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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - September 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, September 3, 2008
  * 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm

====== Attendees ======
  * Lee Lammert
  * Craig Buchek 
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Gary Meyer

====== Secretary Report  ======
  * Have printed minutes through August.

====== Treasurer Report ======
  * Balance: $1.536.77 as of 8/31/08
  * Receipts (pending submission):
    * Carl - Annual registration fee to State of Missouri
    * Craig - Submit receipt for voice recorder.
    * Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.
  * Money received: $45.00 for memberships.
  * 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 August 2008:

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

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

| List     ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^
^ ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 | 866 | 857 | 856 | 853 | 854 | 843 | 835 | 830 | 828 |
^ DISCUSS  | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 186 | 1?? | 188 | 188 | 192 | 193 |
^ STEERCOM |  32 |  32 |  33 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  31 |  31 |  31 |  ?? |  29 |  32 |  33 |  33 |
^ SYSADMIN |  xx |  xx |  18 |  18 |  18 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  ?? |  15 |  15 |  16 |  16 |

  * 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.

====== Presentation Archives Report ======
  * Stan R. uploaded several presentation items:
    - SLUUG  OCT 2007 Main: Intro to Distributed Version Control by Kyle Cordes (Handout Only) 
    - SLUUG  JUL 2008 Basic: Sitebar by Lee Lammert + Sound
    - SLUUG  JUL 2008 Main: OpenSolaris - Production Ready! by Jeff Logullo + Sound
    - SLUUG  AUG 2008 Main1: OpenWRT by Jeff Muse & Main2: Linksys NAS NSLU2 by Jeff Logullo + Sound 
    - STLLUG AUG 2008 Natural Language by Kevin Scannell, PhD
  * Have not received materials from recent presenters:
    - SLUUG  APR 2008 Mac OS X Leopard by Don Benne 
    - SLUUG  MAR 2008 The Skills Nerds Need to Know - Send 2nd Request to Scott Granneman

====== Annual Report to State of Missouri ======

  * Carl filed annual report for 2008 during the August STEERCOM meeting.
    * Cost was $10.00, paid on Carl's credit card.
    * Craig's name and address were corrected.
  * Corporation Info
    * Official name: ST. LOUIS UNIX USERS GROUP, INC.
    * Charter number: N00046271
  * Latest annual report (6 August 2008) is now on file
    * [[https://www.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/soskb/Filings.asp?681250#]]
  * Filled out paperwork to use Craig Buchek as our registered agent.
    * Carl signed paperwork at the SLUUG meeting.
    * Need to send the paperwork in with $10.00.

====== Meeting Review and Comments ======


===== 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: Commands You Might Have Missed by Carl Fitch
    * Good.
  * MAIN: OpenWRT by Jeff Muse & Linksys NAS NSLU2 by Jeff Logullo
    * Extremely good.
    * The 2 topics dove-tailed together very nicely.

==== Solaris - August 19 ====
  * TOPIC: OpenSolaris Device Drivers by Steve Stallion
    * Interesting.

==== SNUG - August 20 ====
  * TOPIC: Meeting Canceled
    * Several people showed up anyway.

==== STLLUG - August 21 ====
  * TOPIC: Open Source Language Technology Using Statistical Methods by Kevin Scannell
    * Very good.
    * Topic title might have limited attendance some.

==== HZWLUG - August 26 ====
  * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
    * Exploring the /home directory.
    * Had a good time.

==== STCLUG - August 28 ====
  * TOPIC: Nagios Demonstration Canceled
  * Group discussion and review of coding
    * Had fun in the unstructured code review.

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

===== 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: (More) Commands You Might Have Missed by Carl Fitch
  * MAIN: Virtualization and the POWER Architecture by Sammie Allam, IBM (confirmed, via Lee)

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

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

==== STLLUG - September 18 ====
  * TOPIC: Open Source Voting Software by Robert Citek (short - 20 minutes)

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

==== HZWLUG - September 30 ====
  * Because of Prairie Commons Library Branch September schedule we have to switch to 5th Tuesday.
  * Meetings are usually on 4th Tuesday (would have been 23rd).
  * The STEERCOM meeting will also be held this evening, one day early.
  * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
    * OPTION: Exploring the /var directory.
    * OPTION: Partitions
    * OPTION: Anything else.

===== 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>

==== SLACC - October 2 ====
  * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

==== STLCL - October 4 ====
  * First Saturday in October
  * St. Louis County Library room reservations for next year

==== SLUUG - October 8  ====
  * BASE: TBD
  * MAIN: VMWare 6.5 & Server 2.0 by Matt Skipton, VMware (via Lee)

==== Solaris - October 14 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== SNUG - October 15 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== STLLUG - October 16 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== STCLUG - October 23 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== HZWLUG - October 28 ====
  * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees
  * TOPIC1: TBD
  * TOPIC2: Partitions
  * TOPIC3: Anything else.

===== November 2008 =====
<code>
   November 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>

==== SLUUG - November 12  ====
  * BASE: TBD
  * MAIN: Booting PC Style! by Rich Seibel (via Gary - need to confirm the date)
    * 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.     

====== Potential Presenters ======

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

  * Don Hardaway and Craig Van Slyke (St. Louis University)
    * TOPIC: Open Source on the Desktop: Why Not?
    * Gary to contact them to request a presentation from them.
    * See first article [[http://lwn.net/Articles/293907/ | here]]
  * John Hodge
    * TOPIC: APV (Advance POWER Virtualization) Overview
  * 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
  * 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
  * 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: Google Calendar
    * 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

====== Potential Topics ======

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.
    * Scott Nesler offered to present [[http://www.dogoodgauge.com|Do Good Gauge]] concept as a main topic or lead in.
  * 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

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

====== Server Admin ======
  * Need to break into the Sun machines again and reset passwords so they do not expire!
    * Carl suggests connecting serial ports on bud to serial console on Sun boxes.
      * Could then boot into single user mode.
      * Would need to install minicom to access serial TTY.
  * Should we setup our own DNS on Bud/Budlight & switch over.
    * Make our own servers authoritative for our own domains.
    * Would allow us to publish reverse records.
      * Primary has said they can allow this.
    * Would allow us to publish SPF records.
    * We could offer dyanmic DNS services to our members.
      * On a subdomain, such as users.sluug.org
  * We have 2 Sun E250s, which are currently racked but not connected.
    * Carl proposed parting out those boxes.
    * Craig concurred.

====== Server Migration Project ======
  * Craig has updated some of the documentation recently, as he built systems based on our docs.
  * Backups
  * 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.

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

====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ======
  * We had 2 new memberships this month.
  * 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
  * Lee has proposed to sell pizzas as fund-raiser if continued insufficient Memberships & Sponsors.

====== Manage The Group ======
  * 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)
    * Has been running more smoothly lately.

  * 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
          * (app is developed on CakePHP MVC architecture).   
          * Member Payment, expiration would be simple addition to existing table/screens.    
          * CRUD functionality simplifies expanding the application with additional tables.
          * Compartmentalization of CSS and layout templates simplifies changes to the look and feel.

====== Small Business Expo - 1 October ======
  * 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, ..).
  * Will need booth helpers from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
    * Especially need people for setup (9:00 to 11:00) and tear-down (5:00 to 6:00).

====== Other Old Business ======
  * None.

====== New Business ======
  * None.

====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
  * Gary - Contact Don Hardaway and Craig Van Slyke (St. Louis University).
  * Gary - Follow up on political topics for October STLLUG.
  * Craig - Make sure change of registered agent form got mailed in.
  * Craig - Contact Rick Clark (Ubuntu) about presenting at October or November STLLUG.
  * Lee - Need list to print out name tags for paying members.
  * Carl - Follow up w/ SLACC and SNUG leaders.
  * Carl - Set up accounts for new members. (Lee has the info.)

  * 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.
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