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| - | ====== 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, | ||
| - | (at Old Olive and Olive), | ||
| - | 10550 Old Olive Street Road, | ||
| - | Creve Coeur, MO 63141 | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Date and Time ====== | ||
| - | * October 4, 2006 | ||
| - | * 6:30 pm - 8:15 pm | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Attendees ====== | ||
| - | * Lee Lammert | ||
| - | * Barry Morrison | ||
| - | * Stan Reichardt | ||
| - | * Carl Fitch | ||
| - | * Craig Buchek | ||
| - | * Gary Meyer | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Secretary Report ====== | ||
| - | * Need to print out September Steering Committee meeting minutes. | ||
| - | * Need Carl to sign August's minutes. | ||
| - | * Still need to type up minutes of previous Board meeting. | ||
| - | * Filed Christine's resignation letter. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Treasurer Report ====== | ||
| - | | ^ Amount ^ Notes ^ | ||
| - | |Starting Bank Balance | $586.17| Bank Statement| | ||
| - | |AP Due (Wash U) | $170.00| (4 lines @ $34)| | ||
| - | |AR | $100.00| Membership payment| | ||
| - | |Balance as of 8/31/06 ^$516.17 || | ||
| - | |||
| - | * September numbers pending. | ||
| - | * Still need to reconcile QuickBooks for previous years. | ||
| - | * Lee will need some assistance with that. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Book Sales Report ====== | ||
| - | * No book sales in September. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Attendance Report ====== | ||
| - | Year to Date figures for 2006 posted to STEERCOM mailing list | ||
| - | |||
| - | * 6 Sep STEERC - 6 | ||
| - | * 13 Sep SLUUG - 15 | ||
| - | * 21 Sep STLLUG - 15(17) | ||
| - | * 26 Sep HZWLUG - 8 | ||
| - | * 27 Sep SECURE - 17 | ||
| - | * 28 Sep STCLUG - 10 | ||
| - | |||
| - | * Security SIG had an excellent turn-out this month. | ||
| - | * LUG turn-out was lighter than expected. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Comments on Presentations ====== | ||
| - | |||
| - | ===== September 2006 ===== | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== SLUUG - Sep 13 ==== | ||
| - | * Base: Bugzilla by Craig Buchek | ||
| - | * Excellent. Hopefully this will help members report bugs. | ||
| - | * Main: Techie Videos from the Internet (DLTV) | ||
| - | * DLTV episode was too long. | ||
| - | * Good idea for filler, but choose shorter videos next time. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== STLLUG - Sep 21 ==== | ||
| - | * Main: Update on SCO v. IBM Lawsuit by AllParadox (Benjamin White) | ||
| - | * Started out slow, but was better in the middle and end. | ||
| - | * Helped us understand some of the technical legal details. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== HZWLUG - Sep 26 ==== | ||
| - | * Finding Linux Applications | ||
| - | * Maybe okay. | ||
| - | * Had problems with projector. | ||
| - | * Other Newbie Topics | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== SECURITY - Sep 27 ==== | ||
| - | * Network Diagnostics & Deep Packet Scanning by Ed Morrisy of Global Velocity | ||
| - | * Pizza was really good. | ||
| - | * Presentation was good and interesting, but a bit too much salesmanship. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== STCLUG - Sep 28 ==== | ||
| - | * Finding Linux Applications | ||
| - | * Reprise of Hazelwood talk. | ||
| - | * Started late, but went faster. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Presentation Schedule ====== | ||
| - | |||
| - | ===== October 2006 ===== | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== SLUUG - Oct 11 ==== | ||
| - | * Base: Firebug (Firefox plugin - JavaScript debugger) by Ed Howland | ||
| - | * Main: AppArmor by Matt Skiption of Novell | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== STLLUG - Oct 19 ==== | ||
| - | * Main: To Be Determined | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== HZWLUG - Oct 24 ==== | ||
| - | * Base: Newbie Topics | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== SECURITY - Oct 25 ==== | ||
| - | * Primer on Encryption by Mark Buchanan | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== STCLUG - Oct 26 ==== | ||
| - | * Cronolog - Effortless Log Rotation by Carl Fitch | ||
| - | |||
| - | ===== November 2006 ===== | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== SLUUG - Nov 8 ==== | ||
| - | * Base: Cronolog - Effortless Log Rotation by Carl Fitch | ||
| - | * Main: Introduction to Logical Volume Manager by Jeff Muse (TENATIVE) | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== STLLUG - Nov 16 ==== | ||
| - | * Main: Follow-up Demonstration of Logical Volume Manager by Jeff Muse (TENATIVE) | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== SECURITY - Nov 22 ==== | ||
| - | * TBD. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== Thanksgiving Day - Nov 23 ==== | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== STCLUG - Nov 20? ==== | ||
| - | * Need to determine Holiday schedule date. | ||
| - | * Carl believes it's been scheduled for the 20th, but it may be the 27th. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== HZWLUG - Nov 28 ==== | ||
| - | * Newbie Topics | ||
| - | |||
| - | ===== December 2006 ===== | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== SLUUG - Dec 13 ==== | ||
| - | * Base: TBD. | ||
| - | * Main: TBD. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== STLLUG - Dec 21 ==== | ||
| - | * Base: TBD. | ||
| - | * Main: InkScape by Mark Jarnowski (TENTATIVE) | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== Christmas Day - Dec 25 ==== | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== HZWLUG - Dec 26 ==== | ||
| - | * NOTE: May cancel this meeting. | ||
| - | * UPDATE: The 26 Dec date given was wrong, meeting room is reserved for 19 Dec - Stan R. | ||
| - | | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== SECURITY - Dec 27 ==== | ||
| - | * TBD. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== STCLUG - Dec 28 ==== | ||
| - | * TBD. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ===== January 2007 ===== | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== SLUUG - Jan 10 ==== | ||
| - | * Base: | ||
| - | * Main: | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== STLLUG - Jan 18 ==== | ||
| - | * Base: | ||
| - | * Main: | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== HZWLUG - Jan 23 ==== | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== SECURITY - Jan 24 ==== | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== STCLUG - Jan 25 ==== | ||
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| - | ====== Potential Presentations ====== | ||
| - | * Main: InkScape by Mark Jarnowski (via Craig) (was STLLUG TENTATIVE) | ||
| - | * Everything you (N)Ever Wanted to Know About HDTV by Craig Buchek (will work on this to have as a stand-by) | ||
| - | * Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Lee) | ||
| - | * Contact Mark Russell about presenting at Security group. (via Tim/Ted ?) | ||
| - | * XGL by Matt Skipton of Novell (via Lee) | ||
| - | * Perl Scripts to do DNA Genetic Research by Bryce Meyer from Wiltel/Level 3 (via Gary) | ||
| - | * OpenVPN by Robert Citek (via ???) | ||
| - | * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) | ||
| - | * CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, Ed Howland (via ???) | ||
| - | * Tech Futures - Railroad guy (via Rich Seibel) | ||
| - | * SELinux by Stan Reichardt (Not Earlier Than November, If Then) | ||
| - | * 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 | ||
| - | * Using One-Time Passwords | ||
| - | * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list, or others) | ||
| - | * Video cards in Linux (Heuris) | ||
| - | * IBM vs. Sun vs. HP on UNIX | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Weekly Announcements ====== | ||
| - | * No news is good news. | ||
| - | * Current mailing list membership numbers (approximate): | ||
| - | * 880 on ANNOUNCE | ||
| - | * 180 on DISCUSS (previously reported as 140) | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Library Room Reservations ====== | ||
| - | * First Saturday in October. | ||
| - | * Stan will fill out paperwork. | ||
| - | * Phil Bunch usually delivers paperwork to Indian Trails for STLLUG. | ||
| - | * Stan will reserve Hazelwood for HZLUG. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Sponsorships ====== | ||
| - | * Lee updated our web site to show a different logo (and link) for Primary Networks (Hostirian) | ||
| - | * Lee working to send out invoices to previous sponsors. ($200) | ||
| - | * Clarence J. and Stan R. to gather information about previous sponsors. | ||
| - | * Collect sponsor contact info. | ||
| - | * Starting with information from the web site. | ||
| - | * No progress this month. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Website Library ====== | ||
| - | * Stan R. working with Ted P. to get presentations put up. | ||
| - | * Ted has gotten some of the older presentations gathered | ||
| - | * No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration | ||
| - | * No progress this month. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== System Administration ====== | ||
| - | * Dark had another checkstop/reboot this month. | ||
| - | * Michelob | ||
| - | * WU Dialup hardware | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== New Servers Project ====== | ||
| - | * Will meet at Lee's on October 28. | ||
| - | * Decisions to make: | ||
| - | * How to get mailing list archives on the new web server. | ||
| - | * How to migrate email, while allowing users to access email via existing methods. | ||
| - | * How to migrate mailing lists. | ||
| - | * Look into Majordomo/Mailman. | ||
| - | * To complete: | ||
| - | * Migrate SLUUG web site. | ||
| - | * Point http://sluug.org/~user to http://users.sluug.org/~user, which can remain on Dark/Michelob, and be migrated to Budlight later. | ||
| - | * Create new web sites for SIGs. | ||
| - | * Migrate Chris Byrd's Drupal install over for Security site. | ||
| - | * Make Bud an admin-only box. | ||
| - | * Make Budlight a user-accessible box. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Other Old Business ====== | ||
| - | |||
| - | ===== Board Member ===== | ||
| - | * Christine Wanta emailed the list, saying she would have to resign her Board seat. | ||
| - | * Unable to attend enough meetings. | ||
| - | * We received Christine's written resignation letter. | ||
| - | * Impromptu BOARD MEETING: Stan nominated Barry Morrison as Christine's replacement. | ||
| - | * Lee seconded. | ||
| - | * Carl agreed. | ||
| - | * Passes unanymously. | ||
| - | * Barry accepted and will hold the board seat until the 2007 elections. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ===== Dial-up Lines ===== | ||
| - | * We dropped all but 1 dial-up line on September 30. | ||
| - | * Mike Knight suggested the 1 remaining dial-up line is not needed. | ||
| - | * Unanymous agreement to drop that remaining line on October 30. | ||
| - | * Carl emailed all our users, telling them dial-up would be going away. | ||
| - | * No complaints from users, until lines were already taken down. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ===== Membership ===== | ||
| - | * 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. | ||
| - | * Craig was to write up new membership info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== New Business ====== | ||
| - | * S3 (formerly KPG) wants to "sponsor" the upcoming SLUUG meeting. | ||
| - | * Suggestion was to order pizza at 7:00, seeing how many people are there at that time. | ||
| - | |||
| - | * Who will collect cash payments at meetings? | ||
| - | * Carl has the cash box; needs to hand it off whenever he's not there. | ||
| - | |||
| - | * Nominations for February elections | ||
| - | * Stan and Gary will be on the nominating committee. | ||
| - | |||
| - | * Solaris SIG (special interest group) | ||
| - | * Several members have expressed a desire to start this SIG. | ||
| - | * Jeff Logullo | ||
| - | * Nick Moon | ||
| - | * Jeff Muse | ||
| - | * The folks who want to run the meeting should decide what day/location they want to hold their meetings. | ||
| - | * The meetings need not be be on a regular basis, but should be scheduled by the previous month's Steering Committee meeting | ||
| - | * They need to let the STEERCOM list know in advance when their meetings will be. | ||
| - | * Craig has 2 Sun 1U servers that he will donate to the group. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Blue Sky ====== | ||
| - | * Stan noticed that many local user groups have no scheduled meetings in June, July, August. | ||
| - | * Gary suggested members call some of the old members to remind them of upcoming meetings. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== | ||
| - | * Craig - Write up membership info. | ||
| - | * Others - Come to Lee's on October 28 to work on new servers. | ||
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