====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 6 June 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 ====== June 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 * Wednesday, June 6, 2012 * 6:50 PM - 8:10 PM ====== Attendees ====== * Craig Buchek * Don Ellis * Gary Hollingsworth * Lee Lammert * Jeff Muse * Stan Reichardt * Bob Sherrill * Jerry Stutte * Noah Lance ====== Agenda Changes ====== * Are there any additions, deletions, or changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda? * Move up item on Bridge Outreach charity support. ===== Support of Bridge Charity ===== * History of SNUG charitable supporting BRIDGE charity * BRIDGE has appealed for additional support * TWO (2) funding questions proposed by Gary Hollingsworth: * First (1st) specifically to continue support for BRIDGE internet connection. * Second (2nd) authorize additional contributions. * After discussion, unanimous decision to provide $55 per month. ====== Secretary Report ====== * No report. (Secretary was here, but had not been for several months.) ====== Treasurer Report ====== |^Balance as of 4/1^$2,941.43^ ^ ^Credit (+) ^ Debit (-) ^ ^BuddyNS^ ^ 30.00^ ^Balance as of 4/30^ $2,911.43^ | * Thank you to Bryce Meyer for the Membership Purchase! ====== 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 May 2012: | Meeting ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ ^ Steercom | 11 | 5 | 6 | (5) | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 5 | ^ SLACC | 5 | 8 | 5 | ? | (4)| (7) | ? | 4 | 8 | 10 | 7 | ? | 5 | ^ SLUUG | 19 | 21 | 18| 12| 26 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 18 | 9 | 23 | 11 | ^ SNUG SuSE| ? | 8 | 7 | (8) | 11 | 9 | 9 | - | 9 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | ^ STLLUG | 15 | 14 | 15| - | 18 | 9 | 20 | ? | 20 | 14 | - | ? | 8 | ^ STCLUG | 7 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ^ HZWLUG | 9 | (7)| 8 | ? | 7 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 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. ====== 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 May 2012: | Calendar ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ ^ EVENTS | 103 | 117 | 105 | 105 | 105 | 113 | 103 | 96 | 110 | 104 | 122 | 123 | xxx | * xxx - Numbers not yet counted. ====== Mailing List Report ====== * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of May 2012: | List ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ ^ ANNOUNCE | 704 | 701 | 704 | 704 | 700 | 695 | 667 | 667 | 668 | 670 | 673 | 673 | 671 | ^ DISCUSS | 215 | 215 | 215 | 211 | 211 | 208 | 206 | 206 | 209 | 208 | 207 | 210 | 209 | ^ STEERCOM | 37 | 37 | 37 | 35| 35| 35 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 32 | ^ SYSADMIN | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17| 17| 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 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 ====== ===== May 2012 ===== May 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 - 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: Grouping Firefox Tabs by Stan Reichardt * A live non-structured demonstration. Went longer than expected, because of questions. * Good. * MAIN: Splunk (hooks to Nagios) by Alan Griggs via Jerry Stutte * Nice job. Liked the way he asked questions and answered them. ==== SNUG - May 16 ==== * [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group. * TOPIC: The Latest and Upcoming in Open Enterprise Server and Filr - Glen Davis & Ted Tronson, Novell * Very good; interesting. ==== STLLUG - May 17 ==== * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: Video configuration by Lee Lammert and Don Ellis * Troubleshooting session, lots of input. ==== HZWLUG - May 22 ==== * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one. * Installed Ubuntu for a new person. ==== STCLUG - May 24 HIATUS ==== * [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group. * On Hiatus ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics. ===== June 2012 ===== June 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 ==== SLACC - Jun 7 ==== * [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation * SLACC home web page has been posted ==== SLUUG - Jun 13 ==== * [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation. * BASE: Debugging Email by Jeff Muse * MAIN: Managing Xen with OpenNebula by Noah Lance ==== SNUG - Jun 20 ==== * [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group. * TOPIC: GroupLink HelpDesk product demonstration by GroupLink (tentative) ==== STLLUG - Jun 21 ==== * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: Automated Web App Testing with Cucumber and Selenium by Craig Buchek ==== HZWLUG - Jun 26 ==== * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one. ===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics. ===== July 2012 ===== July 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 - Jul 5 ==== * [[http://slacc.sluug.org/|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation * SLACC home web page has been posted ==== SLUUG - Jul 11 ==== * [[http://www.sluug.org/|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation. * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) * MAIN: SystemD by Jerry Stutte ==== SNUG - Jul 18 ==== * [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group. * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) ==== STLLUG - Jul 19 ==== * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. * TOPIC: Asterisk Soft Phones on Linux by Don Ellis and Lee Lammert ==== HZWLUG - Jul 24 ==== * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one. ===== 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 R's request. * 2012-03 Stan R 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. * 2012-04 Need to run updates on AMBER or plan for alternate virtual install to migrate over. * 2012-05 Jeff Muse updated AMBER HTTPS cert. * Altho we believed the change would only effect that, unexpectedly, Gary's Apple eMAIL client complained about the certificate on IMAP. * 2012-06 Noah got 3 new servers up at Hostirian. * Bud (replacement) - 600 GB storage array * Storage for VMs * Storage for media (audio/video recordings of meetings) * Golden Wheat (replacement) * XenPRI - platform to run VMs * 2012-06 Noah has been updating docs on wiki. ===== 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 R 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. * 2012-04 No progress. Stan R again questioned Gary's usefulness. Again suggested that he is merely decorative. * 2012-05 Gary protests and proclaims that decorative is useful (no progress). * 2012-06 Three-year anniversary of this item's proposal is rapidly approaching. ===== 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 R 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 R 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 researching 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. * 2012-04 Michael Jackson offers to voice record meetings and provide us with sound file. * We need to pull server boxes and build space. * 2012-05 Don says that at some point he will be able to upload what he has. * 2012-06 Don will be able to upload to the new Bud shortly. * Stan will be able to link them into our web sites. ===== Web Site Suggestions ===== * 2011-01 Mike Knight's emails regarding web site. * Stan R 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 R 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 R. * 2011-12 Table - No progress by Stan R, but will work on. * 2012-03 Low priority * 2012-04 Will need to check out WebDev site stlwebdev.org * 2012-05 Gary M. suggests calendar page to highlight OUR, i.e. SLUUG's mtngs. * After all, part of the idea of maintaining the calendar is to drive traffic to our own mtngs! * Could be hilites on the Google calendar itself &/or additional 1-2 lines written outside the Google calendar. * Lee pointed out that advanced users may pull RSS that would not see the "off-Google" lines. ===== 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 R suggested putting Hostirian at the bottom of all SIG web sites. * 2011-02 Stan R 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 * 2012-04 Low priority * 2012-05 Low priority, Stan R needs to go back and finish. * 2012-06 Low priority, Stan R needs to go back and finish. ===== Business Cards ===== * Jerry suggested we print up some business cards for the group. * Stan R 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! * Extra cards were given to Gary M for posting on bulletin boards. * 2012-04 Lee has ordered some matching stationary, 2 reams paper and 1 card stock. * 2012-05 Jerry has been giving them out to students and faculty. * 2012-06 Ask Lee if you need some. ===== STLLUG.ORG domain ===== * 2012-03 Gary M renewed the STLLUG.ORG domain. * 2012-04 This points to Craig's 2011 membership survey web page. Will redesignate to current active site. * 2012-05 Yet to be done. * 2012-06 Craig to take a look at this. ===== New Pamphlets ===== * 2012-04 - Stan R with considerable help from Christine Wanta has produced a pamphlet on Free Open Source Software (FOSS). * It should be very complementary to what we hawk at the St. Louis Business Expo Linux Booth. * The pamphlet has been added to the SLUUG Resources Handouts page * Another pamphlet is planned to highlight our Google calendar and list regular meeting days of the month. * Lee suggested a single page calendar poster also. * 2012-05 Stan R built new pamphlet for calendar and Free Open Source Software (FOSS). * 2012-06 New pamphlets have been posted to our web site (resources/handouts. * 2012-06 Stan will go to Lee's to print out some copies. * Good for handing out, especially at Business Expo. * 2012-06 Stan has more ideas. * Troubleshooting ===== Moving STLLUG ===== * 2012-04 We need to confirm Dr. Lemon's commitment and possibly step up search for new location. * 2012-05 Per Stan R, Indian Trails Library Branch Auditorium is available during June to December monthly time slots, but not May. * Jerry offering our host (Dr. Lemon) summer months to skip. * Instead of skipping months, Dr. Lemon is going to provide Jerry with access card. * We'll hold off on considering a move, or reserving Indian Trails Library Branch Auditorium until we confirm access to projector. * 2012-06 No updates. ===== STCL Room Reservations ===== * 2012-05 Stan R made reservations for SLACC and HZWLUG. * Checks delivered for SLACC meetings at Thornhill and Bridgeton Trails. * 2012-06 All taken care of. ===== Food and Drink ===== * 2012-05 Want more. * 2012-06 Jerry said that some recruiters were interested in providing pizza and such. ===== New Embedded SIG ===== * 2012-05 Lee suggested. Four maybe five folks interested. * 2012-06 Lee got some hardware. Looking for interested folks to find a meeting time. ===== Projector ===== * 2012-05 We had previously agreed to buy one. * Would be great to possibly have a second projector at sites that already provide us with one. * ~$500 for WXGA Projector for Embedded SIG and meeting spare * Go ahead. * 2012-06 Have been unable to meet our criteria at the price point. ===== Additional Monitor ===== * $200 for USB Monitor for NUI meetings * Funded by NUI Capital Reserves * 2012-05 Consideration of alternate splitter, requested and approved. * 2012-06 Has been purchased. ====== New Business ====== ===== JOBS Postings ===== * Historically SLUUG had discouraged postings of jobs on our mailing lists. * Such job postings could be perceived as SPAM. * With drastically lower member employment, job postings have been considered acceptable. * Ideally SLUUG would offer something to paid sponsors and receive credit and compensation. * 2012-06 Jeff Muse volunteered to create a JOBS mailing list. * We'll also add an archive of the list on the web. ====== Annual Requirements ====== * July 2012 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain. * July 2012 - Renew AMBER SMTPS (over SSL port 465) mail.sluug.org self-signed certificate * 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. * March 2013 - St. Louis Business Expo * April 2013 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches. * May 2013 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status. * June 2013 - BuddyNS SLUUG account ====== Recognize Useful Efforts ====== * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions. * 2012-06 Noah got some servers up and docs written. * 2012-06 Stan got the ANNOUNCE emails out consistently. ====== Blue Sky ====== * 2012-05 Jerry wanted to know what we should call Blue Sky. Gary suggested Blue Sky. * Gary went on and on about X's email password. * Stan R was totally confused, not understanding email passwords were set with Jeff and Lee's web interface to something. * We need email password process documented (if it hasn't already been done). * Gary suggested we rename servers to Who, What, Where, When and Why. * Don suggested server names * Jerry suggested server names ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== * Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings. * Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation. * Noah - work on Bud/GoldenWheat build. * Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us. * Gary - get Wash U site cleaned up.