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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - 7 January 2009 ======
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, January 7, 2009
  * 6:30 PM - 8:10 PM

====== Attendees ======
  * Carl Fitch
  * Lee Lammert
  * Craig Buchek
  * Jeff Muse
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Gary Meyer  

====== Secretary Report  ======
  * Secretary had been MIA for several months -- needs to print out minutes.

====== Treasurer Report ======
  * Balance: $1361.65 as of 11/30/2008
  * Receipts (pending submission):
    * Carl - Annual registration fee to State of Missouri
    * Craig - Submit receipt for voice recorder.
    * Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.

====== Attendance Report ======

  * Numbers, as of end of December 2008:

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

  * No - indicates no meeting.
  * NA - Not part of SLUUG
  * () - 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 December 2008:

| List     ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec^
^ ANNOUNCE | 877 | 877 | 866 | 857 | 856 | 853 | 854 | 843 | 835 | 830 | 828 | 807 | 805 | 802 | 791 |
^ DISCUSS  | 192 | 192 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 186 | 1?? | 188 | 188 | 192 | 193 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 196 |
^ STEERCOM |  32 |  32 |  32 |  31 |  31 |  31 |  ?? |  29 |  32 |  33 |  33 |  33 |  34 |  34 |  34 |
^ SYSADMIN |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  ?? |  15 |  15 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  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.

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

===== December 2008 =====
<code>
   December 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 - December 4 ====
  * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.
    * Bad weather.

==== SLUUG - December 10  ====
  * BASE: Installation from source - config, make, make install, etc. by Carl Fitch
    * Lots of good input from the crowd.
    * Ran a bit long due to input from others, but main presenter was not there yet.
  * MAIN: Scott Granneman's new book "Google Apps Deciphered: Compute in the Cloud to Streamline Your Desktop"
    * Amazingly informative as usual.
      * After-meeting discussion was also excellent, and well-attended.
    * Book requested for St. Louis County Library holdings.

==== Solaris - December 16 ====
  * TOPIC: Dedicated DNS Server in a Zone, Continued
    * Postponed, due to hardware problems.
    * General discussion instead.

==== HZWLUG - December 16 ====
  * Holiday schedule, one week early.
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.

==== SNUG - December 17 ====
  * HIATUS - Holiday schedule.  No Meeting.

==== STLLUG - December 18 ====
  * TOPIC: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About Hard Drives by Craig Buchek
    * Craig couldn't make it. Stan guided going over old presentation slides.
    * Mob wasn't too happy, many were disappointed, torches were lit.

==== STCLUG - December 22 ====
  * HOLIDAY Schedule - need to avoid conflict with Christmas Day
  * TOPIC: Favorite Applications (sort of like keyboard karaoke). CLI or GUI.
    * Small group, lots of activity.

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

===== January 2009 =====

<code>
    January 2009    
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 - January 1 ====
  * HIATUS - Holiday schedule.  No Meeting.

==== SLUUG - January 14  ====
  * Back to back meeting dates with STLLUG.
  * BASE: ps by Carl Fitch
  * MAIN: bash by Jeff Muse

==== STLLUG - January 15 ====
  * Back to back meeting dates with SLUUG.
  * TOPIC: Hi-Def and Digital TV by Craig Buchek

==== Solaris - January 20 ====
  * TOPIC: Dedicated DNS Server in a Zone, Continued by Jeff Muse

==== SNUG - January 21 ====
  * TOPIC: Teaming and Conferencing Demo by Gary Hollingsworth

==== STCLUG - January 22 ====
  * TOPIC: Software RAID by Carl Fitch

==== HZWLUG - January 27 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.
    * OPTION1: Continued exploration of /var directory.
    * OPTION2: Exploring the GNOME File Manager.
    * OPTION3: Partitions.
    * OPTION4: Anything else.

===== February 2009 =====
<code>
   February 2009    
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
</code>

==== SLACC - February 5 ====
  * Linux configuration - no presentation
  * Elections.

==== SLUUG - February 11 ====
  * BASE: Different diffs by Stan Reichardt
  * MAIN: Enterprise DB (web-based) TENTATIVE via Carl
  * Official Annual Meeting.
  * Elections.

==== Solaris - February 17 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD
  * Elections.

==== SNUG - February 18 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD
  * Elections.

==== STLLUG - February 19 ====
  * TOPIC: Mozilla-based Apps: Miro, Songbird, Komodo by Craig Buchek
  * Elections.

==== HZWLUG - February 24 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.
    * OPTION1: Continued exploration of /var directory.
    * OPTION2: Exploring the GNOME File Manager
    * OPTION3: Partitions
    * OPTION4: Anything else.
  * Elections.

==== STCLUG - February 26 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD
  * Elections.

===== March 2009 =====
<code>
     March 2009     
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 - March 11  ====
  * BASE: TBD
  * MAIN: TBD

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

==== SNUG - March 18 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== STLLUG - March 19 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== HZWLUG - March 24 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.
    * OPTION1: Continued exploration of /var directory.
    * OPTION2: Exploring the GNOME File Manager
    * OPTION3: Partitions
    * OPTION4: Anything else.

==== STCLUG - March 26 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

====== 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]]
  * Wehrenberg Theaters (via Gary)
    * TOUR/DEMO: Digital cinema projectors
  * Sanjiv Bhatia (or someone from UMSL, via Lee)
    * TOPIC: AIX 6
    * 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
    * Might be able to talk to STCLUG and STLLUG
  * Jeff Logullo (Sun)
    * TOPIC: MySQL - now a Sun product
    * TOPIC: Project Indiana, a new package management system a la 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
  * Don Ellis
    * Mac OS X Snow Leopard
  * Kyle Cordes
    * git and GitHub
    * Flying Boxes
  * Craig Buchek
    * git and GitHub
    * ack (grep replacement)
    * wget and curl
    * Mac OS X topics
    * Ruby on Rails
    * Test-Driven Development (or get Brian Button, if possible)

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

  * Drawing network diagrams using Dia or OpenOffice Draw
  * 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
  * Linux from scratch.
  * SplashTop - a quick booting distro.
  * PGP/GPG use in Email
    * Thunderbird Enigmail
    * KMail

====== Prep for February Elections ======
  * Two Board openings.
    * Terms expiring for Lee Lammert and Stan Reichardt.
  * Nominate warm bodies.
    * Jeff Muse was nominated.
  * Determine eligible voters.

====== Small Business Expo ======
  * Small Business Expo is March 18.
    * Lee has signed up for a booth -- same one as last time.
    * Project is to build a business desktop with GNU/Linux to show off.
      * Need to get requirements/recommendations.

====== STCLUG ======
  * Scott Nesler purchased and donated STCLUG.ORG domain.
  * Gary renewed STCLUG.ORG domain.
  * Craig added to Apache configuration, so it now runs off our servers properly.
  * Need to point DNS at proper location.

====== SLACC ======
  * Need to register SLACC.COM domain.
    * Carl - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
    * Expires in March; need to renew.
  * Check on SLACC.ORG - seems to be owned by a cybersquatter.
  * Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses.

====== Server Admin ======
  * Dark is alive again, thanks to a campus-wide power outage.
    * Anyone who needs to get anything off should do so ASAP.
    * We should retire this system.
  * Wash U took our **webdev** box (128.252.19.27) off network Mon December 1.
    * They detected questionable IRC traffic with IP addresses in Finland & Norway.
    * We should analyze and respond.
  * Jeff Muse added Ultra and Busch - Sun Netras running Solaris 10.
    * Expect to use one like Bud and one for backup storage.
  * We have 2 Sun E250s, which are currently racked but not connected.
    * Carl proposed parting out those boxes.
    * Craig concurred.
    * One of the systems is reporting a bad/missing CPU.
    * The other seems to be OK, but needs power and an OS.
    * Jeff got 4 x 36 GB hard drives, and placed in the good Sun E250.
  * We're planning to setup our own DNS on Ultra/Busch.
    * 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
  * Steve Smith (from Solaris SIG) offered a 36 GB drive to install in one of the Netras.

====== Server Management ======
  * Backups
  * 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.

====== 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.
  * Need suggestions for following up with and attracting potential sponsors.

====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ======
  * Craig had a discussion with Jim Leingang about membership, and got several suggestions.
    * Assign small task to more members, so they feel more a part of the organization.
      * For example, have someone new every month doing sign-in sheets and new user contact.
    * Reward good behaviors.
      * Awards at the end of the year.
      * Provide incentives (like door prizes) for people who bring in new members.
  * 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 ======
  * 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.

====== Low Numbers ======
  * Gary suggests we discuss why the #s on the general meeting and STLLUG are so low!
    * What can be done to return them to more traditional values?
    * Also relate to subscriptions to ANNOUNCE.
    * Gary suggests we talk about what can be done about the declining subscriptions to ANNOUNCE.
    * A ~20% drop in 18 months!  (And it was over 1000...when?)

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

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

====== Blue Sky ======
  * Anything?

====== Completed Action Items ======
  * Gary and Scott Nesler - Renewed and transferred STCLUG.ORG domain.
  * Carl and Mike - Set up accounts for new members.

====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
  * Gary, Stan - Election preparation.
  * Gary - Renew SLACC.COM domains.
  * Gary - Contact Don Hardaway and Craig Van Slyke (St. Louis University).
  * Craig - Contact Rick Clark (Ubuntu) about presenting at October or November STLLUG.
  * Lee - Need list to print out name tags for paying members.
  * Jeff Muse - Work on Sun boxes at Primary.
  * 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. (March?)

  * 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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