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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 -
Attendees
-
Carl Fitch
Stan Reichardt
Craig Buchek
Lee Lammert
Gary Meyer
Secretary Report
Printed out minutes from Steering Committee meetings through December.
Treasurer Report
Carl - give money collected for memberships to the Treasurer.
Carl - Turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer.
Carl - Cancel credit card processing.
Craig - Submit receipt for voice recorder.
Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.
? Open issues:
Attendance Report
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 | xx |
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.
Attendence found out by ANNOUNCE mailing, not by viewing SLUUG home page.
Mailing List Report
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 | 8?? |
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 most lists from Majordomo on Michelob to MailMan on Bud.
USERS and non-SLUUG lists are only remaining lists to migrate.
Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet.
March 2008
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
SLACC - March 6
SLUUG - March 12
BASE: Importing/Exporting Data Between Spreadsheets and Databases by Lee Lammert
MAIN: What Every Nerd Needs To Know By Scott Granneman (via Gary Myers)
Voice recording was not done.
Solaris - March 18
STLLUG - March 20
HZWLUG - March 25
STCLUG - March 27
Presentation Schedule
April 2008
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
SLACC - April 3
SLUUG - April 9
Solaris - April 15
STLLUG - April 17
HZWLUG - April 22
STCLUG - April 24
May 2008
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
SLACC - May 1
SLUUG - May 14
» -or- SLU's encryption -or- ???
STLLUG - May 15
Solaris - May 20
STCLUG - May 22
HZWLUG - May 27
Potential Future Topics
Who is the Spencer Lecture speaker @ UMSL?
Mac
OS X Leopard by Don Benne (via Gary)
Stoneware webOS and Desktop Virtualization by Jack Loane (via Carl/Craig/e-mail)
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)
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)
Encryption by Mike May S.J., Chair Math/CS dept SLU (via Gary)
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
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
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.
Server Admin
Server Intrusion and Rebuild
? Mike Knight found evidence of intrusion on Bud on February 23.
? Craig and Mike removed the damage as much as possible.
? Craig rebuilt the server on March 2.
? Mike and Gary assisted remotely from CWELUG.
? Had some issues getting users configured to receive emails.
? Had an issue with locking out root.
Server Migration Project
Website Library
SLACC as a SIG
Membership (and Shell Accounts)
An Ubuntu Group
Security Group
Manage The Group
Other Old Business
* Any?
New Business
I am worried that we do NOT leave enuff time for "offline interaction".
Do I/we need to instruct the presenters to work at keeping the
tutorial to ~20 mins? ...the main presentation to ~45, certainly no
...
... So people do NOT volunteer because they don't think
they have/can prepare enuff material. I think we'd get more offers to
present if presenters felt confortable doing quickies.
Thoughts? Feedback? Options?
Any?
Blue Sky
Any?
Follow-up and Action Items
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/ 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 when we get info.
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.