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- | ====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - February 2006 ====== | ||
- | Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!) | ||
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- | ===== Location ===== | ||
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- | Saint Louis Bread Company, | ||
- | 10550 Old Olive Street Road, | ||
- | Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (at Old Olive and Olive) | ||
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- | ===== Date / Time ===== | ||
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- | February 1, 2006 | ||
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- | 6:30 pm - ??? pm | ||
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- | ===== Attendees ===== | ||
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- | * Leeland Lammert | ||
- | * Carl Fitch | ||
- | * Barry Morrison | ||
- | * Craig Buchek | ||
- | * Stan Reichardt | ||
- | * ??? | ||
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- | ===== Secretary Report ===== | ||
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- | * Printed previous 3 months' minutes for signature and inclusion in Secretary folder. | ||
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- | ===== Treasurer Report ===== | ||
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- | * Still working on pulling books into QuickBooks. Has to do it manually. Up to 2004 so far. (That's a year more than last month.) | ||
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- | ===== Book Sales ===== | ||
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- | * Sold 10 books at SLUUG meeting for $183.91. | ||
- | * Sold 2 books at EPC sale. | ||
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- | ===== Previous Meetings ===== | ||
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- | ==== Attendance ==== | ||
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- | 4 Jan STEERC - 5 | ||
- | 11 Jan SLUUG - 16 | ||
- | 19 Jan STLLUG - 13 (17) | ||
- | 14 Jan HZWLUG - 11 | ||
- | 25 Jan SECURE - 9 | ||
- | 26 Jan STCLUG - 7 (9) | ||
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- | ==== Comments on Presentations ==== | ||
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- | ==== January 2006 ==== | ||
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- | 11 - UNIX | ||
- | Base: About System Processes by Stan Reichardt and Gary Meyer | ||
- | Main: Boot managers by Carl Fitch | ||
- | 19 - STL LUG | ||
- | Main: Exploring OpenOffice 2.0 Database by Stan Reichardt | ||
- | 24 - HZW LUG Boot managers by Carl Fitch | ||
- | 25 - Security Web Server Hacks and SSL | ||
- | 26 - STC LUG Exploring OpenOffice 2.0 Database by Stan Reichardt | ||
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- | ===== Presentation Schedule ===== | ||
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- | ==== February 2006 ==== | ||
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- | 8 - UNIX (balloting) | ||
- | Lightning Talks | ||
- | 16 - STL LUG (balloting) | ||
- | Main: (TENTATIVE) Financial Apps (GnuCash, MoneyDance) by Craig Buchek | ||
- | 22 - Security (balloting) | ||
- | TBD | ||
- | 23 - STC LUG (balloting) | ||
- | TBD | ||
- | 28 - HZW LUG (balloting) | ||
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- | ==== March 2006 ==== | ||
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- | 8 - UNIX | ||
- | Base: KDE Control Center by Carl Fitch | ||
- | Main: (TENTATIVE) GeeXboX? (bootable Linux for multi-media) by Mark Bergman (via Carl) | ||
- | 16 - STL LUG (balloting) | ||
- | Main: (TENTATIVE) Secure Email - Dustin Anders/Paul Vinson (via Craig) | ||
- | 22 - Security | ||
- | TBD | ||
- | 23 - STC LUG | ||
- | TBD | ||
- | 28 - HZW LUG | ||
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- | ==== Potential Presentations ==== | ||
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- | * Ruby on Rails - Curt Hibbs (via Craig) | ||
- | * WiFi - Mark Balbes (via Gary) | ||
- | * InkScape - had a volunteer at a meeting, but said he need a few months | ||
- | * WiFi - Mark Balbes (via Gary) | ||
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- | ===== Old Business ===== | ||
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- | * Missouri Exempt status - (Carl Fitch and Lee Lammert, with help from Fred Smith's wife) | ||
- | * Carl has the forms. Needs to finish filling them out. Will hand them off to Lee. | ||
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- | * EPC Winter Sale | ||
- | * Carl reports success, with some things we could improve. | ||
- | * EPC folks were impressed by the attention we got. | ||
- | * Stan suggested including a post-card for people to respond back to us. | ||
- | * EPC has invited us back to their April 22 sale. | ||
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- | * See about O'Reilly bringing someone in to speak to our group(s). | ||
- | * Carl will follow up. | ||
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- | * Still being charged by Wash U for 6 lines. | ||
- | * We have not received a bill this month, so it may have been fixed by now. | ||
- | * Lee sent a note with last bill he sent in, asking to refund us for having fewer lines. | ||
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- | * Stan now has three brochures to hand out: | ||
- | - SLUUG info | ||
- | - Linux For Beginners | ||
- | - Password Guidelines for Beginners brochure | ||
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- | * Lightning Talks. | ||
- | * Gary - Organize Lightning Talks. Respond to Robert on DISCUSS. | ||
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- | ===== Election Committee ===== | ||
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- | * Committee members: | ||
- | * Rich | ||
- | * Gary | ||
- | * Stan | ||
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- | * Carl handed out nomination ballots at meetings. Stan has them, but needs to track them down. | ||
- | * Stan is working on counting attendance (to get official membership list) | ||
- | * He will post the eligible members list. | ||
- | * Stan will write up the ballots. | ||
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- | * 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 | ||
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- | ===== Weekly Announcements ===== | ||
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- | * Added info regarding T3 (Techies Teaching Techies) | ||
- | * Clarence Johnson is teaching this. | ||
- | * Low-cost. | ||
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- | ===== PROJECT: New servers ===== | ||
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- | * Craig moved DNS for SLUUG.ORG over to EveryDNS. It worked this time, with no problems noted. | ||
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- | * Server build progressing slowly. | ||
- | * Wiki is now up at http://wiki.sluug.org and fully functional. This can be consider "in production" now. | ||
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- | * Lee and Carl signed contract with Primary Networks to have them provide us with a half-rack at their hosting facility. | ||
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- | * Lee built source packages for PINE and PILOT (on Bud Light). Also installed GCC. | ||
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- | * Planning to move the servers from Lee's to Primary on Sunday, January 15. | ||
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- | ===== Sponsorships ===== | ||
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- | * Stan received an email from Angela Trotter from Unidev, wanting to sponsor our group and post job listings. | ||
- | * Craig to follow up. | ||
- | * New form on sponsors page. | ||
- | * Compilation of SLUUG info brochure, with sponsorship info added at bottom. | ||
- | * Need to get info regarding previous sponsors. | ||
- | * Gary - Get Dave Mills together with Lee. | ||
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- | ===== Website Librarian: ===== | ||
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- | * Stan Reichardt has modified drop down menus and set up skeleton area for presentations. | ||
- | * Topics for 2005 and part of 2004 have been listed. | ||
- | * Stan will continue listing prior years' data as time permits. | ||
- | * Stan to work with Ted Palmer to get presentations put up. | ||
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- | ===== System Administration ===== | ||
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- | * Recording of root passwords. Still need to be changed. Need to have passwords stored with President and Secretary. | ||
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- | * BBS line reduction - Lee says that we're still paying for 6 phone lines | ||
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- | * Majordomo admin access | ||
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- | ===== New Business ===== | ||
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- | * None. | ||
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- | ===== Follow-up and Action Items: ===== | ||
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- | * Carl - Complete tax-exempt status paperwork. | ||
- | * Carl - Follow up with O'Reilly about bringing someone in to speak to our group(s). | ||
- | * Carl - Ask Mark Bergman to give presentation March 8. | ||
- | * Craig - Print previous 2 months' minutes for inclusion in Secretary folder. | ||
- | * Craig - Ask for presentation from Curt Hibbs (April). | ||
- | * Craig - Ask for presentation from Dustin Anders/Paul Vinson (March). | ||
- | * Craig - Follow up on email by Angela Trotter from Unidev, wanting to sponsor our group and post job listings. | ||
- | * Craig - Continue working on new servers. | ||
- | * Craig - Change root passwords on new servers. Send info to SYSADMIN. Tell folks how to use sudo. | ||
- | * Craig - Copy stllinux.org data to new servers. | ||
- | * Stan - Count attendance (to get official membership list) and list eligible voters. | ||
- | * Stan - Add a link to http://wiki.sluug.org to SLUUG web site front page. | ||
- | * Gary - Organize Lightning Talks. Respond to Robert on DISCUSS. | ||
- | * Gary - Get Dave Mills together with Lee to find info regarding sponsors. | ||
- | * Gary - Coordinate password changes. Have passwords stored with President and Secretary. |