====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 5 January 2011 ====== 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, January 5, 2011 * 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM ====== Attendees ====== * Lee Lammert * Jerry Stutte * Craig Buchek * Stan Reichardt * Gary Meyer (tardy and decorative) ====== Agenda Changes ====== * This item added per suggestion of Gary Meyer. * Are there any additions, deletions, or changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda? ====== Secretary Report ====== * Nothing to report. ====== Treasurer Report ====== * Balance as of 11/31: $835.35 * Expenses: MO SOS (Craig Buchek) $25.00 * Income: none * Balance as of 12/31: $810.35 * Need to encourage people to use the new PayPal buttons on the web site. ====== Mailing List Report ====== * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of December 2010: | List ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ ^ ANNOUNCE | 769 | 767 | 759 | 751 | 752 | 755 | 755 | 739 | 736 | 724 | 718 | 717 | 718 | ^ DISCUSS | 226 | 226 | 221 | 221 | 223 | 223 | 224 | 224 | 222 | 223 | 222 | 222 | 221 | ^ STEERCOM | 35 | 35 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 40 | 39 | 39 | 40 | 38 | 38 | 38 | ^ SYSADMIN | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 17 | * 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 December 2010: | Meeting ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ ^ Steercom | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | ^ SLACC | 9 | - | 5 | 8 | ? | 5 | (6)| ? | ? | ? | 8 | x | 7 | ^ SLUUG | 15 | 28 | 22? | 26 | ? | ? | 18 | 22? | 29(31) | ? | 29 | ? | 15 | ^ SNUG SuSE| 15 | - | ? | - | 8 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 8 | ? | - | 7 | (14) | ^ STLLUG | 25 | 23 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 19 | 9 | 17 | 21 | 17 | 16 | (9) | ^ STCLUG | - | (2) | 7 | 6 | ? | 6 | 5 | 12 | 4 | ? | 6 | 4 | - | ^ HZWLUG | 9 | (13) | 10 | 8 | 11 | ? | 8 | ? | ? | 6 | 7 | 6 | 9 | * 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 ====== ===== 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: Keyboard Karaoke by Various Members * Stan showed off some websites. * MAIN: Arm-based Linux NAS Server (LG N2B1) by Lee Lammert * Good. ==== SNUG - December 15 ==== * [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group. * TOPIC: Fault tolerant Linux solutions * Technical problems - could not give presentation * Great discussion of Novell and SuSE technologies ==== STLLUG - December 16 ==== * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: HAML/SASS/CoffeeScript by Craig Buchek * Good. Better than expected. * Need more like these -- just introducing/demoing some cool application or technology. * When the presenter is just exploring, the whole audience actively learns, instead of passively. ==== 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 R. was not in town to run the meeting. Phil Bunch ran it. ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics. ===== 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 and chroot 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: Running .NET applications on Linux using Mono by Gary Hollingsworth ==== STLLUG - January 20 ==== * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: Linux for Blind Users by Igor Gueths (tentative) * BACKUP: 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 Election Voting ==== SLUUG - February 9 ==== * [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation. * SLUUG Election Voting * 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. * SLUUG Election Voting * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== STLLUG - February 17 ==== * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. * SLUUG Election Voting * 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. * SLUUG Election Voting ==== STCLUG - February 24 ==== * [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group. * SLUUG Election Voting * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ===== March 2011 ===== March 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 - March 3 ==== * [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation ==== SLUUG - March 9 ==== * [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation. * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) * MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== SNUG - March 16 ==== * [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group. * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== STLLUG - March 17 ==== * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== HZWLUG - March 22 ==== * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one. ==== STCLUG - March 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. * 2011-01 At December Blue Sky session 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. * Craig and Lee got Webalizer working after the blue sky session. * Gary and Stan have been looking at the Webalizer reports. * [[http://www.sluug.org/hitreport/]] ===== 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. * 2011-01 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness. ===== 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. * 2011-01 Craig REALLY intends to change root passwords VERY soon. ===== 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. * 2011-01 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. * 2011-01 * Attendance last month was excellent; no action required yet. ===== 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. * 2011-01 * Gary renewed STCLUG.ORG last month. ===== 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. * 2011-01 Stan suggested putting Hostirian at the bottom of all SIG web sites. ===== 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. * 2011-01 Continued discussion, but no consensus. ===== 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. * 2011-01 * Carl Fitch's board seat is up this year. * Stan nominates Jerry Stutte for Board. * Craig nominates Gary for President. * We can start with last year's ballot -- [[http://www.sluug.org/pdf/ballot2010.txt]] ====== New Business ====== * Mike Knight's emails regarding web site. * Stan changed the copyright dates. * Good idea to list other Open Source friendly resources. * On a separate page from our own SIGs. * Sites like WITS, CVillage, Arch Reactor, 2600. * Our site layout has not changed for years. * Would take some effort to re-do it, and seems to be working for most people. ====== Annual Requirements ====== * 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 ====== * Stan talked about the 2-page hand-out we have for SLUUG. * Suggested we put the membership form on the back of that. * Lee will look into printing them out. ====== Recognize Useful Efforts ====== * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions. * Who did what? * Stan updated web pages. * Gary renewed STCLUG domain. * Gary did PR at the All-Geek Christmas Bowling. * Bowling event had 40 people from various groups, like PerlMongers and Lambda Lounge. * Lee disabled a disuse account with 280 MB of email. * Lee tested the PayPal button. * Lee and Craig installed Webalizer. * Jerry was mostly decorative. * Craig was mostly decorative. ====== 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 Lopez from FBI about Internet security. * Talk to Alan Griggs about 101 Windows Tricks Linux Users Should Know. * 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 - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us. * Gary - get Wash U site cleaned up.