The October 2007 Steering Committee meeting was canceled, due to most of the regular attendees being unable to make the scheduled date.

The below notes were taken from the previous month, with some modifications done on-line before the scheduled meeting date. The notes are unlikely to be very accurate.

• Need to print out minutes for September.

• Previous Balance: $1233.32 as of 7/31/07
• Money in: 0.00
• Paid out: 0.00
• Current Balance: $1233.32 as of 7/31/07
• Open issues:
  • ?? New IRS reporting requirement
    • ?? We will (likely) have to file a form 990-EZ for the 2007 tax year.
  • ?? Final bill from Wash U. - need to complete reply
  • ?? Receipts for expense reimbursements:
    • ?? Gary - domain registration
    • ?? Carl - state registration

• We decided to eliminate books last month (September).
• ??

• Some numbers:

• No - indicates no meeting.
• () - Numbers in parenthese are head count.
• ?? - Question marks indicate attendance not taken or sheet missing.
• xx - attendance numbers not yet recorded.

• 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):

• Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet.

• ANNOUNCE mailing list.
  • Still no volunteer editor to do a Quarterly or monthly newsletter.
  • About 8 subscriptions suspended due to excessive bounces. Last month it was 24 subscriptions.
  • Automatic purge of ANNOUNCE subscribers may have peaked. Most unsubscribes after monthly reminder.
  • Latest weekly ANNOUNCE EVENTS mailing sent out on 1 October.

• Labor Day

• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.
• Might be available for OpenSolaris Installation and/or Configuration Workshop.

• Note - Red Hat Seminar at Westport Plaza (8:45-12:30)
  • Red Hat troop had to be in Chicago next morning.
  • Red Hat staff attributed Monday surge of 25 registrations to ANNOUNCE list.
• CONFLICT: APV (Advance POWER Virtualization) Overview by John Hodge
• BASE: Introduction to bud.sluug.org SLUUG's new mail server by Those That Did
• MAIN: Rsyncing System Files with Root Permissions by Carl Fitch

• TOPIC: DTrace by Jeff Logullo

• TOPIC: ZoneMinder - Linux video camera security and surveillance by Simon Amies (via Carl)
• Craig was not able to attend; Carl was MC.
• Much better Q&A session this month.
• Carl modled SLUUG stuff.
• Two new folks - one from EPC booth info & one from Internet search.
• Door prizes were left over from RH Tour.

• TOPIC: Partioning Schemes
• Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions

• NO MEETING - UMSL Lab room not available due to Micro$oft Office Preview Night event.
• No response on DISCUSS list query about meeting.

• TOPIC: Rsyncing System Files with Root Permissions by Carl Fitch

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• At St. Charles Convention Center - 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
  • See http://www.sbmon.com/expo/expo.html
  • SLUUG will have a booth again.
  • Should we have small table space for our sponsor brochures, business cards and other materials?
  • Should we have sign touting SLUUG sponsorships for $200 and $300 per year?
  • Advance planning seminar - Frontenac Ces & Judy's, 15:30 - 17:00 on September 12
    • Seminar to teach you how to get the most out of your booth.
• Carl will talk to EPC about providing some machines.
• Need someone to organize volunteers.
• Need someone to organize moving tables and other furniture in and out.

• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• First Saturday in October, annual event.
• Meeting rooms must be scheduled for next year.

• Columbus Day

• Base: SmartMon Tools (Monitoring Hard Drive Health) by Carl Fitch
• TOPIC: Intro to Distributed Source Control by Kyle Cordes (via Craig)

• TOPIC: RBAC (Tentative)

• TOPIC: Lotus Notes (Client and Server) on Linux by Tom Bowman of TeamCentric (confirmed, via Craig)

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Joomla by Mike Ward (confirmed, via Carl)

• TOPIC: TBD
• Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions
• NOTE: 5th Tuesday because of Library schedule conflict.

• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• Veterans Day (Observed).

• TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, Epigenetics, etc. (part 1) by Robert Citek (TENTATIVE, via Craig).
• NOTE: Back-to-back meeting dates.

• TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, Epigenetics, etc. (part 2) by Robert Citek (TENTATIVE, via Craig).
• NOTE: Back-to-back meeting dates.

• NOTE: Monday date scheduled due to 4th Thursday falling on Thanksgiving.
• TOPIC: PHP-Nuke and other PHP Apps by Scott Nesler (confirmed, via Carl).

• TOPIC: TBD

• Thanksgiving Day

• TOPIC: TBD
• Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions

• TOPIC: TBD

• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE: TBD.
• MAIN: All About Google by Scott Granneman (CONFIRMED, via Stan R.)

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD
• Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions.
• NOTE: On the 3rd Tuesday because Christmas Day is on 4th Tuesday.

• TOPIC: TBD

• Christmas Day

• TOPIC: TBD.

• 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 (Tentatively October, via Stan R).
• AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge)
• Another presentation from Tom Bowman at TeamCentric Technologies (via Craig)
• Building a modern kernel by Ed Howland.
• Using git by Ed Howland.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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
  • SyllogisTeks - Susan Smith
  • Sun - Jeff Logullo
  • IBM - (John Hodge may have a contact)
  • Red Hat - Clark Smith (Craig to follow up)
  • Novell / SuSE - Matt Skipton
• 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.
• Should Omnitec be recognized as a sponsor?
  • Stan suggested that we add Omnitec as an official sponsor.
    • Omnitec has been providing services in kind commensurate with other sponsors.
    • All attending were in favor (except Lee, who abstained)
  • Working on logo for SLUUG website rotating front page display (Stan R.)
• New Sponsor - SyllogisTeks
  • They have been providing door prizes and paying room fee for STLLUG meetings.
  • They were to have mailed 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.
• Possible Sponsor - pcMemoryStore
  • Wanted to provide member discounts in lieu of $200 annual (per Lee).
  • Not sure it makes financial sense.
  • We decided to make it a benefit for our members.
  • Attendees voted 3-0-2 (for-against-abstain) to make them a sponsor in kind for discounts.
  • Lee will follow up w/ PC Memory Store.
    • Need to get coupon code from them.
  • Stan will add to Sponsors page when we get coupon code.
• 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.

• 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.
  • Rebuild 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.
    • Put 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

• 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.

• Carl spoke with Noel about moving the SLACC.com domain website.
  • Noel will send Carl the access code to transfer registration.
  • The registration is paid up until 2009.
  • Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.com email addresses.

• The membership form was approved, with some minor changes.
• The membership wiki page was approved, after making changes suggested last month
• Membership drive
  • Membership drive will start in September.
  • Carl mentioned it at SLUUG meeting.
  • Lee to order CafePress items ASAP to have some membership gifts on-hand.
    • We had approved $150 last month.
  • 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.

• What did we forget about?

• Bob Nelson - wants to start an Ubuntu LoCo
  • Carl and/or Craig to follow up (Stan will send info).
  • EPC would probably like to hold the meetings.

• Is it still up there?
  • Unknown, it is raining and overcast today. (the sky is falling!!!)

• Jeff - Seek assistance from AIX gurus to see if we want to set up his box.
• Lee - Follow up drafting reply to Wash U.
• Lee - Place CafePress order ASAP. (DONE)
• Lee - Follow up w/ PC Memory Store and get coupon code from them.
• Craig - Email Clark Smith @ Red Hat about getting someone to present on RHEL5, and $200 sponsorship.
• Craig - Email Jim Leingang @ S3 about $200 sponsorship.
• Craig - Ask Brian Button / Kyle Cordes about XP-STL / SLUUG joint meeting.
• Craig - Follow up w/ Tom Bowman of TeamCentric about October 18 meeting.
• Carl - Follow up w/ Scott Nessler about PHP-Nuke at STCLUG.
• Carl - Follow up w/ John Pitney about future STCLUG presentation.
• Stan - Add Omnitec and Syllogistek as sponsors.
• Stan - Send info on Bob Nelson (Ubuntu advocate) to Carl and Craig.
• Stan - Ask Ajilon about continuing $200 sponsorship.
• Stan - Follow up w/ Clarence and Chris Byrd to get topic for Security meeting.
• Stan - Follow up with Tim Dreste about a presentation.
• Gary - Prepare Sun E250 for potential use.
• Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.
• Gary - Organize October 2 event at Small Business Expo.