====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 1 December 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, December 1, 2010
* 6:30 PM - 8:10 PM
====== Attendees ======
* Lee Lammert
* Craig Buchek
* Don Ellis
* Noah Lance
* Jerry Stutte
* Gary Meyer
* Stan Reichardt
====== Secretary Report ======
* Nothing to report.
====== Treasurer Report ======
* Balance as of 10/31: $835.35
* Expenses: none
* Income: none
* Balance as of 11/30: $835.35
* Need to encourage people to use the new PayPal buttons on the web site.
====== Mailing List Report ======
* Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of November 2010:
| List ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^
^ ANNOUNCE | 773 | 769 | 767 | 759 | 751 | 752 | 755 | 755 | 739 | 736 | 724 | 718 | 717 |
^ DISCUSS | 227 | 226 | 226 | 221 | 221 | 223 | 223 | 224 | 224 | 222 | 223 | 222 | 222 |
^ STEERCOM | 35 | 35 | 35 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 40 | 39 | 39 | 40 | 38 | 38 |
^ SYSADMIN | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 18 |
* 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.
* Command used to generate these (as root on Bud):
* /usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members **list_name** | wc -l
====== Attendance Report ======
* Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets.
* Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at meetings.
* Attendance sheets are [[http://www.sluug.org/resources/attendance/|available here]]
* Attendance numbers, as of end of November 2010:
| Meeting ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^
^ Steercom | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
^ SLACC | 9 | 9 | - | 5 | 8 | ? | 5 | (6)| ? | ? | ? | 8 | x |
^ SLUUG | 30 | 15 | 28 | 22? | 26 | ? | ? | 18 | 22? | 29(31) | ? | 29 | x |
^ SNUG SuSE| (4) | 15 | - | ? | - | 8 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 8 | ? | - | 7 |
^ STLLUG | 22 | 25 | 23 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 19 | 9 | 17 | 21 | 17 | 16? |
^ STCLUG | - | - | (2) | 7 | 6 | ? | 6 | 5 | 12 | 4 | ? | 6 | 4 |
^ HZWLUG | 11 | 9 | (13) | 10 | 8 | 11 | ? | 8 | ? | ? | 6 | 7 | 7 |
* 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 ======
===== November 2010 =====
November 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 - November 4 ====
* [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
==== SLUUG - November 10 ====
* [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
* BASE: VIM Workshop by Bill Odom
* Good. Thumbs up. Lots of good tricks.
* MAIN: mdadm by Jeff Muse
* Good.
==== SNUG - November 17 ====
* [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
* TOPIC: ZENworks 11 Preview
* Canned video presentation from Novell, but good.
* Needed bigger monitor and speakers.
==== STLLUG - November 18 ====
* [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
* TOPIC: Solaris 11 Preview for the Linux User by Bob Netherton
* Good, thorough, a bit fast/overwhelming for some.
==== STCLUG - November 22 ===
* [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
* Day moved to avoid conflict with Thanksgiving
* DEMO: Setting Up DRBL and Gentoo by Noah Lance
* DRBL = Disk Remote Boot Linux
==== HZWLUG - November 23 ====
* [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
* Troubleshooting wireless, demo of Android phone, and KMyMoney application.
* NOTE: Library reservation printout failed to list this meeting as paid.
* NOTE: Library system had emailed meeting reminder on Saturday prior.
==== Thanksgiving Day - November 25 ====
====== Presentation Schedule ======
===== Potential Presenters and Topics =====
* Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics.
===== December 2010 =====
December 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 - December 2 ====
* [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
==== SLUUG - December 8 ====
* [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
* BASE: vim tutorial by Bill Odom (unconfirmed)
* MAIN: Arm-based Linux NAS Server (LG N2B1) by Lee Lammert
==== SNUG - December 15 ====
* [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
* TOPIC: To Be Determined by Don Ellis
==== STLLUG - December 16 ====
* [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
* TOPIC: Linux for Blind Users by Igor Gueths (tentative)
* BACKUP: HAML/SASS/CoffeeScript by Craig Buchek
==== STCLUG - December 23 ====
* [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
* NO MEETING DUE TO X-MAS HOLIDAY
==== Christmas Day - December 25 ====
==== HZWLUG - December 28 ====
* [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
* Stan may not be able to make it to run the meeting.
===== January 2011 =====
January 2011
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 - January 6 ====
* [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
==== SLUUG - January 12 ====
* [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
* BASE: BSD Jails by Lee Lammert
* MAIN: Comparison of ARM and Atom by Jerry Stutte
==== SNUG - January 19 ====
* [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
==== STLLUG - January 20 ====
* [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
* TOPIC: Setting Up Webalizer by Lee Lammert (tentative)
==== HZWLUG - January 25 ====
* [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
==== STCLUG - January 27 ====
* [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
===== February 2011 =====
February 2011
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
==== SLACC - February 3 ====
* [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
==== SLUUG - February 9 ====
* [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
* BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
* MAIN: Cyber Security by Ruben Lopez (tentative, via Jerry)
==== SNUG - February 16 ====
* [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
==== STLLUG - February 17 ====
* [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
* TOPIC: Video Capture and Editing by Noah Lance (tentative)
==== HZWLUG - February 22 ====
* [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
==== STCLUG - February 24 ====
* [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
===== Potential Presenters and Topics =====
* Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics.
====== Old Business ======
===== 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 - Amber
* Contact Lee or SysAdmin list for info
* 2010-05
* PrimaryNet problem with possible rogue 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.
* 2010-07
* Golden Wheat has been re-installed, and fully functional.
* Amber had incorrect DNS entry; Craig fixed it.
* Lee copied over Bud home directories to /bu/home on Amber.
* Cannot get rsync to work between the 2 systems --- JEFF FIXED THIS
* Work party at the bat cave - started on web, mail, system services, user IDs. Big problem now is that mysql won't let postfix log in.
* 2010-08
* Jerry is working on setting up Nagios
* 2010-09
* Backups have been disabled, since they were filling the / partition.
* Postfix integration with MySQL -- not working yet.
* Trying to get Zimbra installed -- not working yet either.
* 2010-10
* Postfix and MySQL are now talking to each other (on Amber)
* Mailman is installed - list info needs to be migrated over yet
* Proposed date for work party to finish moving bud to the cloud box - Nov 13th. Location TBD.
* 2010-11
* We have 2 new boxes.
* Compaq DL580 (G1) boxes at Lee's house.
* 4 x 73 GB disks (old servers have 4 x 18GB)
* 3 GB RAM (old servers have 4 GB)
* Work party to finish moving bud to the cloud box - Nov 13th at Lee's.
* 2010-12
* Got Budlight back up and runnable
* Got a fan to fit in it
* Need to reinstall in rack
* Got OS installed on DL580, but Grub didn't work.
* Lee suggested we keep 1 of each system type.
* Keep the 2nd of each system type as backup hardware.
===== Wash U Cleanup =====
* 2009-09 Jerry Stutte, 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.
* 2010-07 Gary not here, nothing resolved.
* 2010-09 Gary will work on this.
* 2010-10 No progress. Stan questioned Gary's usefulness. Suggested that he is merely decorative.
* 2010-11 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
* 2010-12 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
===== Purge SYSADMIN mailing list =====
* Stan went through SYSADMIN list, looking for inactive members.
* Found only 1 inactive member, and removed him.
===== Password Cards =====
* 2009-12 We need to change root passwords.
* 2010-01 Craig handed out new password cards.
* 2010-06 Stan R. will build an unviewable page to record the number for server list.
* Further implementation when we move BUD downtown.
* 2010-07 Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.
* 2010-08 Status unchanged.
* 2010-09 Status unchanged.
* 2010-10 Mike Knight, Jerry, and Don all need password cards. Jeff sent mail to Craig inquiring.
* 2010-11 Jerry received a password card from Craig.
* 2010-12 Status unchanged.
===== Linux Conference in May =====
* 2010-09 Possible Linux event next May
* Mid-America GNU/Linux Networkers Conference on 5 and 6 May 2011 [[http://magnetcon.info/]]
* Web site looks like it went up early in February 2010.
* Event name changed, was previously listed as Mid-America LinuxFest.
* Web site had not kept up with July 2010 selection of St. Louis as city of choice.
* Location seems to be St. Louis Union Station Marriott.
* Appears to be for-profit.
* Looking for sponsors.
* We need someone to determine viability of efforts before we consider committing.
* Any volunteers?
* 2010-10 Carl will investigate.
* 2010-11 Craig will investigate.
* 2010-12 Craig will investigate.
===== SNUG Future =====
* 2010-10 [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
* Gary Hollingsworth expects Novell to pull out of Linux.
* Novell will be divesting its Linux business to VMware and the remaining assets to Attachmate.
* Assume worst case that SNUG - St. Louis Novell Users Group will possibly dissolve.
* Need confidential recommendations on SNUG funds.
* There was no October meeting because of STL Business Expo.
* Transition to be discussed by Gary M. at next SNUG meeting.
* 2010-11
* Future of the group will be discussed this month.
* 2010-12
* Was not discussed last month.
* We should defer this discussion until Attachmate buy-out settles out.
===== Domain Name Renewals =====
* 2010-11 [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
* For December 2010 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain. Our other domains scattered through out year.
* Suggestion was made that it might be possible to renew all domains during same month.
* Gary is going to check the possibility with vendors.
===== STLLUG Sponsorship Credit =====
* 2010-11 [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
* STLLUG meetings are now hosted at IT Enterprises, which is affiliated with UMSL.
* Typically because of meeting space value we recognize host as sponsor on our web pages.
* Previously, some educational institutions (other than UMSL) did not want to be listed.
* Lee updated the SLUUG web site [[http://www.sluug.org/sponsors/|sponsors list]]
* Also added PayPal button to SLUUG web site [[http://www.sluug.org/members/join/|membership join page.]]
* 2010-12 No status change.
* We should push the PayPal usage.
===== Recording Meetings =====
* 2010-12
* We have a voice recorder (VC) for recording meeting presentations and have posted some results on web site.
* On 28 Oct Stan R. suggested buying an additional VC so that there wouldn't be a single point of failure.
* We forget who has it.
* We forget to bring it.
* We forget to turn it on.
* We forget fresh batteries.
* We forget how to turn it on.
* We forget to free up space on it.
* There was some STEERCOM list banter but nothing was brought up at 3 November Steering Committee meeting.
* Alternative of video recording suggested, huge size of video files was mentioned.
* Stan R. passed voice recorder to Gary M. on 18 November and doesn't want it back.
* Noah volunteered an old Digital8 recorder.
====== New Business ======
===== Preparation for February Annual Meeting and Elections =====
* Annual Official Business Meeting is 2nd Wednesday in February.
* Elections are all the February meetings.
* All votes will be counted at the Steering Committee meeting.
* On the 1st Wednesday in March.
====== Annual Requirements ======
* December 2010 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain.
* February 2011 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.
* February 2011 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
* April 2011 - Reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
* April 2011 - St. Louis Business Expo
* May 2011 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status.
* July 2011 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain.
* October 2011 - Reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
* October 2011 - St. Louis Business Expo
* December 2011 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain.
* August 2012 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status (every 2 years).
====== Blue Sky ======
* Gary spoke about the difficulties we have finding current information on all the upcoming meetings.
* SLUUG calendar is relatively definitive, but the original sources are often out of date.
* Stan talked about the order of the Steering Committee agenda.
* Suggested that it might be better to have new topics at the top.
* This would allow new members to come and have input right away.
* Gary suggested that the first item on the agenda should be agenda changes.
* Stan and Gary suggested posting post-meeting wrap-ups to DISCUSS.
* Things like posting the "Recognize Useful Efforts" section from the Steering minutes every month.
* Summary of Steering Committee minutes.
* Highlights of presentations.
* Questions (and answers) from Q&A sessions from presentations.
* Stan wanted to gather web analytics.
* Craig said that there are 2 ways to accomplish this.
* Way 1 is to analyze Apache logs, such as webalizer.
* Way 2 is to use something like Google Analytics.
* The group decided against using anything external like Google for this.
====== Recognize Useful Efforts ======
* Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
* Who did what?
* Nothing to report.
====== 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 - send thank-you note to Hostirian for hosting our servers.
* Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight and Don Ellis have a copy of the password card.
* Craig - work on getting refund for 2 months of Indian Trails reservations we did not use.
* Or transfer the 2 months to SLACC or HZWLUG.
* Craig - follow up on potential presentations.
* Igor - blind Linux users
* Kyle Cordes - ffmpeg or other
* Jerry - find someone to talk to us about Android.
* Talk to Joshua Frank and Bill Zimmerly.
* Talk to Rich Siebel to see if Andrew Prunicki of OCI can talk to us.
* See Announce list from February 2009 for speakers from Java SIG presentations.
* Jeff - talk to Splunk reps about presenting.
* Noah - work on Amber build.
* Gary - look into syncing domain renewals so they all happen at the same time of year.
* Gary - renew STCLUG.ORG domain!!!!
* Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
* Gary - get Wash U site cleaned up.