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SLUUG Administration Zafiropoulos
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 ====== Attendees ====== ====== Attendees ======
-:?: Jeff Muse +  * Lee Lammert 
- +  ​* ​Noah Lance 
-:?: Lee Lammert +  * Barry Morrison 
- +  ​* ​Gary Meyer (Stan Proxy 
-:?: Jerry Stutte +  * Tony Zafiropoulos 
- +  * Jerry Stutte
-:?: Craig Buchek +
- +
-:?: Noah Lance +
- +
-:?: Gary Meyer+
  
 ====== Secretary Report ​ ====== ====== Secretary Report ​ ======
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 ====== Treasurer Report ====== ====== Treasurer Report ======
-  ​* Bank account has been transferred from Bank of America to Regions. +  * Balance: $1375.59 as of 2/28/2010 
-  ​* Balance: $1375.59 as of 1/5/2010 +  * Expenses: $169 for SBE Booth & Electric. 
-  * Income for 2010-01: $14 collected ​for room fees +  * Income: ​
-  * Income ​for 2010-02$20 collected for room fees +
-  * Lee will be ordering checks.+
  
 ====== Mailing List Report ====== ====== Mailing List Report ======
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 ^ SYSADMIN |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  18 |  18 |  18 | ^ SYSADMIN |  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  18 |  18 |  18 |
  
-  * Numbers ​are as end of each month.+  * Numbers as end of each month.
   * Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet.   * Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet.
   * ANNOUNCE mailing list.   * ANNOUNCE mailing list.
     * Still no volunteer editor to do a quarterly or monthly newsletter.     * Still no volunteer editor to do a quarterly or monthly newsletter.
 +
 +*-*-* We **need volunteers** to poster/​contact colleges (high schools?) THIS month
 +to get new ANNOUNCE subscribers //**before end of semester**!!//​
  
 ====== Attendance Report ====== ====== Attendance Report ======
   * Attendance numbers, as of end of March 2010:   * Attendance numbers, as of end of March 2010:
  
-| Meeting  ​^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ +| Meeting ​ ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ 
-^ Steercom |  ​9 |   8 |   8 |   5 |   2 |   4 |   4 |   5 |   6 |  6 |  6 |  6  |   ​5 ​ | +^ Steercom |  8 |   8 |   5 |   2 |   4 |   4 |   5 |   6 |  6 |  6 |  6  |   ​5 ​ | 
-^ SLACC    |  ​5 |   6 |   6 |   7 |   8 |   6 |   4 |   5 |   9 |  9 |  - |  5  |   ? ​ | +^ SLACC    |  6 |   6 |   7 |   8 |   6 |   4 |   5 |   9 |  9 |  - |  5  |   ? ​ | 
-^ SLUUG    | 18 |  ​32 |  21 |  15 |  22 |  19 |  17 |  36 |  30 | 15 | 28 |  22? |   ? ​ | +^ SLUUG    | 32 |  21 |  15 |  22 |  19 |  17 |  36 |  30 | 15 | 28 |  22? |   ? ​ | 
-^ STLOSUG ​ |  8 |  ​13 |   - |  (7)|  15 |   6 |   4 |   6 |   9 |  4 |  7 |  -  |    | +^ STLOSUG ​ | 13 |   - |  (7)|  15 |   6 |   4 |   6 |   9 |  4 |  7 |  -  |    | 
-^ SNUG SuSE|  - |2(172)| (6) |  10 |  ? |   6 |   6 |   - |  (4) | 15 |  - |  ?  |    | +^ SNUG SuSE|2(172)| (6) |  10 |  ? |   6 |   6 |   - |  (4) | 15 |  - |  ?  |    | 
-^ STLLUG ​  | 18(21)|  20 |  21 | 14(15) |  24 |   19 |  22 |  25 |  22 | 25 |  23 |  15  |    | +^ STLLUG ​  ​| ​ 20 |  21 | 14(15) |  24 |   19 |  22 |  25 |  22 | 25 |  23 |  15  |   16  | 
-^ STCLUG ​  ​| ​9 |  ​10 |   8 |  11 |  11 |   8 |   6 | (9) |  -  |  - | (2) |  7  |   ? ​ | +^ STCLUG ​  | 10 |   8 |  11 |  11 |   8 |   6 | (9) |  -  |  - | (2) |  7  |   ? ​ ​| ​ 6  | 
-^ HZWLUG ​  ​|  ​8 |   7 |  11 |  10 |  12 |  10 |  11 |  11 |  11 |  9 | (13) | 10  |   ? ​ |+^ HZWLUG ​  ​| ​ 7 |  11 |  10 |  12 |  10 |  11 |  11 |  11 |  9 | (13) | 10  |   ? ​ |
  
   * NA - Not part of SLUUG.   * NA - Not part of SLUUG.
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   * ?  - Question mark indicates attendance not taken or sheet missing.   * ?  - Question mark indicates attendance not taken or sheet missing.
   * -  - dash indicates no meeting.   * -  - dash indicates no meeting.
- 
- 
  
 ====== Meeting Review and Comments ====== ====== Meeting Review and Comments ======
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 ==== SLUUG - March 10 ==== ==== SLUUG - March 10 ====
   * [[http://​www.ITenterprises-STL.org/​ | IT Enterprises]] walk-through (4:30)   * [[http://​www.ITenterprises-STL.org/​ | IT Enterprises]] walk-through (4:30)
-    ​Limited ​to Steering Committee attendees +  ​Excellent location, OSLug will be there April to try the venue 
 +  ​* ​
 ==== SLUUG - March 10 ==== ==== SLUUG - March 10 ====
   * BASE: Checking Host Services with Nagios by Lee Lammert   * BASE: Checking Host Services with Nagios by Lee Lammert
 +  * Very informative
   * MAIN: Selling Free Software by Jim Roe (per Lee in a 1/16 email to Steercom)   * MAIN: Selling Free Software by Jim Roe (per Lee in a 1/16 email to Steercom)
 +  * Fun and entertaining.
  
 ==== Daylight Saving Time Begins - March 14 ==== ==== Daylight Saving Time Begins - March 14 ====
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 ==== STLOSUG Solaris March 16 ==== ==== STLOSUG Solaris March 16 ====
   * TOPIC: CrossBow (network virtualization) by Jeff Logullo   * TOPIC: CrossBow (network virtualization) by Jeff Logullo
 +  * Great!
  
 ==== St. Patrick'​s Day - March 17 ==== ==== St. Patrick'​s Day - March 17 ====
  
 ==== SNUG - March 17 ==== ==== SNUG - March 17 ====
-  * TOPIC: ​To Be Determined (TBD)+  * TOPIC: ​No meeting.
  
 ==== STLLUG - March 18 ==== ==== STLLUG - March 18 ====
   * TOPIC: Bonded NICs by Noah Lance   * TOPIC: Bonded NICs by Noah Lance
 +  * Great material - it works too!
  
 ==== HZWLUG - March 23 ==== ==== HZWLUG - March 23 ====
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 ==== STCLUG - March 25 ==== ==== STCLUG - March 25 ====
-  * TOPIC: ​To Be Determined (TBD)+  * TOPIC: ​Bonded NICx 
 +  * Review of STLLUG presentation
  
 ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ====== Presentation Schedule ======
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 ==== SLUUG - April 14 ==== ==== SLUUG - April 14 ====
   * Back to back meeting   * Back to back meeting
-  * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) +  * BASE: IRC & SLUUG - Jerry Stutte 
-  * MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)+  * MAIN: Counterfeit Technology and Open Source Solutions - Tony Zafiropoulos
  
 ==== STLLUG - April 15 ==== ==== STLLUG - April 15 ====
   * Back to back meeting   * Back to back meeting
-  * TOPIC: ​To Be Determined (TBD)+  * TOPIC: ​How to teach Linux to newbies - Tony Zafiropoulos
  
 ==== STLOSUG Solaris April 20 ==== ==== STLOSUG Solaris April 20 ====
   * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)   * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
  
-==== SNUG - April 21 ==== +==== SNUG / SuSE - April 21 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: ​To Be Determined (TBD)+  * TOPIC: ​Installing OpenSuSE in Virtual Machines ​ by Don Ellis per Gary M
  
 ==== STCLUG - April 22 ==== ==== STCLUG - April 22 ====
-  * TOPIC: ​To Be Determined (TBD)+  * TOPIC: ​Linux on Windows 7 by Noah Lance
  
 ==== HZWLUG - April 27 ==== ==== HZWLUG - April 27 ====
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 ==== SLUUG - May 12 ==== ==== SLUUG - May 12 ====
-  * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) +  * BASE: Creating a favicon for your website - Tony Zafiropoulos 
-  * MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)+  * MAIN: Processing and Storing Genomic Sequencing Data by David Dooling
  
 ==== STLOSUG Solaris May 18 ==== ==== STLOSUG Solaris May 18 ====
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 ==== STCLUG - May 27 ==== ==== STCLUG - May 27 ====
   * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)   * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
- 
  
 ===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== ===== Potential Presenters and Topics =====
   * Link to [[/​steercom/​potential]] speakers and topics.   * Link to [[/​steercom/​potential]] speakers 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 ====== ====== Server Admin ======
 +  * New server from Contegix - Nimbus [tentative]
 +    * Contact Lee or SysAdmin list for info
   * Bud Light is still offline.   * Bud Light is still offline.
-  * Noah has a server ​we can use. +  * New server ​installed from Noah - thanks! 
-    * IBM X325, dual P4 Xeon 2.8 GHz, 2x72 GB.+  * IBM X325, dual P4 Xeon 2.8 GHz, 2x72 GB.
     * Name: Golden Wheat     * Name: Golden Wheat
-    ​Craig will get with Noah to install the system. +  ​* Noah has two more Dell 2850s for installation at IT Enterprises for the OS lab, to be supported by SLUUG. Noah to contact them and confirm installation - this will be a good indication of the support level they wish to have for an ongoing relationship
-    * Noah has loaded VMware ESXi 4.0 +  * Ongoing: Make sure docs are up to date.
-    * 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. +
-    * Craig will print some out +
-    * [[http://​www.sluug.org/​pdf/​membership-form.pdf]]+
  
 ====== SLCL Room Reservations ====== ====== SLCL Room Reservations ======
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   * Payment required within 14 days, or we lose reservation.   * Payment required within 14 days, or we lose reservation.
   * To avoid problems, payments need to be made separately to each SLCL Branch.   * To avoid problems, payments need to be made separately to each SLCL Branch.
 +      * Stan has put in requests for Hzlwd, SLACC, & STLlug from Aug thru Dec.
 +      * Stan will front payment for Hzlwd.
 +      * Payments need be made before 21 April (2 wks)(if Library grants dates).
 +      * Gary has reservation codes to cancel STLlug.
 +         * - -Gary in favor of moving to IT Enterprises
 +         * - -Deadline to give Library the payment MAY be the day of the "test mtng of StLopenSolaris"​. ​
 +      * Phil has info for SLACC but we aren't sure of Phil's availability.  ​
  
 ====== Wash U Cleanup ====== ====== Wash U Cleanup ======
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   * Gary Meyer is Captain.   * Gary Meyer is Captain.
   * Captain Gary Meyer still AWOL. Search party has not reported back.   * Captain Gary Meyer still AWOL. Search party has not reported back.
 +  * Pending until next month at the earliest.
  
 ====== IRC Channel ====== ====== IRC Channel ======
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     * Yet to do: STLOSUG and SNUG, and groups on HIATUS.     * Yet to do: STLOSUG and SNUG, and groups on HIATUS.
  
-====== ​New Business ​====== +====== ​SBE ======
-  * SBE+
     * March 18 @ St. Charles Convention Center     * March 18 @ St. Charles Convention Center
-    * Lee will organize. +    * Slightly bigger crowd than last year 
-    * Everything going smoothly. +    * Gave out about 50 flyers 
-    * Needs some people there at about 9:30 to help set up.+    * Excellent booth location - near Green Space 
 + 
 +====== New Business ====== 
   * Craig has been adding some packages to his server; would be willing to add them to SLUUG servers.   * 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)     * fail2ban - temporarily ban IPs that have too many SSH failures (unanimous agreement)
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   * Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects.   * Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects.
   * Noah has been helping the [[http://​archreactor.org/​ | Arch Reactor]] hacker space.   * Noah has been helping the [[http://​archreactor.org/​ | Arch Reactor]] hacker space.
-    * 904 Cherokee in the old Lemp Brewery +  ​General ​Meeting every Tuesday at 7:30 PM.
-    ​* Meeting every Tuesday at 7:30 PM.+
     * Frequently open at other times by members.     * Frequently open at other times by members.
-    * How can we best cross-polinate?+    * How can we best cross-pollinate?
     * Great place for hands-on projects.     * Great place for hands-on projects.
       * Arduino projects       * Arduino projects
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 ====== Recognize Useful Efforts ====== ====== Recognize Useful Efforts ======
-  * Stan and Gary worked on election, balloting, and collecting ballots. +  * Stan completed library registrations 
-  * Craig printed out the ballots and got them to the SLACC meeting.+  * Expo coordination - Lee & Jerry 
 +  * New Sponsor thanks ​to Lee - Contegix
  
 ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== ====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
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   * Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.   * Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
   * Lee - order checks.   * Lee - order checks.
-  * Carl and Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.+  * 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 - 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 - print out minutes from June-March.
   * Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.   * Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.
 +  * ALL   - Need volunteers to poster/​contact colleges (high schools?) THIS month to get new ANNOUNCE subscribers before end of semester!!
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