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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - February 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 =====

  February 1, 2006

  6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

===== Attendees =====

  * Carl Fitch
  * Barry Morrison
  * Craig Buchek
  * Ted Palmer
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Gary Meyer

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

  * Printed previous 3 months' minutes for signature and inclusion in Secretary folder.
  * New Wiki was applauded.

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

  * No report. Lee did not attend.

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

  * Sold 5 books at SLUUG general meeting.

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

==== Attendance ====

   4 Jan STEERC  -  5
  11 Jan SLUUG   - 16
  19 Jan STLLUG  - 13 (17)
  14 Jan HZWLUG  - 11
  25 Jan SECURE  -  9
  26 Jan STCLUG  -  7 (9)

Stan commented that this was the lightest turn-out in recent memory.
There were no weather issues.

==== Comments on Presentations ====

==== January 2006 ====

  11 - UNIX
       Base: System Processes by Stan Reichardt (and maybe Gary Meyer)
             Good.
       Main: Boot managers by Carl Fitch
             Really good.
  19 - STL LUG
       Main: Exploring OpenOffice 2.0 Database by Stan Reichardt
             Good.
  24 - HZW LUG
       Main: Boot managers by Carl Fitch
             Less detail for newbies. Very good interaction.
  25 - Security
       Main: Web Server Hacks and SSL by Clarence Johnson
             Too fast, but good.
  26 - STC LUG
       Main: Exploring OpenOffice 2.0 Database by Stan Reichardt
             More interactive than the first time. 
             Answered some questions from first time.
             Covered what he wanted at each step, but ran out of time.

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

==== February 2006 ====

   8 - UNIX (balloting)
       Lightning Talks
  16 - STL LUG (balloting)
       Main: Financial Apps (GnuCash, MoneyDance, KMyMoney, etc.) by Craig Buchek
  22 - Security (balloting)
       TBD
  23 - STC LUG (balloting)
       Wireless Network Card Configurations (including ndiswrapper) by Carl Fitch
  28 - HZW LUG (balloting)
       Patitioning and File System Hierarchy

==== 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
  22 - Security
       TBD
  23 - STC LUG
       TBD
  28 - HZW LUG

==== April 2006 ====

  12 - UNIX
       Base: TBD
       Main: TBD
  20 - STL LUG
       Main: Ruby on Rails by Curt Hibbs
  25 - Security
       TBD
  26 - STC LUG
       TBD
  27 - HZW LUG

==== Potential Presentations ====

  * CVS - Sanjiv, JT, Ed Howland
  * Secure Email - Dustin Anders/Paul Vinson (via Craig)
  * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo (via Sarah on the Perl list)
  * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (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. 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.

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

  * Committee members:
    * Stan
    * Gary
    * Rich
  * Stan has list of members posted.
  * Stan has written up the ballots. A few corrections will be made.
  * 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 =====

  * Stan is looking to somehow automate the announcements.

===== 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 =====

  * Presentation topics as far back as 2003 have been listed.  
    * Stan indicated that accuracy is not high, but will search additional notes.
    * Stan will continue listing prior years' data as time permits.
  * Stan to work with Ted Palmer to get presentations put up.
    * Ted Palmer volunteered to be the website libraian.
    * Ted's major emphasis will be to focus on getting the material from presenter.

===== 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.

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

  * Server were moved to Primary Networks on January 15.
    * People involved:
      * Lee Lammert
      * Craig Buchek
      * Jeff Muse
      * Ted Palmer
      * Gary Meyer
    * Had to get a hub from Ted's house to make it work.
      * We'd like to get a rackmount switch to replace it.
    * Things went relatively smoothly.
  * DNS was updated to point at new addresses.
  * This wiki (http://wiki.sluug.org/) can now be considered to be in production.
    * Stan added a link on the SLUUG home page.
  * Lee and Craig have badges for 24/7 access to the facility.

  * Other functionality of the systems is in progress.
    * If anyone wants an account to work on adding functionality, contact Craig or Lee.

===== Lightning Talks =====

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

  * List of Talks
    * Barry Morrison - What Greybar Does
    * Robert Citek
    * Jeff Muse
    * Clarence Johnson - T3
    * Ed Howland
    * Carl Fitch
    * Craig Buchek

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

  * None.

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

  * Carl - Complete tax-exempt status paperwork.
  * Carl - Ask Mark Bergman to give presentation March 8.
  * 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).
  * 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. Update for next meeting.
  * Craig - Add bud/budlight accounts for StanR and Gary.
  * Gary - Organize Lightning Talks.
  * Gary - Get Dave Mills together with Lee to find info regarding sponsors.
  * Gary - Coordinate password changes. Have passwords stored with President and Secretary.
  * Gary - Add host file entries on dark and michelob for bud and budlight.
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