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

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• Wednesday, September 4, 2013
• 6:30 PM - 8:10 PM

• Lee Lammert
• Ed Wehner
• Jeff Muse
• Gary Meyer
• Stan Reichardt
• Craig Buchek

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

• Nothing to report.

• Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets.
• Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at meetings.
• Blank attendance sheets are available here
  • Correction to SLUUG November 2012, was 15, NOT 14 as previously reported.
• Attendance numbers, as of end of August 2013:

• () - 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.

• 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.
• Events on HIATUS are not counted!
• Count of number of events listed, each month, as of end of August 2013:

• xxx - Numbers not yet counted.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of August 2013:

• 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
• xx - numbers not yet recorded.
• - - dash indicates list did not previously exist.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of August 2013:

• Numbers as end of each month.
• Test posts and duplicate mistakes are excluded from counts.
• Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet. This will be much easier to do on Amber.
• xx - numbers not yet recorded.
• - - dash indicates list did not previously exist.

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• SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
  • BASE: TiddlyWiki by John Hodge of Graybar (tentative via Stan R.)
  • MAIN: Nothing planned - a major disaster.
    • Deteriorated into unstructured conversation.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
• Regular meeting date would have been on Independence Day HOLIDAY. Schedule adjusted.
• Web page correctly reflected different date.

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

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: PostgreSQL by Craig Buchek
  • Used a few other people's slide decks.
  • Really good.
  • Multiple slide decks gets several viewpoints and better group discussion.

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
  • Explored distrowatch site and various podcasts listed thereon.

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• Link to potential speakers and topics.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
• Regular meeting date would have been on Independence Day HOLIDAY. Schedule adjusted.
• Web page reflects different date.

• SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
  • BASE: Using GRUB2 by Stan Reichardt
    • Talked about issues transitioning from GRUB 1.
    • No slides - Stan didn't feel prepared.
  • MAIN: Pen Testing Security Vendors by Josh More
    • Allegory was very imaginative; but some didn't get it.
    • Good for most people.

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Zentyal by Andrew Latham via Craig
  • Really low turnout
    • Had reasonable notice about the topic.
    • Topic is not well-known.
    • Really nice weather.
  • Good presentation - his teaching style after the slides was really good.

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
• TOPIC: HIATUS - meeting Cancelled as most regulars would not be in attendance.
  • SLUUG Calendar, SLUUG Web page was updated and SNUG web page was updated.
  • Gary Meyer went to catch up with anyone that didn't know. One other regular showed up.

• HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
  • Expected coverage of Working with symbolic links not done. Group wanted to go on to VPN.
  • Virtual Private Network (VPN) demonstration by Bryan Venable
    • Usage and configuration complexity was enlightening.
    • Too much work for most of the attendees; but, they were glad for the information.

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• Link to potential speakers and topics.

• HOLIDAY - Labor Day

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• Patriot Day

• SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
  • BASE: None, to allow extra time for MAIN presentation.
  • MAIN: Digital Intrusion and Digital Privacy by Scott Granneman and Denise Lieberman

• SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
• TOPIC: A Strange Loop presenter from SuSE (tentative)

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• SPECIAL: Post-Strange Loop Dinner with Josh More
  • Unstructured conversation
  • Maggie O'Brien's next to Union Station
  • 6:30 PM to ??

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

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• Link to potential speakers and topics.

• 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: Emacs by Deech (tentative, via Craig)

• HOLIDAY - Columbus Day

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

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) (tentative, via Craig)

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

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• Link to potential speakers and topics.

• SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

• HOLIDAY - Veterans Day

• SLUUG usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation.
  • BASE: None
  • MAIN: "Inside the Cloud" - Enterprise Data Center Tour
    • Contegix Tour Confirmed with Melissa
    • Must have attendee list by 12 November for security checkin.
    • NOTE: Tour 7PM, FREE parking in the Central Parking Garage, going North on Tucker, it will is on the right just after you cross Olive. Parking code will be available that week.

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

• STLLUG is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
• TOPIC: Contegix Tour (backup date, via Lee)

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

• HOLIDAY - Thanksgiving Day

• 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.
• 2012-02 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.
• 2012-06 Noah got 3 new servers up at Hostirian.
  • Bud (replacement) - 600 GB storage array
    • Storage for VMs
    • Storage for media (audio/video recordings of meetings)
  • Golden Wheat (replacement)
  • XenPRI - platform to run VMs
• 2012-06 Noah has been updating docs on wiki.
• 2012-07 (late June) No report.
• 2012-08 No update
• 2012-09 No update
• 2012-10 Problem getting to AMBER o/a 19/20 September.
  • DNS was broken because of zone file configuration error on 20 August.
  • BuddyNS stopped resolving after 30 days.
  • We aren't logging or documenting very well.
  • Mike Knight suggested extending size of root bash history.
• Mike Knight testing of timestamps for root bash history ran into some problems.
  • Mike Knight is authorized to continue this investigation and remediation.
• 2012-11 Lee recycled the old Compaq ProLiant 6400s.
• 2012-12 Vim config was messed up temporarily.
  • Don had gotten the config for backup files wrong.
  • We need to be sure to notify the group and document any changes we make.
• 2013-01 No news.
• 2013-02 No news.
• 2013-03 No news.
• 2013-04 Up to 401 patches pending on amber.
• 2013-05 No news.
• 2013-06 Mike Knight notice mail virus scanner failed.
• 2013-09 Ed Wehner wants to resurrect user shell access.
  • Has gotten access on Bud.
  • Will send out a survey to the group on what they want.
    • Usenet news groups?
    • VMs?

• 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.
  • 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 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 highlights 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.
• 2012-07 (late June) Low priority
• 2012-08 Low priority
• 2012-09 Low priority
• 2012-10 No report.
• 2012-11 No report.
• 2012-12 Low priority.
• 2013-01 Noah has a prototype StCLUG website at STCLUG.DARKIT.ORG
• 2013-02 No action.
• 2013-03 No action.
• 2013-04 Stan needs to update front page of sluug.org
• 2013-05 SLUUG ⇒ resources ⇒ presentation page listings updated. Much of end of last year was not listed.
• 2013-09 No change.

• 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.
• 2012-06 Craig to take a look at this.
• 2012-07 (late June) No report.
• 2012-08 No update
• 2012-09
  • SLUUG.ORG Last Updated On:11-Jul-2012 01:23:13 UTC
    • SLACC.COM Noel has renewed and offered to donate domain to SLUUG.
    • How do we complete this transfer?
    • Do we really care anymore? NO!
    • Suggested we just continue with subdomains (slacc.sluug.org).
• 2012-11
  • STCLUG.ORG is coming up for renewal.
    • Agreed that we could let this one go, in favor of STCLUG.SLUUG.ORG.
• 2013-01
  • STLWEBDEV.ORG expired
    • Alan Trick's daughter advised us last week the domain was expiring; she offered to renew it for two years. Lee will send her a check.
• 2013-02
  • Gary needs to renew STLLINUX.ORG domain before 2/8.
  • Gary needs to transfer STLWEBDEV.ORG account to SLUUG Dotster control.
• 2013-03
  • Gary renewed STLLINUX.ORG domain.
  • Stephanie Trick renewed STLWEBDEV.ORG domain for 2 years.
  • Need to transfer STLWEBDEV.ORG domain and consolidate in Dotster.
  • Stan asked Gary to work up a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet listing info
    • Domain name, expiration date, vendor, cost, etc.
• 2013-04 No progress on spreadsheet listing info
• 2013-05 No progress on spreadsheet listing info
• 2013-07 Lee renewed SLUUG.ORG domain.
• 2013-09 No movement.

• 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 built new pamphlet for Calendar and Free Open Source Software (FOSS).
• 2012-06 New pamphlets have been posted to our web site http://www.sluug.org/resources/handouts/
• 2012-06 Stan will go to Lee's to print out some copies.
  • Good for handing out, especially at Business Expo.
• 2012-06 Stan has more ideas.
  • Troubleshooting
• 2012-07 (late June) No report.
• 2012-08
  • Stan R. - printed approximately 100 each of Calendar, FOSS, GNU/Linux for Beginners, and GNU/Linux Resources pamphlets.
  • Minor spacing revisions have been made to the GNU/Linux for Beginners pamphlet, stock on hand can be used.
  • Significant revision being made to the Password Guidelines for Beginners pamphlet before printing.
  • Suggested minor revisions will be made to FOSS pamphlet, stock on hand can be used.
  • Our General Information pamphlet will have to be revised before STL Business Expo on 16 October.
• 2012-09 Lee will update and send on to Stan R.
• 2012-10 Stan has 100 of each, but needs to continue working on the "General" pamphlet.
• 2012-11 Stan doesn't have any more pamphlets.
  • Gary McGee might have ended up with the remaining.
• 2012-12
  • Gary McGee returned pamphlets to Stan R.
  • We have at least 80 of each.
  • Will take them to the upcoming SBE event at the library.
• 2013-01 Stan R. - gave available folded pamphlets to Gary M. There were only about 30 to 40 each (not 80) on hand.
  • At the Bat Cave Stan R. - printed 100 each of the 3 topical pamphlets (Beginner, Calendar, FOSS). Yet to be folded.
• 2013-02 Stan will redo 2 of the older brochures.
• 2013-03 Stan working on these for the business expo.
• 2013-09 No movement.

• 2012-09 Gary bought some Penguins and gave one out as gift to STLLUG presenter last month.
• 2012-10 Gary still has more penguins. Considering giving them away at SBE.
• 2012-11 Gary will give these out as speaker prizes.
• 2013-01 Gary still has penguins to give away. Jeff will not give presentation SLUUG 2013/01 without a penguin.
  • Finally, someone got a penguin!
• 2013-02 Gary - bring the penguins.
• 2013-03 Gary brought a penguin for Craig to give to Jessica.
• 2013-04 Jess got her penguin. Only place with more penguins in the area is the zoo.
• 2013-09 Gary still has some to hand out.

• Gary and Craig asked to reconsider MEETUP.COM.
  • It's a place to find meetings.
  • It does cost money ($12 / month).
  • It helps attendees of similar groups find our group.
  • DECISION: We'll ask for volunteers on DISCUSS to "own" the group.
• 2013-03 Craig to take this up.
• 2013-04 No action - Craig missing
• 2013-05
  • Need volunteer to maintain and publicize!
  • No report from Craig
• 2013-07 Got a volunteer by email.
  • Craig, Stan, or Gary will follow up.
• 2013-09 Gary got a volunteer to help us.
  • Will need to reply to him and get him money.

• ISSUE: Suggestion that we do a meeting or two with the WebDev crowd possibly at Savvis. Craig to check his contacts.
• Omnitec was Pizza sponsor in May, need to attract others!
• 2013-07 SBS Creatix sponsored pizza and soda at the June meeting.
  • Thanks!
• 2013-09 No movement.

• 2013-05
  • ISSUE: Don Ellis has been recording many of the meetings. Where/When/How can he start uploading.
  • NEED: Volunteer to setup media storage on one of the SLUUG machines at Hostirian.
• 2013-07 Lee found we have some space to store media.
  • On Bud on /srv/storage/.
• 2013-09 No movement.

• 2013-06 First Friday of the month at Science Center
  • Gary M. suggesting we may be able to have table/literature available
  • Maybe next month?
• 2013-09 No movement.

• 2013-06 Offered to do something.
  • Pizza for STLLUG?
• 2013-09 No movement.

• Stan wants to drop the JOBS mailing list.
  • Just have them post to DISCUSS with JOBS in the subject.
    • Would encourage more discussion.
  • Nobody feels strongly one way or the other.
• 2013-09 No movement.

• 2013-09 Publicity.
  • Gary says we're not good at this.
  • Flyers for meetings (like this month) will help.
  • Mention them at other meetings.
  • Mention that the SLUUG calendar covers lots of groups.

• October 2013 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• October 2013 - St. Louis Business Expo.
• February 2014 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.
• February 2014 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
• March 2014 - St. Louis Business Expo.
• April 2014 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
• May 2014 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status.
• June 2014 - BuddyNS SLUUG account due.
• July 2014 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain.
• August 2014 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status.
• January 2015 - Transfer and renew STLWEBDEV.ORG domain.

• Anyone?

• Anything?

• Everyone - Review the STEERCOM minutes, make corrections, act!
• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
• Craig - Get presenters.
• Craig - Get Andrew Latham access to help with STLLUG site.
• Craig - Finish new STLLUG site.
• Craig - Ask people to run MEETUP.COM groups for us.
• Stan - Make sure we get library rooms reserved.
• Stan - Work on brochures.
• Gary - Move phone book to new phone.
• Gary - Build spreadsheet to track domain name registrations.
• Gary - Follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
• Gary - Transfer STLWEBDEV.ORG account to SLUUG Dotster control.