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Saint Louis Unix Users Group

The Saint Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG) is an IRS 501c(6) designated not-for-profit professional association dedicated to education and communication among computer users. SLUUG members include many Linux and UNIX professionals, Networking experts, System experts, hobbyists, and students. Also, many who are interested in Unix, Unix-like Operating Systems, Linux, BSD and other Free Open Source Software (FOSS) applications, products, projects and services.

We have met continuously since we incorporated in July 1992. All of our meetings are free and open to the public. There is no individual membership fee.

Monthly Technical Presentations

Connection instructions will first be sent to our mailing lists and then linked here .

We will open the remote session at about 6:00 PM, Central Time, so that you can join early to test your microphone, screen sharing and video camera .

Then we start at 6:30 PM with our BASE introductory level session ( often focused on personal computing ); which may include either amazing graphical packages, blinking lights, command line wonders, demonstrations of useful applications, displays of newly discovered web sites, major resolution of long standing anomalies, quantum discoveries, smoke and mirrors, superb tutorials, or shifts in both time and space.

Sometime after 7:00 PM we attempt a quick welcome, introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP (Questions and Answers) segment.

Sometime after 7:15 PM, we may take a short break before our MAIN topic ( often focused on enterprise computing ),

  • NEW In what order or sequence are the meeting events held? SLUUG_Meeting

    • Where!

    • Online Sessions only.
    • NO PHYSICAL MEETINGS until further notice.
    • These sessions will use ZOOM remote video service.

    When!

    Wednesday, June 11th, 2025

    From 6:30PM till 9:00PM Central Daylight Time (CDT) UTC-05

    We will open the remote session at about 6:00 PM CDT, so that you can join early to test your microphone, screen and video sharing.

    Next scheduled meeting dates

    What!

    Something fundamental, introductory, instructive, short, simple or small.

    BASE Topic: Skip to Call for Help

    Presenter: Various Volunteers

    We are skipping our usual basic or tutorial type session, allowing more time for the MAIN presentation.

    Normally either an Abstract/Background/Details/History/Outline/Summary/Walk-through will be listed when available.

    Then something more advanced, detailed, important, new, profound, significant, timely or useful.

    MAIN Topic: Computer History from 2000 to 2009

    Presenter: Scott Granneman

    This talk will cover the foundational tech shifts of 2000-2009:

    Microsoft introduced Windows 2000 and XP,

    Apple reinvented itself with OS X and the iPhone, and

    Linux gained traction with enterprise-ready distros like Red Hat and Ubuntu.

    Open source became mainstream, aided by the rise of platforms like Firefox, OpenOffice, and Git - which reshaped not just Linux development but modern software collaboration itself.

    We will also look at the rise of Wi-Fi, USB 2.0, exFAT, NTFS 3.0, and the massive growth of the Internet, from Wikipedia and Gmail to YouTube and Facebook.

    It was a decade that quietly built the world we live in now.

    Possible Future Topics

    SLUUG Annual Meeting and Elections

    As directed by SLUUG By-Laws, a required annual meeting was held 12 February 2025.

    Attending any two SLUUG sponsored meetings in calendar year 2024 qualifies you as a voting member. Ballots for February 2025 elections are now available for secret balloting. An absentee ballot could be printed for mailing to us. You might be able to use a LibreOffice Writer ballot file that could be printed and mailed to us.

    Your ballot must reach us for counting by our BOARD well before 3 March 2025 (the next STEERCOM meeting).

    Attending any two SLUUG sponsored meetings in calendar year 2023 qualified members to vote. Mail in balloting was held thru out February 2024. That resulted in Ken Johnson and Sean Twiehaus being elected to our Board of Governors. James Conroy continued as Chairman of the Saint Louis Linux Users Group.

    As directed by SLUUG By-Laws, the next required annual meeting will be held 11 February 2026.

    Other independent, loosely affiliated SLUUG sponsored Special Interest Groups:

    Click here if you do not see past presentations listing

    Contact SLUUG if you have a presentation you would like to have considered for selection.

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