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, August 5, 2009
• 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

• Jeff Muse
• Craig Buchek
• Stan Reichardt
• Jerry Stutte

• Secretary has printed out minutes up through June.

• No report. Have not had any reports since end of March!
• Balance: $1271.62 as of 3/31/2009

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of July 2009:

• Numbers are 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.

• Attendance numbers, as of end of July 2009:

• 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      
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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• BASE: Vim Folding by Stan Reichardt
  • Stan says he didn't do very good – too many interrupting questions
• MAIN: Neural Networks to Scan DNA by Bryce Meyer (via Lee)
  • Don't recall

• TOPIC: Migrating an RC script to SMF
  • Lots of discussion, went well

• TOPIC: iFolder

• TOPIC: Open Source Licensing - What You Need to Know by Craig Buchek
  • Unknown

• Various, such as GRUB stanzas, yumex, alexandria, gramps, lilypond.
  • Good coverage. Nice to be covering higher-level applications.
  • Talked about WinBeginners.com web site – great info; wish there was a GNU/Linux equivalent.

• TOPIC: Samba Shares Across Subnets on pfSense by Carl Fitch
  • Interesting.

     July 2009      
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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• BASE: ack (grep replacement) by Craig Buchek
  • Good coverage of features and command-line options.
• MAIN: Solaris for Linux Admins by Jeff Muse
  • A bit disjointed; lots of things to cover, but not easy to organize.
  • Got some info on portability.

• TOPIC: OpenGL by Jerry Stutte
  • Slow start, info presented needed to be "processed" more.
  • Could have used more demos and less "book learning".

• TOPIC: What's New with OpenSolaris 2009.06 by Bob Netherton
  • Good meeting.
  • Covered package management, libc, ZFS, and many more topics.

• TOPIC: PlateSpin Applications
  • ???

• TOPIC: A Virtual Network Simulator by Rich Warwick
  • Good tool, interesting, lots of audience participation.
  • Richard seemed nervous and out of sorts.

• Various Topics (Unstructured)
  • Gave out some Ubuntu, SimplyMEPIS and HZWLUG Beginner Info discs

    August 2009     
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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• MAIN: Unix glossary - unusual terms (round table)
  • mount point
  • white space
  • "well-behaved" app
  • zombies
  • parent process
  • sparse files
  • raw devices
  • raw/cooked terminal modes

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: The new SUSE Studio by Gary Hollingsworth

• TOPIC: GIT by Craig Buchek

• Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) by Rick Clark (Ubuntu)

   September 2009   
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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
• MAIN: VMWare's latest & greatest by Matt Skipton (via Lee)

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

These are some people who can present, and possible topics they can speak about.

• Scott Granneman
  • Snow Leopard (the next version of Mac OS X, when it comes out)
  • iPhone (sometime after July)
• Rick Clark (Ubuntu) (via Craig)
  • TOPIC: TBD
  • Might be able to talk to STCLUG and STLLUG
• Kyle Cordes
  • Puppet
  • Flying Boxes
• Hostirian/Primary.NET
  • Tour of their data center
  • What it takes to run a hosting data center
• Wehrenberg Theaters (via Gary)
  • TOUR/DEMO: Digital cinema projectors
• Sammie from IBM,
  • Canceled Main: Live Demo of IBM Virtualization
• Sanjiv Bhatia (or someone from UMSL, via Lee)
  • TOPIC: AIX 6
  • TOPIC: Open Grid Computing
  • December or January
• David Letscher (Prof of CS at SLU) (via Gary)
  • TOPIC: TBD
  • Still gone for summer. Awaiting details.
• 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
  • TOPIC: GIMP (follow-up from previous presentation)
  • TOPIC: PGP and GPG
• Jeff Muse
  • Software RAID
  • Mailman
  • Various other Solaris topics
• Stan Reichardt
  • Evaluating Security (Internet access required)
  • Using Scribus
• Tim Dreste (via Stan R)
  • TOPIC: Untangle Gateway Platform
  • TOPIC: CentOS Linux
• Don Ellis
  • Mac OS X Snow Leopard
• Craig Buchek
  • GNU grep (–count, –context, -e, –color)
  • wget and curl
  • Mac OS X topics
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Test-Driven Development (or get Brian Button, if possible)
• Tony Lovasco
  • ???
• Mike Wilkerson
  • Round-Table on Joe Linux User (moderator)
• Jerry Stutte
  • OpenGL part 2 (November LUG)

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.

• LaTeX
  • Weiqi Gao and Brian Bilgere were looking for volunteers
  • Eric Xu says he uses it; Jerry Stutte will contact him
• Processes
  • How to tell what's running on a machine
• Google Wave
• BSD jail
• Knoppix karaoke (various users sit in front of Knoppix system)
  • regedit - edit Windows registry from Linux
• Drawing network diagrams using Dia or OpenOffice Draw
• AIX current release, features, future
  • Someone from IBM corporate?
• Apple current release, features, future
  • Someone from Apple corporate?
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) or Fedora recent releases
  • Still looking for volunteer; tried Clark Smith at Red Hat
• SuSE or OpenSUSE recent releases
  • Someone from Novell corporate?
  • Gary Hollingsworth?
• Solaris or OpenSolaris current release, features, future
  • Someone from Sun corporate?
• HP-UX current release, features, future
  • Someone from HP corporate corporate?
  • Dave Mills?
• iSCSI
• CPUs
  • Features of modern Intel/AMD CPUs
  • x86-64
  • x86, x86-64, IA64, Sparc, PowerPC, ARM, POWER
• iPhone
  • Developing for (web, native)
• iPhone competitors
  • New Google Android Phones
  • LG Dare
  • Samsung Instinct
  • Other Linux-based phones
  • LiMo versus Google Android
• Linux from scratch.
• SplashTop - a quick booting distro.
• PGP/GPG use in Email
  • Thunderbird Enigmail
  • KMail
• Google Android
  • Gateway and STL JUGs both recently had presentations
• GUI builders (GLADE, KDevelop)

• Need to register SLACC.COM domain.
  • Carl - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
  • Expires in September 2009; need to renew.
• Check on SLACC.ORG - seems to be owned by a cybersquatter.
  • Expires in August 2009.
• 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.

• 2009-06 Tasked Craig to update STLLINUX.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data.

• 2009-06 Tasked Craig to update SLUUG.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data.

• 2009-06 Tasked Gary to point STCLUG.ORG domain registrar to EveryDNS name servers.

• The Sun E250 is now up and running.
  • Named bock.
  • Running Solaris 10.
  • Stuffed full of working hard drives.
  • Has about 100 GB of RAID-Z ZFS.
• Bud Light is doing daily rsnapshots to bock.
• Bud backs up to Bud Light.
• Stan create resources to keep track of our systems and what's running on them.

• Work left to do:
  • Make sure docs are up to date.
    • Jeff is completing documentation on wiki regarding his recent changes.
    • 2008-01 Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud.
    • 2008-01 Started documenting client email configurations, to help users migrate.
    • 2008-01 See users and mail_setup pages.
  • Craig - Work on finishing server builds.
    • 2008-01 Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig)
    • 2008-03 More security, for SSH and otherwise.
    • 2008-01 Get offsite backups working. (Mike)
    • 2008-01 Publish SSH host keys on web page.
    • 2008-03 Standardize/regularize user accounts (IDs, password expirations). (Mike)
• 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.

• Jerry Stutte has written an app to manage membership.
  • Working with Lee Lammert.
  • Need to deploy to bud.
  • Lists membership levels and names.
  • Will be able to show expiration dates of memberships and send out emails.

• Nothing.

• 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.
  • Craig is a registered agent, per Missouri state, and volunteered to serve as our group's agent.
    • Someone just needs to file the right paperwork.
    • We thought we had filled out the paperwork; apparently it's been lost or misplaced.

• Nothing.

• Stan uses htop (or ps) on our systems, and has no idea what he's looking at.
  • Not sure what each process is doing.
  • Would be good to have a discussion on process names.
  • Would be good to document running processes.

• Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
• Jerry Stutte worked on the membership management application.
• Jeff Muse implemented rsnapshot and wrote up documentation.

• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• Carl - FILE ANNUAL REPORT. DUE 8/31.
• Craig - Contact Kyle Cordes about presenting on Puppet.
• 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.