====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 7 March 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 ======
March 2012
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* Wednesday, March 7, 2012
* 7:15 PM - 8:45
====== Attendees ======
Don Ellis
Gary Meyer
Stan Reichardt
Jerry Stutte
====== Agenda Changes ======
* Are there any additions, deletions, or changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?
* None
====== Election ======
* Ballots were counted
* We had 36 eligible ballots (more than last year).
* Stan R. separated ballots from envelopes.
* Gary M. read votes, while Stan observed.
* Don Ellis and Jerry Stutte tallied votes.
* Results:
* Board Member - Jeff Muse (incumbent)
* Board Member - Stan Reichardt
* President - Jerry Stutte (incumbent)
* Vice President - Stan Reichardt (incumbent)
* Secretary - Craig Buchek (incumbent)
* Treasurer - Lee Lammert (incumbent)
* Presentation Manager - Jerry Stutte (incumbent)
* Public Relations / Sponsorships - Gary Meyer (incumbent)
* Chairman of STLLUG - Craig Buchek (incumbent)
* Chairman of STCLUG - Noah Lance (incumbent)
* Review:
* A quorum of Board members was not on hand to review.
====== Secretary Report ======
* Not here to report.
====== Treasurer Report ======
| ^ Credit (+) ^ Debit (-) ^
^Balance as of 2/1^$2,133.45^ ^
^County Library - Room Refund^ 20.00^ ^
^NUI Funds^ 1,000.00^ ^
^GBEthernet Switches & Cables^ ^ 199.93^
^SLUUG Business Cards^ ^ 104.42^
^Balance as of 2/29^ $3,349.10^ |
* $125 booth, table, electric for Business Expo due in March
====== 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 February 2012:
| Meeting ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^
^ Steercom | (9) | 5 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 6 | (5) | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
^ SLACC | 5 | ? | (6)| 5 | 8 | 5 | ? | (4)| (7) | ? | 4 | 8 | 10 |
^ SLUUG | 15 | 14| 16 | 19 | 21 | 18| 12| 26 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 18 |
^ SNUG SuSE| 15 | - | 7 | ? | 8 | 7 | (8) | 11 | 9 | 9 | - | 9 | 9 |
^ STLLUG | 13| 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 15| - | 18 | 9 | 20 | ? | 20 | xx |
^ STCLUG | ? | - | 11 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - |
^ HZWLUG | 9 | 7 | 11 | 9 | (7)| 8 | ? | 7 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 11 |
* 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.
====== Calendar Report ======
* [[http://www.sluug.org/resources/calendar|SLUUG Calendar]] is a Google Calendar available on our web site.
* This is a calendar of technical events in the Greater St. Louis area and surrounding regions.
* Not all events are official SLUUG events.
* Items have been added and corrected by Stan R., Gary Meyer and Don Ellis.
* Items listed on this calendar feed the ANNOUNCE weekly mailing.
* Count of number of events listed, each month, as of end of February 2012:
| Calendar ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^
^ EVENTS | 102 | 105 | 108 | 103 | 117 | 105 | 105 | 105 | 113 | 103 | 96 | 110 | 104 |
* xxx - Numbers not yet counted.
===== Calendar Discussion =====
* 2012-02 Stan R. said that Arch Reactor makes it easy for him, by keeping their info in Google Calendar.
* 2012-03 Stan R. found it easier to add a monthly item from Byte-Works because they are now using a Google Calendar.
* Gary M. suggested that we had too many items on calendar, causing newcomers to get lost. Stan R. disagreed.
====== Mailing List Report ======
* Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of February 2012:
| List ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^
^ ANNOUNCE | 717 | 708 | 703 | 704 | 701 | 704 | 704 | 700 | 695 | 667 | 667 | 668 | 670 |
^ DISCUSS | 218 | 218 | 216 | 215 | 215 | 215 | 211 | 211 | 208 | 206 | 206 | 209 | 208 |
^ STEERCOM | 38 | 39 | 38 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 35| 35| 35 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 33 |
^ SYSADMIN | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17| 17| 16 | 16 | 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
====== Meeting Review and Comments ======
===== Feb 2012 =====
February 2012
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==== 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: 5 Security Issues by Christine Wanta
* MAIN: Improve Your Resume and Job Search, by Rajvir Grewall (Jupiter Consulting)
* Sufficient balanced time and discussions.
* Dynamic imput attendees.
* Members reviewed each other's resumes at after meeting non-meeting.
==== SNUG - Feb 15 ====
* [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
* TOPIC: Fault Tolerant Linux Solutions
* Corprate Enterprise level stuff. Great BBQ.
==== STLLUG - Feb 16 ====
* [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
* TOPIC: Managing Xen Virtual Machines on SuSE by Noah Lance
* As always, Noah did excellent job. Interestingly, starting of Xen in a virtual box session.
==== STCLUG - Feb 23 HIATUS ====
* [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
* ON Hiatus
* Web site and calenard changed to indicate HIATUS - NO MEETINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE *
==== HZWLUG - Feb 28 ====
* [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.
====== Presentation Schedule ======
===== Potential Presenters and Topics =====
* Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics.
===== March 2012 =====
March 2012
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==== SLACC - Mar 1 ====
* [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
* Return to Usual Location?
* SLACC home web page has been posted.
==== St. Louis Business Expo - Mar 14 ====
* St. Charles Convention Center
* Our Linux Booth #613
* Lee printed needed Linux Beginner brochurs. General SLUUG brochurs to come.
==== SLUUG - Mar 14 ====
* [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
* BASE: Folding with VIM by Stan Reichardt
* MAIN: Keyboard Karaoke
==== STLLUG - Mar 15 ====
* [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
* TOPIC: openNebula (Xen web management) by Noah Lance via Lee L.
==== SNUG - Mar 21 ====
* [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
* TOPIC: GroupWise 2012
==== STCLUG - Mar 22 HIATUS ====
* [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
* ON Hiatus
* Web site and calenar changed to indicate HIATUS - NO MEETINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE *
* Meetings to Resume - If we can get leadership and topics.
* Stan R. volunteered to be Point-Of-Contact for reservations with restaurant.
* December 2011 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain.
==== HZWLUG - Mar 27 ====
* [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.
===== April 2012 =====
April 2012
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==== SLACC - Apr 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 - Apr 11 ====
* [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
* BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
* MAIN: OpenDNS by Jay Truesdale
==== SNUG - Apr 18 ====
* [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
* TOPIC: Application Porting Considerations for Migrating from Solaris to SLES
==== STLLUG - Apr 19 ====
* [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
==== STCLUG - Apr 26 HIATUS ====
* [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
* ON Hiatus
* Web site and calenar changed to indicate HIATUS - NO MEETINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE *
* Meetings to Resume - If we can get leadership and topics.
* Stan R. volunteered to be Point-Of-Contact for reservations with restaurant.
* December 2011 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain.
==== HZWLUG - Apr 24 ====
* [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.
===== May 2012 =====
May 2012
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==== SLACC - May 3 ====
* [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
* ? SLACC home web page has been posted?
==== SLUUG - May 9 ====
* [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
* BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
* MAIN: (TENTATIVE) Splunk (similar to Nagios) by Alan Griggs via Jerry Stutte
==== SNUG - May 16 ====
* [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
==== STLLUG - May 17 ====
* [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
* TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
==== HZWLUG - May 22 ====
* [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.
==== STCLUG - May 24 HIATUS ====
* [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
* ON Hiatus
===== 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
* 2012-02 Lee installed Webalizer on the new servers, per Stan's request.
* 2012-03 Stan is getting some technical response of his email problem.
* Much discussion of Mike Knight's research and possible work around.
* Don and Gary did some testing using Apple mail clients, with results showing same problems.
===== 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.
* 2012-03 Gary provided song and dance routine. Stay tuned.
===== 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.
* 2012-02 Don Ellis has been video recording presentations in recent months.
* Need to get him to post those to the official web sites.
* 2012-02 Jerry has an associate who can help convert voice and video recordings to MP3 and Ogg.
* 2012-03 Jerry has an associate working on conversions. No decision on new hardware.
===== 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.
* 2012-03 Low priority
===== 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.
* 2012-03 Low priority
====== Business Cards ======
* Jerry suggested we print up some business cards for the group.
* Stan showed some examples he had done previously.
* Group agreed this is worth doing.
* 2012-03 Lee - got business cards printed.
* Thank you Lee. Cards look really great! Oohhhhhhh! Ahhhhhhhhh!
====== MagnetCon ======
* MagnetCon wants to hold a Linux conference in St. Louis.
* Tried last year, but canceled.
* 2012-02 We should try to help them out if we can.
* 2012-03 No spontaneous actions.
====== STLLUG.ORG domain ======
* 2012-03 - Gary M. renewed the STLLUG.ORG domain.
====== New Business ======
* Spring break opportunities to find new blood.
* 2012-03 Extra cards given to Gary M. for posting on bulletin boards.
====== Annual Requirements ======
* 14 March 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.
* 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
* December 2012 - Renew SLUUG.INFO domain.
* December 2012 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain.
* February 2013 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.
* February 2013 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
* March 2013 - Renew STLLUG.ORG domain.
====== Recognize Useful Efforts ======
* Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
* We counted the ballots, so we determined the outcome (ala, Joe Stalin).
* Lee designed new business cards and ordered. Printed up brochures.
====== Blue Sky ======
* 2012-03 - none.
====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
* Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
* Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
* Jerry -
* Follow up with Alan Griggs on a talk about Splunk.
* Talk to Joshua Frank and Bill Zimmerly.
* See Announce list from February 2009 for speakers from Java SIG presentations.
* Noah - work on Amber build.
* Gary - talk to Bill Odom about more VIM presentations in future months.
* Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
* Gary - get Wash U site cleaned up.
* Craig - talk to Splunk reps about presenting.