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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - March 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 ======
  * March 7, 2007
  * 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

====== Attendees ======
  * Carl Fitch
  * Craig Buchek
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Gary Meyer

====== Election Results  ======
  * The ballots were opened and counted.
  * There were 24 valid ballots.
  * Results:
    * Barry Morrison and Craig Buchek were elected for 3-year terms on the Board.
    * The incumbents were re-elected for the following positions:
      * Vice President: Stan Reichardt
      * Secretary: Craig Buchek
      * Treasurer: Lee Lammert
      * St. Louis LUG Chair: Craig Buchek
    * Gary Meyer got the most votes for President, but respectfully declined.
      * Carl Fitch got 2nd most votes, and accepted the Board's appointment.
    * There was a tie in the vote for St. Charles LUG Chair: Carl Fitch and Fred Smith.
      * We will ask Fred Smith if he will accept the position; otherwise Carl will fill it.
    * Other votes were recorded for:
      * Board: Clarence Johnson, Gary McKee
      * Secretary: Rich Seibel
      * Presentation Manager: Jim Roe, Stanford Baldwin, Barry Morrison, Gary Meyer, Gary McKee
      * Public Relations: Gary Meyer, Jay Truesdale, Mike Duncan
      * St. Louis LUG Chair: Phil Bunch
      * St. Charles LUG Chair: Jim Roe, Stan Reichardt

====== Secretary Report  ======
  * Secretary is catching up with things.
    * Should have print-outs of things by next month. 

====== Treasurer Report ======

== Deposits ==

||From |Description | Amt ||
||Fred Grovier||  $35.00||
||Terry Koyn||  $35.00||
== Bank balance as of 1/31/07      $ 1,336.10==
== Pending Deposits 0 ==
== Pending AP 0* ==

* Still have not received final bill from Wash U yet.

====== Book Sales Report ======
  * We had 13 booksales and one membership renewal.

||Guide to Oracle 8i||
||Java with Oracle||
||Java with SOAP||
||Programing with GNU Software||
||Using Samba||
||Programing with Curses||
||CSS Pocket||
||Learning the UNIX OS||
||Oracle Performance Tuning||
||Developing Bioinformatics||
||Java Extreme Programing||
||Beginning Perl||
||Gary Meyer - membership||
|| _______________________ ||
||Total income: $66.00||

====== Membership Report ======

  * Attendance for Feburary 2007:
    * Feb 7 - Steercom: 5
    * Feb 14 - SLUUG: 12
    * Feb 15 - STLLUG: 12
    * Feb 20 - Solaris: 4
    * Feb 22 - STCLUG: 10
    * Feb 27 - HZWLUG: 7
    * Feb 28 - Security: NO MEETING
  * Attendance numbers were down this month.
    * Partly due to Valentine's Day.
    * May be due to Lightning Talks not being a big draw.

====== Presentation Review and Comments ======

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

==== SLUUG - Feb 14 ====
  * Lightning Talks
    * Most were good.
    * Jeff Muse's talk on wget was really good.
    * Ed Howland's talk on DST changes was good and very thorough.

==== STLLUG - Feb 15 ====
  * Ten-minute Tips (each person sits at the keyboard)
    * Good. Wide diversity of topics and lengths.

==== SOLARIS - Feb 20 ====
  * Hands-on: Installing virtual machines, and using new Solaris process management tools
    * Very hands-on due to low attendance; learned a lot as a consequence.

==== STCLUG - Feb 22 ====
  * TOPIC: Java Development for Cell Phones by Carl Fitch
    * A lot of interaction and discussion.

==== HZWLUG - Feb 27 ====
  * Went through CD of PDFs that Stan had developed and handed out.
    * Included lots of Linux magazines and training.

==== SECURITY - Feb 28 ====
  * NO MEETING THIS MONTH.

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

===== March 2007 =====

==== SLUUG - Mar 14 ====
  * Base: TBD.
  * Main: Matthew Porter - Zimbra as an Exchange Replacement

==== STLLUG - Mar 15 ====
  * TOPIC: Survey of GUI Email Clients (Craig Buchek)

==== SOLARIS - Mar 20 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.

==== STCLUG - Mar 22 ====
  * TOPIC: Karaoke at the Keyboard/Mouse aka Night at the Keyboard

==== HZWLUG - Mar 27 ====
  * Temporary change of location to Bridgeton Trails Branch Library.
    * This necessary due to StLC Library Branch scheduling conflicts.
  * TOPIC: TBD.

==== SECURITY - Mar 28 ====
  * TOPIC: Extraordinary SSH Use by Carl Fitch

===== April 2007 =====

==== SLUUG - Apr 11 ====
  * Base: TBD.
  * Main: TBD.

==== SOLARIS - Apr 17 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.

==== STLLUG - Apr 19 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.

==== HZWLUG - Apr 24 ====
  * Back at the regular Prairie Commons Branch Library location.
  * TOPIC: TBD.

==== SECURITY - Apr 25 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.

==== STCLUG - Apr 26 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.

====== Small Business Expo ======
  * [[http://www.sbmon.com/expo/index.htm | St. Louis Business Expo]] by St. Louis Small Business Monthly
    * March 20, 11:00-6:00
    * St. Charles Convention Center
  * We have a booth with two tables and electricity.
    * Lee is in charge of setting up and getting volunteers to man the booth.
  * Wifi was too expensive.
    * Can we find someone with a wireless cell card to use instead?
  * Carl will talk to EPC to get some computers to demo.
  * Steering Committee approved $200 for booth cost and expenses.

====== Sponsorships ======
  * Effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
  * No effort means no new sponsors.

====== Dial-up Line Removal ======
  * Has WU cancelled lines?
    * Yes!
  * Billing is still in dispute.
    * Lee will be working with Wash U to correct the problem.

====== System Administration ======
  * Dark keeps crashing
    * Has slowed down.
      * This supports the overheating theory.
    * 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!
  * 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.

====== Server Migration Project ======
  * Stan updated most pages on the STLLUG site.
    * Removed dead links.
    * Rewrote membership page.
    * Removed link to sign-up page that was not working.
  * Carl fixed (hopefully) the sign-up CGI page to reduce spam.
  * Craig has been working on testing email.
    * Craig to compare notes with Carl on Postfix configuration.
  * Craig has been working on installing and configuring latest Drupal.
  * Need to work on getting clients to configure to use IMAP.
  * Jeff Muse got Mailman working and tested.
    * Craig found a Drupal module for Mailman.
    * Will be quick and simple to migrate mailing lists once we move the MX record.
  * Craig and Carl were to get together to work on things, but weather and Craig moving got in the way.

====== Website Library ======
  * Stan R. and Ted P.
  * No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration
  * No migration means no progress this month.

====== Other Old Business ======
  * none

====== New Business ======
  * North County Journal is looking for story ideas.
    * Gary Meyer suggested they come to a meeting of ours to write a story.
    * It was suggested that the Hazelwood LUG would be a good venue.
      * Newbie topics would be good for the reporter.
      * We should get word out to encourage high attendance that meeting.

====== Blue Sky ======
  * We need to discuss low attendance figures sometime soon.

====== Board Meeting ======
  * A Board meeting was held.
  * Carl Fitch was accepted as President.
  * Other "clearly winning" positions were accepted.

====== 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.
  * Craig - get with Chris Byrd to work on Drupal and other stuff.
  * Carl and Craig - get together to work on new servers.
  * Gary - get Sun 1U boxes from Craig, and install them at Primary.
  * Lee - provide power, food, and drink for those working on servers.
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