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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - December 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, 5 December 2007
  * 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

====== Attendees ======
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Craig Buchek
  * Ken Christian

====== Secretary Report  ======
  * Printed out minutes for September and November. (There was no meeting in October.)

====== Treasurer Report ======
  * Previous Balance: $1,396.56 as of 10/31/07
  * Money in:            200.00
  * Payables:
    * PO Box Fee         -92.00
  * November 1
     Opening Balance: $1,504.56

  * Carl needs to give money collected for memberships to the Treasurer.
  * Open issues:
    * New IRS reporting requirement
      * We will (likely) have to file a form 990-EZ for the 2007 tax year.
      * No response from Rich McClennan.
      * Any other advisory resources available?
    * Final bill from Wash U. - need to complete reply

====== Attendance Report ======
  * Some numbers:

||Meeting   | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov ||
|| Steercom:|   4 |   5 |   4 |   3 |  5 |   7 |   4 |   5 |  5 | No |  6||
|| SLACC:   |   9 |   6 |   7 |  ?? | ?? |   8 |   6 |  10 |  7 |  5 |  8||
|| 1st LDAP:|   7 |  xx |   5 |   6 |  7 |   6 |  No |  No | No | No | ?? ||
|| SLUUG:   |  26 |  12 |  23 |  22 | 18 |  16 |  27 |  36 | 21 | 24 | 25 ||
|| Solaris: |   3 |   4 |  No |  18 | 15 |   6 |   8 |  No | 11 | No |  5||
|| 2nd LDAP:|  xx |  xx |   6 |   5 |  5 |   6 |  No |  No | (6)|  7 | No||
|| STLLUG:  |  15 |  12 |  14 |  18 | 23 |  20 |  31 |  31 (32) | 23 | 19 | 25 ||
|| HZWLUG:  |   9 |   7 |   9 |   8 |  9 |  No |  11 |  11 | 10 | 10 | 15 ||
|| Security:|  10 |  No |  No |   7 |  9 |  No |   6 |  No | No | No | No ||
|| STCLUG:  |  12 |  10 |  10 |   6 | ?? |   8 |  11 |  17 | 10 | 11 | No ||

  * No - indicates no meeting.
  * () - Numbers in parentheses are head count.
  * ?? - Question marks indicate attendance not taken or sheet missing.
  * xx - attendance numbers not yet recorded.

====== Mailing List Report ======
  * We have migrated most lists from Majordomo on Michelob to MailMan on Bud.
    * USERS and non-SLUUG lists are only remaining lists to migrate.
  * Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate):

|| List     | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec ||
|| ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 | 866 ||
|| DISCUSS  | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 | 185 ||
|| STEERCOM |  32 |  32 |  33 |  32 |  32 |  32 | 32 | 32 ||
|| SYSADMIN |  xx |  xx |  18 |  18 |  18 |  17 | 17 | 17 ||

  * Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet.

  * ANNOUNCE mailing list.
    * Still no volunteer editor to do a Quarterly or monthly newsletter.
    * No subscribers suspended due to excessive bounces this month.

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

===== November 2007 =====

==== SLUUG - November 14 ====
  * TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, Epigenetics, etc. (part 1) by Robert Citek
    * Good.

==== STLLUG - November 15 ====
  * TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, Epigenetics, etc. (part 2) by Robert Citek
    * Good.

==== STCLUG - November 19 ====
  * CANCELED due to holidays.

==== SOLARIS - November 20 ====
  * TOPIC: RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)

==== HZWLUG - November 27 ====
  * TOPIC: GRUB and the MBR, etc.
    * Highest attendance this year - 15

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

===== December 2007 =====

==== SLACC - December 6 ====
  * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

==== SLUUG - December 12 ====
  * BASE: None. Will start with announcements, break, then start main presentation at 7:00.
  * MAIN: All About Google by Scott Granneman (CONFIRMED, via Stan R.)

==== Linux / Free Software Open House - December 13 ====
  * 10:00 am - 4:00 pm at Premier Knowledge (in South St. Louis)
  * Anyone who is interested should contact Lee Lammert
  * Not an InstallFest -- more of "what to do next"

==== SOLARIS - December 18 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== HZWLUG - December 18 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD
  * Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions.
  * NOTE: On the 3rd Tuesday because Christmas Day is on 4th Tuesday.

==== STLLUG - December 20 ====
  * TOPIC: PHP Best Practices by Craig Buchek

==== HOLIDAY - December 25 ===
  * Christmas Day

==== STCLUG - December 27 ====
  * TOPIC: CakePHP and PHPReports by Scott Nesler (confirmed, via Carl)

==== SLUUG Server Project - December 29 ====
  * Tentative work day for server builders

===== January 2008 =====

===== February 2008 =====

==== STLLUG - February 21 ====
  * TOPIC: High-Performance Clustering by Brian Henerey of Wash U (via Craig)

===== Potential Future Topics =====
  * APV (Advance POWER Virtualization) Overview by John Hodge
  * Demo/Using Scribus by Stan Reichardt.
  * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)- still looking for volunteer (via Craig).
  * Untangle Gateway Platform (instead of CentOS Linux) by Tim Dreste (via Stan R).
  * AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge)
  * Another presentation from Tom Bowman at TeamCentric Technologies (DB2?) (via Craig)
  * Building a modern kernel by Ed Howland.
  * Using git by Ed Howland.
  * Remotely presented (video conferencing) topics.
  * Qt/KDE (TrollTech sales rep, via Craig)
  * Linux(xBSD, etc) on Wireless. (Suggested by Ed Howland)
    * Part 1: Theory and operation of wireless networks.
      * The 802.11 stack (relevant protocols).
      * Descriptions of terms, expansion of alphabet soup.
      * Security (WEP, WPA, WPA2)
      * Network types (ad-hoc, infrastrucure).
      * Modes (ad-hoc, managed, master, monitor).
      * Packet Types (management, data frames, beacons, probes).
    * Part 2: Practical Linux Wireless configuration.
      * Cards, compatibility.
      * NDISWrapper and native (devicescape stack).
      * Drivers
      * Tools (using wpa_supplicant).
      * Network Monitor
      * Wireshark sniffing.

====== Sponsorships ======
  * New Sponsor - SyllogisTeks
    * They have been providing door prizes and paying room fee for STLLUG meetings.
    * We have received a sponsorship check for $200.
    * Working on logo for SLUUG website rotating front page display (Stan R.)
    * Attendees were in favor of adding logo to our site before receiving money.
    * They paid for dinner after the meeting last month.
  * Have the current paying sponsors been asked to renew (with payment)?
    * Ajilon (Stan to follow up)
    * S3 - Strategic Staffing Solutions (Craig to follow up)
  * Potential sponsors
    * Sun - Jeff Logullo
    * IBM - (John Hodge may have a contact)
    * Red Hat - Clark Smith (Craig to follow up)
    * Novell / SuSE - Matt Skipton
  * Some old information has:
    * Annual sponsorship as $200 for Businesses and
    * $300 for Large Enterprise Corporations.  This amount show on sluuginfo.pdf (18 April 2007) handout.
    * The $300 amount not viable, so sponsorships are $200.
    * Stan will purge any $300 amount from web site and forms.
  * We should review them once or twice annually and establish an end date on recognition.
  * We in fact recognize multiple entities as sponsors due to community support or services in kind. 
    * EPC - STLLUG Installfest, STL BusExpo hardware use & handout printing support, SLUUG discount.
    * Computers & Things - STLLUG Installfests, STCLUG projector & STL BusExpo printing support.
    * Graybar - SLUUG general meeting site.
    * Hostirian - New server hosting.
    * K&S Pritchard Enterprises - Hosted STLLUG web pages thru to Spring 2007.
    * O'Reilly - discount book arrangement (now moot - suggest removing).
    * Law Offices of Rich McLennen - legal services as needed.
    * UMSL-MicroLabs - The St. Louis Security Group meeting lab area.
    * Omnitec - has been providing services in kind commensurate with other sponsors.
  * Possible Sponsor - pcMemoryStore
    * Last meeting, we approved.
    * However, their deal turned out not to be of any advantage to us or our members.
  * Need sign about sponsoring our group for booth/table display at meetings and trade shows.
  * More effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
    * No effort means no more new sponsors.

====== Server Migration Project ======
  * Next work meeting: December 29.
  * Work left to do:
    * Make sure docs are up to date.
      * Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud.
      * Started documenting client email configurations, to help users migrate.
      * See [[../users]] and [[../mail_setup]] pages.
    * Start migrating individual users.
      * Make sure we have documentation on what we need to migrate.
    * Finish rebuilding Budlight.
      * Carl may rebuild using virtual machines.
    * Craig - Work on finishing server builds.
      * Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig)
      * Get offsite backups working.
      * Publish SSH host keys on web page.
      * Work with Ed Wehner to migrate gateway-l and archrivals lists.
      * Migrate USERS mailing list.
  * Other work to do:
    * Jeff working on virus scanning
    * Craig working on Drupal

====== Website Library ======
  * Stan R. and Ted P.
  * Partial migration from Dark to Bud sufficient to start loading presentations.
  * Each website has skeleton presentation page listing topics given to date.
  * No routine presentation uploads yet.

====== SLACC as a SIG ======
  * Carl needs to follow up with Noel about transferring the domain to us.
    * The registration is paid up until 2009.
    * Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.com email addresses.

====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ======
  * Membership drive
    * 2 members signed up in September.
      * Shell accounts have been created.
      * Lee has membership forms.
    * Need to print out name tags.
      * Omnitec will print them out and bring to SLUUG meeting.
  * Cafe Press merchandise
    * Carl has money from purchases -- needs to turn into treasurer.
    * Stan to add CafePress link to SLUUG web site when we get info.
    * Stan to link new membership page into SLUUG web site.
  * It was suggested that we use Scott Nessler's logos.
    * We should ask Scott.
    * We should post the choices to STEERCOM for voting to make it official.

====== Other Old Business ======
  * Library reservations (October 6)
    * Reserved rooms for all our meetings.
      * A few holiday conflicts.
    * We have Thornhill as a backup to Indian Trails for STLLUG meetings.
      * Meeting room is better, but no projector.
  * [[http://www.stchman.com/ | Bob Nelson]] - [[http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-466368.html | wants to start an Ubuntu LoCo]]
    * Craig to follow up again.
    * EPC would like to hold the meetings.
      * Open 9-2 on weekends, close at 6 on weekdays.
      * Talk to Tony Lavasco and Frank Polston if we need to follow up.
  * Security Group
    * Has not had a meeting in the past 3 months.
    * Clarence has had conflicts.
    * Other leaders have not been responsive.
    * Steering Committee has declared the group "in hiatus".
      * Stan will update web site with the new status.
    * Gary will start a thread on DISCUSS.
      * Asking for location and leadership.
  * Linux / Free Software Open House
    * December 13 (2:00 - 8:00)
    * at Premier Knowledge (in South St. Louis)
    * As of today, 7 people have signed up.
    * Anyone who is interested should contact Lee Lammert.
    * Not an InstallFest -- more of "what to do next".
  * Lee suggested we create a Rails app on Bud to manage the group.
    * Member data - payments, expirations, etc.
    * Sponsors - expirations, etc.
    * Attendance
    * STL Ruby Group is writing a similar application.
      * RAMS - Rails Association Management System
      * We should leverage that, and guide it to our needs
    * Scott Nesler has built an app for attendance
      * Stan has plugged data into it for the year
      * Not sure if the app fits any of our other needs
  * Stan suggested that we NOT have Lightning Talks this year.
    * Lack of organizing them ahead of time.
    * Lack of commitment from presenters.
    * Several people skip that meeting because they don't like the idea.

====== New Business ======
  * Craig wants to follow through on recording the audio of our presentations.
    * From Ken's suggestion from last month.
    * Suggested spending $50-$100 on purchasing a digital voice recorder.
    * All in attendance (and Lee and Carl, via cell phone) agreed that this is a good idea.
    * Craig is approved to spend up to $100 on a voice recorder.

====== Blue Sky ======
  * Stan suggested selecting a Man of the Year.
    * Someone not an officer.

====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
  * Carl - Cancel credit card processing.
  * Carl - Turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer.
  * Jeff - Seek assistance from AIX gurus (Barry, John, Mike, Gary) to see if we want to set up his box.
  * Barry, John - Talk to Rich Seibel and Dave Mills about AIX hardware he has.
  * Lee - Follow up drafting reply to Wash U.
  * Craig - Buy .
  * Craig - Cancel library reservations at Thornhill.
  * Craig - Follow up w/ Ubuntu LoCo person.
  * Craig - Email Clark Smith @ Red Hat about getting someone to present on RHEL5, and $200 sponsorship.
  * Craig - Email Jim Leingang @ S3 about $200 sponsorship.
  * Stan - Ask Ajilon about continuing $200 sponsorship.
  * Stan - Add CafePress link to SLUUG web site when we get info.
  * Stan - Link new membership page into SLUUG web site.
  * Gary - Prepare Sun E250 for potential use.
  * Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.
  * Server Builders - Meet on December 29 for work day.
  * Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
  * Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
  * Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
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