SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - September 2008
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
Attendees
Lee Lammert
Craig Buchek
Stan Reichardt
Gary Meyer
Secretary Report
Treasurer Report
Balance: $1.536.77 as of 8/31/08
Receipts (pending submission):
Carl - Annual registration fee to State of Missouri
Craig - Submit receipt for voice recorder.
Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.
Money received: $45.00 for memberships.
Open issues:
Need suggestions for following up with and attracting potential Sponsors.
Attendance Report
Meeting | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
Steercom | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | No | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 |
SLACC | 6 | 7 | ? | ? | 8 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 4 | (4) | ? | x | 6 | 9 | 8 |
SLUUG | 12 | 23 | 22 | 18 | 16 | 27 | 36 | 21 | 24 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 23 | 17 | 31 | 18 | 17 | 15 |
Solaris | 4 | No | 18 | 15 | 6 | 8 | No | 11 | No | 5 | No | 13 | No | 6 | No | 20 | 10 | No | 12 |
SNUG | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 5 | 4 | No |
STLLUG | 12 | 14 | 18 | 23 | 20 | 31 | 31 | 23 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 17 | No | 16 | 17 | 29 | 22 | 20 | 23 |
HZWLUG | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 | No | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
STCLUG | 10 | 10 | 6 | ? | 8 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 11 | No | 11 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 |
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.
Dropped reference to LDAP meetings.
Mailing List Report
List | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 | 866 | 857 | 856 | 853 | 854 | 843 | 835 | 830 | 828 |
DISCUSS | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 186 | 1?? | 188 | 188 | 192 | 193 |
STEERCOM | 32 | 32 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 31 | 31 | 31 | ?? | 29 | 32 | 33 | 33 |
SYSADMIN | xx | xx | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | ?? | 15 | 15 | 16 | 16 |
Presentation Archives Report
Annual Report to State of Missouri
Carl filed annual report for 2008 during the August STEERCOM meeting.
Corporation Info
Latest annual report (6 August 2008) is now on file
Filled out paperwork to use Craig Buchek as our registered agent.
August 2008
August 2008
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SLACC - August 7
SLUUG - August 13
Solaris - August 19
SNUG - August 20
STLLUG - August 21
HZWLUG - August 26
STCLUG - August 28
Presentation Schedule
September 2008
September 2008
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SLACC - September 4
SLUUG - September 10
BASE: (More) Commands You Might Have Missed by Carl Fitch
MAIN: Virtualization and the POWER Architecture by Sammie Allam, IBM (confirmed, via Lee)
Solaris - September 16
SNUG - September 17
STLLUG - September 18
STCLUG - September 25
HZWLUG - September 30
Because of Prairie Commons Library Branch September schedule we have to switch to 5th Tuesday.
Meetings are usually on 4th Tuesday (would have been 23rd).
The STEERCOM meeting will also be held this evening, one day early.
TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
October 2008
October 2008
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SLACC - October 2
STLCL - October 4
SLUUG - October 8
Solaris - October 14
SNUG - October 15
STLLUG - October 16
STCLUG - October 23
HZWLUG - October 28
November 2008
November 2008
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SLUUG - November 12
Potential Presenters
These are some people who can present, and possible topics they can speak about.
Don Hardaway and Craig Van Slyke (St. Louis University)
John Hodge
IBM (via John Hodge)
Wehrenberg Theaters (via Gary)
Sanjiv Bhatia (or someone from UMSL, via Lee)
David Letscher (Prof of CS at SLU) (via Gary)
Rick Clark (Ubuntu) (via Craig)
Jeff Logullo (Sun)
TOPIC: MySQL - now a Sun product
TOPIC: Project Indiana, a new package mngmnt system ala apt/dpkg
TOPIC: Versioning filenames (snapshots?) in ZFS
TOPIC: New release of ZFS
TOPIC: Belenix & other live CD's based on Open Solaris
Scott Nesler
Jeff Muse
Ed Howland (via Gary)
TOPIC: Last.fm, Amarok, etc. - free music downloads
TOPIC: Building a modern kernel
Stan Reichardt
Tim Dreste (via Stan R)
unknown (via Carl)
TOPIC: EnterpriseDB (packaged version of PostgreSQL)
Would be a video-conference, so requires solving logistics problems
Potential Topics
These are some topics that we've had requested, or brainstormed, but need to find speakers for.
Technology and Politics
Where do politicians stand on issues important to our group?
Issues - intellectual property, privacy vs surveilance, subsidies & incentives, Common Carrier
National, state, and local candidates and parties
Would need to do in Sept or Oct.
Tim Dreste might be able to get someone from Todd Akin's office to speak with us.
Craig is talking to someone involved w/ the Obama campaign.
Scott Nesler offered to present
Do Good Gauge concept as a main topic or lead in.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)
Fedora recent releases
SuSE or OpenSUSE recent releases
Someone from Novell?
Gary Hollingsworth?
HP-UX current release, features, future
Dave Mills?
HP corporate?
iSCSI
Using git
CPUs
Features of modern Intel/AMD CPUs
x86-64
x86, x86-64, IA64, Sparc, PowerPC, ARM, POWER
iPhone
iPhone competitors
Current paying sponsors have been asked to renew with nice letter in April.
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.
Syllogistics paid twice for a corporate sponsorship,
Server Admin
Need to break into the Sun machines again and reset passwords so they do not expire!
Should we setup our own
DNS on Bud/Budlight & switch over.
Make our own servers authoritative for our own domains.
Would allow us to publish reverse records.
Would allow us to publish SPF records.
We could offer dyanmic
DNS services to our members.
We have 2 Sun E250s, which are currently racked but not connected.
Server Migration Project
Craig has updated some of the documentation recently, as he built systems based on our docs.
Backups
Craig was to get together with Mike and/or Carl to work on tasks in July
Work left to do:
Other work to do:
Better web site management tools
Document useradd process.
Develop standardized 'Membership List' & same UIDs on all production machines.
SLACC as a SIG
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.
SNUG as a SIG
Membership (and Shell Accounts)
Manage The Group
Small Business Expo - 1 October
SBE will again be at St. Charles Convention Center.
SBE is on same day as usual STEERCOM meeting
SBE support:
Need BUSINESS ORIENTED demos - e.g. Accounting.
Need dedicated SERVER to use and demo office functions (wiki, file sharing, ..).
Will need booth helpers from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
Other Old Business
New Business
Follow-up and Action Items
Gary - Contact Don Hardaway and Craig Van Slyke (St. Louis University).
Gary - Follow up on political topics for October STLLUG.
Craig - Make sure change of registered agent form got mailed in.
Craig - Contact Rick Clark (Ubuntu) about presenting at October or November STLLUG.
Lee - Need list to print out name tags for paying members.
Carl - Follow up w/ SLACC and SNUG leaders.
Carl - Set up accounts for new members. (Lee has the info.)
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 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.