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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - April 2008 ======

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 ======

  * Wednesday, April 2, 2008
  * 6:30 pm - 8:05 pm


====== Attendees ======
  * Carl Fitch
  * Craig Buchek
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Gary Meyer

====== Secretary Report  ======
  * Printed out minutes from Steering Committee meetings through March.

====== Treasurer Report ======
  * Balance: $1,174.72 as of 1/31/08

  * Carl gave money collected for memberships to the Treasurer.
  * Carl - Turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer.
  * Carl - Cancel credit card processing. (In progress -- need to fax them a 2nd letter.)
  * Craig - Submit receipt for voice recorder.
  * Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.
  * Open issues:
    * New IRS reporting requirement
      * We will (likely) have to file a form 990-EZ for the 2007 tax year.
      * Need response from Rich McClennan.
      * Any other advisory resources available?
    * Lee - Follow up drafting reply to Wash U.
    * Final bill from Wash U. - need to complete reply


====== Attendance Report ======
  * Some numbers:

| Meeting  ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^
^ Steercom |   5 |   4 |   3 |  5 |   7 |   4 |   5  |   5 |  No |   6 |   3 |  6 |  2 |  4 |
^ SLACC    |   6 |   7 |   ? |  ? |   8 |   6 |  10  |   7 |   5 |   8 |   4 |  7 |  4 |  (4)|
^ 1st LDAP |  xx |   5 |   6 |  7 |   6 |  No |  No  |  No |  No |   ? |  No |  4 | No | No |
^ SLUUG    |  12 |  23 |  22 | 18 |  16 |  27 |  36  |  21 |  24 |  25 |  20 | 14 | 12 | 23 |
^ Solaris  |   4 |  No |  18 | 15 |   6 |   8 |  No  |  11 |  No |   5 |  No | 13 | No |  6  |
^ 2nd LDAP |  xx |   6 |   5 |  5 |   6 |  No |  No  | (6) |   7 |  No |   3 |  ? | No | No |
^ STLLUG   |  12 |  14 |  18 | 23 |  20 |  31 |  31  |  23 |  19 |  25 |  20 | 17 | No | 16 |
^ HZWLUG   |   7 |   9 |   8 |  9 |  No |  11 |  11  |  10 |  10 |  15 |   9 | 10 | 11 | 14 |
^ Security |  No |  No |   7 |  9 |  No |   6 |  No  |  No |  No |  No |  No | No | No | No |
^ STCLUG   |  10 |  10 |   6 |  ? |   8 |  11 |  17  |  10 |  11 |  No |  11 |  9 | 11 | 3 |

  * No - indicates no meeting.
  * () - Numbers in parentheses are head count.
  * ? - Question mark indicates attendance not taken or sheet missing.
  * xx - attendance numbers not yet recorded.

  * Attendance seems to be down, which is not unusual for the winter months.
  * Scott Granneman drew in quite a crowd with such short notice.
    * Attendance found out by ANNOUNCE mailing, not by viewing SLUUG home page.

====== Mailing List Report ======
  * Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate):

| List     ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^
^ ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 | 866 | 857 | 856 | 853 | 854 |
^ DISCUSS  | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 186 | 1?? |
^ STEERCOM |  32 |  32 |  33 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  31 |  31 |  31 |  ?? |
^ SYSADMIN |  xx |  xx |  18 |  18 |  18 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  ?? |

  * We have migrated all lists from Majordomo on Michelob to MailMan on Bud.
  * Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet.

  * ANNOUNCE mailing list.
    * Still no volunteer editor to do a Quarterly or monthly newsletter.

====== Meeting Review and Comments ======

===== March 2008 =====
<code>
     March 2008     
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               
</code>

==== SLACC - March 6 ====
  * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

==== SLUUG - March 12 ====
  * BASE: Importing/Exporting Data Between Spreadsheets and Databases by Lee Lammert
    * Good.
  * MAIN: What Every Nerd Needs To Know by Scott Granneman
    * Voice recording was not done.
    * Very good. Good to have a less technical presentation once in a while.

  * CANCELED: iSCSI by Erich Schark of Alliance Systems (via Craig)
    * Canceled on Monday due to operational issues.


==== Solaris - March 18 ====
  * TOPIC: Virtualization by Bob Netherton and Jeff Logullo
    * Covered xVM (Solaris-based Xen) and VirtualBox (bought by Sun February 7).
    * Excellent.  Tag teamed w Jeff doing VirtualBox.
    * Hoping to have this reprised at a SLUUG general meeting.

==== STLLUG - March 20 ====
  * TOPIC: WINE by Ed Howland
    * Excellent. Lots of hands-on demonstration.
    * Formal presentation extended to Nick and Elena's.
    * Audio recording posted to web site.
    * Started about 30 minutes late.

==== HZWLUG - March 25 ====
  * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
    * Talked about various topics.

==== STCLUG - March 27 ====
  * TOPIC: Discussion of future topics by Mark Sims

====== Presentation Schedule ======

===== April 2008 =====

<code>
     April 2008     
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         
</code>

==== SLACC - April 3 ====
  * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.


==== SLUUG - April 9 ====
  * BASE: File Links: Over-easy or Well-done by Carl Fitch
  * MAIN: Mac OS X Leopard by Don Benne (via Gary)

==== Solaris - April 15 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD


==== STLLUG - April 17 ====
  * TOPIC: Encryption by Mike May, Prof @ SLU (TENTATIVE, via Gary)

==== EPC Sale - April 19 ====
  * We plan to have some of our people there to show off GNU/Linux.

==== HZWLUG - April 22 ====
  * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees.
  * OPTION 1: Patitions.
  * OPTION 2: Exploring the /etc directory.
  * OPTION 3: Anything else.

==== STCLUG - April 24 ====
  * TOPIC: Hard Drive Duplication by Carl Fitch

===== May 2008 =====
<code>
      May 2008      
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
</code>

==== SLACC - May 1 ====
  * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

==== SLUUG - May 14 ====
  * NOTE: Back to back meetings
  * BASE: Last.FM by Ed Howland (TENTATIVE, via Gary)
  * MAIN: MythTV by Jason Clark (TENTATIVE, via Craig)
  * BACKUP CHOICE: Encryption by Mike May from SLU (via Gary)

==== STLLUG - May 15 ====
  * NOTE: Back to back meetings
  * TOPIC: MythTV by Jason Clark (TENTATIVE, via Craig)

==== Solaris - May 20 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== STCLUG - May 22 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== HZWLUG - May 27 ====
  * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
  * POTENTIAL TOPIC: Exploring the /bin directory.


===== Potential Future Topics =====
  * GIMP by Scott Nesler.
  * Encryption by Mike May S.J., Prof @ SLU, Chair Math/CS dept (via Gary)
  * Stoneware webOS and Desktop Virtualization by Jack Loane (via Carl/Craig/e-mail)
  * iSCSI
  * EnterpriseDB (packaged version of PostgreSQL) (via Carl)
    * Would be a video-conference, so requires solving the logistics
  * Who is the Spencer Lecture speaker @ UMSL?
  * Mac OS X Leopard by Don Benne (via Gary)
    * Previously presented at GAMUG In-Depth SIG
  * VirtualBox (& xVM (Zen)) by Jeff Logullo? (via Gary)  
  * Status of Sun Solaris by Jeff Logullo (via Gary)
  * Versioning filenames (snapshots?) in ZFS by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse? (via Gary)
  * New release of ZFS                       "   "     "       "    "      "   " 
  * Project Indiana, a new package mngmnt system ala apt/dpkg by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse? (via Gary)
  * Belenix & otherlive CD's based on Open Solaris by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse? (via Gary)
  * Cell phone issues by Don Ellis (via Gary)
     * Grand Central service, 
     * 2 GB mem chip upgrades, 
     * Free calling by automatically routing thru WiFi, 
     * 4 band phones,
     *...
  * APV (Advance POWER Virtualization) Overview by John Hodge
  * Demo/Using Scribus by Stan Reichardt
  * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)- still looking for volunteer
  * Untangle Gateway Platform (instead of CentOS Linux) by Tim Dreste (via Stan R)
  * AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge)
  * Building a modern kernel by Ed Howland
  * Using git by Ed Howland
  * Remotely presented (video conferencing) topics
  * Qt/KDE (TrollTech sales rep, via Craig)
  * Linux(xBSD, etc) on Wireless (Suggested by Ed Howland)
    * Part 1: Theory and operation of wireless networks.
      * The 802.11 stack (relevant protocols).
      * Descriptions of terms, expansion of alphabet soup.
      * Security (WEP, WPA, WPA2)
      * Network types (ad-hoc, infrastrucure).
      * Modes (ad-hoc, managed, master, monitor).
      * Packet Types (management, data frames, beacons, probes).
    * Part 2: Practical Linux Wireless configuration.
      * Cards, compatibility.
      * NDISWrapper and native (devicescape stack).
      * Drivers
      * Tools (using wpa_supplicant).
      * Network Monitor.
   * Status of BSD by Randy?  John?  (via Gary?)
   * Wireshark sniffing by ??? @ Savvis  (via Clarence?).
   * Last.fm, Amarok,...free music downloads by Ed Howland (via Gary)

====== STL Small Business Expo ======
  * March 18, 11:00 - 6:00
  * St. Charles Convention Center
  * We were in booth 801.
  * Volunteers: Gary McKee, Lee Lammert, Carl Fitch, Stan Reichardt
  * Lots of people stopped by -- busy corner.
  * Not sure it's worth our time, money, and effort.

====== Sponsorships ======
  * New Sponsor - 
  * Have the current paying sponsors been asked to renew (with payment)?
    * Gary - Ask Ajilon about continuing $200 sponsorship.
    * Craig - Ask S3 - Strategic Staffing Solutions (follow up)
  * Potential sponsors
    * Sun - Jeff Logullo
    * IBM - (John Hodge may have a contact)
    * Red Hat - Clark Smith (Craig to follow up)
    * VMware - Matt Skipton
  * Some old information has:
    * Annual sponsorship as $200 for Businesses and
    * $300 for Large Enterprise Corporations.  This amount show on sluuginfo.pdf (18 April 2007) handout.
    * The $300 amount not viable, so sponsorships are $200.
    * Stan will purge any $300 amount from web site and forms.
  * We should review them once or twice annually and establish an end date on recognition.
  * We in fact recognize multiple entities as sponsors due to community support or services in kind. 
    * EPC - STLLUG Installfest, STL BusExpo hardware use & handout printing support, SLUUG discount.
    * Computers & Things - STLLUG Installfests, STCLUG projector & STL BusExpo printing support.
    * Graybar - SLUUG general meeting site.
    * Hostirian - New server hosting.
    * K&S Pritchard Enterprises - Hosted STLLUG web pages thru to Spring 2007.
    * O'Reilly - discount book arrangement (now moot - suggest removing).
    * Law Offices of Rich McLennen - legal services as needed.
    * UMSL-MicroLabs - The St. Louis Security Group meeting lab area.
    * Omnitec - has been providing services in kind commensurate with other sponsors.
  * Need sign about sponsoring our group for booth/table display at meetings and trade shows.
  * More effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
    * No effort means no more new sponsors.

====== Server Admin ======
  * Mail was temporarily blocked when /var hit 100%
  * Stan R. moved large backup file to /spare directory. 

====== Server Intrusion and Rebuild ======
  * Craig updated changes to build documentation.
    * Based on rebuild of March 2.

====== Server Migration Project ======
  * Work left to do:
    * Make sure docs are up to date.
      * Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud.
      * Started documenting client email configurations, to help users migrate.
      * See [[../users]] and [[../mail_setup]] pages.
    * Craig - Work on finishing server builds.
      * Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig)
      * More security, for SSH and otherwise.
      * Get offsite backups working. (Mike)
      * Publish SSH host keys on web page.
      * Standardize/regularize user accounts (IDs, password expirations). (Mike)
  * Other work to do:
    * Better web site management tools
  * Craig will get together with Mike and/or Carl to work on tasks in next coming weeks.

====== Website Library ======
  * Stan R. and Ted P.
  * Stan uploaded several older presentations.
    * WINE by Ed Howland (audio)
    * Update on SCO vs. IBM Lawsuit by Benjamin White (2006)
    * sudo not su by Stanford Baldwin
  * No more other presentation uploads yet.

====== SLACC as a SIG ======
  * Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.com email addresses.
  * The registration is paid up until 2009.
  * Carl - follow up with Noel about transferring the domain to us.

====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ======
  * Membership drive
    * Need to print out name tags.
      * Omnitec will print them out and bring to SLUUG meeting.
  * Cafe Press merchandise
    * Carl has money from purchases -- needs to turn into treasurer.
    * Stan to add CafePress link to SLUUG web site when we get info.
    * Stan to link new membership page into SLUUG web site.
  * It was suggested that we use Scott Nesler's logos.
    * We should ask Scott.
    * We should post the choices to STEERCOM for voting to make it official.

===== An Ubuntu Group =====
  * [[http://www.stchman.com/ | Bob Nelson]] - [[http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-466368.html | wants to start an Ubuntu LoCo]]
    * Craig to follow up again.
    * EPC would like to hold the meetings.
      * Open 9-2 on weekends, close at 6 on weekdays.
      * Talk to Tony Lavasco and Frank Polston if we need to follow up.

===== Security Group =====
  * Has not had a meeting in the past x months.
    * Clarence has had conflicts.
    * Other leaders have not been responsive.
  * Steering Committee has declared the group "in hiatus".
    * Stan has updated web site with the new status.
  * Gary will start a thread on DISCUSS.
    * Asking for location and leadership.

===== Manage The Group =====
  * Lee suggested we create a Rails app on Bud to manage the group.
    * Member data - payments, expirations, etc.
    * Sponsors - expirations, etc.
    * Attendance
    * STL Ruby Group is writing a similar application.
      * RAMS - Rails Association Management System
      * We should leverage that, and guide it to our needs
    * Scott Nesler has built an app for attendance
      * Stan has plugged data into it for the year
      * Not sure if the app fits any of our other needs

====== Other Old Business ======
  * LDAP group
    * Need to restart
    * Suggested session(s) to "recap" (by Rich S?)
    * Needed to get LDAP implemented on servers

====== New Business ======
  * Structure/timing/flow of the meetings
    * Need to leave enough time for "off-line interaction".
    * Plan on tutorials being planned for ~20 mins.
    * Main presentations should plan for ~1 hour (1.5 hours at STLLUG)
  * Geek lunches.
    * Only 2 people showed up at downtown meeting
    * Lots of people at the Olive meeting, but location was too noisy
    * Possible confusion with having 2 meetings at the same time
    * Should these meetings count as official SLUUG meetings?
      * For the moment, no -- keep them informal.
      * We should support them, announce them, etc.

====== Blue Sky ======
  * Does calling/phoning "old attendees" encourage them to come to meetings?  Does e-mailing them?

====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
  * Carl, Lee - Need to print out name tags for paying members.
  * Jeff - Seek assistance from AIX gurus (Barry, John, Mike, Gary) to see if we want to set up his box.
  * Barry - Follow up w/ John Hodge about a presentation in the near future.
  * Barry, John - Talk to Rich Seibel and Dave Mills about AIX hardware they have.
  * Lee, Barry - Get someone from IBM to talk about POWER6, AIX 6.0, etc.
  * Craig - Follow up w/ Jason Clark about doing back-to-back nights in May.
  * Craig - Follow up w/ Ubuntu LoCo person.
  * Craig - Email Clark Smith @ Red Hat about getting someone to present on RHEL5, and $200 sponsorship.
  * Craig - Email Jim Leingang @ S3 about $200 sponsorship.
  * Stan - Add CafePress link to SLUUG web site (http://cafepress.com/sluug).
  * Stan - Link new membership page into SLUUG web site.
  * Gary - Prepare Sun E250 for potential use.
  * Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
  * Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
  * Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
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