NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!)

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

• January 3, 2007
• 6:44 pm - 8:33 pm

• Carl Fitch
• Jeff Muse
• Barry Morrison
• Stan Reichardt

• Craig was suppost to catch up on minutes.
• Secretary had lots of free time in December to catch up.
• Craig did not make the meeting.
• No report submitted.

• Deposits:
  • Membership -
  • Book Sales -
  • Sponsorship -
• Bank Balance:
• Pending Deposit:
• Pending AP -
• Lee was unable to complete report due to business requirements.
• Lee could not attend the meeting.

• Credit card transactions
• All in-stock books will be sold at half price (or less) going forward.
  • Microsoft titles will be $5.

• Attendance for December 2006
  • 6 Dec STEERC - 7
  • 13 Dec SLUUG - 20
  • 19 Dec SOLARIS - * No Meeting This Month
  • 19 Dec HZWLUG - 8
  • 21 Dec STLLUG - 14
  • 27 Dec SECURE - * No Meeting This Month
  • 28 Dec STCLUG - 4

• Current mailing list membership numbers (approximate):
  • 913 on ANNOUNCE
  • 179 on DISCUSS

• All attendence sheets modified for 2007 (actually "200_").
• Attendance sheets now available from each web site as .pdf and .sxw
  • http://www.sluug.org/attendance.pdf
  • http://stclug.sluug.org/attendance.pdf
  • http://hzwlug.sluug.org/attendance.sxw

• 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
      • Craig was suppost to write up membership stuff on the membership flier.

• Nominations needed for February elections
• Stan R. and Gary M. are on the nominating committee.
• No updates.

• Base: Using OpenOffice.org Impress - Building Presentation Slides by Stan Reichardt
• Main: Postfix Filtering Rules by Carl Fitch
  • (based on SLUUG new server Postfix config)
• Carl has book sales cash box; needs to hand it off whenever he's not there.

• Last minute cancellation of St. Louis OpenSolaris Users Group (STLOSUG) meeting
• Main: Basics of ZFS File System by Jeff Muse
  • Presenter had to work late.
  • Web page was updated ASAP and item posted to DISCUSS.

• Holiday schedule date.
• Didn't have projector available
• TOPIC was Finding Linux Resources.
  • Reviewed HZWLUG brochure suggested URLS
  • Looked at stan r.'s bookmark HTML page
  • Looked at TLDP and others
• Again, satisfied newcomers to Linux.

• Base: TBD -- {Was anything done?}
• Main: Overview of "democracy" videos from Democracy.
  • Craig Buchek under the weather, showed up anyway
  • Lots of background information and extensive references material
  • Had hardware problem with video projector not displaying videos
• Early departure

• No meeting this month.
• UMSL-Micro Labs closed in December.

• TOPIC: Postfix Configuration by Carl Fitch
  • Presenter had to cancel
  • Didn't have projector available
  • Round table discussion was quite dynamic

• Base: Coping with Spam Using Filters - Carl Fitch
• Main: Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Lee L.)
• Need to do additional nominations for February elections.

• Main: Basics of ZFS File System by Jeff Muse
  • Was originally scheduled for December
  • Will include coverage of snapshots (in case you didn't get enough at the last LUG meeting).
• Need to do additional nominations for February elections.

• Base: TBD.
• Main: TBD.
• Need do final nominations for STL Linux chair.
• Need to do additional nominations for February elections.

• TOPIC: TBD.
• Need to do additional nominations for February elections.

• TOPIC: Advanced SSH by Carl Fitch
• Need to do nominations for February elections.

• TOPIC: Filtering Spam with Postfix by Carl Fitch.
• Need to do nominations for February elections.

• This early date necessary due to StLC Library Branch scheduling conflicts
• Back-to-back meetings this month with HZWLUG - SLUUG - STLLUG
• Election balloting (Vote early! Vote often!)
• TOPIC: TBD.

• WARNING: Valentines Day - Might reduce attendance
• Back-to-back meetings this month with HZWLUG - SLUUG - STLLUG
• EVERYONE: Was to line up 2 presentations for Lightning Talks
• TOPIC: Lightning Talks are usually done in February at SLUUG
• Official annual SLUUG business meeting
• Election balloting

• Back-to-back meetings this month with HZWLUG - SLUUG - STLLUG
• Election balloting
• TOPIC: TBD. (Possibly Lightning Talks)

• Election balloting
• Hands-on: Installing virtual machines, and using new Solaris process management tools (TENTATIVE)

• Election balloting
• TOPIC: TBD.

• Election balloting
• TOPIC: TBD.

• Base: Matthew Porter - Zimbra as an Exchange Replacement
• Main: TBD.

• TOPIC: TBD.

• TOPIC: TBD.

• TOPIC: TBD.

• TOPIC: TBD.

• TOPIC: TBD.

• Everything you (N)Ever Wanted to Know About HDTV by Craig Buchek (will work on this to have as a stand-by)
• Hands-on: IP Filter (ipf) (Solaris group)
• 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 Stan R.)
• WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary)
• CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, Ed Howland (via ???)
• Security Group - Hands On - Drive by MS Infections (via Jeff Muse)
• 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. (Stan R. did HZWLUG session without slides).
  • 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
• Carl Fitch sent cleaned up list to DISCUSS to generate interest.
• Stan R. indicated that Robert Citek didn't know about OpenVPN, but he offered to do presentation on Byteworks
  • Everyone thought it would be interesting, so go for it.
  • Might not be until March or later.

• CRAIG: Get updated S3 logo?
• Effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
• No effort means No new sponsors

• Stan R. and Ted P.
• No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration
• No migration means no progress this month.

• Mike Knight continues providing fantastic support and analysis of problems
  • posted ssh key table
• Barry was suppost talk to John Hodge about assisting with installing more AIX disk space.
• Not yet able to talk to John Hodge, hopefully next week or so.
• Dark
  • Still having intermittent hardware failures
• Michelob
  • Volume of mail
• Bud
• Budlight

• Last gathering was at Old Monroe on November 18.
• Efforts to date:
  • Target is to migrate email, while allowing users to access email via existing methods.
  • Carl started LDAP study group.
    • Goal is to implement LDAP on servers eventually.
    • Will use LDAP for email
    • Have enough folks knowing LDAP to do support.
  • Migrating mailing lists to Mailman on new server.
    • Has been migrated
    • Mailing lists have been moved (need to be turned on).
    • We need to schedule move to mailman and switch MX records.
• Decisions made:
  • Migrate SLUUG main 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.
  • In general we will make Bud an admin-only box.
  • Make Budlight a user-accessible box.
• Yet to do:
  • Migrate Chris Byrd's Drupal install over for Security site.
  • Stan R. will build offline (sensitive?) working documentation matrix of machines (for recovery)
    • hostnames and IP numbers
    • functional purpose
    • hardware
    • resources
    • holders of root, sudo (everyone in wheel group)

• We were to have Wash U drop the remaining line on October 30.
  • Lee sent them a physical letter on 10/20 and 11/20.
  • Still active on 12/04.
  • Was letter lost or misdirected? Send again and call?
  • Gary was to follow up on cancellation of WU phone lines.
  • Gary will remove defunct WU Dialup hardware in a few months.

• What else was done?

• Always more to do.

• What else do we want to consider?

• EVERYONE: Line up 2 presentations for Lightning Talks
• STAN - start putting Lightning Talks on SLUUG front page.
• STAN - coordinate Robert Citek on Bytworks