Annual Meeting on Wednesday - 8 February 2017 The St. Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG) general meetings are usually on the second Wednesday of each month. We start the general meeting with a basic session; which may include either simple tutorials, displays of newly discovered web sites, command line wonders, demonstrations of useful applications, amazing graphical packages, major resolution of long standing anomalies, blinking lights, or quantum shifts in both time and space. Then we will have our usual quick welcome, introduction, administrative announcements, and a Questions and Answers Period. After all that, we take a break before our main event. BASIC Session (starts at 6:30pm) IPV6 Implementation by Dave Forrest The MAIN presentation for February will be SciTech Implications of an Open Systems Architecture by Bryce Meyer, Carnegie Mellon University * This will be an elaboration on his Jan 10th presentation at the recent American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SciTech conference. * Expect about 20 slides from that and an additional ~20 from the Open Architecture class he teaches for CMU's Sftwr Engineering Institute. * Open Systems Architecture - Best practices, Verification, and Security * Come and hear from experienced OSA practitioners about various aspects of their own OSA efforts that were challenging or risky and which mitigation approaches emerged. General Elections in February 2017 Members that had attended two or more of any of our sponsored meetings (includes the general meeting, steering committee and Special Interest Groups) during the 2016 calendar year are eligible to vote for the Board members and nominate Officers that run our organization. Ballots will be available at every SLUUG sponsored meeting through out the month of February. Eligible members unable to attend can mail in an absentee ballot to address shown at top of ballot. There is one seat up for election to our 5 member board. It is for a 3 year term. Our Officers are appointed by the board; but, we traditionally include an advisory vote on the ballot for these positions as well. Also, we will have our short OFFICIAL ANNUAL MEETING during the general SLUUG meeting on the 2nd Wednesday in February at Graybar. This is a formality in our bylaws. SLUUG is a 501(c)6 professional association corporation.