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- | ====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - February 2006 ====== | ||
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- | 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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- | * Carl Fitch | ||
- | * Barry Morrison | ||
- | * Craig Buchek | ||
- | * Ted Palmer | ||
- | * Stan Reichardt | ||
- | * Gary Meyer | ||
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- | ===== Secretary Report ===== | ||
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- | * Printed previous 3 months' minutes for signature and inclusion in Secretary folder. | ||
- | * New Wiki was applauded. | ||
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- | ===== Treasurer Report ===== | ||
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- | * No report. Lee did not attend. | ||
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- | ===== Book Sales ===== | ||
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- | * Sold 5 books at SLUUG general meeting. | ||
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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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- | Stan commented that this was the lightest turn-out in recent memory. | ||
- | There were no weather issues. | ||
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- | ==== Comments on Presentations ==== | ||
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- | ==== January 2006 ==== | ||
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- | 11 - UNIX | ||
- | Base: System Processes by Stan Reichardt (and maybe Gary Meyer) | ||
- | Good. | ||
- | Main: Boot managers by Carl Fitch | ||
- | Really good. | ||
- | 19 - STL LUG | ||
- | Main: Exploring OpenOffice 2.0 Database by Stan Reichardt | ||
- | Good. | ||
- | 24 - HZW LUG | ||
- | Main: Boot managers by Carl Fitch | ||
- | Less detail for newbies. Very good interaction. | ||
- | 25 - Security | ||
- | Main: Web Server Hacks and SSL by Clarence Johnson | ||
- | Too fast, but good. | ||
- | 26 - STC LUG | ||
- | Main: Exploring OpenOffice 2.0 Database by Stan Reichardt | ||
- | More interactive than the first time. | ||
- | Answered some questions from first time. | ||
- | Covered what he wanted at each step, but ran out of time. | ||
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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: Financial Apps (GnuCash, MoneyDance, KMyMoney, etc.) by Craig Buchek | ||
- | 22 - Security (balloting) | ||
- | TBD | ||
- | 23 - STC LUG (balloting) | ||
- | Wireless Network Card Configurations (including ndiswrapper) by Carl Fitch | ||
- | 28 - HZW LUG (balloting) | ||
- | Patitioning and File System Hierarchy | ||
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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 | ||
- | 22 - Security | ||
- | TBD | ||
- | 23 - STC LUG | ||
- | TBD | ||
- | 28 - HZW LUG | ||
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- | ==== April 2006 ==== | ||
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- | 12 - UNIX | ||
- | Base: TBD | ||
- | Main: TBD | ||
- | 20 - STL LUG | ||
- | Main: Ruby on Rails by Curt Hibbs | ||
- | 25 - Security | ||
- | TBD | ||
- | 26 - STC LUG | ||
- | TBD | ||
- | 27 - HZW LUG | ||
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- | ==== Potential Presentations ==== | ||
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- | * CVS - Sanjiv, JT, Ed Howland | ||
- | * Secure Email - Dustin Anders/Paul Vinson (via Craig) | ||
- | * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo (via Sarah on the Perl list) | ||
- | * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) | ||
- | * InkScape - had a volunteer at a meeting, but said he need a few months | ||
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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. Working to finish filling them out. Will hand them off to Lee. | ||
- | * Gary will take forms to Rich McClennan to get help answering some of the questions. | ||
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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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- | ===== Election Committee ===== | ||
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- | * Committee members: | ||
- | * Stan | ||
- | * Gary | ||
- | * Rich | ||
- | * Stan has list of members posted. | ||
- | * Stan has written up the ballots. A few corrections will be made. | ||
- | * 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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- | * Stan is looking to somehow automate the announcements. | ||
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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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- | * Topics as back as 2003 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. | ||
- | * BBS line reduction - Lee says that we're still paying for 6 phone lines. | ||
- | * Majordomo admin access. | ||
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- | ===== PROJECT: New servers ===== | ||
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- | * Server were moved to Primary Networks on January 15. | ||
- | * People involved: | ||
- | * Lee Lammert | ||
- | * Craig Buchek | ||
- | * Jeff Muse | ||
- | * Ted Palmer | ||
- | * Gary Meyer | ||
- | * Had to get a hub from Ted's house to make it work. | ||
- | * We'd like to get a rackmount switch to replace it. | ||
- | * Things went relatively smoothly. | ||
- | * DNS was updated to point at new addresses. | ||
- | * This wiki (http://wiki.sluug.org/) can now be considered to be in production. | ||
- | * Stan added a link on the SLUUG home page. | ||
- | * Lee and Craig have badges for 24/7 access to the facility. | ||
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- | * Other functionality of the systems is in progress. | ||
- | * If anyone wants an account to work on adding functionality, contact Craig or Lee. | ||
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- | ===== Lightning Talks ===== | ||
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- | * Gary - Organize Lightning Talks. Respond to Robert on DISCUSS. | ||
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- | * List of Talks | ||
- | * Barry Morrison - What Greybar Does | ||
- | * Robert Citek | ||
- | * Jeff Muse | ||
- | * Clarence Johnson - T3 | ||
- | * Ed Howland | ||
- | * Carl Fitch | ||
- | * Craig Buchek | ||
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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 - Ask Mark Bergman to give presentation March 8. | ||
- | * Carl - Follow up with O'Reilly about bringing someone in to speak to our group(s). | ||
- | * 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. Update for next meeting. | ||
- | * Craig - Add bud/budlight accounts for StanR and Gary. | ||
- | * Gary - Organize Lightning Talks. | ||
- | * Gary - Get Dave Mills together with Lee to find info regarding sponsors. | ||
- | * Gary - Coordinate password changes. Have passwords stored with President and Secretary. | ||
- | * Gary - Add host file entries on dark and michelob for bud and budlight. | ||