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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 4 April 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, April 7, 2010
  * 6:30 PM -

====== Attendees ======
  * Lee Lammert
  * Noah Lance
  * Barry Morrison
  * Gary Meyer (Stan Proxy
  * Tony Zafiropoulos
  * Jerry Stutte

====== Secretary Report  ======
  * Secretary has not printed minutes since June.

====== Treasurer Report ======
  * Balance: $1375.59 as of 2/28/2010
  * Expenses: $169 for SBE Booth & Electric.
  * Income: 

====== Mailing List Report ======
  * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of March 2010:

| List     ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^
^ ANNOUNCE | 785 | 783 | 782 | 771 | 769 | 772 | 767 | 770 | 773 | 769 | 767 | 759 | 751 |
^ DISCUSS  | 212 | 215 | 214 | 214 | 215 | 217 | 220 | 220 | 227 | 226 | 226 | 221 | 221 |
^ STEERCOM |  35 |  35 |  35 |  35 |  34 |  33 |  34 |  34 |  35 |  35 |  35 |  37 |  37 |
^ SYSADMIN |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  18 |  18 |  18 |

  * Numbers 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.

*-*-* We **need volunteers** to poster/contact colleges (high schools?) THIS month
to get new ANNOUNCE subscribers //**before end of semester**!!//

====== Attendance Report ======
  * Attendance numbers, as of end of March 2010:

| Meeting  ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^
^ Steercom |  8 |   8 |   5 |   2 |   4 |   4 |   5 |   6 |  6 |  6 |  6  |   5  |
^ SLACC    |  6 |   6 |   7 |   8 |   6 |   4 |   5 |   9 |  9 |  - |  5  |   ?  |
^ SLUUG    | 32 |  21 |  15 |  22 |  19 |  17 |  36 |  30 | 15 | 28 |  22? |   ?  |
^ STLOSUG  | 13 |   - |  (7)|  15 |   6 |   4 |   6 |   9 |  4 |  7 |  -  |   6  |
^ SNUG SuSE|2(172)| (6) |  10 |  ? |   6 |   6 |   - |  (4) | 15 |  - |  ?  |   -  |
^ STLLUG   |  20 |  21 | 14(15) |  24 |   19 |  22 |  25 |  22 | 25 |  23 |  15  |   16  |
^ STCLUG   | 10 |   8 |  11 |  11 |   8 |   6 | (9) |  -  |  - | (2) |  7  |   ?  |  6  |
^ HZWLUG   |  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 ======

===== 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 ====
  * [[http://www.ITenterprises-STL.org/ | IT Enterprises]] walk-through (4:30)
  * Excellent location, OSLug will be there April to try the venue
  * 
==== SLUUG - March 10 ====
  * BASE: Checking Host Services with Nagios by Lee Lammert
  * Very informative
  * MAIN: Selling Free Software by Jim Roe (per Lee in a 1/16 email to Steercom)
  * Fun and entertaining.

==== Daylight Saving Time Begins - March 14 ====

==== STLOSUG Solaris March 16 ====
  * TOPIC: CrossBow (network virtualization) by Jeff Logullo
  * Great!

==== St. Patrick's Day - March 17 ====

==== SNUG - March 17 ====
  * TOPIC: No meeting.

==== STLLUG - March 18 ====
  * TOPIC: Bonded NICs by Noah Lance
  * Great material - it works too!

==== HZWLUG - March 23 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.

==== STCLUG - March 25 ====
  * TOPIC: Bonded NICx
  * Review of STLLUG presentation

====== Presentation Schedule ======

===== Potential Presenters and Topics =====
  * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics.

===== 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: IRC & SLUUG - Jerry Stutte
  * MAIN: Counterfeit Technology and Open Source Solutions - Tony Zafiropoulos

==== STLLUG - April 15 ====
  * Back to back meeting
  * TOPIC: How to teach Linux to newbies - Tony Zafiropoulos

==== STLOSUG Solaris April 20 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== SNUG / SuSE - April 21 ====
  * TOPIC: Installing OpenSuSE in Virtual Machines  by Don Ellis per Gary M

==== STCLUG - April 22 ====
  * TOPIC: Linux on Windows 7 by Noah Lance

==== HZWLUG - April 27 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.

===== May 2010 =====

<code>
     May 20010      
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 - May 6 ====
  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  * Meetings will be in smaller room.

==== SLUUG - May 12 ====
  * BASE: Creating a favicon for your website - Tony Zafiropoulos
  * MAIN: Processing and Storing Genomic Sequencing Data by David Dooling

==== STLOSUG Solaris May 18 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== SNUG - May 19 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== STLLUG - May 20 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== HZWLUG - May 25 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.

==== STCLUG - May 27 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

===== Potential Presenters and Topics =====
  * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics.

====== Server Admin ======
  * New server from Contegix - Nimbus [tentative]
    * Contact Lee or SysAdmin list for info
  * Bud Light is still offline.
  * New server installed from Noah - thanks!
  * IBM X325, dual P4 Xeon 2.8 GHz, 2x72 GB.
    * Name: Golden Wheat
  * Noah has two more Dell 2850s for installation at IT Enterprises for the OS lab, to be supported by SLUUG. Noah to contact them and confirm installation - this will be a good indication of the support level they wish to have for an ongoing relationship.
  * Ongoing: Make sure docs are up to date.

====== 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.
      * Stan has put in requests for Hzlwd, SLACC, & STLlug from Aug thru Dec.
      * Stan will front payment for Hzlwd.
      * Payments need be made before 21 April (2 wks)(if Library grants dates).
      * Gary has reservation codes to cancel STLlug.
         * - -Gary in favor of moving to IT Enterprises
         * - -Deadline to give Library the payment MAY be the day of the "test mtng of StLopenSolaris". 
      * Phil has info for SLACC but we aren't sure of Phil's availability.  

====== 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.
  * Pending until next month at the earliest.

====== 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.

====== SBE ======
    * March 18 @ St. Charles Convention Center
    * Slightly bigger crowd than last year
    * Gave out about 50 flyers
    * Excellent booth location - near Green Space

====== New Business ======

  * 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.
  * General Meeting every Tuesday at 7:30 PM.
    * Frequently open at other times by members.
    * How can we best cross-pollinate?
    * Great place for hands-on projects.
      * Arduino projects
      * Robotics
      * Arts and crafts
      * Costume building

====== Recognize Useful Efforts ======
  * Stan completed library registrations
  * Expo coordination - Lee & Jerry
  * New Sponsor thanks to Lee - Contegix

====== 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 - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
  * Carl - send thank-you note to Hostirian for hosting our site.
  * Craig - print out minutes from June-March.
  * Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.
  * ALL   - Need volunteers to poster/contact colleges (high schools?) THIS month to get new ANNOUNCE subscribers before end of semester!!
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