====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - September 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 ===== * September 6, 2006 * 6:30 pm - 8:01 pm ===== Attendees ===== * Lee Lammert * Barry Morrison * Craig Buchek * Clarence Johnson * Gary Meyer * Stan Reichardt ===== Secretary Report ===== * Have printed out all previous Steering Committee meeting minutes. * Need Carl to sign August's. * Still need to type up minutes of previous Board meeting. ===== Treasurer Report ===== * Lee did not bring the bank statement and balance info. * Lee paid WU phone bill thru Aug 1. * Asked for adjustment for 5th line. * Wrote that we want to drop all but 1 line for Oct 1. ===== Book Sales ===== * No report. ===== Previous Meetings ===== ==== Attendance ==== * 2 Aug STEERC - 5 * 9 Aug SLUUG - 26(27) * 17 Aug STLLUG - 15(17) * 22 Aug HZWLUG - 10 * 24 Aug STCLUG - 14 * 30 Aug SECURE - 14 ==== Comments on Presentations ==== ===== August 2006 ===== === SLUUG - Aug 9 === * Base: Intro to Metasploit Security Tool by Chris Byrd * Very good. Excellent lead-in to Security group meeting. * Main: We're all doomed!: A look into the present & future by Scott Granneman * Fascinating. Excellent, but a bit all over the map. === STLLUG - Aug 17 === * Main: JT Moree - Personal Accomplishments in Open Source * Good for people that know JT. Somewhat boring for the others. * Some good lessons learned. Dragged on on a few topics. === HZWLUG - Aug 22 === * Newbie Topics - Review of Package Managers and Comparing Distributions. * Didn't have time for Wireless router. * Lots of happy attendees -- starting to participate and ask questions. === STCLUG - Aug 24 === * Main: Creating a VNC repeater for your customers and relatives - and WHY? by Carl Fitch * Very interesting. * Talked about how to best deploy a VNC solution for clients. * Some technical issues connecting to Internet, but software worked well. === Security - Aug 30 === * Hands-On: Metasploit by Chris Byrd (re-scheduled from Aug 23) * Excellent presentation and hands-on. Cracked Windows 2003 systems. * Covered a lot more material than most were expecting. ===== Presentation Schedule ===== ==== September 2006 ==== === SLUUG - Sep 13 === * Base: Bugzilla by Craig Buchek * Main: Techie Videos from the Internet * Possibilities: Revolution OS, DLTV, etc. === STLLUG - Sep 21 === * Main: Update on SCO v. IBM Lawsuit by AllParadox (Benjamin White) (via Craig Buchek / Scott McKellar) === HZWLUG - Sep 26 === * Newbie Topics === Security - Sep 27 === * Expected to be canceled because C. Johnson has another training class. Nearly impossible to get another UMSL employee to chaperone the computer training room during our sessions. UPDATE: Meeting will go on as scheduled. === STCLUG - Sep 28 === * TBD - Exciting stuff from Stan and Fred ==== October 2006 ==== === SLUUG - Oct 11 === * Base: Firebug (Firefox plugin - JavaScript debugger) by Ed Howland * Main: AppArmor by Matt Skiption of Novell === STLLUG - Oct 19 === * Main: Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Exchange "replacement") by Matthew Porter (TENTATIVE) ==== Potential Presentations ==== * Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Lee) * XGL by Matt Skipton of Novell (via Lee) * SELinux by Stan Reichardt (Not Earlier Than October, If Then) * Main: InkScape - Mark Jarnowski (via Craig) * Perl Scripts to do DNA Genetic Research by Bryce Meyer from Wiltel/Level 3 (via Gary) * OpenVPN by Robert Citek (via ???) * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list) * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) * CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, Ed Howland (via ???) * Tech Futures - Railroad guy (via Rich Seibel) * 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 * Video cards in Linux (Heuris) * IBM vs. Sun vs. HP on UNIX ===== Weekly Announcements ===== * Going strong. * Some issues getting good info from other groups about their meetings. ===== Library Room Reservations ===== * First Saturday in October. * Stan will fill out paperwork. * Phil Bunch will reserve Indian Trails for STLLUG. * Stan will reserve Hazelwood for HZLUG. ===== Sponsorships ===== * Clarence and Stan R. will start working to gather information about previous sponsors. * Starting with information from the web site. * Lee working to send out invoices to previous sponsors. ($200) * Stan noted that [[http://www.primary.net | Primary Networks]] is asking us to put a different logo (and link) on our web site. * As part of their hosting us, we agreed to put their link/logo on our 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 ===== * Dark is getting hardware issues about once a month. * Reboots, but comes back up. ===== 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 Byrd 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. * 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. ===== Old Business ===== * Craig needs to work to write up new membership info. * See previous minutes for full details. * Christine Wanta emailed the list, saying she would have to resign her Board seat. * Unable to attend enough meetings. * 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. * Lee has notified Wash U in writing, to drop all but 1 line on October 1. * EPC - big sale last month. * We were there. Some of us. * Was nice, because we only had to answer questions, not do installs. * 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. ===== New Business ===== * No new business. ===== Blue Sky ===== * The sky is still blue. ===== 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. * Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/Mailman 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. * Clarence and Stan - Get working on collecting sponsor contact info.