SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - 1 July 2009
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
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
7:10 PM -
Attendees
Carl Fitch
Stan Reichardt
Secretary Report
Treasurer Report
No report. Following info is from last month.
Balance: $1271.62 as of 3/31/2009
Accounts Payable: $100.00 for booth at Small Business Expo
Accounts Paid: $90.03 for electricity at Small Business Expo
Mailing List Report
List | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun |
ANNOUNCE | 835 | 830 | 828 | 807 | 805 | 802 | 791 | 790 | 786 | 785 | 783 | 782 | 771 |
DISCUSS | 188 | 192 | 193 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 196 | 201 | 206 | 212 | 215 | 214 | 214 |
STEERCOM | 32 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
SYSADMIN | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
Attendance Report
Meeting | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun |
Steercom | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 5 |
SLACC | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | ? | 4 | 4 | - | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
SLUUG | 18 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 20 | 27 | 24 | 23 | 18 | 32 | 21 | 15 |
STLOSUG | 10 | - | 12 | - | 11 | 10 | 7 | 6 | ? | 8 | 13 | - | (7) |
SNUG SuSE | 5 | 4 | - | 5 | 3 | 5? | - | 7 | ? | - | 2(172) | (6) | 10 |
STLLUG | 22 | 20 | 23 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 19 | 32 | 18(21) | 20 | 21 | (15) |
STCLUG | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 19 | - | 6 | 11? | 12 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 11 |
HZWLUG | 10 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 12 |
MythTV | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | - | - | - | - |
NA - Not part of SLUUG.
() - 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.
June 2009
June 2009
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28 29 30
SLACC - June 4
SLUUG - June 10
STLOSUG (Solaris) - June 16
SNUG - June 17
STLLUG - June 18
HZWLUG - June 23
STCLUG - June 25
MythTV -
Presentation Schedule
July 2009
July 2009
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26 27 28 29 30 31
SLACC - July 2
SLUUG - July 8
STLLUG - July 16
STLOSUG (Solaris) - July 21
SNUG - July 22
STCLUG - July 23
HZWLUG - July 28
MythTV -
August 2009
August 2009
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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SLACC - August 6
SLUUG - August 12
STLOSUG (Solaris) - August 18
SNUG - August 19
STLLUG - August 20
HZWLUG - August 25
STCLUG - August 27
MythTV -
September 2009
September 2009
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
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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 - September 2
SLUUG - September 9
STLOSUG (Solaris) - September 15
SNUG - September 16
STLLUG - September 17
HZWLUG - September 22
STCLUG - September 24
MythTV -
Potential Presenters
These are some people who can present, and possible topics they can speak about.
Scott Granneman
Rick Clark (Ubuntu) (via Craig)
Kyle Cordes
Puppet
git and GitHub
Flying Boxes
Hostirian/Primary.NET
Wehrenberg Theaters (via Gary)
Sammie from IBM,
Sanjiv Bhatia (or someone from UMSL, via Lee)
David Letscher (Prof of CS at SLU) (via Gary)
Jeff Logullo (formerly of Sun)
TOPIC: MySQL - now a Sun product
TOPIC: Project Indiana, a new package management system a la 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
Stan Reichardt
Evaluating Security (Internet access required)
Google Calendar (was done at STCLUG Apr 2009)
VIM folding (done at SLUUG Jun 2009)
Using Scribus
Tim Dreste (via Stan R)
Don Ellis
Craig Buchek
git and GitHub
GNU grep (–count, –context, -e, –color)
wget and curl
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Ruby on Rails
Test-Driven Development (or get Brian Button, if possible)
Tony Lovasco
Mike Wilkerson
Jerry Stutte
Potential Topics
These are some topics that we've had requested, or brainstormed, but need to find speakers for.
List was posted to DISCUSS on 25 May, asking for volunteers.
Google Wave
BSD jail
Unix glossary - unusual terms
mount point
white space
"well-behaved" app
zombies
parent process
Knoppix karaoke (various users sit in front of Knoppix system)
Drawing network diagrams using Dia or OpenOffice Draw
AIX current release, features, future
Apple current release, features, future
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) or Fedora recent releases
SuSE or OpenSUSE recent releases
Solaris or OpenSolaris current release, features, future
HP-UX current release, features, future
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.
SplashTop - a quick booting distro.
PGP/GPG use in Email
Thunderbird Enigmail
KMail
Google Android
GUI builders (GLADE, KDevelop)
SLACC Domain
Need to register SLACC.COM domain.
Check on SLACC.ORG - seems to be owned by a cybersquatter.
Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses.
2009-06 Tasked Carl and Gary to transfer and renew SLACC.COM domain.
STLLINUX Domain
SLUUG Domain
STCLUG Domain
Server Admin
2009-06 A 2nd NIC has been installed on Budlight.
2009-06 Rsnapshot has been installed on Budlight.
2009-06 Power outage at Hostirian on 5/21.
2009-05 Jeff Muse brought in an EMC Clariion with 10 x 36
GB drives
Directly attached to Budlight via FibreChannel.
Still need to re-check hardware to get it running fully.
Will configure with RAID 5 and a hot spare.
Considering using an LVM partition for some users.
2009-04 Lee will install (and document) Webalizer on Bud, to gather web stats.
2009-03 Partitions on Bud are getting full.
2009-03 Jeff installed Solaris 10 on the remaining E250.
2009-03 Ran into mirroring issues, due to disk sizes.
2009-05 Other E250 has been parted out and sold off.
2009-06 Available at bock.sluug.org
2009-06 Contact Jeff Muse (jmuse) for accounts/access.
2009-02 Omnitec offered to provide secondary
DNS for us.
We would provide secondary
DNS for them.
Lee and Carl would maintain
DNS on both ends.
2009-01 Dark is alive again, thanks to a campus-wide power outage.
2008-12 Wash U took our webdev box (128.252.19.27) off network Mon December 1.
2008-12 We're planning to setup our own
DNS on Ultra/Busch.
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.
2008-12 Steve Smith (from Solaris SIG) offered a 36
GB drive to install in one of the Netras.
2008-11 Jeff Muse added Ultra and Busch - Sun Netras running Solaris 10.
Server Management
Work left to do:
Other work to do:
2008-08 Document useradd process.
2008-03 Better web site management tools
2008-08 Develop standardized 'Membership List' & same UIDs on all production machines.
Membership (and Shell Accounts)
Other Old Business
Annual Report to State of Missouri
Annual Report for 2008 is on file, next Annual Report due 31 August.
Filed documents available
here.
REGISTRATION REPORT FEE IS:
$15.00 If filed on or before 8/31
$20.00 If filed after 8/31
Corporation will be administratively dissolved if report is not filed by November 30th.
We still need to change the registered agent for surface mail delivery.
Other New Business
Blue Sky
Recognize Useful Effort
Follow-up and Action Items
Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
2009-06 Tasked Gary to clean up home directory on Bud.
2009-06 Tasked Craig to work on presentations.
2009-06 Tasked Lee to ask Sammie to bring past (and current) presentation to us on thumb drive.