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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 =====
<code>
     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            
</code>

==== 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 =====
<code>
     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   
</code>

==== 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 =====
<code>
    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               
</code>

==== 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 =====
<code>
   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         
</code>

==== 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 [[/steercom/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 [[http://www.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/soskb/Corp.asp?681250 |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.
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