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SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 2 June 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, June 2, 2010
6:30 PM -
Attendees
Lee Lammert
Noah Lance
Jeff Muse
Secretary Report
Treasurer Report
Balance: $1170.13 as of 3/31/2010
Expenses: $55.39 Checks Unlimited
Income: $59.76 Room Donations
Income: $150 Patrick Bellinger
Income: $35 Richard Siebel
Mailing List Report
List | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May |
ANNOUNCE | 782 | 771 | 769 | 772 | 767 | 770 | 773 | 769 | 767 | 759 | 751 | 752 | 755 |
DISCUSS | 214 | 214 | 215 | 217 | 220 | 220 | 227 | 226 | 226 | 221 | 221 | 223 | 223 |
STEERCOM | 35 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 |
SYSADMIN | 16 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 19 |
Attendance Report
Group leaders are sponsible for taking attendance at meetings.
Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets.
Attendance numbers, as of end of May 2010:
Meeting | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May |
Steercom | 8 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
SLACC | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 9 | - | 5 | 8 | ? | ? |
SLUUG | 21 | 15 | 22 | 19 | 17 | 36 | 30 | 15 | 28 | 22? | ? | ? | ? |
STLOSUG | - | (7) | 15 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 7 | - | 6 | 7 | - |
SNUG SuSE | (6) | 10 | ? | 6 | 6 | - | (4) | 15 | - | ? | - | 8 | 8 |
STLLUG | 21 | 14(15) | 24 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 22 | 25 | 23 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 17 |
STCLUG | 8 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 6 | (9) | - | - | (2) | 7 | 6 | ? | 6 |
HZWLUG | 11 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 9 | (13) | 10 | 8 | 11 | ? |
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.
May 2010
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SLACC - May 6
SLUUG - May 12
* When can David Dooling provide?
STLOSUG Solaris May 18
TOPIC: IPMP - IP Multipathing
Planned discussion of new leadership and webmaster.
NOT DONE - Meeting cancelled.
* Who can take over leadership?
SNUG - May 19
STLLUG - May 20
HZWLUG - May 25
STCLUG - May 27
Presentation Schedule
Potential Presenters and Topics
June 2010
June 2010
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SLACC - June 3
SLUUG - June 9
STLOSUG Solaris June 15
SNUG - June 16
STLLUG - June 17
TOPIC: IT Enterprises, their Open Source Lab, and how SLUUG can help, by William Lemon (per Jeff Muse)
HZWLUG - June 22
STCLUG - June 24
July 2010
July 2010
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SLACC - July 1
Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
2010-05 Previous room reservations at Thornhill library were NOT paid, so they expired.
2010-06 On 20 May Auditorium reserved and paid. Open from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM.
SLUUG - July 14
STLLUG - July 15
August 2010
August 2010
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SLACC - August 5
Potential Presenters and Topics
SLCL Room Reservations
Process has changed. Limited to 6 months. Next round may be first Saturday in April.
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Payment required within 14 days, or we lose reservation.
To avoid problems, payments need to be made separately to each SLCL Branch.
2010-04 Stan R. has put in requests for HZWLUG, SLACC, & STLlug from Aug thru Dec.
Stan R. will front payment for HZWLUG.
Payments need be made before 21 April (2 wks)(if Library grants dates).
Gary has reservation codes to cancel STLlug.
Phil has info for SLACC but we aren't sure of Phil's availability.
2010-05 Stan R. paid for HZWLUG Library rooms July through December 2010.
Other library rooms were NOT paid, so reservations for SLACC and STLlug have expired.
We will renew reservations for both SLACC and STLLUG.
Money can be refunded if we switch STLLUG meetings to other site.
2010-06 On 18 May, Noah L. signaled change to new STLLUG location.
Stan R. asked Gary M. to notify Indian Trails and get refund.
STLLUG web page changed. Calendar and Announce mailings noted STLLUG change.
On 20 May, Stan R. paid for SLACC Thornhill Branch Library Auditorium July through December 2010.
SLACC web page changed. Calendar changed. Changes to be reflected in upcoming Announce mailing.
* Any further issues?
Server Admin
2009-12 Bud Light offline due to fan failure, is still offline.
2009-12 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
2009-12 Carl recommended using one of the Sun Netras as a log server.
2010-02 Craig wondered if we could put sudo back on Bud.
2010-02 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.
2010-02 Noah has a server we can use.
2010-03 Noah and Craig will install it on Wednesday 3/10 at 2:00 PM.
2010-03 Noah has loaded VMware ESXi 4.0
2010-04 New server [Debian] installed from Noah - thanks!
2010-04 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.
2010-04 New server from Contegix - Nimbus [tentative]
2010-05
PrimaryNet problem with possible rouge
IRC activity on system we later identified as Golden Wheat.
Stan R. added some info on Golden Wheat to resources.txt file.
Taking Golden Wheat offline…
Mike Knight pointed out that Bud is not being backed up since BudLight went down.
Jeff Muse has started rsnapshots backing up Bud to Bock.
Noah Lance willing to diagram our assets – later.
Joe B will be installing Sun Netra box.
2010-06
* Any further issues?
Wash U Cleanup
2009-09 Jerry Stute, Jeff Muse, and Eric Xu volunteered to cleanup Wash U site.
2009-09 Gary Meyer is Captain.
2009-10 Captain is AWOL. Carl will be available in November or later.
2009-11 Captain was AWOL.
2009-12 Captain still AWOL.
2010-01 Captain still AWOL.
2010-02 Captain Gary Meyer still AWOL. Search party has not reported back.
2010-04 Pending until next month at the earliest.
2010-05 This project open since September 2009. Gary immediately left meeting.
2010-06
* Any further issues?
IRC Channel
* Any further issues?
Purge SYSADMIN mailing list
* Any further issues?
Password Cards
2009-12 We need to change root passwords.
2010-0? Craig handed out new password cards.
Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.
2010-05 This project open since December.
2010-06
* Any further issues?
New Attendance Sheets
* Any further issues?
New Business
* Any further issues?
Blue Sky
Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects.
Recognize Useful Efforts
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.
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!!