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-====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 4 January 2012 ====== 
-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 ====== 
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-  * Wednesday, January 4, 2012 
-  * 7:06 PM -  
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-====== Attendees ====== 
- 
-:?: Joe Bohnenstiehl 
- 
-Don Ellis 
- 
-Lee Lammert 
- 
-Jeff Muse 
- 
-Stan Reichardt 
- 
-Jerry Stutte 
- 
-====== Agenda Changes ====== 
-  * Are there any additions, deletions, or changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda? 
- 
-====== Secretary Report ​ ====== 
-  * Nothing to report, secretary not in attendance. 
- 
-====== Treasurer Report ====== 
-  * Balance as of 10/​31:​ $2,​354.45 
-  * Balance as of 11/​30:​ $2,​258.45 ​ 
- 
-  * USPS - Box Rental $ ​ 96.00 - 
- 
- 
-====== Mailing List Report ====== 
-  * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of December 2012: 
- 
-| List     ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ 
-^ ANNOUNCE | 718 | 717 | 718 | 717 | 717 | 708 | 703 | 704 | 701 | 704 | 704 | 700 | 695 | 667 | 667 | 
-^ DISCUSS ​ | 222 | 222 | 221 | 219 | 218 | 218 | 216 | 215 | 215 | 215 | 211 | 211 | 208 | 206 | 206 | 
-^ STEERCOM |  38 |  38 |  38 |  38 |  38 |  39 |  38 |  37 |  37 |  37 |  35|  35|  35 |  35 |  35 | 
-^ SYSADMIN |  18 |  18 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17|  17|  16 |  16 |  16 | 
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-  * Numbers as end of each month. 
-  * Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet. This will be much easier to do on Amber. 
-  * ANNOUNCE mailing list. 
-    * Still no volunteer editor to do a quarterly or monthly newsletter. 
-  * Command used to generate these (as root on Bud): 
-    * /​usr/​local/​mailman/​bin/​list_members **list_name** | wc -l 
- 
-====== Attendance Report ====== 
-  * Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets. 
-  * Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at meetings. 
-  * Blank attendance sheets are [[http://​www.sluug.org/​resources/​attendance/​|available here]] 
-  * Attendance numbers, as of end of December 2012: 
- 
-| Meeting ​ ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ 
-^ Steercom |  6 |   5 |  7 |  5 |  (9) |  5 |   5 |  11 |  5 |  6 |  (5) |  3 |  5 |  6 |  ? | 
-^ SLACC    |  8 |   ? |  7 |  ? |   5 |   ? |  (6)|  5 |  8 |  5 |  ? |  (4)|   (7) |  ? |  ? | 
-^ SLUUG    |  29 |  ? |  15 |  18 |  15 |  14|  16 |  19 |  21 |  18|  12|  26 |  14 | 15 |  ? | 
-^ SNUG SuSE|  - |   7 | 11(14) |  11 |  15 |  - |   7 |  ? |  8 |  7 |  (8) |  11 |   9 |  9 |  ? | 
-^ STLLUG ​  ​| ​ 16 |  (9) |  - |  14 |  13|  15 |  15 |  15 |  14 |  15|  - |  18 |   9 |  20 |  ? | 
-^ STCLUG ​  ​| ​ 6 |   4 |  - |  4 |   ? |  - |  11 |  7 |  7 |  1 |  4 |  6 |   - |  - |  - | 
-^ HZWLUG ​  ​| ​ 7 |   6 |  9 |  13 |   9 |  7 |  11 |  9 |  (7)|  8 |  ? |  7 |   8 |  ? |  ? | 
- 
-  * NA - Not part of SLUUG. Jeff asked why this option is still listed. 
-  * () - 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. 
-  * NOTE - Corrected STCLUG August 2010 and September 2010 counts. 
-  * NOTE - February 2011 Steercom was via IRC #SLUUG channel on freenode. 
-  * NOTE - Oct 2011 SLUUG and STLLUG meetings were during a STL Cardnal'​s baseball game. 
- 
-====== Meeting Review and Comments ====== 
- 
-===== Dec 2011 ===== 
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-   ​December 2011    ​ 
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-             ​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 
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- 
-==== SLACC - Dec 1  ==== 
-* [[http://​slacc.sluug.org/​|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation 
-    * Usual room and week of the month could NOT be re-instated,​ because of reservations foul-up. 
-    * Different Time and Location. 
- * Meeting was held at 7:30 PM, in Room 2, at the Bridgeton Trails Branch Library. 
- * 3455 McKelvey Rd., Bridgeton, MO 63044  
- * SLACC home web page had been posted. 
- 
-==== SLUUG - Dec 14 ==== 
- * [[http://​www.sluug.org/​|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation. 
-  * BASE: TrueCrypt by Stan Reichardt 
-  * MAIN: Android and X86 Platform by Alan Griggs via Jerry Stutte 
-  * BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD). Ideas: Gary to investigate possibility of OpenIndiana. ​ 
- 
-==== STLLUG - Dec 15 ==== 
-  * [[http://​www.stllinux.org/​|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. 
-  * TOPIC: Things you don't learn by having root permissions by Jeff Muse 
-  * BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD) 
- 
-==== SNUG - Dec 21 ==== 
-  * [[http://​snug.sluug.org/​|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group. 
-  * HIATUS: Consenus of October attendees, no meeting because of holiday season. 
- 
-==== STCLUG - Dec 22 ==== 
-  * [[http://​www.stclug.org/​|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group. 
-  * December 2011 - Must renew STCLUG.ORG domain. 
-  * HIATUS: No meeting, because of Christmas Season 
- 
-==== Christmas Day - Dec 25 ==== 
- 
-==== HZWLUG - Dec 27 ==== 
-  * [[http://​hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. ​ We usually cover more than one. 
-  * Prairie Commons Library Branch room fee paid, Stan R. will be in Nevada. 
- 
-====== Presentation Schedule ====== 
- 
-===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== 
-  * Link to [[/​steercom/​potential]] speakers and topics. 
- 
-===== Jan 2012 ===== 
-<​code>​ 
-    January 2012    ​ 
-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>​ 
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-==== SLACC - Jan 5  ==== 
-* [[http://​slacc.sluug.org/​|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation 
-    * Return to Usual Location. ​ 
-    * SLACC home web page has been posted. 
- 
-==== SLUUG - Jan 11 ==== 
- * [[http://​www.sluug.org/​|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation. 
-  * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)  
-  * MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD) Rajh Grinwald (Jupiter conslulting) on IT Resumes via Jerry S. 
-  * BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD) 
- 
-==== SNUG - Jan 18 ==== 
-  * [[http://​snug.sluug.org/​|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group. 
-  * TOPIC: Domain Services for Windows per Gary Hollingsworth 
- 
-==== STLLUG - Jan 19 ==== 
-  * [[http://​www.stllinux.org/​|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. 
-  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD) 
-  * BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD) 
- 
-==== STCLUG - Jan 26 ==== 
-  * [[http://​www.stclug.org/​|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group. 
-  * Stan R. volunteered to be Point-Of-Contact for reservations with restaurant. 
-  * Meetings to Resume - If we can get leadership and topics. 
-  * Noah will be back, doing stuff on Zen. 
- 
-==== HZWLUG - Jan 24 ==== 
-  * [[http://​hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. ​ We usually cover more than one. 
- 
-===== Feb 2012 ===== 
-<​code>​ 
-   ​February 2012    ​ 
-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 
-</​code>​ 
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-==== SLACC - Feb 2  ==== 
-* [[http://​slacc.sluug.org/​|SLACC]] usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation 
-    * Return to Usual Location. ​ 
-    * SLACC home web page has been posted. 
- 
-==== SLUUG - Feb 8 ==== 
- * [[http://​www.sluug.org/​|SLUUG]] usually starts with a tutorial or demo session before a main presentation. 
-  * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD) 
-  * MAIN: To Be Determined (TBD) possible presentation via Joe B. 
-  * BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD) 
- 
-==== SNUG - Feb 15 ==== 
-  * [[http://​snug.sluug.org/​|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group. 
-  * TOPIC: Domain Services for Windows per Gary Hollingsworth 
- 
-==== STLLUG - Feb 16 ==== 
-  * [[http://​www.stllinux.org/​|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. 
-  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)  Possible openNebula (toolkit) by Noel via Lee L. 
-  * BACKUP: To Be Determined (TBD) 
- 
-==== STCLUG - Feb 23 ==== 
-  * [[http://​www.stclug.org/​|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group. 
-  * Stan R. volunteered to be Point-Of-Contact for reservations with restaurant. 
-  * December 2011 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain. 
-  * Meetings to Resume - If we can get leadership and topics. 
- 
-==== HZWLUG - Feb 28 ==== 
-  * [[http://​hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees. ​ We usually cover more than one. 
- 
-===== Potential Presenters and Topics ===== 
-  * Link to [[/​steercom/​potential]] speakers and topics. 
- 
-====== Old Business ====== 
- 
-===== Server Admin ===== 
-  * Fixed GoldenWheat (1U server) 
-  * Acquired 2x2U Dell and 2x2U IBM sets of HW 
-  * Configured one as a new VM server 
-  * ToDo (from Noah Lance): 
-  * Finalize Network (openvswitch isn't happy with linux 3.1), Web GUI, Host monitoring/​management configurations 
-  * Build storage configuration - NFS server for images (templates) and home dirs for all VMs 
-  * Validate Web GUI functionality 
-  * Setup Debian 6 VMs for Bud & Budlight 
-  * Attempt p2v of Amber so updates can be tested before pushing to production 
-  * Possible future enhancement - LDAP/​Kerberos for SSO to production servers? 
-  * Need to resolve CNAME/A Record issue for sluug.org? 
-  * 2010-07 - Renewed SLUUG.ORG domain during 9 July migration work party. 
-  * 2011-08 - EveryDNS migration to DynDNS caught us unprepared. Craig moved us to buddyns. 
-    * Lee has made copies of zone files and we have BIND on amber now as an authoritative server. 
-    * We should probably make sure buddyns has up-to-date contact info.  
-  * 2011-12 Michelob is dead. 
-    * Joe B. volunteers to do fix on Michelob, will get together with Gary M. 
-  * 2012-01 
- 
-===== 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. 
-  * 2010-10 No progress. Stan questioned Gary's usefulness. ​ Suggested that he is merely decorative. 
-  * 2010-11 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness. 
-  * 2010-12 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness. 
-  * 2011-01 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness. 
-  * 2011-02 No progress. See note above about Gary's usefulness. 
-  * 2011-03 No progress. Gary is in Florida. See note above about Gary's usefulness. 
-  * 2011-04 No progress. 
-  * 2011-05 No progress. 
-  * 2011-06 No progress. Unless there is rain Gary won't be attending until September. 
-  * 2011-07 No progress. 
-  * 2011-08 No progress 
-  * 2011-09 Gary did a site survey and said "​Someday....."​ 
-  * 2011-10 Gary says to repeat above response, ie "​Someday....."​ 
-  * 2011-11 Table - Consensus is to do later, in Spring. 
- 
-===== Recording Meetings ===== 
-  * 2010-12 
-    * We have a voice recorder (VC) for recording meeting presentations and have posted some results on web site. 
-    * On 28 Oct Stan R. suggested buying an additional VC so that there wouldn'​t be a single point of failure. 
-      * We forget who has it. 
-      * We forget to bring it. 
-      * We forget to turn it on. 
-      * We forget fresh batteries. 
-      * We forget how to turn it on. 
-      * We forget to free up space on it. 
-    * There was some STEERCOM list banter but nothing was brought up at 3 November Steering Committee meeting. 
-    * Alternative of video recording suggested, huge size of video files was mentioned. 
-    * Stan R. passed voice recorder to Gary M. on 18 November and doesn'​t want it back. 
-    * Noah volunteered an old Digital8 recorder. 
-  * 2011-01 Continued discussion, but no consensus. 
-  * 2011-02 Not discussed during IRC meeting. 
-  * 2011-03 Gary M. returned voice recorder to Stan R. before going to Florida. 
-    * Stan needs to pull February 2011 STLLUG recording and post it (on Amber). 
-      * And email it to the speaker (Igor Gueths). 
-  * 2011-04 Stan R. passed on voice recorder to Phil Bunch, who should be at next general meeting. 
-  * 2011-05 Phil B. passed voice recorder back to Stan R. 
-  * 2011-05 Craig suggested getting another voice recorder (or 2), and extra batteries. 
-  * 2011-06 Jeff wanted to move that we use some of the Novell money to buy a second recorder. 
-    * Did not have a quorum. 
-    * Stan suggested getting one that records in ideally OGG, but failing that, MP3.  
-      * Either would be better than the current uncompressed format. 
-  * 2011-07 Group unanimously voted to buy 2 new voice recorders. 
-    * As long as they do not require Windows drivers. 
-    * Preferably record in OGG format, or MP3 at the least. 
-    * Upper limit $100 each. 
-    * Jerry and Lee will research and purchase. 
-  * 2011-08 No progress 
-  * 2011-09 Jerry has sent pricing information to Lee 
-  * 2011-10 No action on voice recorders.  ​ 
-    * Much discussion about projectors. ​ Jerry S. will research available units. ​ 
-  * 2011-11 Jerry and Lee still reseaching projectors and voice recorders. 
-  * 2011-12 Table -  until somebody gets interested. 
- 
-===== Web Site Suggestions ===== 
-  * 2011-01 Mike Knight'​s emails regarding web site. 
-    * Stan changed the copyright dates. 
-    * Good idea to list other Open Source friendly resources. 
-      * On a separate page from our own SIGs. 
-      * Sites like WITS, CVillage, Arch Reactor, 2600. 
-    * Our site layout has not changed for years. 
-      * Would take some effort to re-do it, and seems to be working for most people. 
-  * 2011-02 Stan hasn't gotten around to building new resources page, yet. 
-  * 2011-03 No change. 
-  * 2011-04 No change. 
-  * 2011-05 No change. 
-  * 2011-06 There was brief discussion of implementing a CMS at the work party on 5/21. No decisions made. 
-  * 2011-07 Gary noticed Wayback machine has STOPPED archiving our server as of about May 2009. 
-    * It would be good to get resumption of archiving at Wayback. 
-      * How can we accomplish this?  We don't know; so, we appointed Gary M. to find a way. 
-  * 2011-08 No progress. 
-  * 2011-09 No progress. 
-  * 2011-10 No progress. 
-  * 2011-11 No progress by Stan. 
-  * 2011-12 Table - No progress by Stan, but will work on. 
- 
-===== STLLUG Sponsorship Credit ===== 
-  * 2010-11 [[http://​www.stllinux.org/​|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group. 
-  * STLLUG meetings are now hosted at IT Enterprises,​ which is affiliated with UMSL.  
-  * Typically because of meeting space value we recognize host as sponsor on our web pages. 
-  * Previously, some educational institutions (other than UMSL) did not want to be listed. 
-  * Lee updated the SLUUG web site [[http://​www.sluug.org/​sponsors/​|sponsors list]] 
-    * Also added PayPal button to SLUUG web site [[http://​www.sluug.org/​members/​join/​|membership join page.]] 
-  * 2010-12 No status change. 
-  * We should push the PayPal usage. 
-  * 2011-01 Stan suggested putting Hostirian at the bottom of all SIG web sites. 
-  * 2011-02 Stan hasn't gotten around to the pages, yet. 
-    * Noticed .PNG file doesn'​t show up on old county library browsers. ​ Do we have .JPG file anywhere? 
-    * Not discussed during IRC meeting. 
-  * 2011-03 No change. 
-  * 2011-04 No change. 
-  * 2011-05 No change. 
-  * 2011-06 No change. The spirit is willing but the schedule is weak. 
-  * 2011-07 Stan R. added Historian logo stuff to bottom of home pages of all active Special Interest Groups. 
-  * 2011-08 No progress. 
-  * 2011-09 No progress. 
-  * 2011-10 Table - No progress. 
- 
-===== Preparation for February Annual Meeting and Elections ===== 
-  * Annual Official Business Meeting is 2nd Wednesday in February. 
-  * Voting is done during all the February meetings. 
-  * All votes will be counted at the March Steering Committee meeting. 
-  * 2011-10 Table - No progress. 
-  * 2012-01 ​ 
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-===== Leadership ===== 
-  * Need new chair, or co-chair for STL LUG group. 
-  * Need new Secretary. 
-  * 2011-12 Table - No progress. 
-  * 2012-01 ​ 
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-====== New Business ====== 
-  * Any new business? ​ 
- 
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-===== Other New Business ​ ===== 
-  * None. 
- 
-====== Annual Requirements ====== 
-  * 13 December 2011 - Renew SLUUG.INFO domain. 
-  * 17 December 2011 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain. 
-  * 09 February 2012 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain. 
-  * February 2012 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections. 
-  * March/April 2012 - St. Louis Business Expo 
-  * April 2012 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches. 
-  * May 2012 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status. 
-  * 10 July 2012 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain. 
-  * August 2012 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status (now every 2 years). 
-  * October 2012 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches. 
-  * October 2012 - St. Louis Business Expo 
- 
-====== Blue Sky ====== 
-  * None. 
- 
-====== 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. 
-  * Craig - talk to Splunk reps about presenting. 
-  * Craig - follow up on potential presentations. 
-    * Kyle Cordes - ffmpeg or other 
-    * GStreamer 
-  * Jerry - 
-    * 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. 
-  * Noah - work on Amber build. 
-  * Gary - follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us. 
-  * Gary - get Wash U site cleaned up. 
  
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