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SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - 2 December 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, December 2, 2009
  • 6:30 PM -

Attendees

:?: Craig Buchek

:?: Carl Fitch

:?: Lee Lammert

:?: Gary Meyer

:?: Jeff Muse

:?: Stan Reichardt

:?: Jerry Stutte

Secretary Report

FIXME

  • Secretary has not printed minutes since June.

Treasurer Report

FIXME

  • Balance: $1379.59 as of 10/31/2009
  • 2009-10 income:
    • Jim Roe $70 dues
    • You Xu $100 dues
    • Mike Knoight $10 dues
  • 2009-11 donated expenditures
    • Jeff Muse $100 for disk drives
  • 2009-12
    • Collected $26 from attendance at November library meetings.
    • Old bank was to start charging for checking account after end of year.
    • Will switch to Regions in December.
    • Need to do signature cards for new checking account.

Mailing List Report

  • Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of November 2009:
List Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
ANNOUNCE 802 791 790 786 785 783 782 771 769 772 767 770 773
DISCUSS 194 196 201 206 212 215 214 214 215 217 220 220 227
STEERCOM 34 34 34 34 35 35 35 35 34 33 34 34 35
SYSADMIN 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 17 17 17 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 November 2009:
Meeting Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
Steercom 5 6 6 6 9 8 8 5 2 4 4 5 6
SLACC 4 4 - 6 5 6 6 7 8 6 4 5 9
SLUUG 20 27 24 23 18 32 21 15 22 19 17 36 30
STLOSUG 10 7 6 ? 8 13 - (7) 15 6 4 6 xx
SNUG SuSE 5? - 7 ? - 2(172) (6) 10 ? 6 6 - ?
STLLUG 11 10 19 32 18(21) 20 21 14(15) 24 19 22 25 22
STCLUG - 6 11? 12 9 10 8 11 11 8 6 (9) -
HZWLUG 11 9 4 2 8 7 11 10 12 10 11 11 11
  • 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

November 2009

   November 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               

SLACC - November 5

  • Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

SLUUG - November 11

  • BASE: Grub2 on Ubuntu by Gary McKee
    • -
  • MAIN: Snow Leopard by Bill Edney
    • -

STLOSUG (Solaris) - November 17

  • TOPIC: Implementing CIFS services in OpenSolaris by Jeff Logullo
    • Extensive discussion on differences with SMB (and Samba)
    • -

SNUG - November 18

  • TOPIC: 2010 Launch Overview by Gary Hollingsworth
    • -

STLLUG - November 19

  • Some last minute confusion on what the topic was for this month.
  • TOPIC: Discussion of Recent GNU/Linux Distros by various members.
    • Carl Fitch - Covered OpenSuSE 10.x on his new laptop.
    • Craig Bucheck - installation did not finish due to problems.
    • Josh - Ubuntu 9.10 features shown.
    • Library projector again missing video cable.
    • Cough drops and candy passed out.
    • Coffee cup door prize awarded to Mark Sims.
    • -

HZWLUG - November 24

  • Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.
    • TOPIC: Linux Package Management by Stan Reichardt
    • TOPIC: Wajig by Carl Fitch
    • First presentation led into second quite well. Lots of participation.
    • -

Thanksgiving Day - November 26

STCLUG - November 26

  • HIATUS - No Meeting During November or December 2009 due to conflicts and holidays.

Presentation Schedule

Potential Presenters and Topics

December 2009

   December 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      

SLACC - December 3

  • Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

SLUUG - December 9

  • BASE: Hands-On Updating the SLUUG Google Calendar by Stan Reichardt (tentative)
  • MAIN: LaTeX by Eric Xu (via Jerry Stutte)

STLOSUG - December 15

  • TOPIC: Xen on OpenSolaris by Jeff Muse

SNUG - December 16

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

STLLUG - December 17

  • POSSIBLE: Linux From Scratch by Robert Hanse (confirmed via Carl)

HZWLUG - December 22

  • Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.

STCLUG - December 24

  • HIATUS - No Meeting During November or December 2009 due to conflicts and holidays.

HOLIDAY: Christmas Day - December 25

January 2010

    January 2010    
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                  

HOLIDAY: New Years Day - January 1

SLACC - January 7

  • Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  • Meetings will be in smaller room.

SLUUG - January 13

  • BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • MAIN: Apple OS-X by Scott Granneman (Tentative)

HOLIDAY: Martin Luther King Day - January 18

STLOSUG (Solaris) - January 19

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

SNUG - January 20

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

STLLUG - January 21

  • TOPIC: Using Linux with Digital Radio by Bill Zimmerly (via Jerry Stutte)
    • Note that January issue of Linux Journal cover story is on Amateur Radio and Linux.

HZWLUG - January 26

  • Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.

STCLUG - January 28

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • Could be VMstuff or redmine or whatever

February 2010

   February 2010    
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                  

SLACC - February 4

  • Balloting for SLUUG officers.
  • Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  • Meetings will be in smaller room.

Super Bowl Sunday - February 7

SLUUG - February 10

  • Balloting for SLUUG officers.
  • BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)

Valentine's Day - February 14

HOLIDAY: Presidents Day - February 15

STLOSUG (Solaris) - February 16

  • Balloting for SLUUG officers.
  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

SNUG - February 17

  • Balloting for SLUUG officers.
  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

STLLUG - February 18

  • Balloting for SLUUG officers.
  • TOPIC: OpenGL - Part Two by Jerry Stutte (Tentative)

HZWLUG - February 23

  • Balloting for SLUUG officers.
  • Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.

STCLUG - February 25

  • Balloting for SLUUG officers.
  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • Could be VMstuff or redmine or whatever

March 2010

     March 2010     
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         

SLACC - March 4

  • Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  • Meetings will be in smaller room.

SLUUG - March 10

  • BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)

STLOSUG (Solaris) - March 16

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

SNUG - March 17

  • St. Patrick's Day
  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

STLLUG - March 18

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

HZWLUG - March 23

  • Topics are usually determined by attendees. We sometimes cover more than one.

STCLUG - March 25

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

Potential Presenters and Topics

SLUUG Domain

  • 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.
  • 2009-09 Per Gary: Stan & I are the current 2 names so we (rather than Craig) need to add the 3rd.
  • 2009-10 Not Discussed
  • 2009-11 Status quo
  • 2009-12

SLACC Domain

  • 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.
  • 2009-10 Not Discussed
  • 2009-11 Status quo
  • 2009-12

STLLINUX Domain

  • 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.
  • 2009-10 Not discussed.
  • 2009-11 Status quo
  • 2009-12

STCLUG Domain

  • 2009-11 Gary says the STCLUG.ORG domain will expire in December.
    • Gary will renew it.
  • 2009-12

Server Admin

  • 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 resources to keep track of our systems and what's running on them.
  • 2009-10 Not discussed.
  • 2009-11 Drive array hooked to budlight is running in RAID 5 disabled mode.
    • Jeff will buy 20 x 72GB FC replacement drives on Ebay.
      • Approximately $120.
  • 2009-12

Server Management

  • Work left to do:
    • Make sure docs are up to date.
      • 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 Knight)
      • 2008-01 Publish SSH host keys on web page.
      • 2008-03 Standardize/regularize user accounts (IDs, password expirations). (Mike Knight)
  • Other work to do:
    • 2008-08 Document useradd process.
    • 2008-03 Better web site management tools
    • 2008-08 Develop standardized 'Membership List' & use same UIDs across all production machines.
  • 2009-10 During September:
    • Jeff Muse had done kernel updates on BUDs.
    • Jeff has built script to do service checks, ping tests, etc.
    • Carl had turned off duplicate backups on BUD.
    • Jeff has completed documentation on wiki regarding his earlier changes.
  • 2009-11
  • 2009-12

Annual Report to State of Missouri

  • Annual Report for 2008 is on file, next Annual Report due 31 August.
  • Filed documents available 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
  • 2009-10 Annual Report for 2009 have been processed and available on state's web page. Carl will do registered agent form.
  • 2009-11
  • 2009-12

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
  • 2009-10 Membership application now running on BUD. When more mature Jerry will do a tutorial or presentation.
  • 2009-11 During October:
    • At SLUUG meeting we explained St. Louis County Library (SLCL) policy change on room payments.
    • Stan R. handed out all available Annual Supporting Membership forms during SLUUG meeting.
    • Sales pitch for Supporting Memberships was to not throw form away, take it home, look at it.
    • Need more forms printed.
  • 2009-12

SLCL Room Reservations

  • Reservations of St. Louis County Library (SLCL) rooms for calendar year 2010 made on 3 October.
    • Reserved Indian Trails - Phil Bunch
    • Reserved Prairie Commons - Stan Reichardt
    • Reserved Thornhill - Carl Fitch
  • Process has changed. Limited to 6 months. Next round may be first Saturday in April.
  • Reserving a meeting room now done on line - http://www.slcl.org/services/reserve.htm
  • Payment required within 14 days, or we lose reservation.
  • We can still collect donations for future meetings.
  • 2009-11 Completed in October:
    • Paid Indian Trails - Carl Fitch
    • Paid Prairie Commons - Carl Fitch and Stan Reichardt
    • Paid Thornhill - Phil Bunch
    • Come April or May we will have to again schedule and pay withing 14 days to reserve rooms for last six months of year.
    • To avoid problems, payments need to be made separately to each SLCL Branch.
  • 2009-12

Wash U Cleanup

  • 2009-09 Jerry Stute, Jeff Muse, and Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site.
  • 2009-09 Gary Meyer is Captain.
  • 2009-10 Captain was AWOL.
  • 2009-11
  • 2009-12

IRC Channel

  • Charles Sharp created an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
  • Channel is named #sluug.
  • Typically 7 people on at times.
  • 2009-12

Purge SYSADMIN mailing list

  • Stan would like us to clean up the SYSADMIN mailing list, to eliminate people who have not been active for the past year.
    • We decided to send a message out to the list, asking who wants to stay on the list. Then we can remove folks that are not staying active.
  • 2009-12

New Business

  • -

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

  • 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.
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