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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 7 July 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, July 7, 2010
  * 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

====== Attendees ======

  * Jeff Muse
  * Noah Lance
  * Craig Buchek
  * Lee Lammert
  * Jerry Stutte
  * Ted Palmer

====== Secretary Report  ======
  * Secretary has not printed minutes since June 2009.

====== Treasurer Report ======
  * Balance as of 6/30: $1359.50
  * Expenses: none
  * Income: ~$65 in room fee donations
  * Income: ~$180 in membership dues

====== Mailing List Report ======
  * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of June 2010:

| List     ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^
^ ANNOUNCE | 771 | 769 | 772 | 767 | 770 | 773 | 769 | 767 | 759 | 751 | 752 | 755 | 755 |
^ DISCUSS  | 214 | 215 | 217 | 220 | 220 | 227 | 226 | 226 | 221 | 221 | 223 | 223 | 224 |
^ STEERCOM |  35 |  34 |  33 |  34 |  34 |  35 |  35 |  35 |  37 |  37 |  37 |  37 |  40 |
^ SYSADMIN |  16 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  18 |  18 |  18 |  19 |  19 |  19 |

  * 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.

====== Attendance Report ======
  * Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at meetings.
  * Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets.
  * Attendance numbers, as of end of June 2010:

| Meeting  ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^
^ Steercom |  5 |   2 |   4 |   4 |   5 |   6 |  6 |  6 |  6  |   5  |   6  |  4 |  6 |
^ SLACC    |  7 |   8 |   6 |   4 |   5 |   9 |  9 |  - |  5  |   8  |   ?  |  ? | (6)|
^ SLUUG    | 15 |  22 |  19 |  17 |  36 |  30 | 15 | 28 |  22? |  ?  |   ?  |  ? | 18 |
^ STLOSUG  | 15 |   6 |   4 |   6 |   9 |  4 |  7 |  -  |   6  |  7  |  - |  ? |  - |
^ SNUG SuSE| 10 |  ? |   6 |   6 |   - |  (4) | 15 |  - |  ?  |   -  |   8  |  8 |  9 |
^ STLLUG   | (15) |  24 |   19 |  22 |  25 |  22 | 25 |  23 |  15  |   16  |  16  |  17 | 19 |
^ STCLUG   | 11 |  11 |   8 |   6 | (9) |  -  |  - | (2) |  7  |   6  |   ?  |  6 |  5 |
^ HZWLUG   | 10 |  12 |  10 |  11 |  11 |  11 |  9 | (13) | 10  |   8  |  11  |  ? |  8 |

  * 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 ======

===== June 2010 =====
<code>
     June 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         
</code>

==== SLACC - June 3 ====
  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
  * Meetings will be in smaller room.

==== SLUUG - June 9 ====
  * BASE: Autostarting a Virtual Box server by Don Ellis
    * Showed VBoxTool, nice command-line management of VMs
  * MAIN: IBM Cloud Services by Dale Taylor of IBM
    * Good presentation.
    * Great swag. ;)

==== STLOSUG Solaris June 15 ====
  * HIATUS - No Meetings Until Further Notice

==== SNUG - June 16 ====
  * TOPIC: SuSE-Novell Pulse
    * Pulse is a social media aggregator.
    * Good.

==== STLLUG - June 17 ====
  * TOPIC: IT Enterprises, their Open Source Lab, and how SLUUG can help, by William Lemon
    * Good. Turned into a full-length discussion.

==== HZWLUG - June 22 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.

==== STCLUG - June 24 ====
  * TOPIC: General discussion.

====== Presentation Schedule ======

===== Potential Presenters and Topics =====
  * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics.

===== July 2010 =====
<code>
     July 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 - 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 ====
  * Back to back meeting
  * BASE: DNS Masquerading by Jerry Stutte
  * MAIN: VMware Update - Matt Skipton (Confirmed) via Lee Lammert

==== STLLUG - July 15 ====
  * Back to back meeting.
  * TOPIC: Processing and Storing Genomic Sequencing Data by David Dooling (via Craig)
    * PROBLEM: CANNOT MAKE JULY 15. TRYING TO SEE IF MATT SKIPTON CAN DO JULY 15.

==== STLOSUG Solaris July 20 ====
  * HIATUS - No Meetings Until Further Notice

==== SNUG - July 21 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== STCLUG - July 22 ====
  * TOPIC: Comparing Windows Basics to Linux Basics by Noah Lance

==== HZWLUG - July 27 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.


===== August 2010 =====
<code>
    August 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 - August 5 ====
  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

==== SLUUG - August 11 ====
  * BASE: Features of GNU grep by Craig Buchek
    * --count, --context, -A, -B, -e, --color, etc.
  * MAIN: Open Source Software in Genomics by David Dooling (via Craig)

==== STLOSUG Solaris August 17 ====
  * HIATUS - No Meetings Until Further Notice

==== SNUG - August 18 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== STLLUG - August 19 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== HZWLUG - August 24 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.

==== STCLUG - August 26 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)


===== September 2010 =====
<code>
   September 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      
</code>

==== SLACC - September 2 ====
  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

==== SLUUG - September 8 ====
  * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  * MAIN: Parallel Computing Using a Linux Cluster by Sanjiv Bhatia and George Gerules (per Jerry S.)

==== STLOSUG Solaris - September 14 ====
  * HIATUS - No Meetings Until Further Notice

==== SNUG - September 15 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== STLLUG - September 16 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== STCLUG - September 23 ====
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== HZWLUG - September 28 ====
  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.

===== Potential Presenters and Topics =====
  * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics.

====== SLCL Room Reservations ======
  * 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.
      * 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.
      * On 18 May, Noah L. signaled change to new STLLUG location.
  * 2010-06
      * Stan R. asked Gary M. to notify Indian Trails and get refund.
      * Library could not figure out how to give a refund, so there are two meeting charges outstanding - need to get refund!
      * STLLUG web page changed.  Calendar and Announce mailings noted STLLUG change.
      * Need to get refund from Indian Trails.
  * 2010-07
      * CRAIG - work on getting refund for 2 months of Indian Trails reservations we did not use.
        * Or transfer the 2 months to SLACC or HZWLUG.

====== 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.
    * Configure it to require root password instead of user's own password.
    * Will follow up on SYSADMIN list.
  * 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.
    * IBM X325, dual P4 Xeon 2.8 GHz, 2x72 GB.
    * Name: Golden Wheat
    * Craig will get with Noah to install the system.
  * 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 - Amber
    * Contact Lee or SysAdmin list for info
  * 2010-05 
    * PrimaryNet problem with possible rogue 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
    * Golden Wheat ready for reinstall - setup with virtual appliance Debian 5 XVA.
    * Lee is building backup on a server built - aliased as AMBER.  We might need different name.  
  * 2010-07
    * Golden Wheat has been re-installed, and fully functional.
    * Amber had incorrect DNS entry; Craig fixed it.
    * Lee copied over Bud home directories to /bu/home on Amber.
      * Cannot get rsync to work between the 2 systems.

====== Wash U Cleanup ======
  * 2009-09 Jerry Stutte, 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 Gary not here, nothing resolved.
  * 2010-07 Gary not here, nothing resolved.

====== IRC Channel ======
  * 2009-11 Charles Sharp created an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
    * Channel is named #sluug.
  * 2010-07 Stan built SLUUG IRC Info page [[http://www.sluug.org/resources/irc/]] 
    * Posted item on STEERCOM list, 28 June,  asking for review and comments.
    * Added link reference on 5 July ANNOUNCE mailing item.

====== Purge SYSADMIN mailing list ======
  * 2009-12 Stan R. 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.
  * 2010-05 This project open since December.
  * 2010-06 Not finished 
  * 2010-07 Sent warning of purge on 30 June to SYSADMIN and STEERCOM mailing lists.
    * Gary M. and Stan R. will determine exceptions.

====== Password Cards ======
  * 2009-12 We need to change root passwords.
  * 2010-01 Craig handed out new password cards.
  * 2010-06 Stan R. will build an unviewable page to record the number for server list.
    * Further implementation when we move BUD downtown.
  * 2010-07 Craig - change root passwords; make sure Mike Knight has a copy of the password card.

====== New Attendance Sheets ======
  * Stan R. completed new attendance sheets for all active groups.

====== Building new server ======
  * GOAL - Moving production to our cloud so that we don't have to worry about hardware.
  * Cloud server donated by Contegix downtown.
  * New server is named Amber.
  * Contact Lee or Jeff Muse to volunteer help.
  * Next steps:
    * Get rsync problem resolved.
    * Start migrating services from Bud.

====== Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status ======
  * 2010-06 Late 16 May Stan R. saw article on annual filing requirement.
    * IRS will revoke tax status on non-filing non-profit organizations.
    * Stan R. went into panic mode and passed action to Gary Meyer.
    * Per Gary and Gary
    * Per Lee
    * Per Mike Knight
    * Gary, Gary, Lee and Mike put out fire.
    * Annual requirement - needs to be done every May

====== New Business ======
  * Arch Reactor wants to do an InstallFest (brought to us by Noah)
    * Would like to do this in conjunction with SLUUG
    * Would like to hold at ITe to get them publicity too
    * Looking at fall quarter
    * Targeting professionals and hobbyists
  * ITe also expressed interest in working with any companies working with Open Source

====== Blue Sky ======
  * Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects.
  * Lee wants us to complete something that is already listed.


====== Recognize Useful Efforts ======
  * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
  * Stan did a lot of work this month:
    * Created new sign-in sheets
    * Created IRC info page
    * Prepped wiki page for Steering meeting minutes
    * ANNOUNCE mailings

====== 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 - 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.
  * Craig - work on getting refund for 2 months of Indian Trails reservations we did not use.
    * Or transfer the 2 months to SLACC or HZWLUG.
  * Craig - follow up w/ Kyle Cordes for ffmpeg presentation - August or September?
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