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

March 1, 2006

6:30 pm - 8:??0 pm

• Carl Fitch??
• Barry Morrison??
• Craig Buchek??
• Ted Palmer??
• Stan Reichardt??
• Gary Meyer??
• Lee Lammert??
• ???

• Need to type up minutes for official annual meeting, and print out previous months' minutes for signature and inclusion in Secretary folder.

01 Feb STEERC  - 
08 Feb SLUUG   - 
16 Feb STLLUG  - 22 (23)
22 Feb SECURE  -  8
23 Feb STCLUG  - 10
28 Feb HZWLUG  - 

 8 - UNIX
     Lightning Talks 
       * (Early Bird Tour of Greybar Facilities)
       * Jim Leingang - Update on the Job Market
       * Barry Morrison - What Greybar Does (Our Host)
       * Robert Citek - Using Knoppix with a Persistent Disk Images (PDI)
       * Jeff Muse - Shell Shortcuts (Speeding Up Your CLI)
       * Clarence Johnson - Poetry  
         - Cool Unix terms used to find a mate
         - Techies Teaching Techies the hands on approach:
       * Ed Howland - 
       * Craig Buchek - Intro to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
       * Scott McKellar - Aargh - A Code Generator for Parsing the Command Line  (?When was this done?)
       * Stan Reichardt - Outline to 100 Slides in Ten Minutes

16 - STL LUG
     Main: Financial Apps (GnuCash, MoneyDance, KMyMoney, etc.) by Craig Buchek
       Good. Could have answered some more in-depth questions.
22 - Security
     Hands On use of Knoppix STD Live CD
23 - STC LUG
     Wireless Network Card Configurations (including ndiswrapper) by Carl Fitch
28 - HZW LUG
     Partitioning and File System Hierarchy

 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
     Main: Blender by JT Moree (confirmed via Craig)
22 - Security
     TBD
23 - STC LUG
     TBD
28 - HZW LUG

12 - UNIX
     Base: FreeNX and it's Friends by Jim Roe
     Main: TBD
20 - STL LUG
     Main: Ruby on Rails by Curt Hibbs (Craig needs to confirm)
27? - STC LUG
     TBD
26? - Security
     TBD
25? - HZW LUG

10 - UNIX
     Base: TBD
     Main: Web Services and the Google API by Jeff Heaton (via Ted, need to confirm)
18 - STL LUG
     Main: TBD
24 - Security
     TBD
25 - STC LUG
     TBD
23? - HZW LUG

• InkScape (STLLUG) - Mark Jarnowski volunteered (via Craig)
• Secure Email (STLLUG?) - Dustin Anders/Paul Vinson (via Craig)
• MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list)
• CVS - Sanjiv, JT, Ed Howland
• WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary)

• 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

• 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.

• See about O'Reilly bringing someone in to speak to our group(s).
  • Carl will follow up.

• Stan is looking to somehow automate the announcements.

• 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.

• Presentation topics as far back as 2003 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 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.

• 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.

• Other functionality of the systems is in progress.
  • If anyone wants an account to work on adding functionality, contact Craig or Lee.

• 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.
• 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.