====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - May 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 ===== * May 3, 2006 * 7:00 pm - 8:45 pm ===== Attendees ===== * Lee Lammert * Carl Fitch * Craig Buchek * Gary Meyer * Stan Reichardt * Barry Morrison ===== 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 2004 data into QuickBooks. * We created some stationery. Carl got some samples from Rich Seibel. ===== Book Sales ===== * No books sold. * No new books ordered this year. ===== Previous Meetings ===== ==== Attendance ==== March attendance figures: 12 - UNIX - 17 20 - STL LUG - 20 (22 head count) 25 - HZW LUG - 7 26 - Security - 8 27 - STC LUG - 9 ==== Comments on Presentations ==== === April 2006 === == SLUUG - April 12 == * Base: Simple Redirection by Stan Reichardt * Very good. Could have gone longer. * Main: Wireless Network Card Configurations (including ndiswrapper) by Carl Fitch * Very good. Covered a lot. Good show and tell. == STLLUG - April 20 == * Main: Ruby on Rails by Jeff Barczewski * Amazing. Gave a great feel for how it works. == HZW LUG - April 25 == * Newbie topics * Simple Redirection by Stan Reichardt * Better than the first time. == Security - April 26 == * WiFi HackFest by Clarence Johnson * Lot of fun. == STCLUG - April 27 == * Base: How To Use Linux by Fred Smith * Worked better the next time he gave it. * Main: WordPress by Jim Roe * Good. ===== Presentation Schedule ===== ==== May 2006 ==== === SLUUG - May 10 === * Base: Sudo and not su by Stanford Baldwin * Main: Attacking Web Applications by Mark Murdock and Scott Winter of Lantern Secure Solutions (via Ted) === STLLUG - May 18 === * 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 === * Further Explorations with Ruby on Rails by Ed Howland ==== June 2006 ==== === SLUUG - June 14 === * Base: Master Boot Records by Carl Fitch * Main: Secure Email by Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson of Slashmail (via Craig) === STLLUG - June 15 === * Main: SUSE 10 by Matt Skipton of Novell (via Lee) === STCLUG - June 22 === * TBD === HZWLUG - June 27 === * Newbie topics === Security - June 28 === * TBD ==== July 2006 ==== === SLUUG - July 12 === * Base: TBD * Main: Novell SuSE in the Enterprise Space (LVL Tentative) === STLLUG - July 20 === * Installing Linux from a Disk Image by Carl Fitch === HZWLUG - July 25 === * TBD === Security - July 26 === * TBD === STCLUG - July 27 === * TBD ==== August 2006 ==== === SLUUG - Aug 9 === * Base: TBD * Main: something by Scott Granneman (TENTATIVE, via Gary) === STLLUG - Aug 17 === * Main: InkScape - Mark Jarnowski (TENTATIVE, via Craig) === HZWLUG - Aug 22 === * TBD === Security - Aug 23 === * TBD === STCLUG - Aug 24 === * TBD ==== Potential Presentations ==== * Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Exchange "replacement") - Matthew Porter volunteered (October?) * Perl Scripts to do DNA Genetic Research by Bryce Meyer from Wiltel/Level 3 (via Gary) * OpenVPN by Robert Citek * SELinux by Stan Reichardt * 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/Subversion for Config Files * Oracle Application Express * How To Update Your System - apt, yum, yast, etc. * Music - Linux on iPod, iPod on Linux, Ogg, players, etc. ===== Weekly Announcements ===== * Stan is looking to somehow automate the announcements. ===== Sponsorships ===== * Lee working to send out invoices to previous sponsors. ($200) * Clarence and Stan will start working to gather information about previous sponsors. * Starting with information from the web site. ===== Website Librarian ===== * Presentation topics as far back as 1998 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 ===== * Mike Knight pointed out a configuration problem with our new servers. ===== PROJECT: New servers ===== * 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. * Lee measured the depth of the rails - 28.5 inches front to back. * Need to be mounted on a Compaq 4U server. * 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. * Craig needs to work to write up new membership info. * See last month's minutes for full details. * Gary sent email to reduce dial-up lines to 4. * Lee found a dial-up service at Primary Networks for $120/year. * This could be a fall-back if we can no longer provide that service. * We need to re-assess cost of phone lines at the end of this year. ===== New Business ===== * None ===== Blue Sky ===== * Stan will look into removing many of our email aliases. * Most of them only collect spam. * Craig suggested that we may need to set procmail to delete spam of a certain rating. ===== Follow-up and Action Items ===== * Carl - Get abstract/bio from Mark Sims. * 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 - Get abstract/bio from Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson. * Tell them to spend at least half the time on client-side (PGP). * 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. * Lee - Get abstract/bio from Matt Skipton of Novell. * Lee - Finish QB transfer & financials. * Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/Mailmain for new servers. * Need to be able to preserve the archives. * Ted - Get abstract/bio from Mark Murdock and Scott Winter. * Gary - Talk to people about presentations (see above).