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SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 3 March 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, March 3, 2010
  • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Attendees

  • Jeff Muse
  • Lee Lammert
  • Jerry Stutte
  • Craig Buchek
  • Noah Lance

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
  • Income for 2010-02: $20 collected for room fees
  • Lee will be ordering checks.

Mailing List Report

  • Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of February 2010:
List Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb
ANNOUNCE 786 785 783 782 771 769 772 767 770 773 769 767 759
DISCUSS 206 212 215 214 214 215 217 220 220 227 226 226 221
STEERCOM 34 35 35 35 35 34 33 34 34 35 35 35 37
SYSADMIN 16 16 16 16 16 17 17 17 17 17 17 18 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 February 2010:
Meeting Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb
Steercom 6 9 8 8 5 2 4 4 5 6 6 6 6
SLACC 6 5 6 6 7 8 6 4 5 9 9 - 5
SLUUG 23 18 32 21 15 22 19 17 36 30 15 28 22?
STLOSUG ? 8 13 - (7) 15 6 4 6 9 4 7 -
SNUG SuSE ? - 2(172) (6) 10 ? 6 6 - (4) 15 - ?
STLLUG 32 18(21) 20 21 14(15) 24 19 22 25 22 25 23 15
STCLUG 12 9 10 8 11 11 8 6 (9) - - (2) 7
HZWLUG 2 8 7 11 10 12 10 11 11 11 9 (13) 10
  • 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

February 2010

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SLUUG - February 10

  • Balloting for SLUUG officers
  • BASE: Triple Boot (Ubuntu, Windows, OpenSolaris) by Jeff Muse
    • Short - finished early.
  • MAIN: Creating a Web Site From Scratch by Craig Buchek
    • Domain registration, DNS hosting, virtual hosting, OS, Apache, MySQL, WordPress
    • Demo - whirlwind tour, fast-paced.

STLOSUG (Solaris) - February 16

  • Canceled - presenter was unable to attend.

STLLUG - February 18

  • TOPIC: OpenGL - Part Two by Jerry Stutte
    • Went OK.

STCLUG - February 25

  • TOPIC: Open discussion.

Presentation Schedule

Potential Presenters and Topics

March 2010

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SLACC - March 4

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

SLUUG - March 10

  • IT Enterprises walk-through (4:30)
    • Limited to Steering Committee attendees

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)

Daylight Saving Time Begins - March 14

STLOSUG (Solaris) - March 16

  • TOPIC: CrossBow (network virtualization) by Jeff Logullo

St. Patrick's Day - March 17

SNUG - March 17

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

STLLUG - March 18

  • TOPIC: Bonded NICs by Noah Lance

HZWLUG - March 23

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

STCLUG - March 25

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

April 2010

     April 2010     
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SLACC - April 1

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

SLUUG - April 14

  • Back to back meeting
  • BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)

STLLUG - April 15

  • Back to back meeting
  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

STLOSUG (Solaris) - April 20

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

SNUG - April 21

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

STCLUG - April 22

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

HZWLUG - April 27

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

Potential Presenters and Topics

Elections

  • There were 2 board seats expiring:
    • Craig Buchek
    • Barry Morrison
  • Craig, Barry, and Jerry volunteered to run for the open board seats.
  • Noah volunteered to run for the STCLUG chair.
  • Craig printed out ballots.
    • Got them to all the meetings.

Election Results

  • Ballots were counted
    • 28 ballots were counted
    • 1 person voted a 2nd time – we threw out his earlier vote
    • 1 ballot was thrown out due to no name on the envelope
  • Barry Morrison and Craig Buchek were (re-)elected to the board
  • Officers were appointed by the board, per the advisory votes:
    • President - Carl Fitch
    • Vice President - Stan Reichardt
    • Secretary - Craig Buchek
    • Treasurer - Lee Lammert
    • STLLUG Chair - Craig Buchek
    • STCLUG Chair - Noah Lance
  • Craig had suggested that folks could write suggestions for the group on the back of their ballots.
    • 1 person wrote that he'd like to see more UNIX (non-Linux) topics at the SLUUG meetings.
      • Aimed more toward professional sysadmins.

Annual Meeting February 10

  • Per bylaws, we had an official annual meeting on February 10.

Domains

  • Gary added 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 renewed STLLINUX.ORG and updated 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.
    • Noah has loaded VMware ESXi 4.0
    • Noah and Craig will install it on Wednesday 3/10 at 2:00 PM.
  • 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.

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.
    • Everything going smoothly.
    • Needs some people there at about 9:30 to help set up.
  • 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 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

  • Stan and Gary worked on election, balloting, and collecting ballots.
  • Craig printed out the ballots and got them to the SLACC meeting.

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.
  • Lee - order checks.
  • 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.
  • Craig - contact Kyle Cordes about presenting on Puppet.
  • Craig - print out minutes from June-March.
  • Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.
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