====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - June 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 ====== * June 6, 2007 * 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm ====== Attendees ====== * Carl Fitch * Lee Lammert * Craig Buchek * Barry Morrison * John Hodge * Stan Reichardt * Jeff Urbanec ====== Secretary Report ====== * Secretary needs to catch up with things, especially printing out minutes. ====== Treasurer Report ====== * As of: 4/30/07 * Bank balance: $ 1275.59 * Pending deposits: none * Pending expenses: * Pens - ordered, should be here soon * Final bill from Wash U has not been received. * Gary provided good address to forward correspondence. * Need receipts for expense reimbursements. * Gary - domain registration * Carl - state registration ====== Book Sales Report ====== * Book sales - none for previous month ====== Membership Attendance Report ====== * Most attendance sheets are available from the web servers. * using URL as in http://www.sluug.org/attendance.pdf, * or http://solaris.sluug.org/attendance.pdf, and so on. * Attendance for May 2007: * May 1 - 1st LDAP: 7 * May 2 - Steercom: 5 * May 9 - SLUUG: missing attendance sheet * May 16 - 2nd LDAP: 5 * May 17 - STLLUG: missing attendance sheet * May 22 - Solaris: 15 * May 22 - HZWLUG: missing attendance sheet * May 24 - STCLUG: missing attendance sheet * May 30 - Security: 9 ====== Mailing List Report ====== * Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate): == Subscriber numbers == || List | May | June || || ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 || || DISCUSS | 184 | 190 || || STEERCOM | 32 | 32 || ====== Presentation Review and Comments ====== ===== May 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - May 9 ==== * TOPIC: How To Create a UBCD4Win (Ultimate Boot CD) by Carl Fitch * This was an extended topic -- there was no separate tutorial. * Reprise of last month's STCLUG presentation. * Included discussion of Windows BartPE and Linux both bootable from CD * People could follow along if they brought their own Windows XP installation disc. * Could use an OEM recovery disc or Windows Server 2003. * Good. A bit of hands on. ==== STLLUG - May 17 ==== * TOPIC: Ubuntu GNU/Linux by Jay Truesdale * Went quickly. Showed off features of latest version of Ubuntu. * Covered wireless support in-depth. * Craig and Stan were out of town. Carl ran the meeting. ==== SOLARIS - May 22 ==== * TOPIC: Virtualizing Solaris: The Big Rules for Zones, Xen, LDOMs and VMware by Bob Neatherton * Excellent - a whole day's presentation condensed into 3 hours. * Sun's virtual machine specialist gave the presentation. * Nobody seemed to be updating http://solaris.sluug.org web page. * Jeff Logullo was maintaining a new web page * Stan R. put HTML page at our Solaris SIG URL to now redirect to Jeff L.'s new URL * New URL is http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/stl-osug/ * References to our http://solaris.sluug.org/ URL are automatically redirected. ==== HZWLUG - May 22 ==== * Stan R. was not in town for this meeting. Carl ran the meeting. * Covered wireless network config and troubleshooting. * The HZWLUG meetings thru November are now listed on [[http://www.stlcalendar.com | www.stlcalendar.com]] * Experimenting with askarchy.com listing. Only submitted May meeting so far. ==== STCLUG - May 24 ==== * TOPIC: Round-table discussion on various topics. * Plenty of contributions from the crowd. ==== SECURITY - May 30 ==== * TOPIC: Snort and Base by Clarence Johnson * Excellent. Will cover in more detail next month. * Meeting rescheduled on short notice from May 23rd ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== June 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - June 13 ==== * Base: Public Key Authentication in SSH by Barry Morrison * Main: Building a Bootable USB Drive for Troubleshooting by James Campbell (via Lee) * People can follow along if they bring their own laptop and 1 GB USB memory stick. ==== SOLARIS - June 19 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== HZWLUG - June 19 ==== * Meeting date tentative - regular Prairie Commons Branch room not available on 26th * Still trying to find a location for the regular date. * TOPIC: Newbie topics. ==== STLLUG - June 21 ==== * TOPIC: Physical Computing with Linux by Jason Burke (confirmed) ==== SECURITY - June 27 ==== * TOPIC: Continued Examination of Snort and BASE * by Chris Byrd, CISSP ==== STCLUG - June 28 ==== * TOPIC: TBD * Stan R. updated STCLUG Web site. ===== July 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - July 11 ==== * Base: DSH - Distributed Shell by John Hodge * Main: Basic GIMP Usage by Scott Nesler (confirmed, via Craig) ==== 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: Newbie topics ==== SECURITY - July 25 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== STCLUG - July 26 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ===== August 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - August 8 ==== * Base: TBD * Main: one of the following topics by John Hodge * Micro-Partitioning * VIO - virtual I/O - sharing network devices on POWER hardware * Storage Virtualization on AIX * HACMP - High Availability on AIX ==== STLLUG - August 16 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== SOLARIS - August 21 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== STCLUG - August 23 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== HZWLUG - August 28 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== SECURITY - August 29 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ===== October ===== ==== STLLUG - October 18 ==== * TOPIC: Lotus Notes (Client and Server) on Linux by Tom Bowman of TeamCentric (confirmed, via Craig) ===== Potential Future Topics ===== * DNA, Genes, Viruses, Bioinformatics by Robert Citek * Something by Scott Granneman * Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 * AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge) ====== Sponsorships ====== * 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. * Work on new servers to replace AIX boxes is moving along rapidly. * Security issues * Had some accounts compromised. ====== Server Migration Project ====== * Carl and Craig met at Lee's on May 9 to work on migration. * Accomplished quite a bit. * Got SASL and TLS added to Postfix configuration. * Integrated SpamAssassin into Postfix via MailScanner. * Grabbed most of the config from Dark. * Upgraded version of DokuWiki. * Craig rebuilt Bud on May 30. * Built per documentation on the wiki. * Took about 2 hours on-site to build. * Should only have taken 1 hour, but had some incorrect documentation. * Took about 1-2 days to get it back to same shape it was before. * Carl, Craig, Jeff Muse, Stan, and Lee meeting on June 13 to do more work. * Make sure Mailman is working. * Make sure mailing lists get archived to web. * Make offsite backups work. * Scheduled deletion of older backups. * Move all SSL cert creation to one place in the docs. * Apache for users.sluug.org. * Will use this to migrate users from Michelob to Budlight. * Install and configure Drupal for multiple web sites. * Integrate Drupal module for Mailman. ====== 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 ====== ===== SLACC as a SIG ===== * It was mentioned that St. Louis Area Computer Club (SLACC) membership was nearly all SLUUG members. * Someone asked if perhaps we should give SLACC status as a SLUUG Special Interest Group (SIG). * There was little discussion, and agreement that it would make sense to have SLACC as a SIG. * It would give SLUUG an official meeting for bringing machines in to install/configure Linux. * Craig to make URL http://slacc.sluug.org * Stan to build web page, add links on SLUUG site, and take attendance at SLACC meetings. * Craig suggested that the board should hold an official vote, and SLACC should also vote on the issue. ===== Domain Renewal ===== * The sluug.org domain expires in July. * Gary Meyer has put on his credit card. * But Whois still shows it expiring on July 10, 2007. ===== Annual Report to State of Missouri ===== * See [[https://www.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/soskb/Corp.asp?681250 | SLUUG Info]] on file with State of Missouri. * Due by 31 August, Carl saved us $5 last year by filing early. * Should we change the "registered agent" shown on the forms? * YES: Change to "Stan Reichardt" @ same address as our "corporate headquarters". * Should help us receive official hard-copy forms from the state. ===== Publicity Handouts ===== * We have 3 handouts for our meetings, each available at the URLs listed below. * SLUUG general information handout (front is portrait and back is landscape): * [[http://www.sluug.org/sluugA070418.pdf| http://www.sluug.org/sluugA070418.pdf]] (portrait page) * [[http://www.sluug.org/sluugB070418.pdf| http://www.sluug.org/sluugB070418.pdf]] (landscape page) * [[http://www.sluug.org/sluuginfo.pdf| http://www.sluug.org/sluuginfo.pdf]] (combined) * Hazelwood LUG GNU/Linux for Beginners: * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org/Linux4Beginners.pdf| http://hzwlug.sluug.org/Linux4Beginners.pdf]] * St. Louis Security Group Password Guidelines for Beginners: * [[http://security.sluug.org/passwordguide.pdf| http://security.sluug.org/passwordguide.pdf]] * Need more copies of Hazelwood and Security brochures. * Carl will print 200 copies of each. ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== * Craig: Ping Robert Citek and Scott Granneman about presentations. * Craig: Follow up w/ Tom Bowman of TeamCentric Technologies on Lotus Notes presentation + another. * Craig: Follow up w/ Scott Nesler on GIMP presentation. * Craig: Set up virtual host to test www.sluug.org site on new server. * Craig: Print out previous minutes. * Craig: Write up info on membership levels. * Gary: Get Sun Netra T1/105 (1U) boxes from Craig, install Solaris, and install them at Primary. * Gary: Verify that domain has been renewed in Whois. * Carl: Print 200 copies each of Hazelwood and Security brochures.