SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 5 October 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
October 2011
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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16 17 18 19 20 21 22
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30 31
Attendees
Don Ellis
Lee Lammert
Gary Meyer
Stan Reichardt
Jerry Stutte
Agenda Changes
Secretary Report
Treasurer Report
County Library: $ 10.00
Deposit from NUI: $ 500.00 +
SBE Booth: $ 125.00 -
SBE Booth Electric: $ 70.00 -
Thornhill SLACC Room: $ 60.00 -
Mailing List Report
List | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep |
ANNOUNCE | 739 | 736 | 724 | 718 | 717 | 718 | 717 | 717 | 708 | 703 | 704 | 701 | 704 | 704 | 700 |
DISCUSS | 224 | 222 | 223 | 222 | 222 | 221 | 219 | 218 | 218 | 216 | 215 | 215 | 215 | 211 | 211 |
STEERCOM | 39 | 39 | 40 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 39 | 38 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 35 | 35 |
SYSADMIN | 19 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 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 September 2011:
Meeting | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep |
Steercom | 6 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | (9) | 5 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 6 | (5) | 3 |
SLACC | ? | ? | ? | 8 | x | 7 | ? | 5 | ? | (6) | 5 | 8 | 5 | ? | (4) |
SLUUG | (22) | 29(31) | ? | 29 | ? | 15 | 18 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 18 | 12 | 26 |
SNUG SuSE | 4 | 8 | ? | - | 7 | 11(14) | 11 | 15 | - | 7 | ? | 8 | 7 | (8) | 11 |
STLLUG | 17 | 21 | 17 | 16 | (9) | - | 14 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 15 | - | 18 |
STCLUG | 12 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | - | 4 | ? | - | 11 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
HZWLUG | ? | ? | 6 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 9 | (7) | 8 | ? | 7 |
NA - Not part of SLUUG. Jeff asked why this option is still listed.
() - 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 2010 and September 2010 counts.
NOTE - February 2011 Steercom was via
IRC #SLUUG channel on freenode.
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
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SLACC - July 7
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - July 13
SNUG - July 20
STLLUG - July 21
HZWLUG - July 26
STCLUG - July 28
STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
No topic previously selected, nor advertised.
Stan R. gave singularly brilliant demonstration of using LibreOffice Mail-merge features to a virtually empty room.
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.
* Technical mail merge difficulties cut into the main presentation time a bit, to the great relief of the presenter.
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
Sep 2011
September 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 21 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
SLACC - Sep 1
* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - Sep 14
* SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
BASE: NONE
MAIN: Internet Security by Joseph J. Papes, former FBI agent, via Jerry Stutte
BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD)
Generated a lot of interesting questions.
NO Q&A or Announcement No Call for help, presentation went right on through.
STLLUG - Sep 15
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
TOPIC: Machine Vision & Facial Recognition by Chris Leighton, confirmed via Lee
Good, lot of material. Needed a better introduction, lots of good examples.
SNUG - Sep 21
STCLUG - Sep 22
STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
TOPIC: Backup Techniques and Guitars
Resolved to put into HIATUS until January.
November and December were not going to be held anyway because of holidays.
HZWLUG - Sep 26
Presentation Schedule
Potential Presenters and Topics
Oct 2011
October 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 - Oct 6
* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - Oct 12
* SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
BASE: Vim: Wrangling Registers & Mangling Macros by Bill Odom
MAIN: AlienVault by Jerry Stutte
BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD)
St. Louis Business Expo - Oct 18
SNUG - Oct 19
STLLUG - Oct 20
STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
OPTION1: Installation of SuSE on laptop - Don Ellis and Jerry Stutte
OPTION2: Sustaining Link to Machine Behind a Firewall
* Reverse SSH maintenance and start ups script - Donn Ellis and Jerry Stutte.
OPTION3 Android suggested by Gary Meyer.
BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD)
HZWLUG - Oct 25
HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.
STCLUG - Oct 27
Nov 2011
November 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 - Nov 3
* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - Nov 9
* SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
BASE: To Be Determined (TBD). Ideas: Gary to investigate possibility of OpenIndiana.
MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)
BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD)
SNUG - Nov 16
STLLUG - Nov 17
HZWLUG - Nov 22
HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.
Thanksgiving Day - Nov 24
STCLUG - Nov 24
Dec 2011
December 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 - Dec 1
* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - Dec 14
* SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
BASE: To Be Determined (TBD). Ideas: Gary to investigate possibility of OpenIndiana.
MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)
BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD)
STLLUG - Dec 15
SNUG - Dec 21
STCLUG - Dec 22
Christmas Day - Dec 25
HZWLUG - Dec 27
HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.
Old Business
SNUG
Password Cards
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.
2011-10 Lee send PDF to Don, he needs to print a copy.
Server Admin
Bud Light offline due to fan failure, is still offline.
Michelob is dead.
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.
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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.
2010-07 - Renewed SLUUG.ORG domain during 9 July migration work party.
2011-08 - EveryDNS migration to DynDNS caught us unprepared. Craig moved us to buddyns.
We should probably make sure buddyns has up-to-date contact info.
2011-10 Large number updates (~190) are pending. Need to apply.
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.
2011-07 No progress.
2011-08 No progress
2011-09 Gary did a site survey and said "Someday….."
2011-10 Gary says to repeat above response, ie "Someday….."
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.
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.
2011-08 No progress
2011-09 Jerry has sent pricing information to Lee
2011-10 No action on voice recorders.
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.
2011-07 Gary noticed Wayback machine has STOPPED archiving our server as of about May 2009.
2011-08 No progress.
2011-09 No progress.
2011-10 No progress.
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.
2011-07 Stan R. added Historian logo stuff to bottom of home pages of all active Special Interest Groups.
2011-08 No progress.
2011-09 No progress.
2011-10 No progress.
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
2011-07 - Craig WILL send out the survey to STEERCOM, then DISCUSS and ANNOUNCE.
2011-08 - No progress.
2011-09 - Jeff thinks the greater availability and ease-of-use is impacting us, and that fragmentation is
2011-10 - No progress.
PR
Jerry recommended we create a Facebook group and page.
Jerry recommended we post meeting notices on college campus bulletin boards.
2011-05
2011-07 Gary Meyer volunteered to do PR for the group to get younger members involved.
2011-08 - No progress.
2011-09 - No progress.
2011-10 - No progress.
SLACC Library Reservations
2011-07
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
Review of minutes indicated that check was hand carried to library.
Don Ellis said he had receipt.
Lee provided image of cancelled check to Stan R.
Stan R. talked to Thornhill staff (Nick),
2011-08 - No report
2011-09 - No report
2011-10 - November and December reservations for SLACC were moved to Bridgeton Trails Branch.
New Business
HZWLUG Library Reservations
Other New Business
Annual Requirements
December 2011 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain.
February 2012 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.
February 2012 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
March/April 2012 - St. Louis Business Expo
April 2012 - First Saturday, 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 (now every 2 years).
October 2012 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
October 2012 - St. Louis Business Expo
Blue Sky
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 - talk to Splunk reps about presenting.
Craig - follow up on potential presentations.
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.