====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - December 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 ====== * Wednesday, 5 December 2007 * 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm ====== Attendees ====== * Stan Reichardt * Craig Buchek * Ken Christian ====== Secretary Report ====== * Printed out minutes for September and November. (There was no meeting in October.) ====== Treasurer Report ====== * Previous Balance: $1,396.56 as of 10/31/07 * Money in: 200.00 * Payables: * PO Box Fee -92.00 * November 1 Opening Balance: $1,504.56 * Carl needs to give money collected for memberships to the Treasurer. * Open issues: * New IRS reporting requirement * We will (likely) have to file a form 990-EZ for the 2007 tax year. * No response from Rich McClennan. * Any other advisory resources available? * Final bill from Wash U. - need to complete reply ====== Attendance Report ====== * Some numbers: ||Meeting | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov || || Steercom:| 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | No | 6|| || SLACC: | 9 | 6 | 7 | ?? | ?? | 8 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 8|| || 1st LDAP:| 7 | xx | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | No | No | No | No | ?? || || SLUUG: | 26 | 12 | 23 | 22 | 18 | 16 | 27 | 36 | 21 | 24 | 25 || || Solaris: | 3 | 4 | No | 18 | 15 | 6 | 8 | No | 11 | No | 5|| || 2nd LDAP:| xx | xx | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | No | No | (6)| 7 | No|| || STLLUG: | 15 | 12 | 14 | 18 | 23 | 20 | 31 | 31 (32) | 23 | 19 | 25 || || HZWLUG: | 9 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 | No | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 15 || || Security:| 10 | No | No | 7 | 9 | No | 6 | No | No | No | No || || STCLUG: | 12 | 10 | 10 | 6 | ?? | 8 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 11 | No || * No - indicates no meeting. * () - Numbers in parentheses are head count. * ?? - Question marks indicate attendance not taken or sheet missing. * xx - attendance numbers not yet recorded. ====== Mailing List Report ====== * We have migrated most lists from Majordomo on Michelob to MailMan on Bud. * USERS and non-SLUUG lists are only remaining lists to migrate. * Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate): || List | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec || || ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 | 866 || || DISCUSS | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 | 185 || || STEERCOM | 32 | 32 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 || || SYSADMIN | xx | xx | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 17 || * Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet. * ANNOUNCE mailing list. * Still no volunteer editor to do a Quarterly or monthly newsletter. * No subscribers suspended due to excessive bounces this month. ====== Review and Comments ====== ===== November 2007 ===== ==== SLUUG - November 14 ==== * TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, Epigenetics, etc. (part 1) by Robert Citek * Good. ==== STLLUG - November 15 ==== * TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, Epigenetics, etc. (part 2) by Robert Citek * Good. ==== STCLUG - November 19 ==== * CANCELED due to holidays. ==== SOLARIS - November 20 ==== * TOPIC: RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) ==== HZWLUG - November 27 ==== * TOPIC: GRUB and the MBR, etc. * Highest attendance this year - 15 ====== Presentation Schedule ====== ===== December 2007 ===== ==== SLACC - December 6 ==== * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation. ==== SLUUG - December 12 ==== * BASE: None. Will start with announcements, break, then start main presentation at 7:00. * MAIN: All About Google by Scott Granneman (CONFIRMED, via Stan R.) ==== Linux / Free Software Open House - December 13 ==== * 10:00 am - 4:00 pm at Premier Knowledge (in South St. Louis) * Anyone who is interested should contact Lee Lammert * Not an InstallFest -- more of "what to do next" ==== SOLARIS - December 18 ==== * TOPIC: TBD ==== HZWLUG - December 18 ==== * TOPIC: TBD * Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions. * NOTE: On the 3rd Tuesday because Christmas Day is on 4th Tuesday. ==== STLLUG - December 20 ==== * TOPIC: PHP Best Practices by Craig Buchek ==== HOLIDAY - December 25 === * Christmas Day ==== STCLUG - December 27 ==== * TOPIC: CakePHP and PHPReports by Scott Nesler (confirmed, via Carl) ==== SLUUG Server Project - December 29 ==== * Tentative work day for server builders ===== January 2008 ===== ===== February 2008 ===== ==== STLLUG - February 21 ==== * TOPIC: High-Performance Clustering by Brian Henerey of Wash U (via Craig) ===== Potential Future Topics ===== * APV (Advance POWER Virtualization) Overview by John Hodge * Demo/Using Scribus by Stan Reichardt. * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)- still looking for volunteer (via Craig). * Untangle Gateway Platform (instead of CentOS Linux) by Tim Dreste (via Stan R). * AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge) * Another presentation from Tom Bowman at TeamCentric Technologies (DB2?) (via Craig) * Building a modern kernel by Ed Howland. * Using git by Ed Howland. * Remotely presented (video conferencing) topics. * Qt/KDE (TrollTech sales rep, via Craig) * Linux(xBSD, etc) on Wireless. (Suggested by Ed Howland) * Part 1: Theory and operation of wireless networks. * The 802.11 stack (relevant protocols). * Descriptions of terms, expansion of alphabet soup. * Security (WEP, WPA, WPA2) * Network types (ad-hoc, infrastrucure). * Modes (ad-hoc, managed, master, monitor). * Packet Types (management, data frames, beacons, probes). * Part 2: Practical Linux Wireless configuration. * Cards, compatibility. * NDISWrapper and native (devicescape stack). * Drivers * Tools (using wpa_supplicant). * Network Monitor * Wireshark sniffing. ====== Sponsorships ====== * New Sponsor - SyllogisTeks * They have been providing door prizes and paying room fee for STLLUG meetings. * We have received a sponsorship check for $200. * Working on logo for SLUUG website rotating front page display (Stan R.) * Attendees were in favor of adding logo to our site before receiving money. * They paid for dinner after the meeting last month. * Have the current paying sponsors been asked to renew (with payment)? * Ajilon (Stan to follow up) * S3 - Strategic Staffing Solutions (Craig to follow up) * Potential sponsors * Sun - Jeff Logullo * IBM - (John Hodge may have a contact) * Red Hat - Clark Smith (Craig to follow up) * Novell / SuSE - Matt Skipton * Some old information has: * Annual sponsorship as $200 for Businesses and * $300 for Large Enterprise Corporations. This amount show on sluuginfo.pdf (18 April 2007) handout. * The $300 amount not viable, so sponsorships are $200. * Stan will purge any $300 amount from web site and forms. * We should review them once or twice annually and establish an end date on recognition. * We in fact recognize multiple entities as sponsors due to community support or services in kind. * EPC - STLLUG Installfest, STL BusExpo hardware use & handout printing support, SLUUG discount. * Computers & Things - STLLUG Installfests, STCLUG projector & STL BusExpo printing support. * Graybar - SLUUG general meeting site. * Hostirian - New server hosting. * K&S Pritchard Enterprises - Hosted STLLUG web pages thru to Spring 2007. * O'Reilly - discount book arrangement (now moot - suggest removing). * Law Offices of Rich McLennen - legal services as needed. * UMSL-MicroLabs - The St. Louis Security Group meeting lab area. * Omnitec - has been providing services in kind commensurate with other sponsors. * Possible Sponsor - pcMemoryStore * Last meeting, we approved. * However, their deal turned out not to be of any advantage to us or our members. * Need sign about sponsoring our group for booth/table display at meetings and trade shows. * More effort should be directed to find new sponsors. * No effort means no more new sponsors. ====== Server Migration Project ====== * Next work meeting: December 29. * Work left to do: * Make sure docs are up to date. * Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud. * Started documenting client email configurations, to help users migrate. * See [[../users]] and [[../mail_setup]] pages. * Start migrating individual users. * Make sure we have documentation on what we need to migrate. * Finish rebuilding Budlight. * Carl may rebuild using virtual machines. * Craig - Work on finishing server builds. * Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig) * Get offsite backups working. * Publish SSH host keys on web page. * Work with Ed Wehner to migrate gateway-l and archrivals lists. * Migrate USERS mailing list. * Other work to do: * Jeff working on virus scanning * Craig working on Drupal ====== Website Library ====== * Stan R. and Ted P. * Partial migration from Dark to Bud sufficient to start loading presentations. * Each website has skeleton presentation page listing topics given to date. * No routine presentation uploads yet. ====== SLACC as a SIG ====== * Carl needs to follow up with Noel about transferring the domain to us. * The registration is paid up until 2009. * Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.com email addresses. ====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ====== * Membership drive * 2 members signed up in September. * Shell accounts have been created. * Lee has membership forms. * Need to print out name tags. * Omnitec will print them out and bring to SLUUG meeting. * Cafe Press merchandise * Carl has money from purchases -- needs to turn into treasurer. * Stan to add CafePress link to SLUUG web site when we get info. * Stan to link new membership page into SLUUG web site. * It was suggested that we use Scott Nessler's logos. * We should ask Scott. * We should post the choices to STEERCOM for voting to make it official. ====== Other Old Business ====== * Library reservations (October 6) * Reserved rooms for all our meetings. * A few holiday conflicts. * We have Thornhill as a backup to Indian Trails for STLLUG meetings. * Meeting room is better, but no projector. * [[http://www.stchman.com/ | Bob Nelson]] - [[http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-466368.html | wants to start an Ubuntu LoCo]] * Craig to follow up again. * EPC would like to hold the meetings. * Open 9-2 on weekends, close at 6 on weekdays. * Talk to Tony Lavasco and Frank Polston if we need to follow up. * Security Group * Has not had a meeting in the past 3 months. * Clarence has had conflicts. * Other leaders have not been responsive. * Steering Committee has declared the group "in hiatus". * Stan will update web site with the new status. * Gary will start a thread on DISCUSS. * Asking for location and leadership. * Linux / Free Software Open House * December 13 (2:00 - 8:00) * at Premier Knowledge (in South St. Louis) * As of today, 7 people have signed up. * Anyone who is interested should contact Lee Lammert. * Not an InstallFest -- more of "what to do next". * Lee suggested we create a Rails app on Bud to manage the group. * Member data - payments, expirations, etc. * Sponsors - expirations, etc. * Attendance * STL Ruby Group is writing a similar application. * RAMS - Rails Association Management System * We should leverage that, and guide it to our needs * Scott Nesler has built an app for attendance * Stan has plugged data into it for the year * Not sure if the app fits any of our other needs * Stan suggested that we NOT have Lightning Talks this year. * Lack of organizing them ahead of time. * Lack of commitment from presenters. * Several people skip that meeting because they don't like the idea. ====== New Business ====== * Craig wants to follow through on recording the audio of our presentations. * From Ken's suggestion from last month. * Suggested spending $50-$100 on purchasing a digital voice recorder. * All in attendance (and Lee and Carl, via cell phone) agreed that this is a good idea. * Craig is approved to spend up to $100 on a voice recorder. ====== Blue Sky ====== * Stan suggested selecting a Man of the Year. * Someone not an officer. ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== * Carl - Cancel credit card processing. * Carl - Turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer. * Jeff - Seek assistance from AIX gurus (Barry, John, Mike, Gary) to see if we want to set up his box. * Barry, John - Talk to Rich Seibel and Dave Mills about AIX hardware he has. * Lee - Follow up drafting reply to Wash U. * Craig - Buy . * Craig - Cancel library reservations at Thornhill. * Craig - Follow up w/ Ubuntu LoCo person. * Craig - Email Clark Smith @ Red Hat about getting someone to present on RHEL5, and $200 sponsorship. * Craig - Email Jim Leingang @ S3 about $200 sponsorship. * Stan - Ask Ajilon about continuing $200 sponsorship. * Stan - Add CafePress link to SLUUG web site when we get info. * Stan - Link new membership page into SLUUG web site. * Gary - Prepare Sun E250 for potential use. * Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration. * Server Builders - Meet on December 29 for work day. * Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings. * Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships. * Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.