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-====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - 2 September 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, September 2, 2009 
-  * 6:30 PM -  
- 
-====== Attendees ====== 
- 
- :?: Gary Meyers ​ 
- 
-Stan Reichardt ​ 
- 
-Jerry Stutte ​ 
- 
-Carl Fitch 
- 
-====== Secretary Report ​ ====== 
-  * Secretary has printed out minutes up through June. 
- 
-====== Treasurer Report ====== 
-  * No report. Have not had any reports since end of March! 
-  * Balance: $1271.62 as of 3/31/2009 
- 
-====== Mailing List Report ====== 
-  * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of August 2009: 
- 
-| List     ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ 
-^ ANNOUNCE | 828 | 807 | 805 | 802 | 791 | 790 | 786 | 785 | 783 | 782 | 771 | 769 | 772 | 
-^ DISCUSS ​ | 193 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 196 | 201 | 206 | 212 | 215 | 214 | 214 | 215 | 217 | 
-^ STEERCOM |  33 |  33 |  34 |  34 |  34 |  34 |  34 |  35 |  35 |  35 |  35 |  34 |  33 | 
-^ SYSADMIN |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  17 |  17 | 
- 
-  * 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 ====== 
-  * Attendance numbers, as of end of August 2009: 
- 
-| Meeting ​ ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ 
-^ Steercom |   2 |   4 |   5 |   5 |  6 |   6 |   6 |    9 |   8 |   8 |   5 |   2 |   4 | 
-^ SLACC    |   8 |   6 |   ? |   4 |  4 |   - |   6 |    5 |   6 |   6 |   7 |   8 |   6 | 
-^ SLUUG    |  15 |  18 |  21 |  20 |  27|  24 |  23 |   18 |  32 |  21 |  15 |  22 |  19 | 
-^ STLOSUG ​ |  12 |   - |  11 |  10 |  7 |   6 |   ? |    8 |  13 |   - |  (7)|  15 |   6 | 
-^ SNUG SuSE|   - |   5 |   3 |  5? |  - |   7 |   ? |    - |2(172)| ​ (6)|  10 |  ? |   6 | 
-^ STLLUG ​  ​| ​ 23 |  13 |  15 |  11 |  10|  19 |  32 |18(21)| ​  ​20| ​  21| 14 (15)|  24 |   19 | 
-^ STCLUG ​  ​| ​  6 |   3 |  19 |   - |  6 | 11? |  12 |    9 |  10 |   8 |  11 |  11 |   8 | 
-^ HZWLUG ​  ​| ​ 11 |  12 |   9 |  11 |  9 |   4 |   2 |    8 |   7 |  11 |  10 |  12 |   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 ====== 
- 
-===== August 2009 ===== 
-<​code>​ 
-    August 2009      
-Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 
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- ​2 ​ 3  4  5  6  7  8 
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-16 17 18 19 20 21 22 
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-==== SLACC - August 6 ==== 
-  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation 
- 
-==== SLUUG - August 12 ==== 
-  * BASE: Something Impressive by Stan Reichardt 
-    * The "​impressive"​ application is a PDF and graphic presentation tool 
-    * Put together subject in two days (only 15 slides by Stan) 
-    * Was able to use 14 additional application project demo slides at end 
-    * Good and impressive (Carl) 
-  * MAIN: Unix glossary - unusual terms (round table) 
-    * Brought up a number of good discussions,​ remember as a possible yearly occurrence 
- 
-==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - August 18 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: Open questions, got very involved and answered many questions on Virtual Box. Jeff gave away the last of the T-shirts 
- 
- 
-==== SNUG - August 19 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: The new SUSE Studio by Gary Hollingsworth 
- 
-==== STLLUG - August 20 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: GIT by Craig Buchek 
-  * usual projector delay - Carl Fitch provided cable  ​ 
-  * Good and informative. Need to coerce him into giving it again. 
-  * The projector at the Library is out of alignment and unusable. 
- 
-==== HZWLUG - August 25 ==== 
-  * Topics are usually determined by attendees. ​ We sometimes cover more than one. 
-  * No projector 
-  * Various items discussed 
-    * GRUB configuration file  
-    * Multi-boot options - partitioning,​ wubi, second hard drive 
- 
-==== STCLUG - August 27 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)  by Somebody 
-  * Rick Clark (Ubuntu) didn't make it to meeting 
-  * Had some trouble with projector 
-  * Was going to do "​impressive"​ demo, but wrong laptop didn't have software and files not on USB thumbdrive 
-  * Various items discussed 
- 
-====== Presentation Schedule ====== 
- 
-===== 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>​ 
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-==== SLACC - September 2 ==== 
-  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation 
- 
-==== Labor Day - September 7 ==== 
- 
-==== SLUUG - September 9 ==== 
-  * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) 
-  * MAIN: Bill Zimmerly to be contacted by Jerry Stute 
- 
-==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - September 15 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: Exercising ZFS 
- 
- 
-==== SNUG - September 16 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) 
- 
-==== STLLUG - September 17 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: Redmine a Collaboration/​Scheduleing/​Wiki/​Issue Tracking Software Ruby based server 
-     by Carl Fitch 
- 
-==== HZWLUG - September 22 ==== 
-  * Topics are usually determined by attendees. ​ We sometimes cover more than one. 
- 
-==== STCLUG - September 24 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: Rehash of the SLUUG Redmine presentation 
- 
-===== October 2009 ===== 
-<​code>​ 
-    October 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 - October 1 ==== 
-  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation 
- 
-==== SLCL - October 3 ==== 
-  * Need to reserve St. Louis County Library rooms for next year 
-  * Thornehill - Carl Fitch 
-  * Praire Commons - Stan Reichardt 
-  * Indian Trails - :?: Phil :?: 
- 
-==== Columbus Day - October 12 ==== 
- 
-==== SLUUG - October 14 ==== 
-  * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) 
-  * MAIN: VMWare'​s latest & greatest by Matt Skipton (via Lee)  
-  * NOTE Back to Back meeting 
- 
-==== STLLUG - October 15 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: VMWare'​s latest & greatest by Matt Skipton (via Lee) 
-  * NOTE Back to Back meeting 
- 
-==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - October 20 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) 
- 
-==== SNUG - October 21 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) 
- 
-==== STCLUG - October 22 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) 
- 
-==== HZWLUG - October 27 ==== 
-  * 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. 
-  * Scott Granneman 
-    * Snow Leopard (the next version of Mac OS X, when it comes out) 
-    * iPhone (sometime after July) 
-  * Rick Clark (Ubuntu) (via Craig) 
-    * TOPIC: TBD 
-    * Might be able to talk to STCLUG and STLLUG 
-  * Kyle Cordes 
-    * Puppet 
-    * 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 
-    * Mailman 
-    * Various other Solaris topics 
-  * Stan Reichardt 
-    * Evaluating Security (Internet access required) 
-    * Using Scribus 
-  * Tim Dreste (via Stan R) 
-    * TOPIC: Untangle Gateway Platform 
-    * TOPIC: CentOS Linux 
-  * Don Ellis 
-    * Mac OS X Snow Leopard 
-  * Craig Buchek 
-    * 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 
-    * OpenGL part 2 (November LUG) 
- 
-====== 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. 
- 
-  * LaTeX 
-    * Weiqi Gao and Brian Bilgere were looking for volunteers 
-    * Eric Xu says he uses it; Jerry Stutte will contact him 
-  * Processes 
-    * How to tell what's running on a machine 
-  * Google Wave 
-  * BSD jail 
-  * 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 
-  * 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) 
-  * WHOIS, Domain Registration Process, Registrars, Cyber-squatters,​ and Name Servers 
- 
-====== SLUUG Domain ====== 
-FIXME 
-  * 2009-06 Tasked Craig to update SLUUG.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data. 
-  * 2009-08-31 Domain SLUUG.ORG only shows 2 names in WHOIS data. 
- 
-           Per Gary:  Stan & I are the current 2 names so we (rather than Craig) need to add the 3rd. 
- 
-====== SLACC Domain ====== 
-FIXME 
-  * 2009-06 Tasked Carl and Gary to renew SLACC.COM domain. 
-  * 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. 
- 
-           == Per Gary=  In August, someone already renewed until Sept 2011!    
-                      Presumably Noel since he is still the ONLY listed contact. 
-                      ​ 
-                      The LONG renewal does violate our concept of using annual renewals so  that 
-                      we keep an institutional memory (and familiarity),​ but we'll have to work it. 
- 
-                      We still need to get Noel to include our names/​addresses in the registration. == 
- 
-                      ​ 
-  * Check on SLACC.ORG - seems to be owned by a cybersquatter. 
-    * Expires in August 2009. 
-             ​== ​ Per Gary:         It was renewed for another year in July by an anonymous ​ 
-                                registrant in the Netherlands. ​ It is being used for the  
-                                Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. 
- == 
- 
-  * Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses. 
-  * 2009-06 Tasked Carl and Gary to transfer SLACC.COM domain. 
- 
-====== STLLINUX Domain ====== 
-FIXME 
-  * 2009-06 Tasked Craig to update STLLINUX.ORG to show 3 names in WHOIS data. 
-  * 2009-08-31 Domain STLLINUX.ORG only shows 1 name in WHOIS data. 
- 
-====== STCLUG Domain ====== 
-FIXME 
-  * 2009-06 Tasked Gary to point STCLUG.ORG domain registrar to EveryDNS name servers. 
- 
-DONE. 
- 
-====== Server Admin ====== 
-FIXME 
-  * 2009-08 The Sun E250 is now up and running. 
-    * Named ''​bock''​. 
-    * Running Solaris 10. 
-    * Stuffed full of working hard drives. 
-    * Has about 100 GB of RAID-Z ZFS. 
-  * 2009-08 Bud Light is doing daily rsnapshots to bock. 
-  * 2009-08 Bud backs up to Bud Light. 
-  * 2009-08 Stan created [[/​steercom/​resources]] to keep track of our systems and what's running on them. 
- 
-====== Server Management ====== 
-FIXME 
-  * Work left to do: 
-    * Make sure docs are up to date. 
-      * Jeff is completing documentation on wiki regarding his recent changes. 
-      * 2008-01 Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud. 
-      * 2008-01 Started documenting client email configurations,​ to help users migrate. 
-      * 2008-01 See [[../​users]] and [[../​mail_setup]] pages. 
-    * Craig - Work on finishing server builds. 
-      * 2008-01 Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig) 
-      * 2008-03 More security, for SSH and otherwise. 
-      * 2008-01 Get offsite backups working. (Mike) 
-      * 2008-01 Publish SSH host keys on web page. 
-      * 2008-03 Standardize/​regularize user accounts (IDs, password expirations). (Mike) 
-  * Other work to do: 
-    * 2008-08 Document useradd process. 
-    * 2008-03 Better web site management tools 
-    * 2008-08 Develop standardized '​Membership List' & same UIDs on all production machines. 
- 
-====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ====== 
-FIXME 
-  * 2009-08 Jerry Stutte has written an app to manage membership. 
-    * Working with Lee Lammert. 
-    * Need to deploy to bud. 
-    * Lists membership levels and names. 
-    * Will be able to show expiration dates of memberships and send out emails. 
- 
-====== Annual Report to State of Missouri ====== 
-FIXME 
-  * Annual Report for 2008 is on file, next Annual Report due 31 August. 
-  * Filed documents available [[http://​www.sos.mo.gov/​BusinessEntity/​soskb/​Corp.asp?​681250 |here. ]] 
-  * REGISTRATION REPORT FEE IS: 
-    * $15.00 If filed on or before 8/31 
-    * $20.00 If filed after 8/31 
-    * Corporation will be administratively dissolved if report is not filed by November 30th. 
-  * We still need to change the registered agent for surface mail delivery. 
-    * Craig is a registered agent, per Missouri state, and volunteered to serve as our group'​s agent. 
-      * Someone just needs to file the right paperwork. 
-      * We thought we had filled out the paperwork; apparently it's been lost or misplaced. 
- 
-====== Other Old Business ====== 
-  * Nothing. 
- 
-====== Other New Business ====== 
-  * Nothing. 
- 
-====== Blue Sky ====== 
-  * Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects. 
-  *  
- 
-====== Recognize Useful Effort ====== 
-  * 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. 
-  * Carl - FILE ANNUAL REPORT. DUE 8/31. 
-  * Craig - Contact Kyle Cordes about presenting on Puppet. 
-  * 2009-06 Tasked Gary to clean up home directory on Bud. 
-  * 2009-06 Tasked Craig to work on presentations. 
-  * 2009-06 Tasked Lee to ask Sammie to bring past (and current) presentation to us on thumb drive. 
  
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