====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 2 June 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, June 2, 2010 * 6:30 PM - 7:45 ====== Attendees ====== * Lee Lammert * Noah Lance * Jeff Muse * Jerry Stutte * Don Ellis * Stan Reichardt ====== Secretary Report ====== * Secretary has not printed minutes since June 2009. ====== Treasurer Report ====== * Balance: $1170.13 as of 3/31/2010 * Expenses: $55.39 Checks Unlimited * Income: $59.76 Room Donations * Income: $150 Patrick Bellinger * Income: $35 Richard Siebel * Balance: $1359.50 as of 5/31/10 ====== Mailing List Report ====== * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of May 2010: | List ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ ^ ANNOUNCE | 782 | 771 | 769 | 772 | 767 | 770 | 773 | 769 | 767 | 759 | 751 | 752 | 755 | ^ DISCUSS | 214 | 214 | 215 | 217 | 220 | 220 | 227 | 226 | 226 | 221 | 221 | 223 | 223 | ^ STEERCOM | 35 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | ^ SYSADMIN | 16 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 19 | * Numbers 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 ====== * Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at meetings. * Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets. * Attendance numbers, as of end of May 2010: | Meeting ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ ^ Steercom | 8 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | ^ SLACC | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 9 | - | 5 | 8 | ? | ? | ^ SLUUG | 21 | 15 | 22 | 19 | 17 | 36 | 30 | 15 | 28 | 22? | ? | ? | ? | ^ STLOSUG | - | (7)| 15 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 7 | - | 6 | 7 | - | ^ SNUG SuSE| (6) | 10 | ? | 6 | 6 | - | (4) | 15 | - | ? | - | 8 | 8 | ^ STLLUG | 21 | 14(15) | 24 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 22 | 25 | 23 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 17 | ^ STCLUG | 8 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 6 | (9) | - | - | (2) | 7 | 6 | ? | 6 | ^ HZWLUG | 11 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 9 | (13) | 10 | 8 | 11 | ? | * 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 ====== ===== May 2010 ===== May 20010 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 6 ==== * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation * Meetings will be in smaller room. ==== SLUUG - May 12 ==== * BASE: Creating a favicon for your website - Tony Zafiropoulos * MAIN: ESXi Server Virtualization by Noah Lance ==== STLOSUG Solaris May 18 ==== * TOPIC: IPMP - IP Multipathing * Planned discussion of new leadership and webmaster. * SLUUG provides link to OpenSolaris web page. * NOT DONE - Meeting cancelled. :?: * Who can take over leadership? ==== SNUG - May 19 ==== * TOPIC: Virtual Box by Lee/Don ==== STLLUG - May 20 ==== * TOPIC: Backing up a Windows machine to Linux - Lee Lammert ==== HZWLUG - May 25 ==== * Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one. ==== STCLUG - May 27 ==== * TOPIC: Wine by Noah Lance ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics. ===== June 2010 ===== June 2010 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 3 ==== * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation * Meetings will be in smaller room. ==== SLUUG - June 9 ==== * BASE: Autostarting a Virtual Box server by Don Ellis * MAIN: IBM Cloud Services by Dale Taylor of IBM ==== STLOSUG Solaris June 15 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== SNUG - June 16 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== STLLUG - June 17 ==== * TOPIC: IT Enterprises, their Open Source Lab, and how SLUUG can help, by William Lemon (per Jeff Muse) ==== HZWLUG - June 22 ==== * Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one. ==== STCLUG - June 24 ==== * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ===== July 2010 ===== July 2010 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 1 ==== * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation * 2010-05 Previous room reservations at Thornhill library were NOT paid, so they expired. * 2010-06 On 20 May Auditorium reserved and paid. Open from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM. ==== SLUUG - July 14 ==== * Back to back meeting. * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) * MAIN: Current State of VMware - Matt Skipton (Confirmed) per Lee Lammert. ==== STLLUG - July 15 ==== * Back to back meeting. * TOPIC: Processing and Storing Genomic Sequencing Data by David Dooling Confirmed by Craig ===== August 2010 ===== August 2010 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 5 ==== * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation ===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics. ====== SLCL Room Reservations ====== * 2010-05 Stan R. paid for HZWLUG Library rooms July through December 2010. * Other library rooms were NOT paid, so reservations for SLACC and STLlug have expired. * We will renew reservations for both SLACC and STLLUG. * Money can be refunded if we switch STLLUG meetings to other site. * On 20 May, Stan R. paid for SLACC Thornhill Branch Library Auditorium July through December 2010. * SLACC web page changed. Calendar changed. Changes to be reflected in upcoming Announce mailing. * On 18 May, Noah L. signaled change to new STLLUG location. * Stan R. asked Gary M. to notify Indian Trails and get refund. * Library could not figure out how to give a refund, so there are two meeting charges outstanding - need to get refund! * STLLUG web page changed. Calendar and Announce mailings noted STLLUG change. * Need to get refund from Indian Trails. ====== Server Admin ====== * 2009-12 Bud Light offline due to fan failure, is still offline. * 2009-12 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 * 2009-12 Carl recommended using one of the Sun Netras as a log server. * 2010-02 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. * 2010-02 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. * 2010-02 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. * 2010-03 Noah and Craig will install it on Wednesday 3/10 at 2:00 PM. * 2010-03 Noah has loaded VMware ESXi 4.0 * 2010-04 New server [Debian] installed from Noah - thanks! * 2010-04 Noah has two more Dell 2850s for installation at IT Enterprises for the OS lab, to be supported by SLUUG. Noah to contact them and confirm installation - this will be a good indication of the support level they wish to have for an ongoing relationship. * 2010-04 New server from Contegix - Nimbus [tentative] * Contact Lee or SysAdmin list for info * 2010-05 * PrimaryNet problem with possible rouge IRC activity on system we later identified as Golden Wheat. * Stan R. added some info on Golden Wheat to resources.txt file. * Taking Golden Wheat offline... * Mike Knight pointed out that Bud is not being backed up since BudLight went down. * Jeff Muse has started rsnapshots backing up Bud to Bock. * Noah Lance willing to diagram our assets -- later. * Joe B will be installing Sun Netra box. * * 2010-06 * Golden Wheat ready for reinstall - setup with virtual appliance Debian 5 XVA. * Lee is building backup on a server built - aliased as AMBER. We might need different name. :?: * Any further issues? ====== Wash U Cleanup ====== * 2009-09 Jerry Stute, Jeff Muse, and Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site. * 2009-09 Gary Meyer is Captain. * 2009-10 Captain is AWOL. Carl will be available in November or later. * 2009-11 Captain was AWOL. * 2009-12 Captain still AWOL. * 2010-01 Captain still AWOL. * 2010-02 Captain Gary Meyer still AWOL. Search party has not reported back. * 2010-04 Pending until next month at the earliest. * 2010-05 This project open since September 2009. Gary immediately left meeting. * 2010-06 Gary not here, nothing resolved. :?: * Any further issues? ====== IRC Channel ====== * 2009-11 Charles Sharp created an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. * Channel is named #sluug. * Typically 7 people on at times. * 2009-12 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 R. will put the IRC channel info up on the web site. * Stan R. will put the IRC channel info on ANNOUNCE messages. * 2010-05 This project open since November. * 2010-06 Will build a page - stanr. :?: * Any further issues? ====== Purge SYSADMIN mailing list ====== * 2009-12 Stan R. 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. * 2010-05 This project open since December. * 2010-06 :?: * Any further issues? ====== Password Cards ====== * 2009-12 We need to change root passwords. * 2010-0? Craig handed out new password cards. * Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card. * 2010-05 This project open since December. * 2010-06 Stan R. will build a unviewable page to record the number for server list. Further implementation when we move BUD downtown. :?: * Any further issues? ====== New Attendance Sheets ====== * Stan R. made new attendance sheets for: * SLACC, STEERCOM, SLUUG, STLLUG, STCLUG, and HZWLUG * Yet to do: STLOSUG and SNUG, and groups on HIATUS. * 2010-05 This project open since January. * 2010-06 :?: * Any further issues? ====== New Business ====== ====== Building new server ====== * GOAL - Moving production to our cloud so that we don't have t o worry about hardware. * Cloud server donated by Contegicx. downtown. * Contact Lee or Jeff Muse to volunteer help. ====== Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status ====== * 2010-06 Late 16 May Stan R. saw article on annual filing requirement. * IRS will revoke tax status on non-filing non-profit organizations. * Stan R. went into panic mode and passed action to Gary Meyer. * Per Gary and Gary * Per Lee * Per Mike Knight * Gary, Gary, Lee and Mike put out fire. * Annual requirement :?: * Any further issues? ====== Blue Sky ====== * Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects. * Lee wants us to complete something that is already listed. ====== Recognize Useful Efforts ====== * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions. * ====== 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. * Lee - order checks. * Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us. * Carl - send thank-you note to Hostirian for hosting our site. * Craig - print out minutes. * Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card. * ALL - Need volunteers to poster/contact colleges (high schools?) THIS month to get new ANNOUNCE subscribers before end of semester!!