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SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - August 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
Wednesday, 1 August 2007
6:30 pm - 8:?? pm
Attendees
Stan Reichardt
Craig Buchek
Carl Fitch
Lee Lammert
Jeff Muse
Secretary Report
Treasurer Report
Book Sales Report
Membership Attendance Report
Most attendance sheets are available from the web servers.
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Must have had good topics, as these numbers are higher than recent months.
Mailing List Report
List | May | June | July | Aug |
ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 |
DISCUSS | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 |
STEERCOM | 32 | 32 | 33 | 32 |
SYSADMIN | xx | xx | 18 | 18 |
July 2007
HOLIDAY - July 4
SLACC - July 5
SLUUG - July 11
Base: DSH - Distributed Shell by John Hodge
Good, but only covered the AIX version for the most part.
Generated good discussion on DISCUSS, including alternatives.
Main: Basic GIMP Usage by Scott Nesler (confirmed, via Craig)
SOLARIS - July 17
STLLUG - July 19
HZWLUG - July 24
SECURITY - July 25
TOPIC: Continued Examination of Snort by Chris Byrd and Mark Buchanan
Suggestion made to make Savvis primary meeting location.
PRO: Room is available more than UMSL location.
PRO: Nice space - main conference room.
PRO: Free sodas.
PRO: Gets Chris Byrd and Mark Buchanan more involved in leadership.
CON: No hands-on available in main conference room.
CON: Difficult to get into the building after 6:00.
Clarence should make the final decision about moving.
STCLUG - July 26
Presentation Schedule
August 2007
SLACC - August 2
SLUUG - August 8
IMMEDIATE DECISON NEEDED!!!
See this afternoon's e-mail to steercom
1. Scott Granneman is willing to present but is teaching in Sept & Oct.
2. Does John want to do this Aug 8 or is he willing to move to Sept? (Solves our Sept problem.)
3. Do we want Scott 2 weeks in a row?
4. We need to change web-page & other publicity ASAP!
STLLUG - August 16
SOLARIS - August 21
STCLUG - August 23
HZWLUG - August 28
SECURITY - August 29
September 2007
HOLIDAY - September 3
SLACC - September 6
SLUUG - September 12
SEE Aug 8 question about John Hodge moving to this date.
SOLARIS - September 18
STLLUG - September 20
HZWLUG - September 25
SECURITY - September 26
STCLUG - September 27
October 2007
St. Louis Business Expo - October 2
SLACC - October 4
HOLIDAY - October 8
SLUUG - October 10
SOLARIS - October 16
STLLUG - October 18
HZWLUG - October 23
SECURITY - October 24
STCLUG - October 25
November 2007
HOLIDAY - November 12
SLUUG - November 14
TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, etc. (part 1) by Robert Citek (tentative, via Craig)
STLLUG - November 15
TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, etc. (part 2) by Robert Citek (tentative, via Craig)
STCLUG - November 19
NOTE: Date changed due to 4th Thursday falling on Thanksgiving.
TOPIC: PHP-Nuke and other PHP Apps by Scott Nesler (confirmed, via Carl)
HOLIDAY - November 22
Potential Future Topics
Scribus by Stan Reichardt.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)- still looking for volunteer (via Craig).
CentOS Linux by Tim Dreste (Tentatively October, via Stan.)
AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge)
Another presentation from Tom Bowman at TeamCentric Technologies (via Craig)
History of tech since 1968 from Scott Granneman (via Gary).
Building a modern kernel by Ed Howland.
Using git by Ed Howland.
Linux(xBSD, etc) on Wireless. (Suggested by Ed Howland)
System Administration
Server Migration Project
Website Library
Stan R. and Ted P.
Partial migration from Dark to Bud sufficient to start loading presentations.
Migration means that we can start making real progress each month.
No routine presentation uploads yet.
Each website has skeleton presentation page listing topics given to date.
SLACC as a SIG
Event at EPC
August 3-5 is Missouri's tax holiday, which includes computers.
EPC is having a big sale on August 4.
We will have some SLUUG folks demonstrating applications.
Blurb was put in this week's ANNOUNCE about Linux Demonstration Table at EPC.
Will focus on how to use GNU/Linux and Open Source applications.
Setup from 4-6 PM on Friday August 3.
EPC will print some brochures for us to hand out.
Membership (and Shell Accounts)
Shell account renewal cycle for July 2007 to June 2008.
This will likely push our cycle back 1 month.
Then treasurer will send out notices and bills, etc.
Publicity Handouts
Other Old Business
?? Craig delivered 2 Sun Netra T1/105 (1U) boxes to Jeff Muse.
?? Solaris SIG should do install Solaris (or other OSes) on them and install them at Primary.
Gary has additional (E250?) Sun box to put into the BBS.
New Business
Follow-up and Action Items