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-====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - March 2006 ====== 
  
-NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. ​ 
-Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!) 
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-===== Location ===== 
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-  Saint Louis Bread Company, 
-  10550 Old Olive Street Road, 
-  Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (at Old Olive and Olive) 
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-===== Date / Time ===== 
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-  March 1, 2006 
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-  6:30 pm - 8:??0 pm 
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-===== Attendees ===== 
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-  * Carl Fitch 
-  * Barry Morrison 
-  * Craig Buchek 
-  * Ted Palmer 
-  * Stan Reichardt 
-  * Gary Meyer 
-  * Lee Lammert 
-  * Gary Meyer 
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-===== Election Results ===== 
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-Ballots were counted at the steering committee meeting. (Voting ran up to the Hazelwood LUG meeting the previous day.) 
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-  * 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 
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-===== Secretary Report ===== 
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-  * Need to type up minutes for official annual meeting, and print out previous months'​ minutes for signature and inclusion in Secretary folder. 
-  *  
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-===== Treasurer Report ===== 
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-  *  
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-===== Book Sales ===== 
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-  *  
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-===== Previous Meetings ===== 
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-==== Attendance ==== 
- 
-  01 Feb STEERC ​ -  6 
-  08 Feb SLUUG   - 37 
-  16 Feb STLLUG ​ - 22 (23) 
-  22 Feb SECURE ​ -  8 
-  23 Feb STCLUG ​ - 10 
-  28 Feb HZWLUG ​ -  
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-==== Comments on Presentations ==== 
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-==== February 2006 ==== 
- 
-   8 - UNIX 
-       ​Lightning Talks  
-         * (Early Bird Tour of Greybar Facilities) 
-         * Jim Leingang - Update on the Job Market 
-         * Jeff Muse - Shell Shortcuts (Speeding Up Your CLI) 
-         * Barry Morrison - What Greybar Does (Our Host) 
-         * Robert Citek - Using Knoppix with a Persistent Disk Images (PDI) 
-         * Clarence Johnson - Poetry Readings: 
-           - Unix Man (Nowhere Man) 
-           - What If Dr. Suess Did Technical Writing 
-           - Write In C ( Let It Be) 
-         * Ed Howland - System logging with Syslog-ng, STunnel, SWatch and LogWatch 
-         * Craig Buchek - Intro to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) 
-         * Jeff Muse - More Shortcuts (???) 
-         * Stan Reichardt - Outline to 100 Slides in Ten Minutes 
-         * Scott McKellar - Aargh - A Code Generator for Parsing the Command Line  (?When was this done?) 
-         * Allen Rueter - Using Arrow Keys in VI Editor 
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-  16 - STL LUG 
-       Main: Financial Apps (GnuCash, MoneyDance, KMyMoney, etc.) by Craig Buchek 
-         Good. Could have answered some more in-depth questions. 
-  22 - Security 
-       Hands On use of Knoppix STD Live CD 
-  23 - STC LUG 
-       ​Wireless Network Card Configurations (including ndiswrapper) by Carl Fitch 
-  28 - HZW LUG 
-       ​Partitioning and File System Hierarchy 
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-===== Presentation Schedule ===== 
- 
-==== March 2006 ==== 
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-   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 
-       Main: Blender by JT Moree (confirmed via Craig) 
-  22 - Security 
-       TBD 
-  23 - STC LUG 
-       TBD 
-  28 - HZW LUG 
- 
-==== April 2006 ==== 
- 
-  12 - UNIX 
-       Base: FreeNX and it's Friends by Jim Roe 
-       Main: TBD 
-  20 - STL LUG 
-       Main: Ruby on Rails by Curt Hibbs (Craig needs to confirm) 
-  27? - STC LUG 
-       TBD 
-  26? - Security 
-       TBD 
-  25? - HZW LUG 
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-==== May 2006 ==== 
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-  10 - UNIX 
-       Base: TBD 
-       Main: Web Services and the Google API by Jeff Heaton (via Ted, need to confirm) 
-  18 - STL LUG 
-       Main: TBD 
-  24 - Security 
-       TBD 
-  25 - STC LUG 
-       TBD 
-  23? - HZW LUG 
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-==== Potential Presentations ==== 
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-  * InkScape (STLLUG) - Mark Jarnowski volunteered (via Craig) 
-  * Secure Email (STLLUG?) - Dustin Anders/Paul Vinson (via Craig) 
-  * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list) 
-  * CVS - Sanjiv, JT, Ed Howland 
-  * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) 
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-===== Old Business ===== 
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-  * 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. 
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-===== Weekly Announcements ===== 
- 
-  * Stan is looking to somehow automate the announcements. 
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-===== Sponsorships ===== 
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-  * 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. 
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-===== 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. 
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-===== 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. 
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-===== PROJECT: New servers ===== 
- 
-  *  
-  * Other functionality of the systems is in progress. 
-    * If anyone wants an account to work on adding functionality,​ contact Craig or Lee. 
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-===== New Business ===== 
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-  *  
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-===== Follow-up and Action Items: ===== 
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-  * 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. 
-  * 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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