====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - August 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 ===== * August 2, 2006 * 6:30 pm - 8:12 pm ===== Attendees ===== * Carl Fitch * Clarence Johnson * Craig Buchek * Bob Hansen * Stan Reichardt ===== Secretary Report ===== * Printed out minutes from Steering Committee meetings up through July. * Had the president sign them. * Will include them in secretary folder. * Still need to type up minutes of previous Board meeting. ===== Treasurer Report ===== | ^ Amount ^ Notes ^ |Current Bank Balance | $903.68| Bank Statement| |AP Due (Wash U) | $170.00| (5 lines @ $34)| |Balance as of 7/30/06 ^$733.68 || * Lee says Wash U is still billing us for 5 lines. * They supposedly terminated the 5th line in April. * Lee will look into getting refunded for having only 4 lines, but paying for 5. * Lee asked that Gary gets the termination order in to Wash U for 9/30 AHEAD OF TIME. ===== Book Sales ===== * No books sold in July. ===== Previous Meetings ===== ==== Attendance ==== Attendance figures for last 3 months: 3 May STEERC - 6 ........ 7 Jun STEERC - 6 ........ 5 Jul STEERC - 5 10 May SLUUG - 37 ........ 14 Jun SLUUG - 15 ........ 12 Jul SLUUG - 29 18 May STLLUG - 15(17)..... 15 Jun STLLUG - 23 ........ 20 Jul STLLUG - CANCELED 23 May HZWLUG - 7 ........ 22 Jun STCLUG - 8 ........ 27 Jul STCLUG - 11 24 May SECURE - 8 ........ 27 Jun HZWLUG - 7 ........ 25 Jul HZWLUG - 8 25 May STCLUG - 11 ........ 28 Jun SECURE - 9 ........ 26 Jul SECURE - 10 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 ==== ===== July 2006 ===== === SLUUG - July 12 === * Base: Graylisting with Postgray (Making Spammers Wait) by Carl Fitch * Good. * Main: Novell SUSE in the Enterprise Space by Matt Skipton of Novell * Neat technology. Covered a lot. Almost too much. * We need to have vendors in here more often. * Especially the big ones. (IBM, Sun, Novell) * We should have him back in a few months to go in depth on one of the topics. === STLLUG - July 20 === * Meeting canceled due to storm-related power outage at the library. === STCLUG - July 27 === * Booting Multiple Live CD's from a Single CD-ROM or DVD by Mike Duncan * Interesting. Good speaker. === HZWLUG - July 25 === * How To Update Your System - pkg, rpm, tar, apt, yum, yast, etc. * Talked mostly about Debian apt. === Security - July 26 === * Topic: OpenVPN by Mark Buchanon * Good, but a bit Windows-oriented. ===== Presentation Schedule ===== ==== August 2006 ==== === SLUUG - Aug 9 === * Base: Intro to Metasploit Security Tool by Chris Byrd * Main: We're all doomed!: A look into the present & future by Scott Granneman === STLLUG - Aug 17 === * Main: JT Moree - Personal Accomplishments in Open Source === HZWLUG - Aug 22 === * Newbie Topics === Security - Aug 23 === * Hands-On: Metasploit by Chris Byrd === STCLUG - Aug 24 === * Main: Creating a VNC repeater for your customers and relatives - and WHY? by Carl Fitch ==== September 2006 ==== === SLUUG - Sep 13 === * Base: TBD * Main: === STLLUG - Sep 21 === * Main: Update on SCO v. IBM Lawsuit by AllParadox (TENTATIVE, via Scott McKellar) === 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: Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Exchange "replacement") by Matthew Porter (TENTATIVE) ==== Potential Presentations ==== * Main: InkScape - Mark Jarnowski (via Craig) * Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Tim Cross) * 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, 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 ===== * No news is good news? ===== PROJECT: New servers ===== * Someone (Mike Knight?) added a lot of good discussion on the wiki about user accounts. * 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 ===== * Annual report was submitted to the state. * 1 month early -- saves us $5. * Craig needs to work to write up new membership info. * See previous minutes for full details. ===== New Business ===== * Christine Wanta emailed the list, saying she would have to resign her Board seat. * Unable to attend enough meetings. * The 3 attending Board members agreed to wait until Lee was here to choose a replacement. * Christine has not submitted a written resignation letter as of yet. * We are proceeding with dropping dial-up on September 30. * Carl emailed all our users, telling them dial-up would be going away. * Stan suggested keeping 1 dial-up line for emergency access to Wash U systems. * Those in attendance agreed that this was a good idea. * Unanimous agreement to keep the 1 line. * EPC - big sale this Saturday. * EPC is now installing Ubuntu Linux on their systems by default. * We will be there to answer Linux questions. * Sort of like a Hazelwood LUG meeting. * Clarence showed us Chris Byrd's Drupal mock-up of the Security SIG's web group. * We agreed that it looked good. * We'd like to move the site to our new boxes. * Craig will work with him. * We discussed membership dues in relation to shell accounts. * Agreed that there should be 3 levels of voluntary membership dues. * $100 * $70 * $35 * Agreed that shell accounts are available in 1 of 2 conditions: * User pays voluntary membership dues, * OR user attended 2 meetings in the previous calendar year, and pays $10. ===== Blue Sky ===== ===== Follow-up and Action Items ===== * Chris and Craig - Work on migrating to new servers. * Craig - Write up info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs. * Lee - Submit treasurer reports for inclusion in secretary folder. * Lee - Finish QuickBooks transfer & financials. * Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/Mailmain for new servers. * Need to be able to preserve the archives. * Tim - Contact Mark Russell about presenting at Security group. * Stan - Update web sites. * Ted and Stan - Upload presentations to web archive. * Gary - work with Wash U on dial-up lines. * Terminating all but 1 on 9/30.