====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - April 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 ====== * April 4, 2007 * 6:30 pm - ====== Attendees ====== * Stan Reichardt * Lee Lammert * Gary Meyer ====== Secretary Report ====== * Secretary is catching up with things. * MARCH - Should have print-outs of things by next month. * APRIL - ====== Treasurer Report ====== == Pending Deposits == ||From |Description | Amt || ||Wayne Molitor|| $70.00|| ||Phillip Foster|| $70.00|| == Bank balance as of 2/28/07 $ 1,1446.36== == Expenses == St. Charles Convention Center $ 65.05 Small Business Monthly (Booth) $100.00 Total Booth Expense $165.05 * Still have not received final bill from Wash U yet. ====== Book Sales Report ====== * We had xx booksales and xx membership renewal(s). ||Xxxxxxx xxx xxxx || ||Xxxx Xxxxx - membership|| || _______________________ || ||Total income: $xx.xx|| ====== Membership Report ====== * Attendance for March 2007: * Mar 7 - Steercom: 4 * Mar 14 - SLUUG: 23 * Mar 15 - STLLUG: 14 * Mar 20 - Solaris: NO MEETING * Mar 22 - STCLUG: 10 * Mar 27 - HZWLUG: 7 * Mar 28 - Security: NO MEETING * Observations: * Two meetings had to be cancelled * SLUUG almost double. Had NO publicised Basic topic to draw anybody in. * Other attendance numbers were about like last month. * HZWLUG disappointing * ====== Mailing List Report ====== * Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate): * ANNOUNCE - 902 * DISCUSS - 182 * STEERCOM - 32 * Recent ANNOUNCE Problem * Had multiple re-transmissions of Events For This Week itme * Mike Knight fixed announce-posters file ====== Presentation Review and Comments ====== ===== March 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - Mar 14 ==== * Base: General Discussion by Various Members ??? * * Main: Zimbra as an Exchange Replacement by Matthew Porter Excellent but not enuff time. More coming in part 2 in a couple months. Also need some additional background on what is MS-Exchange, why do people use it, why is it a bitch to replace, ...??? Perhaps a side-by-side comparison/demo? * ==== STLLUG - Mar 15 ==== * Base: ??? * Main: Survey of GUI Email Clients (Craig Buchek) Very good! Similar comparison talks would be great. Lots of audiance interaction. * ==== SOLARIS - Mar 20 ==== * NO MEETING THIS MONTH. * Canceled due to multiple conflicts. * ==== STCLUG - Mar 22 ==== * TOPIC: Karaoke at the Keyboard/Mouse aka Night at the Keyboard * Copy of STLLUG Ten-minute Tips (each person sits at the keyboard) * Went over very well, with lots of tips, interaction and discussion. Reminded of our old meetings!!! Great way to share knowledge!! * ==== HZWLUG - Mar 27 ==== * Temporary change of location to Bridgeton Trails Branch Library. * This was necessary due to StLC Library Branch scheduling conflicts. * Was in smaller room than previous month, NO reliable WIFI avaliable. * TOPIC: Boot Loaders and Partitioning Hard Drives * Old Projector working, but not as expected. * Might have been Operator Head Space Gap. * Couldn not show boot loader activity live. * Demo of Live CD MEPIS 6.5RC3 went well. * 3 first time attendees. * Attendance otherwise low. * ==== SECURITY - Mar 28 ==== * NO MEETING THIS MONTH. * Canceled at last minute. Clarence Johnson could not be there, NO access without him. * ====== Small Business Expo - Review and Comments ====== * [[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 * Lee Lammert was in charge of setting up and getting volunteers to man the booth. * Steering Committee had approved $200 for booth cost and expenses. * We had a booth with two tables and electricity. * Wifi was too expensive. * Volunteered wireless cell card ... we never got it to work because we couldn't get it activated. Even Verison couldn't check if it was a valid account. Took the owner over an hour to get it to work later. * Carl Fitch got some demo computers from EPC. * Installed Linux distros: MEPIS, SuSE, Xandros, and Ubuntu on a Mac * Novell provide SWAG (Penguins, SLES 10 CDs, etc.) * Fred Smith of Old Monroe printed 200 new SLUUG flyers. * Also used on hand Linux4Beginner and Password tri-fold flyers. * Booth was manned by Lee Lammert, Carl Fitch, Gary McGee, Phil Bunch, Stan Reichardt, Jay Truesdale, and (?) * Observations: * Center facilities quite nice. * Our booth way too small. * Carl Fitch can sell free software. * Need newer logo on SLUUG sign. === Follow Up === * New vector format of SLUUG logo is in hand, .. we can print any size sign when we wish. * Plan for next year is to negotiate a 10x10 booth, or, at the very least, a corner booth so we can turn the 2nd table out to the side. ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== April 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - Apr 11 ==== * Base: Handcrafting Weekly Events with VIM by Stan Reichardt * A few slides and live demonstration of VIM techniques used * Requires laptop (using Carl's) and Internet link desirable * Main: ZFS by Jeff Muse * ZFS is a new kind of filesystem that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We've blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at the source, and created a storage system that's actually a pleasure to use. ==== SOLARIS - Apr 17 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. ==== STLLUG - Apr 19 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. * ==== Special Event - Apr 23 ==== * Richard Stallman lecture at UMSL. * TOPIC: Goals of the Free Software Movement. * SLUUG and all SIG web pages carry announcement blurb with link to PDF flyer and maps. * On the April calendar and will appear in ANNOUNCE Weekly Events. * What else can we do to promote this event? We need to have fliers, signage,etc ??? for the event. gary will ask Sanjiv for permission. ==== HZWLUG - Apr 24 ==== * Back at the regular Prairie Commons Branch Library location. * TOPIC: TBD. * ==== SECURITY - Apr 25 ==== * TOPIC: Extraordinary SSH Use by Carl Fitch (re-scheduled from last month) * ==== STCLUG - Apr 26 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. * ===== May 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - May 9 ==== * Base: TBD. * Main: TBD. ==== SOLARIS - May 15 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. ==== STLLUG - May 17 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. * ==== HZWLUG - May 22 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. * ==== SECURITY - May 23 ==== * TOPIC: TBD * ==== STCLUG - May 24 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. * ===== June 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - June 12 ==== * Base: TBD. * Main: Building your own bootable USB drive for troubleshooting by James Campbell (Bring your laptops & 1GB stick) ==== SOLARIS - June 19 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. ==== STLLUG - June 21 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. * ==== HZWLUG - June 26 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. * ==== SECURITY - June 27 ==== * TOPIC: TBD * ==== STCLUG - June 28 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. * ====== Sponsorships ====== * Effort should be directed to find new sponsors. * No effort means no new sponsors. ====== 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 had predicted increasing failure rate and to be more than once a day by end of month February. * Current System may DIE in APRIL! * This project needs **emergency priority!** * Gary was to ask Allen @ Wash U if heat may be a problem! * Barry talked to John Hodge about assisting with installing more AIX disk space. * Mike Knight reminded all that hardware is issue, not space. * Michelob * * Bud, Budlight - see Server Migration Project below. ====== Server Migration Project ====== * MARCH - Carl fixed (hopefully) the sign-up CGI page to reduce spam. * MARCH - Craig has been working on testing email. * MARCH - Craig to compare notes with Carl on Postfix configuration. * MARCH - Craig has been working on installing and configuring latest Drupal. * MARCH - Need to work on getting clients to configure to use IMAP. * MARCH - Jeff Muse got Mailman working and tested. * MARCH - Craig found a Drupal module for Mailman. * MARCH - Will be quick and simple to migrate mailing lists once we move the MX record. * MARCH - 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 routine presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration * No migration means no real progress this month. ====== MARCH Follow-up and Action Items ====== * MARCH - Craig - print out previous minutes. * MARCH - Craig - finish up work on email server. * MARCH - Craig - get people to test using IMAP to connect to Bud from their email clients. * MARCH - Craig - get with Chris Byrd to work on Drupal and other stuff. * MARCH - Carl and Craig - get together to work on new servers. * MARCH - Gary - get Sun 1U boxes from Craig, and install them at Primary. * MARCH - Lee - provide power, food, and drink for those working on servers. ====== Other Old Business ====== * none * ====== New Business ====== * none * ====== Blue Sky ====== * anything up there? * ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== * Who will do what *