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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - 6 May 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, May 6, 2009
  * 6:30 PM - 8:05 PM

====== Attendees ======
  * Jeff Muse
  * Craig Buchek
  * Barry Morrison
  * Lee Lammert
  * Carl Fitch
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Gary Meyer
  * Tony Lovasco

====== Secretary Report  ======
  * Secretary has printed out minutes up through March.

====== Treasurer Report ======
  * Balance: $1271.62 as of 3/31/2009
  * Accounts Payable: $100.00 for booth at Small Business Expo
  * Accounts Paid: $90.03 for electricity at Small Business Expo

====== Mailing List Report ======
  * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of April 2009:

| List     ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^
^ ANNOUNCE | 854 | 843 | 835 | 830 | 828 | 807 | 805 | 802 | 791 | 790 | 786 | 785 | 783 |
^ DISCUSS  | 1?? | 188 | 188 | 192 | 193 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 196 | 201 | 206 | 212 | 215 |
^ STEERCOM |  ?? |  29 |  32 |  33 |  33 |  33 |  34 |  34 |  34 |  34 |  34 |  35 |  35 |
^ SYSADMIN |  ?? |  15 |  15 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  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.

====== Attendance Report ======
  * Numbers, as of end of April 2009:

| Meeting  ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^
^ Steercom |   4 |   4 |   7 |    4 |   2 |   4 |   5 |   5|   6 |   6 |   6 |    9 |   8 |
^ SLACC    |   ? |   x |   6 |    9 |   8 |   6 |   ? |   4|   4 |   - |   6 |    5 |   6 |
^ SLUUG    |  17 |  31 |  18 |   17 |  15 |  18 |  21 |  20|  27 |  24 |  23 |   18 |  32 |
^ STLOSUG  |   - |  20 |  10 |    - |  12 |   - |  11 |  10|   7 |   6 | xxx |    8 |  13 |
^ SNUG     |  NA |  NA |   5 |    4 |   - |   5 |   3 |  5?|   - |   7 | xxx |    - |   ? |
^ STLLUG   |  17 |  29 |  22 |   20 |  23 |  13 |  15 |  11|  10 |  19 |  32 |18(21)|  20 |
^ STCLUG   |  13 |   5 |   6 |    3 |   6 |   3 |  19 |   -|   6 | 11? |  12 |    9 |  10 |
^ HZWLUG   |  11 |  11 |  10 |   11 |  12 |   9 |  11 |   9|   4 |   2 |   8 |    7 |  11 |
^ MythTV   |   - |   - |   - |    - |   - |   - |   - |   -|   - |   - |   8 |    - |   - |
  * -  - 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.
  * Added MythTV as a SIG.

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

===== April 2009 =====
<code>
     April 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      
</code>

==== SLACC - April 2 ====
  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

==== SLUUG - April 8  ====
  * BASE: GNU screen by Jeff Muse
    * Good. Lots of us learned a lot.
    * Started and finished on time!
  * MAIN: WordPress by Craig Buchek (backup)
    * Good.
    * Started and finished on time!
  * Canceled Main: Live Demo of IBM Virtualization by Barry Morrison, IBM (via Lee)

==== STLLUG - April 16 ====
  * TOPIC: Open Source on the Desktop: Why Not? by Don Hardaway (St. Louis University)
    * Started out good, ebbed in the middle (too much preaching to the choir), finished strong.
    * Good person to have as a friend of the group.

==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - April 21 ====
  * TOPIC: Continuation of System Build - Live Upgrade of Zones
    * Somber/depressing, but good discussion.
    * Last month of this topic!

==== SNUG - April 22 ====
  * Met on 4th Wednesday this month
    * Special community service meeting

==== STCLUG - April 23 ====
  * TOPIC: Building Web Access Point by Carl Fitch
  * TOPIC: Google Calendar by Stan Reichardt
    * Very good.
  * TOPIC: Google Gadgets by Jerry Stutte
    * Good.

==== HZWLUG - April 28 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.
    * Good meeting.
    * Had 1 new person. Covered lots of resources.

==== MythTV - NO APRIL MEETING ====
  * This SIG meets at irregular intervals.

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

===== May 2009 =====
<code>
      May 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 - May 7 ====
  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

==== SLUUG - May 13 ====
  * BASE: Using System Rescue by Carl Fitch
  * MAIN: Firefox Extensions by Mike Wilkerson

==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - May 19 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
  * New location (TBD)

==== SNUG - May 20 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== STLLUG - May 21 ====
  * TOPIC: Patent-Free Codecs (Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, FLAC, Dirac) by Tony Lovasco

==== HZWLUG - May 26 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.

==== STCLUG - May 28 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== MythTV - NO MAY MEETING ====
  * This SIG meets at irregular intervals.

===== June 2009 =====
<code>
     June 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            
</code>

==== SLACC - June 4 ====
  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

==== SLUUG - June 10 ====
  * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  * MAIN: Neural Networks to Scan DNA by Bryce Meyer (via Lee)

==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - June 16 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== SNUG - June 17 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== STLLUG - June 18 ====
  * TOPIC: OpenGL by Jerry Stutte (TENTATIVE)

==== HZWLUG - June 23 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.

==== STCLUG - June 25 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

===== July 2009 =====
<code>
     July 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 - July 2 ====
  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

==== SLUUG - July 8 ====
  * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  * MAIN: Managing Systems with Puppet by Kyle Cordes (TENTATIVE, via Craig)

==== STLLUG - July 16 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - July 21 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== SNUG - July 22 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== STCLUG - July 23 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== HZWLUG - July 28 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.

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

  * June Topic:
    * Creating your own Neural Network to scan DNA (or other interesting stuff)
    * Bryce Meyer (bmeyer@sei.cmu.edu) - confirmed for June SLUUG
  * Jerry Stutte
    * OpenGL (June 2009 STLLUG)
  * Kyle Cordes
    * Puppet
    * git and GitHub
    * Flying Boxes
  * Hostirian/Primary.NET
    * Tour of their data center
    * What it takes to run a hosting data center
  * 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 (formerly of 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)
    * TOPIC: PGP and GPG
  * Jeff Muse
    * TOPIC: various Solaris topics
  * Stan Reichardt
    * Evaluating Security
    * TOPIC/DEMO: Google Calendar
    * TOPIC/DEMO: Using Scribus
  * Tim Dreste (via Stan R)
    * TOPIC: Untangle Gateway Platform
    * TOPIC: CentOS Linux
  * Don Ellis
    * Mac OS X Snow Leopard
  * Craig Buchek
    * git and GitHub
    * ack (grep replacement)
    * GNU grep (--count, --context, -e, --color)
    * wget and curl
    * Mac OS X topics
    * Ruby on Rails
    * Test-Driven Development (or get Brian Button, if possible)
  * Tony Lovasco
    * ???
  * Mike Wilkerson
    * Round-Table on Joe Linux User (moderator)

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

  * Unix glossary - define terms
    * mount point
    * white space
    * "well-behaved" app
    * zombies
    * parent process
  * Knoppix karaoke (various users sit in front of Knoppix system)
    * regedit - edit Windows registry from Linux
  * 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
  * Google Android
    * Gateway and STL JUGs both recently had presentations
  * GUI builders (GLADE, KDevelop)

====== 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.
  * Craig will add DNS records on our EveryDNS account.
  * Gary needs to create DNS records in EveryDNS and point the domain at EveryDNS.
    * Currently pointing at GoDaddy parking page.

====== SLACC ======
  * Need to register SLACC.COM domain.
    * Carl - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
    * Expires in September 2009; need to renew.
  * Check on SLACC.ORG - seems to be owned by a cybersquatter.
    * Expires in August 2009.
  * Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses.
  * ACTION ITEM: Carl, Gary - Transfer and renew SLACC.COM domain.

====== StlWebDev ======
  * Mailing lists have been set up.
  * Web site has been recovered from old server.
    * Needs to be pruned - 250 MB.
    * Needs to be published.

====== Server Admin ======
  * Lee will install (and document) Webalizer on Bud, to gather web stats.
  * Partitions on Bud are getting full.
    * Home and var partitions.
    * Tony looked into prices for 9 SCA hard drives - 36 GB and 72 GB.
      * $49 / drive for 72 GB drives.
      * Discussion on whether it might make more sense to replace the systems.
      * Discussion on whether it might make more sense to move storage to a separate NAS box.
      * Leaning toward NAS solution.
    * Jeff Muse brought in an EMC Clariion with 10 x 36 GB drives
      * Directly attached to Budlight via FibreChannel.
      * Still need to re-check hardware to get it running fully.
      * Will configure with RAID 5 and a hot spare.
      * Considering using an LVM partition for some users.
  * Jeff installed Solaris 10 on the remaining E250.
    * Ran into mirroring issues, due to disk sizes.
    * Other E250 has been parted out and sold off.
  * Omnitec offered to provide secondary DNS for us.
    * We would provide secondary DNS for them.
    * Lee and Carl would maintain DNS on both ends.
  * 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'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:
    * Document useradd process.
    * Better web site management tools
    * Develop standardized 'Membership List' & same UIDs on all production machines.

====== Sponsorships ======
  * Made changes to web site to promote Hostirian.
    * As requested by Hostirian, in response to their hosting sponsorship.
  * Tony Lovasco will look into getting some sponsorships.

====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ======
  * NEW MEMBERS:
    * Terry Wall - SILVER
    * John Gilster - SILVER
  * 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.

====== Improve Attendance ======
  * 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?)
  * Craig gave away a stuffed penguin as a door prize.
    * Had stated that whoever brought the most (new, returning) people to STLLUG meeting.
    * Tony Z won the penguin, bringing his Linux class to the meeting.

====== Free Software and Technology Expo ======
  * Rick Clark from Canonical proposed SLUUG sponsor an Ubuntu release party.
    * No longer calling it Ubuntu Release Party
    * Changed references to a Ubuntu Release Party to simple Ubuntu Release coming end of April
  * Official Name: Free Software and Technology Expo
  * Date will be 2nd Saturday in May - May 9.
    * Runs from 1 PM to 7 PM (NOTE: time change)
    * Setup from noon to 1 PM
  * Tony Lovasco from Nexradix paid for [[http://www.westportstl.com | Westport Plaza]] location.
    * Sheraton (900 Westport Plaza) - gold tower
    * Tony has registered [[http://freesoftwareexpo.com | freesoftwareexpo.com]]
  * Single ballroom - 75' x 30'
    * Tables in a horseshoe, with projector
    * Booths around the edges
    * SLUUG membership desk
  * Changed home pages for SLUUG, STLLUG, STCLUG and STL computer events calendar

====== Recognize Useful Effort ======
  * Recognize completed action items.
  * Recognize who did anything useful.
  * Jeff Muse, Jerry Stutte, and Carl Fitch installed more hardware.

====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
  * Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
  * Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
  * Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.

  * Lee - Ask Sammie to bring past (and current) presentation to us on thumb drive.
  * Craig - Follow up with Kyle Cordes on Puppet.
  * Gary - Update STLLINUX.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data.
  * Gary - Point STCLUG.ORG domain registrar to EveryDNS name servers.
  * Gary - Clean up home directory on Bud.
  * Carl, Gary - Transfer and renew SLACC.COM domain.
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