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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

  • 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 memebership 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 ??
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

     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

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

SLUUG - June 9

  • BASE: Autostarting a Virtual Box server by Don Ellis
  • MAIN: IBM Cloud Services by Dale Taylor of IBM

STLOSUG Solaris June 15

  • HIATUS - No Meetings Until Further Notice

SNUG - June 16

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

STLLUG - June 17

  • TOPIC: IT Enterprises, their Open Source Lab, and how SLUUG can help, by William Lemon (per Jeff Muse)

HZWLUG - June 22

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

STCLUG - June 24

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

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

  • Back to back meeting.
  • BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • MAIN: VMware Update - Matt Skipton (Confirmed) per Lee Lammert.

STLLUG - July 15

  • Back to back meeting.
  • TOPIC: Processing and Storing Genomic Sequencing Data by David Dooling

Confirmed by Craig

STLOSUG Solaris July 20

  • HIATUS - No Meetings Until Further Notice

SNUG - July 21

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

STCLUG - July 22

  • TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

HZWLUG - July 27

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

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

  • Linux configuration workshop - no presentation

SLUUG - August 11

  • BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  • MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD)

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

   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

  • 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

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

:?: * 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.
    • 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 - Nimbus [tentative]
    • Contact Lee or SysAdmin list for info
  • 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
    • 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

:?: * 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.
    • Will be hard to figure out the best way to get the online folks to participate.
  • 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.
  • 2010-07 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.

:?: * 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.
    • 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

:?: * 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

  • Stan R. made new attendance sheets for:
    • SLACC, STEERCOM, SLUUG, STLLUG, STCLUG, and HZWLUG
    • Yet to do: STLOSUG and SNUG, and groups on HIATUS.
    • 2010-05 This project open since January.
  • 2010-06 Not finished
  • 2010-07 Completed.

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?

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
  • 2010-07

:?: * 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

  • Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.

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.
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