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SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 4 April 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, April 7, 2010
  • 6:30 PM -

Attendees

  • Lee Lammert
  • Noah Lance
  • Barry Morrison
  • Gary Meyer (Stan Proxy
  • Tony Zafiropulos
  • Jerry Stutte

Secretary Report

  • Secretary has not printed minutes since June.

Treasurer Report

  • Balance: $1375.59 as of 2/28/2010
  • Expenses: $169 for SBE Booth & Electric.
  • Income:

Mailing List Report

  • Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of March 2010:
List Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
ANNOUNCE 785 783 782 771 769 772 767 770 773 769 767 759 751
DISCUSS 212 215 214 214 215 217 220 220 227 226 226 221 221
STEERCOM 35 35 35 35 34 33 34 34 35 35 35 37 37
SYSADMIN 16 16 16 16 17 17 17 17 17 17 18 18 18
  • Numbers 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.

*-*-* We need volunteers to poster/contact colleges (high schools?) THIS month to get new ANNOUNCE subscribers before end of semester!!

Attendance Report

  • Attendance numbers, as of end of March 2010:
Meeting Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
Steercom 8 8 5 2 4 4 5 6 6 6 6 5
SLACC 6 6 7 8 6 4 5 9 9 - 5 ?
SLUUG 32 21 15 22 19 17 36 30 15 28 22? ?
STLOSUG 13 - (7) 15 6 4 6 9 4 7 - 6
SNUG SuSE2(172) (6) 10 ? 6 6 - (4) 15 - ? -
STLLUG 20 21 14(15) 24 19 22 25 22 25 23 15 16
STCLUG 10 8 11 11 8 6 (9) - - (2) 7 ? 6
HZWLUG 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

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

  • IT Enterprises walk-through (4:30)
  • Excellent location, OSLug will be there April to try the venue

SLUUG - March 10

  • 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)
  • Fun and entertaining.

Daylight Saving Time Begins - March 14

STLOSUG Solaris March 16

  • TOPIC: CrossBow (network virtualization) by Jeff Logullo
  • Great!

St. Patrick's Day - March 17

SNUG - March 17

  • TOPIC: No meeting.

STLLUG - March 18

  • TOPIC: Bonded NICs by Noah Lance
  • Great material - it works too!

HZWLUG - March 23

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

STCLUG - March 25

  • TOPIC: Bonded NICx
  • Review of STLLUG presentation

Presentation Schedule

Potential Presenters and Topics

April 2010

     April 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   

SLACC - April 1

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

SLUUG - April 14

  • Back to back meeting
  • BASE: IRC & SLUUG - Jerry Stutte
  • MAIN: Counterfeit Technology and Open Source Solutions - Tony Zafiropulos

STLLUG - April 15

  • Back to back meeting
  • TOPIC: How to teach Linux to newbies - Tony Zafiropulos

STLOSUG Solaris April 20

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

SNUG / SuSE - April 21

  • TOPIC: Installing OpenSuSE in Virtual Machines by Don Ellis per Gary M

STCLUG - April 22

  • TOPIC: Linux on Windows 7 by Noah Lance

HZWLUG - April 27

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

May 2010

     May 20010      
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 - May 6

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

SLUUG - May 12

  • BASE: Creating a favicon for your website - Tony Zafiropoulos
  • MAIN: Processing and Storing Genomic Sequencing Data by David Dooling

STLOSUG Solaris May 18

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

SNUG - May 19

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

STLLUG - May 20

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

HZWLUG - May 25

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

STCLUG - May 27

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

Potential Presenters and Topics

Server Admin

  • New server from Contegix - Nimbus [tentative]
    • Contact Lee or SysAdmin list for info
  • Bud Light is still offline.
  • New server installed from Noah - thanks!
  • IBM X325, dual P4 Xeon 2.8 GHz, 2x72 GB.
    • Name: Golden Wheat
  • 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.
  • Ongoing: Make sure docs are up to date.

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.
    • 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

  • 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.
  • Pending until next month at the earliest.

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.

SBE

  • March 18 @ St. Charles Convention Center
  • Slightly bigger crowd than last year
  • Gave out about 50 flyers
  • 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.
    • 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.
  • General Meeting every Tuesday at 7:30 PM.
    • Frequently open at other times by members.
    • How can we best cross-pollinate?
    • Great place for hands-on projects.
      • Arduino projects
      • Robotics
      • Arts and crafts
      • Costume building

Recognize Useful Efforts

  • Stan completed library registrations
  • Expo coordination - Lee & Jerry
  • New Sponsor thanks to Lee - Contegix

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.
  • 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 - print out minutes from June-March.
  • 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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