====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - July 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 ===== * July 5, 2006 * 6:45 pm - 8:30 pm ===== Attendees ===== * Craig Buchek * Carl Fitch * Ted Palmer * Chris Byrd * Stan Reichardt ===== 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. * There was some dispute about what was decided at the [[2006-04#board_meeting | Board meeting in April]]. * The wording that was agreed to was "proposed fee structure for accounts/memberships". * The proposed fee structure was listed as: * Level 1: $35 (basic/shell) Shell * Level 2: $65 (dial-up + shell) Sustaining * Level 3: $100 ("professional") Professional * Corporate Sponsorship: $200 * Some are now saying that they only agreed to the $100 level. * May be a moot point if we re-do the structure when we disband the dial-up accounts. * Stan and Carl remember/understood it the way it was reported. ===== Treasurer Report ===== * No report. Lee was out of town. * Says we will run out of funds by May if we don't stop paying for dial-up lines. * Has not provided data to back that up yet. * Current balance: $1350 (approximate) * Collected 1 $35 membership fee for 2006-2007. ===== Book Sales ===== * Sold 4 books in June for about $45. * No new books ordered this year. * Stan suggested a fire sale to get rid of remaining inventory. * Also raffle off books at meetings as door prizes. ===== Previous Meetings ===== ==== Attendance ==== Attendance figures for last 3 months: 5 Apr STEERC - 5 ........ 3 May STEERC - 6 ........ 7 Jun STEERC - 6 12 Apr SLUUG - 17 ........ 10 May SLUUG - 37 ........ 14 Jun SLUUG - 15 20 Apr STLLUG - 20 ........ 18 May STLLUG - 15(17)..... 15 Jun STLLUG - 23 25 Apr HZWLUG - 7 ........ 23 May HZWLUG - 7 ........ 22 Jun STCLUG - 8 26 Apr SECURE - 8 ........ 24 May SECURE - 8 ........ 27 Jun HZWLUG - 7 27 Apr STCLUG - 9 ........ 25 May STCLUG - 11 ........ 28 Jun SECURE - 9 Figures in parenthesis is actual head count. Chris volunteered to cross-promote our Security meetings at other local security groups (Infragaurd and ISSA). ==== Comments on Presentations ==== ==== June 2006 ==== === SLUUG - June 14 === * Base: Master Boot Records by Carl Fitch * Pretty good. Lots of interaction. * NOT DONE: Secure Email by Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson of Slashmail (via Craig) * Main: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About Hard Drives by Craig Buchek * Excellent. Outstanding. * Not too much feedback during presentation. People said they were busy absorbing content. === STLLUG - June 15 === * Again started main presentation at 7:00 PM. Seems to be working well. * Main: SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 by Matt Skipton of Novell (via Lee) * Shiny stuff! XGL demo impressed most of us. * Good interaction and questions. Lots of excitement. * Good preview of the technology. Not terribly in-depth. * Will be covering server side this coming month at SLUUG meeting. === STCLUG - June 22 === * Topic: Kids Programming Language (KPL) by Fred Smith * Very interesting. Result of DISCUSS conversation. === HZWLUG - June 27 === * New comer topics: * Processes and the ''ps, kill, and top'' commands * CHMOD and the SUID and SGUID permissions * Attendees are starting to participate more and ask good questions. === Security - June 28 === * Topic: Basic Linux Security by Clarence Johnson * Basic, easy to follow. * Looking for for more volunteer presenters. ===== Presentation Schedule ===== ==== July 2006 ==== === SLUUG - July 12 === * Base: Graylisting with Postgray (Making Spammers Wait) by Carl Fitch * Main: Novell SUSE in the Enterprise Space by Matt Skipton of Novell (via Lee) === STLLUG - July 20 === * Installing Ubuntu Linux from a Disk Image by Tony Lovasco of EPC (via Carl Fitch) * NOTE: Stan will be out of town - Need someone else to take attendance === HZWLUG - July 25 === * Newbie Topics * SUGGESTION: How To Update Your System - pkg, rpm, tar, apt, yum, yast, etc. * NOTE: Stan might still be out of town - May need someone else to take attendance === Security - July 26 === * TOPIC: OpenVPN by Mark Buchanon (confirmed) * NOTE: Stan might still be out of town - May need someone else to take attendance === STCLUG - July 27 === * TOPIC: Booting Multiple Live CD's from a Single CD-ROM or DVD by Mike Duncan * NOTE: Stan might still be out of town - May need someone else to take attendance ==== August 2006 ==== === SLUUG - Aug 9 === * Base: Intro to Metasploit Security Tool by Chris Byrd (TENTATIVE) * Main: Something by Scott Granneman (TENTATIVE, via Gary) * Get abstract/bio and confirm date. === STLLUG - Aug 17 === * Main: InkScape - Mark Jarnowski (TENTATIVE, via Craig) * Get abstract/bio and confirm date. === HZWLUG - Aug 22 === * Newbie Topics === Security - Aug 23 === * Hands-On: Metasploit by Chris Byrd === STCLUG - Aug 24 === * TBD ==== September 2006 ==== === SLUUG - Sep 13 === * Base: TBD * Main: Secure Email by Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson of Slashmail (via Craig) === STLLUG - Sep 21 === * Main: TBD === HZWLUG - Sep 26 === * Newbie Topics === Security - Sep 27 === * TBD === STCLUG - Sep 28 === * TBD ==== October 2006 ==== === SLUUG - Oct 11 === * Base: TBD * Main: TBD === STLLUG - Oct 19 === * Base: TBD * Main: TBD ==== Potential Presentations ==== * Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Tim Cross) * Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Exchange "replacement") - Matthew Porter volunteered (October last year?) * Perl Scripts to do DNA Genetic Research by Bryce Meyer from Wiltel/Level 3 (via Gary) * OpenVPN by Robert Citek (via ???) * SELinux by Stan Reichardt (Not Earlier Than October, If Then) * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list) * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) * CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, JT, Ed Howland (via ???) * 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. * Using Secure Email Clients * TrueCrypt - file-level encryption for Windows/Linux * One-Time Passwords ===== Weekly Announcements ===== * Stan has recently gotten a number of positive comments on Weekly Events mailings. * Stan has started experimenting with SED & AWK scripts to automate build. ===== Sponsorships ===== * Lee working to send out invoices to previous sponsors. ($200) * Clarence and Stan R. will start working to gather information about previous sponsors. * Starting with information from the web site. ===== Website Librarian ===== * Presentation topics as far back as 1996 have now been listed. * Stan R. indicated that accuracy is not high, but will search additional notes. * Stan R. and Ted will continue listing prior years' data as time permits. * Stan R. will start adding some of the materials that are smaller. * Presentation STL LUG topics are now up to date. * Previously stopped after year 2000. * Accuracy not high, about 5 months missing. * Stan R. 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 ===== * Spoofing of old email address on DISCUSS mailing list. * Mike Knight found old board member names still allowed to post. * Porblem has hopefully been resolved. ===== PROJECT: New servers ===== * Need to complete migration to new servers. * Chris volunteered to help. * Has good Drupal experience. * Has done Linux administration. * Craig has a 1U UltraSparc with Solaris 10 to donate and install at Primary. ===== 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. * Craig needs to work to write up new membership info. * See previous minutes for full details. ===== New Business ===== * Carl **MUST** submit annual report to the state by July 15 to keep us in business. * Carl will have forms filled out by July 12. * We seem to be proceeding with dropping dial-up once the current term expires. * Stan suggested keeping 1 dial-up line for ememergency access to Wash U systems. * Those in attendance agreed that this was a good idea. * Lee suggested we drop the dial-up lines on September 30. * Gary suggested we give users 90 days notice. * The proposal is actually 80 days+. * Those in attendance agreed this was a good idea. * Mike Knight asked if we should delete suspected spam emails, without letting users see them. * It was suggested that it would be good to delete **some** emails. * Those with really high spam scores. * It was agreed that Mike could set the threshold to a conservative value of his choice. ===== Blue Sky ===== ===== Follow-up and Action Items ===== * Carl - **MUST** complete annual report for state by July 12. * Carl - Complete state exempt status paperwork. * Chris and Craig - Work on migrating to new servers. * Craig - Confirm Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson for September 13 presentation. * Tell them to spend at least half the time on client-side (PGP). * Get abstract/bio. * Follow up at monthly intervals. * Craig - Print out meeting minutes for inclusion in secretary folder. * Craig - Write up info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs. * Lee - Submit treasurer reports. * Lee - Finish QuickBooks transfer & financials. * Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/Mailmain for new servers. * Need to be able to preserve the archives. * Gary - Talk to people about presentations (see above). * Tim - Contact Mark Russell about presenting at Security group. * Stan - Update web sites. * Ted and Stan - Upload presentations to web archive.