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- | ====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - 1 July 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, July 1, 2009 | ||
- | * 6:30 PM - | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Attendees ====== | ||
- | :?: Craig Buchek | ||
- | :?: Gary Meyer | ||
- | :?: Jeff Muse | ||
- | :?: Jerry Stutte | ||
- | :?: Stan Reichardt | ||
- | :?: | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Secretary Report ====== | ||
- | FIXME | ||
- | * Secretary has printed out minutes up through May. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Treasurer Report ====== | ||
- | FIXME | ||
- | * 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 ====== | ||
- | FIXME | ||
- | * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of June 2009: | ||
- | |||
- | | List ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ | ||
- | ^ ANNOUNCE | 835 | 830 | 828 | 807 | 805 | 802 | 791 | 790 | 786 | 785 | 783 | 782 | 7xx | | ||
- | ^ DISCUSS | 188 | 192 | 193 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 196 | 201 | 206 | 212 | 215 | 214 | 2xx | | ||
- | ^ STEERCOM | 32 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | | ||
- | ^ SYSADMIN | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | | ||
- | |||
- | * Numbers are 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 ====== | ||
- | FIXME | ||
- | * Attendance numbers, as of end of June 2009: | ||
- | |||
- | | Meeting ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ | ||
- | ^ Steercom | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 5 | | ||
- | ^ SLACC | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | ? | 4 | 4 | - | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | | ||
- | ^ SLUUG | 18 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 20 | 27 | 24 | 23 | 18 | 32 | 21 | 15 | | ||
- | ^ STLOSUG | 10 | - | 12 | - | 11 | 10 | 7 | 6 | ? | 8 | 13 | - | x | | ||
- | ^ SNUG | 5 | 4 | - | 5 | 3 | 5? | - | 7 | ? | - | ? | (6) | x | | ||
- | ^ STLLUG | 22 | 20 | 23 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 19 | 32 |18(21)| 20 | 21 | x | | ||
- | ^ STCLUG | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 19 | - | 6 | 11? | 12 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 11 | | ||
- | ^ HZWLUG | 10 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 12 | | ||
- | ^ 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. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Meeting Review and Comments ====== | ||
- | |||
- | ===== 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: iFolder | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== 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: Samba Shares Across Subnets on pfSense by Carl Fitch | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== MythTV - ==== | ||
- | * This SIG meets at irregular intervals. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Presentation Schedule ====== | ||
- | |||
- | ===== 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 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: 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. | ||
- | |||
- | ===== August 2009 ===== | ||
- | <code> | ||
- | August 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 - August 6 ==== | ||
- | * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SLUUG - August 12 ==== | ||
- | * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | * MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - August 18 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SNUG - August 19 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STLLUG - August 20 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== HZWLUG - August 25 ==== | ||
- | * Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one. | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STCLUG - August 27 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== MythTV - ==== | ||
- | * This SIG meets at irregular intervals. | ||
- | |||
- | ===== September 2009 ===== | ||
- | <code> | ||
- | September 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 - September 2 ==== | ||
- | * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SLUUG - September 9 ==== | ||
- | * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | * MAIN: VMWare's latest & greatest by Matt Skipton (via Lee) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - September 15 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SNUG - September 16 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STLLUG - September 17 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== HZWLUG - September 22 ==== | ||
- | * Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one. | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STCLUG - September 24 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) | ||
- | |||
- | ==== 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) | ||
- | * 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) | ||
- | |||
- | ====== SLUUG Server Admin ====== | ||
- | FIXME | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | * 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) ====== | ||
- | FIXME | ||
- | * Decided to post new (and renewing) members' names on front page of web site. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== SLACC ====== | ||
- | FIXME | ||
- | * 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 ====== | ||
- | FIXME | ||
- | * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== | ||
- | FIXME | ||
- | * 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. | ||