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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 ======
  * November 1, 2006
  * 6:44 pm - 8:03 pm
 

====== Attendees ======
  * Barry Morrison
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Carl Fitch

====== Secretary Report  ======
  * Secretay DNA due to illness

====== Treasurer Report ======
  * Treasurer DNA due to business trip

====== Book Sales Report ======
  * One Book sale $39.00

====== Membership Report ======
  * Attendance for October
    *  4 Oct STEERC  -  6
    * 11 Oct SLUUG   - 28
    * 17 Oct SOLARIS -  8?
    * 19 Oct STLLUG  - 13
    * 24 Oct HZWLUG  - 11
    * 25 Oct SECURE  - 12
    * 26 Oct STCLUG  -  9
    *
  * First meeting for Solaris SIG this month
    * An attendance sheet was provided, not yet returned.
    * Per Jeff Muse, attendance may have been 8, or so.
  * Current mailing list membership numbers (approximate):
    * 880 on ANNOUNCE (give or take a dozen possible duplicates)
    * 180 on DISCUSS (previously reported as 140)
    *

====== Nominations Report  ======
    * Nominations needed for February elections
    * Stan R. and Gary M. are on the nominating committee.
    *

====== Comments on Presentations ======

===== October 2006 =====

==== SLUUG - Oct 11 ====
  * Base: Firebug (Firefox plugin - JavaScript debugger) by Ed Howland
    * Good - crammed a lot into too short a time period
  * S3 (formerly KPG) "sponsored" the SLUUG meeting with pizza.
    * Survey sheet sent around and pizza was ordered about 7:30
    *
  * Main: AppArmor by Matt Skiption of Novell
   * comments: "Well presented" "An eye opener, I was not aware of it's capibilties" "Can't know too much about security"

==== SOLARIS- Oct 17 ====
  * First meeting for Solaris SIG this month
  * Ran into problems with wireless
  * Need to run cable?
  * No report sent in, we don't know who is leader (point of contact).

==== STLLUG - Oct 19 ====
  * TOPIC: Troubleshooting Linux Problems by Craig Buchek
  * Topic was not scheduled on home web page until late Tuesday prior to meeting.
  * Lots of interactive, on the fly demos of commands.
  * Details sometimes too fast, hard to keep up.
  * In all, mind expanding, and excellent quality on such short notice.
  * 
 

==== HZWLUG - Oct 24 ====
  * TOPIC: Setting Up Wireless Networks (With Or Without Encryption Keys) by Carl Fitch
  * Very well received, lots of questions, possible follow-up next month.
  * Some discussion of "ports", which may be another topic to focus on.
  * Considerable difficulty getting PC video projector to work (may have just been loose cable).
  *

==== SECURITY - Oct 25 ====
  * Primer on Encryption by Mark Buchanan
  * Traffic caused a few folks to show up late.
  * Covered historical background which was a good lead into topic.
  * A lot of material, very interesting specifics.
  * Very informative, with lots of side-bar information.
 

==== STCLUG - Oct 26 ====
  * Cronolog - Effortless Log Rotation by Carl Fitch
  * No slides, web page shots, hands on
  * Afterwards, Carl F. showed Stan R. how to make translucent graphic using GIMP
  * Location in restraunt was different, good for watch the game.
  * Will include web server in next demo session.
  * 
 

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

===== November 2006 =====

==== SLUUG - Nov 8 ====
  * Base: Cronolog - Effortless Log Rotation by Carl Fitch
  * Main: Introduction to Logical Volume Manager (LVM) by Jeff Muse
    * Stan R. working with Jeff M. on building presentation slides.
    * This tutorial is on a heavy duty topic with 45+ slides.
    * Want one other volunteer for review of slides.
    * Details of follow-up session at STLLUG not yet worked out.
  * Carl has book sales cash box; needs to hand it off whenever he's not there.
  * Need to do nominations for February elections.
 

==== STLLUG - Nov 16 ====
  * Main: Demonstration of Logical Volume Manager (LVM) by Jeff Muse
  * This is a Follow-up of the SLUUG presentation
  *

==== STCLUG - Nov 20 ====
  * Has determined Holiday schedule date.
    * Regular date would fall on Thanksgiving Day Holiday.
    * Carl says that it had been scheduled for the 20th.
  * Topic TBD.
  *

==== SOLARIS- Nov 21 ====
  * Topic TBD.
  * No one reported on this.
  * Carl F. will be attending this next meeting.
 

==== Thanksgiving Day - Nov 23 ====
  *

==== HZWLUG - Nov 28 ====
  * Newbie Topics
  *

==== SECURITY - Nov 29 ====
  * Regular date Nov 22 was one day prior to Thanksgiving Day.
  * Need to determine X-MAS Holiday schedule date.
  * Topic TBD.
  *

===== December 2006 =====

==== SLUUG - Dec 13 ====
  * Base: TBD.
  * Main: TBD.

==== SOLARIS- Dec 19 ====
  * Topic TBD.
  *

==== HZWLUG - Dec 19 ====
  * Holiday schedule date.
  * The 26 Dec date given last month was wrong, meeting room was reserved for 19 Dec - Stan R.
  * Topic TBD.

==== STLLUG - Dec 21 ====
  * Need to determine Holiday schedule date.
  * Base: TBD.
  * Main: TBD.
  *

==== Christmas Day - Dec 25 ====


==== SECURITY - Dec 27 ====
  * Need to determine Holiday schedule date.
  * TBD.
  *

==== STCLUG - Dec 28 ====
  * TBD.
  * Carl has confirmed 28th is good for December.

===== January 2007 =====

==== SLUUG - Jan 10 ====
  * Base:
  * Main: Ethical Hacking by ??? (scheduled via Lee L.)
  * Need to do additional nominations 

==== SOLARIS- Jan 16 ====
  * TBD.
  *

==== STLLUG - Jan 18 ====
  * Base:
  * Main:
  * Need do final nominations for STL Linux chair.

==== HZWLUG - Jan 23 ====
  * TBD.
  *

==== SECURITY - Jan 24 ====
  * TBD.
  *

==== STCLUG - Jan 25 ====
  * TBD.
  *

===== February 2007 =====

==== HZWLUG - Feb 13 ====
  * This early date necessary due to StLC Library Branch scheduling conflicts
  * Election balloting
  * TBD.
  *

==== SLUUG - Feb 14 ====
  * WARNING: Valentines Day - May cause low attendance
  * Back-to-back meeting this month with STLLUG
  * Official annual SLUUG business meeting
  * Election balloting
  * Lightning Talks are usually done in February at SLUUG
  *
  * Base:
  * Main:

==== STLLUG - Feb 15 ====
  * Back-to-back meeting this month with SLUUG
  * Election balloting
  * TBD.
  *

==== SOLARIS - Feb 20 ====
  * Election balloting
  * TBD.
  *

==== STCLUG - Feb 22 ====
  * Election balloting
  * TBD.
  *

==== SECURITY - Feb 28 ====
  * Election balloting
  * TBD.
  *

====== Potential Presentations ======
  * 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)
  * 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
    *

====== Library Room Reservations ======
  * Room reservations are always opened on the first Saturday in October.
  * Stan R. filled out paperwork.
  * Stan R. reserved Prairie Commons Branch for HZWLUG.  There were four conflicting dates.
  * Phil Bunch delivered paperwork to Indian Trails Branch for STLLUG.
    * Indian Trails staff mentioned reservation payment policy.
    * Advanced payment for STLLUG might be appropriate.
  * Carl F. made inquiry about alternate meeting site for STLLUG.
  *
 

====== Formation of New Solaris SIG ======
  * Solaris SIG (special interest group)
  * Principles interested are  Jeff Logullo, Nik Moon, and Jeff Muse
  * Nik Moon reserved meeting room
  * Stan R. created temporary Solaris SIG webpage, with favicon.ico
  * Stan R. included information in ANNOUNCE mailing
  * Stan R. created attendance sheet document
  * Stan R. mailed attendance sheet document to principle members
  * What is status of donation of 2 Sun 1U servers that Craig had for the group?
  *

====== Sponsorships ======
  * Craig was contacted with sponsorship offer from S3 (formerly KPG).
  * Stan R. purged a number of old sponsor icons from SLUUG website.
  * Stan R. created temporary sponsor icon for S3 and added it into rotating image script.
  * Stan R. ran into problem with rotating image script.
  * Craig said the check is in the mail to PO box.
  * What is status of Lee sending out invoices to previous sponsors? ($200)
  * Lee is wating for us to generate a list of contacts.
  * 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
  * Resources page listing past presentations is up to date.
  * No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration
  * No progress this month.
  *


====== System Administration ======
  * Dark
  * Michelob
  * Defunct WU Dialup hardware
  *
Yea, what ever happened to the trusty WU dialup?
Did they finally change the # (& login/psw.) after all these years?
Anyone have replacement info for us old folks without DSL?

====== New Servers Project ======
  * Was to 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.
      * Need offline (sensitive?) working documentation matrix of machines (for recovery)
        * hostnames and IP numbers,
        * functional purpose,
        * hardware,
        * resources,
        * holders of root, sudo
        *

====== Other Old Business ======

===== Board Member =====
  * Barry Morrison is Christine's replacement, will hold the board seat until the 2007 elections.
    * Stan R. made change to SLUUG contacts web page
    * need to announce at meetings, etc.

===== Dial-up Lines =====
  * We were to have WU drop the remaining line on October 30.
    * Was request made?
    * Do we need to yank some equipment?

===== 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 B. was to write up new membership info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs.
    * Stan R. sent SLUUG membership flier OOo document to Craig B. for updating
    *

====== New Business ======
  * Always more to do.
  *

====== Blue Sky ======
  * Still blue.
  *

====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
  * Always need somebody to do stuff.
  *
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