NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!)

Saint Louis Bread Company,
(at Old Olive and Olive),
10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

• Wednesday, August 6, 2008
• 18:30 -

Carl Fitch

Stan Reichardt

Craig Buchek

Lee Lammert (out of town)

• Need to print out minutes from April onward.

• Balance: $1,384.17 as of 6/30/08
• Receipts:
• Carl - Turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer. DONE!!
• Carl - Annual registration fee to State of Missouri
• 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.

• Some numbers, as of end of July 2008:

• 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.

• Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of July 2008:

• 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.

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

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• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE: Sitebar [web-based bookmark management] by Lee Lammert
• MAIN: OpenSolaris - Production Ready! by Jeff Logulo

• TOPIC: NO MEETING - Summer Siesta

• TOPIC: NO MEETING - Summer Siesta

• TOPIC: Keyboard Kareoake (Tips, Tricks and Favorites) by Various Members
• New attendees were very happy with the variety

• TOPIC 1: Exploring the /etc directory.
• TOPIC 2: Using gvim and kate editors
• TOPIC 3: Other stuff.

• TOPIC: Open Topic (Informal)
• Speaker: Called In Sick
• Very small group, multiple topics.

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• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE:
• MAIN: Linksys NAS NSLU2 by Jeff Logullo & OpenWRT by Jeff Muse
• BACKUP CHOICE:

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Open source language technology using statistical methods
• Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Kevin Scannell, PhD. Director of Computer Sci @ SLU
  • http://borel.slu.edu/nlp.html
• Confirmed via Gary Meyer

• TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
• OPTION1: Exploring the /home directory.
• OPTION2: Partitions
• OPTION3: Anything else.

• TOPIC: Nagios Demonstration
• Speaker: Carl Fitch

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• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE:
• MAIN: Virtualization and the Power Architecture by Sammie Allam, IBM via Lee
• BACKUP CHOICE:

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD. - - POSSIBLE pre-November election issues?

• TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
• TOPIC1: Exploring the /var directory.
• TOPIC2: Partitions
• TOPIC 3: Anything else.

• TOPIC: TBD

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• BASE:
• MAIN: VMWare 6.5 & Server 2.0 by Matt Skipton, VMWare, via Lee
• BACKUP CHOICE:

• TOPIC: TBD. - - POSSIBLE pre-November election issues?

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• BASE:
• MAIN: Booting PC Style! by Rich Seibel (via Gary) (Do we confirm? Move to Sept? or Oct?)
  • ABSTRACT: This is what happens BEFORE GRUB or LILO on x86 PC hardware with standard BIOS - stages 1, 2, and 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 the date. Or he can do as early as Sept. Prefers Wed.
• BACKUP CHOICE:

These are some people who can present, and possible topics they can speak about.

• IBM (via John Hodge)
  • TOPIC: AIX 6
  • TOPIC: POWER 6 CPU architecture
• Wehrenberg Theaters (via Gary)
  • TOUR/DEMO: Digital cinema projectors
• Sanjiv Bhatia (or someone from UMSL, via Lee)
  • TOPIC: Open Grid Computing
  • December or January
• John Hodge
  • TOPIC: APV (Advance POWER Virtualization) Overview
• David Letscher (Prof of CS at SLU) (via Gary)
  • TOPIC: TBD
  • Still gone for summer. Awaiting details.
• Rick Clark (Ubuntu) (via Craig)
  • TOPIC: TBD
  • Not available until October
  • Might be able to talk to STCLUG and STLLUG
• Matt Skipton (via Lee)
  • TOPIC: VMware
• Jeff Logullo (Sun)
  • TOPIC: MySQL - now a Sun product
  • TOPIC: Project Indiana, a new package mngmnt system ala apt/dpkg
  • TOPIC: Versioning filenames (snapshots?) in ZFS
  • TOPIC: New release of ZFS
  • TOPIC: Belenix & other live CD's based on Open Solaris
• Scott Nesler
  • TOPIC: GIMP (follow-up from previous presentation)
• Jeff Muse
  • TOPIC: various Solaris topics
• Ed Howland (via Gary)
  • TOPIC: Last.fm, Amarok, etc. - free music downloads
  • TOPIC: Building a modern kernel
• Stan Reichardt
  • TOPIC/DEMO: Using Scribus
• Tim Dreste (via Stan R)
  • TOPIC: Untangle Gateway Platform
  • TOPIC: CentOS Linux
• unknown (via Carl)
  • TOPIC: EnterpriseDB (packaged version of PostgreSQL)
  • Would be a video-conference, so requires solving logistics problems

These are some topics that we've had requested, or brainstormed, but need to find speakers for.

• Technology and Politics
  • Where do politicians stand on issues important to our group?
  • Issues - intellectual property, privacy vs surveilance, subsidies & incentives, Common Carrier
  • National, state, and local candidates and parties
  • Would need to do in Sept or Oct.
  • Tim Dreste might be able to get someone from Todd Akin's office to speak with us.
  • Craig is talking to someone involved w/ the Obama campaign.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)
  • Still looking for volunteer; tried Clark Smith at Red Hat
• Fedora recent releases
• SuSE or OpenSUSE recent releases
  • Someone from Novell?
  • Gary Hollingsworth?
• HP-UX current release, features, future
  • Dave Mills?
  • HP corporate?
• iSCSI
• Using git
• CPUs
  • Features of modern Intel/AMD CPUs
  • x86-64
  • x86, x86-64, IA64, Sparc, PowerPC, ARM, POWER
• iPhone
  • Developing for (web, native)
• iPhone competitors
  • LG Dare
  • Samsung Instinct
  • Other Linux-based phones
  • LiMo versus Google Android

• 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.
• Syllogistics paid twice for a corporate sponsorship,
  • the 2nd check will be returned with a nice thank-you letter

• 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

• Craig was to get together with Mike and/or Carl to work on tasks in July
• 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
  • Document useradd process.
  • Develop standardized 'Membership List' & same UIDs on all production machines.

• 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 attendance sheets and temporary web page made.
  • Still need to add SNUG members to Discuss & Announce.

• 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
• Proposal to sell Pizzas as fund-raiser if continued insufficient Memberships & Sponsors.

• Need new STLLUG chairperson.
  • Craig can not do anymore

• Structure/timing/flow of meetings
  • Need MC to run schedule at 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)

• 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

• Any other Old Business?

• Any New Business?

• SBE will again be at St. Charles Convention Center.
• SBE is on same day as usual STEERCOM meeting
  • This may be a problem as usual suspects won't feel like doing both.
  • Can we provide alternative?
• SBE support:
  • Need BUSINESS ORIENTED demos - e.g. Accounting.
  • Need dedicated SERVER to use and demo office functions (wiki, file sharing, ..).

• 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 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.