====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - March 2007 ====== 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 ====== * March 7, 2007 * 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm ====== Attendees ====== * Carl Fitch * Craig Buchek * Stan Reichardt * Gary Meyer ====== Election Results ====== * The ballots were opened and counted. * There were 24 valid ballots. * Results: * Barry Morrison and Craig Buchek were elected for 3-year terms on the Board. * The incumbents were re-elected for the following positions: * Vice President: Stan Reichardt * Secretary: Craig Buchek * Treasurer: Lee Lammert * St. Louis LUG Chair: Craig Buchek * Gary Meyer got the most votes for President, but respectfully declined. * Carl Fitch got 2nd most votes, and accepted the Board's appointment. * There was a tie in the vote for St. Charles LUG Chair: Carl Fitch and Fred Smith. * We will ask Fred Smith if he will accept the position; otherwise Carl will fill it. * Other votes were recorded for: * Board: Clarence Johnson, Gary McKee * Secretary: Rich Seibel * Presentation Manager: Jim Roe, Stanford Baldwin, Barry Morrison, Gary Meyer, Gary McKee * Public Relations: Gary Meyer, Jay Truesdale, Mike Duncan * St. Louis LUG Chair: Phil Bunch * St. Charles LUG Chair: Jim Roe, Stan Reichardt ====== Secretary Report ====== * Secretary is catching up with things. * Should have print-outs of things by next month. ====== Treasurer Report ====== == Deposits == ||From |Description | Amt || ||Fred Grovier|| $35.00|| ||Terry Koyn|| $35.00|| == Bank balance as of 1/31/07 $ 1,336.10== == Pending Deposits 0 == == Pending AP 0* == * Still have not received final bill from Wash U yet. ====== Book Sales Report ====== * We had 13 booksales and one membership renewal. ||Guide to Oracle 8i|| ||Java with Oracle|| ||Java with SOAP|| ||Programing with GNU Software|| ||Using Samba|| ||Programing with Curses|| ||CSS Pocket|| ||Learning the UNIX OS|| ||Oracle Performance Tuning|| ||Developing Bioinformatics|| ||Java Extreme Programing|| ||Beginning Perl|| ||Gary Meyer - membership|| || _______________________ || ||Total income: $66.00|| ====== Membership Report ====== * Attendance for Feburary 2007: * Feb 7 - Steercom: 5 * Feb 14 - SLUUG: 12 * Feb 15 - STLLUG: 12 * Feb 20 - Solaris: 4 * Feb 22 - STCLUG: 10 * Feb 27 - HZWLUG: 7 * Feb 28 - Security: NO MEETING * Attendance numbers were down this month. * Partly due to Valentine's Day. * May be due to Lightning Talks not being a big draw. ====== Presentation Review and Comments ====== ===== February 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - Feb 14 ==== * Lightning Talks * Most were good. * Jeff Muse's talk on wget was really good. * Ed Howland's talk on DST changes was good and very thorough. ==== STLLUG - Feb 15 ==== * Ten-minute Tips (each person sits at the keyboard) * Good. Wide diversity of topics and lengths. ==== SOLARIS - Feb 20 ==== * Hands-on: Installing virtual machines, and using new Solaris process management tools * Very hands-on due to low attendance; learned a lot as a consequence. ==== STCLUG - Feb 22 ==== * TOPIC: Java Development for Cell Phones by Carl Fitch * A lot of interaction and discussion. ==== HZWLUG - Feb 27 ==== * Went through CD of PDFs that Stan had developed and handed out. * Included lots of Linux magazines and training. ==== SECURITY - Feb 28 ==== * NO MEETING THIS MONTH. ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== March 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - Mar 14 ==== * Base: TBD. * Main: Matthew Porter - Zimbra as an Exchange Replacement ==== STLLUG - Mar 15 ==== * TOPIC: Survey of GUI Email Clients (Craig Buchek) ==== SOLARIS - Mar 20 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. ==== STCLUG - Mar 22 ==== * TOPIC: Karaoke at the Keyboard/Mouse aka Night at the Keyboard ==== HZWLUG - Mar 27 ==== * Temporary change of location to Bridgeton Trails Branch Library. * This necessary due to StLC Library Branch scheduling conflicts. * TOPIC: TBD. ==== SECURITY - Mar 28 ==== * TOPIC: Extraordinary SSH Use by Carl Fitch ===== April 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - Apr 11 ==== * Base: TBD. * Main: TBD. ==== SOLARIS - Apr 17 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. ==== STLLUG - Apr 19 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. ==== HZWLUG - Apr 24 ==== * Back at the regular Prairie Commons Branch Library location. * TOPIC: TBD. ==== SECURITY - Apr 25 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. ==== STCLUG - Apr 26 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. ====== Small Business Expo ====== * [[http://www.sbmon.com/expo/index.htm | St. Louis Business Expo]] by St. Louis Small Business Monthly * March 20, 11:00-6:00 * St. Charles Convention Center * We have a booth with two tables and electricity. * Lee is in charge of setting up and getting volunteers to man the booth. * Wifi was too expensive. * Can we find someone with a wireless cell card to use instead? * Carl will talk to EPC to get some computers to demo. * Steering Committee approved $200 for booth cost and expenses. ====== Sponsorships ====== * Effort should be directed to find new sponsors. * No effort means no new sponsors. ====== Dial-up Line Removal ====== * Has WU cancelled lines? * Yes! * Billing is still in dispute. * Lee will be working with Wash U to correct the problem. ====== System Administration ====== * Dark keeps crashing * Has slowed down. * This supports the overheating theory. * Need to quickly move to new systems or replace dark's hardware. * Gary predicts failure rate is increasing and will be more than once a day by end of month February. * System may be DEAD in/before APRIL! * This project needs **emergency priority!** * Gary will ask Allen @ Wash U if heat may be a problem! * Barry was supposed to talk to John Hodge about assisting with installing more AIX disk space. * Not yet able to talk to John Hodge, hopefully next week or so. * Michelob * Volume of mail stabilized once graymilter was activated. * Michelob depends on NFS filesystem from Dark!!! * Bud, Budlight - see Server Migration Project below. ====== Server Migration Project ====== * Stan updated most pages on the STLLUG site. * Removed dead links. * Rewrote membership page. * Removed link to sign-up page that was not working. * Carl fixed (hopefully) the sign-up CGI page to reduce spam. * Craig has been working on testing email. * Craig to compare notes with Carl on Postfix configuration. * Craig has been working on installing and configuring latest Drupal. * Need to work on getting clients to configure to use IMAP. * Jeff Muse got Mailman working and tested. * Craig found a Drupal module for Mailman. * Will be quick and simple to migrate mailing lists once we move the MX record. * Craig and Carl were to get together to work on things, but weather and Craig moving got in the way. ====== Website Library ====== * Stan R. and Ted P. * No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration * No migration means no progress this month. ====== Other Old Business ====== * none ====== New Business ====== * North County Journal is looking for story ideas. * Gary Meyer suggested they come to a meeting of ours to write a story. * It was suggested that the Hazelwood LUG would be a good venue. * Newbie topics would be good for the reporter. * We should get word out to encourage high attendance that meeting. ====== Blue Sky ====== * We need to discuss low attendance figures sometime soon. ====== Board Meeting ====== * A Board meeting was held. * Carl Fitch was accepted as President. * Other "clearly winning" positions were accepted. ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== * Craig - print out previous minutes. * Craig - finish up work on email server. * Craig - get people to test using IMAP to connect to Bud from their email clients. * Craig - get with Chris Byrd to work on Drupal and other stuff. * Carl and Craig - get together to work on new servers. * Gary - get Sun 1U boxes from Craig, and install them at Primary. * Lee - provide power, food, and drink for those working on servers.