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===== Date / Time ===== | ===== Date / Time ===== | ||
- | February 1, 2006 | + | February 1, 2006 |
- | 6:30 pm - ??? pm | + | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm |
===== Attendees ===== | ===== Attendees ===== | ||
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* Printed previous 3 months' minutes for signature and inclusion in Secretary folder. | * Printed previous 3 months' minutes for signature and inclusion in Secretary folder. | ||
+ | * New Wiki was applauded. | ||
===== Treasurer Report ===== | ===== Treasurer Report ===== | ||
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==== April 2006 ==== | ==== April 2006 ==== | ||
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12 - UNIX | 12 - UNIX | ||
Base: TBD | Base: TBD | ||
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TBD | TBD | ||
27 - HZW LUG | 27 - HZW LUG | ||
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- | ==== May 2006 ==== | ||
- | 10 - UNIX | ||
- | Base: TBD | ||
- | Main: TBD | ||
- | 18 - STL LUG (balloting) | ||
- | 23 - Security | ||
- | TBD | ||
- | 24 - STC LUG | ||
- | TBD | ||
- | 25 - HZW LUG | ||
==== Potential Presentations ==== | ==== Potential Presentations ==== | ||
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* CVS - Sanjiv, JT, Ed Howland | * CVS - Sanjiv, JT, Ed Howland | ||
* Secure Email - Dustin Anders/Paul Vinson (via Craig) | * Secure Email - Dustin Anders/Paul Vinson (via Craig) | ||
- | * MythTV / Freevo (via Sarah on the Perl list) | + | * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo (via Sarah on the Perl list) |
- | * WiFi - Mark Balbes (via Gary) | + | * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) |
* InkScape - had a volunteer at a meeting, but said he need a few months | * InkScape - had a volunteer at a meeting, but said he need a few months | ||
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* Missouri Exempt status - (Carl Fitch and Lee Lammert, with help from Fred Smith's wife) | * 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. | + | * 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. | |
- | * 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. | + | |
* See about O'Reilly bringing someone in to speak to our group(s). | * See about O'Reilly bringing someone in to speak to our group(s). | ||
* Carl will follow up. | * 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 ===== | ===== Election Committee ===== | ||
* Committee members: | * Committee members: | ||
+ | * Stan | ||
+ | * Gary | ||
* Rich | * Rich | ||
- | * Gary | + | * Stan has list of members posted. |
- | * Stan | + | * Stan has written up the ballots. A few corrections will be made. |
- | + | ||
- | * 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. | + | |
* Open positions | * Open positions | ||
* 2 Board seats (Lee's and Stan's - 3 year terms) | * 2 Board seats (Lee's and Stan's - 3 year terms) | ||
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===== Weekly Announcements ===== | ===== Weekly Announcements ===== | ||
- | * Added info regarding T3 (Techies Teaching Techies) | + | * Stan is looking to somehow automate the announcements. |
- | * Clarence Johnson is teaching this. | + | |
- | * Low-cost. | + | |
- | + | ||
- | ===== PROJECT: New servers ===== | + | |
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- | * Craig moved DNS for SLUUG.ORG over to EveryDNS. It worked this time, with no problems noted. | + | |
- | + | ||
- | * Server build progressing slowly. | + | |
- | * Wiki is now up at http://wiki.sluug.org and fully functional. This can be consider "in production" now. | + | |
- | + | ||
- | * Lee and Carl signed contract with Primary Networks to have them provide us with a half-rack at their hosting facility. | + | |
- | + | ||
- | * Lee built source packages for PINE and PILOT (on Bud Light). Also installed GCC. | + | |
- | + | ||
- | * Planning to move the servers from Lee's to Primary on Sunday, January 15. | + | |
===== Sponsorships ===== | ===== Sponsorships ===== | ||
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* Gary - Get Dave Mills together with Lee. | * Gary - Get Dave Mills together with Lee. | ||
- | ===== Website Librarian: ===== | + | ===== Website Librarian ===== |
- | * Stan Reichardt has modified drop down menus and set up skeleton area for presentations. | + | * Presentation topics as far back as 2003 have been listed. |
- | * Topics for 2005 and part of 2004 have been listed. | + | * Stan indicated that accuracy is not high, but will search additional notes. |
* Stan will continue listing prior years' data as time permits. | * Stan will continue listing prior years' data as time permits. | ||
* Stan to work with Ted Palmer to get presentations put up. | * Stan to work with Ted Palmer to get presentations put up. | ||
+ | * Ted Palmer volunteered to be the website libraian. | ||
+ | * Ted's major emphasis will be to focus on getting the material from presenter. | ||
===== System Administration ===== | ===== System Administration ===== | ||
* Recording of root passwords. Still need to be changed. Need to have passwords stored with President and Secretary. | * 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. | ||
- | * BBS line reduction - Lee says that we're still paying for 6 phone lines | + | ===== PROJECT: New servers ===== |
- | * Majordomo admin access | + | * 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. | ||
+ | |||
+ | * 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 | ||
===== New Business ===== | ===== New Business ===== | ||
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* Carl - Complete tax-exempt status paperwork. | * 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). | * 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 - 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 - 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 - Continue working on new servers. | ||
* Craig - Change root passwords on new servers. Send info to SYSADMIN. Tell folks how to use sudo. | * 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. | + | * Craig - Copy stllinux.org data to new servers. Update for next meeting. |
- | * Stan - Count attendance (to get official membership list) and list eligible voters. | + | * Craig - Add bud/budlight accounts for StanR and Gary. |
- | * Stan - Add a link to http://wiki.sluug.org to SLUUG web site front page. | + | * Gary - Organize Lightning Talks. |
- | * Gary - Organize Lightning Talks. Respond to Robert on DISCUSS. | + | |
* Gary - Get Dave Mills together with Lee to find info regarding sponsors. | * Gary - Get Dave Mills together with Lee to find info regarding sponsors. | ||
* Gary - Coordinate password changes. Have passwords stored with President and Secretary. | * Gary - Coordinate password changes. Have passwords stored with President and Secretary. | ||
* Gary - Add host file entries on dark and michelob for bud and budlight. | * Gary - Add host file entries on dark and michelob for bud and budlight. | ||
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