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- | ====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - February 2007 ====== | ||
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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!) | ||
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- | ====== Location ====== | ||
- | Saint Louis Bread Company, | ||
- | (at Old Olive and Olive), | ||
- | 10550 Old Olive Street Road, | ||
- | Creve Coeur, MO 63141 | ||
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- | ====== Date and Time ====== | ||
- | * February 7, 2007 | ||
- | * 6:30 pm - | ||
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- | ====== Attendees ====== | ||
- | * Lee Lammert | ||
- | * Carl Fitch | ||
- | * Craig Buchek | ||
- | * Gary Meyer | ||
- | * Stan Reichardt | ||
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- | ====== Secretary Report ====== | ||
- | * Secretary is catching up with things. | ||
- | * Should have print-outs of things by next month. | ||
- | * Will probably not be able to make it to the official annual meeting on February 14. | ||
- | * Stan will take the minutes, or find someone to do it. | ||
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- | ====== Treasurer Report ====== | ||
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- | == Deposits == | ||
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- | ||From |Description | Amt || | ||
- | ||Mike Knight|| $10.00|| | ||
- | ||Stan Reichardt|| $10.00|| | ||
- | ||Mike kriz|| $50.00|| | ||
- | ||Book Sales|Total|60|| | ||
- | ||S3|Sponsorship |250|| | ||
- | == Bank balance as of 1/31/07 $ 1,074.75== | ||
- | == Pending Deposits 0 == | ||
- | == Pending AP 0* == | ||
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- | * Still have not received final bill from Wash U yet. | ||
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- | ====== Book Sales Report ====== | ||
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- | We recieved three memberships in January and one booksales. | ||
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- | ||Mike Knight|| $10.00|| | ||
- | ||Stan Reichardt|| $10.00|| | ||
- | ||Mike Kriz|| $50.00|| | ||
- | ||Don Ellis|| $8.95|| | ||
- | ||CC fees|| <$5.74>|| | ||
- | ||Total|| $73.21|| | ||
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- | ====== Membership Report ====== | ||
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- | * Attendance for January 2007 | ||
- | * 3 Jan STEERC - 4 | ||
- | * 10 Jan SLUUG - 26 | ||
- | * 16 Jan SOLARIS - 3 | ||
- | * 18 Jan STLLUG - 15 | ||
- | * 23 Jan HZWLUG - 9 | ||
- | * 24 Jan SECURE - 10 | ||
- | * 25 Jan STCLUG - 12 | ||
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- | ====== Mailing List Report ====== | ||
- | * Current Structure | ||
- | * Majordomo packages is used for bulk mailings | ||
- | * Two main mailing lists are ANNOUNCE and DISCUSS | ||
- | * ANNOUNCE is intended for low volume | ||
- | * Monthly Newsletter | ||
- | * Events For This Week | ||
- | * Quick Announcements and Corrections | ||
- | * DISCUSS is for general participation | ||
- | * Two other lists are STEERCOM and SYSADMIN - for making soap | ||
- | * Other miscellaneous lists - USERS for announcements to BBS users | ||
- | * Mailing list messages are archived | ||
- | * Except ANNOUNCE and USERS | ||
- | * Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate): | ||
- | * ANNOUNCE - PENDING | ||
- | * DISCUSS - PENDING | ||
- | * STEERCOM - 31 | ||
- | * Current Activities | ||
- | * No Editor means no newsletter | ||
- | * Weekly mailing of "Events For This Week" continues by Stan Reichardt | ||
- | * Effort to automate EFTW process not finished | ||
- | * Refinement of process has cut production time in half compared to 6 months ago | ||
- | * A draft of upcoming monthly calendar is posted to STEERCOM mailing list | ||
- | * No List Administrator means no handling of user questions or subscription problems | ||
- | * Anticipating monthly calendar on revised SLUUG website | ||
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- | ====== Nominations Report ====== | ||
- | * Nominations needed for February elections. | ||
- | * Stan R. and Gary M. are on the nominating committee. | ||
- | * If no updates, names placed on ballot will be arbitrary. | ||
- | * Stan nominated Gary for President. | ||
- | * Board seats up for election: | ||
- | * Clarence Johnson | ||
- | * Barry Morrison | ||
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- | ====== Presentation Review and Comments ====== | ||
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- | ===== January 2007 ===== | ||
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- | ==== SLUUG - Jan 10 ==== | ||
- | * Base: Coping with Spam Using Filters - Carl Fitch | ||
- | * Good. Covered the client side of things. | ||
- | * Main: Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge | ||
- | * Good. A bit light on details. | ||
- | * First 45 minutes were too long -- sales pitch about the training class. | ||
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- | ==== SOLARIS - Jan 16 ==== | ||
- | * Main: Basics of ZFS File System by Jeff Muse | ||
- | * Was originally scheduled for December. | ||
- | * Attendance low due to ice storm, severe weather, and power outages. | ||
- | * Very good. | ||
- | * Included coverage of snapshots (in case you didn't get enough at the last LUG meeting). | ||
- | * Planning to reprise the presentation at a Wednesday night SLUUG meeting. | ||
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- | ==== STLLUG - Jan 18 ==== | ||
- | * Main: Floppy Disks by Stan Reichardt | ||
- | * Last minute topic, nobody else volunteered. | ||
- | * Updated a presentation that was given about 2 years ago at HZWLUG meeting. | ||
- | * More interesting than expected. | ||
- | * Discussed next month having volunteers do 10 minutes of Tips, Tricks at the keyboard. | ||
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- | ==== HZWLUG - Jan 23 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: Floppy Disks by Stan Reichardt | ||
- | * Got about half way thru slides. Lots of questions and discussion. | ||
- | * Plenty of interest, questions, and tangents. | ||
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- | ==== SECURITY - Jan 24 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: Security Certifications by Stan Reichardt | ||
- | * Good stuff. | ||
- | * Discussed February conflicts. | ||
- | * Decided to cancel February meeting. | ||
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- | ==== STCLUG - Jan 25 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: Filtering Spam with Postfix by Carl Fitch. | ||
- | * Good. Covered the server side. | ||
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- | ====== Presentation Schedule ====== | ||
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- | ===== February 2007 ===== | ||
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- | ==== SLUUG - Feb 14 ==== | ||
- | * WARNING: Valentines Day - Might reduce attendance | ||
- | * Back-to-back meetings this month with SLUUG - STLLUG | ||
- | * HZWLUG meeting will NOT be on 13 Feb as previously anticipated | ||
- | * EVERYONE: Was to line up 2 presentations for Lightning Talks | ||
- | * TOPIC: Lightning Talks are usually done in February at SLUUG | ||
- | * Point man: Stan and/or Gary. | ||
- | * Official annual SLUUG business meeting | ||
- | * Election balloting | ||
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- | ==== STLLUG - Feb 15 ==== | ||
- | * Back-to-back meetings this month with SLUUG - STLLUG | ||
- | * Election balloting | ||
- | * TOPIC: Ten-minute tips (each person sits at the keyboard) | ||
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- | ==== SOLARIS - Feb 20 ==== | ||
- | * Election balloting | ||
- | * Hands-on: Installing virtual machines, and using new Solaris process management tools (Jeff Muse? - TENTATIVE) | ||
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- | ==== STCLUG - Feb 22 ==== | ||
- | * Election balloting | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
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- | ==== HZWLUG - Feb 27 ==== | ||
- | * HZWLUG meeting will NOT be on 13 Feb as previously anticipated | ||
- | * NOTE!!!: Temporary change of location to Bridgeton Trails Branch Library. | ||
- | * This necessary due to StLC Library Branch scheduling conflicts. | ||
- | * Election balloting (Last chance to vote at a meeting!) | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
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- | ==== SECURITY - Feb 28 ==== | ||
- | * Clarence Johnson can't be there and too difficult to try to get building access. | ||
- | * Ateendees agreed to forego having February meeting. | ||
- | * NO MEETING THIS MONTH. | ||
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- | ===== March 2007 ===== | ||
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- | ==== SLUUG - Mar 14 ==== | ||
- | * Base: TBD. | ||
- | * Main: Matthew Porter - Zimbra as an Exchange Replacement | ||
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- | ==== STLLUG - Mar 15 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: Survey of GUI Email Clients (Buchek - TENTATIVE) | ||
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- | ==== SOLARIS - Mar 20 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
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- | ==== STCLUG - Mar 22 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
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- | ==== HZWLUG - Mar 27 ==== | ||
- | * Temporary change of location to Bridgeton Trails Branch Library. | ||
- | * This necessary due to StLC Library Branch scheduling conflicts | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
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- | ==== SECURITY - Mar 28 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: Extraordinary SSH Use by Carl Fitch | ||
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- | ===== April 2007 ===== | ||
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- | ==== SLUUG - Apr 11 ==== | ||
- | * Base: TBD. | ||
- | * Main: TBD. | ||
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- | ==== SOLARIS - Apr 17 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
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- | ==== STLLUG - Apr 19 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
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- | ==== HZWLUG - Apr 24 ==== | ||
- | * Back at the regular Prairie Commons Branch Library location. | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
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- | ==== SECURITY - Apr 25 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
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- | ==== STCLUG - Apr 26 ==== | ||
- | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
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- | ====== Lightning Talks ====== | ||
- | * Everyone was to line up 2 presentations for Lightning Talks. | ||
- | * Contact Stan and/or Gary to sign up. | ||
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- | ====== Potential Presentations ====== | ||
- | * Carl Fitch sent a list of potential topics to DISCUSS to generate interest. | ||
- | * Craig created a wiki page on his site to work on presentations. | ||
- | * Emailed DISCUSS w/ the URL. | ||
- | * Invited people to contribute. | ||
- | * There was a small amount of interest. | ||
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- | ====== Sponsorships ====== | ||
- | * Effort should be directed to find new sponsors. | ||
- | * No effort means no new sponsors. | ||
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- | ====== Dial-up Line Removal ====== | ||
- | * Has WU cancelled lines? | ||
- | * No! | ||
- | * Gary to follow up on cancellation of WU phone lines. | ||
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- | ====== System Administration ====== | ||
- | * Dark keeps crashing | ||
- | * Still having crashes due to hardware failures, averaging every other day now. | ||
- | * Need to quickly move to new systems or replace dark's hardware. | ||
- | * Gary predicts failure rate is increasing and will be more than once a day by end of month February. | ||
- | * System may be DEAD in/before APRIL! | ||
- | * This project needs **emergency priority!** | ||
- | * Gary will ask Allen @ Wash U if heat may be a problem! | ||
- | * Mike Knight does not belive that heat is the problem. | ||
- | * Gary asked Mike Knight if he knows of any temp sensor. | ||
- | * Mike is not aware of any heat sensor. | ||
- | * Barry was supposed to 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. | ||
- | * Michelob | ||
- | * Volume of mail stabilized once graymilter was activated. | ||
- | * Michelob depends on NFS filesystem from Dark!!! | ||
- | * Bud, Budlight - see Server Migration Project below. | ||
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- | ====== Server Migration Project ====== | ||
- | * Craig has been working on testing email. | ||
- | * Craig has been working on installing and configuring latest Drupal. | ||
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- | ====== Website Library ====== | ||
- | * Stan R. and Ted P. | ||
- | * No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration | ||
- | * No migration means no progress this month. | ||
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- | ====== Other Old Business ====== | ||
- | * | ||
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- | ====== New Business ====== | ||
- | * | ||
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- | ====== Blue Sky ====== | ||
- | * | ||
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- | ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== | ||
- | * Craig - print out previous minutes. | ||
- | * Craig - finish up work on email server. | ||
- | * Craig - get people to test using IMAP to connect to Bud from their email clients. | ||
- | * Gary - follow up on Wash U phone lines. | ||
- | * Gary - get more Lightning Talk people lined up. | ||
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