====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 6 April 2011 ====== 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, April 6, 2011 * 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM ====== Attendees ====== * Lee Lammert * Don Ellis * Craig Buchek * Jerry Stutte * Gary Meyer ====== Agenda Changes ====== * Are there any additions, deletions, or changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda? * No changes to agenda. ====== Secretary Report ====== * Nothing to report. ====== Treasurer Report ====== * Bank Balance as of 2/28: $810.40 * Income: $ 0.00 * Expenses: SBE Booth Electric $ 95.46 * Service Charge $ 10.00 * Bank Balance as of 3/31: $704.94 * Need to encourage people to use the new PayPal buttons on the web site!! ====== Mailing List Report ====== * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of March 2011: | List ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ ^ ANNOUNCE | 751 | 752 | 755 | 755 | 739 | 736 | 724 | 718 | 717 | 718 | 717 | 717 | 708 | ^ DISCUSS | 221 | 223 | 223 | 224 | 224 | 222 | 223 | 222 | 222 | 221 | 219 | 218 | 218 | ^ STEERCOM | 37 | 37 | 37 | 40 | 39 | 39 | 40 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 39 | ^ SYSADMIN | 18 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | * 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. * Command used to generate these (as root on Bud): * /usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members **list_name** | wc -l ====== Attendance Report ====== * Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets. * Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at meetings. * Attendance sheets are [[http://www.sluug.org/resources/attendance/|available here]] * Attendance numbers, as of end of February 2011: | Meeting ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ ^ Steercom | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | (9) | 5 | ^ SLACC | 8 | ? | 5 | (6)| ? | ? | ? | 8 | x | 7 | ? | 5 | ? | ^ SLUUG | 26 | ? | ? | 18 | 22? | 29(31) | ? | 29 | ? | 15 | 18 | 15 | 14| ^ SNUG SuSE| - | 8 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 8 | ? | - | 7 | 11(14) | 11 | 15 | - | ^ STLLUG | 16 | 16 | 17 | 19 | 9 | 17 | 21 | 17 | 16 | (9) | - | 14 | 13| ^ STCLUG | 6 | ? | 6 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | - | 4 | ? | - | ^ HZWLUG | 8 | 11 | ? | 8 | ? | ? | 6 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 7 | * 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. * NOTE - Corrected STCLUG August and September counts. * NOTE - February 2011 Steercom was via IRC #SLUUG channel on freenode. ====== Meeting Review and Comments ====== ===== March 2011 ===== March 2011 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 - March 3 ==== * [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation ==== SLUUG - March 9 ==== * [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation. * BASE: Demo of StackOverflow and ServerFault Q&A Sites by Craig Buchek * Good. * MAIN: Chroots & Jails by Lee Lammert * Continued from prior month by popular request. * Good. ==== EXPO - March 16 ==== * [[http://www.stlouisbusinessexpo.com/|St. Louis Business Expo in St. Charles]] semi-annual event. * SLUUG/Gnu/Linux Booth #510 * Volunteers were: Don Ellis, Lee L., Gary McKee, Stan R. * Seemed like less traffic overall, yet we talked to more people. - Stan R. * Visitors this time did not know what UNIX or Linux were. - Lee ==== SNUG - March 16 ==== * [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group. * HIATUS: Meeting cancelled because of participation at STL Business Expo in St. Charles ==== STLLUG - March 17 ==== * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: Social Media and the Egyptian Revolution by Scott Granneman * Not enough technical meat. ==== HZWLUG - March 22 ==== * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one. * Had two new attendees. Recruited from Micro Center Linux Basics workshop. ==== STCLUG - March 24 ==== * [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group. * Canceled meeting - TOPIC: Video Capture and Editing by Noah Lance ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics. ===== April 2011 ===== April 2011 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 7 ==== * [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation ==== SLUUG - April 13 ==== * [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation. * BASE: Chkconfig by Jerry Stutte * MAIN: Cross-platform Tricks (Windows and Unix) with Alan Griggs (via Jerry Stutte) ==== SNUG - April 20 ==== * [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group. * TOPIC: Path to the Private Cloud by James Staten from Forrester and Benjamin Grubin from Novell ==== STLLUG - April 21 ==== * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: Natural Language Processing by Kevin Scannell (via Gary) ==== HZWLUG - April 26 ==== * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one. ==== STCLUG - April 28 ==== * [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: Basics of 3-D Graphics and Animation (In Two Parts) by Ed Wehner * The Basics of Making 3-D Objects (Part 1 of 2) * Promotional video at http://www.sendspace.com/file/jdspwe ===== May 2011 ===== May 2011 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 5 ==== * [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation ==== SLUUG - May 11 ==== * [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation. * BASE: Homebrew (Mac OS X package manager) by Don Ellis * MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== SNUG - May 18 ==== * [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group. * TOPIC: Going from Cloud to Cloud: Moving the Cloud to the Enterprise ==== STLLUG - May 19 ==== * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: Setting Up Webalizer by Lee Lammert (tentative) * BACKUP: Video Editing by Noah Lance ==== HZWLUG - May 24 ==== * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one. ==== STCLUG - May 26 ==== * [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: Basics of 3-D Graphics and Animation (In Two Parts) by Ed Wehner * The Basics of Animating 3-D Objects (Part 2 of 2) * Promotional video at http://www.sendspace.com/file/jdspwe ===== June 2011 ===== June 2011 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 ==== * [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation ==== SLUUG - June 8 ==== * [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation. * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) * MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== SNUG - June 15 ==== * [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group. * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== STLLUG - June 16 ==== * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: Scratch Programming Language by Ryan Brooks (tentative, per Jerry) ==== STCLUG - June 23 ==== * [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== HZWLUG - June 28 ==== * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one. ===== July 2011 ===== July 2011 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 ===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics. ====== Old Business ====== ===== Password Cards ===== * 2009-12 We need to change root passwords. * 2010-01 Craig handed out new password cards. * 2010-06 Stan R. will build an unviewable page to record the number for server list. * Further implementation when we move BUD downtown. * 2010-07 Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card. * 2010-08 Status unchanged. * 2010-09 Status unchanged. * 2010-10 Mike Knight, Jerry, and Don all need password cards. Jeff sent mail to Craig inquiring. * 2010-11 Jerry received a password card from Craig. * 2010-12 Status unchanged. * 2011-01 Craig REALLY intends to change root passwords VERY soon. * 2011-02 Jeff will get pw info to Mike if he'll be at the main meeting. Afterwards, we can change passwords. * 2011-03 Status unchanged. * 2011-04 Status unchanged. ===== 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 - Amber * Contact Lee or SysAdmin list for info * 2010-05 * PrimaryNet problem with possible rogue 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 Lance willing to diagram our assets -- later. * Joe B will be installing Sun Netra box. * 2010-06 * Golden Wheat ready for reinstall - setup with virtual appliance Debian 5 XVA. * Lee is building backup on a server built - aliased as AMBER. We might need different name. * 2010-07 * Golden Wheat has been re-installed, and fully functional. * Amber had incorrect DNS entry; Craig fixed it. * Lee copied over Bud home directories to /bu/home on Amber. * Cannot get rsync to work between the 2 systems --- JEFF FIXED THIS * Work party at the bat cave - started on web, mail, system services, user IDs. Big problem now is that mysql won't let postfix log in. * 2010-08 * Jerry is working on setting up Nagios * 2010-09 * Backups have been disabled, since they were filling the / partition. * Postfix integration with MySQL -- not working yet. * Trying to get Zimbra installed -- not working yet either. * 2010-10 * Postfix and MySQL are now talking to each other (on Amber) * Mailman is installed - list info needs to be migrated over yet * Proposed date for work party to finish moving bud to the cloud box - Nov 13th. Location TBD. * 2010-11 * We have 2 new boxes. * Compaq DL580 (G1) boxes at Lee's house. * 4 x 73 GB disks (old servers have 4 x 18GB) * 3 GB RAM (old servers have 4 GB) * Work party to finish moving bud to the cloud box - Nov 13th at Lee's. * 2010-12 * Got Budlight back up and runnable * Got a fan to fit in it * Need to reinstall in rack * Got OS installed on DL580, but Grub didn't work. * Lee suggested we keep 1 of each system type. * Keep the 2nd of each system type as backup hardware. * 2011-01 At December Blue Sky session Stan wanted to gather web analytics. * Craig said that there are 2 ways to accomplish this. * Way 1 is to analyze Apache logs, such as webalizer. * Way 2 is to use something like Google Analytics. * The group decided against using anything external like Google for this. * Craig and Lee got Webalizer working after the blue sky session. * Gary and Stan have been looking at the Webalizer reports. * [[http://www.sluug.org/hitreport/]] * Lee disabled a disuse account with 280 MB of email. * Lee tested the PayPal button. * 2011-03 Status unchanged. * 2011-04 Michelob is sick/dying. ===== Wash U Cleanup ===== * 2009-09 Jerry Stutte, 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. * 2010-06 Gary not here, nothing resolved. * 2010-07 Gary not here, nothing resolved. * 2010-09 Gary will work on this. * 2010-10 No progress. Stan questioned Gary's usefulness. Suggested that he is merely decorative. * 2010-11 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness. * 2010-12 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness. * 2011-01 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness. * 2011-02 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness. * 2011-03 No progress. Gary is in Florida. See note above about Gary's usefulness. * 2011-04 No progress. ===== Recording Meetings ===== * 2010-12 * We have a voice recorder (VC) for recording meeting presentations and have posted some results on web site. * On 28 Oct Stan R. suggested buying an additional VC so that there wouldn't be a single point of failure. * We forget who has it. * We forget to bring it. * We forget to turn it on. * We forget fresh batteries. * We forget how to turn it on. * We forget to free up space on it. * There was some STEERCOM list banter but nothing was brought up at 3 November Steering Committee meeting. * Alternative of video recording suggested, huge size of video files was mentioned. * Stan R. passed voice recorder to Gary M. on 18 November and doesn't want it back. * Noah volunteered an old Digital8 recorder. * 2011-01 Continued discussion, but no consensus. * 2011-02 Not discussed during IRC meeting. * 2011-03 Gary M. returned voice recorder to Stan R. before going to Florida. * Stan needs to pull February 2011 STLLUG recording and post it (on Amber). * And email it to the speaker (Igor Gueths). * 2011-04 Stan R. passed on voice recorder to Phil Bunch, who should be at next general meeting. ===== Web Site Suggestions ===== * 2011-01 Mike Knight's emails regarding web site. * Stan changed the copyright dates. * Good idea to list other Open Source friendly resources. * On a separate page from our own SIGs. * Sites like WITS, CVillage, Arch Reactor, 2600. * Our site layout has not changed for years. * Would take some effort to re-do it, and seems to be working for most people. * 2011-02 Stan hasn't gotten around to building new resources page, yet. * 2011-03 No change. * 2011-04 No change. ===== STLLUG Sponsorship Credit ===== * 2010-11 [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. * STLLUG meetings are now hosted at IT Enterprises, which is affiliated with UMSL. * Typically because of meeting space value we recognize host as sponsor on our web pages. * Previously, some educational institutions (other than UMSL) did not want to be listed. * Lee updated the SLUUG web site [[http://www.sluug.org/sponsors/|sponsors list]] * Also added PayPal button to SLUUG web site [[http://www.sluug.org/members/join/|membership join page.]] * 2010-12 No status change. * We should push the PayPal usage. * 2011-01 Stan suggested putting Hostirian at the bottom of all SIG web sites. * 2011-02 Stan hasn't gotten around to the pages, yet. * Noticed .PNG file doesn't show up on old county library browsers. Do we have .JPG file anywhere? * Not discussed during IRC meeting. * 2011-03 No change. * 2011-04 No change. ===== SLUUG Hand-Out ===== * 2011-01 Stan talked about the 2-page hand-out we have for SLUUG. * Suggested we put the membership form on the back of that. * Lee will look into printing them out. * 2011-02 Stan hasn't gotten around to combining documents, yet * 2011-03 No change. * 2011-04 Combined form was printed and first used at St. Louis Business Expo. * Cleaned up -- looks nice. ===== Using IRC for Steering Committee Meetings ===== * 2011-02 Because of extreme weather conditions Steering Committee business was conducted on #SLUUG at Freenode. * Jeff Muse volunteered to update Steering Committee minutes during IRC session. * Jerry Stutte was only brave soul that went to St. Louis Bread company. * IRC discussion was way too much technology for flustered Stan R. (he left channel early). * Gary Meyer maintained telephone dialogue with Stan (concurrent with session). * Transcript of IRC session was provided to Stan for review later. * IRC discussion was slow and St. Louis Bread Company threw Jerry out at 9:00 PM. * IRC session bogged down at about same time as face to face meeting usually does. * 2011-03 * Observations and opinions by Stan R. * Few participants had any experience using IRC. * IRC channel was not private and any somewhat sensitive information may be revealed. * IRC dialog too hard to follow in real time, transcript not much better. * IRC participants kept going off on tangent items, making following along difficult. * Afterwards, others failed to correct, elaborate, or update the Steering Committee minutes. * 2011-04 * No action. Nobody at STEERCOM meeting logged in. ===== LUGs and Attendance ===== * 2011-03 Craig brought up the topic of LUG attendance. * Why is STLLUG attendance so low? * Is it the location? * Was it the change in location? * Is it because we have too many local meetings? * Is it the improving job market? * With low attendance, we cannot bring in bigger names. * Telling Red Hat they'll have 15 people to speak with won't get them to come here. * Craig will post a message to DISCUSS. * Explain why I'm asking. * Ask why people don't attend. * Ask what we could do to get people to attend more often. * Ask if we should combine some of the LUG meetings. * 2011-04 * Craig has created a survey -- http://stllug.org/2011-member-survey * Need to have STEERCOM members look at it first, to make suggestions. * Craig will send out the URL to DISCUSS and ANNOUNCE once we're happy with it. ====== New Business ====== ===== Reserve Rooms at Library ===== * 2011-04 Reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches. * First Saturday in April, reserve rooms for balance of calandar year. * Stan R. completed reservation forms. Phil Bunch and Stan R. delivered forms to appropriate library. * Hazelwood LUG meetings reserved at Prairie Commons Library Branch. Stan paid for HZWLUG meetings. * St. Louis Area Computer Club meetings reserved at Thornhill Library Branch. * A $60 check needs to be mailed to Thornhill Library Branch within 14 days. ===== PR ===== * Jerry recommended we create a Facebook group and page. * Jerry recommended we post meeting notices on college campus bulletin boards. * Jerry will send out an email to Sanjiv. ===== Income ===== * Our bank account is hovering above our minimum balance. * Need to generate some income. * Need to pass the hat at meetings again. * PayPal button on SLUUG home page works, but has had no hits. * Could have a fund-raiser. ====== Annual Requirements ====== * July 2011 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain. * October 2011 - Reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches. * October 2011 - St. Louis Business Expo * December 2011 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain. * February 2012 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain. * February 2012 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections. * March 2012 - St. Louis Business Expo * April 2012 - Reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches. * May 2012 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status. * July 2012 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain. * August 2012 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status (every 2 years). * May 2012 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status. ====== Blue Sky ====== * Nothing ====== Recognize Useful Efforts ====== * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions. * Who did what? * Lee filed IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status. * Placed login details in treasurer's home directory on Bud. * Stan and Phil registered for library meeting rooms. ====== 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. * Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card. * Craig - work on getting refund for 2 months of Indian Trails reservations we did not use. * Or transfer the 2 months to SLACC or HZWLUG. * Craig - follow up on potential presentations. * Kyle Cordes - ffmpeg or other * Jerry - find someone to talk to us about Android. * Talk to Lopez from FBI about Internet security. * Talk to Alan Griggs about 101 Windows Tricks Linux Users Should Know. * Talk to Joshua Frank and Bill Zimmerly. * Talk to Rich Siebel to see if Andrew Prunicki of OCI can talk to us. * See Announce list from February 2009 for speakers from Java SIG presentations. * Jeff - talk to Splunk reps about presenting. * Noah - work on Amber build. * Gary - look into syncing domain renewals so they all happen at the same time of year. * Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us. * Gary - get Wash U site cleaned up. * Gary - talk to Gary Hollingsworth.