====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - May 2007 ====== NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!) ====== Location ====== The Bread Company's wifi access was down, so we had to move this month to: Omnitec Corporation PO Box 411010 Creve Coeur, MO 63141 ====== Date and Time ====== * May 2, 2007 * 7:00 pm - 8:40 pm ====== Attendees ====== * Gary Meyer * Lee Lammert * Carl Fitch * Patrick Bellinger * Craig Buchek ====== Secretary Report ====== * Secretary is catching up with things. ====== Treasurer Report ====== * Bank balance as of 3/31/2007: $1,371.49 * No pending deposits. * Expenses: * New Sign (1'x6'): $ 50.00 * Still have not received final bill from Wash U yet. ====== Book Sales Report ====== * Book sales were not done due to illness. ====== Membership Report ====== * Attendance for April 2007: * Apr 4 - Steercom: 3 * Apr 11 - SLUUG: 22 * Apr 17 - Solaris: 18 * Apr 19 - STLLUG: 18 * Apr 24 - HZWLUG: 8 * Apr 25 - Security: 7 * Apr 26 - STCLUG: 6 ====== Mailing List Report ====== * Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate): * ANNOUNCE - 917 * DISCUSS - 184 * STEERCOM - 32 ====== Presentation Review and Comments ====== ===== April 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - Apr 11 ==== * Base: Handcrafting Weekly Events with VIM by Stan Reichardt * Due to some earlier conflicts set up and start were delayed. * Internet connection was not attempted. * No slides were harmed during this session. * This was a live demo of VIM techniques used to build ANNOUNCE Weekly Events mailing. * Some interesting issues due to incorrect file permissions - got a few laughs. * Had been better at the previous STCLUG; was distracted by technical difficulties. * Main: ZFS by Jeff Muse * Very good. Good to have an advanced/enterprise topic. ==== SOLARIS - Apr 17 ==== * TOPIC: Live Upgrade by Jeff Lugullo * First meeting held at Sun's office building. * Turn-out is improving dramatically. * Good. Very detailed. Based on swapping virtual machines -- good idea. ==== STLLUG - Apr 19 ==== * TOPIC: Some New Linux Distros hosted by Stan Reichardt * Jay Truesdale ended up doing much of the presentation. * Became "Using Distrowatch to Compare Distos". * Pretty good. Unstructured, but good group discussion. ==== Special Event - Apr 23 ==== * Richard Stallman lecture at UMSL. * TOPIC: Goals of the Free Software Movement. * SLUUG and all SIG web pages carried announcement blurb with link to PDF flyer and maps. * Event was added to the April calendar and appeared in ANNOUNCE Weekly Events. * Additional ANNOUNCE blurbs were sent out by Gary Meyer. * Event was posted to www.askarchy.com and www.stlcalendar.com by Stan R. * Per RMS's objections, we did not have a table for fliers, or signage. * Attendance was estimated at 250-300. * Generated lively conversation on our DISCUSS list afterwards. ==== HZWLUG - Apr 24 ==== * Back at the regular Prairie Commons Branch Library location. * TOPIC: Using DSL Grub to chainload other Linux Distributions * Demo: A little of Ubuntu and DSL distros ==== SECURITY - Apr 25 ==== * TOPIC: Extraordinary SSH Use by Carl Fitch (re-scheduled from last month) * UMSL lab set up was using Red Hat 7.2 which didn't play well with Carl. ==== STCLUG - Apr 26 ==== * TOPIC: How To Create a UBCD4Win (Ultimate Boot CD) bootable CD by Carl Fitch * Very good. * Includes Windows BartPE and Linux both bootable from CD. ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== May 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - May 9 ==== * TOPIC: How To Create a UBCD4Win (Ultimate Boot CD) by Carl Fitch * Reprise of last month's STCLUG presentation. * People can follow along if they bring their own Windows XP installation disc. * Can use an OEM recovery disc or Windows Server 2003. * NOTE: This will be an extended topic -- no separate tutorial. ==== SOLARIS - May 15 ==== * TOPIC: TBD. ==== STLLUG - May 17 ==== * TOPIC: Ubuntu GNU/Linux (tentative) * Need to find a presenter. (Carl suggested Jay Truesdale) * Craig will be out of town. Need someone to run the meeting. ==== HZWLUG - May 22 ==== * The HZWLUG meetings thru November are now listed on www.stlcalendar.com * Experimenting with www.askarchy.com listing. Only submitted May meeting. * Uncertain if Stan R. will be in town for this meeting. ==== SECURITY - May 23 ==== * TOPIC: TBD by Chris Byrd ==== STCLUG - May 24 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ===== June 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - June 13 ==== * Base: TBD * Main: Building a Bootable USB Drive for Troubleshooting by James Campbell * People can follow along if they bring their own laptop and 1 GB USB memory stick. ==== SOLARIS - June 19 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== STLLUG - June 21 ==== * TOPIC: Programming Micro-Controllers with Linux by Jason Burke (confirmed) ==== HZWLUG - June 26 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== SECURITY - June 27 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== STCLUG - June 28 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ===== July 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - July 11 ==== * Base: TBD * Main: Basic GIMP Usage by Scott Nesler (tentative) ==== SOLARIS - July 17 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== STLLUG - July 19 ==== * TOPIC: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About HDTV by Craig Buchek ==== HZWLUG - July 24 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== SECURITY - July 25 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== STCLUG - July 26 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ====== Sponsorships ====== * Added EPC to sponsors lists. * EPC graphic will appear randomly on front page. * Recognition of extended membership levels has not yet been done. * Effort should be directed to find new sponsors. * No effort means no new sponsors. ====== System Administration ====== * Dark keeps crashing. * Waiting for it to not come back up. * Should our Solaris site just redirect link to our page on the Solaris web site? * http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/stl-osug/ * Nobody seems to be updating http://solaris.sluug.org web page. ====== Server Migration Project ====== * Carl and Craig to meet at Lee's on May 9 to work on migration. * Compare notes on Postfix configuration. * Install and configure Drupal for multiple web sites. * Integrate Drupal module for Mailman. * Integrate SpamAssassin into Postfix. * Compare configuration with Dark. * Verify Postfix delivery to IMAP server. ====== Website Library ====== * Stan R. and Ted P. * No routine presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration. * No migration means no real progress this month. ====== Other Old Business ====== * none ====== New Business ====== * Lee asked whether we should buy $100 worth of ink pens with our name on it. * Members can get 2 for $1 donation. * We can hand them out at conventions. * Should have our name and URL. * Also add a slogan: UNIX, GNU/Linux, Open Source * Unanimous support for spending $100 for 250 pens. ====== Blue Sky ====== * anything up there? ====== 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. * Carl and Craig - get together to work on new servers. * Gary - get Sun Netra T1/105 (1U) boxes from Craig, and install them at Primary. * Lee - provide power, food, and drink for those working on servers. * Carl - STCLUG Web site still shows March topic. * Clarence - Update Security UG web page. * Clarence - Inform us of upcoming topics. * Jeff/Jeff - Update Solaris UG web page. * Jeff/Jeff - Inform us of upcoming topics.