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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - June 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, June 4, 2008
  * 18:30 - 20:45


====== Attendees ======
  * Barry Morrison
  * Carl Fitch
  * Jeff Muse
  * Lee Lammert
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Jeff Logullo
  * Gary Hollingsworth

====== Secretary Report  ======
  * Need to print out minutes for April.

====== Treasurer Report ======
  * Balance: $1,071.50 as of 4/30/08
  * Receipts:
    * SBS Creatix    $200
    * Syllogistics   $200
    * Mike Kriz      $ 35
  * Carl - Turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer.
  * Craig - Submit receipt for voice recorder.
  * Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.
  * Open issues:
    * Lee - Follow up drafting reply to Wash U.
    * Final bill from Wash U. - need to complete reply
  * A nice Sponsor Letter and voluntary invoice was sent to sponsors for which we have contact info. None Replied except Syllogistics.

====== Attendance Report ======
  * Some numbers, as of end of May 2008:

| Meeting  ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^
^ Steercom |   5 |   4 |   3 |  5 |   7 |   4 |   5  |   5 |  No |   6 |   3 |  6 |  2 |  4 |  4 |  4 |
^ SLACC    |   6 |   7 |   ? |  ? |   8 |   6 |  10  |   7 |   5 |   8 |   4 |  7 |  4 |  (4)|  ? |  x |
^ 1st LDAP |  xx |   5 |   6 |  7 |   6 |  No |  No  |  No |  No |   ? |  No |  4 | No | No | No | No |
^ SLUUG    |  12 |  23 |  22 | 18 |  16 |  27 |  36  |  21 |  24 |  25 |  20 | 14 | 12 | 23 | 17 | 31 |
^ Solaris  |   4 |  No |  18 | 15 |   6 |   8 |  No  |  11 |  No |   5 |  No | 13 | No |  6  | No | 20 |
^ 2nd LDAP |  xx |   6 |   5 |  5 |   6 |  No |  No  | (6) |   7 |  No |   3 |  ? | No | No | No | No |
^ STLLUG   |  12 |  14 |  18 | 23 |  20 |  31 |  31  |  23 |  19 |  25 |  20 | 17 | No | 16 | 17 | 29 |
^ HZWLUG   |   7 |   9 |   8 |  9 |  No |  11 |  11  |  10 |  10 |  15 |   9 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 11 |
^ STCLUG   |  10 |  10 |   6 |  ? |   8 |  11 |  17  |  10 |  11 |  No |  11 |  9 | 11 | 3 | 13 |  5 |

  * 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.

====== Mailing List Report ======
  * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of May 2008:

| List     ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^
^ ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 | 866 | 857 | 856 | 853 | 854 | 843 |
^ DISCUSS  | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 186 | 1?? | 188 |
^ STEERCOM |  32 |  32 |  33 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  31 |  31 |  31 |  ?? |  29 |
^ SYSADMIN |  xx |  xx |  18 |  18 |  18 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  ?? |  15 |

  * Numbers will now be as end of each month.
  * 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 ======

===== 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.
  * Well attended!

==== SLUUG - May 14 ====
  * NOTE: Back to back meetings
  * BASE: Setting up a firewall in 10 minutes with pfw on OpenBSD by Lee Lammert
  * MAIN: MythTV by Jason Clark (via Craig)
  * Excellent - well attended!

==== STLLUG - May 15 ====
  * NOTE: Back to back meetings.  
  * TOPIC: MythTV by Jason Clark (via Craig)
  * Even though both were advertised as duplicate sessions, confusion still reined.
  * Drawing was held at Steercom, 4 June 2008; Jeff L. picked #29 - Jim Roe!

==== Solaris - May 20 ====
  * TOPIC: new OpenSolaris Live-CD, Its root ZFS filesystem, and new package manager (IPS).
  * EXCELLENT demonstration of ZFS Phoenix from the Ashes!

==== STCLUG - May 22 ====
  * TOPIC: Firewalls - pfSense in Depth by Carl Fitch
  * Restaurant had room booked wrong, some people were turned away.

==== HZWLUG - May 27 ====
  * DISCUSSION 1: Updated Information Links on [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org/cdrom.html|CDROM]] disc web page posted. 
  * DISCUSSION 2: Demoed new Information web page on [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org/network.html|Networking]] resources (posted next day).
  * DISCUSSION 3: Diagram of sample home network with aDSL modem, router and switch.

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

===== June 2008 =====
<code>
     June 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 - June 5 ====
  * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

==== SLUUG - June 11 ====
  * BASE1: nameif & mtr by Carl Fitch
  * BASE2: sshfs & fuse by Jeff Muse
  * CHALLENGE: Favorite Network Tools by group

==== Solaris - June 17 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== STLLUG - June 19 ====
  * TOPIC: VirtualBox for SuSE & Vista/XP by Lee Lammert

==== HZWLUG - June 24 ====
  * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
  * TOPIC 1: Exploring the /bin directory (not done during prior month).
  * TOPIC 2: Partitions.
  * TOPIC 3: Anything else.

==== STCLUG - June 26 ====
  * TOPIC: Keyboard Karoake


===== July 2008 =====
<code>
     July 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 - July 3 ====
  * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

==== SLUUG - July 9 ====
  * BASE: 
  * MAIN: OpenSolaris - Production Ready! by Jeff Logulo
  * BACKUP CHOICE: 

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

==== STLLUG - July 17 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== HZWLUG - July 22 ====
  * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
  * TOPIC 1: Exploring the /etc directory (not done during prior month).
  * TOPIC 2: Partitions.
  * TOPIC 3: Anything else.

==== STCLUG - July 24 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

===== August 2008 =====
<code>
    August 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 - August 7 ====
  * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

==== SLUUG - August 13  ====
  * BASE: 
  * MAIN: Linksys NAS NSLU2 by Jeff Logullo & OpenWRT by Jeff Muse
  * BACKUP CHOICE: 

==== Solaris - August 19 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== STLLUG - August 21 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD 

==== HZWLUG - August 24 ====
  * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
  * TOPIC1: Exploring the /etc directory.
  * TOPIC2: Partitions
  * TOPIC 3: Anything else.

==== STLLUG - August 28 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD 

===== Potential Future Topics =====
  * VMware by Matt Skipton (via Lee)
  * various Sun topics by Jeff Logullo
    * Versioning filenames (snapshots?) in ZFS by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse? (via Gary)
    * New release of ZFS                       "   "     "       "    "      "   " 
    * MySQL
    * Project Indiana, a new package mngmnt system ala apt/dpkg by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse?
    * Belenix & otherlive CD's based on Open Solaris by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse?
  * Last.fm, Amarok,...free music downloads by Ed Howland (via Gary)
  * GIMP by Scott Nesler.
  * Encryption by Mike May S.J., Prof @ SLU, Chair Math/CS dept (via Gary)
  * Natural Language Processing by SLU professor (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
  * 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 (IBM via John Hodge)
  * Building a modern kernel by Ed Howland
  * Using git%

====== Sponsorships ======
  * 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)
    * Canonical/Ubuntu (Craig to follow up)
    * VMware - Matt Skipton
    * We should review them once or twice annually and establish an end date on recognition.
  * 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 ======
  * Carl rebuilt OpenSSH and checked all keys for vulnerability
  * Need to break into the Sun machines again and reset passwords so they do not expire!
  * Need to setup our own DNS on Bud/Budlight & switch over

====== 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 Libraries ======
  * Stan R. and Ted P.
  * Stan uploaded several presentations.
    - SLUUG  MAY 2008 MythTV by Jason Clark
    - STLLUG MAY 2008 MythTV by Jason Clark
  * Have not received materials from recent presenters:
    - SLUUG  APR 2008 MacOS X Leopard by Don Benne 
    - SLUUG  MAR 2008 The Skills Nerds Need to Know - Send 2nd Request to Scott Granneman

====== 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 & SLUUG need to reconcile demo merchandise

===== 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.

===== 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 this fall
    * Suggested session(s) to "recap" (by Rich S?)
    * Needed to get LDAP implemented on servers
  * 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.
  * Terminal servers were removed last month.
    * Gary was not unable to recover all of the equipment.


====== New Business ======
  * Gary H. asked that we setup a web presence for the St. Louis Novell User's International (NUI). Motion made and passed unanimously that SLUUG will accept them as an informal SIG [in the same manner as OpenSolaris], providing a web presence and adding the current NUI mailing list to discuss. 

====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
  * Lee - Need to print out name tags for paying members.
  * Barry - Follow up w/ John Hodge about a presentation in the near future.
  * 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.
  * 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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