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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - 3 June 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, June 3, 2009
  * 6:30 PM - 8:12 PM

====== Attendees ======
  * Craig Buchek
  * Jerry Stutte
  * Jeff Muse
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Gary Meyer

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

====== Treasurer Report ======
  * No report. Following info is from last month.
  * 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 May 2009:

| List     ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^
^ ANNOUNCE | 843 | 835 | 830 | 828 | 807 | 805 | 802 | 791 | 790 | 786 | 785 | 783 | 782 |
^ DISCUSS  | 188 | 188 | 192 | 193 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 196 | 201 | 206 | 212 | 215 | 214 |
^ STEERCOM |  29 |  32 |  33 |  33 |  33 |  34 |  34 |  34 |  34 |  34 |  35 |  35 |  35 |
^ SYSADMIN |  15 |  15 |  16 |  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 ======
  * Attendance numbers, as of end of May 2009:

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

  * NA - Not part of SLUUG.
  * () - Number in parentheses is head count.
  * xx - attendance was taken, numbers not yet recorded.
  * ?  - Question mark indicates attendance not taken or sheet missing.
  * -  - dash indicates no meeting.

====== Review Free Software and Technology Expo ======
  * Success!
    * Vendors were happy with the turn-out.
    * Was able to cover costs.
  * Most attendees were SLUUG regulars.
    * Need to get the word out better next time.
  * Good turn-out, considering there were 150+ other events going on that weekend.
  * Rick Clark from Canonical showed up.
    * Had missed out on emails, due to white-listing and volume.
  * Thanks and congrats to Tony Lovasco for his efforts.

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

===== 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
    * Really good.
  * MAIN: Firefox Extensions by Mike Wilkerson
    * Good. More extensive than expected.

==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - NO MAY MEETING ====
  * Meeting canceled.

==== SNUG - May 20 ====
  * TOPIC: AppArmor by Gary Hollingsworth
    * Good.

==== STLLUG - May 21 ====
  * TOPIC: Patent-Free Codecs (Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, FLAC, Dirac) by Tony Lovasco
    * Good, but depressing (the fact that open codecs are losing out)
    * No projector (didn't really need one)
    * No voice recorder
    * No slides, used white board (worked fine, though)

==== HZWLUG - May 26 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.
    * 2 new people
    * No projector
    * Helped solve user issues

==== STCLUG - May 28 ====
  * TOPIC: An in Depth Look at SystemrescueCD, A Follow Up by Carl Fitch
    * Good.

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

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

===== 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: Vim Folding by Stan Reichardt
  * MAIN: Neural Networks to Scan DNA by Bryce Meyer (via Lee)

==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - June 16 ====
  * TOPIC: Migrating an RC script to SMF
  * New location is Pujols 5 Westport Grill
    * 342 West Port Plaza
    * Maryland Heights, MO 63146

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

==== STLLUG - June 18 ====
  * TOPIC: Open Source Licensing - What You Need to Know by Craig Buchek

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

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

==== MythTV - ====
  * This SIG meets at irregular intervals.

===== 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: ack (grep replacement) by Craig Buchek
  * MAIN: Managing Systems with Puppet by Kyle Cordes (TENTATIVE, via Craig)

==== STLLUG - July 16 ====
  * OpenGL by Jerry Stutte

==== 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.

==== MythTV - ====
  * This SIG meets at irregular intervals.

====== Potential Presenters ======
These are some people who can present, and possible topics they can speak about.
  * Rick Clark (Ubuntu) (via Craig)
    * TOPIC: TBD
    * Might be able to talk to STCLUG and 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
  * Sammie from IBM,
    * Canceled Main: Live Demo of IBM Virtualization 
  * 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.
  * 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
    * Software RAID
    * Solaris for Linux Admins
    * Mailman
    * Various other Solaris topics
  * Stan Reichardt
    * Evaluating Security (Internet access required)
    * DEMO VIM Folding
    * TOPIC/DEMO: Google Calendar (was done at STCLUG Apr 2009)
    * 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
    * 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)
  * Jerry Stutte

====== Potential Topics ======
These are some topics that we've had requested, or brainstormed, but need to find speakers for.
List was posted to DISCUSS on 25 May, asking for volunteers.

  * Google Wave
  * BSD jail
  * Unix glossary - unusual 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
  * AIX current release, features, future
    * Someone from IBM corporate?
  * Apple current release, features, future
    * Someone from Apple corporate?
  * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) or Fedora recent releases
    * Still looking for volunteer; tried Clark Smith at Red Hat
  * SuSE or OpenSUSE recent releases
    * Someone from Novell corporate?
    * Gary Hollingsworth?
  * Solaris or OpenSolaris current release, features, future
    * Someone from Sun corporate?
  * HP-UX current release, features, future
    * Someone from HP corporate corporate?
    * Dave Mills?
  * 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
    * New Google Android Phones
    * 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)

====== Server Admin ======
  * A 2nd NIC has been installed on Budlight.
    * On back-end network (192.168.1.x)
      * Last octet matches octet of public IP.
  * Rsnapshot has been installed on Budlight.
    * Backing up /home, /etc, /var, and /root on Bud to /rsnapshot on Budlight.
    * /rsnapshot is 100 GB volume on disk array.
  * Power outage at Hostirian on 5/21.
    * Jeff Muse had to go in to revive Budlight.
    * Budlight was inaccessible about 18 hours.
      * Due to flaky NIC, which we then swapped out.
  * 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.
    * Available at bock.sluug.org
    * Contact Jeff Muse (jmuse) for accounts/access.
    * 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 ======
  * 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.

====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ======
  * Decided to post new (and renewing) members' names on front page of web site.

====== 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.

====== Recognize Useful Effort ======
  * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
  * Gary and Craig
    * Got STCLUG.ORG domain working.
  * Jeff Muse, Lee Lammert, Gary Meyer
    * Added more hardware.
    * Brought Budlight back up after power outage.

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