====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - January 2006 ====== 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, 10550 Old Olive Street Road, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (at Old Olive and Olive) ===== Date / Time ===== January 4, 2006 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm ===== Attendees ===== * Leeland Lammert * Carl Fitch * Barry Morrison * Craig Buchek * Stan Reichardt ===== Secretary Report ===== * Switching to SLUUG Wiki for this month's minutes, and all following. * Plan to migrate the old Wiki data to the new Wiki. * Need to print previous 2 months' minutes for inclusion in Secretary folder. ===== Treasurer Report ===== * Still working on pulling books into QuickBooks. Has to do it manually. Up to 2004 so far. (That's a year more than last month.) ===== Book Sales ===== * Sold 10 books at SLUUG meeting for $183.91. * Sold 2 books at EPC sale. ===== Previous Meetings ===== ==== Attendance ==== 7 Dec STEERC - 6 14 Dec SLUUG - 17 15 Dec STLLUG - 19 (21) 22 Dec STCLUG - 8 27 Dec HZWLUG - 10 28 Dec SECURE - * NO MEETING - UMSL MicroComputer Center was closed ==== Comments on Presentations ==== December 2005 (Holiday Schedules) 14 - UNIX Base: Brochures with Scribus by Stan Reichardt (not GRAMPS Geneology, as planned) Ended up taking a lot of time, because there was a lot to cover. People learned a lot. A lot of interaction. Main: Multiple Subject Discussions (had no regular presentation) NOTEABLE: Response to System Crack by Ed Holland 15 - STL LUG Main: QEMU Virtual Machine - Carl Fitch Great. Devolved a bit into showing off some newer distros, which was also good. 22 - STC LUG Main: Boot Managers - Carl Fitch "Pure disaster" - Carl "We had fun" - Stan 27 - HZW LUG Brief look at GRAMPS (Geneology) "Really good" - Carl Brief look at OpenOffice 2.0 Database 28 - Security ** NO MEETING ** UMSL MicroComputer Center was closed ===== Presentation Schedule ===== ==== January 2006 ==== 11 - UNIX Base: Boot managers - Carl Fitch (extended format - more than 30 minutes) Main: (TENTATIVE) WiFi - Mark Balbes (via Gary) 19 - STL LUG Main: OpenOffice 2.0 Database by Stan Reichardt 24 - HZW LUG 25 - Security TBD 26 - STC LUG TBD ==== February 2006 ==== 8 - UNIX (balloting) Lightning Talks 16 - STL LUG (balloting) Main: (TENTATIVE) Financial Apps (GnuCash, MoneyDance) by Craig Buchek 22 - Security (balloting) TBD 23 - STC LUG (balloting) TBD 28 - HZW LUG (balloting) ==== March 2006 ==== 8 - UNIX Base: KDE Control Center by Carl Fitch Main: (TENTATIVE) GeeXboX? (bootable Linux for multi-media) by Mark Bergman (via Carl) 16 - STL LUG (balloting) Main: (TENTATIVE) Secure Email - Dustin Anders/Paul Vinson (via Craig) 22 - Security TBD 23 - STC LUG TBD 28 - HZW LUG ==== Potential Presentations ==== * Ruby on Rails - Curt Hibbs (via Craig) * WiFi - Mark Balbes (via Gary) * InkScape - had a volunteer at a meeting, but said he need a few months ===== Old Business ===== * Missouri Exempt status - (Carl Fitch and Lee Lammert, with help from Fred Smith's wife) * Carl has the forms. Needs to finish filling them out. Will hand them off to Lee. * EPC Winter Sale * Carl reports success, with some things we could improve. * EPC folks were impressed by the attention we got. * Stan suggested including a post-card for people to respond back to us. * EPC has invited us back to their April 22 sale. * See about O'Reilly bringing someone in to speak to our group(s). * Carl will follow up. * Still being charged by Wash U for 6 lines. * We have not received a bill this month, so it may have been fixed by now. * Lee sent a note with last bill he sent in, asking to refund us for having fewer lines. * Stan now has three brochures to hand out: - SLUUG info - Linux For Beginners - Password Guidelines for Beginners brochure * Lightning Talks. * Gary - Organize Lightning Talks. Respond to Robert on DISCUSS. ===== Election Committee ===== * Committee members: * Rich * Gary * Stan * Carl handed out nomination ballots at meetings. Stan has them, but needs to track them down. * Stan is working on counting attendance (to get official membership list) * He will post the eligible members list. * Stan will write up the ballots. * Open positions * 2 Board seats (Lee's and Stan's - 3 year terms) * President * Vice President * Secretary * Treasurer * STLLUG Chair * STCLUG Chair * Sponsorship Manager * Public Relations * Presentation Manager ===== Weekly Announcements ===== * Added info regarding T3 (Techies Teaching Techies) * Clarence Johnson is teaching this. * Low-cost. ===== PROJECT: New servers ===== * Craig moved DNS for SLUUG.ORG over to EveryDNS. It worked this time, with no problems noted. * Server build progressing slowly. * Wiki is now up at http://wiki.sluug.org and fully functional. This can be consider "in production" now. * Lee and Carl signed contract with Primary Networks to have them provide us with a half-rack at their hosting facility. * Lee built source packages for PINE and PILOT (on Bud Light). Also installed GCC. * Planning to move the servers from Lee's to Primary on Sunday, January 15. ===== Sponsorships ===== * Stan received an email from Angela Trotter from Unidev, wanting to sponsor our group and post job listings. * Craig to follow up. * New form on sponsors page. * Compilation of SLUUG info brochure, with sponsorship info added at bottom. * Need to get info regarding previous sponsors. * Gary - Get Dave Mills together with Lee. ===== Website Librarian: ===== * Stan Reichardt has modified drop down menus and set up skeleton area for presentations. * Topics for 2005 and part of 2004 have been listed. * Stan will continue listing prior years' data as time permits. * Stan to work with Ted Palmer to get presentations put up. ===== System Administration ===== * Recording of root passwords. Still need to be changed. Need to have passwords stored with President and Secretary. * BBS line reduction - Lee says that we're still paying for 6 phone lines * Majordomo admin access ===== New Business ===== * None. ===== Follow-up and Action Items: ===== * Carl - Complete tax-exempt status paperwork. * Carl - Follow up with O'Reilly about bringing someone in to speak to our group(s). * Carl - Ask Mark Bergman to give presentation March 8. * Craig - Print previous 2 months' minutes for inclusion in Secretary folder. * Craig - Ask for presentation from Curt Hibbs (April). * Craig - Ask for presentation from Dustin Anders/Paul Vinson (March). * Craig - Follow up on email by Angela Trotter from Unidev, wanting to sponsor our group and post job listings. * Craig - Continue working on new servers. * Craig - Change root passwords on new servers. Send info to SYSADMIN. Tell folks how to use sudo. * Craig - Copy stllinux.org data to new servers. * Stan - Count attendance (to get official membership list) and list eligible voters. * Stan - Add a link to http://wiki.sluug.org to SLUUG web site front page. * Gary - Organize Lightning Talks. Respond to Robert on DISCUSS. * Gary - Get Dave Mills together with Lee to find info regarding sponsors. * Gary - Coordinate password changes. Have passwords stored with President and Secretary.