SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - January 2006

Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!)

Saint Louis Bread Company,
10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (at Old Olive and Olive)

January 4, 2006  

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

• Leeland Lammert
• Carl Fitch
• Barry Morrison
• Craig Buchek
• Stan Reichardt

• Switching to SLUUG Wiki for this month's minutes, and all following.
• Plan to migrate the old Wiki data to the new Wiki.
• Need to print previous 2 months' minutes for inclusion in Secretary folder.

• Still working on pulling books into QuickBooks. Has to do it manually. Up to 2004 so far. (That's a year more than last month.)

• Sold 10 books at SLUUG meeting for $183.91.
• Sold 2 books at EPC sale.

 7 Dec STEERC  -  6
14 Dec SLUUG   - 17
15 Dec STLLUG  - 19 (21)
22 Dec STCLUG  -  8
27 Dec HZWLUG  - 10
28 Dec SECURE  -  * NO MEETING - UMSL MicroComputer Center was closed

December 2005 (Holiday Schedules)
14 - UNIX
     Base: Brochures with Scribus by Stan Reichardt (not GRAMPS Geneology, as planned)
           Ended up taking a lot of time, because there was a lot to cover.
           People learned a lot. A lot of interaction.
     Main: Multiple Subject Discussions (had no regular presentation)
           NOTEABLE: Response to System Crack by Ed Holland
15 - STL LUG
     Main: QEMU Virtual Machine - Carl Fitch
           Great. Devolved a bit into showing off some newer distros, which was also good.
22 - STC LUG
     Main: Boot Managers - Carl Fitch
           "Pure disaster" - Carl
           "We had fun" - Stan
27 - HZW LUG
           Brief look at GRAMPS (Geneology)
              "Really good" - Carl
           Brief look at OpenOffice 2.0 Database
28 - Security  ** NO MEETING ** UMSL MicroComputer Center was closed

11 - UNIX
     Base: Boot managers - Carl Fitch (extended format - more than 30 minutes)
     Main: (TENTATIVE) WiFi - Mark Balbes (via Gary)
19 - STL LUG
     Main: OpenOffice 2.0 Database by Stan Reichardt
24 - HZW LUG
25 - Security
     TBD
26 - STC LUG
     TBD

 8 - UNIX (balloting)
     Lightning Talks
16 - STL LUG (balloting)
     Main: (TENTATIVE) Financial Apps (GnuCash, MoneyDance) by Craig Buchek
22 - Security (balloting)
     TBD
23 - STC LUG (balloting)
     TBD
28 - HZW LUG (balloting)

 8 - UNIX
     Base: KDE Control Center by Carl Fitch
     Main: (TENTATIVE) GeeXboX? (bootable Linux for multi-media) by Mark Bergman (via Carl)
16 - STL LUG (balloting)
     Main: (TENTATIVE) Secure Email - Dustin Anders/Paul Vinson (via Craig)
22 - Security
     TBD
23 - STC LUG
     TBD
28 - HZW LUG

• Ruby on Rails - Curt Hibbs (via Craig)
• WiFi - Mark Balbes (via Gary)
• InkScape - had a volunteer at a meeting, but said he need a few months

• Missouri Exempt status - (Carl Fitch and Lee Lammert, with help from Fred Smith's wife)
  • Carl has the forms. Needs to finish filling them out. Will hand them off to Lee.

• EPC Winter Sale
  • Carl reports success, with some things we could improve.
  • EPC folks were impressed by the attention we got.
  • Stan suggested including a post-card for people to respond back to us.
  • EPC has invited us back to their April 22 sale.

• See about O'Reilly bringing someone in to speak to our group(s).
  • Carl will follow up.

• Still being charged by Wash U for 6 lines.
  • We have not received a bill this month, so it may have been fixed by now.
  • Lee sent a note with last bill he sent in, asking to refund us for having fewer lines.

• Stan now has three brochures to hand out:
  1. SLUUG info
  2. Linux For Beginners
  3. Password Guidelines for Beginners brochure

• Lightning Talks.
  • Gary - Organize Lightning Talks. Respond to Robert on DISCUSS.

• Committee members:
  • Rich
  • Gary
  • Stan

• Carl handed out nomination ballots at meetings. Stan has them, but needs to track them down.
• Stan is working on counting attendance (to get official membership list)
  • He will post the eligible members list.
• Stan will write up the ballots.

• Open positions
  • 2 Board seats (Lee's and Stan's - 3 year terms)
  • President
  • Vice President
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer
  • STLLUG Chair
  • STCLUG Chair
  • Sponsorship Manager
  • Public Relations
  • Presentation Manager

• Added info regarding T3 (Techies Teaching Techies)
  • Clarence Johnson is teaching this.
  • Low-cost.

• Craig moved DNS for SLUUG.ORG over to EveryDNS. It worked this time, with no problems noted.

• Server build progressing slowly.
  • Wiki is now up at http://wiki.sluug.org and fully functional. This can be consider "in production" now.

• Lee and Carl signed contract with Primary Networks to have them provide us with a half-rack at their hosting facility.

• Lee built source packages for PINE and PILOT (on Bud Light). Also installed GCC.

• Planning to move the servers from Lee's to Primary on Sunday, January 15.

• Stan received an email from Angela Trotter from Unidev, wanting to sponsor our group and post job listings.
  • Craig to follow up.
• New form on sponsors page.
  • Compilation of SLUUG info brochure, with sponsorship info added at bottom.
• Need to get info regarding previous sponsors.
  • Gary - Get Dave Mills together with Lee.

• Stan Reichardt has modified drop down menus and set up skeleton area for presentations.
• Topics for 2005 and part of 2004 have been listed.
  • Stan will continue listing prior years' data as time permits.
• Stan to work with Ted Palmer to get presentations put up.

• 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 still paying for 6 phone lines

• Majordomo admin access

• None.

• Carl - Complete tax-exempt status paperwork.
• Carl - Follow up with O'Reilly about bringing someone in to speak to our group(s).
• Carl - Ask Mark Bergman to give presentation March 8.
• Craig - Print previous 2 months' minutes for inclusion in Secretary folder.
• Craig - Ask for presentation from Curt Hibbs (April).
• Craig - Ask for presentation from Dustin Anders/Paul Vinson (March).
• 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.
• Craig - Change root passwords on new servers. Send info to SYSADMIN. Tell folks how to use sudo.
• Craig - Copy stllinux.org data to new servers.
• Stan - Count attendance (to get official membership list) and list eligible voters.
• Stan - Add a link to http://wiki.sluug.org to SLUUG web site front page.
• Gary - Organize Lightning Talks. Respond to Robert on DISCUSS.
• Gary - Get Dave Mills together with Lee to find info regarding sponsors.
• Gary - Coordinate password changes. Have passwords stored with President and Secretary.