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, July 6, 2011
• 6:30 PM - 7:50 PM

• Jerry Stutte
• Don Ellis
• Lee Lammert
• Craig Buchek
• Jeff Muse
• Stan Reichardt

• Are there any additions, deletions, or changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?

• Nothing to report.

• Bank Balance as of 6/1: $1499.94
• Deposit from membership fee: $ 10.00
• Deposit from NUI: $ 500.00
• Balance as of 7/1: $2009.94

• Officers signed new signature cards for US Bank.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of June 2011:

• 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.
  • Still no volunteer editor to do a quarterly or monthly newsletter.
• Command used to generate these (as root on Bud):
  • /usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members list_name | wc -l

• Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets.
• Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at meetings.
• Blank attendance sheets are available here
• Attendance numbers, as of end of June 2011:

• 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.

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• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
• BASE: systemd by Jerry Stutte
  • Not good.
• MAIN: Amazing, Stupendous, Mind-Blowing Apps for iPad2 by Scott Granneman and Jans Carton
  • Good.

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: Cloud Computing

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Two Coding Languages for Youngsters
  • Scratch by Ryan Brooks
  • Looking Glass Presentation by Paul Gross
  • Both excellent. Audience was extremely engaged. Great fit with each other.

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Basics of 3-D Graphics and Animation by Ed Wehner
  • The Basics of Animating 3-D Objects (Part 3 of 3)
  • Promotional video at http://www.sendspace.com/file/jdspwe
  • Very good. Good hands-on.

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.
  • One new person.

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

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• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
• BASE: LastPass by Jay Truesdale (firm commitment) via Stan Reichardt
• MAIN: Artificial Intelligence by Eric Xu via Gary Meyer

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Split presentation:
  • Part I: Yum repositories explored by Jeff Muse
  • Part II: Apt package tools by Craig Buchek

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

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* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

* SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.

• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
• MAIN: Migration of SLUUG services to amber by Jeff Muse (tentative pending completion of work)

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: HIATUS per ITEN request (No meeting this month)

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

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* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

* SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.

• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
• MAIN: Internet Security by Joseph J. Papes, former FBI agent, via Jerry Stutte
• BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD)

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Machine Vision & Facial Recognition by Chris Leighton, confirmed via Lee
• BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD)

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.

• Need a copy of the SNUG by-laws.
  • Stan will get with Gary Hollingsworth to see if he can get us a copy.

• Craig finally handed Mike Knight a copy of the password card.
• Root passwords were changed at work party for Bud, Amber, and Redhook.
• Lee will get Don Ellis a copy of the card.

• Bud Light offline due to fan failure, is still offline.
• Michelob is dead.
  • Not sure anyone is willing to revive it.
  • If anyone is willing to spend the time, they are welcome.
• Work party took place May 21 at Lee's place.
  • 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
  • We rebuilt Budlight on DL380 G2.
    • 4 x 73 GB disks (old servers have 4 x 18GB)
    • 3 GB RAM (old servers have 4 GB)
    • Server was built, but not put online yet at this point.
    • It is functional, but we need spare parts for whatever hardware we deploy.
    • Jay Truesdale is looking for a pair of DL380 G4 servers to use instead.
• Work party scheduled for July 9 at Lee's (9 AM).
  • Need to transition mail services to Amber.
  • Need to move wiki and www web services to Amber.
  • Stan has put a notice on the web page.

• 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 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.
• 2010-07
  • Golden Wheat has been re-installed, and fully functional.
  • IBM X325, dual P4 Xeon 2.8 GHz, 2x72 GB.
• 2010-09
  • Backups have been disabled, since they were filling the / partition.
• 2011-01 At December Blue Sky session Stan wanted to gather web analytics.
  • Craig said that there are 2 ways to accomplish this.
    • Way 1 is to analyze Apache logs, such as webalizer.
    • Way 2 is to use something like Google Analytics.
  • 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.
  • http://www.sluug.org/hitreport/
  • Lee disabled a disuse account with 280 MB of email.
  • Lee tested the PayPal button.

• 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.
• 2011-07 No progress.

• 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.
  • Stan needs to pull February 2011 STLLUG recording and post it (on Amber).
    • And email it to the speaker (Igor Gueths).
• 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.
  • Did 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.
• 2011-07 Group unanimously voted to buy 2 new voice recorders.
  • As long as they do not require Windows drivers.
  • Preferably record in OGG format, or MP3 at the least.
  • Upper limit $100 each.
  • Jerry and Lee will research and purchase.

• 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.
    • Would take some effort to re-do it, and seems to be working for most people.
• 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.
• 2011-07 Gary noticed Wayback machine has STOPPED archiving our server as of about May 2009.
  • 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.
• Lee updated the SLUUG web site sponsors list
  • Also added PayPal button to SLUUG web site membership join page.
• 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.
  • Noticed .PNG file doesn't show up on old county library browsers. Do we have .JPG file anywhere?
  • Not discussed during IRC meeting.
• 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.
• 2011-07 Stan R. added Historian logo stuff to bottom of home pages of all active Special Interest Groups.

• 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.
  • Telling Red Hat they'll have 15 people to speak with won't get them to come here.
• 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
  • Craig has created a survey – http://stllug.org/2011-member-survey
  • Need to have STEERCOM members look at it first, to make suggestions.
  • Craig will send out the URL to DISCUSS and ANNOUNCE once we're happy with it.
• 2011-07 - Craig WILL send out the survey to STEERCOM, then DISCUSS and ANNOUNCE.

• Jerry recommended we create a Facebook group and page.
• Jerry recommended we post meeting notices on college campus bulletin boards.
  • Jerry will send out an email to Sanjiv.
• 2011-05
  • Several people were opposed to this idea. (CLARIFICATION 6/1: The opposition was specifically to facebook)
• 2011-07 Gary Meyer volunteered to do PR for the group to get younger members involved.

• None.

• July 2011 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain.
  • Gary Meyer is aware and will resolve.
• 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.

• None.

• Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
• Who did what?
• Stan updated web sites.

• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• Craig - talk to Splunk reps about presenting.
• Craig - follow up on potential presentations.
  • Kyle Cordes - ffmpeg or other
  • GStreamer
• Jerry - find someone to talk to us about Android.
  • 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 - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
• Gary - get Wash U site cleaned up.