SoCoSA.org Sonoma County System Administrators

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.

1. Start trying to find ourselves some speakers.

General meeting notes

1. Mission statement
   • Group is for
     • System Administrators
     • That “one geek” that runs everything technical at their small company
     • Network admins
     • Storage admins
     • *nix Admins
     • Windows Admins
     • Mainframe Admins
     • Telco admins (mmmmm… VOIP)
     • Application admins
   • DBAs
   • Provide a framework for those people to:
   • learn something new
   • network with their local peers
   • find jobs, find new co-workers
   • consulting / odd jobs / freelancing; maybe help them find things, too
• help each other
2. places to meet
   • Augie will ask about Sonic
   • O’reilly vague possibility
   • RP library
• good if it’s a food friendly location
• Meeting structure
• food first.
• Meeting time
• 6pm food
• 7pm presentation
• 8:30pm kick everybody out
• Meeting topics; some additional possibilities:
• disaster planning and recovery
• revision control for sysadmins
• purchasing for sysadmins
• making a business case
• maybe have drivesavers come out?
• Kyle has a “canned” talk on using Knoppix for disaster recovery
• forensics
• Kerberos
• Single Sign-On
• Active Directory, especially integrating it with LDAP
• Communication
• IRC channel will be on same servers as irc.lopsa.org
• Associations with other groups
• Discuss SAGE and LOPSA later
• Organization structure
  1. no official non-profit stuff for now
  2. membership definition: sign up on website
  3. Have members elect board, then have board elect its own officers
  4. Jobs:
     • President: Eric Eisenhart
     • Vice-President: Chris Wagner
     • Secretary/Treasurer: Susan Baur
     • everybody else is just “the board” or something.
• ???: Greg
3. Board all gave contact info to Susan, who will distribute it to rest of the board
4. Advertising the group
   • nblug’s talk list
   • local newsgroups
   • various people mentioning it to their co-workers or email lists at their work
   • If somebody comes up with content, Chris can format the content into flyer format. (he’s done it professionally)
• distribute flyers to local computer stores such as HSC, CompUSA, etc.
• Visual representation
• Susan has somebody she can ask about designing a logo
• Chris might be able to do something, but is not comitting

• in the meantime, we have the silly logo Eric made