SLUUG Steering Committee Agenda - 7 May 2014
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
May 2014
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Attendees
Craig Buchek
Don Ellis
Ken Johnson
Lee Lammert
Andrew Latham
Gary Meyer
Stan Reichardt
Mike Jackson
Jerry Stutte
Agenda Changes
Secretary Report
Treasurer Report
Balance as of 4/1 | $2,545.43 | | |
Payments (-) | 97.68 | Business Expo | |
| 18.40 | Brochure Paper | |
| 60.00 | County Library | |
Receipts (+) | | | |
Balance as of 4/30 | | $2,269.45 | |
Attendance Report
Initial mail list subscriptions are prompted by attendance sheets.
Group leaders are responsible for taking attendance at meetings.
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Attendance numbers, as of end of April 2014:
Meeting | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
Steercom | 7 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
SLACC | ? | 5 | 6 | ? | ? | 6 | 6 | 3 | 8 | ? | 7 | 4 | 7 | 6 | ? | 6 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 8 |
SLUUG | 23 | 11 | 18 | 8 | ? | 13 | 7 | 15 | 12 | ? | 12 | 7 | 17 | 20 | 16 | 9 | 16 | 34 | 17 | 14 | 16 | 13 | 27 | 20 | 12 |
SNUG SuSE | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | - | 8 | 10 | - | 5 | 9 | 7 | - | 7 | 7 | 9 | 9 | - | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 10 |
STLLUG | 15 | 8 | 21 | 12 | ? | - | - | 13 | ? | ? | - | ? | ?? | 17 | 15 | 14 | 6 | - | 11 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 15 | 14 |
HZWLUG | 6 | 8 | ? | 6 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 13 | - | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 13 |
() - 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.
Calendar Report
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This is a calendar of technical events in the Greater St. Louis area and surrounding regions.
Not all events are official/sponsored 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.
Events on HIATUS are NOT counted! Historical items are NOT counted! Only face to face meetings are counted!
Count of number of events listed, each month, as of end of April 2014:
Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
2011 | ? | ? | 105 | 108 | 103 | 117 | 105 | 105 | 105 | 113 | 103 | 96 | 2011 |
2012 | 110 | 104 | 122 | 123 | 138 | 111 | 99 | 124 | 122 | 133 | 114 | 111 | 2012 |
2013 | 123 | 128 | 136 | 147 | 144 | 146 | 139 | 119 | 145 | 167 | 153 | 140 | 2013 |
2014 | 143 | 159 | 174 | 165 | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | 2014 |
Mailing List Report
List | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
ANNOUNCE | 673 | 671 | 654 | 651 | 649 | 650 | 649 | 645 | 647 | 644 | 646 | 637 | 635 | 635 | 635 | 625 | 623 | 631 | 624 | 621 | 622 | 628 | 624 | 626 | 627 |
DISCUSS | 210 | 209 | 210 | 209 | 209 | 211 | 211 | 209 | 209 | 209 | 210 | 209 | 209 | 208 | 208 | 210 | 211 | 214 | 214 | 216 | 220 | 221 | 222 | 224 | 225 |
STEERCOM | 32 | 32 | 32 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 31 | 31 | 32 | 32 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 34 |
SYSADMIN | 15 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 |
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.
Command used to generate these (as root on Bud):
xx - numbers not yet recorded.
- - dash indicates list did not previously exist.
April 2014
April 2014
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STEERCOM - Steering Committee - April 2
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Link to
potential tutorials, topics and speakers.
SLACC - April 3
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
Reserve STL County Library Rooms - April 5
SLACC rooms reserved
HZWLUG rooms reserved
STL Business Expo - April 8
SLUUG - April 9
SNUG - April 16
STLLUG - April 17
HZWLUG - April 22
HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
Schedule
May 2014
May 2014
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SLACC - May 1
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
STEERCOM - Steering Committee - May 7
SLUUG - May 14
STLLUG - May 15
SNUG - May 21
Memorial Day - May 26
HZWLUG - May 27
HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
June 2014
June 2014
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STEERCOM - Steering Committee - June 2
SLACC - June 5
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - June 11
SNUG - June 18
SNUG is the St. Louis Novell Users Group lunch time meeting.
STLLUG - June 19
HZWLUG - June 24
HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
July 2014
July 2014
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STEERCOM - Steering Committee - June 30
SLACC - July 3
SLACC usually holds a Linux configuration workshop - no presentation
SLUUG - July 9
SNUG - July 16
STLLUG - July 17
Hazelwood - July 22
HZWLUG topics are usually determined by attendees. We usually cover more than one topic.
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.
2011-12 Michelob is dead.
2012-02 Lee installed Webalizer on the new servers, per Stan R's request.
2012-03 Stan R is getting some technical response of his email problem.
Much discussion of Mike Knight's research and possible work around.
Don and Gary did some testing using Apple mail clients, with results showing same problems.
2012-04 Need to run updates on AMBER or plan for alternate virtual install to migrate over.
2012-05 Jeff Muse updated AMBER HTTPS cert.
2012-06 Noah got 3 new servers up at Hostirian.
2012-06 Noah has been updating docs on wiki.
2012-07 (late June) No report.
2012-08 No update
2012-09 No update
2012-10 Problem getting to AMBER o/a 19/20 September.
DNS was broken because of zone file configuration error on 20 August.
BuddyNS stopped resolving after 30 days.
We aren't logging or documenting very well.
Mike Knight suggested extending size of root bash history.
Mike Knight testing of timestamps for root bash history ran into some problems.
2012-11 Lee recycled the old Compaq ProLiant 6400s.
2012-12 Vim config was messed up temporarily.
2013-01 No news.
2013-02 No news.
2013-03 No news.
2013-04 Up to 401 patches pending on amber.
2013-05 No news.
2013-06 Mike Knight notice mail virus scanner failed.
2013-09 Ed Wehner wants to resurrect user shell access.
2013-10
Ed has results from of survey - 21 responses
Assuming bandwidth won't be noticeably over-whelming continue exploring
We need to consider choke points.
Still need to work inventory to understand what is working, or dead.
Explore additional sites at universities, etc.
USENET server, local newsgroups, looking for news server feed
Open discussion at General meetings calling for working group volunteers.
2013-12
Do we have enough interest in building this out to continue?
Yes, we have at least 3 or 4 folks interested.
Ed will set up a time and place to get together to plan/work.
Do we have or can we get the hardware?
Craig - Get Andrew access to help with STLLUG site.
2014-01 Some discussion on how to move forward.
2014-02 No movement.
2014-03 No movement.
2014-04 No movement.
2014-05
Uploading Presentations
2013-05
2013-07 Lee found we have some space to store media.
2013-09 No movement.
2013-11 Don E. - Working on Uploading presentations.
2013-12 A bit of movement
Stan uploaded Scott Granneman's last presentation.
We may look into uploading to YouTube, via Google+.
2014-01
2014-03
Andrew would like some feedback.
Sound quality is really good.
He's been using a Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 ($80)
2014-04 No movement.
2014-05
Domain Name Tracking
2012-03 Gary M renewed the STLLUG.ORG domain.
2012-04 This points to Craig's 2011 membership survey web page. Will re-designate to current active site.
2012-05 Yet to be done.
2012-06 Craig to take a look at this.
2012-07 (late June) No report.
2012-08 No update
2012-09
2012-11
2013-01
2013-02
2013-03
Gary renewed STLLINUX.ORG domain.
Stephanie Trick renewed STLWEBDEV.ORG domain for 2 years.
Need to transfer STLWEBDEV.ORG domain and consolidate in Dotster.
Stan asked Gary to work up a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet listing info
Domain name, expiration date, vendor, cost, etc.
2013-04 No progress on spreadsheet listing info
2013-05 No progress on spreadsheet listing info
2013-07 Lee renewed SLUUG.ORG domain.
2013-09 No movement.
2013-10 No Cooperation from Gary.
2013-12 Still need to document domains.
2014-01 No movement.
2014-02 Gary renewed STLLINUX.ORG; needs to document the process.
2014-03 Lee has them set to auto-renew.
2014-04 No movement.
2013-06 Strategic Staffing Offered to do something.
2013-07 SBS Creatix sponsored pizza and soda at the June meeting. [Which meeting SLUUG or STLLUG?]
2013-09 No movement.
Melissa from Contegix offered to sponsor pizzas. [Which meeting SLUUG or STLLUG?]
2014-01 No movement.
2014-02 No movement.
2014-03 No movement.
2014-04 No movement.
2014-05
Penguins
2012-09 Gary bought some Penguins and gave one out as gift to STLLUG presenter last month.
2012-10 Gary still has more penguins. Considering giving them away at SBE.
2012-11 Gary will give these out as speaker prizes.
2013-01 Gary still has penguins to give away. Jeff will not give presentation SLUUG 2013/01 without a penguin.
2013-02 Gary - bring the penguins.
2013-03 Gary brought a penguin for Craig to give to Jessica.
2013-04 Jess got her penguin. Only place with more penguins in the area is the zoo.
2013-09 Gary still has some to hand out.
2013-12 Andrew has been sewing penguins.
2014-01 Andrew gave Gary a penguin he found at Goodwill for $0.50.
2014-02 Andrew gave Gary a large penguin he found at Goodwill for $2.00.
2014-03 Andrew has not made it to Goodwill lately, but finished sewing his 1st penguin.
2014-04 No movement.
2014-05
Stan R. suggests we provide SLUUG swag (cups, etc.) as optional items for presenters
Good idea - give the presenter a choice of swag.
Science Center
Internet Presence
Gary and Craig asked to reconsider MEETUP.COM.
It's a place to find meetings.
It does cost money ($12 / month).
It helps attendees of similar groups find our group.
DECISION: We'll ask for volunteers on DISCUSS to "own" the group.
2013-03 Craig to take this up.
2013-04 No action - Craig missing
2013-05
2013-07 Got a volunteer by email.
2013-09 Gary got a volunteer to help us.
2013-12
2014-01
2014-03
2014-04 No movement.
STLLUG Location
Web Site Maintenance
2011-01 Mike Knight's emails regarding web site.
Stan R 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.
2011-02 Stan R 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.
2011-08 No progress.
2011-09 No progress.
2011-10 No progress.
2011-11 No progress by Stan R.
2011-12 Table - No progress by Stan R, but will work on.
2012-03 Low priority
2012-04 Will need to check out WebDev site stlwebdev.org
2012-05 Gary M suggests calendar page to highlight OUR, i.e. SLUUG's mtngs.
2012-07 (late June) Low priority
2012-08 Low priority
2012-09 Low priority
2012-10 No report.
2012-11 No report.
2012-12 Low priority.
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2013-02 No action.
2013-03 No action.
2013-04 Stan needs to update front page of sluug.org
2013-05 SLUUG ⇒ resources ⇒ presentation page listings updated. Much of end of last year was not listed.
2013-09 No change.
2013-10
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SLUUG
Calendar ~ Stan R build a combined web page that uses a separate SLUUG events calendar to highlight our meetings in red
Ryan Dowell volunteered (in August) to code magic to automatically pull in Calendar items. Gary to follow up.
Troubleshooting over 3 day period removed errant extra web entries from SIU.
Some buffering problems remain that disappear when browser clients are rebooted.
Note that this week, someone other than Stan R put a link to SLUUG calendar in a DISCUSS posting.
2013-12
2014-01
2014-04
2014-05
SLUUG Web Site Alternative Offers
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Both Noah Lance and Craig Buchek have worked on "new" web pages in the past.
2014-03: Scott Granneman indicated our current web site sucks for mobile users.
2014-03: Our needs:
2014-03: Andrew's proposal:
First, redesign static content of existing site(s)
LUG first, then UUG page
Using Bootstrap
CSS framework (helps with mobile)
Second, use Monstra (static site builder with no DB required)
2014-03: Steering committee decided to go with Andrew's proposal for now.
Keeps our current hosting.
Smaller incremental changes, that we're more comfortable with.
More done by our members.
Publicity
Pamphlets
2012-04 - Stan R with considerable help from Christine Wanta has produced a pamphlet on Free Open Source Software (
FOSS).
2012-05 Stan R built new pamphlet for Calendar and Free Open Source Software (
FOSS).
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2012-06 Stan will go to Lee's to print out some copies.
2012-06 Stan has more ideas.
2012-07 (late June) No report.
2012-08
Stan R. - printed approximately 100 each of Calendar,
FOSS, GNU/Linux for Beginners, and GNU/Linux Resources pamphlets.
Minor spacing revisions have been made to the GNU/Linux for Beginners pamphlet, stock on hand can be used.
Significant revision being made to the Password Guidelines for Beginners pamphlet before printing.
Suggested minor revisions will be made to
FOSS pamphlet, stock on hand can be used.
Our General Information pamphlet will have to be revised before STL Business Expo on 16 October.
2012-09 Lee will update and send on to Stan R.
2012-10 Stan has 100 of each, but needs to continue working on the "General" pamphlet.
2012-11 Stan doesn't have any more pamphlets.
2012-12
Gary McGee returned pamphlets to Stan R.
We have at least 80 of each.
Will take them to the upcoming SBE event at the library.
2013-01 Stan R. - gave available folded pamphlets to Gary M. There were only about 30 to 40 each (not 80) on hand.
At the Bat Cave Stan R. - printed 100 each of the 3 topical pamphlets (Beginner, Calendar,
FOSS). Yet to be folded.
2013-02 Stan will redo 2 of the older brochures.
2013-03 Stan working on these for the business expo.
2013-09 No movement.
2014-01
2014-03
2014-04
SLUUG pamphlets are available on our Resources/
Handout page.
Pamphlets built with Scribus are being converted to LibreOffice Writer format in order to use more familiar editing features.
Single remaining Scribus based pamphlet titled Password Guidelines for Beginners will be converted later.
Pamphlet source .ODT documents are uploaded along side corresponding .PDF files (just not listed on web page).
Created 1 new pamphlet titled Why Use Linux? We should expect that the narratives currently used will be changed.
Updated 3 other pamphlets,
Calendar,
FOSS, and
GNU/Linux for Beginners.
The Password Guidlines for Beginners and GNU/Linux Resources pamphlets are being worked on.
No progress has been made to adapt ideas in Christine Wanta's handout from last year. Has good points that need to be adapted.
Nothing has been done to review or update the SLUUG general information handout.
Would like to print 100 each of the (4) new and updated pamphlets to have on hand for 8 April STL Business Expo.
We expect that last minute spacing adjustments will be required to match printer alignment for nice folding.
2014-05
SLUUG pamphlets are available on our Resources/
Handout page. The source .ODT files are availible in same location (just change .PDF to .ODT to download).
The GNU/Linux Resources pamphlet has been updated.
The Why Use Linux pamphlet has also been updated, incorporating suggestions from members.
The SLUUG general information pamphlet is being worked on.
The Password Guidelines for Beginners pamphlet needs to be worked on.
All printed pamphlets have been handed off to Gary.
STEERCOM Meeting Dates
2014-03 Should we move the Steering Committee meeting earlier?
2014-04 No discussion.
2014-05 Several people have stopped coming, due to the Wednesday date.
New Business
Recognize Useful Efforts
2014-05
Don Weiman printed pamphlets for use at STL Business Expo
Ken Johnson volunteering at STL Business Expo Linux Booth and SLUUG tutorial.
Other STL Business Expo Linux Booth workers Bob A, Phil Bunch, Don Ellis, Lee Lammert, Gary McKee, and Stan R.
Andrew's been working on the STLLUG web site.
Stan's been working on brochures.
Andrew's been working to update Amber.
Blue Sky Ideas
Recurring Requirements
May 2014 - IRS Form 990-N for Tax Exempt Status.
June 2014 - BuddyNS SLUUG account due.
July 2014 - Renew SLUUG.ORG domain.
August 2014 - Missouri Annual Report for Corporate Legal Status.
October 2014 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
October 2014 - St. Louis Business Expo.
January 2015 - Transfer and renew STLWEBDEV.ORG domain.
February 2015 - Renew STLLINUX.ORG domain.
February 2015 - SLUUG annual Board meeting and elections.
March/April 2015 - St. Louis Business Expo.
April 2015 - St. Louis Business Expo.
April 2015 - First Saturday, reserve rooms at St. Louis County Library Branches.
Follow-up and Action Items
Everyone - Review the STEERCOM minutes, make corrections, act!
Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
Unassigned - Strategic Staffing
Unassigned - Pamphlets or table at First Friday.
Craig - Contact Ed Schneider about MEETUP.COM Group creation and maintenance.
Craig - Check on running joint meeting with WEBDEV.
Ed W. - newsgroups on hold until firmed up.
Ed W. - Member Access Machines (MAM) in progress (bring up at General Meeting).
Don E. - Work on Uploading presentations.
Stan - Remind Gary to bring Penguins to meetings.
Gary - Move phone book to new phone.
Gary - Talk to Ryan Dowell about automating SLUUG Calendar.
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Gary - Follow up with Noel about transferring the SLACC.COM domain to us.
Gary - Transfer STLWEBDEV.ORG account to SLUUG Dotster control.
Andrew - work with Don Ellis to upload older videos to YouTube.
Don Ellis - work with Andre Latham to upload older videos to YouTube.