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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!)

===== Location =====

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

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

  March 1, 2006

  6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

===== Attendees =====

  * Carl Fitch
  * Barry Morrison
  * Craig Buchek
  * Ted Palmer
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Gary Meyer
  * Lee Lammert
  * Clarence Johnson

===== Election Results =====

Ballots were counted at the steering committee meeting. (Voting ran up to the Hazelwood LUG meeting the previous day.)

  * 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

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

  * 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.

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

  * Currently working on pulling in 2002 data into QuickBooks.

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

  * No books were sold.

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

==== Attendance ====

  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)

==== Comments on Presentations ====

==== 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 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

     Comments: Good turn-out. Most of the talks were very good. 
               Need to brief presenters on what supporting hardware to expect.

  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.

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

==== March 2006 ====

   8 - UNIX
       Base: KDE Control Center by Carl Fitch
       Main: FreeNX and Friends 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

==== April 2006 ====

  12 - UNIX
       Base: TBD
       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

==== May 2006 ====

  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

==== Potential Presentations ====

  * 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

===== 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.

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

  * Stan is looking to somehow automate the announcements.
    * Found his sed and awk notes.

===== Sponsorships =====

  * 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.

===== Website Librarian =====

  * 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.

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

  * 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.

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

  * 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.

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

  * Stan proposed we clean house, and send any excess inventory to WITS.

===== Board Meeting =====

A board meeting was held from 8:30 to 8:42.

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

  * 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). - DONE (awaiting reply)
  * Craig - Ask Mark Volkmann and Jeff Barczewski if they can give a presentation/demo of Ruby on Rails. - DONE (awaiting reply)
  * 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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