NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!)

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Creve Coeur, MO 63141

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• Wednesday, May 2, 2012
• 7:04 PM - 8:50 PM

Don Ellis

Lee Lammert

Gary Meyer

Stan Reichardt

Jerry Stutte

• Are there any additions, deletions, or changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?
• None

• Not here to report. Will be working in Kansas City thru june.

* Purchase requests:

• $200 for USB Monitor for NUI meetings
• ~$500 for WXGA Projector for Embedded SIG and meeting spare
• Funded by NUI Capital Reserves

• 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 April 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 April 2012:

• xxx - Numbers not yet counted.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of April 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

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* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• SLACC home web page has been posted.

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

• BASE: VIM Configuration Files by Bill Odom
  • He was really good. Exceptionally good. More than you could remember. Will post on line.
• More in-depth taking more time than anticipated.
• MAIN: OpenDNS by Jay Truesdale
  • Interesting. Learning for those that had even had been using it.
• Pizza was really great. Salads had more anchovies. Great thanks to OpenDNS.

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: Application Porting Considerations for Migrating from Solaris to SLES
  • Very good level of technical detail. Every slide understandable.
• Best technical presentation that we've had in a long time.
• Copy and paste from other Gary entry, failure to get the word out to old OpenSolaris mailing list.
• Lee became extremely distracted, and lost train of thought.

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: OpenWRT - Rebuilding WRT router with Linux by Don Ellis and Lee Lammert
• Whoooohooo! Excelent job. Don did most of the work.

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one.
• Small number of attendees. SteakNshake.

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

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* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• 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: Splunk (hooks to Nagios) by Alan Griggs via Jerry Stutte

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
• TOPIC: “The Latest and Upcoming in Open Enterprise Server and Filr” – Glen Davis & Ted Tronson, Novell

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

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

• STCLUG is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
• On Hiatus

• Link to potential speakers and topics.

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* SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• 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: System D by Jerry Stutte

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

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: (TENTATIVE) Asterisk Soft Phones on Linux by Don Ellis and Lee Lammert

• 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

• 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: To Be Determined (TBD)

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

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

• 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 R's request.
• 2012-03 Stan R is getting some technical response of his email problem.
  • Much discussion of Mike Knight's research and possible work around.
  • Don and Gary did some testing using Apple mail clients, with results showing same problems.
• 2012-04 Need to run updates on AMBER or plan for alternate virtual install to migrate over.
• 2012-05 Jeff Muse updated AMBER HTTPS cert.
  • Altho we believed the change would only effect that, unexpectedly, Gary's Apple eMAIL client complained about the certificate on IMAP.

• 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 R 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.
• 2012-03 Gary provided song and dance routine. Stay tuned.
• 2012-04 No progress. Stan R again questioned Gary's usefulness. Again suggested that he is merely decorative.
• 2012-05 Gary protests and proclaims that decorative is useful (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 R 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 R 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 researching 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.
• 2012-03 Jerry has an associate working on conversions. No decision on new hardware.
• 2012-04 Michael Jackson offers to voice record meetings and provide us with sound file.
  • We need to pull server boxes and build space.
• 2012-05 Don says that at some point he will be able to upload what he has.

• 2011-01 Mike Knight's emails regarding web site.
  • Stan R 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 R 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 R.
• 2011-12 Table - No progress by Stan R, but will work on.
• 2012-03 Low priority
• 2012-04 Will need to check out WebDev site stlwebdev.org
• 2012-05 Gary M. suggests calendar page to highlight OUR, i.e. SLUUG's mtngs.
  • After all, part of the idea of maintaining the calendar is to drive traffic to our own mtngs!
• Could be hilites on the Google calendar itself &/or additional 1-2 lines written outside the Google calendar.
• Lee pointed out that advanced users may pull RSS that would not see the "off-Google" lines.

• 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 R suggested putting Hostirian at the bottom of all SIG web sites.
• 2011-02 Stan R 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.
• 2012-03 Low priority
• 2012-04 Low priority
• 2012-05 Low priority, Stan R needs to go back and finish.

• Jerry suggested we print up some business cards for the group.
  • Stan R showed some examples he had done previously.
  • Group agreed this is worth doing.
  • 2012-03 Lee - got business cards printed.
    • Thank you Lee. Cards look really great! Oohhhhhhh! Ahhhhhhhhh!
    • Extra cards were given to Gary M for posting on bulletin boards.
  • 2012-04 Lee has ordered some matching stationary, 2 reams paper and 1 card stock.
  • 2012-05 Jerry has been giving them out to students and facilty.

• 2012-03 Gary M renewed the STLLUG.ORG domain.
• 2012-04 This points to Craig's 2011 membership survey web page. Will redesignate to current active site.
• 2012-05 Yet to be done.

• Spring break opportunities to find new blood.
• 2012-04 spring break over, now facing end of semester testing. Gary M and Jerry S will disseminate propaganda.
• 2012-05 Gary suggests contacting Truman and St. Louis University Business School
  • Per Gary, he sent emails, no replies yet.

• 2012-04 - Stan R with considerable help from Christine Wanta has produced a pamphlet on Free Open Source Software (FOSS).
  • It should be very complementary to what we hawk at the St. Louis Business Expo Linux Booth.
• The pamphlet has been added to the SLUUG Resources Handouts page
• Another pamphlet is planned to highlight our Google calendar and list regular meeting days of the month.
• Lee suggested a single page calendar poster also.
• 2012-05 Stan R build new pamphlet for calendar and Free Open Source Software (FOSS).

• 2012-04 We need to confirm Dr. Lemon's commitment and possibly step up search for new location.
• 2012-05 Per Stan R, Indian Trails Library Branch Auditorum is available during June to December monthly time slots, but not May.
  • Jerry offering our host ( Dr. Lemon) summer months to skip.
• Instead of skipping months, Dr. Lemon is going to provide Jerry with access card.
  • We'll hold off on considering a move, or reserving Indian Trails Library Branch Auditorum until we confirm access to projector.

• 2012-05 Stan R made reservations for SLACC and HZWLUG.
  • Checks delivered for SLACC meetings at Thornhill and Bridgeton Trails.

• 2012-05 Want more.

• 2012-05 Lee suggested. Four maybe five folks interested.

• 2012-05 We had previously agreed to buy one.
  • Would be great to possibly have a second projector at sites that already provide us with one.
  • ~$500 for WXGA Projector for Embedded SIG and meeting spare
• Go ahead.

• $200 for USB Monitor for NUI meetings
• Funded by NUI Capital Reserves
• 2012-05 Consideration of alternate splitter, requested and approved.

• 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
• December 2012 - Renew SLUUG.INFO domain.
• December 2012 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain.
• February 2013 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.
• February 2013 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
• March 2013 - Renew STLLUG.ORG domain.
• March 2013 - St. Louis Business Expo
• April 2013 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.

• Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
• 2012-05 Stan R had Tea with the Princess, and the Evil Empress of the West (while he was out of town).
• Lee Did IRS Form 990-N ePostcard as we spoke.

• 2012-05 Jerry wanted to know what we should call Blue Sky. Gary suggested Blue Sky.
• Gary went on and on about X's email password.
• Stan R was totally confused, not understanding email passwords were set with Jeff and Lee's web interface to something.
• We need email password process documented (if it hasn't already been done).
• Gary suggested we rename servers to Who, What, Where, When and Why.
• Don suggested server names
• Jerry suggested server names

• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• Noah - work on Bud/GoldenWheat build.
• Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
• Gary - get Wash U site cleaned up.