====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - July 2007 ====== NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!) ====== Location ====== Saint Louis Bread Company, (at Old Olive and Olive), 10550 Old Olive Street Road, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 ====== Date and Time ====== * Monday, 16 July 2007 * The Steering Committee meeting was rescheduled due to Independence Day HOLIDAY. * Had previously selected 9 July, but too many couldn't make that date either. * 6:30 pm - 8:40 pm ====== Attendees ====== * Carl Fitch * Stan Reichardt * Craig Buchek * Gary Meyer ====== Secretary Report ====== * Craig printed out previous minutes for the first half of 2007. * Carl signed the minutes for inclusion in secretary folder. * Craig will review printed minutes to ensure we are not missing any. * NOTE: Wireless was down at Bread Co this month, so minutes were not done on-line. * Minutes were taken off-line and uploaded to the wiki later. ====== Treasurer Report ====== * NO REPORT. * Possibly open questions: * Status of pens we ordered with our slogan. * Final bill from Wash U. * Receipts for expense reimbursements: * Gary - domain registration * Carl - state registration ====== Book Sales Report ====== * None for previous month. ====== Membership Attendance Report ====== * Most attendance sheets are available from the web servers. * Use URLs like http://www.sluug.org/attendance.pdf, http://solaris.sluug.org/attendance.pdf, and so on. * Attendance for June 2007: * Jun 5 - 1st LDAP: 6 * Jun 6 - Steercom: 7 * Jun 7 - SLACC: 8 * Jun 13 - SLUUG: 16 * Jun 21 - STLLUG: 20 * Jun 19 - Solaris: 6 * Jun 26 - HZWLUG: * Canceled * * Jun 26 - 2nd LDAP: 6 * Jun 27 - Security: * Canceled * * Jun 28 - STCLUG: 8 ====== Mailing List Report ====== * Started including name and link to a sponsor in each weekly ANNOUNCE mailing. * Doing in reverse alphabetical order. * Have done 5 so far: UMSL-micros, Strategic Staffing, O'Reilly, K&S Pritchard, Hostirian * Next up: Graybar, EPC, Computers & Things, then Ajilon. * Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate): || List | May | June | July || || ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 || || DISCUSS | 184 | 190 | 188 || || STEERCOM | 32 | 32 | 33 || || SYSADMIN | xx | xx | 18 || * Mike Knight did some major purging of ANNOUNCE bounces. * We can anticipate more reductions when ANNOUNCE is switched to a MailMan list. * Due to MailMan automated handling of bounces. ====== Presentation Review and Comments ====== ===== June 2007 ===== ==== SLACC - June 7 ==== * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation. ==== SLUUG - June 13 ==== * Base: Public Key Authentication in SSH by Barry Morrison. * Good. * Main: Building a Bootable USB Drive for Troubleshooting by James Campbell. * People could follow along if they brought their own laptop and 1 GB USB memory stick. * OK. Faced some heckling and hardware problems. * Only 1 successful audience member, due mostly to hardware compatibility issues. * Presenter seemed to be OK, just ran into too many problems. ==== SOLARIS - June 19 ==== * TOPIC: Partitioning, Multi-booting, and Solaris by Jeff Logullo. * NO REPORT. Attendance was relatively low. ==== STLLUG - June 21 ==== * TOPIC: Physical Computing with Linux on Micro-controllers by Jason Burke. * Excellent. Lots of participation and questions from audience. * Participation from members who don't often contribute much or attend often. ==== HZWLUG - June 26 ==== * Meeting was CANCELED for June. * Regular Prairie Commons Branch room was not available on 26th. * Tentative meeting date of 19th did not work due to other conflicts. * Did not find a suitable alternate location for the regular date. ==== SECURITY - June 27 ==== * Meeting was CANCELED for June. * Posted to web pages and DISCUSS prior to Noon. Two members still showed up. * Scheduled TOPIC was: Continued Examination of Snort and BASE by Chris Byrd, CISSP. * Access to UMSL-micro computer center room was not available. ==== STCLUG - June 28 ==== * TOPIC: Nothing Planned * Old projector not really workable with Carl's laptop. * Attendance was relatively low. * People split into two rambling discussion groups. ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== July 2007 ===== ==== SLACC - July 5 ==== * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation. ==== SLUUG - July 11 ==== * Base: DSH - Distributed Shell by John Hodge. * Main: Basic GIMP Usage by Scott Nesler (confirmed, via Craig). ==== SOLARIS - July 17 ==== * TOPIC: SMF - Service Management Facility by Bob Netherton ==== STLLUG - July 19 ==== * TOPIC: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About HDTV by Craig Buchek. ==== HZWLUG - July 24 ==== * TOPIC: Review updated HZWLUG Information CD-ROM Disc (Tentative) * Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions ==== SECURITY - July 25 ==== * TOPIC: Continued Examination of Snort and BASE by Chris Byrd, CISSP, and Mark Buchanan. * Carried over from last month, when room was not available. ==== STCLUG - July 26 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ===== August 2007 ===== ==== SLACC - August 2 ==== * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation. ==== SLUUG - August 8 ==== * Base: SFTP by Carl Fitch (Tentataive) * Main: one of the following topics by John Hodge. (Stan to follow up w/ John.) * Micro-Partitioning * VIO - virtual I/O - sharing network devices on POWER hardware * Storage Virtualization on AIX * HACMP - High Availability on AIX ==== STLLUG - August 16 ==== * TOPIC: Podcasting with Audacity by Scott Granneman (via Craig) ==== SOLARIS - August 21 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== STCLUG - August 23 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== HZWLUG - August 28 ==== * TOPIC: TBD * Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions ==== SECURITY - August 29 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ===== September ===== ==== SLACC - September 6 ==== * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation. ==== SLUUG - September 12 ==== * Base: TBD * TOPIC: TBD ==== SOLARIS - September 18 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== STLLUG - September 20 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== HZWLUG - September 25 ==== * TOPIC: TBD * Varies (Unstructured Agenda) ==== SECURITY - September 26 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== STCLUG - September 27 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ===== October ===== ==== STLLUG - October 18 ==== * TOPIC: Lotus Notes (Client and Server) on Linux by Tom Bowman of TeamCentric (confirmed, via Craig) ===== November ===== ==== SLUUG - November 14 ==== * TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, etc. (part 1) by Robert Citek (tentative, via Craig) ==== STLLUG - November 15 ==== * TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, etc. (part 2) by Robert Citek (tentative, via Craig) ===== Potential Future Topics ===== * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) * CentOS by Tim Dreste * AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge) * Another presentation from Tom Bowman at TeamCentric Technologies (via Craig) ====== Sponsorships ====== * No change from last month. * Recognition of extended membership levels has not yet been done. * Craig and Stan to work on membership levels on August 1. * Effort should be directed to find new sponsors. * No effort means no new sponsors. ====== System Administration ====== * Dark and Michelob were not reachable over a weekend. * Gary tracked down problem with bad LAN switch at WU. * ISSUE - Storage space on MICHELOB/DARK /home directory * Space use at 95% level causing backups to FAIL. * One user taking up way too much space. * Security issues * Thought we had another account compromised - but it wasn't. * Historian (Primary) did Emergency maintenance on short notice. * Early 4 AM to 7 AM Monday might have caused intermittent problems. * Notice posted to web pages and DISCUSS list. * No real problems noticed. ====== Server Migration Project ====== * Carl, Craig, Jeff Muse, Mike Knight, Gary, and Lee met on June 13 to do more work. * A lot was accomplished: * Moved email transport to Bud. Delivery still on Michelob. * Mailing lists (except ANNOUNCE) moved to Bud, using MailMan. * Mailing list archives moved to Bud. * All web access (except users) moved to Bud. * Consolidated TLS configurations. * Carl, Craig, and anyone else to meet on July 25 to finish remaining work: * Migrate ANNOUNCE. * Fix problem with mailing list archive listings. * Correct mailing list pages to point to new archives. * Fix problem Phil reported with mailing list passwords. * Make sure docs are up to date. * Start migrating individual users. * Rebuild Budlight. * Get offsite backups working. ====== Website Library ====== * Stan R. and Ted P. * Partial migration from Dark to Bud sufficient to start loading presentations. * Migration means that we can start making real progress each month. * No routine presentation uploads yet. * Each website has skeleton presentation page listing topics given to date. ====== SLACC as a SIG ====== * A vote was held by the SLACC attendees on July 5. * The vote was unanimous to become a SLUUG SIG. * Carl needs to speak with Noel about moving the SLACC.com domain website. * Craig added URL http://slacc.sluug.org/. * Stan built a basic web page, added links on SLUUG site and made attendance sheet. * URL http://slacc.sluug.org/attendance.pdf pulls down attendance sheet. ====== Domain Renewal ====== * The SLUUG.ORG domain was to expire on July 10. * Gary Meyer renewed it on July 8. * Put the charges on his credit card, to be reimbursed by SLUUG. * WHOIS query now shows expiration date of 10-Jul-2008. * As usual, Dotster's automated renewal did not work. * Partly due to credit card expiring. * Partly due to auto-renewal not working right after updating credit card info. * Craig suggested that we manually renew from now on, and not rely on auto-renewal. * Note that it is SLUUG's policy to only renew one year at a time. * So we don't lose organizational knowledge of how to do it. ====== Annual Report to State of Missouri ====== * Latest annual report (5 June 2007) is now on file * It is still showing old registered agent and address. * Change of registered agent would get items from state mailed to a valid address. * Changing a registered agent requires the enclosure of a written consent. * We need to correct Craig's name and address. * We had considered just making a “registered agent change”, but it would cost money. * Will make changes next year. ====== Publicity Handouts ====== * Need more copies of Hazelwood and Security brochures. * Carl was to print 200 copies of each. * Should we ask for volunteer on DISCUSS? * Stan talked about improving the brochures we have. * Craig talked about his old "newbie packet" idea. * Craig and Stan to work on this at their August 1 meeting. ====== Other Old Business ====== * Craig delivered 2 Sun Netra T1/105 (1U) boxes to Jeff Muse. * Solaris SIG should to install Solaris (or other OSes) on them and install them at Primary. ====== New Business ====== * BBS account renewal cycle for July 2007 to June 2008. * We need to get our membership levels documented first. * To be completed by Craig and Stan on August 1. * This will likely push our cycle back 1 month. * Then treasurer will send out notices and bills, etc. * August 3-5 is Missouri's tax holiday, which includes computers. * EPC is having a big sale on August 4. * We'd like to send some SLUUG folks with brochures to that event. * Carl to contact EPC to see about us handing out brochures. * Scott Nesler ran stats on his web site on afternoon before his presentation. * He got 52 hits from the link we posted on ANNOUNCE in 4 hours. * By Friday afternoon, after posing to DISCUSS, he had 79 hits. * This seems like an excellent response rate for a mailing list of 900 members. ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== * Stan: Follow up w/ John Hodge to finalize August 8 presentation topic. * Craig: Find presentation for August STLLUG. * Craig: Get w/ Jeff Muse to get help fixing mail web archive. * Craig and Carl: Work on new servers - July 25. * Carl: Speak w/ Noel about SLACC web site. * Carl: Call EPC about us being there. * Carl: Set up cron job to look into submitting annual report. * Change registered agent to Stan or someone, if he becomes a registered agent. * Correct Craig's name and address. * Craig and Stan: Meet on August 1 to work on membership issues, brochures, newbie packet.