SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - 5 November 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
Carl Fitch
Stan Reichardt
Jeff Muse
Lee Lammert
Gary Meyer
Secretary Report
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No report
Treasurer Report
Balance: $1,346.55 as of 10/31/08
Expenses: $94 for PO Box
Receipts (pending submission):
Carl - Annual registration fee to State of Missouri
Craig - Submit receipt for voice recorder.
Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.
Need suggestions for following up with and attracting potential Sponsors.
Attendance Report
Meeting | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
Steercom | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | No | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
SLACC | ? | 8 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 4 | (4) | ? | x | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | ? |
SLUUG | 18 | 16 | 27 | 36 | 21 | 24 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 23 | 17 | 31 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 21 |
STLOSUG | 15 | 6 | 8 | No | 11 | No | 5 | No | 13 | No | 6 | No | 20 | 10 | No | 12 | No | 11 |
SNUG | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 5 | 4 | No | 5 | 3 |
STLLUG | 23 | 20 | 31 | 31 | 23 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 17 | No | 16 | 17 | 29 | 22 | 20 | 23 | 13 | 15 |
STCLUG | ? | 8 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 11 | No | 11 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 19 |
HZWLUG | 9 | No | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 11 |
No - indicates no meeting.
NA - Not part of SLUUG
() - 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 | Sep | Oct |
ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 | 866 | 857 | 856 | 853 | 854 | 843 | 835 | 830 | 828 | 807 | 805 |
DISCUSS | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 186 | 1?? | 188 | 188 | 192 | 193 | 192 | 193 |
STEERCOM | 32 | 32 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 31 | 31 | 31 | ?? | 29 | 32 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 34 |
SYSADMIN | xx | xx | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | ?? | 15 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
September 2008
HZWLUG - September 30
NOT reviewed at last STEERCOM meeting.
Meetings are usually on 4th Tuesday (would have been 23rd).
Because of Prairie Commons Library Branch September schedule we had to switch to 5th Tuesday.
The STEERCOM meeting was also held this same evening, one day early.
Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
TOPIC: Using SSH -X to run X Windows System applications remotely
New projector really helped enhance the meeting for the members!
October 2008
October 2008
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SLACC - October 2
SLUUG - October 8
BASE: Waived in liu of main presentation.
MAIN: VMWare 6.5 & Server 2.0 by Matt Skipton, VMware (via Lee)
Very good information and skilled presentation.
Even with extra time, it still ran over.
Lots of follow up DISCUSS list activity.
Solaris - October 14
SNUG - October 15
STLLUG - October 16
STCLUG - October 23
HZWLUG - October 28
Presentation Schedule
November 2008
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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SLACC - November 6
HOLIDAY - November 11
SLUUG - November 12
Solaris - November 18
Jeff Muse and Carl Fitch will be setting up a dedicated DNS server in a zone (SUN virtual machine) during the meeting. Participation will be appreciated.
SNUG - November 19
STLLUG - November 20
STCLUG - November 2?
HZWLUG - November 25
HOLIDAY - November 27
December 2008
December 2008
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
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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 - December 4
SLUUG - December 10
by Scott Granneman (via Gary)
Solaris - December 16
SNUG - December 1x
HZWLUG - December 16
STLLUG - December 18
STCLUG - December 22
HOLIDAY - December 25
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
Linux from scratch.
Installation from source - config, make , make install, etc.
SplashTop - a quick booting distro.
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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
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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.
Jeff Muse added Ultra and Busch - Sun Netra running Solaris 10.
Xepect to use one like Bud and one for backup storage
Will use the 2 Sun E250s for bacdkup storage.
Want to ask for a bunch of Ultra SCSI 160 or 320 speed disc drives, size 36 Gb or better.
Server Migration Project
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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
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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 SLACC.COM domain to us.
Check on SLACC.ORG - it seems to have changed recently - cybersquatter?
SNUG as a SIG
Membership (and Shell Accounts)
We had 2 new memberships this month. Carl will coordinate with Mike.
Rest is tabled until next month.
Membership drive
Cafe Press merchandise
Lee has proposed to sell pizzas as fund-raiser if continued insufficient Memberships & Sponsors.
Manage The Group
Small Business Expo - 1 October
SBE was again be at St. Charles Convention Center. Total cost $190.
SBE was on same day as usual STEERCOM meeting.
Was worthwhile.
Carl getting lots of email.
STL County Library Rooms - October 4
St. Louis County Library room reservations are made for next year on the first Saturday in October.
Carl Fitch made SLACC reservations for Thornehill Branch. No January meeting.
Suggest geeky demo of gadgets, blackberries, iPods, etc.
Lee Lammert made STLLUG reservations for Indian Trails Branch.
Stan Reichardt made HZWLUG reservations for Prairie Commons Branch.
Domain Name for St. Charles LUG
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Domain expires mid December.
Do we want to assume ownership? Otherewise Scott will let it expire.
Approved, we will start using.
Need to add to Apache configuration.
Other Old Business
New Business
Follow-up and Action Items
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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 leader.
Carl - Get with Mike to 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.