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-====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 1 September 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),
-Old Olive Street Road,
-  Creve Coeur, MO 63141
-====== Date and Time ======
-  * Wednesday, September 1, 2010
-  * 6:30 PM - 8:20 PM
-====== Attendees ======
-  * Lee Lammert
-  * Noah Lance
-  * Jerry Stutte
-  * Don Ellis
-  * Craig Buchek
-  * Bill Odom
-  * Gary Meyer
-====== Secretary Report  ======
-  * Secretary has not printed minutes since June 2009.
-  * Craig asked if there's any point to printing meeting minutes.
-    * Consensus was that it doesn't really make sense to have printed copies.
-    * Will continue to print out board meeting minutes and annual meeting minutes.
-====== Treasurer Report ======
-  * Balance as of 8/31: $1359.50
-  * Expenses: none
-  * Income: none
-====== Mailing List Report ======
-  * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of August 2010:
-| List     ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^
-^ ANNOUNCE | 772 | 767 | 770 | 773 | 769 | 767 | 759 | 751 | 752 | 755 | 755 | 739 | 736 |
-^ DISCUSS  | 217 | 220 | 220 | 227 | 226 | 226 | 221 | 221 | 223 | 223 | 224 | 224 | 222 |
-^ STEERCOM |  33 |  34 |  34 |  35 |  35 |  35 |  37 |  37 |  37 |  37 |  40 | 39  |  39 |
-^ SYSADMIN |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  18 |  18 |  18 |  19 |  19 |  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 August 2010:
-| Meeting  ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^
-^ Steercom |  4 |   4 |   5 |   6 |  6 |  6 |  6  |   5  |   6  |  4 |  6 |    6 | 4 |
-^ SLACC    |  6 |   4 |   5 |   9 |  9 |  - |  5  |   8  |   ?  |  ? | (6)| ? |  ? |
-^ SLUUG    | 19 |  17 |  36 |  30 | 15 | 28 |  22? |  ?  |   ?  |  ? | 18 | 22? | 29(31) |
-^ STLOSUG  | 4 |   6 |   9 |  4 |  7 |  -  |   6  |  7  |  - |  ? |  - | -| - |
-^ SNUG SuSE| 6 |   6 |   - |  (4) | 15 |  - |  ?  |   -  |   8  |  8 |  9 | ? | ? |
-^ STLLUG   | 19 |  22 |  25 |  22 | 25 |  23 |  15  |   16  |  16  |  17 | 19 | 9?| 17 |
-^ STCLUG   | 8 |   6 | (9) |  -  |  - | (2) |  7  |   6  |   ?  |  6 |  5 | 12 | 4 |
-^ HZWLUG   | 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 ======
-===== August 2010 =====
-<code>
-    August 2010
-Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
-  2  3  4  5  6  7
-  9 10 11 12 13 14
-16 17 18 19 20 21
-23 24 25 26 27 28
-30 31
-</code>
-==== SLACC - August 5 ====
-  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
-==== SLUUG - August 11 ====
-  * BASE: Features of GNU grep by Craig Buchek
-    * Good.
-  * MAIN: Open Source Software in Genomics by David Dooling (via Craig)
-    * Excellent. Awesome. Good speaker and interesting topic.
-    * Need to invite him back in 6 months to a year.
-==== SNUG - August 18 ====
-  * TOPIC: OpenSUSE Release 11.3
-==== STLLUG - August 19 ====
-  * TOPIC: Comparison of dpkg vs RPM by Jeff Muse
-    * Good.
-==== HZWLUG - August 24 ====
-  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.
-==== STCLUG - August 26 ====
-  * TOPIC: Open discussion.
-    * Craig forgot that he was supposed to give a talk about hard drives.
-====== Presentation Schedule ======
-===== Potential Presenters and Topics =====
-  * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics.
-===== September 2010 =====
-<code>
-   September 2010
-Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
-  2  3  4
-  6  7  8  9 10 11
-13 14 15 16 17 18
-20 21 22 23 24 25
-27 28 29 30
-</code>
-==== SLACC - September 2 ====
-  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
-==== SLUUG - September 8 ====
-  * BASE: UNIX Toolbox by Jerry Stutte
-  * MAIN: vim by Bill Odom
-==== SNUG - September 15 ====
-  * TOPIC: Something by Noah
-==== STLLUG - September 16 ====
-  * Topic: Parallel Computing Using a Linux Cluster by Sanjiv Bhatia and George Gerules (via Jerry S.)
-==== STCLUG - September 23 ====
-  * TOPIC: DNSMasq revisited, by Jerry Stutte
-==== HZWLUG - September 28 ====
-  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.
-===== October 2010 =====
-<code>
-    October 2010
-Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
-  2
-  4  5  6  7  8  9
-11 12 13 14 15 16
-18 19 20 21 22 23
-25 26 27 28 29 30
-
-</code>
-==== SLACC - October 7 ====
-  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
-==== SLUUG - October 13 ====
-  * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
-  * MAIN: Amazon Tools by Scott Granneman
-==== SNUG - October 20 ====
-  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
-==== STLLUG - October 21 ====
-  * TOPIC: Postfix by Craig Buchek
-==== HZWLUG - October 26 ====
-  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.
-==== STCLUG - October 28 ====
-  * TOPIC: Continuation of Linux v. Windows by Noah Lance
-===== November 2010 =====
-<code>
-   November 2010
-Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
-  2  3  4  5  6
-  8  9 10 11 12 13
-15 16 17 18 19 20
-22 23 24 25 26 27
-29 30
-</code>
-==== SLACC - November 4 ====
-  * Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
-==== SLUUG - November 10 ====
-  * BASE: vim by Bill Odom
-  * MAIN: mdadm by Jeff Muse
-==== SNUG - November 17 ====
-  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
-==== STLLUG - November 18 ====
-  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
-==== HZWLUG - November 23 ====
-  * Topics are usually determined by attendees.  We sometimes cover more than one.
-==== Thankgiving Day - November 25 ====
-==== STCLUG - November 2? ====
-  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)
-===== Potential Presenters and Topics =====
-  * Link to [[/steercom/potential]] speakers and topics.
-====== Standing Action Item ======
-Update front page of sluug.org so that we are current with presentations listed above.
-====== EPC Sale for Tax-Free Weekend (Aug 8) ======
-  * We were unable to make it happen in time.
-  * Crowd at the store was smaller than in previous years.
-====== 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.
-  * 2010-09
-      * We now only hold SLACC and HZWLUG meetings at the St. Louis County Library Branches.
-      * We believe that room reservations for calandar year 2011 can be made starting the first Saturday in October.
-====== 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 ---  JEFF FIXED THIS
-    * Work party at the bat cave - started on web, mail, system services, user IDs. Big problem now is that mysql won't let postfix log in.
-  * 2010-08
-    * Jerry is working on setting up Nagios
-  * 2010-09
-    * Backups have been disabled, since they were filling the / partition.
-    * Postfix integration with MySQL -- not working yet.
-    * Trying to get Zimbra installed -- not working yet either.
-====== 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.
-  * 2010-09 Gary will work on this.
-====== 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.
-  * 2010-09 Status unchanged.
-====== 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
-====== InstallFest ======
-  * 2010-08 Arch Reactor wants to do an InstallFest (brought to us by Noah)
-    * Likely in October
-    * 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
-  * Invite Splunk reps to speak at SLUUG? Jeff and Lee can contact them to give a presentation.
-  * 2010-09 No movement
-====== New Business ======
-  * 2010-09 Possible Linux event next May
-    * Mid-America GNU/Linux Networkers Conference on 5 and 6 May 2011 [[http://magnetcon.info/]]
-    * Web site looks like it went up early in February 2010.
-    * Event name changed, was previously listed as Mid-America LinuxFest.
-    * Web site had not kept up with July 2010 selection of St. Louis as city of choice.
-    * Location seems to be St. Louis Union Station Marriott.
-    * Appears to be for-profit.
-    * Looking for sponsors.
-    * We need someone to determine viability of efforts before we consider committing.
-    * Any volunteer?
-  * 2010-09 Had long discussion about how to introduce a series of vim presentations/tutorials.
-    * Eventually reach consensus to start with a 1-hour presentation.
-    * Followed by 30-minute sessions every other month.
-  * 2010-09 Stan's wife Abbey passed away this past month.
-    * The group expressed their condolences for Stan's loss, and best wishes to him and his family.
-    * The group agreed to purchase a floral arrangement.
-      * Possibly something that can be planted.
-      * Carolyn will make the arrangements for us, and make the final decision.
-====== Blue Sky ======
-  * Speculate on events, plans, policy, procedures, projects.
-====== Recognize Useful Efforts ======
-  * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
-  * Who did what?
-====== 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.
-  * Gary - get Wash U site cleaned up.
-  * Carl - send thank-you note to Hostirian for hosting our servers.
-  * 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.
-  * Jerry - find someone to talk to us about Android.
-    * Talk to Joshua Frank and Bill Zimmerly.
-    * Talk to Rich Siebel to see if Andrew Prunicki of OCI can talk to us.
-    * See Announce list from February 2009 for speakers from Java SIG presentations.
-  * Jeff - talk to Splunk reps about presenting.
-  * Noah - work on Amber build.

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