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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, 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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