====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - 5 August 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, August 5, 2009 * 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM ====== Attendees ====== * Jeff Muse * Craig Buchek * Stan Reichardt * Jerry Stutte ====== Secretary Report ====== * Secretary has printed out minutes up through June. ====== Treasurer Report ====== * No report. Have not had any reports since end of March! * Balance: $1271.62 as of 3/31/2009 ====== Mailing List Report ====== * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of July 2009: | List ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ ^ ANNOUNCE | 830 | 828 | 807 | 805 | 802 | 791 | 790 | 786 | 785 | 783 | 782 | 771 | 769 | ^ DISCUSS | 192 | 193 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 196 | 201 | 206 | 212 | 215 | 214 | 214 | 215 | ^ STEERCOM | 33 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 34 | ^ SYSADMIN | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 17 | * Numbers are 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 July 2009: | Meeting ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ ^ Steercom | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | ^ SLACC | 9 | 8 | 6 | ? | 4 | 4 | - | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ^ SLUUG | 17 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 20 | 27| 24 | 23 | 18 | 32 | 21 | 15 | 22 | ^ STLOSUG | - | 12 | - | 11 | 10 | 7 | 6 | ? | 8 | 13 | - | (7)| 15 | ^ SNUG SuSE| 4 | - | 5 | 3 | 5? | - | 7 | ? | - |2(172)| (6)| 10 | ? | ^ STLLUG | 20 | 23 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 10| 19 | 32 |18(21)| 20| 21| 14 (15)| 24 | ^ STCLUG | 3 | 6 | 3 | 19 | - | 6 | 11? | 12 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 11 | ^ HZWLUG | 11 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 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. ====== Meeting Review and Comments ====== ===== June 2009 ===== June 2009 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 4 ==== * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation ==== SLUUG - June 10 ==== * BASE: Vim Folding by Stan Reichardt * Stan says he didn't do very good -- too many interrupting questions * MAIN: Neural Networks to Scan DNA by Bryce Meyer (via Lee) * Don't recall ==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - June 16 ==== * TOPIC: Migrating an RC script to SMF * Lots of discussion, went well ==== SNUG - June 17 ==== * TOPIC: iFolder ==== STLLUG - June 18 ==== * TOPIC: Open Source Licensing - What You Need to Know by Craig Buchek * Unknown ==== HZWLUG - June 23 ==== * Various, such as GRUB stanzas, yumex, alexandria, gramps, lilypond. * Good coverage. Nice to be covering higher-level applications. * Talked about WinBeginners.com web site -- great info; wish there was a GNU/Linux equivalent. ==== STCLUG - June 25 ==== * TOPIC: Samba Shares Across Subnets on pfSense by Carl Fitch * Interesting. ===== July 2009 ===== July 2009 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 2 ==== * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation ==== SLUUG - July 8 ==== * BASE: ack (grep replacement) by Craig Buchek * Good coverage of features and command-line options. * MAIN: Solaris for Linux Admins by Jeff Muse * A bit disjointed; lots of things to cover, but not easy to organize. * Got some info on portability. ==== STLLUG - July 16 ==== * TOPIC: OpenGL by Jerry Stutte * Slow start, info presented needed to be "processed" more. * Could have used more demos and less "book learning". ==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - July 21 ==== * TOPIC: What's New with OpenSolaris 2009.06 by Bob Netherton * Good meeting. * Covered package management, libc, ZFS, and many more topics. ==== SNUG - July 22 ==== * TOPIC: PlateSpin Applications * ??? ==== STCLUG - July 23 ==== * TOPIC: A Virtual Network Simulator by Rich Warwick * Good tool, interesting, lots of audience participation. * Richard seemed nervous and out of sorts. ==== HZWLUG - July 28 ==== * Various Topics (Unstructured) * Gave out some Ubuntu, SimplyMEPIS and HZWLUG Beginner Info discs ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== August 2009 ===== August 2009 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 - August 6 ==== * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation ==== SLUUG - August 12 ==== * MAIN: Unix glossary - unusual terms (round table) * mount point * white space * "well-behaved" app * zombies * parent process * sparse files * raw devices * raw/cooked terminal modes ==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - August 18 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== SNUG - August 19 ==== * TOPIC: The new SUSE Studio by Gary Hollingsworth ==== STLLUG - August 20 ==== * TOPIC: GIT by Craig Buchek ==== HZWLUG - August 25 ==== * Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one. ==== STCLUG - August 27 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) by Rick Clark (Ubuntu) ===== September 2009 ===== September 2009 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 - September 2 ==== * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation ==== SLUUG - September 9 ==== * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) * MAIN: VMWare's latest & greatest by Matt Skipton (via Lee) ==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - September 15 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== SNUG - September 16 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== STLLUG - September 17 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== HZWLUG - September 22 ==== * Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one. ==== STCLUG - September 24 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ====== Potential Presenters ====== These are some people who can present, and possible topics they can speak about. * Scott Granneman * Snow Leopard (the next version of Mac OS X, when it comes out) * iPhone (sometime after July) * Rick Clark (Ubuntu) (via Craig) * TOPIC: TBD * Might be able to talk to STCLUG and STLLUG * Kyle Cordes * Puppet * 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 * Mailman * Various other Solaris topics * Stan Reichardt * Evaluating Security (Internet access required) * Using Scribus * Tim Dreste (via Stan R) * TOPIC: Untangle Gateway Platform * TOPIC: CentOS Linux * Don Ellis * Mac OS X Snow Leopard * Craig Buchek * 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 * OpenGL part 2 (November LUG) ====== 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. * LaTeX * Weiqi Gao and Brian Bilgere were looking for volunteers * Eric Xu says he uses it; Jerry Stutte will contact him * Processes * How to tell what's running on a machine * Google Wave * BSD jail * 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 * 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) ====== SLACC Domain ====== * 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. * 2009-06 Tasked Carl and Gary to transfer and renew SLACC.COM domain. ====== STLLINUX Domain ====== * 2009-06 Tasked Craig to update STLLINUX.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data. ====== SLUUG Domain ====== * 2009-06 Tasked Craig to update SLUUG.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data. ====== STCLUG Domain ====== * 2009-06 Tasked Gary to point STCLUG.ORG domain registrar to EveryDNS name servers. ====== Server Admin ====== * The Sun E250 is now up and running. * Named ''bock''. * Running Solaris 10. * Stuffed full of working hard drives. * Has about 100 GB of RAID-Z ZFS. * Bud Light is doing daily rsnapshots to bock. * Bud backs up to Bud Light. * Stan create [[/steercom/resources]] to keep track of our systems and what's running on them. ====== Server Management ====== * Work left to do: * Make sure docs are up to date. * Jeff is completing documentation on wiki regarding his recent changes. * 2008-01 Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud. * 2008-01 Started documenting client email configurations, to help users migrate. * 2008-01 See [[../users]] and [[../mail_setup]] pages. * Craig - Work on finishing server builds. * 2008-01 Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig) * 2008-03 More security, for SSH and otherwise. * 2008-01 Get offsite backups working. (Mike) * 2008-01 Publish SSH host keys on web page. * 2008-03 Standardize/regularize user accounts (IDs, password expirations). (Mike) * Other work to do: * 2008-08 Document useradd process. * 2008-03 Better web site management tools * 2008-08 Develop standardized 'Membership List' & same UIDs on all production machines. ====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ====== * Jerry Stutte has written an app to manage membership. * Working with Lee Lammert. * Need to deploy to bud. * Lists membership levels and names. * Will be able to show expiration dates of memberships and send out emails. ====== Other Old Business ====== * Nothing. ====== Annual Report to State of Missouri ====== * Annual Report for 2008 is on file, next Annual Report due 31 August. * Filed documents available [[http://www.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/soskb/Corp.asp?681250 |here. ]] * REGISTRATION REPORT FEE IS: * $15.00 If filed on or before 8/31 * $20.00 If filed after 8/31 * Corporation will be administratively dissolved if report is not filed by November 30th. * We still need to change the registered agent for surface mail delivery. * Craig is a registered agent, per Missouri state, and volunteered to serve as our group's agent. * Someone just needs to file the right paperwork. * We thought we had filled out the paperwork; apparently it's been lost or misplaced. ====== Other New Business ====== * Nothing. ====== Blue Sky ====== * Stan uses htop (or ps) on our systems, and has no idea what he's looking at. * Not sure what each process is doing. * Would be good to have a discussion on process names. * Would be good to document running processes. ====== Recognize Useful Effort ====== * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions. * Jerry Stutte worked on the membership management application. * Jeff Muse implemented rsnapshot and wrote up documentation. ====== 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 - FILE ANNUAL REPORT. DUE 8/31. * Craig - Contact Kyle Cordes about presenting on Puppet. * 2009-06 Tasked Gary to clean up home directory on Bud. * 2009-06 Tasked Craig to work on presentations. * 2009-06 Tasked Lee to ask Sammie to bring past (and current) presentation to us on thumb drive.