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SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 2 February 2011

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

Location

IRC - #SLUUG on FreeNode

Date and Time

  • Wednesday, February 2, 2011
  • 6:30 PM -

Attendees

  • Lee Lammert
  • Jerry Stutte
  • Gary Meyer
  • Stan Reichardt
  • Don Ellis
  • Jeff Muse
  • Noah Lance
  • Cliff Gordon
  • Bryan Venable

Agenda Changes

  • Are there any additions, deletions, or changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?

Secretary Report

  • Nothing to report.

Treasurer Report

  • Bank Balance as of 12/31: $810.35
  • Bank Balance as of 1/31: $810.35
  • Income: Omnitec $ 10.00
  • Expenses: PayPal $ 0.59
  • PayPal Balance as of 1/31: $ 9.41
  • Need to encourage people to use the new PayPal buttons on the web site!!

Mailing List Report

  • Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of January 2011:
List Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
ANNOUNCE 767 759 751 752 755 755 739 736 724 718 717 718 717
DISCUSS 226 221 221 223 223 224 224 222 223 222 222 221 219
STEERCOM 35 37 37 37 37 40 39 39 40 38 38 38 38
SYSADMIN 18 18 18 19 19 19 19 19 19 18 18 17 17
  • 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.
  • Command used to generate these (as root on Bud):
    • /usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members list_name | wc -l

Attendance Report

  • Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets.
  • Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at meetings.
  • Attendance sheets are available here
  • Attendance numbers, as of end of January 2011:
Meeting Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
Steercom 6 6 5 6 4 6 6 4 7 6 5 7 5
SLACC - 5 8 ? 5 (6) ? ? ? 8 x 7 ?
SLUUG 28 22? 26 ? ? 18 22? 29(31) ? 29 ? 15 18
SNUG SuSE - ? - 8 8 9 4 8 ? - 7 11(14) 11
STLLUG 23 15 16 16 17 19 9 17 21 17 16 (9) -
STCLUG (2) 7 6 ? 6 5 12 5 6 6 4 - 4
HZWLUG (13) 10 8 11 ? 8 ? ? 6 7 6 9 13
  • 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.
  • NOTE - Corrected STCLUG August and September counts.

Meeting Review and Comments

January 2011

    January 2011    
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
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 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 - January 6

  • SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  • ?

SLUUG - January 12

  • SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
  • BASE: BSD Jails and chroot by Lee Lammert (Not given due to customer requirements.)
  • MAIN: Comparison of ARM and Atom by Jerry Stutte
  • Informative, good turnout

SNUG - January 19

  • SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
  • TOPIC: Don Ellis on controlling development environments with synergy, VM's, and reverse SSH.
  • Very good. People enjoyed the wifi.

STLLUG - January 20

  • STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • TOPIC: Linux for Blind Users by Igor Gueths (had been confirmed)
  • BACKUP: Setting Up Webalizer by Lee Lammert (tentative)
  • Meeting CANCELED due to extreme weather.
  • ?

HZWLUG - January 25

  • HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
  • Presentation on TeamViewer (proprietary multiplatform remote assistance package) by Norman Miller.

STCLUG - January 27

  • STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
  • TOPIC: Linux Routers for the Home by Noah Lance
  • Small group discussed many items. Presentation started late, but was excellent.
  • Hands-on with Linux PCs. Good discussion.

Presentation Schedule

Potential Presenters and Topics

February 2011

   February 2011    
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               

SLACC - February 3

  • SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  • SLUUG Election Voting

SLUUG - February 9

  • SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
  • SLUUG Election Voting
  • BASE: Chroots & Jails by Lee Lammert
  • MAIN: TBD

SNUG - February 16

  • SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
  • SLUUG Election Voting
  • TOPIC: Running .NET applications with Mono, by Gary Hollingsworth (confirmed via Lee)

STLLUG - February 17

  • STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • SLUUG Election Voting
  • TOPIC: Video Capture and Editing by Noah Lance

HZWLUG - February 22

  • HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
  • SLUUG Election Voting

STCLUG - February 24

  • STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
  • SLUUG Election Voting
  • TOPIC: Linux Media Server by Noah Lance

March 2011

     March 2011     
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 - March 3

  • SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

SLUUG - March 9

  • SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
  • BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)

SNUG - March 16

  • SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
  • TOPIC: Internet Security (tentative, per Jerry)

STLLUG - March 17

  • STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • TOPIC: The Scratch programming language (tentative, per Jerry)

HZWLUG - March 22

  • HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.

STCLUG - March 24

  • STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

Potential Presenters and Topics

Old Business

Server Admin

  • 2009-12 Bud Light offline due to fan failure, is still offline.
  • 2009-12 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
  • 2009-12 Carl recommended using one of the Sun Netras as a log server.
  • 2010-02 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.
  • 2010-02 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.
  • 2010-02 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.
  • 2010-03 Noah and Craig will install it on Wednesday 3/10 at 2:00 PM.
  • 2010-03 Noah has loaded VMware ESXi 4.0
  • 2010-04 New server [Debian] installed from Noah - thanks!
  • 2010-04 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.
  • 2010-04 New server from Contegix - Amber
    • Contact Lee or SysAdmin list for info
  • 2010-05
    • PrimaryNet problem with possible rogue IRC activity on system we later identified as Golden Wheat.
    • Stan R. added some info on Golden Wheat to resources.txt file.
    • Taking Golden Wheat offline…
    • Mike Knight pointed out that Bud is not being backed up since BudLight went down.
    • Jeff Muse has started rsnapshots backing up Bud to Bock.
    • Noah Lance willing to diagram our assets – later.
    • Joe B will be installing Sun Netra box.
  • 2010-06
    • Golden Wheat ready for reinstall - setup with virtual appliance Debian 5 XVA.
    • Lee is building backup on a server built - aliased as AMBER. We might need different name.
  • 2010-07
    • Golden Wheat has been re-installed, and fully functional.
    • Amber had incorrect DNS entry; Craig fixed it.
    • Lee copied over Bud home directories to /bu/home on Amber.
      • Cannot get rsync to work between the 2 systems — JEFF FIXED THIS
    • Work party at the bat cave - started on web, mail, system services, user IDs. Big problem now is that mysql won't let postfix log in.
  • 2010-08
    • Jerry is working on setting up Nagios
  • 2010-09
    • Backups have been disabled, since they were filling the / partition.
    • Postfix integration with MySQL – not working yet.
    • Trying to get Zimbra installed – not working yet either.
  • 2010-10
    • Postfix and MySQL are now talking to each other (on Amber)
    • Mailman is installed - list info needs to be migrated over yet
    • Proposed date for work party to finish moving bud to the cloud box - Nov 13th. Location TBD.
  • 2010-11
    • We have 2 new boxes.
      • Compaq DL580 (G1) boxes at Lee's house.
      • 4 x 73 GB disks (old servers have 4 x 18GB)
      • 3 GB RAM (old servers have 4 GB)
    • Work party to finish moving bud to the cloud box - Nov 13th at Lee's.
  • 2010-12
    • Got Budlight back up and runnable
      • Got a fan to fit in it
      • Need to reinstall in rack
    • Got OS installed on DL580, but Grub didn't work.
    • Lee suggested we keep 1 of each system type.
      • Keep the 2nd of each system type as backup hardware.
  • 2011-01 At December Blue Sky session Stan wanted to gather web analytics.
    • Craig said that there are 2 ways to accomplish this.
      • Way 1 is to analyze Apache logs, such as webalizer.
      • Way 2 is to use something like Google Analytics.
    • The group decided against using anything external like Google for this.
    • Craig and Lee got Webalizer working after the blue sky session.
    • Gary and Stan have been looking at the Webalizer reports.
    • Lee disabled a disuse account with 280 MB of email.
    • Lee tested the PayPal button.
  • 2011-02

Wash U Cleanup

  • 2009-09 Jerry Stutte, Jeff Muse, and Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site.
  • 2009-09 Gary Meyer is Captain.
  • 2009-10 Captain is AWOL. Carl will be available in November or later.
  • 2009-11 Captain was AWOL.
  • 2009-12 Captain still AWOL.
  • 2010-01 Captain still AWOL.
  • 2010-02 Captain Gary Meyer still AWOL. Search party has not reported back.
  • 2010-04 Pending until next month at the earliest.
  • 2010-05 This project open since September 2009. Gary immediately left meeting.
  • 2010-06 Gary not here, nothing resolved.
  • 2010-07 Gary not here, nothing resolved.
  • 2010-09 Gary will work on this.
  • 2010-10 No progress. Stan questioned Gary's usefulness. Suggested that he is merely decorative.
  • 2010-11 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
  • 2010-12 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
  • 2011-01 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
  • 2011-02 Same old, same old….

Password Cards

  • 2009-12 We need to change root passwords.
  • 2010-01 Craig handed out new password cards.
  • 2010-06 Stan R. will build an unviewable page to record the number for server list.
    • Further implementation when we move BUD downtown.
  • 2010-07 Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.
  • 2010-08 Status unchanged.
  • 2010-09 Status unchanged.
  • 2010-10 Mike Knight, Jerry, and Don all need password cards. Jeff sent mail to Craig inquiring.
  • 2010-11 Jerry received a password card from Craig.
  • 2010-12 Status unchanged.
  • 2011-01 Craig REALLY intends to change root passwords VERY soon.
  • 2011-02 Jeff will get pw info to Mike if he'll be at the main meeting. Afterwards, we can change passwords.

Linux Conference in May

  • 2010-09 Possible Linux event next May
    • Mid-America GNU/Linux Networkers Conference on 5 and 6 May 2011 http://magnetcon.info/
    • Web site looks like it went up early in February 2010.
    • Event name changed, was previously listed as Mid-America LinuxFest.
    • Web site had not kept up with July 2010 selection of St. Louis as city of choice.
    • Location seems to be St. Louis Union Station Marriott.
    • Appears to be for-profit.
    • Looking for sponsors.
    • We need someone to determine viability of efforts before we consider committing.
    • Any volunteers?
  • 2010-10 Carl will investigate.
  • 2010-11 Craig will investigate.
  • 2010-12 Craig will investigate.
  • 2011-01 Craig will investigate.
  • 2011-02

SNUG Future

  • 2010-10 SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
  • Gary Hollingsworth expects Novell to pull out of Linux.
    • Novell will be divesting its Linux business to VMware and the remaining assets to Attachmate.
    • Assume worst case that SNUG - St. Louis Novell Users Group will possibly dissolve.
    • Need confidential recommendations on SNUG funds.
    • There was no October meeting because of STL Business Expo.
    • Transition to be discussed by Gary M. at next SNUG meeting.
  • 2010-11
    • Future of the group will be discussed this month.
  • 2010-12
    • Was not discussed last month.
    • We should defer this discussion until Attachmate buy-out settles out.
  • 2011-01
    • Attendance last month was excellent; no action required yet.
  • 2011-02

Domain Name Renewals

  • 2010-11 STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
  • For December 2010 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain. Our other domains scattered through out year.
  • Suggestion was made that it might be possible to renew all domains during same month.
  • Gary is going to check the possibility with vendors.
  • 2011-01
    • Gary renewed STCLUG.ORG last month.
  • 2011-02

STLLUG Sponsorship Credit

  • 2010-11 STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  • STLLUG meetings are now hosted at IT Enterprises, which is affiliated with UMSL.
  • Typically because of meeting space value we recognize host as sponsor on our web pages.
  • Previously, some educational institutions (other than UMSL) did not want to be listed.
  • Lee updated the SLUUG web site sponsors list
  • 2010-12 No status change.
  • We should push the PayPal usage.
  • 2011-01 Stan suggested putting Hostirian at the bottom of all SIG web sites.
  • 2011-02 Stan hasn't gotten around to the pages, yet.
    • Noticed .PNG file doesn't show up on old county library browsers. Do we have .JPG file anywhere?

Recording Meetings

  • 2010-12
    • We have a voice recorder (VC) for recording meeting presentations and have posted some results on web site.
    • On 28 Oct Stan R. suggested buying an additional VC so that there wouldn't be a single point of failure.
      • We forget who has it.
      • We forget to bring it.
      • We forget to turn it on.
      • We forget fresh batteries.
      • We forget how to turn it on.
      • We forget to free up space on it.
    • There was some STEERCOM list banter but nothing was brought up at 3 November Steering Committee meeting.
    • Alternative of video recording suggested, huge size of video files was mentioned.
    • Stan R. passed voice recorder to Gary M. on 18 November and doesn't want it back.
    • Noah volunteered an old Digital8 recorder.
  • 2011-01 Continued discussion, but no consensus.
  • 2011-02

Preparation for February Annual Meeting and Elections

  • Annual Official Business Meeting is 2nd Wednesday in February.
  • Elections are all the February meetings.
  • All votes will be counted at the Steering Committee meeting.
    • On the 1st Wednesday in March.
  • 2011-01
    • Carl Fitch's board seat is up this year.
    • Stan nominates Jerry Stutte for Board.
    • Craig nominates Gary for President.
    • We can start with last year's ballot – http://www.sluug.org/pdf/ballot2010.txt
  • 2011-02

Web Site Suggestions

  • 2011-01 Mike Knight's emails regarding web site.
    • Stan changed the copyright dates.
    • Good idea to list other Open Source friendly resources.
      • On a separate page from our own SIGs.
      • Sites like WITS, CVillage, Arch Reactor, 2600.
    • Our site layout has not changed for years.
      • Would take some effort to re-do it, and seems to be working for most people.
  • 2011-02 Stan hasn't gotten around to building new resources page, yet.

SLUUG Hand-Out

  • 2011-01 Stan talked about the 2-page hand-out we have for SLUUG.
    • Suggested we put the membership form on the back of that.
    • Lee will look into printing them out.
  • 2011-02 Stan hasn't gotten around to combining documents, yet

New Business

SLUUG Booth at GNU/Linux Networkers Conference

  • 2011-02 Mid-America GNU/Linux Networkers Conference - http://magnetcon.info/
    • Lee made a deal with somebody.
    • Encourage SLUUG folks to sign up for presentations
    • Volunteers required to help run the show (includes admission)
    • SLUUG will have free table space in exchange for???

Item Two

  • 2011-02 Anything else?

Annual Requirements

  • February 2011 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.
  • February 2011 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
  • April 2011 - Reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
  • April 2011 - St. Louis Business Expo
  • May 2011 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status.
  • July 2011 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain.
  • October 2011 - Reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
  • October 2011 - St. Louis Business Expo
  • December 2011 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain.
  • August 2012 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status (every 2 years).

Blue Sky

  • 2011-02

Recognize Useful Efforts

  • Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
  • Who did what?
  • Jerry was mostly decorative.
  • Craig was mostly decorative.

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 - send thank-you note to Hostirian for hosting our servers.
  • Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight and Don Ellis have a copy of the password card.
  • Craig - work on getting refund for 2 months of Indian Trails reservations we did not use.
    • Or transfer the 2 months to SLACC or HZWLUG.
  • Craig - follow up on potential presentations.
    • Igor - blind Linux users
    • Kyle Cordes - ffmpeg or other
  • Jerry - find someone to talk to us about Android.
    • Talk to Lopez from FBI about Internet security.
    • Talk to Alan Griggs about 101 Windows Tricks Linux Users Should Know.
    • Talk to Joshua Frank and Bill Zimmerly.
    • Talk to Rich Siebel to see if Andrew Prunicki of OCI can talk to us.
    • See Announce list from February 2009 for speakers from Java SIG presentations.
  • Jeff - talk to Splunk reps about presenting.
  • Noah - work on Amber build.
  • Gary - look into syncing domain renewals so they all happen at the same time of year.
  • Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
  • Gary - get Wash U site cleaned up.
steercom/2011-02.txt · Last modified: 2011/02/07 10:15 by SLUUG Administration