====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 5 May 2010 ====== 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 ====== * Wednesday, May 5, 2010 * 7:00 PM - 7:55 ====== Attendees ====== Lee Lammert Noah Lance Gary Meyer Stan Reichardt ====== Secretary Report ====== * Secretary has not printed minutes since June 2009. ====== Treasurer Report ====== * Balance: $1375.59 as of 2/28/2010 * Expenses: $95.46 for SBE Electric. * Expenses: $10 for Secretary of State * Expenses: $100 for SBE Booth ====== Mailing List Report ====== * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of April 2010: | List ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ ^ ANNOUNCE | 783 | 782 | 771 | 769 | 772 | 767 | 770 | 773 | 769 | 767 | 759 | 751 | 752 | ^ DISCUSS | 215 | 214 | 214 | 215 | 217 | 220 | 220 | 227 | 226 | 226 | 221 | 221 | 223 | ^ STEERCOM | 35 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 37 | 37 | 37 | ^ SYSADMIN | 16 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 19 | * Numbers as end of each month. * Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet. * ANNOUNCE mailing list. * Still no volunteer editor to do a quarterly or monthly newsletter. *-*-* We **need volunteers** to poster/contact colleges (high schools?) THIS month to get new ANNOUNCE subscribers //**before end of semester**!!// ====== Attendance Report ====== * Attendance numbers, as of end of April 2010: | Meeting ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ ^ Steercom | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | ^ SLACC | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 9 | - | 5 | 8 | ? | ^ SLUUG | 32 | 21 | 15 | 22 | 19 | 17 | 36 | 30 | 15 | 28 | 22? | ? | ? | ^ STLOSUG | 13 | - | (7)| 15 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 7 | - | 6 | 7 | ^ SNUG SuSE|2(172)| (6) | 10 | ? | 6 | 6 | - | (4) | 15 | - | ? | - | 8 | ^ STLLUG | 20 | 21 | 14(15) | 24 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 22 | 25 | 23 | 15 | 16 | 16 | ^ STCLUG | 10 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 6 | (9) | - | - | (2) | 7 | 6 | ? | ^ HZWLUG | 7 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 9 | (13) | 10 | 8 | 11 | * NA - Not part of SLUUG. * () - Number in parentheses is head count. * xx - attendance was taken, numbers not yet recorded. * ? - Question mark indicates attendance not taken or sheet missing. * - - dash indicates no meeting. ====== Meeting Review and Comments ====== ===== April 2010 ===== April 2010 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ==== SLACC - April 1 ==== * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation * Meetings will be in smaller room. ==== SLUUG - April 14 ==== * Back to back meeting * BASE: IRC & SLUUG - Jerry Stutte * Started a little late, went a little long. * MAIN: Counterfeit Technology and Open Source Solutions - Tony Zafiropoulos * Extremely interesting chemical application of dual photon absorbtion spectrum tags. ==== STLLUG - April 15 ==== * Back to back meeting * TOPIC: How to teach Linux to newbies - Tony Zafiropoulos * Teaching expriences at ATT ==== STLOSUG Solaris April 20 ==== * TOPIC: Alternate topic - service mangement facility - Jeff Muse ==== SNUG / SuSE - April 21 ==== * TOPIC: Installing OpenSuSE in Virtual Machines by Don Ellis * Very Good meeting. Went very well despite hardware issues. ~10 folks ==== STCLUG - April 22 ==== * TOPIC: Linux on Windows 7 by Noah Lance * Interesting extra issues (difficulties). ==== HZWLUG - April 27 ==== * Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one. ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics. ===== May 2010 ===== May 20010 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ==== SLACC - May 6 ==== * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation * Meetings will be in smaller room. ==== SLUUG - May 12 ==== * BASE: Creating a favicon for your website - Tony Zafiropoulos * MAIN: Processing and Storing Genomic Sequencing Data by David Dooling * Need to veriy. ==== STLOSUG Solaris May 18 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== SNUG - May 19 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== STLLUG - May 20 ==== * TOPIC: Backing up a Windows machine to Linux - Lee Lammert ==== HZWLUG - May 25 ==== * Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one. ==== STCLUG - May 27 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ===== June 2010 ===== June 2010 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ==== SLACC - June 2 ==== * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation * Meetings will be in smaller room. ==== SLUUG - June 9 ==== * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) * MAIN: Current State of VMware - Matt Skipton (Tentative) per Lee Lammert. ==== STLOSUG Solaris June 15 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== SNUG - June 16 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== STLLUG - June 17 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== HZWLUG - June 22 ==== * Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one. ==== STCLUG - June 24 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ===== July 2010 ===== July 2010 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ==== SLACC - July 1 ==== * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation * 2010-05 Previous room reservations at Thornhill library were NOT paid, so they expired. ==== SLUUG - July 14 ==== * Back to back meeting. * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) * MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== STLLUG - July 15 ==== * Back to back meeting. * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) * 2010-05 Previous room reservations at Indian Trails library were NOT paid, so they expired. ===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics. ====== SLCL Room Reservations ====== * Process has changed. Limited to 6 months. Next round may be first Saturday in April. * Reserving a meeting room now done on line - http://www.slcl.org/services/reserve.htm * Payment required within 14 days, or we lose reservation. * To avoid problems, payments need to be made separately to each SLCL Branch. * 2010-04 Stan R. has put in requests for HZWLUG, SLACC, & STLlug from Aug thru Dec. * Stan R. will front payment for HZWLUG. * Payments need be made before 21 April (2 wks)(if Library grants dates). * Gary has reservation codes to cancel STLlug. * - -Gary in favor of moving to IT Enterprises * - -Deadline to give Library the payment MAY be the day of the "test mtng of StLopenSolaris". * Phil has info for SLACC but we aren't sure of Phil's availability. * 2010-05 Stan R. paid for HZWLUG Library rooms July through December 2010. * Other library rooms were NOT paid, so reservations for SLACC and STLlug have expired. * We will renew reservations for both SLACC and STLLUG. * Money can be refunded if we switch STLLUG meetings to other site. ====== Server Admin ====== * 2009-12 Bud Light offline due to fan failure, is still offline. * 2009-12 Craig has been adding some packages to his server; would be willing to add them to SLUUG servers. * fail2ban - temporarily ban IPs that have too many SSH failures (unanimous agreement) * fcheck - file integrity checker - emails files that changed since last time run * logcheck - email anomalous log entries * munin - monitoring of system details * awstats - web stats * 2009-12 Carl recommended using one of the Sun Netras as a log server. * 2010-02 Craig wondered if we could put sudo back on Bud. * Configure it to require root password instead of user's own password. * Will follow up on SYSADMIN list. * 2010-02 Craig wondered if we could start applying the patches pending for Bud. * There are a lot of patches pending now, including kernel and security fixes. * We have some concern with DNS patches, but Craig has applied them on his systems without issues. * Will follow up on SYSADMIN list. * 2010-02 Noah has a server we can use. * IBM X325, dual P4 Xeon 2.8 GHz, 2x72 GB. * Name: Golden Wheat * Craig will get with Noah to install the system. * 2010-03 Noah and Craig will install it on Wednesday 3/10 at 2:00 PM. * 2010-03 Noah has loaded VMware ESXi 4.0 * 2010-04 New server [Debian] installed from Noah - thanks! * 2010-04 Noah has two more Dell 2850s for installation at IT Enterprises for the OS lab, to be supported by SLUUG. Noah to contact them and confirm installation - this will be a good indication of the support level they wish to have for an ongoing relationship. * 2010-04 New server from Contegix - Nimbus [tentative] * Contact Lee or SysAdmin list for info * 2010-05 * PrimaryNet problem with possible rouge IRC activity on system we later identified as Golden Wheat. * Stan R. added some info on Golden Wheat to resources.txt file. * Taking Golden Wheat offline... * Mike Knight pointed out that Bud is not being backed up since BudLight went down. * Jeff Muse has started rsnapshots backing up Bud to Bock. * Noah willing to diagram our assets -- later. * Joe B will be installing Sun Netra box. * ====== Wash U Cleanup ====== * 2009-09 Jerry Stute, Jeff Muse, and Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site. * 2009-09 Gary Meyer is Captain. * 2009-10 Captain is AWOL. Carl will be available in November or later. * 2009-11 Captain was AWOL. * 2009-12 Captain still AWOL. * 2010-01 Captain still AWOL. * 2010-02 Captain Gary Meyer still AWOL. Search party has not reported back. * 2010-04 Pending until next month at the earliest. * 2010-05 This project open since September 2009. Gary immediately left meeting. ====== IRC Channel ====== * 2009-11 Charles Sharp created an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. * Channel is named #sluug. * Typically 7 people on at times. * 2009-12 Would like to have someone give a tutorial on using IRC, and show off our channel. * Craig suggested that we include the IRC channel in Steering Committee meetings. * Will be hard to figure out the best way to get the online folks to participate. * Stan R. will put the IRC channel info up on the web site. * Stan R. will put the IRC channel info on ANNOUNCE messages. * 2010-05 This project open since November. ====== Purge SYSADMIN mailing list ====== * 2009-12 Stan R. would like us to clean up the SYSADMIN mailing list, to eliminate people who have not been active for the past year. * We decided to send a message out to the list, asking who wants to stay on the list. Then we can remove folks that are not staying active. * 2010-05 This project open since December. ====== Password Cards ====== * 2009-12 We need to change root passwords. * 2010-0? Craig handed out new password cards. * Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card. * 2010-05 This project open since December. ====== New Attendance Sheets ====== * Stan R. made new attendance sheets for: * SLACC, STEERCOM, SLUUG, STLLUG, STCLUG, and HZWLUG * Yet to do: STLOSUG and SNUG, and groups on HIATUS. * 2010-05 This project open since January. ====== New Business ====== ====== New Sponsor ====== * New Sponsor thanks to Lee - Contegix ====== Blue Sky ====== * Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects. * Next Small Business Expo (SBE) in October. ====== Recognize Useful Efforts ====== * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions. * ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== * Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings. * Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships. * Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation. * Lee - order checks. * Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us. * Carl - send thank-you note to Hostirian for hosting our site. * Craig - print out minutes from June-March. * Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card. * ALL - Need volunteers to poster/contact colleges (high schools?) THIS month to get new ANNOUNCE subscribers before end of semester!!