[svlug] svlug election stuff - next community directions

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya

- i'm just rattling the "community" cage ..

- is anybody else running for Pres/VP of svlug ??

	paul/mark is the only ones that have announced it

- personally, i think it would be fun to have somebody
  from china/russia/europe be the pres/vp of svlug
  since svlug is a community effort and not everybody is local

  but, you would have extra work in finding a local 
  moderator to hold the meetings and keep the crowd 
  in check or the crowd can be self policing too during the meetings

	its time for "new blood" and "new thinking"

- what i could find about Pres/VP stuff

	http://svlug.org/cgi-bin/stv/svlug-pres-term-2004

	- somebody needs to update that voting script to take the
	voting since the folks at sbay.org is not here this time around 
	to do the voting and tallying

- i do not know why there is no searchable svlug archives
  for "officer's duties" and functions and responsibilities and 
  description etc

	- i know it all existed at one time

- since the svlug.org server "will" be  rebuilt:

	-- what new features does the community want to see happen ??

	-- who else wants to get tehir fingers dirty and/or get
	iut cut off along the way and sew'n back on and know a 
	few more geeky tricks for your next interview

	-- i think a shell acct with static ip# is a good service
	since some folks do require static ip# before you can login
	into a more secure network

- today's trick question ...

	both xxx and yyy are legal users on svlug.org
	and the passwords etc is known

	there is no wheel group in /etc/group ..

	xxx can ssh in remotely and can become "su - root"
	yyy can ssh in remotely, but canNOT become "su - root"


- btw, for those of you that do not know ... i broke into the svlug
  machine to get it back online ... asap ( 2 hrs after i got it ) ..

	- all the old config files are still intact if it is needed

	- i changed the ip# around and root pwd ( that i didnt know) :-)
	( my excuse is: i had to .. i had no choice :-)

	- we also have a (real) colo that will host the existing server
	at no charge .... not xxx hosting from yyy hosting from zzz 
	who has the real cabinet at a real colo

	- paul/micah/rick is working on the virtual server but it's
	not quite ready yet

	- if you previously had an svlug acct, you will need to get me
	your ip# if you want access to the machine since i turned
	on tcp-wrappers ( hosts.allow and denying all:all )

c ya
alvin