====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - March 2006 ====== 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, 10550 Old Olive Street Road, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (at Old Olive and Olive) ===== Date / Time ===== March 1, 2006 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm ===== Attendees ===== * Carl Fitch * Barry Morrison * Craig Buchek * Ted Palmer * Stan Reichardt * Gary Meyer * Lee Lammert * Clarence Johnson ===== Election Results ===== Ballots were counted at the steering committee meeting. (Voting ran up to the Hazelwood LUG meeting the previous day.) * 2 Board seats (Lee's and Stan's - 3 year terms) Both were elected with 25 votes * President Carl 28 * Vice President Stan 27 * Secretary Craig 23 * Treasurer Lee 23 * STLLUG Chair Craig 25 * STCLUG Chair Carl 2 Phil Bunch 2 Jim Roe 1 Jay Truesdale 1 Mike808 1 CFW1 1 * Sponsorship Manager Clarence 1 CFW1 1 * Public Relations Scott G 1 Kevin Shen 1 Mike808 1 * Presentation Manager Ted Palmer 1 Gary Meyer 1 CFW1 1 ===== Secretary Report ===== * Need to type up minutes for official annual meeting, and print out previous months' minutes for signature and inclusion in Secretary folder. * Need to type up minutes for March 3 board meeting. ===== Treasurer Report ===== * Currently working on pulling in 2002 data into QuickBooks. ===== Book Sales ===== * No books were sold. ===== Previous Meetings ===== ==== Attendance ==== 01 Feb STEERC - 6 08 Feb SLUUG - 37 (40) 16 Feb STLLUG - 22 (23) 22 Feb SECURE - 8 23 Feb STCLUG - 10 28 Feb HZWLUG - 7 (10) ==== Comments on Presentations ==== ==== February 2006 ==== 8 - UNIX Lightning Talks * (Early Bird Tour of Greybar Facilities) * Jim Leingang - Update on the Job Market * Jeff Muse - Shell Shortcuts (Speeding Up Your CLI) * Barry Morrison - What Greybar Does (Our Host) * Robert Citek - Using Knoppix with a Persistent Disk Image (PDI) * Clarence Johnson - Poetry Readings: - Unix Man (Nowhere Man) - What If Dr. Suess Did Technical Writing - Write In C (Let It Be) * Ed Howland - System logging with Syslog-ng, STunnel, SWatch and LogWatch * Craig Buchek - Intro to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) * Jeff Muse - More Shortcuts (???) * Stan Reichardt - Outline to 100 Slides in Ten Minutes * Scott McKellar - Aargh - A Code Generator for Parsing the Command Line * Allen Rueter - Using Arrow Keys in VI Editor Comments: Good turn-out. Most of the talks were very good. Need to brief presenters on what supporting hardware to expect. 16 - STL LUG Main: Financial Apps (GnuCash, MoneyDance, KMyMoney, etc.) by Craig Buchek Very Good. Could have answered some more in-depth questions. 22 - Security Hands On use of Knoppix STD Live CD by Jeff Ziesemann Very Good. Covered mostly Nessus. 23 - STC LUG Wireless Network Card Configurations (including ndiswrapper) by Carl Fitch Excellent. Covered a wide variety of cards. Answered lots of questions. 28 - HZW LUG Partitioning and File System Hierarchy by Stan Reichardt Very good. ===== Presentation Schedule ===== ==== March 2006 ==== 8 - UNIX Base: KDE Control Center by Carl Fitch Main: FreeNX and Friends by Jim Roe 16 - STL LUG Main: Blender by JT Moree (confirmed via Craig) 22 - Security Main: dd_rescue and dd_rhelp by Carl Fitch 23 - STC LUG Main: dd_rescue and dd_rhelp by Carl Fitch 28 - HZW LUG ==== April 2006 ==== 12 - UNIX Base: TBD Main: Wireless Network Card Configurations (including ndiswrapper) by Carl Fitch 20 - STL LUG Main: Ruby on Rails by Curt Hibbs (Craig needs to confirm) 27? - STC LUG TBD 26? - Security TENTATIVE: Mark Bunn @ Fishnet (via Clarence) 25? - HZW LUG ==== May 2006 ==== 10 - UNIX Base: TBD Main: Web Services and the Google API by Jeff Heaton (Ted to confirm) 18 - STL LUG Main: TBD 24 - Security TBD 25 - STC LUG TBD 23? - HZW LUG ==== Potential Presentations ==== * Secure Email (STLLUG?) - Dustin Anders/Paul Vinson (via Craig) * InkScape (STLLUG) - Mark Jarnowski volunteered (via Craig) * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list) * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) * CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, JT, Ed Howland * Requests: * VPN (hands-on preferred, good for a Security meeting) * CVS for Config Files * Oracle Application Express ===== Old Business ===== * Missouri Exempt status - (Carl Fitch and Lee Lammert, with help from Fred Smith's wife) * Carl has the forms. Working to finish filling them out. Will hand them off to Lee. * Gary will take forms to Rich McClennan to get help answering some of the questions. * See about O'Reilly bringing someone in to speak to our group(s). * Carl will follow up. ===== Weekly Announcements ===== * Stan is looking to somehow automate the announcements. * Found his sed and awk notes. ===== Sponsorships ===== * Clarence and Stan will start working to gather information about previous sponsors. * Starting with information from the web site. * Lee spoke with Dave Mills. He said that Christine had the most recent info. * Stan received an email from Angela Trotter from Unidev, wanting to sponsor our group and post job listings. * Craig to follow up. ===== Website Librarian ===== * Presentation topics as far back as 2000 have been listed. * Stan indicated that accuracy is not high, but will search additional notes. * Stan and Ted will continue listing prior years' data as time permits. * Stan working with Ted to get presentations put up. * Ted has gotten some of the older presentations gathered. * Ted's major emphasis will be to focus on getting the material from presenters. ===== System Administration ===== * Gary said that Wash U will be removing SLUUG zone from their servers shortly. * Recording of root passwords. Still need to be changed. Need to have passwords stored with President and Secretary. * BBS line reduction - Lee says that we're now only paying for 5 phone lines, as of January. * Majordomo admin access. * Stan screwed up the permissions again. Mike Knight fixed them again. * Suggestion was to build new mailing list system on new servers. * Barry will investigate majordomo + webmin, and mailman. ===== PROJECT: New servers ===== * Next step is to migrate web sites to new systems. * We need to meet to do the web servers, and discuss migration plans. * We'd like Mike Knight to be there, as he has the most experience, and knows our systems the best. * We'll work around his schedule. * March 12 and 18 are looking good for most of us. * Location to be determined. Possibly Computers and Things on March 18. * We need to use sudo as much as possible. * Craig has a 1U UltraSparc with Solaris 10 to donate and install at Primary. * We need some versa-rails to mount the servers. * Craig will go into Primary and measure the rack depth. * We could use a rackmount switch. * Carl has a 12-port rackmount hub he will donate. * Other functionality of the systems is in progress. * If anyone wants an account to work on adding functionality, contact Craig or Lee. ===== New Business ===== * Stan proposed we clean house, and send any excess inventory to WITS. ===== Board Meeting ===== A board meeting was held from 8:30 to 8:42. ===== Follow-up and Action Items: ===== * Carl - **Confirm Mark Bergman to give presentation March 8.** * Carl - Complete tax-exempt status paperwork. * Carl - Follow up with O'Reilly about bringing someone in to speak to our group(s). * Craig - Ask for presentation from Dustin Anders/Paul Vinson (March). - DONE (awaiting reply) * Craig - Ask Mark Volkmann and Jeff Barczewski if they can give a presentation/demo of Ruby on Rails. - DONE (awaiting reply) * Craig - Go into Primary and measure the rack depth. * Craig - Follow up on email by Angela Trotter from Unidev, wanting to sponsor our group and post job listings. * Craig - Continue working on new servers. Copy stllinux.org data over. * Craig - Change root passwords on new servers. Send info to SYSADMIN. Tell folks how to use sudo. * Gary - Coordinate password changes. Have passwords stored with President and Secretary. * Ted - Confirm Jeff Heaton for May 10.