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, April 7, 2010
• 6:30 PM -

• Lee Lammert
• Noah Lance
• Barry Morrison
• Gary Meyer (Stan Proxy
• Tony Zafiropoulos
• Jerry Stutte

• Secretary has not printed minutes since June.

• Balance: $1375.59 as of 2/28/2010
• Expenses: $169 for SBE Booth & Electric.
• Income:

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

• Numbers 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.

*-*-* We need volunteers to poster/contact colleges (high schools?) THIS month to get new ANNOUNCE subscribers before end of semester!!

• Attendance numbers, as of end of March 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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• Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
• Meetings will be in smaller room.

• IT Enterprises walk-through (4:30)
• Excellent location, OSLug will be there April to try the venue

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

• TOPIC: CrossBow (network virtualization) by Jeff Logullo
• Great!

• TOPIC: No meeting.

• TOPIC: Bonded NICs by Noah Lance
• Great material - it works too!

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

• TOPIC: Bonded NICx
• Review of STLLUG presentation

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

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

• Back to back meeting
• BASE: IRC & SLUUG - Jerry Stutte
• MAIN: Counterfeit Technology and Open Source Solutions - Tony Zafiropoulos

• Back to back meeting
• TOPIC: How to teach Linux to newbies - Tony Zafiropoulos

• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• TOPIC: Installing OpenSuSE in Virtual Machines by Don Ellis per Gary M

• TOPIC: Linux on Windows 7 by Noah Lance

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

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

• BASE: Creating a favicon for your website - Tony Zafiropoulos
• MAIN: Processing and Storing Genomic Sequencing Data by David Dooling

• 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)

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

• New server from Contegix - Nimbus [tentative]
  • Contact Lee or SysAdmin list for info
• Bud Light is still offline.
• New server installed from Noah - thanks!
• IBM X325, dual P4 Xeon 2.8 GHz, 2x72 GB.
  • Name: Golden Wheat
• Noah has two more Dell 2850s for installation at IT Enterprises for the OS lab, to be supported by SLUUG. Noah to contact them and confirm installation - this will be a good indication of the support level they wish to have for an ongoing relationship.
• Ongoing: Make sure docs are up to date.

• 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.
  • Stan has put in requests for Hzlwd, SLACC, & STLlug from Aug thru Dec.
  • Stan will front payment for Hzlwd.
  • Payments need be made before 21 April (2 wks)(if Library grants dates).
  • Gary has reservation codes to cancel STLlug.
    • - -Gary in favor of moving to IT Enterprises
    • - -Deadline to give Library the payment MAY be the day of the "test mtng of StLopenSolaris".
  • Phil has info for SLACC but we aren't sure of Phil's availability.

• 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.
• Pending until next month at the earliest.

• 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.

• March 18 @ St. Charles Convention Center
• Slightly bigger crowd than last year
• Gave out about 50 flyers
• Excellent booth location - near Green Space

• 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.
• General Meeting every Tuesday at 7:30 PM.
  • Frequently open at other times by members.
  • How can we best cross-pollinate?
  • Great place for hands-on projects.
    • Arduino projects
    • Robotics
    • Arts and crafts
    • Costume building

• Stan completed library registrations
• Expo coordination - Lee & Jerry
• New Sponsor thanks to Lee - Contegix

• 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.
• 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 - print out minutes from June-March.
• Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.
• ALL - Need volunteers to poster/contact colleges (high schools?) THIS month to get new ANNOUNCE subscribers before end of semester!!