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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 - ??? pm
Attendees
Leeland Lammert
Carl Fitch
Barry Morrison
Craig Buchek
Stan Reichardt
???
Secretary Report
Treasurer Report
Book Sales
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)
January 2006
11 - UNIX
Base: About System Processes by Gary Meyer and Stan Reichardt
Main: Boot managers by Carl Fitch
19 - STL LUG
Main: Exploring OpenOffice 2.0 Database by Stan Reichardt
24 - HZW LUG Boot managers by Carl Fitch
25 - Security Web Server Hacks and SSL
26 - STC LUG Exploring OpenOffice 2.0 Database by Stan Reichardt
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
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.
Election Committee
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)
Stan will write up the ballots.
Weekly Announcements
PROJECT: New servers
Craig moved
DNS for SLUUG.ORG over to EveryDNS. It worked this time, with no problems noted.
Stan received an email from Angela Trotter from Unidev, wanting to sponsor our group and post job listings.
New form on sponsors page.
Need to get info regarding previous sponsors.
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 to work with Ted Palmer to get presentations put up.
System Administration
New Business
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.
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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.