====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - June 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 ===== * June 7, 2006 * 6:30 pm - 8:15 pm ===== Attendees ===== * Craig Buchek * Carl Fitch * Stan Reichardt * Tim Cross (first meeting -- AIM Management, does monthly round-table discussions) * Barry Morrison * Ted Palmer ===== 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 ===== * No report. ===== Book Sales ===== * Sold 7 books in May for about $94. * No new books ordered this year. ===== Previous Meetings ===== ==== Attendance ==== May attendance figures: * May 10 - UNIX - 37 (at least 4 new people) * May 18 - STL LUG - 15 (17 head count) * May 23 - HZW LUG - 7 * May 24 - Security - 8 * May 25 - STC LUG - 11 ==== Comments on Presentations ==== === May 2006 === == SLUUG - May 10 == * Base: Sudo and not su by Stanford Baldwin * Interesting. Good speaker. Could have used a bit more tech. * Main: Attacking Web Applications(Site Penetration Testing) by Mark Murdock and Scott Winter of Lantern Secure Solutions (via Ted) * Very good. Good overview of the topic. Brought several new people in. == STLLUG - May 18 == * Scheduled Main: GeeXboX / MythTV / HTPC by Mark Sims * Presenter did not show up - got cold feet. * Fill-in Presentation: Boot Process by Carl Fitch * Wasn't prepared, obviously, but winged it. == HZWLUG - May 23 == * Demonstration of Starwreck movie (first 5 minutes) * Demonstration of Elephant Dreams video done with Blender (first 5 minutes) * Demonstration of Fred Smith's tutorial on using Xandros (first 10 minutes) * Main Topic: Broken lock files (hands-on and slide-show of Ksnapshot screen captures with gwenview) * Pretty good interaction and participation. Sparked many questions and enthusiasm. == Security - May 24 == * Hands-on: Wireless Troubleshooting - Kismet & Other Diagnostic Tools by Chris Bird (Laclede Gas) * Excellent. Very knowledgeable speaker. Would be good to invite him to the SLUUG meetings. == STCLUG - May 25 == * Further Explorations with Ruby on Rails by Ed Howland * Very informative. Didn't get to cover all the topics thoroughly. ===== Presentation Schedule ===== ==== 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 * Processes and the ''kill'' command === Security - June 28 === * TBD ==== July 2006 ==== === SLUUG - July 12 === * Base: TBD * Main: Novell SuSE in the Enterprise Space (Lee, TENTATIVE) === STLLUG - July 20 === * Installing Linux from a Disk Image by Carl Fitch === HZWLUG - July 25 === * Newbie Topics === 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 ==== September 2006 ==== === SLUUG - Sep 13 === * Base: TBD * Main: Search Engine Optimization and Web Services by Jeff Heaton (TENTATIVE, via Ted) === STLLUG - Sep 21 === * Main: TBD === HZWLUG - Sep 26 === * Newbie Topics === Security - Sep 27 === * TBD === STCLUG - Sep 28 === * TBD ==== Potential Presentations ==== * Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Tim Cross) * 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 will add listings for at least two more years. * 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 will start adding some of the materials that are smaller. * Stan working with Ted to get presentations put up. * Ted not comfortable with ''librarian'' as a title, but the goal remains to gather the materials. * Ted has gotten some of the older presentations gathered. * Ted's major emphasis will be to focus on getting the material from presenters. * We anticipate HTML to be the most desirable format, followed by PDF. ===== System Administration ===== * Mike Knight reported on a recurring rebooting issue with Dark. * Mike Knight reported on a recurring issue with one of the modems. ===== 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. * Stan has removed many of our email aliases. * Most of them only collected spam. * Needs to make a few alias changes still. * Updated the contacts page. * Needs to make a few more changes to the web site still. ===== New Business ===== * Craig proposes that a BBS Committee be formed. * They will ensure financial viability of the BBS. * They will report to Steering Committee on continuing viability at least quarterly. * Or else the BBS service will be canceled the following year. * If no committee is formed by interested parties, the BBS service will be canceled the following year. * Carl says that 12 people have used the dial-up over the past year. * Carl will inform all these current users about our plans. * Primary Networks offers dial-up service. * For $8/month, users can get basic dial-up. * For $10/month, users can get nation-wide dial-up. * Carl said it is an option to resell Primary's dial-up. * Despite notification that we'd discuss this, nobody who cares showed up. * We seem to be proceeding with dropping dial-up once the current term expires. * Gary seems resigned to letting go of the dial-up. * Gary has started the process of notifying current users. * Craig suggested that we may need to set procmail to delete spam of a certain rating. ===== Blue Sky ===== * Carl suggested we remove the passwords from mailing list archives. * Craig thinks that Mhonarc does not strip email addresses from the message bodies. * Barry will look into stripping email addresses from bodies on new servers. * Stan suggested we hold the occasional meeting at some other location. * Or a joint meeting with some other group. * Java groups. * Web Developers. * LAMP would be a great topic. ===== Follow-up and Action Items ===== * Carl - Complete tax-exempt status paperwork. * 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. * Craig - Write up info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs. * Lee - Get abstract/bio from Matt Skipton of Novell. * Lee - Finish QuickBooks 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 Jeff Heaton and confirm date. * Gary - Talk to people about presentations (see above). * Tim - Contact Mark Russell about presenting at Security group. * Stan - Update web sites. * Stan - Upload presentations to web archive.