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- | ====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 3 March 2010 ====== | ||
- | 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, March 3, 2010 | ||
- | * 6:30 PM - | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Attendees ====== | ||
- | * Jeff Muse | ||
- | * Lee Lammert | ||
- | * Jerry Stutte | ||
- | * Craig Buchek | ||
- | * Noah Lance | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Secretary Report ====== | ||
- | * Secretary has not printed minutes since June. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Treasurer Report ====== | ||
- | * 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 | ||
- | * Lee will be ordering checks. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Mailing List Report ====== | ||
- | * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of February 2010: | ||
- | |||
- | | List ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ | ||
- | ^ ANNOUNCE | 786 | 785 | 783 | 782 | 771 | 769 | 772 | 767 | 770 | 773 | 769 | 767 | 759 | | ||
- | ^ DISCUSS | 206 | 212 | 215 | 214 | 214 | 215 | 217 | 220 | 220 | 227 | 226 | 226 | 221 | | ||
- | ^ STEERCOM | 34 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 37 | | ||
- | ^ SYSADMIN | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | | ||
- | |||
- | * 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 February 2010: | ||
- | |||
- | | Meeting ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ | ||
- | ^ Steercom | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | | ||
- | ^ SLACC | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 9 | - | 5 | | ||
- | ^ SLUUG | 23 | 18 | 32 | 21 | 15 | 22 | 19 | 17 | 36 | 30 | 15 | 28 | 22? | | ||
- | ^ STLOSUG | ? | 8 | 13 | - | (7)| 15 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 7 | - | | ||
- | ^ SNUG SuSE| ? | - |2(172)| (6) | 10 | ? | 6 | 6 | - | (4) | 15 | - | ? | | ||
- | ^ STLLUG | 32 |18(21)| 20 | 21 | 14(15) | 24 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 22 | 25 | 23 | 15 | | ||
- | ^ STCLUG | 12 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 6 | (9) | - | - | (2) | 7 | | ||
- | ^ HZWLUG | 2 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 9 | (13) | 10 | | ||
- | |||
- | * 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 ====== | ||
- | |||
- | ===== February 2010 ===== | ||
- | <code> | ||
- | February 2010 | ||
- | 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 | ||
- | </code> | ||
- | |||
- | |||
- | ==== SLUUG - February 10 ==== | ||
- | * Balloting for SLUUG officers | ||
- | * BASE: Triple Boot (Ubuntu, Windows, OpenSolaris) by Jeff Muse | ||
- | * Short - finished early. | ||
- | * MAIN: Creating a Web Site From Scratch by Craig Buchek | ||
- | * Domain registration, DNS hosting, virtual hosting, OS, Apache, MySQL, WordPress | ||
- | * Demo - whirlwind tour, fast-paced. | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - February 16 ==== | ||
- | * Canceled - presenter was unable to attend. | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STLLUG - February 18 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: OpenGL - Part Two by Jerry Stutte | ||
- | * Went OK. | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STCLUG - February 25 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: Open discussion. | ||
- | |||
- | |||
- | ====== Presentation Schedule ====== | ||
- | |||
- | ===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== | ||
- | * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics. | ||
- | |||
- | ===== March 2010 ===== | ||
- | <code> | ||
- | March 2010 | ||
- | 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 - March 4 ==== | ||
- | * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation | ||
- | * Meetings will be in smaller room. | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SLUUG - March 10 ==== | ||
- | * 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) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== Daylight Saving Time Begins - March 14 ==== | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - March 16 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: CrossBow (network virtualization) by Jeff Logullo | ||
- | |||
- | ==== St. Patrick's Day - March 17 ==== | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SNUG - March 17 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STLLUG - March 18 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== HZWLUG - March 23 ==== | ||
- | * Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one. | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STCLUG - March 25 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ===== April 2010 ===== | ||
- | <code> | ||
- | April 2010 | ||
- | 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 - April 1 ==== | ||
- | * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation | ||
- | * Meetings will be in smaller room. | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SLUUG - April 14 ==== | ||
- | * Back to back meeting | ||
- | * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | * MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STLLUG - April 15 ==== | ||
- | * Back to back meeting | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - April 20 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SNUG - April 21 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STCLUG - April 22 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== HZWLUG - April 27 ==== | ||
- | * Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one. | ||
- | |||
- | |||
- | ===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== | ||
- | * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Elections ====== | ||
- | |||
- | * 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. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Annual Meeting February 10 ====== | ||
- | * Per bylaws, we have an official annual meeting on February 10. | ||
- | * Members may bring up any business. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Domains ====== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Server Admin ====== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ====== | ||
- | * 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]] | ||
- | |||
- | ====== SLCL Room Reservations ====== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Wash U Cleanup ====== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== IRC Channel ====== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Purge SYSADMIN mailing list ====== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== New Attendance Sheets ====== | ||
- | * Stan made new attendance sheets for: | ||
- | * SLACC, STEERCOM, SLUUG, STLLUG, STCLUG, and HZWLUG | ||
- | * Yet to do: STLOSUG and SNUG, and groups on HIATUS. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== New Business ====== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Blue Sky ====== | ||
- | * Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects. | ||
- | * Noah has been helping the [[http://archreactor.org/ | 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 Useful Efforts ====== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== 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 - order checks. | ||
- | * 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. | ||