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,
(at Old Olive and Olive),
10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

• Wednesday, 3 January 2007
• 7:00 pm - 8:49 pm

• Stan Reichardt
• Craig Buchek
• Patrick Bellinger
• Lee Lammert
• Jeff Muse
• Carl Fitch

• Printed out minutes for September and November. (There was no meeting in October.)

• Previous Balance: $1,341.72 as of 11/30/07
• Payables:

• 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

• Some numbers:

• 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.

• 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.

• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE: None. Will start with announcements, break, then start main presentation at 7:00.
• MAIN: All About Google by Scott Granneman
  • Really good.
  • People are happy that the audio is available on the web site.

• 10:00 am - 4:00 pm at Premier Knowledge (in South St. Louis)
• Only 3 people showed up, but they had a good time.

• NO MEETING

• TOPIC: Virtualization - QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware, etc.
• Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions.
• NOTE: On the 3rd Tuesday because Christmas Day is on 4th Tuesday.

• TOPIC: PHP Best Practices by Craig Buchek
  • Pretty good.
  • Audio recording goes well with the presentation.

• TOPIC: CakePHP and PHPReports by Scott Nesler
  • Did not have a projector - was not able to cover everything.
  • Wants to give the presentation again, because he wasn't able to show a lot of things.

• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE: PartImage by Carl Fitch
• MAIN: TBD

• Project Indiana by Bob Netherton

• CakePHP and PHPReports by Scott Nesler (TENTATIVE)

• TOPIC: Determined by audience

• Disk Cloning Utilities by Carl Fitch

• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE: TBD
• MAIN: iSCSI by Erich Schark of Alliance Systems (TENTATIVE, via Craig)

• TBD

• TOPIC: High-Performance Clustering by Brian Henerey of Wash U (via Craig)

• TOPIC: Determined by audience

• TBD

• 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.

• 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.

• Root passwords need to be changed.
  • Contact Craig or Carl if you need to know the new passwords.

• 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

• 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 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 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 Nesler's logos.
  • We should ask Scott.
  • We should post the choices to STEERCOM for voting to make it official.

• 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.
    • Stan will cancel the backup reservations.
    • Meeting room is better, but no projector.
• Bob Nelson - 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.
• 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.
• We have started recording the audio of our presentations.
  • From Ken's suggestion from last month.
  • Craig spent about $85 on a digital voice recorder.
  • Stan has been posting audio files to the web site.

• Elections will be held during February meetings.
• Stan will will create the forms, based on last year's.
• Scott Nesler's system already has determined who has attended 2 meetings.

• Stan suggested selecting a Man of the Year.
  • Someone not an officer.

• Carl - Cancel credit card processing.
• Carl - Turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer.
• Carl - Speak w/ Noel.
• 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 - 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.
• Craig - Submit receipt for voice recorder.
• Craig - Contact Scott Nesler and iSCSI folks about presentations.
• Stan - Cancel library reservations at Thornhill.
• 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 January 8 for work day @ Lee's (6:30).
• Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
• Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.