NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!)

Saint Louis Bread Company,
(at Old Olive and Olive),
10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

• Wednesday, February 3, 2010
• 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

• Craig Buchek
• Lee Lammert
• Jeff Muse
• Jerry Stutte
• Noah Lance
• Gary Meyer

• Secretary has not printed minutes since June.

• Bank account has been transferred from Bank of America to Regions.
• Balance: $1375.59 as of 1/5/2010
• Income for 2010-01: $14 collected for room fees
• Expenditures for 2009-12:
  • ~$52 for Compaq fans (Carl needs to submit receipt)
• Lee has taken in new signature cards for the Region.
• Lee will be ordering checks.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of January 2010:

• 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 numbers, as of end of January 2010:

• 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.

• Extreme cold may have reduced SLUUG December 2009 attendance.
• The 7 Jan 2010 SLACC meeting was cancelled due to Library closing for snow.

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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• BASE: None
• MAIN: Mac OS X Snow Leopard by Scott Granneman
  • Good as usual.

• TOPIC: Xen on OpenSolaris by Jeff Muse
  • Good as usual.

• TOPIC: Using Linux with Digital Radio by Bill Zimmerly and Jim Conley
  • Could have used more Linux.
  • Jim did about 90% of the talking.

• Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
• Multiple call for help type of questions and one-on-one assistance.

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

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• Balloting for SLUUG officers
• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
• Meetings will be in smaller room.

• Balloting for SLUUG officers
• BASE: Triple Boot (Ubuntu, Windows, OpenSolaris) by Jeff Muse
• MAIN: Creating a Web Site From Scratch by Craig Buchek
  • Domain registration, DNS hosting, virtual hosting, OS, Apache, MySQL, WordPress

• Balloting for SLUUG officers
• TOPIC: Something from "Little Known Solaris Features" by Jeff Logullo (tentative)

• Balloting for SLUUG officers
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• Balloting for SLUUG officers
• TOPIC: OpenGL - Part Two by Jerry Stutte

• Balloting for SLUUG officers
• Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.

• Balloting for SLUUG officers
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • Could be VM stuff or redmine or whatever

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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
• Meetings will be in smaller room.

• BASE: Checking Host Services with Nagios by Lee Lammert
• MAIN: Selling Free Software by Jim Roe (per Lee in a 1/16 email to Steercom)

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

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

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

• There are 2 board seats expiring:
  • Craig Buchek
  • Barry Morrison
• Craig and Jerry volunteered to run for the open board seats.
• Noah volunteered to run for the STCLUG chair.
• Craig will print out ballots.
  • Doesn't have a way to get the ballots to the SLACC meeting.

• Per bylaws, we have an official annual meeting on February 10.
• Members may bring up any business.

• Gary will add Craig as 3rd contact for SLUUG.ORG domain.
• Carl and Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
  • Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses.
• Craig will renew STLLINUX.ORG and update to show 3 names in WHOIS data.

• Bud Light is still offline.
• 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.
• Work left to do:
  • Ongoing: Make sure docs are up to date.

• Jerry Stutte is writing an app to manage membership.
• Membership application now running on BUD. When more mature Jerry will do a tutorial or presentation.
• Need more membership forms printed.
  • Craig will print some out
  • http://www.sluug.org/pdf/membership-form.pdf

• Process has changed. Limited to 6 months. Next round may be first Saturday in April.
• Reserving a meeting room now done on line - http://www.slcl.org/services/reserve.htm
• Payment required within 14 days, or we lose reservation.
• To avoid problems, payments need to be made separately to each SLCL Branch.

• Jerry Stute, Jeff Muse, and Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site.
• Gary Meyer is Captain.
• Captain Gary Meyer still AWOL. Search party has not reported back.

• Charles Sharp created an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
• Channel is named #sluug.
• Typically 7 people on at times.
• Would like to have someone give a tutorial on using IRC, and show off our channel.
• Craig suggested that we include the IRC channel in Steering Committee meetings.
  • Will be hard to figure out the best way to get the online folks to participate.
• Stan will put the IRC channel info up on the web site.
• Stan will put the IRC channel info on ANNOUNCE messages.

• Stan would like us to clean up the SYSADMIN mailing list, to eliminate people who have not been active for the past year.
  • We decided to send a message out to the list, asking who wants to stay on the list. Then we can remove folks that are not staying active.

• Stan made new attendance sheets for:
  • SLACC, STEERCOM, SLUUG, STLLUG, STCLUG, and HZWLUG
  • Yet to do: STLOSUG and SNUG, and groups on HIATUS.

• SBE
  • March 18 @ St. Charles Convention Center
  • Lee will organize.
• 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
• Carl recommended using one of the Sun Netras as a log server.
• 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.
• 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.

• Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects.
• Noah has been helping the Arch Reactor hacker space.
  • 904 Cherokee in the old Lemp Brewery
  • Meeting every Tuesday at 7:30 PM.
  • Frequently open at other times by members.
  • How can we best cross-polinate?
  • Great place for hands-on projects.
    • Arduino projects
    • Robotics
    • Arts and crafts
    • Costume building

• Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
• Jeff Muse has been working on the Michelob sendmail problem.
  • On January 21 (3:00 AM) Michelob suddenly stopped allowing SMTP from Bud.

• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• Gary - add Craig as 3rd contact for SLUUG.ORG domain.
• Gary - renew the STCLUG.ORG domain - it will expire December 17.
• Carl and Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
• Carl - send thank-you note to Hostirian for hosting our site.
• Carl - confirm Jim Roe presentation for February 10.
• Craig - contact Kyle Cordes about presenting on Puppet.
• Craig - renew STLLINUX.ORG, and update to show 3 names in WHOIS data.
• Craig - print out minutes from June-February.
• Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.