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SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - 1 April 2009
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 1, 2009
6:30 PM -
Attendees
Secretary Report
Treasurer Report
Mailing List Report
List | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar |
ANNOUNCE | 857 | 856 | 853 | 854 | 843 | 835 | 830 | 828 | 807 | 805 | 802 | 791 | 790 | 786 | 785 |
DISCUSS | 185 | 185 | 186 | 1?? | 188 | 188 | 192 | 193 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 196 | 201 | 206 | 212 |
STEERCOM | 31 | 31 | 31 | ?? | 29 | 32 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 35 |
SYSADMIN | 17 | 17 | 17 | ?? | 15 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
Attendance Report
Meeting | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar |
Steercom | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 |
SLACC | 7 | 4 | (4) | ? | x | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | ? | 4 | 4 | No | 6 | 5 |
SLUUG | 14 | 12 | 23 | 17 | 31 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 20 | 27 | 24 | 23 | 18 |
STLOSUG | 13 | No | 6 | No | 20 | 10 | No | 12 | No | 11 | 10 | 7 | 6 | xxx | 8 |
SNUG | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 5 | 4 | No | 5 | 3 | 5? | No | 7 | xxx | No |
STLLUG | 17 | No | 16 | 17 | 29 | 22 | 20 | 23 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 19 | 32 | 18 |
STCLUG | 9 | 11 | 3 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 19 | No | 6 | 11? | 12 | 9 |
HZWLUG | 10 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 |
MythTV | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | 8 | No |
* 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.
Added MythTV as a SIG.
March 2009
March 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 - March 5
SLUUG - March 11
Solaris - March 17
SNUG - March 18
StL Business Expo March 18
SLUUG Booth
See Discussion Below
STLLUG - March 19
HZWLUG - March 24
STCLUG - March 26
MythTV - NO MARCH MEETING
Presentation Schedule
April 2009
April 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
SLACC - April 2
SLUUG - April 8
SNUG - April 15
TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
STLLUG - April 16
TOPIC: Open Source on the Desktop: Why Not? (TENTATIVE, via Gary)
STLOSUG (Solaris) - April 21
TOPIC: Continuation of System Build
STCLUG - April 23
HZWLUG - April 28
MythTV - NO APRIL MEETING
May 2009
May 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 - May 7
SLUUG - May 13
BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
Main: To Be Determined (TBD)
STLOSUG (Solaris) - May 19
TOPIC: Continuation of System Build
SNUG - May 20
TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
STLLUG - May 21
TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
HZWLUG - May 26
STCLUG - May 28
TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
MythTV - NO MAY MEETING
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)
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 management system a la 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
Stan Reichardt
Tim Dreste (via Stan R)
Don Ellis
Kyle Cordes
git and GitHub
Flying Boxes
Craig Buchek
git and GitHub
ack (grep replacement)
GNU grep (–count, –context, -e, –color)
wget and curl
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Ruby on Rails
Test-Driven Development (or get Brian Button, if possible)
Jerry Stutte
Tony Lovasco
Mike Wilkerson
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Potential Topics
These are some topics that we've had requested, or brainstormed, but need to find speakers for.
Unix glossary - define terms
mount point
white space
"well-behaved" app
zombies
parent process
Knoppix karaoke (various users sit in front of Knoppix system)
Drawing network diagrams using Dia or OpenOffice Draw
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.
SplashTop - a quick booting distro.
PGP/GPG use in Email
Thunderbird Enigmail
KMail
Google Android
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Small Business Expo
STCLUG
Scott Nesler purchased and donated STCLUG.ORG domain.
Gary renewed STCLUG.ORG domain.
Craig added to Apache configuration, so it now runs off our servers properly.
Craig will add
DNS records on our EveryDNS account.
Gary needs to create
DNS records in EveryDNS and point the domain at EveryDNS.
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SLACC
Need to register SLACC.COM domain.
Check on SLACC.ORG - seems to be owned by a cybersquatter.
Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses.
ACTION ITEM: Carl, Gary - Transfer and renew SLACC.COM domain.
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StlWebDev
Lee proposed resurrecting StlWebDev as a SLUUG SIG.
Lee spoke w/ Allan Trick, president of (now-defunct) StlWebDev group.
They're willing to abide by SLUUG terms.
They've not held meetings for some time.
Would like to move the web site and mailing list to our servers.
Unanimous agreement.
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Server Admin
Craig updated DokuWiki to the latest version.
Partitions on Bud are getting full.
Home and var partitions.
Tony will look into prices for 9 SCA hard drives - 36
GB and 72
GB.
Jeff installed Solaris 10 on the E250 with the hard drives.
Omnitec offered to provide secondary
DNS for us.
We would provide secondary
DNS for them.
Lee and Carl would maintain
DNS on both ends.
Dark is alive again, thanks to a campus-wide power outage.
Wash U took our webdev box (128.252.19.27) off network Mon December 1.
Jeff Muse added Ultra and Busch - Sun Netras running Solaris 10.
We have 2 Sun E250s, which are currently racked but not connected.
We're planning to setup our own
DNS on Ultra/Busch.
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.
Steve Smith (from Solaris SIG) offered a 36
GB drive to install in one of the Netras.
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Server Management
Backups
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.
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Membership (and Shell Accounts)
Craig had a discussion with Jim Leingang about membership, and got several suggestions.
Membership drive
Cafe Press merchandise
Lee has proposed to sell pizzas as fund-raiser if continued insufficient Memberships & Sponsors.
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Manage The Group
Improve Attendance
Free Software and Technology Expo
Rick Clark from Canonical proposed SLUUG sponsor an Ubuntu release party.
Official Name: Free Software and Technology Expo
Date will be 2nd Saturday in May - May 9.
Runs from 4 PM to 9 PM
Setup from 3 PM to 4 PM
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Single ballroom - 75' x 30'
Potential Presentations (4)
something by Rick Clark of Canonical / Ubuntu
Open Source Licensing: What You Need to Know by Craig Buchek
something by Scott Granneman (TENTATIVE)
something security-related by Christine Wanta
Open Source in an Economic Downturn by Craig Buchek (ALTERNATE)
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PLANNING: Free Software and Technology Expo
Uncertain of Canonical or Rick Clark attendance
No longer calling it Ubuntu Release Party
Changed references to a Ubuntu Release Party to simple Ubuntu Release coming end of April
Changed home pages for SLUUG, STLLUG, STCLUG and STL computer events calendar
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Anybody else gone to examine Westport site?
What is room capacity of Westport site?
Anybody take photos of Westport site?
Do we have diagram of Westport site?
How many tables, booths, chairs and workers will be there?
Will video projector be used?
Will Internet be available?
Will TUX be wandering the area?
Will SLUUG have show computers?
Do we have any SLUUG volunteers signed up?
Do we have name tags for all SLUUG volunteers?
What are other exhibitors doing?
Anybody talk to local Red Hat representative?
Anybody talk to local Novell representative?
Anybody talk to local Sun representative?
Anybody talk to local XXX representative?
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Other Old Business
Any?
New Business
Any?
Recognize Useful Effort
Blue Sky
Any?
Board Meeting
Any?
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 - Need list to print out name tags for paying members.
Gary - Update STLLINUX.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data.
Any?