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SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - April 2006

NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!)

Location

Saint Louis Bread Company,
10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (at Old Olive and Olive)

Date / Time

April 5, 2006
6:30 pm - ???? pm

Attendees

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

Secretary Report

  • Need to print out previous months' minutes for signature and inclusion in Secretary folder.
  • Need to finish typing up minutes for March 3 board meeting and official annual meeting.

Treasurer Report

  • ??Currently working on pulling in 2002 data into QuickBooks.

Book Sales

  • ??No books were sold.

Previous Meetings

Attendance

March attendance figures:

 8 - UNIX
16 - STL LUG
22 - Security
23 - STC LUG
28 - HZW LUG

Comments on Presentations

March 2006

 8 - UNIX
     Base: KDE Control Center by Carl Fitch
     Main: FreeNX by Jim Roe
16 - STL LUG
     Main: Blender by JT Moree
22 - Security
     Main: dd_rescue and dd_rhelp by Carl Fitch
23 - STC LUG
     Main: dd_rescue and dd_rhelp by Carl Fitch
28 - HZW LUG

Presentation Schedule

April 2006

SLUUG - April 12

  • Base: ???? by Stanford Baldwin (via Craig)
  • Main: Wireless Network Card Configurations (including ndiswrapper) by Carl Fitch

STLLUG - April 20

  • Main: TBD. Ruby on Rails by Jeff Barczewski (via Craig) (tentative, might be June)???

STCLUG - April 27?

  • TBD

Security - April 26?

  • TENTATIVE: Mark Bunn @ Fishnet (via Clarence)

HZW LUG - April 25?

  • Newbie topics

May 2006

SLUUG - May 10

  • Base: TBD
  • Main: Vulnerability Assessment by Mark Murdock and Scott Winter of Lantern Secure Solutions (via Ted)

STLLUG - May 18

  • Main: GeeXboX by Mark Sims (Carl needs to reconfirm date and location)

Security - May 24

  • TBD

STCLUG - May 25

  • TBD

HZWLUG - May 23?

  • Newbie topics

June 2006

SLUUG - June 14

  • Base: TBD
  • Main: Secure Email by Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson of Slashmail (via Craig)

STLLUG - June 15

  • Main: Ruby on Rails by Jeff Barczewski (via Craig) (tentative, if he can't make April)

Potential Presentations

  • InkScape (STLLUG) - Mark Jarnowski volunteered (via Craig)
  • MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list)
  • WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary)
  • CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, JT, Ed Howland
  • Requests:
    • VPN (hands-on preferred, good for a Security meeting)
    • CVS for Config Files
    • Oracle Application Express

Old Business

  • 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.

Weekly Announcements

  • ???Stan is looking to somehow automate the announcements.
    • Found his sed and awk notes.

Sponsorships

  • ???Clarence and Stan will start working to gather information about previous sponsors.
    • Starting with information from the web site.
  • ???Lee spoke with Dave Mills. He said that Christine had the most recent info.
  • ???Stan received an email from Angela Trotter from Unidev, wanting to sponsor our group and post job listings.
    • Craig to follow up.

Website Librarian

  • ???Presentation topics as far back as 2000 have been listed.
    • Stan indicated that accuracy is not high, but will search additional notes.
    • Stan and Ted will continue listing prior years' data as time permits.
  • ???Stan working with Ted to get presentations put up.
    • Ted has gotten some of the older presentations gathered.
    • Ted's major emphasis will be to focus on getting the material from presenters.

System Administration

  • ???Gary said that Wash U will be removing SLUUG zone from their servers shortly.
  • Root passwords on our systems have been changed. Passwords have been given to the President and Secretary.
    • Most admin work should be done vi sudo, which does not require the root password.

PROJECT: New servers

  • Next step is to migrate web sites to new systems.
  • We need to meet to do the web servers, and discuss migration plans.
    • We'd like Mike Knight to be there, as he has the most experience, and knows our systems the best.
      • We'll work around his schedule.
    • March 12 and 18 are looking good for most of us.
    • Location to be determined. Possibly Computers and Things on March 18.
  • We need to use sudo as much as possible.
  • Craig has a 1U UltraSparc with Solaris 10 to donate and install at Primary.
  • We need some versa-rails to mount the servers.
    • Craig will go into Primary and measure the rack depth.
  • We could use a rackmount switch.
    • Carl has a 12-port rackmount hub he will donate.
  • Other functionality of the systems is in progress.
    • If anyone wants an account to work on adding functionality, contact Craig or Lee.

New Business

  • ???Stan proposed we clean house, and send any excess inventory to WITS.

Follow-up and Action Items:

  • Carl - Complete tax-exempt status paperwork.
  • Carl - Follow up with O'Reilly about bringing someone in to speak to our group(s).
  • Craig - Confirm date of Jeff Barczewski's presentation/demo of Ruby on Rails.
  • Craig - Go into Primary and measure the rack depth.
  • 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. Prepare to move www.sluug.org site.
  • Ted - Confirm Jeff Heaton for May 10.
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