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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 1 February 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 ======
<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>

  * Wednesday, February 1, 2012
  * 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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

  * Lee Lammert
  * Gary Meyer
  * Jeff Muse
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Jerry Stutte
  * Craig Buchek

====== Agenda Changes ======
  * Are there any additions, deletions, or changes to sequence of items in the prepared agenda?

====== Secretary Report  ======
  * Nothing to report.

====== Treasurer Report ======
  * Balance as of 1/1:		$2,258.45
  * SBE Booth from October:		$  125.00 -
  * Balance as of 1/31:		$2,133.45 

  * GigE 5 & 8 port switches purchased for Hostirian rack, billed in February.

====== Mailing List Report ======
  * Subscriber numbers (approximate) as of end of January 2012:

| List     ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^
^ ANNOUNCE | 717 | 717 | 708 | 703 | 704 | 701 | 704 | 704 | 700 | 695 | 667 | 667 | 668 |
^ DISCUSS  | 219 | 218 | 218 | 216 | 215 | 215 | 215 | 211 | 211 | 208 | 206 | 206 | 209 |
^ STEERCOM |  38 |  38 |  39 |  38 |  37 |  37 |  37 |  35|  35|  35 |  35 |  35 |  34 |
^ SYSADMIN |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17|  17|  16 |  16 |  16 |  16 |

  * 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 January 2012:

| Meeting  ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^
^ Steercom |  5 |  (9) |  5 |   5 |  11 |  5 |  6 |  (5) |  3 |  5 |  6 |  5 |  5 |
^ SLACC    |  ? |   5 |   ? |  (6)|  5 |  8 |  5 |  ? |  (4)|   (7) |  ? |  ? |  (6) |
^ SLUUG    |  18 |  15 |  14|  16 |  19 |  21 |  18|  12|  26 |  14 |  15 |  ? |  13 |
^ SNUG SuSE|  11 |  15 |  - |   7 |  ? |  8 |  7 |  (8) |  11 |   9 |  9 |  - |  9 |
^ STLLUG   |  14 |  13|  15 |  15 |  15 |  14 |  15|  - |  18 |   9 |  20 |  ? |  20 |
^ STCLUG   |  4 |   ? |  - |  11 |  7 |  7 |  1 |  4 |  6 |   - |  - |  - |  - |
^ HZWLUG   |  13 |   9 |  7 |  11 |  9 |  (7)|  8 |  ? |  7 |   8 |  5 |  5 |  9 |

  * 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.

====== Calendar Report ======
  * [[http://www.sluug.org/resources/calendar|SLUUG Calendar]] is a Google Calendar available on our web site.
  * This is a calendar of technical events in the Greater St. Louis area and surrounding regions. 
  * Not all events are official SLUUG events. 
  * Items have been added and corrected by Stan R., Gary Meyer and Don Ellis.
  * Items listed on this calendar feed the ANNOUNCE weekly mailing.
  * Count of number of events listed, each month, as of end of January 2012:

| Calendar ^ Jan ^ Feb ^ Mar ^ Apr ^ May ^ Jun ^ Jul ^ Aug ^ Sep ^ Oct ^ Nov ^ Dec ^ Jan ^
^ EVENTS   |  98 | 102 | 105 | 108 | 103 | 117 | 105 | 105 | 105 | 113 | 103 |  96 | 110 |

  * xxx - Numbers not yet counted.
  * NOTE - Jan 2012 added Arch Reactor items (from their Google Calendar).

  * Stan says that Arch Reactor makes it easy for him, by keeping their info in Google Calendar.

====== Meeting Review and Comments ======

===== 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>

==== 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: TrueCrypt by Stan Reichardt
    * Good.
  * MAIN: Practical Nagios, including Windows!, by Lee Lammert
    * Jerry filled in. Did a good job. Can do more on this topic.

==== SNUG - Jan 18 ====
  * [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
  * TOPIC: Domain Services for Windows per Gary Hollingsworth
    * Good. Would have liked to have seen more introductory material though.

==== STLLUG - Jan 19 ====
  * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  * TOPIC: GStreamer Multimedia by Jeff Sigmon (via Craig)
    * Excellent.

==== STCLUG - Jan 26 ====
  * ON Hiatus

==== HZWLUG - Jan 24 ====
  * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees.  We usually cover more than one.

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

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

===== 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>

==== 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: Improve Your Resume and Job Search, by Rajvir Grewall (Jupiter Consulting)
    * May include a workshop.
    * Jerry will send out post to DISCUSS telling people to bring URLs of their online resumes.

==== SNUG - Feb 15 ====
  * [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== STLLUG - Feb 16 ====
  * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  * Managing Xen Virtual Machines by Noah Lance

==== STCLUG - Feb 23 HIATUS ====
  * [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
  * Web site and calenar changed to indicate HIATUS - NO MEETINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE *
  * Meetings to Resume - If we can get leadership and topics.
  * Stan R. volunteered to be Point-Of-Contact for reservations with restaurant.
  * December 2011 - Renewed STCLUG.ORG domain. Gary needs to update the NS servers though.

==== HZWLUG - Feb 28 ====
  * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org |HZWLUG]] topics are usually determined by attendees.  We usually cover more than one.

===== March 2012 =====
<code>
     March 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>

==== SLACC - Mar 1  ====
* [[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 - Mar 14 ====
  * BASE: To Be Determined (TBD)
  * MAIN: Keyboard Karaoke

==== STLLUG - Mar 15 ====
  * [[http://www.stllinux.org/|STLLUG]] is the St. Louis Linux Users Group.
  * TOPIC: openNebula (Xen web management) by Noah Lance via Lee L.

==== SNUG - Mar 21 ====
  * [[http://snug.sluug.org/|SNUG]] is the St. Louis Novell Users Group.
  * TOPIC: To Be Determined (TBD)

==== STCLUG - Mar 22 HIATUS ====
  * [[http://www.stclug.org/|STCLUG]] is the St. Charles Linux Users Group.
  * Web site and calenar changed to indicate HIATUS - NO MEETINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE *
  * Meetings to Resume - If we can get leadership and topics.
  * Stan R. volunteered to be Point-Of-Contact for reservations with restaurant.
  * December 2011 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain.

==== HZWLUG - Mar 27 ====
  * [[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
  * 2012-02 Lee installed Webalizer on the new servers, per Stan's request.

===== 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.
  * 2012-02 Don Ellis has been video recording presentations in recent months.
    * Need to get him to post those to the official web sites.
  * 2012-02 Jerry has an associate who can help convert voice and video recordings to MP3 and Ogg.

===== 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.
  * Stan has been working on this:
    * Posted announcement on web page
    * Has created a draft of te ballot
    * Reviewed the ballot with Steering Committee
    * Will post PDF on web
    * Will include info in next week's ANNOUNCE list
  * Open positions:
    * Board of Directors (2) - chairs held by Jeff Muse and Lee Lammert
    * President
    * VP
    * Secretary
    * Treasurer
    * STLLUG Chair
    * STCLUG Chair

===== STLLUG Leadership =====
  * Need new chair, or co-chair for STL LUG group.
  * Jeff Sigmon expressed interest.
    * Putting him on the ballot.

====== New Business ======
  * MagnetCon wants to hold a Linux conference in St. Louis.
    * Tried last year, but canceled.
    * We should try to help them out if we can.

  * Jerry suggested we print up some business cards for the group.
    * Stan showed some examples he had done previously.
    * Group agreed this is worth doing.
    * Lee will get some printed.

====== Annual Requirements ======
  * 09 February 2012 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.
  * February 2012 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
  * 14 March 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
  * 13 December 2012 - Renew SLUUG.INFO domain.
  * 17 December 2012 - Renew STCLUG.ORG domain.

====== Blue Sky ======
  * Stan would like to do a joint meeting again.
    * Mix things up about once a year.
    * Good for both groups.
    * Good groups for this would be:
      * PerlMongers
      * 2600
      * Arch Reactor
      * Robomo
      * JavaScript group
      * WordPress group

  * At some point, we could invite Microsoft to talk to us about HYPER-V.
    * Or another technical topic.

  * We should post a very short summary of Steering Committee to DISCUSS.
    * Or focus on a single thing.
    * Include a link to the minutes.
    * Craig volunteered to do this this month.
    * This will let people know what we're doing and generate some interest.
 
====== Recognize Useful Efforts ======
  * Recognize completed action items, and other useful actions.
  * Stan worked on the ballot and election preparation.
  * Stan continues to do an excellent job on the calendar and ANNOUNCE.

====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
  * Gary - renew STLLINUX.ORG by February 8.
  * Lee - print business cards.
  * Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
  * Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
  * Jerry -
    * Follow up with Alan Griggs on a talk about Splunk.
    * 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.
  * Craig - talk to Splunk reps about presenting.
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