Granemann
    • Brian Bilgerie ( maybe by October Nov Dec Jan )
    • Matt Hargrave ( Red Hat POC )
    • Ken Johnson ( maybe October Nov )
• 2025-09-03 Comments:
  • This was to be kind of a Keyboard Karaoke, hoping others would join in.
  • Stan R was not able to provide any of his planned BASE segment due to his unstable connection.
  • BASE session went much shorter than planned and we started MAIN earlier than usual.
  • Andrew got some ideas for improving the slides from some of the questions that were asked.
  • Seems to be a lot of industry adopting AI with laying off developers.
  • Industry now seeing contractors that come in and fix AI slop.
  • Gary thought it well covered.
• 2025-09-29 for October Comments: Good tools, good presentation! Very useful!
  • Possible BASE:
    • Scott G - Additional UX videos?
  • Possible MAIN:
    • Brian B - busy with a new bathroom;
    • Matt Hargrave (RH) - No response from last two dings.
    • Ken J - Might be available oct/nov, saving for reserve.
    • Calls in to Robert C (teaching again), Bryce (no response yet)
• 2025-11-03 Comments:
  • Very interesting. Grew Grant's list of things to mess with.
  • One participant provided a list of potential job openings.
  • Gary says he will provide exact name later ( ? ).
• 2025-12-01 Comments:
  • Gary's prospects are not panning out.
  • Burn.
  • Lee may do 2 or 3 MAIN session for Btrfs.
  • Btrfs 100 intro/Fundamentals.
  • Btrfs 200 Intermediate/Practical Ops
  • Btrfs 500 Deep Internals/Engineering ( possibly at STLLINUX on 18 December )
• 2026-01-05 Comments:
  • May start with a virtual box thing or a Pico
  • Build a firewall device.
  • Add a third device.
  • How to build a firewall for a device you don't trust.
• 2026-02-02 Comments:
  • If we can get Scott Granneman to do another 10 years of history, we might skip BASE.
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Per Gary seemed that there was less interaction and audience participation.
  • Grant finds Scott's holding of questions to end possibly stifles questions.
  • Stan wants page numbers on slides; so, that Gary can point to exact slide item.

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 (Either Personal or Professional Level)
  • WHAT: The DNS zoo …who's who and what do they do?
  • BY: Grant Taylor
  • BIO: YYYY-MM-DD
  • STATUS: Done
  • SYNOPSIS: Continuation of DNS series
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NA
  • PRIOR:
  • December was Computing from 1990 to 1999 by Scott Granneman
  • January was WiFi packet capture with Pwangochi by Joe Cathell ( KamazeeJoe )
  • February was Managing Storage Using Partitions, LVM, and Stratis by Sean Twiehaus
  • March was Using dsub with Google Cloud Platform by Robert Citek
  • April was BASH Variable Difficulties by Ed Howland
  • May was Voice Coding with AI by Craig Buchek
  • June was Evolution of Internet Security by Grant Taylor and Lee Lammert
  • July was Password Vaults and Tools by Lee Lammert
  • August was Logical Volume Manager by Steven Lembark
  • September was Introduction to UX Design by Scott Granneman
  • October was Command Line Demonstrations with Kitty by Sean Twiehaus
  • November was Free Linux Environments in the Cloud and DuckDB ~ SQLite for Analytics by Robert Citek
  • December was The Wonderful World of Linux File Systems by Lee Lammert
  • January was First 10 Minutes on a System by Ken Johnson
  • February was bootc: The World of bootable containers by Matt Hargrave, RedHat
• REMARKS:
  • We did not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
• 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:
• 2025-05-05 Comments:
  • This will be Craig Buchek's 2nd talk!
    • Programming Voice to text/commands using A.I.
• 2025-06-09 Comments: CTLS-Escape
• 2025-06-30 Comments for July: None
• 2025-08-04 Comments:
  • Lots of material. Covered quite a number issues, options.
  • Good audience participation with excellent questions.
  • Touched on family survivor issues.
• 2025-09-03 Comments:
  • Grant thought content was good; but, a bit advanced. Presentation was not quite welcoming to LVM novices.
  • Significant $_DIFFERENCES of concepts. Hard to make mentally adjustment for many.
• 2025-09-29 for October Comments:
  • Full of good content, examples, history!!
  • Finally diss'd out ( discovered ) SuSE manager of our previous contact, working on a topic.
  • Possible - creating a Wireguard VPN to allow remote access from win11 clients (Lee)
• 2025-11-03 Comments:
  • Worthwhile, interesting.
  • We have slight aversion to specific and unique applications.
• 2025-12-01 Comments:
  • Gary's prospects are not panning out.
  • Lee ~ Btrfs 500 Deep Internals/Engineering ( TENTATIVE possibly at STLLINUX on 18 December )
• 2026-01-05 Comments:
  • This was kind of a prequel.
  • Later in session, talk covers sub volumes ( Essentially the 200 Level).
  • Lee has 500 level slides ready.
• 2026-02-02 Comments:
  • Gary M still has to finalize with Red Hat and encourage them to advertise meeting.
• 2026-03-02 Comments:
  • 
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Stan was very annoyed and cranky with Gary not following intro slide sequence.
  • Those slide may be a bit too much to burden anybody with following.

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.
• 2025-06-30 Comments for July: Looking forward to it as always.
• 2025-08-04 Comments: Not enough newcomers.
• 2025-09-03 Comments:
  • Usual suspects and one new experienced attendee.
  • Spent time covering the NEWLINUX.ORG website pages that suggest videos.
• 2025-09-29 for October Comments: None
• 2025-11-03 Comments:
  • Newcomer discovered us by way of MEETUP.
  • Again had one or two relatively newcomers that came back from previous meeting.
• 2025-12-01 Comments: None
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments:
  • Stan R. Announced continuing awareness coverage of Missouri Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA).
  • Phil Bunch and Grant T. Assisted as Co-hosts.
  • Four returning Linux newcomers and four first time newcomers.
  • Tony Cigna, Randy van Heusden and Wayne S. Provided considerable input.
  • Many usual suspects attending.
  • A returning session newcomer with no previous Linux experience reported much greater success using VENTOY.
  • While assisting newcomers subscriptions to ANNOUNCE and DISCUSS found all email confirmations going to SPAM folders.
  • Grant T. and Stan R. Planned ad hock ZOOM assistance for one of the more experienced LINUX newcomers.
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • One newcomer returned with questions that promoted discussion. Also one other new attendee with good level of experience.
  • Have some in and out that just leave. Short attention span? Not enough nudity nor porn?

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 continues seeking different computer manufacturers (ex: Cray) who might be able to do presentation "Where are they now?"

• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2026 Meeting Schedule have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: Always good to have any help.
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • 

• 2026-03-02 Comments:
  • Stan R mailed secret ballot 13 February. USPS returned marked as "Insufficient Address".
  • Stan R mailed secret ballot 28 February, just because still February.
  • Essentially we had been saying "thru February and before STEERCOM".
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • 

SUMMARY: Catch the pig. Kill the pig. Skin the pig. Gut the pig. Boil the pig. Make sausage.

  * [[http://www.sluug.org/steercom/ |STEERCOM]] is the Saint Louis Unix User Group Steering Committee.
    * Not restricted to Board members, nor appointed officers; so, attendance determines what is covered.
    * Any members expressing interest are given attendance instructions.
    * Usually on a Monday, the week prior to the main general SLUUG meeting.
    * Often about nine days prior.

• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments:
  • Tony C requested access instructions to attend.
  • Tony C is now wanting to leave the meeting, since we volunteered him to do a presentation.
• 2026-02-02 Comments: Thanks all for attending.
• 2026-03-02 Comments: Reminder: March is Women's History Month.
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • 

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 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments:
  • Usual meeting date would have been on NEW YEAR DAY holiday; so, has been delayed to the 8th.
  • Stan R made adjustments to SLUUG calendar and MEETUP webpages.
  • MEETUP sucks, per Gary M and Stan R.
• 2026-02-02 Comments:
  • Tony C we need to find methods to encourage audience participation.
  • Stan R will go to sleep.
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • 

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):
  • WHAT: To Be Determined
  • BY: Somebody Special
  • BIO: YYYY-MM-DD
  • STATUS: Available
  • SYNOPSIS:
  • WRANGLER: NA
  • ABSTRACT: NA
  • PRIOR:
  • 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
  • April SLUUG BASE was Minimum Viable Git by Grant Taylor
  • May SLUUG BASE was Bypassing AT&T eMAIL Blocking by Lee Lammert
  • June SLUUG BASE was skipped to provide extra time for MAIN.
  • July SLUUG BASE was Into to Ansible (using YAML) by Sean Triehaus
  • August SLUUG BASE was Various Tricks by Lee Lammert
  • September SLUUG BASE was Android Apps for Network Troubleshooting by Ken Johnson
  • October SLUUG BASE was Design Failures by Scott Granneman
  • November SLUUG BASE was Round Robin Database by Grant Taylor
  • December SLUUG BASE was What is a Router/Firewall by Grant Taylor
  • January SLUUG BASE was HOSTALIASES by Grant Taylor
  • February SLUUG BASE was The Life of a DNS request by Grant Taylor and volunteers
  • March SLUUG BASE was skipped to provide extra time for MAIN.
• REMARKS:
  • We did not have an alternative ( secondary ) topic on hand.
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments:
  • Grant T has outline, slides forthcoming. Will be developing from actual work in progress.
  • A very good work in progress. Happy, happy, joy, joy. Yeah!!!!
• 2026-02-02 Comments:
  • If we can get Scott Granneman to do another 10 years of history, we might skip BASE.
  • Or, anything that falls out of the sky.
  • Gary M will make calls, and narrow down what SLUUG Main meeting topics will be confirmed.
  • Annual meeting should be ….
  • If not two distinct Stan R can't figure it out.
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Gary has offers from Craig Bucheck and Robert Citek and Scott G. Needs to co-ordinate and balance.

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

• SLUUG General Meeting
• Planning Schedule Report
• Second Wednesday of the month.
• MAIN (Professional Computing):
  • WHAT: To Be Determined
  • BY: Somebody Special
  • BIO: YYYY-MM-DD
  • STATUS: Available
  • SYNOPSIS: NA
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NA
  • PRIOR:
  • 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
  • April SLUUG Main was Rescue Router when SHTF by Lee Lammert
  • May SLUUG Main was Voice Technology by Craig Buchek
  • June SLUUG Main was Computer History from 2000 to 2009 by Scott Granneman
  • July SLUUG Main was Ansible-Pull by Sean Twiehaus
  • August SLUUG Main was Local LLMs for Local IA by Andrew Denner
  • September SLUUG Main was Network Time Protocol by Andrew Denner
  • October SLUUG Main was Securing MS-Windows with FOSS by Lee Lammert
  • November SLUUG Main was Evolving "ifconfig an route" to "ip route" by Lee Lammert
  • December SLUUG Main was Btrfs File System ~ "Level 100 Introduction" by Lee Lammert
  • January SLUUG Main was Build a Router With Spare Parts by Lee Lammert
  • February SLUUG Main was What is DNS by Grant Taylor
• REMARKS:
  • We did not have an alternative ( secondary ) topic on hand.
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments:
  • May start with a virtual box thing or a Pico
  • Build a firewall device.
  • Add a third device.
  • How to build a firewall for a device you don't trust.
• 2026-02-02 Comments:
  • If we can get Scott Granneman to do another 10 years of history, we might skip BASE.
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Gary has offers from Craig Bucheck and Robert Citek and Scott G. Needs to co-ordinate and balance.
  • Grant does NOT want to skip a BASE two times in a row.
  • Grant expressed that we should not skip doing a BASE more than two times in a row.
  • Lee may be able to do "What's new in the SuSE world", "Let's install SuSe (SWEET)16. Jump up and down with LEAP.

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 (Either Personal or Professional Level)
  • WHAT: To Be Determined
  • BY: Somebody Special
  • BIO: YYYY-MM-DD
  • STATUS: Available
  • SYNOPSIS: NA
  • WRANGLER: Gary
  • ABSTRACT: NA
  • PRIOR:
  • December was Computing from 1990 to 1999 by Scott Granneman
  • January was WiFi packet capture with Pwangochi by Joe Cathell ( KamazeeJoe )
  • February was Managing Storage Using Partitions, LVM, and Stratis by Sean Twiehaus
  • March was Using dsub with Google Cloud Platform by Robert Citek
  • April was BASH Variable Difficulties by Ed Howland
  • May was Voice Coding with AI by Craig Buchek
  • June was Evolution of Internet Security by Grant Taylor and Lee Lammert
  • July was Password Vaults and Tools by Lee Lammert
  • August was Logical Volume Manager by Steven Lembark
  • September was Introduction to UX Design by Scott Granneman
  • October was Command Line Demonstrations with Kitty by Sean Twiehaus
  • November was Free Linux Environments in the Cloud and DuckDB ~ SQLite for Analytics by Robert Citek
  • December was The Wonderful World of Linux File Systems by Lee Lammert
  • January was First 10 Minutes on a System by Ken Johnson
  • February was bootc: The World of bootable containers by Matt Hargrave, RedHat
  • March was The DNS zoo …who's who and what do they do? by Grant Taylor and crew
• REMARKS:
  • We did not have an alternative (secondary) topic on hand.
• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2025 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments:
  • This was kind of a prequel.
  • Later in session, talk covers sub volumes ( Essentially the 200 Level).
  • Lee has 500 level slides ready.
• 2026-02-02 Comments: Gary M still has to finalize with Red Hat and encourage them to advertise meeting.
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Gary has offers from Craig Bucheck and Robert Citek and Scott G. Needs to co-ordinate and balance.

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 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments:
  • Stan R. Announced continuing awareness coverage of Missouri Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA).
  • Phil Bunch and Grant T. Assisted as Co-hosts.
  • Four returning Linux newcomers and four first time newcomers.
  • Tony Cigna, Randy van Heusden and Wayne S. Provided considerable input.
  • Many usual suspects attending.
  • A returning session newcomer with no previous Linux experience reported much greater success using VENTOY.
  • While assisting newcomers subscriptions to ANNOUNCE and DISCUSS found all email confirmations going to SPAM folders.
  • Grant T. and Stan R. Planned ad hock ZOOM assistance for one of the more experienced LINUX newcomers.
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Same as always, free format.

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 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Some problem significantly interfered with last month's STEERCOM meeting.
  • Lee is working on building a Jitsi server.

• The narrative comments in the agenda/minutes prior to January 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Mike Knight doing significant work on MailMan.

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 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April: No comment.

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 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April: Stan R keeping up by skin of his teeth.

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

• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April: Yuck. It sucks. Last month it took at least two attempts to make any updates.

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.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: *
• 2026-02-02 Comments: *
• 2026-03-02 Comments: *
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April: Social meeting sucks.

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 2026 Steercom have been removed.

• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April: None

SUMMARY: We try to record many of our meetings.

• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April: Stan and Lee have projectors.

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.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April: Keeping up with it.

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 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Still broken and Stan has not been able to focus on sharing with Grant ( hoping for a fix ).

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 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April: No time this year.

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 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Gary promises to share them with Stan in the future.

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 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Ken still paying MEETUP bill.
  • Lee supplies electric and ether.
  • Lee spun up VPS (Virtual Private Server) instance for OMNITEK and will be able to also devlope a JITSI server instance.

* 2025-06-09 Suggested that we add 2038 UNIX time counter roll-over to presentations / website

• 2025-06-30 Comments for July: We should do a presentation ( we have about 12 years ).
• 2025-08-04 Comments: None
• 2025-09-03 Comments: It is listed in the broken Planning Schedule database.
• 2025-09-29 for October Comments: Looking for contact from Bourroughs or Unisys regarding Burrourghs annivarsary.
• 2025-11-03 Comments: None.
• 2025-12-01 Comments: We still have about 12 years. Tempus Fugit (time flies).
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April: Nothing yet.

• 2025-12-01 Comments:
  • See Treasury section about DNS .
  • We reverted to smaller 3 million rate.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Plunty of bandwith; so, cost has been really reduced ( now to about $14 a month ).

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?
  • Items from this section needs to be extracted, removed and/or split up into new categories.
• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • 

• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Might we want to restrict our site content from AI theft.
  • Some work, likely unenforceable.
  • No further discussion viewed as needed.

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.

• March 2026 - Count Ballots
• March 2026 - Updates to elected contacts on webpage, if required.
• March 2026 - Updates to email aliases, if required.
• March 2026 - BuddyNS SLUUG account due (Automated) * WAS RENEWED YYYY-MM-DD.
• May 2026 - LetsEncrypt renews every 60 days early ( 30 day grace period ).
• June 2026 - BuddyNS SLUUG account due (Automated) * WAS RENEWED.
• June 2026 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status due. DUE 2026 ( every two years now )
  • https://bsd.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/BusinessEntityDetail.aspx?page=beSearch&ID=681250
• June 2026 - *automated* LetsEncrypt free SSL certificates for websites on BOCK.
• July 2026 - SLUUG.ORG account due (Automated).
• July 2026 ~ Post Office Box Renewal (automatic 6 months on credit card) ~ Lee handles on SLUUG card.
• August 2026 - Missouri Tax Holiday ( on our calendar )
• August 2026 - NEWLINUX.ORG domain renewal. Stan R.
• August 2026 - SLACC.ORG domain renewal. Stan R.
• August 2026 - 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 2026
• October 2026
• November 2026 - Search for upcoming Technical Group Xmas parties to put on our calendar.
  • Gary has placed StLGameDev & MS' (Azure, etc,…)
  • Holiday Parties onto calendar and into DISCUSS.
  • Election Nomination Committee
• December 2026 - Ticket ( ballot ) nominations should be solicited.
• January 2027 ~ Reset SLUUG footer to show new copyright span
• January 2027 ~ Post Office Box Renewal ( automatic 6 months on credit card ) ~ Lee handles.
• January 2027 ~ Bribes early to Stan R so your name won't be on ballot.
• February 2027 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status. Due by April. E-postcard. Lee did Feb 2026.
• February 2027 - STLLINUX.ORG domain automatic renewal.
• February 2027 - SLUUG Annual Board meeting and elections.
• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • We will refine this in future STEERCOM meetings.

SUMMARY: When anybody does something to help!

• QUESTION: Did anyone do anything helpful or useful?
• The narrative comments in this section prior to January 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • Mike Knight diving deep into finding things we should be correcting ( need more staff and time ).

• QUESTION: Will we have a Blue Sky Idea session to record or not record?
  • https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
• 2026-01-05 Comments: No
• 2026-02-02 Comments: No
• 2026-03-02 Comments: No
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April: No

• QUESTION: At what time was STEERCOM meeting adjourned?
• Monday, March 30th, 2026
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • 8:55pm

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 2026 Steercom have been removed.
• 2026-01-05 Comments: None
• 2026-02-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-02 Comments: None
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • 

• QUESTION: Have the recorders been turned off?
• Monday, March 30th, 2026
• 2026-03-30 Comments for April:
  • 8:55pm