====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - July 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, July 2, 2008
* 18:45 - 19:30
====== Attendees ======
* Carl Fitch
* Lee Lammert
* Stan Reichardt
* Craig Buchek
====== Secretary Report ======
* Need to print out minutes from April onward.
====== Treasurer Report ======
* Balance: $1,384.17 as of 6/30/08
* Receipts:
* Carl - Turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer. DONE!!
* Craig - Submit receipt for voice recorder.
* Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.
* Open issues:
* Lee - Follow up drafting reply to Wash U.
* Final bill from Wash U. - need to complete reply
* Need suggestions for following up with and attracting potential Sponsors.
====== Attendance Report ======
* Some numbers, as of end of June 2008:
| Meeting ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^
^ Steercom | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | No | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 |
^ SLACC | 6 | 7 | ? | ? | 8 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 4 | (4)| ? | x | 6 |
^ 1st LDAP | xx | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | No | No | No | No | ? | No | 4 | No | No | No | No | No |
^ SLUUG | 12 | 23 | 22 | 18 | 16 | 27 | 36 | 21 | 24 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 23 | 17 | 31 | 18 |
^ Solaris | 4 | No | 18 | 15 | 6 | 8 | No | 11 | No | 5 | No | 13 | No | 6 | No | 20 | 10 |
^ SNUG | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 5 |
^ 2nd LDAP | xx | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | No | No | (6) | 7 | No | 3 | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
^ STLLUG | 12 | 14 | 18 | 23 | 20 | 31 | 31 | 23 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 17 | No | 16 | 17 | 29 | 22 |
^ HZWLUG | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 | No | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 10 |
^ STCLUG | 10 | 10 | 6 | ? | 8 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 11 | No | 11 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 13 | 5 | 6 |
* 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 ======
* Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of June 2008:
| List ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^
^ ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 | 866 | 857 | 856 | 853 | 854 | 843 | 835 |
^ DISCUSS | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 186 | 1?? | 188 | 188 |
^ STEERCOM | 32 | 32 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 31 | 31 | 31 | ?? | 29 | 32 |
^ SYSADMIN | xx | xx | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | ?? | 15 | 15 |
* Numbers will now be 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.
====== Meeting Review and Comments ======
===== June 2008 =====
June 2008
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==== SLACC - June 5 ====
* Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.
==== SLUUG - June 11 ====
* BASE1: nameif & mtr by Carl Fitch
* BASE2: sshfs & fuse by Jeff Muse - Both were well received!
* CHALLENGE: Favorite Network Tools by group - Excellent discussions!
* Received multiple comments afterwords that presentations were better than expected.
==== Solaris - June 17 ====
* TOPIC: Service Management Facility (SMF) by Steve Baker - Excellent detail.
==== SNUG - June 18 ====
* TOPIC: OpenSuSE 11.0 - Many improvements discussed.
==== STLLUG - June 19 ====
* TOPIC: VirtualBox for SuSE & Vista/XP by Jeff Logullo & Lee Lammert
* Lots of details from Sun, actual demo of Vista running under SuSE 10.3.
==== HZWLUG - June 24 ====
* TOPIC: Exploring the /bin directory (not done during prior month).
==== STCLUG - June 26 ====
* TOPIC: Keyboard Karoake
* Ran over - small group but very interactive.
====== Presentation Schedule ======
===== July 2008 =====
July 2008
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==== SLACC - July 3 ====
* Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.
==== SLUUG - July 9 ====
* BASE: Sitebar [web-based bookmark management] by Lee Lammert
* MAIN: OpenSolaris - Production Ready! by Jeff Logulo
* BACKUP CHOICE:
==== Solaris - July 15 ====
* TOPIC: NO MEETING - Summer Siesta
==== SNUG - July 16 ====
* TOPIC: TBD
==== STLLUG - July 17 ====
* TOPIC: TBD
==== HZWLUG - July 22 ====
* TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
* TOPIC 1: Exploring the /etc directory.
* TOPIC 2: Partitions.
* TOPIC 3: Anything else.
==== STCLUG - July 24 ====
* TOPIC: TBD
===== August 2008 =====
August 2008
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==== SLACC - August 7 ====
* Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.
==== SLUUG - August 13 ====
* BASE:
* MAIN: Linksys NAS NSLU2 by Jeff Logullo & OpenWRT by Jeff Muse
* BACKUP CHOICE:
==== Solaris - August 19 ====
* TOPIC: TBD
==== SNUG - August 20 ====
* TOPIC: TBD
==== STLLUG - August 21 ====
* TOPIC: TBD
==== HZWLUG - August 26 ====
* TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
* TOPIC1: Exploring the /home directory.
* TOPIC2: Partitions
* TOPIC 3: Anything else.
==== STCLUG - August 28 ====
* TOPIC: TBD
===== September 2008 =====
September 2008
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==== SLACC - September 4 ====
* Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.
==== SLUUG - September 10 ====
* BASE:
* MAIN: Virtualization and the Power Architecture by Sammie Allam, IBM via Lee
* BACKUP CHOICE:
==== Solaris - September 16 ====
* TOPIC: TBD
==== SNUG - September 17 ====
* TOPIC: TBD
==== STLLUG - September 18 ====
* TOPIC: TBD
==== HZWLUG - September 23 ====
* TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
* TOPIC1: Exploring the /etc directory.
* TOPIC2: Partitions
* TOPIC 3: Anything else.
==== STCLUG - September 25 ====
* TOPIC: TBD
===== October 2008 =====
October 2008
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==== SLUUG - October 8 ====
* BASE:
* MAIN: VMWare 6.5 & Server 2.0 by Matt Skipton, VMWare, via Lee
* BACKUP CHOICE:
===== Potential Future Topics =====
* December or January - Open Grid Computing from Sanjiv Bhatia or UMSL (Lee)
* various Sun topics by Jeff Logullo
* Versioning filenames (snapshots?) in ZFS by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse? (via Gary)
* New release of ZFS " " " " " " "
* MySQL
* 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) (He defered to 2 other profs.)
* Natural Language Processing by SLU professor Kevin Scannell(via Gary) http://borel.slu.edu/nlp.html
* David Letscher, Prof of CS at SLU on ??? (via Gary) Still gone for summer. Awaiting details.
* 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 (IBM via John Hodge)
* Building a modern kernel by Ed Howland
* Using git%
====== Sponsorships ======
* Current paying sponsors have been asked to renew with nice letter in April.
* 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
* We should review them once or twice annually and establish an end date on recognition.
* 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 ======
* Need to break into the Sun machines again and reset passwords so they do not expire!
* Need to setup our own DNS on Bud/Budlight & switch over
====== 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 MAY 2008 MythTV by Jason Clark
- STLLUG MAY 2008 MythTV by Jason Clark
* 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/SLUUG/Lee need to reconcile demo merchandise
* Need to come up with standardized 'Membership List' & same UIDs on all production machines.
* Document useradd process.
===== 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 needs focus & new leadership
* Structure/timing/flow of 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)
* Need MC to run schedule at meetings
* 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 ======
* Temporary web site up, signin sheets printed, Need to add SNUG members to Discuss & Announce.
* Root passwords updated on Bud & Budlight
* Proposal to sell Pizzas as fundraiser if continued insufficient Memberships & Sponsors.
* Comments for October Small Business Expo:
* Suggest EPC provide OpenDisk copies & handouts.
* Need BUSINESS ORIENTED demos - e.g. Accounting.
* Need dedicated SERVER to use and demo office functions (wiki, file sharing, ..).
* Need new STLLUG chairperson.
====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
* Lee - Need list to print out name tags for paying members.
* Barry - Follow up w/ John Hodge about a presentation in the near future.
* Lee, Barry - Get someone from IBM to talk about POWER6, AIX 6.0, etc.
* Craig - Email Clark Smith @ Red Hat about getting someone to present on RHEL5, and $200 sponsorship.
* Craig - Email Jim Leingang @ S3 about $200 sponsorship.
* Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
* Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
* Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.