====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 3 February 2010 ======
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, February 3, 2010
* 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
====== Attendees ======
* Craig Buchek
* Lee Lammert
* Jeff Muse
* Jerry Stutte
* Noah Lance
* Gary Meyer
====== Secretary Report ======
* Secretary has not printed minutes since June.
====== Treasurer Report ======
* Bank account has been transferred from Bank of America to Regions.
* Balance: $1375.59 as of 1/5/2010
* Income for 2010-01: $14 collected for room fees
* Expenditures for 2009-12:
* ~$52 for Compaq fans (Carl needs to submit receipt)
* Lee has taken in new signature cards for the Region.
* Lee will be ordering checks.
====== Mailing List Report ======
* Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of January 2010:
| List ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^
^ ANNOUNCE | 790 | 786 | 785 | 783 | 782 | 771 | 769 | 772 | 767 | 770 | 773 | 769 | 767 |
^ DISCUSS | 201 | 206 | 212 | 215 | 214 | 214 | 215 | 217 | 220 | 220 | 227 | 226 | 226 |
^ STEERCOM | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
^ SYSADMIN | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 18 |
* 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 January 2010:
| Meeting ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^
^ Steercom | 6 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
^ SLACC | - | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 9 | - |
^ SLUUG | 24 | 23 | 18 | 32 | 21 | 15 | 22 | 19 | 17 | 36 | 30 | 15 | 28 |
^ STLOSUG | 6 | ? | 8 | 13 | - | (7)| 15 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 7 |
^ SNUG SuSE| 7 | ? | - |2(172)| (6) | 10 | ? | 6 | 6 | - | (4) | 15 | - |
^ STLLUG | 19 | 32 |18(21)| 20 | 21 | 14(15) | 24 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 22 | 25 | 23 |
^ STCLUG | 11? | 12 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 6 | (9) | - | - | (2) |
^ HZWLUG | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 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.
* Extreme cold may have reduced SLUUG December 2009 attendance.
* The 7 Jan 2010 SLACC meeting was cancelled due to Library closing for snow.
====== Meeting Review and Comments ======
===== January 2010 =====
January 2010
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==== SLACC - January 7 ====
* Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
==== SLUUG - January 13 ====
* BASE: None
* MAIN: Mac OS X Snow Leopard by Scott Granneman
* Good as usual.
==== STLOSUG - January 19 ====
* TOPIC: Xen on OpenSolaris by Jeff Muse
* Good as usual.
==== STLLUG - January 21 ====
* TOPIC: Using Linux with Digital Radio by Bill Zimmerly and Jim Conley
* Could have used more Linux.
* Jim did about 90% of the talking.
==== HZWLUG - January 26 ====
* Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
* Multiple call for help type of questions and one-on-one assistance.
====== Presentation Schedule ======
===== Potential Presenters and Topics =====
* Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics.
===== February 2010 =====
February 2010
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==== SLACC - February 4 ====
* Balloting for SLUUG officers
* Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
* Meetings will be in smaller room.
==== Super Bowl Sunday - February 7 - Colts vs. Saints ====
==== SLUUG - February 10 ====
* Balloting for SLUUG officers
* BASE: Triple Boot (Ubuntu, Windows, OpenSolaris) by Jeff Muse
* MAIN: Creating a Web Site From Scratch by Craig Buchek
* Domain registration, DNS hosting, virtual hosting, OS, Apache, MySQL, WordPress
==== Valentine's Day - February 14 ====
==== HOLIDAY: President's Day - February 15 ====
==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - February 16 ====
* Balloting for SLUUG officers
* TOPIC: Something from "Little Known Solaris Features" by Jeff Logullo (tentative)
==== SNUG - February 17 ====
* Balloting for SLUUG officers
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
==== STLLUG - February 18 ====
* Balloting for SLUUG officers
* TOPIC: OpenGL - Part Two by Jerry Stutte
==== HZWLUG - February 23 ====
* Balloting for SLUUG officers
* Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
==== STCLUG - February 25 ====
* Balloting for SLUUG officers
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
* Could be VM stuff or redmine or whatever
===== March 2010 =====
March 2010
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==== SLACC - March 4 ====
* Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
* Meetings will be in smaller room.
==== SLUUG - March 10 ====
* BASE: Checking Host Services with Nagios by Lee Lammert
* MAIN: Selling Free Software by Jim Roe (per Lee in a 1/16 email to Steercom)
==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - March 16 ====
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
==== SNUG - March 17 ====
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
==== STLLUG - March 18 ====
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
==== HZWLUG - March 23 ====
* Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
==== STCLUG - March 25 ====
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
===== Potential Presenters and Topics =====
* Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics.
====== Elections ======
* There are 2 board seats expiring:
* Craig Buchek
* Barry Morrison
* Craig and Jerry volunteered to run for the open board seats.
* Noah volunteered to run for the STCLUG chair.
* Craig will print out ballots.
* Doesn't have a way to get the ballots to the SLACC meeting.
====== Annual Meeting February 10 ======
* Per bylaws, we have an official annual meeting on February 10.
* Members may bring up any business.
====== Domains ======
* Gary will add Craig as 3rd contact for SLUUG.ORG domain.
* Carl and Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
* Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses.
* Craig will renew STLLINUX.ORG and update to show 3 names in WHOIS data.
====== Server Admin ======
* Bud Light is still offline.
* 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.
* Work left to do:
* Ongoing: Make sure docs are up to date.
====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ======
* Jerry Stutte is writing an app to manage membership.
* Membership application now running on BUD. When more mature Jerry will do a tutorial or presentation.
* Need more membership forms printed.
* Craig will print some out
* [[http://www.sluug.org/pdf/membership-form.pdf]]
====== SLCL Room Reservations ======
* Process has changed. Limited to 6 months. Next round may be first Saturday in April.
* Reserving a meeting room now done on line - http://www.slcl.org/services/reserve.htm
* Payment required within 14 days, or we lose reservation.
* To avoid problems, payments need to be made separately to each SLCL Branch.
====== Wash U Cleanup ======
* Jerry Stute, Jeff Muse, and Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site.
* Gary Meyer is Captain.
* Captain Gary Meyer still AWOL. Search party has not reported back.
====== IRC Channel ======
* Charles Sharp created an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
* Channel is named #sluug.
* Typically 7 people on at times.
* Would like to have someone give a tutorial on using IRC, and show off our channel.
* Craig suggested that we include the IRC channel in Steering Committee meetings.
* Will be hard to figure out the best way to get the online folks to participate.
* Stan will put the IRC channel info up on the web site.
* Stan will put the IRC channel info on ANNOUNCE messages.
====== Purge SYSADMIN mailing list ======
* Stan would like us to clean up the SYSADMIN mailing list, to eliminate people who have not been active for the past year.
* We decided to send a message out to the list, asking who wants to stay on the list. Then we can remove folks that are not staying active.
====== New Attendance Sheets ======
* Stan made new attendance sheets for:
* SLACC, STEERCOM, SLUUG, STLLUG, STCLUG, and HZWLUG
* Yet to do: STLOSUG and SNUG, and groups on HIATUS.
====== New Business ======
* SBE
* March 18 @ St. Charles Convention Center
* Lee will organize.
* 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
* Carl recommended using one of the Sun Netras as a log server.
* 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.
* 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.
====== Blue Sky ======
* Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects.
* Noah has been helping the [[http://archreactor.org/ | Arch Reactor]] hacker space.
* 904 Cherokee in the old Lemp Brewery
* Meeting every Tuesday at 7:30 PM.
* Frequently open at other times by members.
* How can we best cross-polinate?
* Great place for hands-on projects.
* Arduino projects
* Robotics
* Arts and crafts
* Costume building
====== Recognize Useful Efforts ======
* Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
* Jeff Muse has been working on the Michelob sendmail problem.
* On January 21 (3:00 AM) Michelob suddenly stopped allowing SMTP from Bud.
====== 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 - add Craig as 3rd contact for SLUUG.ORG domain.
* Gary - renew the STCLUG.ORG domain - it will expire December 17.
* Carl and Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
* Carl - send thank-you note to Hostirian for hosting our site.
* Carl - confirm Jim Roe presentation for February 10.
* Craig - contact Kyle Cordes about presenting on Puppet.
* Craig - renew STLLINUX.ORG, and update to show 3 names in WHOIS data.
* Craig - print out minutes from June-February.
* Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.