====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - September 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 ====== * Wednesday, 5 September 2007 * 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm ====== Attendees ====== * Craig Buchek * Carl Fitch * Lee Lammert * Stan Reichardt * Gary Meyer ====== Secretary Report ====== * Printed out minutes for July and August. ====== Treasurer Report ====== * Previous Balance: $1233.32 as of 7/31/07 * Money in: 0.00 * Payables: * 139.89 National Pen * 100.00 Small Business Expo Booth * Open issues: * New IRS reporting requirement * We will (likely) have to file a form 990-EZ for the 2007 tax year. * Final bill from Wash U. - need to complete reply * Receipts for expense reimbursements: * Gary - domain registration * Carl - state registration ====== Book Sales Report ====== * No book sales last month * Is it time to eliminate remaining books? * Unanimous agreement of attendees that we should. ====== Membership Attendance Report ====== * Most attendance sheets are available from the web servers. * Use URLs like http://www.sluug.org/attendance.pdf, http://solaris.sluug.org/attendance.pdf, and so on. * Added an Attendance (Sign In Sheets) page to the Resources drop down menu on the SLUUG website. * Directly reached by [[http://www.sluug.org/resources/attendance/]] * Attendance for August 2007: * Aug 1 - Steercom: 5 * Aug 2 - SLACC: 10 * Aug 7 - 1st LDAP: No meeting in Aug * Aug 8 - SLUUG: 36 * Aug 15 - 2nd LDAP: No meeting in Aug * Aug 16 - STLLUG: 31 (32) * Aug 17 - Solaris: No meeting in Aug * Aug 22 - Security: No meeting in Aug * Aug 23 - STCLUG: 17 * Aug 28 - HZWLUG: 11 * Attendance was strong again this month! ====== Mailing List Report ====== * We have migrated most lists from Majordomo on Michelob to MailMan on Bud. * USERS and non-SLUUG lists are only remaining lists to migrate. * Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate): || List | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep || || ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 || || DISCUSS | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 || || STEERCOM | 32 | 32 | 33 | 32 | 32 || || SYSADMIN | xx | xx | 18 | 18 | 18 || * Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet. * Jeff added icon package that show up on list search results screen. * ANNOUNCE mailing list. * Still no volunteer editor to do a Quarterly or monthly newsletter. * Craig configured list so that postings from non-subscribers are automatically dropped. * Any postings from subscribers must be manually released. * Added Gary Meyer as monitor capable of releasing items, but his default address won't work. * About 24 subscriptions suspended due to excessive bounces. * Most had been suspended for more than two weeks. * System did not seem to reuse, so Stan manually unsubscribed them. * Latest weekly ANNOUNCE EVENTS mailing sent out on 2 September. * Continued including name and link to a sponsor in each mailing. * Have done all sponsors shown on our SLUUG sponsors page in roughly reverse alphabetical order. * Started sending in alphabetical order. ====== Review and Comments ====== ===== August 2007 ===== ==== SLACC - August 2 ==== * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation. ==== Event at EPC - August 4 ==== * August 3-5 was Missouri's Tax Holiday, which includes computers. * EPC Missouri Tax Holiday sale on August 4 allowed us tables. * Carl F. - Led effort at EPC. * Gary McKee and Phil Bunch helped out a lot. * EPC printed our brochures for us to hand out. * Handouts included newly created St. Charles LUG brochure on GNU/Linux resources. * On Saturday we had some SLUUG folks demonstrating applications. * Focus was on how to use GNU/Linux and Open Source applications. * Gary Meyer and Stan R. helped Carl F. shutdown tables. * Burned a lot of CDs to hand out on demand. ==== SLUUG - August 8 ==== * Base: SFTP by Carl Fitch * Slides messed up due to projector scaling. * Main: Technology Since 1968 by Scott Granneman * Went way over normal time, but enjoyed by all. * Excellent as usual. ==== STLLUG - August 16 ==== * Q&A: Little response, no current events brought up (not even SCO decision). * TOPIC: Podcasting with Audacity by Scott Granneman * Door prizes by SylLogisteks - iPOD won by Robert Citek. Lesser prizes awarded as "boobie prizes". * Very good. ==== SOLARIS - August 21 ==== * CANCELED - Usual room not available per Jeff Logullo. ==== SECURITY - August 22 ==== * CANCELED - Summer Hiatus ==== STCLUG - August 23 ==== * TOPIC: xrdp: An Open Source Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Server by Tony Lovasco of EPC * Good - lots of audience participation. ==== HZWLUG - August 28 ==== * TOPIC: Whatever the newest person wants to talk about. * Several new folks. Broke into a couple smaller groups. * Covered X over SSH. ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== September 2007 ===== ==== HOLIDAY - September 3 ==== * Labor Day ==== SLACC - September 6 ==== * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation. * Might be available for OpenSolaris Installation and/or Configuration Workshop. ==== SLUUG - September 12 ==== * Note - [[http://www.redhat.com/promo/value2NA/ | Red Hat Seminar]] at Westport Plaza (8:45-12:30) * Stan invited the local Red Hat rep (and other folks) to come to the SLUUG meeting that night. * BASE: Rsyncing System Files with Root Permissions by Carl Fitch * MAIN: APV (Advance POWER Virtualization) Overview by John Hodge ==== SOLARIS - September 18 ==== * TOPIC: DTrace by Jeff Muse (Tentative) ==== STLLUG - September 20 ==== * TOPIC: ZoneMinder - Linux video camera security and surveillance by Simon Amies (via Carl) * Craig will not be able to attend; Carl will MC. ==== HZWLUG - September 25 ==== * TOPIC: TBD * Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions ==== SECURITY - September 26 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== STCLUG - September 27 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. Something possibly by John Pitney. ===== October 2007 ===== ==== St. Louis Small Business Expo - October 2 ==== * At St. Charles Convention Center - 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM * See [[http://www.sbmon.com/expo/expo.html]] * SLUUG will have a booth again. * Should we have small table space for our sponsor brochures, business cards and other materials? * Should we have sign touting SLUUG sponsorships for $200 and $300 per year? * Advance planning seminar - Frontenac Ces & Judy's, 15:30 - 17:00 on September 12 * Seminar to teach you how to get the most out of your booth. * Carl will talk to EPC about providing some machines. * Need someone to organize volunteers. * Need someone to organize moving tables and other furniture in and out. ==== SLACC - October 4 ==== * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation. ==== STL County Library - October 6 ==== * First Saturday in October, annual event. * Meeting rooms must be scheduled for next year. ==== HOLIDAY - October 8 ==== * Columbus Day ==== SLUUG - October 10 ==== * Base: SmartMon Tools (Monitoring Hard Drive Health) by Carl Fitch * TOPIC: TBD ==== SOLARIS - October 16 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== STLLUG - October 18 ==== * TOPIC: Lotus Notes (Client and Server) on Linux by Tom Bowman of TeamCentric (confirmed, via Craig) ==== SECURITY - October 24 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== STCLUG - October 25 ==== * TOPIC: Joomla by Mike Ward (confirmed, via Carl) ==== HZWLUG - October 30 ==== * TOPIC: TBD * Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions * NOTE: 5th Tuesday because of Library schedule conflict. ===== November 2007 ===== ==== SLACC - November 1 ==== * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation. ==== HOLIDAY - November 12 ==== * Veterans Day (Observed). ==== SLUUG - November 14 ==== * TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, Epigenetics, etc. (part 1) by Robert Citek (TENTATIVE, via Craig). * NOTE: Back-to-back meeting dates. ==== STLLUG - November 15 ==== * TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, Epigenetics, etc. (part 2) by Robert Citek (TENTATIVE, via Craig). * NOTE: Back-to-back meeting dates. ==== STCLUG - November 19 ==== * NOTE: Monday date scheduled due to 4th Thursday falling on Thanksgiving. * TOPIC: PHP-Nuke and other PHP Apps by Scott Nesler (confirmed, via Carl). ==== SOLARIS - November 20 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== HOLIDAY - November 22 === * Thanksgiving Day ==== HZWLUG - November 27 ==== * TOPIC: TBD * Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions ==== SECURITY - November 28 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ===== December 2007 ===== ==== SLACC - December 6 ==== * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation. ==== SLUUG - December 12 ==== * BASE: TBD. * MAIN: All About Google by Scott Granneman (CONFIRMED, via Stan R.) ==== SOLARIS - December 18 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== HZWLUG - December 18 ==== * TOPIC: TBD * Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions. * NOTE: On the 3rd Tuesday because Christmas Day is on 4th Tuesday. ==== STLLUG - December 20 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== HOLIDAY - December 25 === * Christmas Day ==== STCLUG - December 27 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. ===== Potential Future Topics ===== * Demo/Using Scribus by Stan Reichardt. * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)- still looking for volunteer (via Craig). * Untangle Gateway Platform (instead of CentOS Linux) by Tim Dreste (Tentatively October, via Stan R). * AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge) * Another presentation from Tom Bowman at TeamCentric Technologies (via Craig) * Building a modern kernel by Ed Howland. * Using git by Ed Howland. * Linux(xBSD, etc) on Wireless. (Suggested by Ed Howland) * Part 1: Theory and operation of wireless networks. * The 802.11 stack (relevant protocols). * Descriptions of terms, expansion of alphabet soup. * Security (WEP, WPA, WPA2) * Network types (ad-hoc, infrastrucure). * Modes (ad-hoc, managed, master, monitor). * Packet Types (management, data frames, beacons, probes). * Part 2: Practical Linux Wireless configuration. * Cards, compatibility. * NDISWrapper and native (devicescape stack). * Drivers * Tools (using wpa_supplicant). * Network Monitor * Wireshark sniffing. ====== Sponsorships ====== * Some old information has: * Annual sponsorship as $200 for Businesses and * $300 for Large Enterprise Corporations. This amount show on sluuginfo.pdf (18 April 2007) handout. * The $300 amount not viable, so sponsorships are $200. * Stan will purge any $300 amount from web site and forms. * Have the current paying sponsors been asked to renew (with payment)? * Ajilon (Stan to follow up) * S3 - Strategic Staffing Solutions (Craig to follow up) * Potential sponsors * SyllogisTeks - Susan Smith * Sun - Jeff Logullo * IBM - (John Hodge may have a contact) * Red Hat - Clark Smith (Craig to follow up) * Novell / SuSE - Matt Skipton * We should review them once or twice annually and establish an end date on recognition. * We in fact recognize multiple entities as sponsors due to community support or services in kind. * EPC - STLLUG Installfest, STL BusExpo hardware use & handout printing support, SLUUG discount. * Computers & Things - STLLUG Installfests, STCLUG projector & STL BusExpo printing support. * Graybar - SLUUG general meeting site. * Hostirian - New server hosting. * K&S Pritchard Enterprises - Hosted STLLUG web pages thru to Spring 2007. * O'Reilly - discount book arrangement (now moot - suggest removing). * Law Offices of Rich McLennen - legal services as needed. * UMSL-MicroLabs - The St. Louis Security Group meeting lab area. * Should Omnitec be recognized as a sponsor? * Stan suggested that we add Omnitec as an official sponsor. * Omnitec has been providing services in kind commensurate with other sponsors. * All attending were in favor (except Lee, who abstained) * Working on logo for SLUUG website rotating front page display (Stan R.) * New Sponsor - SyllogisTeks * They have been providing door prizes and paying room fee for STLLUG meetings. * They were to have mailed a sponsorship check for $200. * Working on logo for SLUUG website rotating front page display (Stan R.) * Attendees were in favor of adding logo to our site before receiving money. * Possible Sponsor - pcMemoryStore * Wanted to provide member discounts in lieu of $200 annual (per Lee). * Not sure it makes financial sense. * We decided to make it a benefit for our members. * Attendees voted 3-0-2 (for-against-abstain) to make them a sponsor in kind for discounts. * Lee will follow up w/ PC Memory Store. * Need to get coupon code from them. * Stan will add to Sponsors page when we get coupon code. * Need sign about sponsoring our group for booth/table display at meetings and trade shows. * More effort should be directed to find new sponsors. * No effort means no more new sponsors. ====== Server Migration Project ====== * Work left to do: * Make sure docs are up to date. * Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud. * Started documenting client email configurations, to help users migrate. * See [[../users]] and [[../mail_setup]] pages. * Start migrating individual users. * Make sure we have documentation on what we need to migrate. * Rebuild Budlight. * Carl may rebuild using virtual machines. * Craig - Work on finishing server builds. * Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig) * Get offsite backups working. * Put SSH host keys on web page. * Work with Ed Wehner to migrate gateway-l and archrivals lists. * Migrate USERS mailing list. * Other work to do: * Jeff working on virus scanning * Craig working on Drupal ====== Website Library ====== * Stan R. and Ted P. * Partial migration from Dark to Bud sufficient to start loading presentations. * Each website has skeleton presentation page listing topics given to date. * No routine presentation uploads yet. ====== SLACC as a SIG ====== * Carl spoke with Noel about moving the SLACC.com domain website. * Noel will send Carl the access code to transfer registration. * The registration is paid up until 2009. * Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.com email addresses. ====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ====== * The membership form was approved, with some minor changes. * The membership wiki page was approved, after making changes suggested last month * Membership drive * Membership drive will start in September. * Carl mentioned it at SLUUG meeting. * Lee to order CafePress items ASAP to have some membership gifts on-hand. * We had approved $150 last month. * Stan to add CafePress link to SLUUG web site when we get info. * Stan to link new membership page into SLUUG web site. * It was suggested that we use Scott Nessler's logos. * We should ask Scott. * We should post the choices to STEERCOM for voting to make it official. ====== Other Old Business ====== * What did we forget about? ====== New Business ====== * [[http://www.stchman.com/ | Bob Nelson]] - [[http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-466368.html | wants to start an Ubuntu LoCo]] * Carl and/or Craig to follow up (Stan will send info). * EPC would probably like to hold the meetings. ====== Blue Sky ====== * Is it still up there? * Unknown, it is raining and overcast today. (the sky is falling!!!) ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== * Jeff - Seek assistance from AIX gurus to see if we want to set up his box. * Lee - Follow up drafting reply to Wash U. * Lee - Place CafePress order ASAP. (DONE) * Lee - Follow up w/ PC Memory Store and get coupon code from them. * Craig - Email Clark Smith @ Red Hat about getting someone to present on RHEL5, and $200 sponsorship. * Craig - Email Jim Leingang @ S3 about $200 sponsorship. * Craig - Ask Brian Button / Kyle Cordes about XP-STL / SLUUG joint meeting. * Craig - Follow up w/ Tom Bowman of TeamCentric about October 18 meeting. * Carl - Follow up w/ Scott Nessler about PHP-Nuke at STCLUG. * Carl - Follow up w/ John Pitney about future STCLUG presentation. * Stan - Add Omnitec and Syllogistek as sponsors. * Stan - Send info on Bob Nelson (Ubuntu advocate) to Carl and Craig. * Stan - Ask Ajilon about continuing $200 sponsorship. * Stan - Follow up w/ Clarence and Chris Byrd to get topic for Security meeting. * Stan - Follow up with Tim Dreste about a presentation. * Gary - Prepare Sun E250 for potential use. * Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration. * Gary - Organize October 2 event at Small Business Expo.