====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - 3 June 2009 ======
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, June 3, 2009
* 6:30 PM - 8:12 PM
====== Attendees ======
* Craig Buchek
* Jerry Stutte
* Jeff Muse
* Stan Reichardt
* Gary Meyer
====== Secretary Report ======
* Secretary has printed out minutes up through May.
====== Treasurer Report ======
* No report. Following info is from last month.
* Balance: $1271.62 as of 3/31/2009
* Accounts Payable: $100.00 for booth at Small Business Expo
* Accounts Paid: $90.03 for electricity at Small Business Expo
====== Mailing List Report ======
* Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of May 2009:
| List ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^
^ ANNOUNCE | 843 | 835 | 830 | 828 | 807 | 805 | 802 | 791 | 790 | 786 | 785 | 783 | 782 |
^ DISCUSS | 188 | 188 | 192 | 193 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 196 | 201 | 206 | 212 | 215 | 214 |
^ STEERCOM | 29 | 32 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
^ SYSADMIN | 15 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
* 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.
====== Attendance Report ======
* Attendance numbers, as of end of May 2009:
| Meeting ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^
^ Steercom | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
^ SLACC | x | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | ? | 4 | 4 | - | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
^ SLUUG | 31 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 20 | 27 | 24 | 23 | 18 | 32 | 21 |
^ STLOSUG | 20 | 10 | - | 12 | - | 11 | 10 | 7 | 6 | ? | 8 | 13 | - |
^ SNUG | NA | 5 | 4 | - | 5 | 3 | 5? | - | 7 | ? | - | ? | (6) |
^ STLLUG | 29 | 22 | 20 | 23 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 19 | 32 |18(21)| 20 | 21 |
^ STCLUG | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 19 | - | 6 | 11? | 12 | 9 | 10 | 8 |
^ HZWLUG | 11 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 10 |
^ MythTV | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | - | - | - |
* 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.
====== Review Free Software and Technology Expo ======
* Success!
* Vendors were happy with the turn-out.
* Was able to cover costs.
* Most attendees were SLUUG regulars.
* Need to get the word out better next time.
* Good turn-out, considering there were 150+ other events going on that weekend.
* Rick Clark from Canonical showed up.
* Had missed out on emails, due to white-listing and volume.
* Thanks and congrats to Tony Lovasco for his efforts.
====== Meeting Review and Comments ======
===== May 2009 =====
May 2009
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==== SLACC - May 7 ====
* Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
==== SLUUG - May 13 ====
* BASE: Using System Rescue by Carl Fitch
* Really good.
* MAIN: Firefox Extensions by Mike Wilkerson
* Good. More extensive than expected.
==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - NO MAY MEETING ====
* Meeting canceled.
==== SNUG - May 20 ====
* TOPIC: AppArmor by Gary Hollingsworth
* Good.
==== STLLUG - May 21 ====
* TOPIC: Patent-Free Codecs (Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, FLAC, Dirac) by Tony Lovasco
* Good, but depressing (the fact that open codecs are losing out)
* No projector (didn't really need one)
* No voice recorder
* No slides, used white board (worked fine, though)
==== HZWLUG - May 26 ====
* Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
* 2 new people
* No projector
* Helped solve user issues
==== STCLUG - May 28 ====
* TOPIC: An in Depth Look at SystemrescueCD, A Follow Up by Carl Fitch
* Good.
==== MythTV - NO MAY MEETING ====
* This SIG meets at irregular intervals.
====== Presentation Schedule ======
===== June 2009 =====
June 2009
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==== SLACC - June 4 ====
* Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
==== SLUUG - June 10 ====
* BASE: Vim Folding by Stan Reichardt
* MAIN: Neural Networks to Scan DNA by Bryce Meyer (via Lee)
==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - June 16 ====
* TOPIC: Migrating an RC script to SMF
* New location is Pujols 5 Westport Grill
* 342 West Port Plaza
* Maryland Heights, MO 63146
==== SNUG - June 17 ====
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
==== STLLUG - June 18 ====
* TOPIC: Open Source Licensing - What You Need to Know by Craig Buchek
==== HZWLUG - June 23 ====
* Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
==== STCLUG - June 25 ====
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
==== MythTV - ====
* This SIG meets at irregular intervals.
===== July 2009 =====
July 2009
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==== SLACC - July 2 ====
* Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
==== SLUUG - July 8 ====
* BASE: ack (grep replacement) by Craig Buchek
* MAIN: Managing Systems with Puppet by Kyle Cordes (TENTATIVE, via Craig)
==== STLLUG - July 16 ====
* OpenGL by Jerry Stutte
==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - July 21 ====
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
==== SNUG - July 22 ====
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
==== STCLUG - July 23 ====
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
==== HZWLUG - July 28 ====
* Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
==== MythTV - ====
* This SIG meets at irregular intervals.
====== Potential Presenters ======
These are some people who can present, and possible topics they can speak about.
* Rick Clark (Ubuntu) (via Craig)
* TOPIC: TBD
* Might be able to talk to STCLUG and STLLUG
* Kyle Cordes
* Puppet
* git and GitHub
* Flying Boxes
* Hostirian/Primary.NET
* Tour of their data center
* What it takes to run a hosting data center
* Wehrenberg Theaters (via Gary)
* TOUR/DEMO: Digital cinema projectors
* Sammie from IBM,
* Canceled Main: Live Demo of IBM Virtualization
* Sanjiv Bhatia (or someone from UMSL, via Lee)
* TOPIC: AIX 6
* TOPIC: Open Grid Computing
* December or January
* David Letscher (Prof of CS at SLU) (via Gary)
* TOPIC: TBD
* Still gone for summer. Awaiting details.
* Jeff Logullo (formerly of Sun)
* TOPIC: MySQL - now a Sun product
* TOPIC: Project Indiana, a new package management system a la apt/dpkg
* TOPIC: Versioning filenames (snapshots?) in ZFS
* TOPIC: New release of ZFS
* TOPIC: Belenix & other live CD's based on Open Solaris
* Scott Nesler
* TOPIC: GIMP (follow-up from previous presentation)
* TOPIC: PGP and GPG
* Jeff Muse
* Software RAID
* Solaris for Linux Admins
* Mailman
* Various other Solaris topics
* Stan Reichardt
* Evaluating Security (Internet access required)
* DEMO VIM Folding
* TOPIC/DEMO: Google Calendar (was done at STCLUG Apr 2009)
* TOPIC/DEMO: Using Scribus
* Tim Dreste (via Stan R)
* TOPIC: Untangle Gateway Platform
* TOPIC: CentOS Linux
* Don Ellis
* Mac OS X Snow Leopard
* Craig Buchek
* git and GitHub
* GNU grep (--count, --context, -e, --color)
* wget and curl
* Mac OS X topics
* Ruby on Rails
* Test-Driven Development (or get Brian Button, if possible)
* Tony Lovasco
* ???
* Mike Wilkerson
* Round-Table on Joe Linux User (moderator)
* Jerry Stutte
====== Potential Topics ======
These are some topics that we've had requested, or brainstormed, but need to find speakers for.
List was posted to DISCUSS on 25 May, asking for volunteers.
* Google Wave
* BSD jail
* Unix glossary - unusual terms
* mount point
* white space
* "well-behaved" app
* zombies
* parent process
* Knoppix karaoke (various users sit in front of Knoppix system)
* regedit - edit Windows registry from Linux
* Drawing network diagrams using Dia or OpenOffice Draw
* AIX current release, features, future
* Someone from IBM corporate?
* Apple current release, features, future
* Someone from Apple corporate?
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) or Fedora recent releases
* Still looking for volunteer; tried Clark Smith at Red Hat
* SuSE or OpenSUSE recent releases
* Someone from Novell corporate?
* Gary Hollingsworth?
* Solaris or OpenSolaris current release, features, future
* Someone from Sun corporate?
* HP-UX current release, features, future
* Someone from HP corporate corporate?
* Dave Mills?
* iSCSI
* Using git
* CPUs
* Features of modern Intel/AMD CPUs
* x86-64
* x86, x86-64, IA64, Sparc, PowerPC, ARM, POWER
* iPhone
* Developing for (web, native)
* iPhone competitors
* New Google Android Phones
* LG Dare
* Samsung Instinct
* Other Linux-based phones
* LiMo versus Google Android
* Linux from scratch.
* SplashTop - a quick booting distro.
* PGP/GPG use in Email
* Thunderbird Enigmail
* KMail
* Google Android
* Gateway and STL JUGs both recently had presentations
* GUI builders (GLADE, KDevelop)
====== Server Admin ======
* A 2nd NIC has been installed on Budlight.
* On back-end network (192.168.1.x)
* Last octet matches octet of public IP.
* Rsnapshot has been installed on Budlight.
* Backing up /home, /etc, /var, and /root on Bud to /rsnapshot on Budlight.
* /rsnapshot is 100 GB volume on disk array.
* Power outage at Hostirian on 5/21.
* Jeff Muse had to go in to revive Budlight.
* Budlight was inaccessible about 18 hours.
* Due to flaky NIC, which we then swapped out.
* Lee will install (and document) Webalizer on Bud, to gather web stats.
* Partitions on Bud are getting full.
* Home and var partitions.
* Tony looked into prices for 9 SCA hard drives - 36 GB and 72 GB.
* $49 / drive for 72 GB drives.
* Discussion on whether it might make more sense to replace the systems.
* Discussion on whether it might make more sense to move storage to a separate NAS box.
* Leaning toward NAS solution.
* Jeff Muse brought in an EMC Clariion with 10 x 36 GB drives
* Directly attached to Budlight via FibreChannel.
* Still need to re-check hardware to get it running fully.
* Will configure with RAID 5 and a hot spare.
* Considering using an LVM partition for some users.
* Jeff installed Solaris 10 on the remaining E250.
* Available at bock.sluug.org
* Contact Jeff Muse (jmuse) for accounts/access.
* Ran into mirroring issues, due to disk sizes.
* Other E250 has been parted out and sold off.
* Omnitec offered to provide secondary DNS for us.
* We would provide secondary DNS for them.
* Lee and Carl would maintain DNS on both ends.
* Dark is alive again, thanks to a campus-wide power outage.
* Anyone who needs to get anything off should do so ASAP.
* We should retire this system.
* Wash U took our **webdev** box (128.252.19.27) off network Mon December 1.
* They detected questionable IRC traffic with IP addresses in Finland & Norway.
* We should analyze and respond.
* Jeff Muse added Ultra and Busch - Sun Netras running Solaris 10.
* Expect to use one like Bud and one for backup storage.
* We're planning to setup our own DNS on Ultra/Busch.
* Make our own servers authoritative for our own domains.
* Would allow us to publish reverse records.
* Primary has said they can allow this.
* Would allow us to publish SPF records.
* We could offer dyanmic DNS services to our members.
* On a subdomain, such as users.sluug.org
* Steve Smith (from Solaris SIG) offered a 36 GB drive to install in one of the Netras.
====== Server Management ======
* 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:
* Document useradd process.
* Better web site management tools
* Develop standardized 'Membership List' & same UIDs on all production machines.
====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ======
* Decided to post new (and renewing) members' names on front page of web site.
====== SLACC ======
* Need to register SLACC.COM domain.
* Carl - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
* Expires in September 2009; need to renew.
* Check on SLACC.ORG - seems to be owned by a cybersquatter.
* Expires in August 2009.
* Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses.
====== Recognize Useful Effort ======
* Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
* Gary and Craig
* Got STCLUG.ORG domain working.
* Jeff Muse, Lee Lammert, Gary Meyer
* Added more hardware.
* Brought Budlight back up after power outage.
====== 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.
* Gary - Clean up home directory on Bud.
* Carl, Gary - Transfer and renew SLACC.COM domain.
* Craig - Update STLLINUX.ORG and SLUUG.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data.
* Craig - Follow up w/ Kyle Cordes about presentations.
* Craig - Work on presentations.
* Gary - Point STCLUG.ORG domain registrar to EveryDNS name servers.
* Lee - Ask Sammie to bring past (and current) presentation to us on thumb drive.