SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 1 June 2011
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, June 1, 2011
7:00 PM - 8:35 PM
Attendees
Don Ellis
Jeff Muse
Jerry Stutte
Vitaliy Tkachenko
Stan Reichardt
Agenda Changes
Secretary Report
Treasurer Report
Bank Balance as of 4/30: $ 509.94
Service Charge: $ 10.00
Deposit from NUI: $1000.00
Balance as of 5/31: $1499.94
Mailing List Report
| List | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May |
| ANNOUNCE | 755 | 755 | 739 | 736 | 724 | 718 | 717 | 718 | 717 | 717 | 708 | 703 | 704 |
| DISCUSS | 223 | 224 | 224 | 222 | 223 | 222 | 222 | 221 | 219 | 218 | 218 | 216 | 215 |
| STEERCOM | 37 | 40 | 39 | 39 | 40 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 39 | 38 | 37 |
| SYSADMIN | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 |
Numbers as end of each month.
Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet. This will be much easier to do on Amber.
ANNOUNCE mailing list.
Command used to generate these (as root on Bud):
Attendance Report
Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets.
Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at meetings.
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Attendance numbers, as of end of May 2011:
| Meeting | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May |
| Steercom | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | (9) | 5 | 5 | 11 |
| SLACC | 5 | (6) | ? | ? | ? | 8 | x | 7 | ? | 5 | ? | (6) | 5 |
| SLUUG | ? | 18 | 22? | 29(31) | ? | 29 | ? | 15 | 18 | 15 | 14 | ? | 19 |
| SNUG SuSE | 8 | 9 | 4 | 8 | ? | - | 7 | 11(14) | 11 | 15 | - | 7 | ? |
| STLLUG | 19 | 9 | 17 | 21 | 17 | 16 | (9) | - | 14 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| STCLUG | 6 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | - | 4 | ? | - | 11 | ? |
| HZWLUG | ? | 8 | ? | ? | 6 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 9 |
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.
NOTE - Corrected STCLUG August and September counts.
NOTE - February 2011 Steercom was via
IRC #SLUUG channel on freenode.
May 2011
May 2011
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 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 31
SLACC - May 5
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - May 11
SNUG - May 18
STLLUG - May 19
HZWLUG - May 24
HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.
Temporary location change to Bridgeton Trails Branch Library because of noisy event at Prairie Commons Branch.
Will return to regular meeting place in June.
Posted summary of activity on DISCUSS mailing list.
STCLUG - May 26
From Gary M- Excellent presentation again. Next month ANIMATION!
3 members of GameDev group responded online in advance that they had tried the software. 2 disparaged that it didn't do this or that. (Ed explains that this is free and a great learning tool but these gamers MAY be used to hi-end sftwr.) 1 gamer SAID she was coming but did NOT show. 1 responded that it was TOO FAR to come (since he was jobless.) Maybe they will come to next month for ANIMATION!
Presentation Schedule
Potential Presenters and Topics
June 2011
June 2011
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4
5 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 - June 2
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - June 8
SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
BASE: TBD by Jerry Stutte
MAIN: "Amazing, Stupendous, Mind-Blowing Apps for iPad2" by Scott Granneman (confirmed via Gary Meyer)
SNUG - June 15
STLLUG - June 16
STCLUG - June 23
HZWLUG - June 28
HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.
July 2011
July 2011
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2
3 4 5 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
31
SLACC - July 7
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - July 13
SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
BASE: VIM by Bill Odom (Tentative due to work travel via Gary Meyer)
BASE: LastPass by Jay Truesdale (firm commitment) via Stan Reichardt
MAIN: Migration of SLUUG services to amber by Jeff Muse (tentative pending completion of work)
BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD)
SNUG - July 20
STLLUG - July 21
HZWLUG - July 26
HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.
STCLUG - July 28
Aug 2011
August 2011
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 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 31
SLACC - Aug 4
* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - Aug 10
* SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
SNUG - Aug 17
STLLUG - Aug 18
HZWLUG - Aug 23
HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.
STCLUG - Aug 25
Old Business
SNUG
2011-05 Saint Louis Novell Users Group (SNUG)
Gary Hollingsworth (SNUG president) proposed formally merging SNUG group into SLUUG
SNUG is a 501©6 - trade or business organization (same as SLUUG)
Bob Sherrill is treasurer of NUI
SNUG Board plans to formally assign Lee Lammert as their treasurer
Rich recommended at some point filing articles of termination with the state for SNUG
Gary will get us a copy of the SNUG bylaws
SNUG annual filings have not been filed recently
Steering committee unanimously agreed to the merger
SLUUG board agreed to accept the decision of the steering committee
2011-06 - No further update. Still need a copy of the bylaws.
Password Cards
2009-12 We need to change root passwords.
2010-01 Craig handed out new password cards.
2010-06 Stan R. will build an unviewable page to record the number for server list.
2010-07 Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.
2010-08 Status unchanged.
2010-09 Status unchanged.
2010-10 Mike Knight, Jerry, and Don all need password cards. Jeff sent mail to Craig inquiring.
2010-11 Jerry received a password card from Craig.
2010-12 Status unchanged.
2011-01 Craig REALLY intends to change root passwords VERY soon.
2011-02 Jeff will get pw info to Mike if he'll be at the main meeting. Afterwards, we can change passwords.
2011-03 Status unchanged.
2011-04 Status unchanged.
2011-05 Status unchanged.
2011-06 Passwords changed at work party for Bud, Amber, and Redhook. Don complained bitterly that he does not have a card.
Server Admin
2009-12 Bud Light offline due to fan failure, is still offline.
2009-12 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
2009-12 Carl recommended using one of the Sun Netras as a log server.
2010-02 Craig wondered if we could put sudo back on Bud.
2010-02 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.
2010-02 Noah has a server we can use.
2010-03 Noah and Craig will install it on Wednesday 3/10 at 2:00 PM.
2010-03 Noah has loaded VMware ESXi 4.0
2010-04 New server [Debian] installed from Noah - thanks!
2010-04 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.
2010-04 New server from Contegix - Amber
2010-05
PrimaryNet problem with possible rogue
IRC activity on system we later identified as Golden Wheat.
Stan R. added some info on Golden Wheat to resources.txt file.
Taking Golden Wheat offline…
Mike Knight pointed out that Bud is not being backed up since BudLight went down.
Jeff Muse has started rsnapshots backing up Bud to Bock.
Noah Lance willing to diagram our assets – later.
Joe B will be installing Sun Netra box.
2010-06
2010-07
Golden Wheat has been re-installed, and fully functional.
Amber had incorrect
DNS entry; Craig fixed it.
Lee copied over Bud home directories to /bu/home on Amber.
Work party at the bat cave - started on web, mail, system services, user IDs. Big problem now is that mysql won't let postfix log in.
2010-08
2010-09
Backups have been disabled, since they were filling the / partition.
Postfix integration with MySQL – not working yet.
Trying to get Zimbra installed – not working yet either.
2010-10
Postfix and MySQL are now talking to each other (on Amber)
Mailman is installed - list info needs to be migrated over yet
Proposed date for work party to finish moving bud to the cloud box - Nov 13th. Location TBD.
2010-11
2010-12
2011-01 At December Blue Sky session Stan wanted to gather web analytics.
Craig said that there are 2 ways to accomplish this.
The group decided against using anything external like Google for this.
Craig and Lee got Webalizer working after the blue sky session.
Gary and Stan have been looking at the Webalizer reports.
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Lee disabled a disuse account with 280
MB of email.
Lee tested the PayPal button.
2011-03 Status unchanged.
2011-04 Michelob is sick/dying.
2011-05 Need to schedule work time to finish building Amber.
2011-06
May 21 at Lee's place – 10 AM. Much progress made on a budlight replacement. Some websites moved over to amber. Mail is working on amber but need to migrate user accounts. This is being held up by old-style DES passwords still in use. Jeff is trying to get them changed. Amber build is documented at
Base OS Config
Wash U Cleanup
2009-09 Jerry Stutte, Jeff Muse, and Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site.
2009-09 Gary Meyer is Captain.
2009-10 Captain is AWOL. Carl will be available in November or later.
2009-11 Captain was AWOL.
2009-12 Captain still AWOL.
2010-01 Captain still AWOL.
2010-02 Captain Gary Meyer still AWOL. Search party has not reported back.
2010-04 Pending until next month at the earliest.
2010-05 This project open since September 2009. Gary immediately left meeting.
2010-06 Gary not here, nothing resolved.
2010-07 Gary not here, nothing resolved.
2010-09 Gary will work on this.
2010-10 No progress. Stan questioned Gary's usefulness. Suggested that he is merely decorative.
2010-11 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
2010-12 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
2011-01 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
2011-02 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
2011-03 No progress. Gary is in Florida. See note above about Gary's usefulness.
2011-04 No progress.
2011-05 No progress.
2011-06 No progress. Unless there is rain Gary won't be attending until September.
Recording Meetings
2010-12
We have a voice recorder (VC) for recording meeting presentations and have posted some results on web site.
On 28 Oct Stan R. suggested buying an additional VC so that there wouldn't be a single point of failure.
We forget who has it.
We forget to bring it.
We forget to turn it on.
We forget fresh batteries.
We forget how to turn it on.
We forget to free up space on it.
There was some STEERCOM list banter but nothing was brought up at 3 November Steering Committee meeting.
Alternative of video recording suggested, huge size of video files was mentioned.
Stan R. passed voice recorder to Gary M. on 18 November and doesn't want it back.
Noah volunteered an old Digital8 recorder.
2011-01 Continued discussion, but no consensus.
2011-02 Not discussed during
IRC meeting.
2011-03 Gary M. returned voice recorder to Stan R. before going to Florida.
2011-04 Stan R. passed on voice recorder to Phil Bunch, who should be at next general meeting.
2011-05 Phil B. passed voice recorder back to Stan R.
2011-05 Craig suggested getting another voice recorder (or 2), and extra batteries.
2011-06 Jeff wanted to move that we use some of the Novell money to buy a second recorder, but we do not have a quorum. Stan suggested getting one that records in ideally ogg, but failing that, mp3. Either would be better than the current uncompressed format.
Web Site Suggestions
2011-01 Mike Knight's emails regarding web site.
Stan changed the copyright dates.
Good idea to list other Open Source friendly resources.
On a separate page from our own SIGs.
Sites like WITS, CVillage, Arch Reactor, 2600.
Our site layout has not changed for years.
2011-02 Stan hasn't gotten around to building new resources page, yet.
2011-03 No change.
2011-04 No change.
2011-05 No change.
2011-06 There was brief discussion of implementing a
CMS at the work party on 5/21. No decisions made.
!!! !!! !!!! !!!
Gary M noticed Wayback machine has STOPPED archiving our server as of after May 2009! Gary M thinks it would be good to get resumption of archiving at Wayback. How can we accomplish this?
2010-11
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
STLLUG meetings are now hosted at IT Enterprises, which is affiliated with UMSL.
Typically because of meeting space value we recognize host as sponsor on our web pages.
Previously, some educational institutions (other than UMSL) did not want to be listed.
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2010-12 No status change.
We should push the PayPal usage.
2011-01 Stan suggested putting Hostirian at the bottom of all SIG web sites.
2011-02 Stan hasn't gotten around to the pages, yet.
2011-03 No change.
2011-04 No change.
2011-05 No change.
2011-06 No change. The spirit is willing but the schedule is weak.
Using IRC for Steering Committee Meetings
LUGs and Attendance
2011-03 Craig brought up the topic of LUG attendance.
Why is STLLUG attendance so low?
Is it the location?
Was it the change in location?
Is it because we have too many local meetings?
Is it the improving job market?
With low attendance, we cannot bring in bigger names.
Craig will post a message to DISCUSS.
Explain why I'm asking.
Ask why people don't attend.
Ask what we could do to get people to attend more often.
Ask if we should combine some of the LUG meetings.
2011-04
2011-05
2011-06
Reserve Rooms at Library
2011-04 Reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
First Saturday in April, reserve rooms for balance of calandar year.
Stan R. completed reservation forms. Phil Bunch and Stan R. delivered forms to appropriate library.
Hazelwood LUG meetings reserved at Prairie Commons Library Branch. Stan paid for HZWLUG meetings.
St. Louis Area Computer Club meetings reserved at Thornhill Library Branch.
A $60 check needs to be mailed to Thornhill Library Branch within 14 days.
2011-05 Lee gave Don Ellis check for Thornhill Library Branch.
2011-06 No further action required, can be removed from next agenda.
PR
!!! !!! !!! !!!!
Gary comments- Group is getting gray We need new blood! Young blood!
college students and recent grads!
PR is SO-o-o-o important!!!
We can have great talks BUT unless we publicize them
a week or 2 IN ADVANCE we will not
get increased attendance! We need to plan out
meetings for NEXT MONTH and get abstracts
onto website, etc.
Stan is right! AFTER action reports on DISCUSS about
how good it was WILL help future attendance.
I still think it will help to get more subscribers to
ANNOUNCE & DISCUSS. How??
Stan suggested that Gary not spam the wiki and put his suggestions on IRC instead.
New Business
Wayback Recording
Annual Requirements
July 2011 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain.
October 2011 - Reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
October 2011 - St. Louis Business Expo
December 2011 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain.
February 2012 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.
February 2012 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
March 2012 - St. Louis Business Expo
April 2012 - Reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
May 2012 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status.
July 2012 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain.
August 2012 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status (every 2 years).
May 2012 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status.
Blue Sky
Advance Steercom Meetings One Week
Recognize Useful Efforts
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.
Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.
Craig - work on getting refund for 2 months of Indian Trails reservations we did not use.
Craig - talk to Splunk reps about presenting.
Craig - follow up on potential presentations.
Jerry - find someone to talk to us about Android.
Talk to Lopez from FBI about Internet security.
Talk to Joshua Frank and Bill Zimmerly.
Talk to Rich Siebel to see if Andrew Prunicki of OCI can talk to us.
See Announce list from February 2009 for speakers from Java SIG presentations.
Noah - work on Amber build.
Gary - look into syncing domain renewals so they all happen at the same time of year.
Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
Gary - get Wash U site cleaned up.