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SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - August 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
Attendees
Carl Fitch
Stan Reichardt
Craig Buchek
Lee Lammert (out of town)
Secretary Report
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:
Need suggestions for following up with and attracting potential Sponsors.
Attendance Report
Meeting | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul |
Steercom | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | No | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
SLACC | 6 | 7 | ? | ? | 8 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 4 | (4) | ? | x | 6 | 9 |
SLUUG | 12 | 23 | 22 | 18 | 16 | 27 | 36 | 21 | 24 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 23 | 17 | 31 | 18 | 17 |
Solaris | 4 | No | 18 | 15 | 6 | 8 | No | 11 | No | 5 | No | 13 | No | 6 | No | 20 | 10 | No |
SNUG | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 5 | No |
STLLUG | 12 | 14 | 18 | 23 | 20 | 31 | 31 | 23 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 17 | No | 16 | 17 | 29 | 22 | 20 |
HZWLUG | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 | No | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 11 |
STCLUG | 10 | 10 | 6 | ? | 8 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 11 | No | 11 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 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.
Dropped reference to LDAP meetings.
Mailing List Report
List | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul |
ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 | 866 | 857 | 856 | 853 | 854 | 843 | 835 | 830 |
DISCUSS | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 186 | 1?? | 188 | 188 | 192 |
STEERCOM | 32 | 32 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 31 | 31 | 31 | ?? | 29 | 32 | 33 |
SYSADMIN | xx | xx | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | ?? | 15 | 15 | 16 |
Presentation Libraries Report
July 2008
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
SLACC - July 3
SLUUG - July 9
Solaris - July 15
SNUG - July 16
STLLUG - July 17
TOPIC: Keyboard Kareoake (Tips, Tricks and Favorites) by Various Members
New attendees were very happy with the variety
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HZWLUG - July 22
STCLUG - July 24
Presentation Schedule
August 2008
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
SLACC - August 7
SLUUG - August 13
Solaris - August 19
SNUG - August 20
STLLUG - August 21
TOPIC: Open source language technology using statistical methods
Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Kevin Scannell, PhD. Director of Computer Sci @ SLU
Confirmed via Gary Meyer
HZWLUG - August 26
STCLUG - August 28
September 2008
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
SLACC - September 4
SLUUG - September 10
Solaris - September 16
SNUG - September 17
STLLUG - September 18
HZWLUG - September 23
STCLUG - September 25
October 2008
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
SLUUG - October 8
STLLUG - October 16
November 2008
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
SLUUG - November 12
Potential Future Topics
Wed 12 November General meeting? .. Booting PC style! . by Rich Siebel (via Gary)
This is what happens BEFORE GRUB or LILO. x86 PC hardware with standard bios (like Phoenix,…backward compatable to orig PC). Stage 1,2, & 3. A hardware talk but some references to how it varies from
OS to
OS. NOT PXE or EFI. He will commit if we like date. Or he can do as early as Sept. Prefers Wed.
December or January - Open Grid Computing from Sanjiv Bhatia or UMSL (Lee)
Last.fm, Amarok,…free music downloads by Ed Howland (via Gary)
GIMP by Scott Nesler.
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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)
EnterpriseDB (packaged version of PostgreSQL) (via Carl)
APV (Advance POWER Virtualization) Overview by John Hodge
Demo/Using Scribus by Stan Reichardt
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
Potential Topics needing Speaker
various Sun topics by Jeff Logullo
Versioning filenames (snapshots?) in ZFS by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse? (via Gary)
New release of ZFS by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse?
MySQL by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse?
Project Indiana, a new package mngmnt system ala apt/dpkg by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse?
Belenix & other live CD's based on Open Solaris by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse? What/why are these other distros?
iSCSI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) - still looking for volunteer
SuSe new (July) release. Someone from Novell? Gary Hollingsworth?
HP-UX current release, features, futures,… Dave Mills? HP corporate?
Apple's iPhone: Programing. Web interface. ???
LG's competitor to iPhone…
Using git%
The Presidency, The Congress, the Technology Issues & the election.
Do Obama, Barr, McCain, etc have positions on issues related to technology such as intellectual property, privacy vs surveilance, subsidies & incentives, Common Carrier, …? The parties & (local) congressional candidates? We need to do in Sept or Oct.
Current paying sponsors have been asked to renew with nice letter in April.
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.
Server Admin
Server Migration Project
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.
SNUG as a SIG
Membership (and Shell Accounts)
Manage The Group
Other Old Business
New Business
Small Business Expo - 1 October
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.