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SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - 3 December 2008
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
Attendees
Carl Fitch
Stan Reichardt
Jeff Muse
Lee Lammert
Gary Meyer
Craig Buchek
Secretary Report
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Treasurer Report
Attendance Report
Gary suggests we discuss why the #s on the general meeting and STLlug are so low!
What can be done to return them to maore traditional values?
Also relate to subscriptions to ANNOUNCE.
* Numbers, as of end of November 2008:
Meeting | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov |
Steercom | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | No | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
SLACC | ? | 8 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 4 | (4) | ? | x | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | ? | 4 |
SLUUG | 18 | 16 | 27 | 36 | 21 | 24 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 23 | 17 | 31 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 20 |
STLOSUG | 15 | 6 | 8 | No | 11 | No | 5 | No | 13 | No | 6 | No | 20 | 10 | No | 12 | No | 11 | 10 |
SNUG | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 5 | 4 | No | 5 | 3 | ? |
STLLUG | 23 | 20 | 31 | 31 | 23 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 17 | No | 16 | 17 | 29 | 22 | 20 | 23 | 13 | 15 | 11 |
STCLUG | ? | 8 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 11 | No | 11 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 19 | No |
HZWLUG | 9 | No | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 9 |
No - indicates no meeting.
NA - Not part of SLUUG
() - Numbers in parentheses are head count.
? - Question mark indicates attendance not taken or sheet missing.
xx - attendance numbers not yet recorded.
Dropped reference to LDAP meetings.
Mailing List Report
A ~20% drop in 18 months! (And it was over 1000…when?)
List | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov |
ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 | 866 | 857 | 856 | 853 | 854 | 843 | 835 | 830 | 828 | 807 | 805 | 802 |
DISCUSS | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 186 | 1?? | 188 | 188 | 192 | 193 | 192 | 193 | 194 |
STEERCOM | 32 | 32 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 31 | 31 | 31 | ?? | 29 | 32 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 34 |
SYSADMIN | xx | xx | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | ?? | 15 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
November 2008
November 2008
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 - November 6
HOLIDAY - November 11
SLUUG - November 12
Solaris - November 18
TOPIC: Dedicated
DNS Server in a Zone, by Jeff Muse and Carl Fitch.
Showed how to set up a dedicated
DNS server in a zone (SUN virtual machine) during the meeting.
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SNUG - November 19
STLLUG - November 20
STCLUG - November 2?
HZWLUG - November 25
HOLIDAY - November 27
Presentation Schedule
December 2008
December 2008
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 - December 4
SLUUG - December 10
Solaris - December 16
HZWLUG - December 16
Holiday schedule, one week early.
Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
SNUG - December 17
STLLUG - December 18
STCLUG - December 22
HOLIDAY - December 25
January 2009
January 2009
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 - January 1
SLUUG - January 14
STLLUG - January 15
Solaris - January 20
SNUG - January 21
STCLUG - January 22
HZWLUG - January 27
Potential Presenters
These are some people who can present, and possible topics they can speak about.
Don Hardaway and Craig Van Slyke (St. Louis University)
John Hodge
IBM (via John Hodge)
Wehrenberg Theaters (via Gary)
Sanjiv Bhatia (or someone from UMSL, via Lee)
David Letscher (Prof of CS at SLU) (via Gary)
Rick Clark (Ubuntu) (via Craig)
Jeff Logullo (Sun)
TOPIC: MySQL - now a Sun product
TOPIC: Project Indiana, a new package mngmnt system ala apt/dpkg
TOPIC: Versioning filenames (snapshots?) in ZFS
TOPIC: New release of ZFS
TOPIC: Belenix & other live CD's based on Open Solaris
Scott Nesler
Jeff Muse
Ed Howland (via Gary)
TOPIC: Last.fm, Amarok, etc. - free music downloads
TOPIC: Building a modern kernel
Stan Reichardt
Tim Dreste (via Stan R)
unknown (via Carl)
TOPIC: EnterpriseDB (packaged version of PostgreSQL)
Would be a video-conference, so requires solving logistics problems
Potential Topics
These are some topics that we've had requested, or brainstormed, but need to find speakers for.
Technology and Politics
Where do politicians stand on issues important to our group?
Issues - intellectual property, privacy vs surveilance, subsidies & incentives, Common Carrier
National, state, and local candidates and parties
Would need to do in Sept or Oct.
Tim Dreste might be able to get someone from Todd Akin's office to speak with us.
Craig is talking to someone involved w/ the Obama campaign.
Scott Nesler offered to present
Do Good Gauge concept as a main topic or lead in.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)
Fedora recent releases
SuSE or OpenSUSE recent releases
Someone from Novell?
Gary Hollingsworth?
HP-UX current release, features, future
Dave Mills?
HP corporate?
iSCSI
Using git
CPUs
Features of modern Intel/AMD CPUs
x86-64
x86, x86-64, IA64, Sparc, PowerPC, ARM, POWER
iPhone
iPhone competitors
Linux from scratch.
Installation from source - config, make , make install, etc.
SplashTop - a quick booting distro.
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Current paying sponsors have been asked to renew with nice letter in April.
Potential sponsors
Sun - Jeff Logullo
IBM - (John Hodge may have a contact)
Red Hat - Clark Smith (Craig to follow up)
Canonical/Ubuntu (Craig to follow up)
VMware - Matt Skipton
We should review them once or twice annually and establish an end date on recognition.
Need sign about sponsoring our group for booth/table display at meetings and trade shows.
More effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
Syllogistics paid twice for a corporate sponsorship,
Server Admin
***SECURITY BREACH!?!? Wash U has taken our webdev box 128.252.19.27 off network Mon 1 Dec.
They detected questionable IRC traffic with IP addresses in Finland & Norway.
We should analyze and respond.
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Need to break into the Sun machines again and reset passwords so they do not expire!
Should we setup our own
DNS on Bud/Budlight & switch over.
Make our own servers authoritative for our own domains.
Would allow us to publish reverse records.
Would allow us to publish SPF records.
We could offer dyanmic
DNS services to our members.
We have 2 Sun E250s, which are currently racked but not connected.
Jeff Muse added Ultra and Busch - Sun Netra running Solaris 10.
Xepect to use one like Bud and one for backup storage
Will use the 2 Sun E250s for bacdkup storage.
Want to ask for a bunch of Ultra SCSI 160 or 320 speed disc drives, size 36 Gb or better.
Server Migration Project
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Craig has updated some of the documentation recently, as he built systems based on our docs.
Backups
Craig was to get together with Mike and/or Carl to work on tasks in July
Work left to do:
Other work to do:
Better web site management tools
Document useradd process.
Develop standardized 'Membership List' & same UIDs on all production machines.
SLACC as a SIG
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Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses.
The registration is paid up until 2009.
Carl - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
Check on SLACC.ORG - it seems to have changed recently - cybersquatter?
SNUG as a SIG
Membership (and Shell Accounts)
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We had 2 new memberships this month. Carl will coordinate with Mike.
Rest is tabled until next month.
Membership drive
Cafe Press merchandise
Lee has proposed to sell pizzas as fund-raiser if continued insufficient Memberships & Sponsors.
Manage The Group
Domain Name for St. Charles LUG
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Domain expires mid December.
Do we want to assume ownership? Otherewise Scott will let it expire.
Approved, we will start using.
Need to add to Apache configuration.
Other Old Business
New Business
Prep for February Elections
Follow-up and Action Items
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Gary - Contact Don Hardaway and Craig Van Slyke (St. Louis University).
Gary - Follow up on political topics for October STLLUG.
Craig - Make sure change of registered agent form got mailed in.
Craig - Contact Rick Clark (Ubuntu) about presenting at October or November STLLUG.
Lee - Need list to print out name tags for paying members.
Carl - Follow up w/ SLACC leader.
Carl - Get with Mike to set up accounts for new members. (Lee has the info.)
Barry - Follow up w/ John Hodge about a presentation in the near future.
Lee, Barry - Get someone from IBM to talk about POWER6, AIX 6.0, etc.
Craig - Email Jim Leingang @ S3 about $200 sponsorship.
Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.