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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 -
Attendees
Jeff Muse
Noah Lance
Craig Buchek
Lee Lammert
Jerry Stutte
Ted Palmer
Secretary Report
Treasurer Report
Balance as of 6/30: $1359.50
Expenses: none
Income: ~$65 in room fee donations
Income: ~$180 in memebership dues
Mailing List Report
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 |
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 | ?? |
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.
June 2010
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
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
Presentation Schedule
Potential Presenters and Topics
July 2010
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
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
STLOSUG Solaris July 20
SNUG - July 21
STCLUG - July 22
HZWLUG - July 27
August 2010
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
SLACC - August 5
SLUUG - August 11
STLOSUG Solaris August 17
SNUG - August 18
STLLUG - August 19
HZWLUG - August 24
STCLUG - August 26
September 2010
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
SLACC - September 2
SLUUG - September 8
STLOSUG Solaris - September 14
SNUG - September 15
STLLUG - September 16
STCLUG - September 23
HZWLUG - September 28
Potential Presenters and Topics
SLCL Room Reservations
* 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
2010-07
* 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 Gary not here, nothing resolved.
2010-07
* Any further issues?
IRC Channel
2009-11 Charles Sharp created an
IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
Channel is named #sluug.
Typically 7 people on at times.
2009-12 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.
Stan R. will put the
IRC channel info up on the web site.
Stan R. will put the
IRC channel info on ANNOUNCE messages.
2010-05 This project open since November.
2010-06 Will build a page - stanr.
-
Posted item on STEERCOM list, 28 June, asking for review and comments.
Added link reference on 5 July ANNOUNCE mailing item.
* Any further issues?
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.
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.
* 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 Stan R. will build an unviewable page to record the number for server list.
Further implementation when we move BUD downtown.
2010-07
* Any further issues?
New Attendance Sheets
Building new server
GOAL - Moving production to our cloud so that we don't have to worry about hardware.
Cloud server donated by Contegicx. downtown.
Contact Lee or Jeff Muse to volunteer help.
2010-07
* Any further issues?
* Any further issues?
New Business
Any New Business?
2010-07
* Any further issues?
Blue Sky
Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects.
Lee wants us to complete something that is already listed.
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.
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.