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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 3 February 2010 ======
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, February 3, 2010
  * 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

====== Attendees ======
  * Craig Buchek
  * Lee Lammert
  * Jeff Muse 
  * Jerry Stutte
  * Noah Lance
  * Gary Meyer

====== Secretary Report  ======
  * Secretary has not printed minutes since June.

====== Treasurer Report ======
  * Bank account has been transferred from Bank of America to Regions.
  * Balance: $1375.59 as of 1/5/2010
  * Income for 2010-01: $14 collected for room fees
  * Expenditures for 2009-12:
    * ~$52 for Compaq fans (Carl needs to submit receipt)
  * Lee has taken in new signature cards for the Region.
  * Lee will be ordering checks.

====== Mailing List Report ======
  * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of January 2010:

| List     ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^
^ ANNOUNCE | 790 | 786 | 785 | 783 | 782 | 771 | 769 | 772 | 767 | 770 | 773 | 769 | 767 |
^ DISCUSS  | 201 | 206 | 212 | 215 | 214 | 214 | 215 | 217 | 220 | 220 | 227 | 226 | 226 |
^ STEERCOM |  34 |  34 |  35 |  35 |  35 |  35 |  34 |  33 |  34 |  34 |  35 |  35 |  35 |
^ SYSADMIN |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  18 |

  * 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 January 2010:

| Meeting  ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^
^ Steercom |  6 |   6 |    9 |   8 |   8 |   5 |   2 |   4 |   4 |   5 |   6 |  6 |  6 |
^ SLACC    |  - |   6 |    5 |   6 |   6 |   7 |   8 |   6 |   4 |   5 |   9 |  9 |  - |
^ SLUUG    | 24 |  23 |   18 |  32 |  21 |  15 |  22 |  19 |  17 |  36 |  30 | 15 | 28 |
^ STLOSUG  |  6 |   ? |    8 |  13 |   - |  (7)|  15 |   6 |   4 |   6 |   9 |  4 |  7 |
^ SNUG SuSE|  7 |   ? |    - |2(172)| (6) |  10 |  ? |   6 |   6 |   - |  (4) | 15 |  - |
^ STLLUG   | 19 |  32 |18(21)|  20 |  21 | 14(15) |  24 |   19 |  22 |  25 |  22 | 25 |  23 |
^ STCLUG   | 11? |  12 |    9 |  10 |   8 |  11 |  11 |   8 |   6 | (9) |  -  |  - | (2) |
^ HZWLUG   |  4 |   2 |    8 |   7 |  11 |  10 |  12 |  10 |  11 |  11 |  11 |  9 | (13) |

  * 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.

  * Extreme cold may have reduced SLUUG December 2009 attendance.
  * The 7 Jan 2010 SLACC meeting was cancelled due to Library closing for snow.

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

===== January 2010 =====
<code>
    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                  
</code>

==== SLACC - January 7  ====
  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

==== SLUUG - January 13  ====
  * BASE: None
  * MAIN: Mac OS X Snow Leopard by Scott Granneman
    * Good as usual.

==== STLOSUG - January 19 ====
  * TOPIC: Xen on OpenSolaris by Jeff Muse
    * Good as usual.

==== STLLUG - January 21 ====
  * TOPIC: Using Linux with Digital Radio by Bill Zimmerly and Jim Conley
    * Could have used more Linux.
    * Jim did about 90% of the talking.

==== HZWLUG - January 26 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.
  * Multiple call for help type of questions and one-on-one assistance.

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

===== Potential Presenters and Topics =====
  * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics.

===== February 2010 =====
<code>
   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                  
</code>

==== SLACC - February 4 ====
  * Balloting for SLUUG officers
  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  * Meetings will be in smaller room.

==== Super Bowl Sunday - February 7 - Colts vs. Saints ====

==== SLUUG - February 10 ====
  * Balloting for SLUUG officers
  * BASE: Triple Boot (Ubuntu, Windows, OpenSolaris) by Jeff Muse
  * MAIN: Creating a Web Site From Scratch by Craig Buchek
    * Domain registration, DNS hosting, virtual hosting, OS, Apache, MySQL, WordPress

==== Valentine's Day - February 14 ====

==== HOLIDAY: President's Day - February 15 ====

==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - February 16 ====
  * Balloting for SLUUG officers
  * TOPIC: Something from "Little Known Solaris Features" by Jeff Logullo (tentative)

==== 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 

==== 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 VM stuff or redmine or whatever

===== March 2010 =====
<code>
     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         
</code>

==== SLACC - March 4 ====
  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  * Meetings will be in smaller room.

==== SLUUG - March 10 ====
  * BASE: Checking Host Services with Nagios by Lee Lammert
  * MAIN: Selling Free Software by Jim Roe (per Lee in a 1/16 email to Steercom)

==== STLOSUG (Solaris) - March 16 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== SNUG - March 17 ====
  * 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 =====
  * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics.

====== Elections ======

  * There are 2 board seats expiring:
    * Craig Buchek
    * Barry Morrison
  * Craig and Jerry volunteered to run for the open board seats.
  * Noah volunteered to run for the STCLUG chair.
  * Craig will print out ballots.
    * Doesn't have a way to get the ballots to the SLACC meeting.

====== Annual Meeting February 10 ======
  * Per bylaws, we have an official annual meeting on February 10.
  * Members may bring up any business.

====== Domains ======
  * Gary will add Craig as 3rd contact for SLUUG.ORG domain.
  * Carl and Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
    * Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.COM email addresses.
  * Craig will renew STLLINUX.ORG and update to show 3 names in WHOIS data.

====== Server Admin ======
  * Bud Light is still offline.
  * Noah has a server we can use.
    * IBM X325, dual P4 Xeon 2.8 GHz, 2x72 GB.
    * Name: Golden Wheat
    * Craig will get with Noah to install the system.
  * Work left to do:
    * Ongoing: Make sure docs are up to date.

====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ======
  * Jerry Stutte is writing an app to manage membership.
  * Membership application now running on BUD.  When more mature Jerry will do a tutorial or presentation.
  * Need more membership forms printed.
    * Craig will print some out
    * [[http://www.sluug.org/pdf/membership-form.pdf]]

====== SLCL Room Reservations ======
  * 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.
  * To avoid problems, payments need to be made separately to each SLCL Branch.

====== Wash U Cleanup ======
  * Jerry Stute, Jeff Muse, and Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site.
  * Gary Meyer is Captain.
  * Captain Gary Meyer still AWOL. Search party has not reported back.

====== IRC Channel ======
  * Charles Sharp created an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
  * Channel is named #sluug.
  * Typically 7 people on at times.
  * Would like to have someone give a tutorial on using IRC, and show off our channel.
  * Craig suggested that we include the IRC channel in Steering Committee meetings.
    * Will be hard to figure out the best way to get the online folks to participate.
  * Stan will put the IRC channel info up on the web site.
  * Stan will put the IRC channel info on ANNOUNCE messages.

====== 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.

====== New Attendance Sheets ======
  * Stan made new attendance sheets for:
    * SLACC, STEERCOM, SLUUG, STLLUG, STCLUG, and HZWLUG
    * Yet to do: STLOSUG and SNUG, and groups on HIATUS.

====== New Business ======
  * SBE
    * March 18 @ St. Charles Convention Center
    * Lee will organize.
  * Craig has been adding some packages to his server; would be willing to add them to SLUUG servers.
    * fail2ban - temporarily ban IPs that have too many SSH failures (unanimous agreement)
    * fcheck - file integrity checker - emails files that changed since last time run
    * logcheck - email anomalous log entries
    * munin - monitoring of system details
    * awstats - web stats
  * Carl recommended using one of the Sun Netras as a log server.
  * Craig wondered if we could put sudo back on Bud.
    * Configure it to require root password instead of user's own password.
    * Will follow up on SYSADMIN list.
  * Craig wondered if we could start applying the patches pending for Bud.
    * There are a lot of patches pending now, including kernel and security fixes.
    * We have some concern with DNS patches, but Craig has applied them on his systems without issues.
    * Will follow up on SYSADMIN list.

====== Blue Sky ======
  * Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects.
  * Noah has been helping the [[http://archreactor.org/ | Arch Reactor]] hacker space.
    * 904 Cherokee in the old Lemp Brewery
    * Meeting every Tuesday at 7:30 PM.
    * Frequently open at other times by members.
    * How can we best cross-polinate?
    * Great place for hands-on projects.
      * Arduino projects
      * Robotics
      * Arts and crafts
      * Costume building

====== Recognize Useful Efforts ======
  * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
  * Jeff Muse has been working on the Michelob sendmail problem.
    * On January 21 (3:00 AM) Michelob suddenly stopped allowing SMTP from Bud.

====== 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 - add Craig as 3rd contact for SLUUG.ORG domain.
  * Gary - renew the STCLUG.ORG domain - it will expire December 17.
  * Carl and Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
  * Carl - send thank-you note to Hostirian for hosting our site.
  * Carl - confirm Jim Roe presentation for February 10.
  * Craig - contact Kyle Cordes about presenting on Puppet.
  * Craig - renew STLLINUX.ORG, and update to show 3 names in WHOIS data.
  * Craig - print out minutes from June-February.
  * Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.
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