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- | ====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - September 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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- | * September ???, 2006 | ||
- | * 6:30 pm - ?? pm | ||
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- | ===== Attendees ===== | ||
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- | * Carl Fitch? | ||
- | * Clarence Johnson? | ||
- | * Craig Buchek? | ||
- | * Bob Hansen? | ||
- | * Stan Reichardt? | ||
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- | ===== Secretary Report ===== | ||
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- | * Still need to type up minutes of previous Board meeting. | ||
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- | ===== Treasurer Report ===== | ||
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- | OLD STUFF: | ||
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- | | ^ Amount ^ Notes ^ | ||
- | |Current Bank Balance | $903.68| Bank Statement| | ||
- | |AP Due (Wash U) | $170.00| (5 lines @ $34)| | ||
- | |Balance as of 7/30/06 ^$733.68 || | ||
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- | * Lee says Wash U is still billing us for 5 lines. | ||
- | * They supposedly terminated the 5th line in April. | ||
- | * Lee will look into getting refunded for having only 4 lines, but paying for 5. | ||
- | * Lee asked that Gary gets the termination order in to Wash U for 9/30 AHEAD OF TIME. | ||
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- | ===== Book Sales ===== | ||
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- | * Books sold? | ||
- | * Books raffled off? | ||
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- | ===== Previous Meetings ===== | ||
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- | ==== Attendance ==== | ||
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- | * August 27 SLUUG meeting: 26 signed in, 27 actual head-count. | ||
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- | ==== Comments on Presentations ==== | ||
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- | ===== August 2006 ===== | ||
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- | === SLUUG - Aug 9 === | ||
- | * Base: Intro to Metasploit Security Tool by Chris Byrd | ||
- | * Main: We're all doomed!: A look into the present & future by Scott Granneman | ||
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- | === STLLUG - Aug 17 === | ||
- | * Main: JT Moree - Personal Accomplishments in Open Source | ||
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- | === HZWLUG - Aug 22 === | ||
- | * Newbie Topics | ||
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- | === Security - Aug 23 === | ||
- | * Hands-On: Metasploit by Chris Byrd | ||
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- | === STCLUG - Aug 24 === | ||
- | * Main: Creating a VNC repeater for your customers and relatives - and WHY? by Carl Fitch | ||
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- | ===== Presentation Schedule ===== | ||
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- | ==== September 2006 ==== | ||
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- | === SLUUG - Sep 13 === | ||
- | * Base: TBD | ||
- | * Main: | ||
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- | === STLLUG - Sep 21 === | ||
- | * Main: Update on SCO v. IBM Lawsuit by AllParadox (via Craig Buchek / Scott McKellar) | ||
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- | === HZWLUG - Sep 26 === | ||
- | * Newbie Topics | ||
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- | === Security - Sep 27 === | ||
- | * TBD | ||
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- | === STCLUG - Sep 28 === | ||
- | * TBD | ||
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- | ==== October 2006 ==== | ||
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- | === SLUUG - Oct 11 === | ||
- | * Base: TBD | ||
- | * Main: TBD | ||
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- | === STLLUG - Oct 19 === | ||
- | * Base: TBD | ||
- | * Main: Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Exchange "replacement") by Matthew Porter (TENTATIVE) | ||
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- | ==== Potential Presentations ==== | ||
- | * Main: InkScape - Mark Jarnowski (via Craig) | ||
- | * Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Tim Cross) | ||
- | * Perl Scripts to do DNA Genetic Research by Bryce Meyer from Wiltel/Level 3 (via Gary) | ||
- | * OpenVPN by Robert Citek (via ???) | ||
- | * SELinux by Stan Reichardt (Not Earlier Than October, If Then) | ||
- | * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list) | ||
- | * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) | ||
- | * CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, Ed Howland (via ???) | ||
- | * Requests: | ||
- | * VPN (hands-on preferred, good for a Security meeting) | ||
- | * CVS/Subversion for Config Files | ||
- | * Oracle Application Express | ||
- | * How To Update Your System - apt, yum, yast, etc. | ||
- | * Music - Linux on iPod, iPod on Linux, Ogg, players, etc. | ||
- | * Using Secure Email Clients | ||
- | * TrueCrypt - file-level encryption for Windows/Linux | ||
- | * One-Time Passwords | ||
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- | ===== Weekly Announcements ===== | ||
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- | ===== Sponsorships ===== | ||
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- | * Lee working to send out invoices to previous sponsors. ($200) | ||
- | * Clarence and Stan R. will start working to gather information about previous sponsors. | ||
- | * Starting with information from the web site. | ||
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- | ===== Website Librarian ===== | ||
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- | * Presentation topics as far back as 1996 have now been listed. | ||
- | * Stan R. indicated that accuracy is not high, but will search additional notes. | ||
- | * Stan R. and Ted will continue listing prior years' data as time permits. | ||
- | * Stan R. will start adding some of the materials that are smaller. | ||
- | * Presentation STL LUG topics are now up to date. | ||
- | * Previously stopped after year 2000. | ||
- | * Accuracy not high, about 5 months missing. | ||
- | * Stan R. working with Ted to get presentations put up. | ||
- | * Ted not comfortable with ''librarian'' as a title, but the goal remains to gather the materials. | ||
- | * Ted has gotten some of the older presentations gathered. | ||
- | * Ted's major emphasis will be to focus on getting the material from presenters. | ||
- | * We anticipate HTML to be the most desirable format, followed by PDF. | ||
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- | ===== System Administration ===== | ||
- | * No news is good news? | ||
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- | ===== PROJECT: New servers ===== | ||
- | * Someone (Mike Knight?) added a lot of good discussion on the wiki about user accounts. | ||
- | * Need to complete migration to new servers. | ||
- | * Chris volunteered to help. | ||
- | * Has good Drupal experience. | ||
- | * Has done Linux administration. | ||
- | * Craig has a 1U UltraSparc with Solaris 10 to donate and install at Primary. | ||
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- | ===== Old Business ===== | ||
- | * Annual report was submitted to the state. | ||
- | * 1 month early -- saves us $5. | ||
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- | * Craig needs to work to write up new membership info. | ||
- | * See previous minutes for full details. | ||
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- | ===== New Business ===== | ||
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- | * Christine Wanta emailed the list, saying she would have to resign her Board seat. | ||
- | * Unable to attend enough meetings. | ||
- | * The 3 attending Board members agreed to wait until Lee was here to choose a replacement. | ||
- | * Christine has not submitted a written resignation letter as of yet. | ||
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- | * We are proceeding with dropping dial-up on September 30. | ||
- | * Carl emailed all our users, telling them dial-up would be going away. | ||
- | * Stan suggested keeping 1 dial-up line for emergency access to Wash U systems. | ||
- | * Those in attendance agreed that this was a good idea. | ||
- | * Unanimous agreement to keep the 1 line. | ||
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- | * EPC - big sale this Saturday. | ||
- | * EPC is now installing Ubuntu Linux on their systems by default. | ||
- | * We will be there to answer Linux questions. | ||
- | * Sort of like a Hazelwood LUG meeting. | ||
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- | * Clarence showed us Chris Byrd's Drupal mock-up of the Security SIG's web group. | ||
- | * We agreed that it looked good. | ||
- | * We'd like to move the site to our new boxes. | ||
- | * Craig will work with him. | ||
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- | * We discussed membership dues in relation to shell accounts. | ||
- | * Agreed that there should be 3 levels of voluntary membership dues. | ||
- | * $100 | ||
- | * $70 | ||
- | * $35 | ||
- | * Agreed that shell accounts are available in 1 of 2 conditions: | ||
- | * User pays voluntary membership dues, | ||
- | * OR user attended 2 meetings in the previous calendar year, and pays $10. | ||
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- | ===== Blue Sky ===== | ||
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- | ===== Follow-up and Action Items ===== | ||
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- | * Chris and Craig - Work on migrating to new servers. | ||
- | * Craig - Write up info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs. | ||
- | * Lee - Submit treasurer reports for inclusion in secretary folder. | ||
- | * Lee - Finish QuickBooks transfer & financials. | ||
- | * Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/Mailmain for new servers. | ||
- | * Need to be able to preserve the archives. | ||
- | * Tim - Contact Mark Russell about presenting at Security group. | ||
- | * Stan - Update web sites. | ||
- | * Ted and Stan - Upload presentations to web archive. | ||
- | * Gary - work with Wash U on dial-up lines. | ||
- | * Terminating all but 1 on 9/30. |