====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - January 2007 ====== 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, (at Old Olive and Olive), 10550 Old Olive Street Road, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 ====== Date and Time ====== * January 3, 2007 * 6:44 pm - 8:33 pm ====== Attendees ====== * Carl Fitch * Jeff Muse * Barry Morrison * Stan Reichardt * ====== Secretary Report ====== * Craig was suppost to catch up on minutes. * Secretary had lots of free time in December to catch up. * Craig did not make the meeting. * No report submitted. ====== Treasurer Report ====== * Deposits: * Membership - * Book Sales - * Sponsorship - * Bank Balance: * Pending Deposit: * Pending AP - * Lee was unable to complete report due to business requirements. * Lee could not attend the meeting. ====== Book Sales Report ====== * Credit card transactions * All in-stock books will be sold at half price (or less) going forward. * Microsoft titles will be $5. * == Book Sales December 2006 == ||Customer Name |Sale Description – Misc |Sale Description – Books|| ||Robert Hansen |Membership |- || ||Harry Hodge |- |LPI || ||Rich Seibel |Membership |- || ||Carl Fitch |Membership |- || ||Craig Bucheck |- |Revolution in the Valley || ||Barry Morrison|- |VI || ||Stanford Baldwin|Membership |- || == Preliminary 2006 YTD == ||Monthly totals for 2006|| ||Sales| || ||January| $108.00|| ||February| -$5.00|| ||March| $95.37|| ||April| -$6.44|| ||May| $92.32|| ||June| $79.35|| ||July| -$5.00|| ||August| $27.47|| ||September| -$5.00|| ||October| -$5.00|| ||November| -$5.00|| ||December| $129.00|| || || ||YTD| $500.97|| || || ||Book Purchases| $0.00|| ||Shipping| $0.00|| ||Credits| $0.00|| ||Total to date| $500.97|| == Income Via Booksales or Credit Card == ||Cash| $88.82|| ||Check| $67.45|| ||Credit Card| $418.23|| ||CC fees| $73.53|| ||YTD| $500.97|| ||Shell Accounts| $440.00|| ||Total Income| $940.97|| ====== Membership Report ====== * Attendance for December 2006 * 6 Dec STEERC - 7 * 13 Dec SLUUG - 20 * 19 Dec SOLARIS - * No Meeting This Month * 19 Dec HZWLUG - 8 * 21 Dec STLLUG - 14 * 27 Dec SECURE - * No Meeting This Month * 28 Dec STCLUG - 4 * Current mailing list membership numbers (approximate): * 913 on ANNOUNCE * 179 on DISCUSS * All attendence sheets modified for 2007 (actually "200_"). * Attendance sheets now available from each web site as .pdf and .sxw * [[http://www.sluug.org/attendance.pdf]] * [[http://stclug.sluug.org/attendance.pdf]] * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org/attendance.sxw]] * We discussed membership dues in relation to shell accounts. * Agreed that there should be 3 levels of voluntary membership dues. * $100 * $70 * $35 * Agreed that shell accounts are available in 1 of 2 conditions: * User pays voluntary membership dues, OR user attended 2 meetings in the previous calendar year, and pays $10. * Craig B. was to write up new membership info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs. * Stan R. sent SLUUG membership flier OOo document to Craig B. for updating * Craig was suppost to write up membership stuff on the membership flier. * ====== Nominations Report ====== * Nominations needed for February elections * Stan R. and Gary M. are on the nominating committee. * No updates. ====== Presentation Review and Comments ====== ===== December 2006 ===== ==== SLUUG - Dec 13 ==== * Base: Using OpenOffice.org Impress - Building Presentation Slides by Stan Reichardt * Main: Postfix Filtering Rules by Carl Fitch * (based on SLUUG new server [[http://wiki.sluug.org/build/postfix | Postfix config]]) * Carl has book sales cash box; needs to hand it off whenever he's not there. * ==== SOLARIS- Dec 19 ==== * Last minute cancellation of St. Louis OpenSolaris Users Group (STLOSUG) meeting * Main: Basics of ZFS File System by Jeff Muse * Presenter had to work late. * Web page was updated ASAP and item posted to DISCUSS. * ==== HZWLUG - Dec 19 ==== * Holiday schedule date. * Didn't have projector available * TOPIC was Finding Linux Resources. * Reviewed HZWLUG brochure suggested URLS * Looked at stan r.'s bookmark HTML page * Looked at TLDP and others * Again, satisfied newcomers to Linux. * ==== STLLUG - Dec 21 ==== * Base: TBD -- {Was anything done?} * Main: Overview of "democracy" videos from [[http://getdemocracy.com/ | Democracy]]. * Craig Buchek under the weather, showed up anyway * Lots of background information and extensive references material * Had hardware problem with video projector not displaying videos * Early departure * ==== SECURITY - CANCELED ==== * No meeting this month. * UMSL-Micro Labs closed in December. ==== STCLUG - Dec 28 ==== * TOPIC: Postfix Configuration by Carl Fitch * Presenter had to cancel * Didn't have projector available * Round table discussion was quite dynamic * ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== January 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - Jan 10 ==== * Base: Coping with Spam Using Filters - Carl Fitch * Main: Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Lee L.) * Need to do additional nominations for February elections. * ==== SOLARIS - Jan 16 ==== * Main: Basics of ZFS File System by Jeff Muse * Was originally scheduled for December * Will include coverage of snapshots (in case you didn't get enough at the last LUG meeting). * Need to do additional nominations for February elections. * ==== STLLUG - Jan 18 ==== * Base: TBD. * Main: TBD. * Need do final nominations for STL Linux chair. * Need to do additional nominations for February elections. * ==== HZWLUG - Jan 23 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. * Need to do additional nominations for February elections. * ==== SECURITY - Jan 24 ==== * TOPIC: Advanced SSH by Carl Fitch * Need to do nominations for February elections. * ==== STCLUG - Jan 25 ==== * TOPIC: Filtering Spam with Postfix by Carl Fitch. * Need to do nominations for February elections. * ===== February 2007 ===== ==== HZWLUG - Feb 13 ==== * This early date necessary due to StLC Library Branch scheduling conflicts * Back-to-back meetings this month with HZWLUG - SLUUG - STLLUG * Election balloting (Vote early! Vote often!) * TOPIC: TBD. * ==== SLUUG - Feb 14 ==== * WARNING: Valentines Day - Might reduce attendance * Back-to-back meetings this month with HZWLUG - SLUUG - STLLUG * EVERYONE: Was to line up 2 presentations for Lightning Talks * TOPIC: Lightning Talks are usually done in February at SLUUG * Official annual SLUUG business meeting * Election balloting * ==== STLLUG - Feb 15 ==== * Back-to-back meetings this month with HZWLUG - SLUUG - STLLUG * Election balloting * TOPIC: TBD. (Possibly Lightning Talks) * ==== SOLARIS - Feb 20 ==== * Election balloting * Hands-on: Installing virtual machines, and using new Solaris process management tools (TENTATIVE) * ==== STCLUG - Feb 22 ==== * Election balloting * TOPIC: TBD. * ==== SECURITY - Feb 28 ==== * Election balloting * TOPIC: TBD. * ===== March 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - Mar 14 ==== * Base: Matthew Porter - Zimbra as an Exchange Replacement * Main: TBD. * ==== STLLUG - Mar 15 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. * ==== SOLARIS - Mar 20 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. * ==== STCLUG - Mar 22 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. * ==== HZWLUG - Mar 27 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. * ==== SECURITY - Mar 28 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. * ====== Potential Presentations ====== * Everything you (N)Ever Wanted to Know About HDTV by Craig Buchek (will work on this to have as a stand-by) * Hands-on: IP Filter (ipf) (Solaris group) * Contact Mark Russell about presenting at Security group. (via Tim/Ted ?) * XGL by Matt Skipton of Novell (via Lee) * Perl Scripts to do DNA Genetic Research by Bryce Meyer from Wiltel/Level 3 (via Gary) * OpenVPN by Robert Citek (via Stan R.) * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) * CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, Ed Howland (via ???) * Security Group - Hands On - Drive by MS Infections (via Jeff Muse) * Requests: * VPN (hands-on preferred, good for a Security meeting) * CVS/Subversion for Config Files * Oracle Application Express * How To Update Your System - apt, yum, yast, etc. (Stan R. did HZWLUG session without slides). * Music - Linux on iPod, iPod on Linux, Ogg, players, etc. * Using Secure Email Clients * TrueCrypt - file-level encryption for Windows/Linux * Using One-Time Passwords * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list, or others) * Video cards in Linux (Heuris) * IBM vs. Sun vs. HP on UNIX * Carl Fitch sent cleaned up list to DISCUSS to generate interest. * Stan R. indicated that Robert Citek didn't know about OpenVPN, but he offered to do presentation on Byteworks * Everyone thought it would be interesting, so go for it. * Might not be until March or later. ====== Sponsorships ====== * CRAIG: Get updated S3 logo? * Effort should be directed to find new sponsors. * No effort means No new sponsors * ====== Website Library ====== * Stan R. and Ted P. * No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration * No migration means no progress this month. * ====== System Administration ====== * Mike Knight continues providing fantastic support and analysis of problems * posted ssh key table * Barry was suppost talk to John Hodge about assisting with installing more AIX disk space. * Not yet able to talk to John Hodge, hopefully next week or so. * Dark * Still having intermittent hardware failures * Michelob * Volume of mail * Bud * Budlight * ====== Server Migration Project ====== * Last gathering was at Old Monroe on November 18. * Efforts to date: * Target is to migrate email, while allowing users to access email via existing methods. * Carl started LDAP study group. * Goal is to implement LDAP on servers eventually. * Will use LDAP for email * Have enough folks knowing LDAP to do support. * Migrating mailing lists to Mailman on new server. * Has been migrated * Mailing lists have been moved (need to be turned on). * We need to schedule move to mailman and switch MX records. * Decisions made: * Migrate SLUUG main web site. * Point http://sluug.org/~user to http://users.sluug.org/~user * Which can remain on Dark/Michelob, and be migrated to Budlight later. * In general we will make Bud an admin-only box. * Make Budlight a user-accessible box. * Yet to do: * Migrate Chris Byrd's Drupal install over for Security site. * Stan R. will build offline (sensitive?) working documentation matrix of machines (for recovery) * hostnames and IP numbers * functional purpose * hardware * resources * holders of root, sudo (everyone in wheel group) ====== Dial-up Line Removal ====== * We were to have Wash U drop the remaining line on October 30. * Lee sent them a physical letter on 10/20 and 11/20. * Still active on 12/04. * Was letter lost or misdirected? Send again and call? * Gary was to follow up on cancellation of WU phone lines. * Gary will remove defunct WU Dialup hardware in a few months. * ====== Other Old Business ====== * What else was done? ====== New Business ====== * Always more to do. ====== Blue Sky ====== * What else do we want to consider? ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== * EVERYONE: Line up 2 presentations for Lightning Talks * STAN - start putting Lightning Talks on SLUUG front page. * STAN - coordinate Robert Citek on Bytworks *