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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!) | ||
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- | ====== 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 | | ||
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- | * 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 | ||
- | 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: 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> | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SLACC - September 2 ==== | ||
- | * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation | ||
- | |||
- | ==== Labor Day - September 7 ==== | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SLUUG - September 9 ==== | ||
- | * BASE: SSH Key Generation and Usages by Carl Fitch & Jerry Stutte | ||
- | * MAIN: Bill Zimmerly to be contacted by Jerry Stute | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - September 15 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: Exercising ZFS - Practical Applications | ||
- | |||
- | |||
- | ==== 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: VirtualBox 3.0 by Jeff Logullo | ||
- | * 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: Things Learned and Acquired at this Month's Virtualization Presentations | ||
- | |||
- | ==== 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) ====== | ||
- | |||
- | * 2009-09 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. | ||
- | * Need to add timestamps for changes | ||
- | * Searchable renewal method | ||
- | * Drop down list for State | ||
- | * Auto ID number generation | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Annual Report to State of Missouri ====== | ||
- | |||
- | * 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. | ||
- | * The registration was updated by Carl in August 2009 | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Other Old Business ====== | ||
- | * Wash U Cleanup | ||
- | * Jerry Stute and Jeff Muse Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site. | ||
- | * Gary Meyer is Captain | ||
- | |||
- | ====== 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. | ||
- | * 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. | ||