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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - July 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, July 2, 2008
  * 18:45 - 19:30


====== Attendees ======
  * Carl Fitch
  * Lee Lammert
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Craig Buchek

====== Secretary Report  ======
  * Need to print out minutes from April onward.

====== Treasurer Report ======
  * Balance: $1,384.17 as of 6/30/08
  * Receipts:
  * Carl - Turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer. DONE!!
  * 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
  * Need suggestions for following up with and attracting potential Sponsors.

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

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

  * 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 June 2008:

| List     ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^
^ ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 | 866 | 857 | 856 | 853 | 854 | 843 | 835 |
^ DISCUSS  | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 186 | 1?? | 188 | 188 |
^ STEERCOM |  32 |  32 |  33 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  31 |  31 |  31 |  ?? |  29 |  32 |
^ SYSADMIN |  xx |  xx |  18 |  18 |  18 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  ?? |  15 |  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 ======

===== 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 - Both were well received!
  * CHALLENGE: Favorite Network Tools by group - Excellent discussions!
  * Received multiple comments afterwords that presentations were better than expected.

==== Solaris - June 17 ====
  * TOPIC: Service Management Facility (SMF) by Steve Baker - Excellent detail.

==== SNUG - June 18 ====
  * TOPIC: OpenSuSE 11.0 - Many improvements discussed.

==== STLLUG - June 19 ====
  * TOPIC: VirtualBox for SuSE & Vista/XP by Jeff Logullo & Lee Lammert
  * Lots of details from Sun, actual demo of Vista running under SuSE 10.3.

==== HZWLUG - June 24 ====
  * TOPIC: Exploring the /bin directory (not done during prior month).

==== STCLUG - June 26 ====
  * TOPIC: Keyboard Karoake
  * Ran over - small group but very interactive.

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

===== 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: Sitebar [web-based bookmark management] by Lee Lammert
  * MAIN: OpenSolaris - Production Ready! by Jeff Logulo
  * BACKUP CHOICE: 

==== Solaris - July 15 ====
  * TOPIC: NO MEETING - Summer Siesta

==== SNUG - July 16 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

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

==== HZWLUG - July 22 ====
  * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
  * TOPIC 1: Exploring the /etc directory.
  * 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

==== SNUG - August 20 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

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

==== HZWLUG - August 26 ====
  * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
  * TOPIC1: Exploring the /home directory.
  * TOPIC2: Partitions
  * TOPIC 3: Anything else.

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

===== September 2008 =====
<code>
   September 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 - September 4 ====
  * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

==== SLUUG - September 10  ====
  * BASE: 
  * MAIN: Virtualization and the Power Architecture by Sammie Allam, IBM via Lee
  * BACKUP CHOICE: 

==== Solaris - September 16 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== SNUG - September 17 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== STLLUG - September 18 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD 

==== HZWLUG - September 23 ====
  * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
  * TOPIC1: Exploring the /etc directory.
  * TOPIC2: Partitions
  * TOPIC 3: Anything else.

==== STCLUG - September 25 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD 

===== October 2008 =====
<code>
    October 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>

==== SLUUG - October 8  ====
  * BASE: 
  * MAIN: VMWare 6.5 & Server 2.0 by Matt Skipton, VMWare, via Lee
  * BACKUP CHOICE: 


===== Potential Future Topics =====
  * December or January - Open Grid Computing from Sanjiv Bhatia or UMSL (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) (He defered to 2 other profs.)
  * Natural Language Processing by SLU professor Kevin Scannell(via Gary)  http://borel.slu.edu/nlp.html
  * David Letscher, Prof of CS at SLU on ??? (via Gary)  Still gone for summer. Awaiting details.
  * 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 ======
  * Current paying sponsors have been asked to renew with nice letter in April.
    * 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 ======
  * 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/Lee need to reconcile demo merchandise
  * Need to come up with standardized 'Membership List' & same UIDs on all production machines.
  * Document useradd process.

===== 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 needs focus & new leadership
  * Structure/timing/flow of 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)
    * Need MC to run schedule at meetings
  * 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.

====== New Business ======
  * Temporary web site up, signin sheets printed, Need to add SNUG members to Discuss & Announce.
  * Root passwords updated on Bud & Budlight
  * Proposal to sell Pizzas as fundraiser if continued insufficient Memberships & Sponsors.
  * Comments for October Small Business Expo:
    * Suggest EPC provide OpenDisk copies & handouts.
    * Need BUSINESS ORIENTED demos - e.g. Accounting.
    * Need dedicated SERVER to use and demo office functions (wiki, file sharing, ..).
  * Need new STLLUG chairperson.

====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
  * Lee - Need list 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 - 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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