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====== 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!)

===== Location =====

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

===== Date / Time =====

  January 4, 2006  

  6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

===== Attendees =====

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

===== Secretary Report =====

  * 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.

===== Treasurer Report =====

  * 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.)

===== Book Sales =====

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

===== Previous Meetings =====

==== Attendance ====

   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

==== Comments on Presentations ====

  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

===== Presentation Schedule =====

==== January 2006 ====

  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

==== February 2006 ====

   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)

==== March 2006 ====

   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

==== Potential Presentations ====

  * 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

===== Old Business =====

  * 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:
    - SLUUG info
    - Linux For Beginners
    - Password Guidelines for Beginners brochure

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


===== Election Committee =====

  * 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

===== Weekly Announcements =====

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

===== PROJECT: New servers =====

  * 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.

===== Sponsorships =====

  * 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.

===== Website Librarian: =====

  * 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.

===== System Administration =====

  * 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

===== New Business =====

  * None.

===== Follow-up and Action Items: =====

  * 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.
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