====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - December 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, (at Old Olive and Olive), 10550 Old Olive Street Road, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 ====== Date and Time ====== * December 6, 2006 * 6:30 pm - 8:15 pm ====== Attendees ====== * Craig Buchek * Carl Fitch * Lee Lammert * Barry Morrison * Stan Reichardt * Jeff Muse * Gary Meyer ====== Secretary Report ====== * Secretary has been remiss in carrying out his duties the past month. * Missed last month's meeting due to illness. * Has not printed out recent minutes. * Has not reviewed or edited November minutes. * Secretary will have lots of free time in December to catch up. ====== Treasurer Report ====== * Deposits: $150 * $100.00 membership - Craig Buchek * $10.00 Mike Knight - membership account * $40.00 Book Sales * Bank Balance $1085.39 (11/30/06) * To Deposit: Jim Liengang/S3/$200 * Pending AP - Wash U still refuses to send a final bill, despite two **written** notifications of the 10/31 termination date. * Looking for assistance from Gary. ====== Book Sales Report ====== * Books were sold but unable to record. Carl loaded wrong drawers, transactions could not be finalized. * Carl says he thinks that there were 5 books sold in November. * All in-stock books will be sold at half price (or less) going forward. * Microsoft titles will be $5. ====== Membership Report ====== * Attendance for November * 1 Nov STEERC - 3 * 8 Nov SLUUG - 20 * 16 Nov STLLUG - 16 * 20 Nov STCLUG - 10 * 21 Nov SOLARIS - 6 * 28 Nov HZWLUG - 11 * 29 Nov SECURE - 10 * Current mailing list membership numbers (approximate): * 916 on ANNOUNCE * 180 on DISCUSS * Attendance sheets now available from each web site as .pdf and .sxw * [[http://www.sluug.org/attendance.pdf]] * [[http://stclug.sluug.org/attendance.pdf]] * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org/attendance.sxw]] ====== Nominations Report ====== * Nominations needed for February elections * Stan R. and Gary M. are on the nominating committee. * No updates. ====== Comments on Presentations ====== ===== November 2006 ===== ==== SLUUG - Nov 8 ==== * Base: Cronolog - Effortless Log Rotation by Carl Fitch * Pretty good. Improved significantly over the St. Charles version of the presentation. * Main: Introduction to Logical Volume Manager (LVM) by Jeff Muse * Stan R. worked with Jeff M. on building presentation slides. * This tutorial was on a heavy duty topic with 45+ slides. * Excellent. Took a bit of time for some folks to "get it", but hopefully most did. ==== STLLUG - Nov 16 ==== * Main: Demonstration of Logical Volume Manager (LVM) by Jeff Muse * This was a follow-up (part 2) of the SLUUG presentation. * Excellent. Covered more difficult LVM concepts, but again, we think most of the audience "got it". ==== STCLUG - Nov 20 ==== * Regular date would have fallen on Thanksgiving Day Holiday. * TOPIC: Konqueror - the Swiss Army Knife by Carl Fitch * Informative. Convinced several GNOME users to try it. ==== SOLARIS- Nov 21 ==== * Group voted to change name to St. Louis OpenSolaris Users Group (STLOSUG) * Will remain as a SLUUG Special Interest Group. * TOPIC: Introductory Information * What is Solaris? (Solaris 10, Open Solaris, Solaris Express, Nevada) * How to get started with Solaris * Online resources * Carl Fitch collected attendance sheet. ==== HZWLUG - Nov 28 ==== * Announced December meeting date change. * TOPIC: Konqueror - the Swiss Army Knife by Carl Fitch * Great once again. Also covered KIO slaves and SSH. ==== SECURITY - Nov 29 ==== * Regular date Nov 22 was one day prior to Thanksgiving Day. * UMSL provided pizza. * Topic was hands on using SSH. * UMSL-Micro Labs closed in December. Consensus was that there will not be a meeting in December. ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== December 2006 ===== ==== SLUUG - Dec 13 ==== * Base: Using OpenOffice.org Impress - Building Presentation Slides by Stan Reichardt * Main: Postfix Configuration by Carl Fitch (based on SLUUG new server [[http://wiki.sluug.org/build/postfix | Postfix config]]) * Carl has book sales cash box; needs to hand it off whenever he's not there. * Need to do nominations for February elections. ==== SOLARIS- Dec 19 ==== * Main: Basics of ZFS File System by Jeff Muse * Will include coverage of snapshots (in case you didn't get enough at the last LUG meeting). ==== HZWLUG - Dec 19 ==== * Holiday schedule date. * The 26 Dec date given last month was wrong, meeting room is reserved for 19 Dec.- Stan R. * Topic TBD. * Need to do nominations for February elections. ==== STLLUG - Dec 21 ==== * Need to determine Holiday schedule date. * Base: TBD -- open to any volunteers * Main: TBD -- will probably run some videos from [[http://getdemocracy.com/ | Democracy]]. * Need to do nominations for February elections. ==== SECURITY - CANCELED ==== * UMSL-Micro Labs closed in December. Consensus was that there will not be a meeting in December. * No meeting this month. ==== STCLUG - Dec 28 ==== * TOPIC: Postfix Configuration by Carl Fitch * Carl has confirmed 28th is good for December. * Need to do nominations for February elections. ===== January 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - Jan 10 ==== * Base: TBD. * MAIN: Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Lee L.) * Need to do additional nominations ==== SOLARIS - Jan 16 ==== * Hands-on: Installing virtual machines, and using new Solaris process management tools (TENTATIVE) ==== STLLUG - Jan 18 ==== * Base: TBD. * Main: TBD. * Need do final nominations for STL Linux chair. ==== HZWLUG - Jan 23 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. ==== SECURITY - Jan 24 ==== * TOPIC: Advanced SSH (TENTATIVE) ==== STCLUG - Jan 25 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. ===== February 2007 ===== ==== HZWLUG - Feb 13 ==== * This early date necessary due to StLC Library Branch scheduling conflicts * Election balloting (vote early!) * TOPIC: TBD. ==== SLUUG - Feb 14 ==== * WARNING: Valentines Day - Might cause low attendance * Back-to-back meeting this month with STLLUG * Official annual SLUUG business meeting * Election balloting * Lightning Talks are usually done in February at SLUUG ==== STLLUG - Feb 15 ==== * Back-to-back meeting this month with SLUUG * Election balloting * TOPIC: TBD. (Probably Lightning Talks) ==== SOLARIS - Feb 20 ==== * Election balloting * TOPIC: TBD. ==== STCLUG - Feb 22 ==== * Election balloting * TOPIC: TBD. ==== SECURITY - Feb 28 ==== * Election balloting * TOPIC: TBD. ====== Potential Presentations ====== * 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) * Hands-on: IP Filter (ipf) (Solaris group) * 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 Stan R.) * 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 * 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 ====== Sponsorships ====== * Stan R. purged a number of old sponsor icons from SLUUG website. * Stan R. created temporary sponsor icon for S3 and added it into rotating image script. * Stan R. ran into problem with rotating image script. * Depends on URL ending in .com, and UMSL's URL ends in .edu * Stan left it as-is, so UMSL's link does not work from the front page. * We've gotten several emails from head-hunters. * Consensus was that if they're out of town, ignore them. * For local companies, request that they sign up as a sponsor. * For specific local jobs, we will forward the emails to DISCUSS. * Primary criteria will be usefulness to our members. ====== Website Library ====== * Stan R. working with Ted P. to get presentations put up. * Ted has gotten some of the older presentations gathered * Resources page listing past presentations is up to date. * No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration * No progress this month. ====== System Administration ====== * Dark * Still having intermittent hardware failures * Michelob * Defunct WU Dialup hardware * Gary will remove it in a few months. * Barry will talk to John Hodge about assisting with installing more disk space. * Volume of mail is overwhelming Dark. * Postgrey has been enabled, which will hopefully reduce volume. ====== New Servers Project ====== * Met at Old Monroe on November 18. * Some progress made: * Migrated web sites for all SIGs. * Only main site (and user pages) remain on old servers. * Updated DNS to point at new URLs. * Added several aliases for each. * Mailing list archives moved off of old server into Mailman on new server. * Except for SYSADMIN, which has a different password. * Will need to move December arcives over. * Drupal installed, but configuration not completed. * Mailman installed and tested, but not in production. * Postfix installed, configured, and tested, but not in production. * DNS configured to be authoratative for our zones, but not in production. * NS records do not point at them. * Carl suggests putting Bud, Budlight, and Dark as primary NS and EveryDNS as secondaries. * Decisions to make: * How to migrate email, while allowing users to access email via existing methods. * How to migrate mailing lists to Mailman on new server. * To complete: * Migrate SLUUG main 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. * Migrate Chris Byrd's Drupal install over for Security site. * Make Bud an admin-only box. * Make Budlight a user-accessible box. * Need offline (sensitive?) working documentation matrix of machines (for recovery) * hostnames and IP numbers * functional purpose * hardware * resources * holders of root, sudo * Carl wants to implement LDAP on servers eventually. ====== Other Old Business ====== ===== Dial-up Lines ===== * We were to have Wash U drop the remaining line on October 30. * Was request made? Lee sent them a physical letter on 10/20 and 11/20. * Still active on 12/04. * Was letter lost or misdirected? Send again and call? * Gary will follow up. * Do we need to yank some equipment? ===== 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 B. was to write up new membership info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs. * Stan R. sent SLUUG membership flier OOo document to Craig B. for updating ====== New Business ====== * Always more to do. ====== Blue Sky ====== * Do we want to consider absentee ballots? * We can put up a PDF of the ballot on the web site. * Members can mail the ballots to our PO box. * Would help increase member participation. * Consensus was that this would be fine, as long as it does not violate by-laws. * Don't feel the need to advertise this, but it's OK to do that if someone wants to. ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== * CRAIG: Catch up on minutes. * CRAIG: Get updated S3 logo? * CRAIG: Get confirmation of LUG presentations from folks. * CRAIG: Write up membership stuff. * GARY: Follow up on Wash U phone lines. * EVERYONE: Get 2 presentations for Lightning Talks in February. * BARRY: Talk to John Hodge about assisting with installing more disk space on AIX boxes.