====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - May 2008 ====== 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, May 7, 2008 * 6:30 pm - 8:05 pm ====== Attendees ====== * Lee Lammert * Craig Buchek * Stan Reichardt * Gary Meyer ====== Secretary Report ====== * Printed out minutes from Steering Committee meetings through March. * Need to print out minutes for April. ====== Treasurer Report ====== * Balance: $1,071.50 as of 4/30/08 * Carl - Turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer. * Credit card processing canceled. * Craig - Submit receipt for voice recorder. * Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration. * Open issues: * New IRS reporting requirement * Had to file online 'we're alive and well' with IRS. * Lee - Follow up drafting reply to Wash U. * Final bill from Wash U. - need to complete reply * A nice Sponsor Letter and voluntary invoice was sent to sponsors for which we have contact info. * Craig and Lee both received sponsorship checks from SyllogisTeks. (Thanks!!) * Analysts International requested removal from any Sponsor list. * DONE -- they are not listed on our web site. ====== Attendance Report ====== * Some numbers: | Meeting ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ ^ Steercom | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | No | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | ^ SLACC | 6 | 7 | ? | ? | 8 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 4 | (4)| ? | ^ 1st LDAP | xx | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | No | No | No | No | ? | No | 4 | No | No | No | ^ SLUUG | 12 | 23 | 22 | 18 | 16 | 27 | 36 | 21 | 24 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 23 | 17 | ^ Solaris | 4 | No | 18 | 15 | 6 | 8 | No | 11 | No | 5 | No | 13 | No | 6 | No | ^ 2nd LDAP | xx | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | No | No | (6) | 7 | No | 3 | ? | No | No | No | ^ STLLUG | 12 | 14 | 18 | 23 | 20 | 31 | 31 | 23 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 17 | No | 16 | 17 | ^ HZWLUG | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 | No | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 11 | ^ STCLUG | 10 | 10 | 6 | ? | 8 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 11 | No | 11 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 13 | * No - indicates no meeting. * () - Numbers in parentheses are head count. * ? - Question mark indicates attendance not taken or sheet missing. * xx - attendance numbers not yet recorded. ====== Mailing List Report ====== * Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate): | List ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ ^ ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 | 866 | 857 | 856 | 853 | 854 | xxx | ^ DISCUSS | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 186 | 1?? | x?? | ^ STEERCOM | 32 | 32 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 31 | 31 | 31 | ?? | ?? | ^ SYSADMIN | xx | xx | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | ?? | ?? | * We have migrated all lists from Majordomo on Michelob to MailMan on Bud. * Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet. * ANNOUNCE mailing list. * Still no volunteer editor to do a Quarterly or monthly newsletter. ====== Meeting Review and Comments ====== ===== April 2008 ===== April 2008 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 ==== SLACC - April 3 ==== * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation. ==== SLUUG - April 9 ==== * BASE: File Links: Over-easy or Well-done by Carl Fitch * Great. Impromptu, but generated good conversation. * MAIN: Mac OS X Leopard by Don Benne (via Gary) * Very good. Covered command line quite thoroughly. * Voice recording is posted; slides pending. ==== Solaris - April 15 ==== * CANCELED. ==== STLLUG - April 17 ==== * TOPIC: Restructuring Home Telephone Services by Don Ellis * Excellent, especially for last minute. * Low turn-out, due to last minute scheduling. ==== EPC Sale - April 19 ==== * Had some of our people there to show off GNU/Linux. * Got a few people to try out Open Source and GNU/Linux. ==== HZWLUG - April 22 ==== * TOPIC: Reviewed contents of HZWLUG Information CD-ROM disc. * Stan put together a CD, with PDFs with Open Source info. * Magazines * Introductory material ==== STCLUG - April 24 ==== * TOPIC: Hard Drive Duplication by Carl Fitch * Really good. * Had projector problems. ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== May 2008 ===== May 2008 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 - May 1 ==== * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation. ==== SLUUG - May 14 ==== * NOTE: Back to back meetings * BASE: Setting up a firewall in 10 minutes with pfw on OpenBSD by Lee Lammert * MAIN: MythTV by Jason Clark (via Craig) ==== STLLUG - May 15 ==== * NOTE: Back to back meetings * TOPIC: MythTV by Jason Clark (via Craig) ==== Solaris - May 20 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== STCLUG - May 22 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== HZWLUG - May 27 ==== * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees * OPTION 1: Exploring the /bin directory (not done during prior month). * OPTION 2: Partitions. * OPTION 3: Anything else. ===== June 2008 ===== June 2008 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 ==== SLACC - June 5 ==== * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation. ==== SLUUG - June 11 ==== * BASE: * MAIN: * BACKUP CHOICE: ==== Solaris - June 17 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== STLLUG - June 19 ==== * TOPIC: ==== HZWLUG - June 24 ==== * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees * OPTION 1: Exploring the /etc directory (not done during prior month). * OPTION 2: Partitions. * OPTION 3: Anything else. ==== STCLUG - June 26 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ===== July 2008 ===== July 2008 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 - July 3 ==== * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation. ==== SLUUG - July 9 ==== * BASE: * MAIN: * BACKUP CHOICE: ==== Solaris - July 15 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== STLLUG - July 17 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== HZWLUG - July 22 ==== * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees * POTENTIAL TOPIC: Exploring the /etc directory. ==== STCLUG - July 24 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ===== Potential Future Topics ===== * VMware by Matt Skipton (via Lee) * various Sun topics by Jeff Logullo * new version of OpenSolaris * Versioning filenames (snapshots?) in ZFS by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse? (via Gary) * New release of ZFS " " " " " " " * MySQL * VirtualBox (& xVM (Zen)) by Jeff Logullo? * Project Indiana, a new package mngmnt system ala apt/dpkg by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse? * Belenix & otherlive CD's based on Open Solaris by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse? * Last.fm, Amarok,...free music downloads by Ed Howland (via Gary) * GIMP by Scott Nesler. * Encryption by Mike May S.J., Prof @ SLU, Chair Math/CS dept (via Gary) * Natural Language Processing by SLU professor (via Gary) * Stoneware webOS and Desktop Virtualization by Jack Loane (via Carl/Craig/e-mail) * iSCSI * EnterpriseDB (packaged version of PostgreSQL) (via Carl) * Would be a video-conference, so requires solving the logistics * APV (Advance POWER Virtualization) Overview by John Hodge * Demo/Using Scribus by Stan Reichardt * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) - still looking for volunteer * Untangle Gateway Platform (instead of CentOS Linux) by Tim Dreste (via Stan R) * AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge) * Building a modern kernel by Ed Howland * Using git by Ed Howland * Remotely presented (video conferencing) topics * Qt/KDE (TrollTech sales rep, via Craig) * Linux(xBSD, etc) on Wireless (Suggested by Ed Howland) * Part 1: Theory and operation of wireless networks. * The 802.11 stack (relevant protocols). * Descriptions of terms, expansion of alphabet soup. * Security (WEP, WPA, WPA2) * Network types (ad-hoc, infrastrucure). * Modes (ad-hoc, managed, master, monitor). * Packet Types (management, data frames, beacons, probes). * Part 2: Practical Linux Wireless configuration. * Cards, compatibility. * NDISWrapper and native (devicescape stack). * Drivers * Tools (using wpa_supplicant). * Network Monitor. * Status of BSD by Randy? John? (via Gary?) * Wireshark sniffing by Chris ??? @ Savvis (via Clarence?). ====== Sponsorships ====== * Have the current paying sponsors been asked to renew (with payment)? * Gary - Ask Ajilon about continuing $200 sponsorship. * Craig - Ask S3 - Strategic Staffing Solutions (follow up) * Potential sponsors * Sun - Jeff Logullo * IBM - (John Hodge may have a contact) * Red Hat - Clark Smith (Craig to follow up) * Canonical/Ubuntu (Craig to follow up) * VMware - Matt Skipton * Some old information has: * Annual sponsorship as $200 for Businesses and * $300 for Large Enterprise Corporations. This amount show on sluuginfo.pdf (18 April 2007) handout. * The $300 amount not viable, so sponsorships are $200. * Stan will purge any $300 amount from web site and forms. * We should review them once or twice annually and establish an end date on recognition. * We in fact recognize multiple entities as sponsors due to community support or services in kind. * EPC - STLLUG Installfest, STL BusExpo hardware use & handout printing support, SLUUG discount. * Computers & Things - STLLUG Installfests, STCLUG projector & STL BusExpo printing support. * Graybar - SLUUG general meeting site. * Hostirian - New server hosting. * K&S Pritchard Enterprises - Hosted STLLUG web pages thru to Spring 2007. * O'Reilly - discount book arrangement (now moot - suggest removing). * Law Offices of Rich McLennen - legal services as needed. * UMSL-MicroLabs - The St. Louis Security Group meeting lab area. * Omnitec - has been providing services in kind commensurate with other sponsors. * Need sign about sponsoring our group for booth/table display at meetings and trade shows. * More effort should be directed to find new sponsors. * No effort means no more new sponsors. ====== Server Admin ====== * Craig B. created script to notify when /var (or other partitions) exceeded 90% full. * Mike Knight resolved problem with Membership JOIN page and Volunteer page. * Stan R. made temporary revision of Membership JOIN page. * Craig set up Google Webmaster Tools to look at our site. * Allows us to modify how Google sees us, and gather statistics. * Allows us to define www.sluug.org and sluug.org as the same site. * And choose which is the canonical name. ====== Server Migration Project ====== * Work left to do: * Make sure docs are up to date. * Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud. * Started documenting client email configurations, to help users migrate. * See [[../users]] and [[../mail_setup]] pages. * Craig - Work on finishing server builds. * Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig) * More security, for SSH and otherwise. * Get offsite backups working. (Mike) * Publish SSH host keys on web page. * Standardize/regularize user accounts (IDs, password expirations). (Mike) * Other work to do: * Better web site management tools * Craig will get together with Mike and/or Carl to work on tasks in next coming weeks. ====== Website Libraries ====== * Stan R. and Ted P. * Stan uploaded several presentations. - SLUUG APR 2008 MacOS X Leopard by Don Benne (sound only) - STLLUG APR 2008 Restructuring Home Telephone Services by Don Ellis (PDF only) - SLUUG OCT 2005 Don't Click on the Blue E! by Scott Granneman (PDF) * Have not received materials from recent presenters: - SLUUG APR 2008 MacOS X Leopard by Don Benne - SLUUG MAR 2008 The Skills Nerds Need to Know - Send 2nd Request to Scott Granneman ====== SLACC as a SIG ====== * Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.com email addresses. * The registration is paid up until 2009. * Carl - follow up with Noel about transferring the domain to us. ====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ====== * Membership drive * Need to print out name tags. * Omnitec will print them out and bring to SLUUG meeting. * Cafe Press merchandise * Carl has money from purchases -- needs to turn into treasurer. * Stan to add CafePress link to SLUUG web site when we get info. * Stan to link new membership page into SLUUG web site. * It was suggested that we use Scott Nesler's logos. * We should ask Scott. * We should post the choices to STEERCOM for voting to make it official. ===== An Ubuntu Group ===== * [[http://www.stchman.com/ | Bob Nelson]] - [[http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-466368.html | wants to start an Ubuntu LoCo]] * Craig to follow up again. * EPC would like to hold the meetings. * Open 9-2 on weekends, close at 6 on weekdays. * Talk to Tony Lavasco and Frank Polston if we need to follow up. ===== Manage The Group ===== * Lee suggested we create a Rails app on Bud to manage the group. * Member data - payments, expirations, etc. * Sponsors - expirations, etc. * Attendance * STL Ruby Group is writing a similar application. * RAMS - Rails Association Management System * We should leverage that, and guide it to our needs * Scott Nesler has built an app for attendance * Stan has plugged data into it for the year * Not sure if the app fits any of our other needs ====== Other Old Business ====== * LDAP group * Need to restart * Suggested session(s) to "recap" (by Rich S?) * Needed to get LDAP implemented on servers * Structure/timing/flow of the meetings * Need to leave enough time for "off-line interaction". * Plan on tutorials being planned for ~20 mins. * Main presentations should plan for ~1 hour (1.5 hours at STLLUG) * Geek lunches. * Only 2 people showed up at downtown meeting * Lots of people at the Olive meeting, but location was too noisy * Possible confusion with having 2 meetings at the same time * Should these meetings count as official SLUUG meetings? * For the moment, no -- keep them informal. * We should support them, announce them, etc. ====== New Business ====== * Terminal servers were removed last month. * Rich Seibel would like to use them. * All were in favor of allowing this. * Gary will follow up. * Calendar * Stan implemented a Google Calendar. * Added link to show up on SLUUG web site. * Stan, Gary, Carl, and Craig have access to edit the calendar. * Looks nice and provides good info. * Link provided in weekly announcements. ====== Blue Sky ====== * Blue skies are often over floatable rivers. * Should we consider canceling some meetings during the summer months? * Attendance at summer meetings is often very low. * Lots of people on vacations. * Weather is often too nice to be inside. * Other evening outdoor events. * No consensus. * Our attendance is low. * But it breaks the consistency of always having meetings. ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== * Carl, Lee - Need to print out name tags for paying members. * Jeff - Seek assistance from AIX gurus (Barry, John, Mike, Gary) to see if we want to set up his box. * Barry - Follow up w/ John Hodge about a presentation in the near future. * Barry, John - Talk to Rich Seibel and Dave Mills about AIX hardware they have. * Lee, Barry - Get someone from IBM to talk about POWER6, AIX 6.0, etc. * Craig - Follow up w/ Ubuntu LoCo person. * Craig - Email Clark Smith @ Red Hat about getting someone to present on RHEL5, and $200 sponsorship. * Craig - Email Jim Leingang @ S3 about $200 sponsorship. * Stan - Link new membership page into SLUUG web site. * Gary - Prepare Sun E250 for potential use. * Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings. * Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships. * Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.