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- | ====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - January 2007 ====== | ||
- | 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 ====== | ||
- | * January 3, 2007 | ||
- | * 6:44 pm - | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Attendees ====== | ||
- | * Carl Fitch | ||
- | * Jeff Muse | ||
- | * Barry Morrison | ||
- | * Stan Reichardt | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | |||
- | ====== Secretary Report ====== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | |||
- | |||
- | ====== Treasurer Report ====== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | |||
- | |||
- | |||
- | ====== Book Sales Report ====== | ||
- | * Credit card transactions | ||
- | * All in-stock books will be sold at half price (or less) going forward. | ||
- | * Microsoft titles will be $5. | ||
- | * | ||
- | == Book Sales December 2006 == | ||
- | |||
- | ||Customer Name |Sale Description – Misc |Sale Description – Books|| | ||
- | ||Robert Hansen |Membership |- || | ||
- | ||Harry Hodge |- |LPI || | ||
- | ||Rich Seibel |Membership |- || | ||
- | ||Carl Fitch |Membership |- || | ||
- | ||Craig Bucheck |- |Revolution in the Valley || | ||
- | ||Barry Morrison|- |VI || | ||
- | ||Stanford Baldwin|Membership |- || | ||
- | |||
- | == Preliminary 2006 YTD == | ||
- | |||
- | ||Monthly totals for 2006|| | ||
- | ||Sales| || | ||
- | ||January| $108.00|| | ||
- | ||February| -$5.00|| | ||
- | ||March| $95.37|| | ||
- | ||April| -$6.44|| | ||
- | ||May| $92.32|| | ||
- | ||June| $79.35|| | ||
- | ||July| -$5.00|| | ||
- | ||August| $27.47|| | ||
- | ||September| -$5.00|| | ||
- | ||October| -$5.00|| | ||
- | ||November| $5.00|| | ||
- | ||December| $137.50|| | ||
- | || || | ||
- | ||YTD| $518.57|| | ||
- | || || | ||
- | ||Book Purchases| $0.00|| | ||
- | ||Shipping| $0.00|| | ||
- | ||Credits| $0.00|| | ||
- | ||Total to date| $518.57|| | ||
- | |||
- | == Income Via Booksales or Credit Card == | ||
- | ||Cash| $88.82|| | ||
- | ||Check| $67.45|| | ||
- | ||Credit Card| $418.23|| | ||
- | ||CC fees| $65.93|| | ||
- | ||YTD| $508.57|| | ||
- | ||Shell Accounts| $440.00|| | ||
- | ||Total Income| $948.57|| | ||
- | |||
- | * Not including December credit card usage fees | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Membership Report ====== | ||
- | * 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 Report ====== | ||
- | * Nominations needed for February elections | ||
- | * Stan R. and Gary M. are on the nominating committee. | ||
- | * No updates. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Presentation Review and Comments ====== | ||
- | |||
- | ===== December 2006 ===== | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SLUUG - Dec 13 ==== | ||
- | * Base: Using OpenOffice.org Impress - Building Presentation Slides by Stan Reichardt | ||
- | * Main: Postfix Filtering Rules by Carl Fitch | ||
- | * (based on SLUUG new server [[http://wiki.sluug.org/build/postfix | Postfix config]]) | ||
- | * Carl has book sales cash box; needs to hand it off whenever he's not there. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SOLARIS- Dec 19 ==== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== HZWLUG - Dec 19 ==== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STLLUG - Dec 21 ==== | ||
- | * Base: TBD -- {Was anything done?} | ||
- | * Main: Overview of "democracy" videos from [[http://getdemocracy.com/ | 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 | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SECURITY - CANCELED ==== | ||
- | * No meeting this month. | ||
- | * UMSL-Micro Labs closed in December. | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STCLUG - Dec 28 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: Postfix Configuration by Carl Fitch | ||
- | * Presenter had to cancel | ||
- | * Didn't have projector available | ||
- | * Round table discussion was quite dynamic | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Presentation Schedule ====== | ||
- | |||
- | ===== January 2007 ===== | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SLUUG - Jan 10 ==== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SOLARIS - Jan 16 ==== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STLLUG - Jan 18 ==== | ||
- | * Base: TBD. | ||
- | * Main: TBD. | ||
- | * Need do final nominations for STL Linux chair. | ||
- | * Need to do additional nominations for February elections. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== HZWLUG - Jan 23 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
- | * Need to do additional nominations for February elections. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SECURITY - Jan 24 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: Advanced SSH (TENTATIVE) | ||
- | * Need to do nominations for February elections. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STCLUG - Jan 25 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
- | * Need to do nominations for February elections. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ===== February 2007 ===== | ||
- | |||
- | ==== HZWLUG - Feb 13 ==== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SLUUG - Feb 14 ==== | ||
- | * 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 | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STLLUG - Feb 15 ==== | ||
- | * Back-to-back meetings this month with HZWLUG - SLUUG - STLLUG | ||
- | * Election balloting | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. (Possibly Lightning Talks) | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SOLARIS - Feb 20 ==== | ||
- | * Election balloting | ||
- | * Hands-on: Installing virtual machines, and using new Solaris process management tools (TENTATIVE) | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STCLUG - Feb 22 ==== | ||
- | * Election balloting | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SECURITY - Feb 28 ==== | ||
- | * Election balloting | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ===== March 2007 ===== | ||
- | |||
- | |||
- | |||
- | ==== SLUUG - Mar 14 ==== | ||
- | * Base: TBD. | ||
- | * Main: TBD. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STLLUG - Mar 15 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SOLARIS - Mar 20 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== STCLUG - Mar 22 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== HZWLUG - Mar 27 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ==== SECURITY - Mar 28 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: 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) | ||
- | * 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 ???) | ||
- | * 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 | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Sponsorships ====== | ||
- | * CRAIG: Get updated S3 logo? | ||
- | * Effort should be directed to find new sponsors. | ||
- | * No effort means No new sponsors | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Website Library ====== | ||
- | * Stan R. and Ted P. | ||
- | * No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration | ||
- | * No migration means no progress this month. | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ====== System Administration ====== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | * Dark | ||
- | * Still having intermittent hardware failures | ||
- | * Michelob | ||
- | * Volume of mail | ||
- | * Bud | ||
- | * Budlight | ||
- | * | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Server Migration Project ====== | ||
- | * ??? Last gathering was at Old Monroe on November 18. | ||
- | * ??? Decisions to make: | ||
- | * ??? How to migrate email, while allowing users to access email via existing methods. | ||
- | * ??? How to migrate mailing lists to Mailman on new server. | ||
- | * ??? To complete: | ||
- | * ??? 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. | ||
- | * ??? 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 | ||
- | * Carl wants to implement LDAP on servers eventually. | ||
- | |||
- | |||
- | ====== Dial-up Line Removal ====== | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | * | ||
- | ====== Other Old Business ====== | ||
- | * What else was done? | ||
- | |||
- | ====== New Business ====== | ||
- | * Always more to do. | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Blue Sky ====== | ||
- | * What else do we want to consider? | ||
- | |||
- | ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== | ||
- | * EVERYONE: Line up 2 presentations for Lightning Talks | ||
- | * | ||
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