SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - August 2006

NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!)

Saint Louis Bread Company,
10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (at Old Olive and Olive)

• August 2, 2006
• 6:30 pm - 8:12 pm

• Carl Fitch
• Clarence Johnson
• Craig Buchek
• Bob Hansen
• Stan Reichardt

• Printed out minutes from Steering Committee meetings up through July.
  • Had the president sign them.
  • Will include them in secretary folder.
• Still need to type up minutes of previous Board meeting.

• Lee says Wash U is still billing us for 5 lines.
  • They supposedly terminated the 5th line in April.
• Lee will look into getting refunded for having only 4 lines, but paying for 5.
• Lee asked that Gary gets the termination order in to Wash U for 9/30 AHEAD OF TIME.

• No books sold in July.

Attendance figures for last 3 months:

 3 May STEERC  -  6 ........  7 Jun STEERC  -  6 ........   5 Jul STEERC  -  5
10 May SLUUG   - 37 ........ 14 Jun SLUUG   - 15 ........  12 Jul SLUUG   -  29
18 May STLLUG  - 15(17)..... 15 Jun STLLUG  - 23 ........  20 Jul STLLUG  -  CANCELED
23 May HZWLUG  -  7 ........ 22 Jun STCLUG  -  8 ........  27 Jul STCLUG  -  11
24 May SECURE  -  8 ........ 27 Jun HZWLUG  -  7 ........  25 Jul HZWLUG  -  8
25 May STCLUG  - 11 ........ 28 Jun SECURE  -  9 ........  26 Jul SECURE  -  10

Figures in parenthesis is actual head count.

Chris volunteered to cross-promote our Security meetings at other local security groups (Infragaurd and ISSA).

• Base: Graylisting with Postgray (Making Spammers Wait) by Carl Fitch
  • Good.
• Main: Novell SUSE in the Enterprise Space by Matt Skipton of Novell
  • Neat technology. Covered a lot. Almost too much.
  • We need to have vendors in here more often.
    • Especially the big ones. (IBM, Sun, Novell)
  • We should have him back in a few months to go in depth on one of the topics.

• Meeting canceled due to storm-related power outage at the library.

• Booting Multiple Live CD's from a Single CD-ROM or DVD by Mike Duncan
  • Interesting. Good speaker.

• How To Update Your System - pkg, rpm, tar, apt, yum, yast, etc.
  • Talked mostly about Debian apt.

• Topic: OpenVPN by Mark Buchanon
  • Good, but a bit Windows-oriented.

• Base: Intro to Metasploit Security Tool by Chris Byrd
• Main: We're all doomed!: A look into the present & future by Scott Granneman

• Main: JT Moree - Personal Accomplishments in Open Source

• Newbie Topics

• Hands-On: Metasploit by Chris Byrd

• Main: Creating a VNC repeater for your customers and relatives - and WHY? by Carl Fitch

• Base: TBD
• Main:

• Main: Update on SCO v. IBM Lawsuit by AllParadox (TENTATIVE, via Scott McKellar)

• Newbie Topics

• TBD

• TBD

• Base: TBD
• Main: TBD

• Base: TBD
• Main: Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Exchange "replacement") by Matthew Porter (TENTATIVE)

• Main: InkScape - Mark Jarnowski (via Craig)
• Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Tim Cross)
• Perl Scripts to do DNA Genetic Research by Bryce Meyer from Wiltel/Level 3 (via Gary)
• OpenVPN by Robert Citek (via ???)
• SELinux by Stan Reichardt (Not Earlier Than October, If Then)
• MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list)
• WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary)
• CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, Ed Howland (via ???)
• Requests:
  • VPN (hands-on preferred, good for a Security meeting)
  • CVS/Subversion for Config Files
  • Oracle Application Express
  • How To Update Your System - apt, yum, yast, etc.
  • Music - Linux on iPod, iPod on Linux, Ogg, players, etc.
  • Using Secure Email Clients
  • TrueCrypt - file-level encryption for Windows/Linux
  • One-Time Passwords

• Stan has recently gotten a number of positive comments on Weekly Events mailings.
• Stan has started experimenting with SED & AWK scripts to automate build.

• Lee working to send out invoices to previous sponsors. ($200)
• Clarence and Stan R. will start working to gather information about previous sponsors.
  • Starting with information from the web site.

• Presentation topics as far back as 1996 have now been listed.
  • Stan R. indicated that accuracy is not high, but will search additional notes.
  • Stan R. and Ted will continue listing prior years' data as time permits.
  • Stan R. will start adding some of the materials that are smaller.
• Presentation STL LUG topics are now up to date.
  • Previously stopped after year 2000.
  • Accuracy not high, about 5 months missing.
• Stan R. working with Ted to get presentations put up.
  • Ted not comfortable with librarian as a title, but the goal remains to gather the materials.
  • Ted has gotten some of the older presentations gathered.
  • Ted's major emphasis will be to focus on getting the material from presenters.
  • We anticipate HTML to be the most desirable format, followed by PDF.

• No news is good news?

• Someone (Mike Knight?) added a lot of good discussion on the wiki about user accounts.
• Need to complete migration to new servers.
• Chris volunteered to help.
  • Has good Drupal experience.
  • Has done Linux administration.
• Craig has a 1U UltraSparc with Solaris 10 to donate and install at Primary.

• Annual report was submitted to the state.
  • 1 month early – saves us $5.

• Craig needs to work to write up new membership info.
  • See previous minutes for full details.

• Christine Wanta emailed the list, saying she would have to resign her Board seat.
  • Unable to attend enough meetings.
  • The 3 attending Board members agreed to wait until Lee was here to choose a replacement.
  • Christine has not submitted a written resignation letter as of yet.

• We are proceeding with dropping dial-up on September 30.
  • Carl emailed all our users, telling them dial-up would be going away.
  • Stan suggested keeping 1 dial-up line for emergency access to Wash U systems.
    • Those in attendance agreed that this was a good idea.
    • Unanimous agreement to keep the 1 line.

• EPC - big sale this Saturday.
  • EPC is now installing Ubuntu Linux on their systems by default.
  • We will be there to answer Linux questions.
    • Sort of like a Hazelwood LUG meeting.

• Clarence showed us Chris Byrd's Drupal mock-up of the Security SIG's web group.
  • We agreed that it looked good.
  • We'd like to move the site to our new boxes.
  • Craig will work with him.

• We discussed membership dues in relation to shell accounts.
  • Agreed that there should be 3 levels of voluntary membership dues.
    • $100
    • $70
    • $35
  • Agreed that shell accounts are available in 1 of 2 conditions:
    • User pays voluntary membership dues,
    • OR user attended 2 meetings in the previous calendar year, and pays $10.

• Chris and Craig - Work on migrating to new servers.
• Craig - Write up info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs.
• Lee - Submit treasurer reports for inclusion in secretary folder.
• Lee - Finish QuickBooks transfer & financials.
• Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/Mailmain for new servers.
  • Need to be able to preserve the archives.
• Tim - Contact Mark Russell about presenting at Security group.
• Stan - Update web sites.
• Ted and Stan - Upload presentations to web archive.
• Gary - work with Wash U on dial-up lines.
  • Terminating all but 1 on 9/30.