NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!)

Saint Louis Bread Company,
(at Old Olive and Olive),
10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

• Wednesday, June 4, 2008
• 18:30 - 20:45

• Barry Morrison
• Carl Fitch
• Jeff Muse
• Lee Lammert
• Stan Reichardt
• Jeff Logullo
• Gary Hollingsworth

• Need to print out minutes for April.

• Balance: $1,071.50 as of 4/30/08
• Receipts:
  • SBS Creatix $200
  • Syllogistics $200
  • Mike Kriz $ 35
• Carl - Turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer.
• Craig - Submit receipt for voice recorder.
• Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.
• Open issues:
  • Lee - Follow up drafting reply to Wash U.
  • Final bill from Wash U. - need to complete reply
• A nice Sponsor Letter and voluntary invoice was sent to sponsors for which we have contact info. None Replied except Syllogistics.

• Some numbers, as of end of May 2008:

• No - indicates no meeting.
• () - Numbers in parentheses are head count.
• ? - Question mark indicates attendance not taken or sheet missing.
• xx - attendance numbers not yet recorded.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of May 2008:

• Numbers will now be 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.

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• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.
• Well attended!

• NOTE: Back to back meetings
• BASE: Setting up a firewall in 10 minutes with pfw on OpenBSD by Lee Lammert
• MAIN: MythTV by Jason Clark (via Craig)
• Excellent - well attended!

• NOTE: Back to back meetings.
• TOPIC: MythTV by Jason Clark (via Craig)
• Even though both were advertised as duplicate sessions, confusion still reined.
• Drawing was held at Steercom, 4 June 2008; Jeff L. picked #29 - Jim Roe!

• TOPIC: new OpenSolaris Live-CD, Its root ZFS filesystem, and new package manager (IPS).
• EXCELLENT demonstration of ZFS Phoenix from the Ashes!

• TOPIC: Firewalls - pfSense in Depth by Carl Fitch
• Restaurant had room booked wrong, some people were turned away.

• DISCUSSION 1: Updated Information Links on CDROM disc web page posted.
• DISCUSSION 2: Demoed new Information web page on Networking resources (posted next day).
• DISCUSSION 3: Diagram of sample home network with aDSL modem, router and switch.

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• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE1: nameif & mtr by Carl Fitch
• BASE2: sshfs & fuse by Jeff Muse
• CHALLENGE: Favorite Network Tools by group

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: VirtualBox for SuSE & Vista/XP by Lee Lammert

• TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
• TOPIC 1: Exploring the /bin directory (not done during prior month).
• TOPIC 2: Partitions.
• TOPIC 3: Anything else.

• TOPIC: Keyboard Karoake

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• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE:
• MAIN: OpenSolaris - Production Ready! by Jeff Logulo
• BACKUP CHOICE:

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
• TOPIC 1: Exploring the /etc directory (not done during prior month).
• TOPIC 2: Partitions.
• TOPIC 3: Anything else.

• TOPIC: TBD

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• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE:
• MAIN: Linksys NAS NSLU2 by Jeff Logullo & OpenWRT by Jeff Muse
• BACKUP CHOICE:

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
• TOPIC1: Exploring the /etc directory.
• TOPIC2: Partitions
• TOPIC 3: Anything else.

• TOPIC: TBD

• VMware by Matt Skipton (via Lee)
• various Sun topics by Jeff Logullo
  • Versioning filenames (snapshots?) in ZFS by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse? (via Gary)
  • New release of ZFS " " " " " " "
  • MySQL
  • Project Indiana, a new package mngmnt system ala apt/dpkg by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse?
  • Belenix & otherlive CD's based on Open Solaris by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse?
• Last.fm, Amarok,…free music downloads by Ed Howland (via Gary)
• GIMP by Scott Nesler.
• Encryption by Mike May S.J., Prof @ SLU, Chair Math/CS dept (via Gary)
• Natural Language Processing by SLU professor (via Gary)
• Stoneware webOS and Desktop Virtualization by Jack Loane (via Carl/Craig/e-mail)
• iSCSI
• EnterpriseDB (packaged version of PostgreSQL) (via Carl)
  • Would be a video-conference, so requires solving the logistics
• APV (Advance POWER Virtualization) Overview by John Hodge
• Demo/Using Scribus by Stan Reichardt
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) - still looking for volunteer
• Untangle Gateway Platform (instead of CentOS Linux) by Tim Dreste (via Stan R)
• AIX 6 - due out later this year (IBM via John Hodge)
• Building a modern kernel by Ed Howland
• Using git%

• Have the current paying sponsors been asked to renew (with payment)?
  • Gary - Ask Ajilon about continuing $200 sponsorship.
  • Craig - Ask S3 - Strategic Staffing Solutions (follow up)
• Potential sponsors
  • Sun - Jeff Logullo
  • IBM - (John Hodge may have a contact)
  • Red Hat - Clark Smith (Craig to follow up)
  • Canonical/Ubuntu (Craig to follow up)
  • VMware - Matt Skipton
  • We should review them once or twice annually and establish an end date on recognition.
• Need sign about sponsoring our group for booth/table display at meetings and trade shows.
• More effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
  • No effort means no more new sponsors.

• Carl rebuilt OpenSSH and checked all keys for vulnerability
• Need to break into the Sun machines again and reset passwords so they do not expire!
• Need to setup our own DNS on Bud/Budlight & switch over

• Work left to do:
  • Make sure docs are up to date.
    • Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud.
    • Started documenting client email configurations, to help users migrate.
    • See users and mail_setup pages.
  • Craig - Work on finishing server builds.
    • Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig)
    • More security, for SSH and otherwise.
    • Get offsite backups working. (Mike)
    • Publish SSH host keys on web page.
    • Standardize/regularize user accounts (IDs, password expirations). (Mike)
• Other work to do:
  • Better web site management tools
• Craig will get together with Mike and/or Carl to work on tasks in next coming weeks.

• Stan R. and Ted P.
• Stan uploaded several presentations.
  1. SLUUG MAY 2008 MythTV by Jason Clark
  2. STLLUG MAY 2008 MythTV by Jason Clark
• Have not received materials from recent presenters:
  1. SLUUG APR 2008 MacOS X Leopard by Don Benne
  2. SLUUG MAR 2008 The Skills Nerds Need to Know - Send 2nd Request to Scott Granneman

• Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.com email addresses.
• The registration is paid up until 2009.
• Carl - follow up with Noel about transferring the domain to us.

• Membership drive
  • Need to print out name tags.
    • Omnitec will print them out and bring to SLUUG meeting.
• Cafe Press merchandise
  • Carl & SLUUG need to reconcile demo merchandise

• Bob Nelson - wants to start an Ubuntu LoCo
  • Craig to follow up again.
  • EPC would like to hold the meetings.
    • Open 9-2 on weekends, close at 6 on weekdays.
    • Talk to Tony Lavasco and Frank Polston if we need to follow up.

• Lee suggested we create a Rails app on Bud to manage the group.
  • Member data - payments, expirations, etc.
  • Sponsors - expirations, etc.
  • Attendance
  • STL Ruby Group is writing a similar application.
    • RAMS - Rails Association Management System
    • We should leverage that, and guide it to our needs
  • Scott Nesler has built an app for attendance
    • Stan has plugged data into it for the year
    • Not sure if the app fits any of our other needs

• LDAP group
  • Need to restart this fall
  • Suggested session(s) to "recap" (by Rich S?)
  • Needed to get LDAP implemented on servers
• Structure/timing/flow of the meetings
  • Need to leave enough time for "off-line interaction".
  • Plan on tutorials being planned for ~20 mins.
  • Main presentations should plan for ~1 hour (1.5 hours at STLLUG)
• Geek lunches.
  • Only 2 people showed up at downtown meeting
  • Lots of people at the Olive meeting, but location was too noisy
  • Possible confusion with having 2 meetings at the same time
  • Should these meetings count as official SLUUG meetings?
    • For the moment, no – keep them informal.
    • We should support them, announce them, etc.
• Terminal servers were removed last month.
  • Gary was not unable to recover all of the equipment.

• Gary H. asked that we setup a web presence for the St. Louis Novell User's International (NUI). Motion made and passed unanimously that SLUUG will accept them as an informal SIG [in the same manner as OpenSolaris], providing a web presence and adding the current NUI mailing list to discuss.

• Lee - Need to print out name tags for paying members.
• Barry - Follow up w/ John Hodge about a presentation in the near future.
• Lee, Barry - Get someone from IBM to talk about POWER6, AIX 6.0, etc.
• Craig - Follow up w/ Ubuntu LoCo person.
• Craig - Email Clark Smith @ Red Hat about getting someone to present on RHEL5, and $200 sponsorship.
• Craig - Email Jim Leingang @ S3 about $200 sponsorship.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.