SoCoSA.org Sonoma County System Administrators

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

Board Members Present: Eric, Chris, Mark and Susan

Only agenda item was Speakers

• Eric is still talking to VMWare
• Eric has also spoken with Xen
• LiveJournal might be a good speaker for a scalability talk
• Chris may have a lead on a speaker as well (analyst company?)
• Mark will speak to Don Silverek about a Computer Forensics talk
• Eric will contact Marssee about finding O’Reilly Authors (besides Kyle) who would be willing to talk to the group
• Eric may be able to present on Revision Control for SysAdmins, but not this month
• DriveSavers may be another possible speaker

1. Roll Call
   • Kyle, Chris, Eric and Susan were present
2. Low meeting attendance
   • Eric will continue to get books from O’Reilly for door prizes
   • We have to make a concerted effort to announce
3. Reduce official board down to active board members?
   • Will discuss on steering list and/or with those members
4. Audio recording of June’s meeting
   • We will post it to SoCoSA.org and see if we run into any bandwidth issues or charges after checking with Dustin first (since it’s his server)
5. July – Patch management
6. August meeting
   • Chris will present on WAFS
7. September
8. October
9. Possible Future Speaker ideas

1. Roll Call
   • Eric, Chris and Susan were present
2. Meeting at O’Reilly
   • Need to finalize arrangements for getting a key. Chris will pickup key for this meeting.
   • We may be able to get a key permanently.
3. Building Membership / getting the word out
   • Flyers in Computer Stores
   • Recruiting Co-workers
4. Items carried over:
   1. Flyers — Eric still needs to write copy
   2. Associations with other groups
      1. SAGE was approved; nothing’s happened there
         • Sent application to SAGE, have not heard back yet
      2. LOPSA’s starting to come together
         • May be able to get T-Shirts
      • Susan will email NCMUG

1. Roll Call
   • Eric, Susan and Kyle were present
2. Approval of minutes from last meeting
   • Approved
3. Items carried over
   1. Flyers — Eric needs to write copy
      • Discussed working with BayLISA on this
   2. Associations with other groups
      1. SAGE — http://sage.org/groups/.
         • Reviewed the SAGE affiliation documents
         • Unanimously decided to affiliate with SAGE
4. Upcoming meetings
   1. April: Disaster Recovery / ADIC?
      • Speaker gave a CS Colloqium on Disaster Recovery
      • We may get someone from ADIC
      • There will be a prize to give away
      • The meeting will be sponsored
   2. May: Nagios monitoring / IT Groundwork

Board Meeting Notes

Text in this format are the meeting notes The Regular text is from the agenda
Present: Eric, Kyle, Dustin, Chris, Susan

1. Mailing list setup; announcements to both lists or one list?

1. Location for next board meeting.

1. Anybody want to be webmaster?

1. Flyers
   • Anybody want to work on content? Chris said he’d do layout for a flyer if somebody else would write the copy.

So, first board meeting was earlier tonight.

Present: Eric, Chris, Susan, Dustin, Greg, Kyle, Augie

Next Steps

Things we need to do next

1. Find a location.
   • Sonic is a possibility; Augie will investigate
   • O’Reilly is unlikely but possible
   • Any other locations that would work?
2. Agree on a schedule. This depends on the location. First Wednesday of the month still seems likely.
3. After we have a location and schedule, we can start actively promoting ourselves.
4. Do first meeting. First meeting intended to be speakerless with a topic of what to do with the group, meeting each other, etc.