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SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - 5 August 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, August 5, 2009
  • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Attendees

  • Jeff Muse
  • Craig Buchek
  • Stan Reichardt
  • Jerry Stutte

Secretary Report

  • Secretary has printed out minutes up through June.

Treasurer Report

  • No report. Have not had any reports since end of March!
  • Balance: $1271.62 as of 3/31/2009

Mailing List Report

  • Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of July 2009:
List Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul
ANNOUNCE 830 828 807 805 802 791 790 786 785 783 782 771 769
DISCUSS 192 193 192 193 194 196 201 206 212 215 214 214 215
STEERCOM 33 33 33 34 34 34 34 34 35 35 35 35 34
SYSADMIN 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 17
  • Numbers are 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.

Attendance Report

  • Attendance numbers, as of end of July 2009:
Meeting Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul
Steercom 4 2 4 5 5 6 6 6 9 8 8 5 2
SLACC 9 8 6 ? 4 4 - 6 5 6 6 7 8
SLUUG 17 15 18 21 20 27 24 23 18 32 21 15 22
STLOSUG - 12 - 11 10 7 6 ? 8 13 - (7) 15
SNUG SuSE 4 - 5 3 5? - 7 ? - 2(172) (6) 10 ?
STLLUG 20 23 13 15 11 10 19 32 18(21) 20 21 14 (15) 24
STCLUG 3 6 3 19 - 6 11? 12 9 10 8 11 11
HZWLUG 11 12 9 11 9 4 2 8 7 11 10 12 8
  • 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

June 2009

     June 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 - June 4

  • Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

SLUUG - June 10

  • BASE: Vim Folding by Stan Reichardt
    • Stan says he didn't do very good – too many interrupting questions
  • MAIN: Neural Networks to Scan DNA by Bryce Meyer (via Lee)
    • Don't recall

STLOSUG (Solaris) - June 16

  • TOPIC: Migrating an RC script to SMF
    • Lots of discussion, went well

SNUG - June 17

  • TOPIC: iFolder

STLLUG - June 18

  • TOPIC: Open Source Licensing - What You Need to Know by Craig Buchek
    • Unknown

HZWLUG - June 23

  • Various, such as GRUB stanzas, yumex, alexandria, gramps, lilypond.
    • Good coverage. Nice to be covering higher-level applications.
    • Talked about WinBeginners.com web site – great info; wish there was a GNU/Linux equivalent.

STCLUG - June 25

  • TOPIC: Samba Shares Across Subnets on pfSense by Carl Fitch
    • Interesting.

July 2009

     July 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 - July 2

  • Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

SLUUG - July 8

  • BASE: ack (grep replacement) by Craig Buchek
    • Good coverage of features and command-line options.
  • MAIN: Solaris for Linux Admins by Jeff Muse
    • A bit disjointed; lots of things to cover, but not easy to organize.
    • Got some info on portability.

STLLUG - July 16

  • TOPIC: OpenGL by Jerry Stutte
    • Slow start, info presented needed to be "processed" more.
    • Could have used more demos and less "book learning".

STLOSUG (Solaris) - July 21

  • TOPIC: What's New with OpenSolaris 2009.06 by Bob Netherton
    • Good meeting.
    • Covered package management, libc, ZFS, and many more topics.

SNUG - July 22

  • TOPIC: PlateSpin Applications
    • ???

STCLUG - July 23

  • TOPIC: A Virtual Network Simulator by Rich Warwick
    • Good tool, interesting, lots of audience participation.
    • Richard seemed nervous and out of sorts.

HZWLUG - July 28

  • Various Topics (Unstructured)
    • Gave out some Ubuntu, SimplyMEPIS and HZWLUG Beginner Info discs

Presentation Schedule

August 2009

    August 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 - August 6

  • Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

SLUUG - August 12

  • MAIN: Unix glossary - unusual terms (round table)
    • mount point
    • white space
    • "well-behaved" app
    • zombies
    • parent process
    • sparse files
    • raw devices
    • raw/cooked terminal modes

STLOSUG (Solaris) - August 18

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

SNUG - August 19

  • TOPIC: The new SUSE Studio by Gary Hollingsworth

STLLUG - August 20

  • TOPIC: GIT by Craig Buchek

HZWLUG - August 25

  • Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.

STCLUG - August 27

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) by Rick Clark (Ubuntu)

September 2009

   September 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 - September 2

  • Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

SLUUG - September 9

  • BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • MAIN: VMWare's latest & greatest by Matt Skipton (via Lee)

STLOSUG (Solaris) - September 15

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

SNUG - September 16

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

STLLUG - September 17

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

HZWLUG - September 22

  • Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.

STCLUG - September 24

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

Potential Presenters

These are some people who can present, and possible topics they can speak about.

  • Scott Granneman
    • Snow Leopard (the next version of Mac OS X, when it comes out)
    • iPhone (sometime after July)
  • Rick Clark (Ubuntu) (via Craig)
    • TOPIC: TBD
    • Might be able to talk to STCLUG and STLLUG
  • Kyle Cordes
    • Puppet
    • Flying Boxes
  • Hostirian/Primary.NET
    • Tour of their data center
    • What it takes to run a hosting data center
  • Wehrenberg Theaters (via Gary)
    • TOUR/DEMO: Digital cinema projectors
  • Sammie from IBM,
    • Canceled Main: Live Demo of IBM Virtualization
  • Sanjiv Bhatia (or someone from UMSL, via Lee)
    • TOPIC: AIX 6
    • TOPIC: Open Grid Computing
    • December or January
  • David Letscher (Prof of CS at SLU) (via Gary)
    • TOPIC: TBD
    • Still gone for summer. Awaiting details.
  • Jeff Logullo (formerly of 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
    • TOPIC: GIMP (follow-up from previous presentation)
    • TOPIC: PGP and GPG
  • Jeff Muse
    • Software RAID
    • Mailman
    • Various other Solaris topics
  • Stan Reichardt
    • Evaluating Security (Internet access required)
    • Using Scribus
  • Tim Dreste (via Stan R)
    • TOPIC: Untangle Gateway Platform
    • TOPIC: CentOS Linux
  • Don Ellis
    • Mac OS X Snow Leopard
  • Craig Buchek
    • GNU grep (–count, –context, -e, –color)
    • wget and curl
    • Mac OS X topics
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Test-Driven Development (or get Brian Button, if possible)
  • Tony Lovasco
    • ???
  • Mike Wilkerson
    • Round-Table on Joe Linux User (moderator)
  • Jerry Stutte
    • OpenGL part 2 (November LUG)

Potential Topics

These are some topics that we've had requested, or brainstormed, but need to find speakers for. List was posted to DISCUSS on 25 May, asking for volunteers.

  • LaTeX
    • Weiqi Gao and Brian Bilgere were looking for volunteers
    • Eric Xu says he uses it; Jerry Stutte will contact him
  • Processes
    • How to tell what's running on a machine
  • Google Wave
  • BSD jail
  • Knoppix karaoke (various users sit in front of Knoppix system)
    • regedit - edit Windows registry from Linux
  • Drawing network diagrams using Dia or OpenOffice Draw
  • AIX current release, features, future
    • Someone from IBM corporate?
  • Apple current release, features, future
    • Someone from Apple corporate?
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) or Fedora recent releases
    • Still looking for volunteer; tried Clark Smith at Red Hat
  • SuSE or OpenSUSE recent releases
    • Someone from Novell corporate?
    • Gary Hollingsworth?
  • Solaris or OpenSolaris current release, features, future
    • Someone from Sun corporate?
  • HP-UX current release, features, future
    • Someone from HP corporate corporate?
    • Dave Mills?
  • iSCSI
  • CPUs
    • Features of modern Intel/AMD CPUs
    • x86-64
    • x86, x86-64, IA64, Sparc, PowerPC, ARM, POWER
  • iPhone
    • Developing for (web, native)
  • iPhone competitors
    • New Google Android Phones
    • LG Dare
    • Samsung Instinct
    • Other Linux-based phones
    • LiMo versus Google Android
  • Linux from scratch.
  • SplashTop - a quick booting distro.
  • PGP/GPG use in Email
    • Thunderbird Enigmail
    • KMail
  • Google Android
    • Gateway and STL JUGs both recently had presentations
  • GUI builders (GLADE, KDevelop)

SLACC Domain

  • Need to register SLACC.COM domain.
    • Carl - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
    • Expires in September 2009; need to renew.
  • Check on SLACC.ORG - seems to be owned by a cybersquatter.
    • Expires in August 2009.
  • Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses.
  • 2009-06 Tasked Carl and Gary to transfer and renew SLACC.COM domain.

STLLINUX Domain

  • 2009-06 Tasked Craig to update STLLINUX.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data.

SLUUG Domain

  • 2009-06 Tasked Craig to update SLUUG.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data.

STCLUG Domain

  • 2009-06 Tasked Gary to point STCLUG.ORG domain registrar to EveryDNS name servers.

Server Admin

  • The Sun E250 is now up and running.
    • Named bock.
    • Running Solaris 10.
    • Stuffed full of working hard drives.
    • Has about 100 GB of RAID-Z ZFS.
  • Bud Light is doing daily rsnapshots to bock.
  • Bud backs up to Bud Light.
  • Stan create resources to keep track of our systems and what's running on them.

Server Management

  • Work left to do:
    • Make sure docs are up to date.
      • Jeff is completing documentation on wiki regarding his recent changes.
      • 2008-01 Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud.
      • 2008-01 Started documenting client email configurations, to help users migrate.
      • 2008-01 See users and mail_setup pages.
    • Craig - Work on finishing server builds.
      • 2008-01 Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig)
      • 2008-03 More security, for SSH and otherwise.
      • 2008-01 Get offsite backups working. (Mike)
      • 2008-01 Publish SSH host keys on web page.
      • 2008-03 Standardize/regularize user accounts (IDs, password expirations). (Mike)
  • Other work to do:
    • 2008-08 Document useradd process.
    • 2008-03 Better web site management tools
    • 2008-08 Develop standardized 'Membership List' & same UIDs on all production machines.

Membership (and Shell Accounts)

  • Jerry Stutte has written an app to manage membership.
    • Working with Lee Lammert.
    • Need to deploy to bud.
    • Lists membership levels and names.
    • Will be able to show expiration dates of memberships and send out emails.

Other Old Business

  • Nothing.

Annual Report to State of Missouri

  • Annual Report for 2008 is on file, next Annual Report due 31 August.
  • Filed documents available here.
  • REGISTRATION REPORT FEE IS:
    • $15.00 If filed on or before 8/31
    • $20.00 If filed after 8/31
    • Corporation will be administratively dissolved if report is not filed by November 30th.
  • We still need to change the registered agent for surface mail delivery.
    • Craig is a registered agent, per Missouri state, and volunteered to serve as our group's agent.
      • Someone just needs to file the right paperwork.
      • We thought we had filled out the paperwork; apparently it's been lost or misplaced.

Other New Business

  • Nothing.

Blue Sky

  • Stan uses htop (or ps) on our systems, and has no idea what he's looking at.
    • Not sure what each process is doing.
    • Would be good to have a discussion on process names.
    • Would be good to document running processes.

Recognize Useful Effort

  • Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
  • Jerry Stutte worked on the membership management application.
  • Jeff Muse implemented rsnapshot and wrote up documentation.

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.
  • Carl - FILE ANNUAL REPORT. DUE 8/31.
  • Craig - Contact Kyle Cordes about presenting on Puppet.
  • 2009-06 Tasked Gary to clean up home directory on Bud.
  • 2009-06 Tasked Craig to work on presentations.
  • 2009-06 Tasked Lee to ask Sammie to bring past (and current) presentation to us on thumb drive.
steercom/2009-08.txt · Last modified: 2009/08/26 10:13 by SLUUG Administration