====== 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, (at Old Olive and Olive), 10550 Old Olive Street Road, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 ====== Date and Time ====== * October 4, 2006 * 6:30 pm - 8:15 pm ====== Attendees ====== * Lee Lammert * Barry Morrison * Stan Reichardt * Carl Fitch * Craig Buchek * Gary Meyer ====== Secretary Report ====== * Need to print out September Steering Committee meeting minutes. * Need Carl to sign August's minutes. * Still need to type up minutes of previous Board meeting. * Filed Christine's resignation letter. ====== Treasurer Report ====== | ^ Amount ^ Notes ^ |Starting Bank Balance | $586.17| Bank Statement| |AP Due (Wash U) | $170.00| (4 lines @ $34)| |AR | $100.00| Membership payment| |Balance as of 8/31/06 ^$516.17 || * September numbers pending. * Still need to reconcile QuickBooks for previous years. * Lee will need some assistance with that. ====== Book Sales Report ====== * No book sales in September. ====== Attendance Report ====== Year to Date figures for 2006 posted to STEERCOM mailing list * 6 Sep STEERC - 6 * 13 Sep SLUUG - 15 * 21 Sep STLLUG - 15(17) * 26 Sep HZWLUG - 8 * 27 Sep SECURE - 17 * 28 Sep STCLUG - 10 * Security SIG had an excellent turn-out this month. * LUG turn-out was lighter than expected. ====== Comments on Presentations ====== ===== September 2006 ===== ==== SLUUG - Sep 13 ==== * Base: Bugzilla by Craig Buchek * Excellent. Hopefully this will help members report bugs. * Main: Techie Videos from the Internet (DLTV) * DLTV episode was too long. * Good idea for filler, but choose shorter videos next time. ==== STLLUG - Sep 21 ==== * Main: Update on SCO v. IBM Lawsuit by AllParadox (Benjamin White) * Started out slow, but was better in the middle and end. * Helped us understand some of the technical legal details. ==== HZWLUG - Sep 26 ==== * Finding Linux Applications * Maybe okay. * Had problems with projector. * Other Newbie Topics ==== SECURITY - Sep 27 ==== * Network Diagnostics & Deep Packet Scanning by Ed Morrisy of Global Velocity * Pizza was really good. * Presentation was good and interesting, but a bit too much salesmanship. ==== STCLUG - Sep 28 ==== * Finding Linux Applications * Reprise of Hazelwood talk. * Started late, but went faster. ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== 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: To Be Determined ==== HZWLUG - Oct 24 ==== * Base: Newbie Topics ==== SECURITY - Oct 25 ==== * Primer on Encryption by Mark Buchanan ==== STCLUG - Oct 26 ==== * Cronolog - Effortless Log Rotation by Carl Fitch ===== November 2006 ===== ==== SLUUG - Nov 8 ==== * Base: Cronolog - Effortless Log Rotation by Carl Fitch * Main: Introduction to Logical Volume Manager by Jeff Muse (TENATIVE) ==== STLLUG - Nov 16 ==== * Main: Follow-up Demonstration of Logical Volume Manager by Jeff Muse (TENATIVE) ==== SECURITY - Nov 22 ==== * TBD. ==== Thanksgiving Day - Nov 23 ==== ==== STCLUG - Nov 20? ==== * Need to determine Holiday schedule date. * Carl believes it's been scheduled for the 20th, but it may be the 27th. ==== HZWLUG - Nov 28 ==== * Newbie Topics ===== December 2006 ===== ==== SLUUG - Dec 13 ==== * Base: TBD. * Main: TBD. ==== STLLUG - Dec 21 ==== * Base: TBD. * Main: InkScape by Mark Jarnowski (TENTATIVE) ==== Christmas Day - Dec 25 ==== ==== HZWLUG - Dec 26 ==== * NOTE: May cancel this meeting. * UPDATE: The 26 Dec date given was wrong, meeting room is reserved for 19 Dec - Stan R. ==== SECURITY - Dec 27 ==== * TBD. ==== STCLUG - Dec 28 ==== * TBD. ===== January 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - Jan 10 ==== * Base: * Main: Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell ==== STLLUG - Jan 18 ==== * Base: * Main: ==== HZWLUG - Jan 23 ==== ==== SECURITY - Jan 24 ==== ==== STCLUG - Jan 25 ==== ====== Potential Presentations ====== * Main: InkScape by Mark Jarnowski (via Craig) (was STLLUG TENTATIVE) * Everything you (N)Ever Wanted to Know About HDTV by Craig Buchek (will work on this to have as a stand-by) * Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Lee) * Contact Mark Russell about presenting at Security group. (via Tim/Ted ?) * XGL by Matt Skipton of Novell (via Lee) * Perl Scripts to do DNA Genetic Research by Bryce Meyer from Wiltel/Level 3 (via Gary) * OpenVPN by Robert Citek (via ???) * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) * CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, Ed Howland (via ???) * Tech Futures - Railroad guy (via Rich Seibel) * SELinux by Stan Reichardt (Not Earlier Than November, If Then) * 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 * Using One-Time Passwords * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list, or others) * Video cards in Linux (Heuris) * IBM vs. Sun vs. HP on UNIX ====== Weekly Announcements ====== * No news is good news. * Current mailing list membership numbers (approximate): * 880 on ANNOUNCE * 180 on DISCUSS (previously reported as 140) ====== Library Room Reservations ====== * First Saturday in October. * Stan will fill out paperwork. * Phil Bunch usually delivers paperwork to Indian Trails for STLLUG. * Stan will reserve Hazelwood for HZLUG. ====== Sponsorships ====== * Lee updated our web site to show a different logo (and link) for Primary Networks (Hostirian) * Lee working to send out invoices to previous sponsors. ($200) * Clarence J. and Stan R. to gather information about previous sponsors. * Collect sponsor contact info. * Starting with information from the web site. * No progress this month. ====== Website Library ====== * Stan R. working with Ted P. to get presentations put up. * Ted has gotten some of the older presentations gathered * No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration * No progress this month. ====== System Administration ====== * Dark had another checkstop/reboot this month. * Michelob * WU Dialup hardware ====== New Servers Project ====== * Will meet at Lee's on October 28. * Decisions to make: * How to get mailing list archives on the new web server. * How to migrate email, while allowing users to access email via existing methods. * How to migrate mailing lists. * Look into Majordomo/Mailman. * To complete: * Migrate SLUUG web site. * Point http://sluug.org/~user to http://users.sluug.org/~user, which can remain on Dark/Michelob, and be migrated to Budlight later. * Create new web sites for SIGs. * Migrate Chris Byrd's Drupal install over for Security site. * Make Bud an admin-only box. * Make Budlight a user-accessible box. ====== Other Old Business ====== ===== Board Member ===== * Christine Wanta emailed the list, saying she would have to resign her Board seat. * Unable to attend enough meetings. * We received Christine's written resignation letter. * Impromptu BOARD MEETING: Stan nominated Barry Morrison as Christine's replacement. * Lee seconded. * Carl agreed. * Passes unanymously. * Barry accepted and will hold the board seat until the 2007 elections. ===== Dial-up Lines ===== * We dropped all but 1 dial-up line on September 30. * Mike Knight suggested the 1 remaining dial-up line is not needed. * Unanimous agreement to drop that remaining line on October 30. * Carl emailed all our users, telling them dial-up would be going away. * No complaints from users, until lines were already taken down. ===== Membership ===== * 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. * Craig was to write up new membership info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs. ====== New Business ====== * S3 (formerly KPG) wants to "sponsor" the upcoming SLUUG meeting. * Suggestion was to order pizza at 7:00, seeing how many people are there at that time. * Who will collect cash payments at meetings? * Carl has the cash box; needs to hand it off whenever he's not there. * Nominations for February elections * Stan and Gary will be on the nominating committee. * Solaris SIG (special interest group) * Several members have expressed a desire to start this SIG. * Jeff Logullo * Nick Moon * Jeff Muse * The folks who want to run the meeting should decide what day/location they want to hold their meetings. * The meetings need not be be on a regular basis, but should be scheduled by the previous month's Steering Committee meeting * They need to let the STEERCOM list know in advance when their meetings will be. * Craig has 2 Sun 1U servers that he will donate to the group. ====== Blue Sky ====== * Stan noticed that many local user groups have no scheduled meetings in June, July, August. * Gary suggested members call some of the old members to remind them of upcoming meetings. ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== * Craig - Write up membership info. * Others - Come to Lee's on October 28 to work on new servers.