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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 - 8:30 pm | ||
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| - | ===== Attendees ===== | ||
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| - | * Carl Fitch | ||
| - | * Barry Morrison | ||
| - | * Craig Buchek | ||
| - | * Ted Palmer | ||
| - | * Stan Reichardt | ||
| - | * Gary Meyer | ||
| - | * Lee Lammert | ||
| - | * Clarence Johnson | ||
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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) Both were elected with 25 votes | ||
| - | * President Carl 28 | ||
| - | * Vice President Stan 27 | ||
| - | * Secretary Craig 23 | ||
| - | * Treasurer Lee 23 | ||
| - | * STLLUG Chair Craig 25 | ||
| - | * STCLUG Chair Carl 2 Phil Bunch 2 Jim Roe 1 Jay Truesdale 1 Mike808 1 CFW1 1 | ||
| - | * Sponsorship Manager Clarence 1 CFW1 1 | ||
| - | * Public Relations Scott G 1 Kevin Shen 1 Mike808 1 | ||
| - | * Presentation Manager Ted Palmer 1 Gary Meyer 1 CFW1 1 | ||
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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. | ||
| - | * Need to type up minutes for March 3 board meeting. | ||
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| - | ===== Treasurer Report ===== | ||
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| - | * Currently working on pulling in 2002 data into QuickBooks. | ||
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| - | ===== Book Sales ===== | ||
| - | |||
| - | * No books were sold. | ||
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| - | ===== Previous Meetings ===== | ||
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| - | ==== Attendance ==== | ||
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| - | 01 Feb STEERC - 6 | ||
| - | 08 Feb SLUUG - 37 (40) | ||
| - | 16 Feb STLLUG - 22 (23) | ||
| - | 22 Feb SECURE - 8 | ||
| - | 23 Feb STCLUG - 10 | ||
| - | 28 Feb HZWLUG - 7 (10) | ||
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| - | ==== Comments on Presentations ==== | ||
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| - | ==== February 2006 ==== | ||
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| - | 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 Image (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 | ||
| - | * Allen Rueter - Using Arrow Keys in VI Editor | ||
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| - | Comments: Good turn-out. Most of the talks were very good. | ||
| - | Need to brief presenters on what to expect more. | ||
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| - | 16 - STL LUG | ||
| - | Main: Financial Apps (GnuCash, MoneyDance, KMyMoney, etc.) by Craig Buchek | ||
| - | Very Good. Could have answered some more in-depth questions. | ||
| - | 22 - Security | ||
| - | Hands On use of Knoppix STD Live CD by Jeff Ziesemann | ||
| - | Very Good. Covered mostly Nessus. | ||
| - | 23 - STC LUG | ||
| - | Wireless Network Card Configurations (including ndiswrapper) by Carl Fitch | ||
| - | Excellent. Covered a wide variety of cards. Answered lots of questions. | ||
| - | 28 - HZW LUG | ||
| - | Partitioning and File System Hierarchy by Stan Reichardt | ||
| - | Very good. | ||
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| - | ===== Presentation Schedule ===== | ||
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| - | ==== March 2006 ==== | ||
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| - | 8 - UNIX | ||
| - | Base: KDE Control Center by Carl Fitch | ||
| - | Main: FreeNX by Jim Roe | ||
| - | 16 - STL LUG | ||
| - | Main: Blender by JT Moree (confirmed via Craig) | ||
| - | 22 - Security | ||
| - | Main: dd_rescue and dd_rhelp by Carl Fitch | ||
| - | 23 - STC LUG | ||
| - | Main: dd_rescue and dd_rhelp by Carl Fitch | ||
| - | 28 - HZW LUG | ||
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| - | ==== April 2006 ==== | ||
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| - | 12 - UNIX | ||
| - | Base: FreeNX and Friends by Jim Roe | ||
| - | Main: Wireless Network Card Configurations (including ndiswrapper) by Carl Fitch | ||
| - | 20 - STL LUG | ||
| - | Main: Ruby on Rails by Curt Hibbs (Craig needs to confirm) | ||
| - | 27? - STC LUG | ||
| - | TBD | ||
| - | 26? - Security | ||
| - | TENTATIVE: Mark Bunn @ Fishnet (via Clarence) | ||
| - | 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 (Ted 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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| - | * Secure Email (STLLUG?) - Dustin Anders/Paul Vinson (via Craig) | ||
| - | * InkScape (STLLUG) - Mark Jarnowski volunteered (via Craig) | ||
| - | * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list) | ||
| - | * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) | ||
| - | * CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, JT, Ed Howland | ||
| - | * Requests: | ||
| - | * VPN (hands-on preferred, good for a Security meeting) | ||
| - | * CVS for Config Files | ||
| - | * Oracle Application Express | ||
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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. | ||
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| - | * 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. | ||
| - | * Found his sed and awk notes. | ||
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| - | ===== Sponsorships ===== | ||
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| - | * Clarence and Stan will start working to gather information about previous sponsors. | ||
| - | * Starting with information from the web site. | ||
| - | * Lee spoke with Dave Mills. He said that Christine had the most recent info. | ||
| - | * Stan received an email from Angela Trotter from Unidev, wanting to sponsor our group and post job listings. | ||
| - | * Craig to follow up. | ||
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| - | ===== Website Librarian ===== | ||
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| - | * Presentation topics as far back as 2000 have been listed. | ||
| - | * Stan indicated that accuracy is not high, but will search additional notes. | ||
| - | * Stan and Ted will continue listing prior years' data as time permits. | ||
| - | * Stan working with Ted to get presentations put up. | ||
| - | * Ted has gotten some of the older presentations gathered. | ||
| - | * Ted's major emphasis will be to focus on getting the material from presenters. | ||
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| - | ===== System Administration ===== | ||
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| - | * Gary said that Wash U will be removing SLUUG zone from their servers shortly. | ||
| - | * 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 now only paying for 5 phone lines, as of January. | ||
| - | * Majordomo admin access. | ||
| - | * Stan screwed up the permissions again. Mike Knight fixed them again. | ||
| - | * Suggestion was to build new mailing list system on new servers. | ||
| - | * Barry will investigate majordomo + webmin, and mailman. | ||
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| - | ===== PROJECT: New servers ===== | ||
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| - | * Next step is to migrate web sites to new systems. | ||
| - | * We need to meet to do the web servers, and discuss migration plans. | ||
| - | * We'd like Mike Knight to be there, as he has the most experience, and knows our systems the best. | ||
| - | * We'll work around his schedule. | ||
| - | * March 12 and 18 are looking good for most of us. | ||
| - | * Location to be determined. Possibly Computers and Things on March 18. | ||
| - | * We need to use sudo as much as possible. | ||
| - | * Craig has a 1U UltraSparc with Solaris 10 to donate and install at Primary. | ||
| - | * We need some versa-rails to mount the servers. | ||
| - | * Craig will go into Primary and measure the rack depth. | ||
| - | * We could use a rackmount switch. | ||
| - | * Carl has a 12-port rackmount hub he will donate. | ||
| - | * 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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| - | * Stan proposed we clean house, and send any excess inventory to WITS. | ||
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| - | ===== Board Meeting ===== | ||
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| - | A board meeting was held from 8:30 to 8:42. | ||
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| - | ===== Follow-up and Action Items: ===== | ||
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| - | * Carl - **Confirm Mark Bergman to give presentation March 8.** | ||
| - | * Carl - Complete tax-exempt status paperwork. | ||
| - | * 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 - Go into Primary and measure the rack depth. | ||
| - | * 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. Copy stllinux.org data over. | ||
| - | * Craig - Change root passwords on new servers. Send info to SYSADMIN. Tell folks how to use sudo. | ||
| - | * Gary - Coordinate password changes. Have passwords stored with President and Secretary. | ||
| - | * Ted - Confirm Jeff Heaton for May 10. | ||
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