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, July 2, 2008
• 18:45 - 19:30

• Carl Fitch
• Lee Lammert
• Stan Reichardt
• Craig Buchek

• Need to print out minutes from April onward.

• Balance: $1,384.17 as of 6/30/08
• Receipts:
• Carl - Turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer. DONE!!
• 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
• Need suggestions for following up with and attracting potential Sponsors.

• Some numbers, as of end of June 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 June 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.

• BASE1: nameif & mtr by Carl Fitch
• BASE2: sshfs & fuse by Jeff Muse - Both were well received!
• CHALLENGE: Favorite Network Tools by group - Excellent discussions!
• Received multiple comments afterwords that presentations were better than expected.

• TOPIC: Service Management Facility (SMF) by Steve Baker - Excellent detail.

• TOPIC: OpenSuSE 11.0 - Many improvements discussed.

• TOPIC: VirtualBox for SuSE & Vista/XP by Jeff Logullo & Lee Lammert
• Lots of details from Sun, actual demo of Vista running under SuSE 10.3.

• TOPIC: Exploring the /bin directory (not done during prior month).

• TOPIC: Keyboard Karoake
• Ran over - small group but very interactive.

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• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE: Sitebar [web-based bookmark management] by Lee Lammert
• MAIN: OpenSolaris - Production Ready! by Jeff Logulo
• BACKUP CHOICE:

• TOPIC: NO MEETING - Summer Siesta

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
• TOPIC 1: Exploring the /etc directory.
• 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: TBD

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

• TOPIC: TBD

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• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE:
• MAIN: Virtualization and the Power Architecture by Sammie Allam, IBM via Lee
• BACKUP CHOICE:

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

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

• TOPIC: TBD

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• BASE:
• MAIN: VMWare 6.5 & Server 2.0 by Matt Skipton, VMWare, via Lee
• BACKUP CHOICE:

• December or January - Open Grid Computing from Sanjiv Bhatia or UMSL (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) (He defered to 2 other profs.)
• Natural Language Processing by SLU professor Kevin Scannell(via Gary) http://borel.slu.edu/nlp.html
• David Letscher, Prof of CS at SLU on ??? (via Gary) Still gone for summer. Awaiting details.
• 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%

• Current paying sponsors have been asked to renew with nice letter in April.
  • 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.

• 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/Lee need to reconcile demo merchandise
• Need to come up with standardized 'Membership List' & same UIDs on all production machines.
• Document useradd process.

• 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 needs focus & new leadership
• Structure/timing/flow of 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)
  • Need MC to run schedule at meetings
• 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.

• Temporary web site up, signin sheets printed, Need to add SNUG members to Discuss & Announce.
• Root passwords updated on Bud & Budlight
• Proposal to sell Pizzas as fundraiser if continued insufficient Memberships & Sponsors.
• Comments for October Small Business Expo:
  • Suggest EPC provide OpenDisk copies & handouts.
  • Need BUSINESS ORIENTED demos - e.g. Accounting.
  • Need dedicated SERVER to use and demo office functions (wiki, file sharing, ..).
• Need new STLLUG chairperson.

• Lee - Need list 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 - 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.