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,
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10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

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• Wednesday, February 1, 2012
• 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

• Lee Lammert
• Gary Meyer
• Jeff Muse
• Stan Reichardt
• Jerry Stutte
• Craig Buchek

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

• Nothing to report.

• Balance as of 1/1: $2,258.45
• SBE Booth from October: $ 125.00 -
• Balance as of 1/31: $2,133.45

• GigE 5 & 8 port switches purchased for Hostirian rack, billed in February.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of January 2012:

• 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 January 2012:

• 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.
• NOTE - Oct 2011 SLUUG and STLLUG meetings were during a STL Cardnal's baseball game.

• SLUUG Calendar is a Google Calendar available on our web site.
• This is a calendar of technical events in the Greater St. Louis area and surrounding regions.
• Not all events are official SLUUG events.
• Items have been added and corrected by Stan R., Gary Meyer and Don Ellis.
• Items listed on this calendar feed the ANNOUNCE weekly mailing.
• Count of number of events listed, each month, as of end of January 2012:

• xxx - Numbers not yet counted.
• NOTE - Jan 2012 added Arch Reactor items (from their Google Calendar).

• Stan says that Arch Reactor makes it easy for him, by keeping their info in Google Calendar.

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* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• Return to Usual Location.
• SLACC home web page has been posted.

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

• BASE: TrueCrypt by Stan Reichardt
  • Good.
• MAIN: Practical Nagios, including Windows!, by Lee Lammert
  • Jerry filled in. Did a good job. Can do more on this topic.

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: Domain Services for Windows per Gary Hollingsworth
  • Good. Would have liked to have seen more introductory material though.

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: GStreamer Multimedia by Jeff Sigmon (via Craig)
  • Excellent.

• ON Hiatus

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

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

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* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• Return to Usual Location.
• SLACC home web page has been posted.

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

• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
• MAIN: Improve Your Resume and Job Search, by Rajvir Grewall (Jupiter Consulting)
  • May include a workshop.
  • Jerry will send out post to DISCUSS telling people to bring URLs of their online resumes.

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

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• Managing Xen Virtual Machines by Noah Lance

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• Web site and calenar changed to indicate HIATUS - NO MEETINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE *
• Meetings to Resume - If we can get leadership and topics.
• Stan R. volunteered to be Point-Of-Contact for reservations with restaurant.
• December 2011 - Renewed STCLUG.ORG domain. Gary needs to update the NS servers though.

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

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* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• Return to Usual Location?
• SLACC home web page has been posted.

• BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
• MAIN: Keyboard Karaoke

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: openNebula (Xen web management) by Noah Lance via Lee L.

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

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• Web site and calenar changed to indicate HIATUS - NO MEETINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE *
• Meetings to Resume - If we can get leadership and topics.
• Stan R. volunteered to be Point-Of-Contact for reservations with restaurant.
• December 2011 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain.

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

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

• Fixed GoldenWheat (1U server)
• Acquired 2x2U Dell and 2x2U IBM sets of HW
• Configured one as a new VM server
• ToDo (from Noah Lance):
• Finalize Network (openvswitch isn't happy with linux 3.1), Web GUI, Host monitoring/management configurations
• Build storage configuration - NFS server for images (templates) and home dirs for all VMs
• Validate Web GUI functionality
• Setup Debian 6 VMs for Bud & Budlight
• Attempt p2v of Amber so updates can be tested before pushing to production
• Possible future enhancement - LDAP/Kerberos for SSO to production servers?
• Need to resolve CNAME/A Record issue for sluug.org?
• 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.
  • Lee has made copies of zone files and we have BIND on amber now as an authoritative server.
  • We should probably make sure buddyns has up-to-date contact info.
• 2011-12 Michelob is dead.
  • Joe B. volunteers to do fix on Michelob, will get together with Gary M.
• 2012-01
• 2012-02 Lee installed Webalizer on the new servers, per Stan's request.

• 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….."
• 2011-11 Table - Consensus is to do later, in Spring.

• 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.
• 2011-08 No progress
• 2011-09 Jerry has sent pricing information to Lee
• 2011-10 No action on voice recorders.
  • Much discussion about projectors. Jerry S. will research available units.
• 2011-11 Jerry and Lee still reseaching projectors and voice recorders.
• 2011-12 Table - until somebody gets interested.
• 2012-02 Don Ellis has been video recording presentations in recent months.
  • Need to get him to post those to the official web sites.
• 2012-02 Jerry has an associate who can help convert voice and video recordings to MP3 and Ogg.

• 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? We don't know; so, we appointed Gary M. to find a way.
• 2011-08 No progress.
• 2011-09 No progress.
• 2011-10 No progress.
• 2011-11 No progress by Stan.
• 2011-12 Table - No progress by Stan, but will work on.

• 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.
• 2011-08 No progress.
• 2011-09 No progress.
• 2011-10 Table - No progress.

• Annual Official Business Meeting is 2nd Wednesday in February.
• Voting is done during all the February meetings.
• All votes will be counted at the March Steering Committee meeting.
• Stan has been working on this:
  • Posted announcement on web page
  • Has created a draft of te ballot
  • Reviewed the ballot with Steering Committee
  • Will post PDF on web
  • Will include info in next week's ANNOUNCE list
• Open positions:
  • Board of Directors (2) - chairs held by Jeff Muse and Lee Lammert
  • President
  • VP
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer
  • STLLUG Chair
  • STCLUG Chair

• Need new chair, or co-chair for STL LUG group.
• Jeff Sigmon expressed interest.
  • Putting him on the ballot.

• MagnetCon wants to hold a Linux conference in St. Louis.
  • Tried last year, but canceled.
  • We should try to help them out if we can.

• Jerry suggested we print up some business cards for the group.
  • Stan showed some examples he had done previously.
  • Group agreed this is worth doing.
  • Lee will get some printed.

• 09 February 2012 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.
• February 2012 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
• 14 March 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.
• 10 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
• 13 December 2012 - Renew SLUUG.INFO domain.
• 17 December 2012 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain.

• Stan would like to do a joint meeting again.
  • Mix things up about once a year.
  • Good for both groups.
  • Good groups for this would be:
    • PerlMongers
    • 2600
    • Arch Reactor
    • Robomo
    • JavaScript group
    • WordPress group

• At some point, we could invite Microsoft to talk to us about HYPER-V.
  • Or another technical topic.

• We should post a very short summary of Steering Committee to DISCUSS.
  • Or focus on a single thing.
  • Include a link to the minutes.
  • Craig volunteered to do this this month.
  • This will let people know what we're doing and generate some interest.

• Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
• Stan worked on the ballot and election preparation.
• Stan continues to do an excellent job on the calendar and ANNOUNCE.

• Gary - renew STLLINUX.ORG by February 8.
• Lee - print business cards.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• Jerry -
  • Follow up with Alan Griggs on a talk about Splunk.
  • 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.
• Craig - talk to Splunk reps about presenting.