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, March 3, 2010
• 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

• Jeff Muse
• Lee Lammert
• Jerry Stutte
• Craig Buchek
• Noah Lance

• Secretary has not printed minutes since June.

• Bank account has been transferred from Bank of America to Regions.
• Balance: $1375.59 as of 1/5/2010
• Income for 2010-01: $14 collected for room fees
• Income for 2010-02: $20 collected for room fees
• Lee will be ordering checks.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of February 2010:

• 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 February 2010:

• 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.

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• Balloting for SLUUG officers
• BASE: Triple Boot (Ubuntu, Windows, OpenSolaris) by Jeff Muse
  • Short - finished early.
• MAIN: Creating a Web Site From Scratch by Craig Buchek
  • Domain registration, DNS hosting, virtual hosting, OS, Apache, MySQL, WordPress
  • Demo - whirlwind tour, fast-paced.

• Canceled - presenter was unable to attend.

• TOPIC: OpenGL - Part Two by Jerry Stutte
  • Went OK.

• TOPIC: Open discussion.

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
• Meetings will be in smaller room.

• IT Enterprises walk-through (4:30)
  • Limited to Steering Committee attendees

• BASE: Checking Host Services with Nagios by Lee Lammert
• MAIN: Selling Free Software by Jim Roe (per Lee in a 1/16 email to Steercom)

• TOPIC: CrossBow (network virtualization) by Jeff Logullo

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: Bonded NICs by Noah Lance

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

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
• Meetings will be in smaller room.

• Back to back meeting
• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
• MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)

• Back to back meeting
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• 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.

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

• There were 2 board seats expiring:
  • Craig Buchek
  • Barry Morrison
• Craig, Barry, and Jerry volunteered to run for the open board seats.
• Noah volunteered to run for the STCLUG chair.
• Craig printed out ballots.
  • Got them to all the meetings.

• Ballots were counted
  • 28 ballots were counted
  • 1 person voted a 2nd time – we threw out his earlier vote
  • 1 ballot was thrown out due to no name on the envelope
• Barry Morrison and Craig Buchek were (re-)elected to the board
• Officers were appointed by the board, per the advisory votes:
  • President - Carl Fitch
  • Vice President - Stan Reichardt
  • Secretary - Craig Buchek
  • Treasurer - Lee Lammert
  • STLLUG Chair - Craig Buchek
  • STCLUG Chair - Noah Lance
• Craig had suggested that folks could write suggestions for the group on the back of their ballots.
  • 1 person wrote that he'd like to see more UNIX (non-Linux) topics at the SLUUG meetings.
    • Aimed more toward professional sysadmins.

• Per bylaws, we had an official annual meeting on February 10.

• Gary added Craig as 3rd contact for SLUUG.ORG domain.
• Carl and Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
  • Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses.
• Craig renewed STLLINUX.ORG and updated to show 3 names in WHOIS data.

• Bud Light is still offline.
• Noah has a server we can use.
  • IBM X325, dual P4 Xeon 2.8 GHz, 2x72 GB.
  • Name: Golden Wheat
  • Craig will get with Noah to install the system.
  • Noah has loaded VMware ESXi 4.0
  • Noah and Craig will install it on Wednesday 3/10 at 2:00 PM.
• Work left to do:
  • Ongoing: Make sure docs are up to date.

• Jerry Stutte is writing an app to manage membership.
• Membership application now running on BUD. When more mature Jerry will do a tutorial or presentation.
• Need more membership forms printed.
  • Craig will print some out
  • http://www.sluug.org/pdf/membership-form.pdf

• Process has changed. Limited to 6 months. Next round may be first Saturday in April.
• Reserving a meeting room now done on line - http://www.slcl.org/services/reserve.htm
• Payment required within 14 days, or we lose reservation.
• To avoid problems, payments need to be made separately to each SLCL Branch.

• Jerry Stute, Jeff Muse, and Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site.
• Gary Meyer is Captain.
• Captain Gary Meyer still AWOL. Search party has not reported back.

• Charles Sharp created an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
• Channel is named #sluug.
• Typically 7 people on at times.
• Would like to have someone give a tutorial on using IRC, and show off our channel.
• Craig suggested that we include the IRC channel in Steering Committee meetings.
  • Will be hard to figure out the best way to get the online folks to participate.
• Stan will put the IRC channel info up on the web site.
• Stan will put the IRC channel info on ANNOUNCE messages.

• Stan would like us to clean up the SYSADMIN mailing list, to eliminate people who have not been active for the past year.
  • We decided to send a message out to the list, asking who wants to stay on the list. Then we can remove folks that are not staying active.

• Stan made new attendance sheets for:
  • SLACC, STEERCOM, SLUUG, STLLUG, STCLUG, and HZWLUG
  • Yet to do: STLOSUG and SNUG, and groups on HIATUS.

• SBE
  • March 18 @ St. Charles Convention Center
  • Lee will organize.
  • Everything going smoothly.
  • Needs some people there at about 9:30 to help set up.
• Craig has been adding some packages to his server; would be willing to add them to SLUUG servers.
  • fail2ban - temporarily ban IPs that have too many SSH failures (unanimous agreement)
  • fcheck - file integrity checker - emails files that changed since last time run
  • logcheck - email anomalous log entries
  • munin - monitoring of system details
  • awstats - web stats
• Carl recommended using one of the Sun Netras as a log server.
• Craig wondered if we could put sudo back on Bud.
  • Configure it to require root password instead of user's own password.
  • Will follow up on SYSADMIN list.
• Craig wondered if we could start applying the patches pending for Bud.
  • There are a lot of patches pending now, including kernel and security fixes.
  • We have some concern with DNS patches, but Craig has applied them on his systems without issues.
  • Will follow up on SYSADMIN list.

• Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects.
• Noah has been helping the Arch Reactor hacker space.
  • 904 Cherokee in the old Lemp Brewery
  • Meeting every Tuesday at 7:30 PM.
  • Frequently open at other times by members.
  • How can we best cross-polinate?
  • Great place for hands-on projects.
    • Arduino projects
    • Robotics
    • Arts and crafts
    • Costume building

• Stan and Gary worked on election, balloting, and collecting ballots.
• Craig printed out the ballots and got them to the SLACC meeting.

• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• Lee - order checks.
• Carl and Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
• Carl - send thank-you note to Hostirian for hosting our site.
• Craig - contact Kyle Cordes about presenting on Puppet.
• Craig - print out minutes from June-March.
• Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.