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)

January 4, 2006  

6:30 pm - 8:?? pm

XXX Carl Fitch, Barry Morrison, Leeland Lammert, Craig Buchek, Stan Reichardt, Gary Meyer

• Craig Buchek

Nothing to report. Did not print previous month's minutes for inclusion in Secretary folder as of yet.

Switching to SLUUG Wiki for this month's minutes, and all following. Need to migrate the old Wiki data to the new Wiki.

Still working on pulling books into QuickBooks?. Has to do it manually. Up to 2003 so far.

 2 Nov STEERC  -  6
 9 Nov SLUUG   - 23
17 Nov STLLUG  - 21
21 Nov STCLUG  -  8
22 Nov HZWLUG  -  6
30 Nov SECURE  -  9

November 2005 (Holiday Schedules)
 9 - UNIX
     Base: Regular Expressions by Sanjiv Bhatia
           Good, but scared some of the newbies.
     Main: Daylight Savings Changes by Ed Howland
           Great. Very informative.
           "Ed does a crazy presentation." -- Stan
17 - STL LUG
     Main: Modern Web Designs, Part 2 (AJAX) - Craig Buchek
           Very good. Better than the previous month.
21 - STC LUG (not the 29th as previously listed)
     Main: GeexBox? (bootable Linux for multi-media) by Mark Bergman
           Really good. Interesting demo. Also demoed MythTV?.
22 - HZW LUG
24 - Thanksgiving Day Holiday
30 - Security *** HOLIDAY SCHEDULE ***
     Hands-on: Windows XP Hacks - Clarence Johnson
           Good. Informative.

December 2005 (Holiday Schedules)
14 - UNIX
     Base: GRAMPS (Geneology) by Stan Reichardt
     Main: GeeXboX? (bootable Linux for multi-media) by Mark Bergman (TENTATIVE)
15 - STL LUG
     Main: QEMU Virtual Machine - Carl Fitch
22 - STC LUG
     Main: Boot Managers - Carl Fitch
27 - HZW LUG
28 - Security
     Hands-on: TBD

January 2006
11 - UNIX
     Base: Boot managers - Carl Fitch
     Main: WiFi? - Mark Balbes (via Gary) (TENTATIVE)
19 - STL LUG
     Base: TBD
     Main: TBD
24 - HZW LUG
25 - Security
     TBD
26 - STC LUG
     TBD

 February 2006
 8 - UNIX (balloting)
     Base: Lightning Talks
     Main: Lightning Talks
16 - STL LUG (balloting)
     Base: TBD
     Main: TBD
22 - Security (balloting)
     TBD
23 - STC LUG (balloting)
     TBD
28 - HZW LUG (balloting)

Potential Presentations
  Ruby on Rails - Curt Hibbs (via Craig)
  WiFi? - Mark Balbes (via Gary)
  Secure Email - Dustin Anders/Paul? Vinson (via Craig)
  InkScape?
  Scribus - Stan Reichardt
  OpenOffice?.org Database - Stan Reichardt

Missouri Exempt status - (Carl Fitch and Lee Lammert, with help from Fred Smith's wife)
  Carl has the forms. Needs to get them filled out. Will hand them off to Lee.

Suggestion to have Diebold run our elections was unanimously rejected.

Carl suggested handing out some nomination ballots at this months' meetings to see 
who people would like to have as officers. People could anonymously nominate 
themselves or anyone else. Agreement was unanimous.

Open positions:
  2 Board seats (Lee's and Stan's - 3 year terms)
  President
  Vice President
  Secretary
  Treasurer
  STLLUG Chair
  STCLUG Chair
  Sponsorship Manager
  Public Relations
  Presentation Manager

Sold 6 books for $89 at discounted rates.

Received new credit-card processing machine. Cost us $149.

Carl to look into O'Reilly bringing someone in to speak to our group(s).

Status quo.

Lee got a contract from Primary Networks to have them provide us with a half-rack at their hosting facility.

Server build progressing slowly. 
Wiki is now up at http://wiki.sluug.info and fully functional.

Need to move DNS for SLUUG.ORG over to EveryDNS?. 
Craig to do this, by setting secondary NS records on Dotster to point to EveryDNS?. 
Then flip them to all EveryDNS? once DNSreports.com syas things look OK.

Stan received an email from Angela Trotter from Unidev, wanting to sponsor our group and post job listings.
Craig to follow up.

Stan Reichardt's has modified drop down menus and set up skeleton area for presentations.
Topics for 2005 have been listed, Stan will be listing prior year's data in the near
future.

Stan to work with Ted Palmer to get presentations put up.

Account deletions - have been done. Hip-Hip HURRAY!

Recording of root passwords. Still need to be changed. Need to have passwords stored with President and Secretary.

BBS line reduction - Lee says that we're still paying for 6 phone lines

Majordomo admin access

Where is list of sponsors? Lee wants to follow up with our previous sponsors.

Lightning Talks. We want to do it again. Need to solicit talks. Gary will organize.

EPC is having their annual sale this Saturday.
We'd like to have some folks there to show off Linux.
Carl has coordinated with Frank @ EPC.
They will be selling systems with Linux installed. We will be doing the installs.
There will be a projector showing off how easy Linux is to use.
We will be burning CDs as people ask for them.
Phil, Stan, and Barry to do presentations.

Stan working on SLUUG brochures and Linux For Beginners brochures to hand out.

Carl - Ask Mark Bergman to give presentation on December 14.

Carl - Hand out nomination ballots at next meetings.

Carl - Complete tax-exempt status paperwork.

Carl - Look into O'Reilly bringing someone in to speak to our group(s).

Craig - DNS move to EveryDNS? (in stages).

Craig - Follow up with Angela Trotter @ Unidev regarding sponsorship.

Craig - Ask for presentations from Curt Hibbs and Dustin Anders/Paul? Vinson.

Craig - Continue working on new servers.

Gary - Ask for presentation from Mark Balbes for January general meeting.

Gary - Coordinate password changes. Have passwords stored with President and Secretary.

Gary - Follow up on Wash U regarding phone line bills.

Gary - Get Dave Mills together with Lee to find info regarding sponsors.

Gary - Organize Lightning Talks. Respond to Robert on DISCUSS.

Stan - Count attendance (to get official membership list) and print up ballots.

Stan - Update STLLINUX.ORG for Carl's presentation.