====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - April 2006 ====== 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, 10550 Old Olive Street Road, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (at Old Olive and Olive) ===== Date / Time ===== * April 5, 2006 * 7:00 pm - 8:25 pm ===== Attendees ===== * Carl Fitch * Barry Morrison * Stan Reichardt * Lee Lammert * Craig Buchek ===== Secretary Report ===== * Need to print out previous months' minutes for signature and inclusion in Secretary folder. * Need to finish typing up minutes for March 3 board meeting and official annual meeting. ===== Treasurer Report ===== * Currently working on pulling in 2003 data into QuickBooks. * Treasurer recommends passage of motion to establish Professional Memberships @ $100. ===== Book Sales ===== * Four books sold for total sales of $95.37. Credit card posting fee of $5.00 resulting in $90.37 of income. * No new books ordered this year. * Annual report received for 2005 and Q1 2006. ===== Previous Meetings ===== ==== Attendance ==== March attendance figures: 8 - UNIX - 23 16 - STL LUG - 15 22 - Security - 9 23 - STC LUG - 3 28 - HZW LUG - 5 ==== Comments on Presentations ==== ==== March 2006 ==== 8 - UNIX Base: KDE Control Center by Carl Fitch Stan said it was pretty good. Main: FreeNX by Jim Roe Outstanding. 16 - STL LUG Main: Blender by JT Moree Best presentation in 2 years. 22 - Security Main: dd_rescue and dd_rhelp by Carl Fitch A bit disjointed. Not enough time. 23 - STC LUG Main: dd_rescue and dd_rhelp by Carl Fitch Better the second time around, with more time. 28 - HZW LUG Hands-on Troubleshooting Juno dial-up script for Xandros 3.0 by Phil Bunch ===== Presentation Schedule ===== ==== April 2006 ==== === SLUUG - April 12 === * Base: ???? by Stanford Baldwin (via Craig) * Main: Wireless Network Card Configurations (including ndiswrapper) by Carl Fitch === STLLUG - April 20 === * Base: [CLI] Simple Redirection by Stan Reichardt * Main: Ruby on Rails by Jeff Barczewski (Confirmed, LVL) === EPC Warehouse Sale - April 22 === * Volunteers needed to man tables * Setup 8:00 AM, Teardown 4:00 PM === HZW LUG - April 25 === * Base: [CLI] Simple Redirection by Stan Reichardt * Newbie topics === Security - April 26 === * TENTATIVE: Mark Bunn @ Fishnet (via Clarence) === STCLUG - April 27 === * Main: CUPS Printing w/ BSD by Carl Fitch ==== May 2006 ==== === SLUUG - May 10 === * Base: [CLI] Simple Redirection by Stan Reichardt * Main: Attacking Web Applications by Mark Murdock and Scott Winter of Lantern Secure Solutions (via Ted) === STLLUG - May 18 === * Base: TBD * Main: GeeXboX / MythTV / HTPC by Mark Sims (Carl has reconfirmed date and location) === HZWLUG - May 23 === * Newbie topics === Security - May 24 === * Wireless Troubleshooting - Kismet & Other Diagnostic Tools === STCLUG - May 25 === * TBD ==== June 2006 ==== === SLUUG - June 14 === * Base: TBD * Main: Secure Email by Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson of Slashmail (via Craig) === STLLUG - June 15 === * Main: SUSE 10 by Novell (LVL) === STCLUG - June 22 === * TBD === HZWLUG - June 27 === * Newbie topics === Security - June 28 === * TBD ==== July 2006 ==== === SLUUG - July 13 === * Base: TBD * Main: Novell SuSE in the Enterprise Space (LVL Tentative) === STLLUG - July 21 === * TBD * Alternate: Distro Updating Installfest === STCLUG - July 27 === * TBD === HZWLUG - July 27 === * TBD === Security - July 26 === * TBD ==== Potential Presentations ==== * Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Exchange "replacement") - Matthew Porter volunteered (October?) * InkScape (STLLUG) - Mark Jarnowski volunteered (via Craig) * Alternate: Distro Updating Installfest * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list) * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) * CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, JT, Ed Howland * Requests: * VPN (hands-on preferred, good for a Security meeting) * CVS for Config Files * Oracle Application Express * How To Update Your System - apt, yum, etc. * Music - Linux on iPod, iPod on Linux, Ogg, players, etc. ===== Weekly Announcements ===== * Stan is looking to somehow automate the announcements. ===== Sponsorships ===== * Lee volunteered to send invoices to our list of previous sponsors. ($200) * Clarence and Stan will start working to gather information about previous sponsors. * Starting with information from the web site. * Lee spoke with Dave Mills - NO other informaiton available. * Stan received an email from Angela Trotter from Unidev, wanting to sponsor our group and post job listings. * Craig to follow up. ===== Website Librarian ===== * Presentation topics as far back as 2000 have been listed. * Stan indicated that accuracy is not high, but will search additional notes. * Stan and Ted will continue listing prior years' data as time permits. * Stan working with Ted to get presentations put up. * Ted has gotten some of the older presentations gathered. * Ted's major emphasis will be to focus on getting the material from presenters. ===== System Administration ===== * Root passwords on all 4 systems have been changed. Passwords have been given to the President and Secretary. * Most admin work should be done via ''sudo'', which does not require the root password. * After some mis-steps, our DNS situation seems to be working now. * Wash U removed SLUUG.ORG zone from their servers. * But the their systems were out of sync for a while, returning inconsistent results. * Reverse DNS records were changed, causing some issues with NFS. * Wash U records not matching EveryDNS records caused some problems for dial-up and shell users. * Wildcard record caused some problems for email and RADIUS services. * Wilcard record has been removed from EveryDNS. ===== PROJECT: New servers ===== * Several of us met at Computers and Things on March 18 to discuss how to proceed, and to get some work done. * Configured SLUUG.ORG web site on new server. * Copied over all the data. * Configured a redirect back to old systems for user pages for short-term. * Will redirect to users.sluug.org, which can remain in place after the full migration. * This will allow us to move the web site without having to move the users. * Need to determine how to do the mailing list sign-up pages. * Need to determine how to proceed with non-SLUUG sites we host. * Next step is to test the new site, before we point our production DNS there. * Make sure everything is there and working. * Make sure we copy over any updates from the old web site. * Make sure the redirect to user pages is working. * Make sure the SIG sites/pages work. * Get the mailing list sign-up pages to work. * Craig is working on email infrastructure. * He made some progress, but is not quite finished. * Got some input on how to proceed from the others. * We need some versa-rails to mount the servers. * Craig will go into Primary and measure the rack depth. * Craig has a 1U UltraSparc with Solaris 10 to donate and install at Primary. * We could use a rackmount switch. * Carl has a 12-port rackmount hub he will donate. ===== Old Business ===== * Missouri Exempt status - (Carl Fitch and Lee Lammert, with help from Fred Smith's wife) * Carl has the forms. Working to finish filling them out. Will hand them off to Lee. * Gary will take forms to Rich McClennan to get help answering some of the questions. * See about O'Reilly bringing someone in to speak to our group(s). * Carl will follow up. * Stan proposed we clean house, and send any excess inventory to WITS. ===== New Business ===== * Need to come up with rates for membership / accounts this year. * Craig proposed a new $100 "professional" membership level. * He wants to pay that much for a membership this year. * This would support one of SLUUG's goals - being a professional organization. * Professional members will receive recognition on a new page on the web site. * No other benefits currently proposed for this level, beyond the current membership benefits. * Craig will write up info on the membership levels for the web site and hand-outs. * Proposed rates for 2006: * Level 1: $35 (basic/shell) Shell * Level 2: $65 (dial-up + shell) Sustaining * Level 3: $100 ("professional") Professional * Corporate Sponsorship: $200 * Stan proposed that we charge a $5/month late fee. * Annual account ffes are due on July 1. * Late fee takes effect starting August 1. * Accounts over 90 days past due will be suspended. * Need to announce the new rates, and update all web pages. * Craig volunteered. * Mike Knight suggested (via email) that 4 dial-up lines would be the optimal number. * We currently have 5 lines, and pay $160/month. * Having 4 lines would result in only a small number of busy signals. * Reducing 1 line would save us 20% of our #1 expense. * Reducing 2 lines (down to 3 lines) would save us $768, reducing the total expense to $1152/year. * This would require about 18 $65 accounts to sustain. * Unanymous agreement to reduce to 4. * There was nearly unanymous agreement to reduce to 3 lines. * Will table the discussion to reduce to 3 (or 0) for later. * Mike Knight reminded us (via email) that we need to remember that we provide Rich McLennan with a comp account. * Would need to make alternate arrangements with him for his work for us. * It was suggested that those who want dial-up look into a more sustainable arrangement. * Wholesale dial-up accounts. * Recruiting more users. ===== Board Meeting ===== A board meeting was held in order to agree upon the proposals listed above. Quorum was met, with Lee, Carl, and Stan in attendance. Called to order @ 8:25. Motion by Lee to reduce number of phone lines to 4. Unanymous approval. Motion by Lee to approve proposed fee structure for accounts/memberships. Unanymous approval. Move to adjourn by Lee. Meeting adjourned @ 8:27. ===== 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). * Craig - Write up info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs. * Craig - Print out meeting minutes for inclusion in secretary folder. * Craig - Continue working on new servers. * Recruit testers in preparation to move www.sluug.org site. * Complete email configuration. * Craig - Go into Primary and measure the rack depth. * Craig - Follow up on email by Angela Trotter from Unidev, wanting to sponsor our group and post job listings. * Ted - Get abstract for May 10 presentation. * Stan - Update web sites w/ info on April presentations. * Stan - Confirm April 12 tutorial with Stanford Baldwin. Get topic/details. * Lee - Finish QB transfer & financials. * Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/Mailmain for new servers. * Need to be able to preserve the archives.