====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 4 January 2012 ====== 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 ====== January 2012 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 * Wednesday, January 4, 2012 * 7:06 PM - ====== Attendees ====== Don Ellis Lee Lammert Jeff Muse Stan Reichardt Jerry Stutte ====== Agenda Changes ====== * Are there any additions, deletions, or changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda? ====== Secretary Report ====== * Nothing to report, secretary not in attendance. ====== Treasurer Report ====== * Balance as of 12/01: $2,258.45 * Balance as of 12/31: $2,258.45 * GigE 5 & 8 port switches purchased for Hostirian rack, billed in January. ====== Mailing List Report ====== * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of December 2011: | List ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ ^ ANNOUNCE | 718 | 717 | 718 | 717 | 717 | 708 | 703 | 704 | 701 | 704 | 704 | 700 | 695 | 667 | 667 | ^ DISCUSS | 222 | 222 | 221 | 219 | 218 | 218 | 216 | 215 | 215 | 215 | 211 | 211 | 208 | 206 | 206 | ^ STEERCOM | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 39 | 38 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 35| 35| 35 | 35 | 35 | ^ SYSADMIN | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17| 17| 16 | 16 | 16 | * Numbers as end of each month. * Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet. This will be much easier to do on Amber. * 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. * Blank attendance sheets are [[http://www.sluug.org/resources/attendance/|available here]] * Attendance numbers, as of end of December 2011: | Meeting ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ ^ Steercom | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | (9) | 5 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 6 | (5) | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | ^ SLACC | 8 | ? | 7 | ? | 5 | ? | (6)| 5 | 8 | 5 | ? | (4)| (7) | ? | ? | ^ SLUUG | 29 | ? | 15 | 18 | 15 | 14| 16 | 19 | 21 | 18| 12| 26 | 14 | 15 | ? | ^ SNUG SuSE| - | 7 | 11(14) | 11 | 15 | - | 7 | ? | 8 | 7 | (8) | 11 | 9 | 9 | - | ^ STLLUG | 16 | (9) | - | 14 | 13| 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 15| - | 18 | 9 | 20 | ? | ^ STCLUG | 6 | 4 | - | 4 | ? | - | 11 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 6 | - | - | - | ^ HZWLUG | 7 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 9 | (7)| 8 | ? | 7 | 8 | ? | ? | * NA - Not part of SLUUG. Jeff asked why this option is still listed. * () - 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. * NOTE - Corrected STCLUG August 2010 and September 2010 counts. * NOTE - February 2011 Steercom was via IRC #SLUUG channel on freenode. * NOTE - Oct 2011 SLUUG and STLLUG meetings were during a STL Cardnal's baseball game. ====== Meeting Review and Comments ====== ===== Dec 2011 ===== December 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 - Dec 1 ==== * [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation * Usual room and week of the month could NOT be re-instated, because of reservations foul-up. * Different Time and Location. * Meeting was held at 7:30 PM, in Room 2, at the Bridgeton Trails Branch Library. * 3455 McKelvey Rd., Bridgeton, MO 63044 * SLACC home web page had been posted. ==== SLUUG - Dec 14 ==== * [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation. * BASE: postponed * MAIN: Android and X86 Platform by Alan Griggs via Jerry Stutte ==== STLLUG - Dec 15 ==== * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: Things you don't learn by having root permissions by Jeff Muse ==== SNUG - Dec 21 ==== * [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group. * HIATUS: No meeting because of holiday season. ==== STCLUG - Dec 22 ==== * [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group. * December 2011 - Must renew STCLUG.ORG domain. * HIATUS: ==== Christmas Day - Dec 25 ==== ==== HZWLUG - Dec 27 ==== * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one. * Prairie Commons Library Branch room fee paid, Stan R. will be in Nevada. ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics. ===== Jan 2012 ===== January 2012 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 - Jan 5 ==== * [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation * Return to Usual Location. * SLACC home web page has been posted. ==== SLUUG - Jan 11 ==== * [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation. * BASE: TrueCrypt by Stan Reichardt * MAIN: Practical Nagios, including Windows!, by Lee Lammert ==== SNUG - Jan 18 ==== * [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group. * TOPIC: Domain Services for Windows per Gary Hollingsworth ==== STLLUG - Jan 19 ==== * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: GStreamer Multimedia by Jeff Sigmon (via Craig) ==== STCLUG - Jan 26 ==== * ON Hiatus ==== HZWLUG - Jan 24 ==== * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one. ===== Feb 2012 ===== February 2012 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 ==== SLACC - Feb 2 ==== * [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation * Return to Usual Location. * SLACC home web page has been posted. ==== SLUUG - Feb 8 ==== * [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation. * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) * MAIN: Building a Unix Resume, by Raj * BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== SNUG - Feb 15 ==== * [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group. * TOPIC: Domain Services for Windows per Gary Hollingsworth ==== STLLUG - Feb 16 ==== * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: Managing Xen on SuSE by Noah Lance * BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== STCLUG - Feb 23 ==== * [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group. * Stan R. volunteered to be Point-Of-Contact for reservations with restaurant. * December 2011 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain. * Meetings to Resume - If we can get leadership and topics. ==== HZWLUG - Feb 28 ==== * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one. ==== SLUUG - Mar ==== * openNebula (Xen web management) by Noeh Lance via Lee L. ===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics. ====== Old Business ====== ===== Server Admin ===== * Fixed GoldenWheat (1U server) * Acquired 2x2U Dell and 2x2U IBM sets of HW * Configured one as a new VM server * ToDo (from Noah Lance): * Finalize Network (openvswitch isn't happy with linux 3.1), Web GUI, Host monitoring/management configurations * Build storage configuration - NFS server for images (templates) and home dirs for all VMs * Validate Web GUI functionality * Setup Debian 6 VMs for Bud & Budlight * Attempt p2v of Amber so updates can be tested before pushing to production * Possible future enhancement - LDAP/Kerberos for SSO to production servers? * Need to resolve CNAME/A Record issue for sluug.org? * 2010-07 - Renewed SLUUG.ORG domain during 9 July migration work party. * 2011-08 - EveryDNS migration to DynDNS caught us unprepared. Craig moved us to buddyns. * Lee has made copies of zone files and we have BIND on amber now as an authoritative server. * We should probably make sure buddyns has up-to-date contact info. * 2011-12 Michelob is dead. * Joe B. volunteers to do fix on Michelob, will get together with Gary M. * 2012-01 ===== 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. * 2011-02 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness. * 2011-03 No progress. Gary is in Florida. See note above about Gary's usefulness. * 2011-04 No progress. * 2011-05 No progress. * 2011-06 No progress. Unless there is rain Gary won't be attending until September. * 2011-07 No progress. * 2011-08 No progress * 2011-09 Gary did a site survey and said "Someday....." * 2011-10 Gary says to repeat above response, ie "Someday....." * 2011-11 Table - Consensus is to do later, in Spring. ===== 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. * 2011-02 Not discussed during IRC meeting. * 2011-03 Gary M. returned voice recorder to Stan R. before going to Florida. * Stan needs to pull February 2011 STLLUG recording and post it (on Amber). * And email it to the speaker (Igor Gueths). * 2011-04 Stan R. passed on voice recorder to Phil Bunch, who should be at next general meeting. * 2011-05 Phil B. passed voice recorder back to Stan R. * 2011-05 Craig suggested getting another voice recorder (or 2), and extra batteries. * 2011-06 Jeff wanted to move that we use some of the Novell money to buy a second recorder. * Did not have a quorum. * Stan suggested getting one that records in ideally OGG, but failing that, MP3. * Either would be better than the current uncompressed format. * 2011-07 Group unanimously voted to buy 2 new voice recorders. * As long as they do not require Windows drivers. * Preferably record in OGG format, or MP3 at the least. * Upper limit $100 each. * Jerry and Lee will research and purchase. * 2011-08 No progress * 2011-09 Jerry has sent pricing information to Lee * 2011-10 No action on voice recorders. * Much discussion about projectors. Jerry S. will research available units. * 2011-11 Jerry and Lee still reseaching projectors and voice recorders. * 2011-12 Table - until somebody gets interested. ===== Web Site Suggestions ===== * 2011-01 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. * 2011-02 Stan hasn't gotten around to building new resources page, yet. * 2011-03 No change. * 2011-04 No change. * 2011-05 No change. * 2011-06 There was brief discussion of implementing a CMS at the work party on 5/21. No decisions made. * 2011-07 Gary noticed Wayback machine has STOPPED archiving our server as of about May 2009. * It would be good to get resumption of archiving at Wayback. * How can we accomplish this? We don't know; so, we appointed Gary M. to find a way. * 2011-08 No progress. * 2011-09 No progress. * 2011-10 No progress. * 2011-11 No progress by Stan. * 2011-12 Table - No progress by Stan, but will work on. ===== 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. * 2011-02 Stan hasn't gotten around to the pages, yet. * Noticed .PNG file doesn't show up on old county library browsers. Do we have .JPG file anywhere? * Not discussed during IRC meeting. * 2011-03 No change. * 2011-04 No change. * 2011-05 No change. * 2011-06 No change. The spirit is willing but the schedule is weak. * 2011-07 Stan R. added Historian logo stuff to bottom of home pages of all active Special Interest Groups. * 2011-08 No progress. * 2011-09 No progress. * 2011-10 Table - No progress. ===== Preparation for February Annual Meeting and Elections ===== * Annual Official Business Meeting is 2nd Wednesday in February. * Voting is done during all the February meetings. * All votes will be counted at the March Steering Committee meeting. * 2011-10 Table - No progress. * 2012-01 ===== Leadership ===== * Need new chair, or co-chair for STL LUG group. * Need new Secretary. * 2011-12 Table - No progress. * 2012-01 ====== New Business ====== * Any new business? ===== Other New Business ===== * None. ====== Annual Requirements ====== * 13 December 2011 - Renew SLUUG.INFO domain. * 17 December 2011 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain. * 09 February 2012 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain. * February 2012 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections. * March/April 2012 - St. Louis Business Expo * April 2012 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches. * May 2012 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status. * 10 July 2012 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain. * August 2012 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status (now every 2 years). * October 2012 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches. * October 2012 - St. Louis Business Expo ====== Blue Sky ====== * None. ====== Recognize Useful Efforts ====== * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions. * Who did what? * ====== 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. * Craig - talk to Splunk reps about presenting. * Craig - follow up on potential presentations. * Kyle Cordes - ffmpeg or other * GStreamer * Jerry - * 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. * Noah - work on Amber build. * Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us. * Gary - get Wash U site cleaned up.