SoCoSA.org Sonoma County System Administrators

UPDATE January 2009: We’re restarting the group, largely due to a generous offer of help from two people who’ve offered to do a bunch of talks.

Hey everybody,

It seems that the current management of SoCoSA doesn’t have time/energy to continue running the group. We didn’t have a speaker last month and we’re not set up to have a speaker for tonight’s meeting. I’m figuring that means there’s no meeting tonight.

If somebody else feels up to taking on the reins, I’d be happy to assist. Otherwise, I think we’re going to have to declare the group as “on hold” for now.

One of the board members has indicated that they expect to have more time in a few months, so I’m not going to call it “defunct”, just “on hold”.

Officers – The Board decided the following board members would perform the following functions

• President – Eric Eisenhart
• Vice Presidet – Chris Wagner
• Secretary/Treasurer – Susan Baur

• Webmaster – Ryan Donham

Future Speakers

• Ryan will present on Smoothwall next week
• Augie will present on MySQL replication in October
• November – we still need a speaker
• December – we still need a speaker
• January – we will not have a meeting since it falls on New Year’s Day

• Ryan has some contacts and will try to get a forensics/security speaker lined up

Board Members Present – Eric, Susan
Guest – Kat

Meeting giveaways

• Susan procured the following from O’Reilly for raffle prizes
  • Linux System Administration
  • Windows Develop Power Tools
  • Linux Server Hacks Vol. 1

• Linux Server Hacks Vol. 2

Electing the board

• We Need to announce that Nominations will open in the June meeting

• Nominations will be accepted through emailing the discuss list

Geek Picnic aka Geeknik?

• “Picn*x 16”, will be held in August 2007”, so it does not conflict with a possible geek picnic at the end of July
• Kat will ask NBLUG if they will join us in a geek picnic
• We should ask perlmongers as well

• We need to determine a location

Upcoming meetings

• June: Drupal
• July: PowerDNS
• August:
• September:
• October: MySQL Replication
• November:
• December:
• Other possibilities:
  • Building RPMs (AS, EE)

• Subversion (AS)

Board Members Present – Eric, Chris, Dustin, Susan
Guest – Kat

Electing the board

• Election structure. Members vote for positions? Members vote for board members and the board votes who takes the various positions?
• Decided that Members vote for the board and the elected board will decide who talkes the various positions
• Board count (3? 4? 5? formula based on roster count?)
• Decided we should have 4 on the board
• Board positions (Pres, VP, Treasurer, Secretary, etc…)
• President, Vice President, Secretary and a Webmaster
• Term lengths. 6 months? 1 year? 2 years?
• 1 year

• How much of the board to elect at once? whole board every time? half the board to keep some continuity?

Board Members Present: Eric, Chris and Susan

Speakers

• April Meeting - Electronic Frontier Foundation: Sysadmins as Guardians of Privacy
• May Meeting - Cobia: Networking and Security (Pizza and Soda provided)
• We need another backup speaker - Chris could do a talk on Moving web services from Windows to Linux
• Susan will look into getting some slides on WebGUI and might be able to present

Increasing Meeting Attendance

• Chris will speak with Mark S. at the JC about promoting SoCoSA to CS students
• Susan will speak with Roger M. at SSU about promoting SoCoSA to CS students

Getting more people involved

• Create Bylaws, based on other groups' bylaws
• Hold Elections for Board Positions