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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 6, 2006 | ||
- | * 6:30 pm - 8:01 pm | ||
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- | ===== Attendees ===== | ||
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- | * Lee Lammert | ||
- | * Barry Morrison | ||
- | * Craig Buchek | ||
- | * Clarence Johnson | ||
- | * Gary Meyer | ||
- | * Stan Reichardt | ||
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- | ===== Secretary Report ===== | ||
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- | * Have printed out all previous Steering Committee meeting minutes. | ||
- | * Need Carl to sign August's. | ||
- | * Still need to type up minutes of previous Board meeting. | ||
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- | ===== Treasurer Report ===== | ||
- | * Lee did not bring the bank statement and balance info. | ||
- | * Lee paid WU phone bill thru Aug 1. | ||
- | * Asked for adjustment for 5th line. | ||
- | * Wrote that we want to drop all but 1 line for Oct 1. | ||
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- | ===== Book Sales ===== | ||
- | * No report. | ||
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- | ===== Previous Meetings ===== | ||
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- | ==== Attendance ==== | ||
- | * 2 Aug STEERC - 5 | ||
- | * 9 Aug SLUUG - 26(27) | ||
- | * 17 Aug STLLUG - 15(17) | ||
- | * 22 Aug HZWLUG - 10 | ||
- | * 24 Aug STCLUG - 14 | ||
- | * 30 Aug SECURE - 14 | ||
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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 | ||
- | * Very good. Excellent lead-in to Security group meeting. | ||
- | * Main: We're all doomed!: A look into the present & future by Scott Granneman | ||
- | * Fascinating. Excellent, but a bit all over the map. | ||
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- | === STLLUG - Aug 17 === | ||
- | * Main: JT Moree - Personal Accomplishments in Open Source | ||
- | * Good for people that know JT. Somewhat boring for the others. | ||
- | * Some good lessons learned. Dragged on on a few topics. | ||
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- | === HZWLUG - Aug 22 === | ||
- | * Newbie Topics - Review of Package Managers and Comparing Distributions. | ||
- | * Didn't have time for Wireless router. | ||
- | * Lots of happy attendees -- starting to participate and ask questions. | ||
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- | === STCLUG - Aug 24 === | ||
- | * Main: Creating a VNC repeater for your customers and relatives - and WHY? by Carl Fitch | ||
- | * Very interesting. | ||
- | * Talked about how to best deploy a VNC solution for clients. | ||
- | * Some technical issues connecting to Internet, but software worked well. | ||
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- | === Security - Aug 30 === | ||
- | * Hands-On: Metasploit by Chris Byrd (re-scheduled from Aug 23) | ||
- | * Excellent presentation and hands-on. Cracked Windows 2003 systems. | ||
- | * Covered a lot more material than most were expecting. | ||
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- | ===== Presentation Schedule ===== | ||
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- | ==== September 2006 ==== | ||
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- | === SLUUG - Sep 13 === | ||
- | * Base: Bugzilla by Craig Buchek | ||
- | * Main: Techie Videos from the Internet | ||
- | * Possibilities: Revolution OS, DLTV, etc. | ||
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- | === STLLUG - Sep 21 === | ||
- | * Main: Update on SCO v. IBM Lawsuit by AllParadox (Benjamin White) (via Craig Buchek / Scott McKellar) | ||
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- | === HZWLUG - Sep 26 === | ||
- | * Newbie Topics | ||
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- | === Security - Sep 27 === | ||
- | * PROBABLY CANCELED. | ||
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- | === STCLUG - Sep 28 === | ||
- | * TBD - Exciting stuff from Stan and Fred | ||
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- | ==== October 2006 ==== | ||
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- | === SLUUG - Oct 11 === | ||
- | * Base: Firebug (Firefox plugin - JavaScript debugger) by Ed Howland | ||
- | * Main: AppArmor by Matt Skiption of Novell | ||
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- | === STLLUG - Oct 19 === | ||
- | * Main: Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Exchange "replacement") by Matthew Porter (TENTATIVE) | ||
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- | ==== Potential Presentations ==== | ||
- | * Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Lee) | ||
- | * XGL by Matt Skipton of Novell (via Lee) | ||
- | * SELinux by Stan Reichardt (Not Earlier Than October, If Then) | ||
- | * Main: InkScape - Mark Jarnowski (via Craig) | ||
- | * Perl Scripts to do DNA Genetic Research by Bryce Meyer from Wiltel/Level 3 (via Gary) | ||
- | * OpenVPN by Robert Citek (via ???) | ||
- | * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list) | ||
- | * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) | ||
- | * CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, Ed Howland (via ???) | ||
- | * Tech Futures - Railroad guy (via Rich Seibel) | ||
- | * 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 | ||
- | * Video cards in Linux (Heuris) | ||
- | * IBM vs. Sun vs. HP on UNIX | ||
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- | ===== Weekly Announcements ===== | ||
- | * Going strong. | ||
- | * Some issues getting good info from other groups about their meetings. | ||
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- | ===== Library Room Reservations ===== | ||
- | * First Saturday in October. | ||
- | * Stan will fill out paperwork. | ||
- | * Phil Bunch will reserve Indian Trails for STLLUG. | ||
- | * Stan will reserve Hazelwood for HZLUG. | ||
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- | ===== Sponsorships ===== | ||
- | * Clarence and Stan R. will start working to gather information about previous sponsors. | ||
- | * Starting with information from the web site. | ||
- | * Lee working to send out invoices to previous sponsors. ($200) | ||
- | * Stan noted that [[http://www.primary.net | Primary Networks]] is asking us to put a different logo (and link) on our web site. | ||
- | * As part of their hosting us, we agreed to put their link/logo on our site. | ||
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- | ===== Website Librarian ===== | ||
- | * 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 ===== | ||
- | * Dark is getting hardware issues about once a month. | ||
- | * Reboots, but comes back up. | ||
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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. | ||
- | * 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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- | ===== Old Business ===== | ||
- | * Craig needs to work to write up new membership info. | ||
- | * See previous minutes for full details. | ||
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- | * Christine Wanta emailed the list, saying she would have to resign her Board seat. | ||
- | * Unable to attend enough meetings. | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | * Lee has notified Wash U in writing, to drop all but 1 line on October 1. | ||
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- | * EPC - big sale last month. | ||
- | * We were there. Some of us. | ||
- | * Was nice, because we only had to answer questions, not do installs. | ||
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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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- | ===== New Business ===== | ||
- | * No new business. | ||
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- | ===== Blue Sky ===== | ||
- | * The sky is still blue. | ||
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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. | ||
- | * Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/Mailman 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. | ||
- | * Clarence and Stan - Get working on collecting sponsor contact info. |