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-====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - May 2006 ====== 
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-NOTE: 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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-  * May 3, 2006 
-  * 7:00 pm - 8:?? pm 
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-===== Attendees ===== 
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-  * Lee Lammert 
-  * Carl Fitch 
-  * Craig Buchek 
-  * Gary Meyer 
-  * Stan Reichardt 
-  * Barry Morrison 
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-===== Secretary Report ===== 
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-  * 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. 
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-===== Treasurer Report ===== 
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-  * Currently working on pulling in 2004 data into QuickBooks. 
-  * We created some stationery. Carl got some samples from Rich Seibel. 
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-===== Book Sales ===== 
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-  * No books sold. 
-  * No new books ordered this year. 
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-===== Previous Meetings ===== 
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-==== Attendance ==== 
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-March attendance figures: 
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-  12 - UNIX     - 17 
-  20 - STL LUG  - 20 (22 head count) 
-  25 - HZW LUG  - 7 
-  26 - Security - 8 
-  27 - STC LUG  - 9 
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-==== Comments on Presentations ==== 
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-=== April 2006 === 
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-== SLUUG - April 12 == 
-  * Base: Simple Redirection by Stan Reichardt 
-    * Very good. Could have gone longer. 
-  * Main: Wireless Network Card Configurations (including ndiswrapper) by Carl Fitch 
-    * Very good. Covered a lot. Good show and tell. 
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-== STLLUG - April 20 == 
-  * Main: Ruby on Rails by Jeff Barczewski 
-    * Amazing. Gave a great feel for how it works. 
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-== HZW LUG - April 25 == 
-  * Newbie topics 
-    * Simple Redirection by Stan Reichardt 
-      * Better than the first time. 
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-== Security - April 26 == 
-  * WiFi HackFest by Clarence Johnson 
-    * Lot of fun. 
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-== STCLUG - April 27 == 
-  * Base: How To Use Linux by Fred Smith 
-    * Worked better the next time he gave it. 
-  * Main: WordPress by Jim Roe 
-    * Good. 
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-===== Presentation Schedule ===== 
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-==== May 2006 ==== 
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-=== SLUUG - May 10 === 
-  * Base: Sudo and not su by Stanford Baldwin 
-  * Main: Attacking Web Applications by Mark Murdock and Scott Winter of Lantern Secure Solutions (via Ted) 
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-=== STLLUG - May 18 === 
-  * Main: GeeXboX / MythTV / HTPC by Mark Sims (Carl has reconfirmed date and location) 
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-=== HZWLUG - May 23 === 
-  * Newbie topics 
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-=== Security - May 24 === 
-  * Wireless Troubleshooting - Kismet & Other Diagnostic Tools 
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-=== STCLUG - May 25 === 
-  * TBD by Mike 
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-==== June 2006 ==== 
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-=== SLUUG - June 14 === 
-  * Base: Master Boot Records by Carl Fitch 
-  * Main: Secure Email by Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson of Slashmail (via Craig) 
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-=== STLLUG - June 15 === 
-  * Main: SUSE 10 by Matt Skipton of Novell (via Lee) 
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-=== STCLUG - June 22 === 
-  * TBD 
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-=== HZWLUG - June 27 === 
-  * Newbie topics 
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-=== Security - June 28 === 
-  * TBD 
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-==== July 2006 ==== 
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-=== SLUUG - July 13 === 
-  * Base: TBD 
-  * Main: Novell SuSE in the Enterprise Space (LVL Tentative) 
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-=== STLLUG - July 21 === 
-  * Installing Linux from a Disk Image by Carl Fitch 
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-=== STCLUG - July 27 === 
-  * TBD 
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-=== HZWLUG - July 25 === 
-  * TBD 
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-=== Security - July 26 === 
-  * TBD 
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-==== August 2006 ==== 
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-=== SLUUG - Aug 9 === 
-  * Base: TBD 
-  * Main: something by Scott Granneman (TENTATIVE, via Gary) 
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-=== STLLUG - Aug 17 === 
-  * Main: InkScape - Mark Jarnowski (TENTATIVE, via Craig) 
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-=== STCLUG - Aug 24 === 
-  * TBD 
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-=== HZWLUG - Aug 22 === 
-  * TBD 
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-=== Security - Aug 23 === 
-  * TBD 
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-==== Potential Presentations ==== 
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-  * Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Exchange "​replacement"​) - Matthew Porter volunteered (October?) 
-  * Perl Scripts to do DNA Genetic Research by Bryce Meyer from Wiltel/​Level 3 (via Gary) 
-  * OpenVPN by Robert Citek 
-  * SELinux by Stan Reichardt 
-  * 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/​Subversion for Config Files 
-    * Oracle Application Express 
-    * How To Update Your System - apt, yum, yast, etc. 
-    * Music - Linux on iPod, iPod on Linux, Ogg, players, etc. 
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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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-  * Lee working to send out invoices to previous sponsors. ($200) 
-  * Clarence and Stan will start working to gather information about previous sponsors. 
-    * Starting with information from the web site. 
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-===== Website Librarian ===== 
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-  * Presentation topics as far back as 1998 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. 
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-===== System Administration ===== 
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-  * Mike Knight pointed out a configuration problem with our new servers. 
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-===== PROJECT: New servers ===== 
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-  * Configured SLUUG.ORG web site on new server. 
-    * Copied over all the data. 
-    * Configured a redirect back to old systems for user pages for short-term. 
-      * Will redirect to users.sluug.org,​ which can remain in place after the full migration. 
-      * This will allow us to move the web site without having to move the users. 
-    * Need to determine how to do the mailing list sign-up pages. 
-    * Need to determine how to proceed with non-SLUUG sites we host. 
-  * Next step is to test the new site, before we point our production DNS there. 
-    * Make sure everything is there and working. 
-    * Make sure we copy over any updates from the old web site. 
-    * Make sure the redirect to user pages is working. 
-    * Make sure the SIG sites/pages work. 
-    * Get the mailing list sign-up pages to work. 
-  * Craig is working on email infrastructure. ​ 
-    * He made some progress, but is not quite finished. 
-    * Got some input on how to proceed from the others. 
-  * We need some versa-rails to mount the servers. 
-    * Lee measured the depth of the rails - 28.5 inches front to back. 
-    * Need to be mounted on a Compaq 4U server. 
-  * Craig has a 1U UltraSparc with Solaris 10 to donate and install at Primary. 
-  * We could use a rackmount switch. 
-    * Carl has a 12-port rackmount hub he will donate. 
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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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-  * Stan proposed we clean house, and send any excess inventory to WITS. 
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-  * Craig needs to work to write up new membership info. 
-    * See last month'​s minutes for full details. 
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-  * Gary sent email to reduce dial-up lines to 4. 
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-  * Lee found a dial-up service at Primary Networks for $120/year. 
-    * This could be a fall-back if we can no longer provide that service. 
-    * We need to re-assess cost of phone lines at the end of this year. 
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-===== New Business ===== 
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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). 
-  * Craig - Write up info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs. 
-  * Craig - Print out meeting minutes for inclusion in secretary folder. 
-  * Craig - Continue working on new servers. 
-    * Recruit testers in preparation to move www.sluug.org site. 
-    * Complete email configuration. 
-  * Stan - Update web sites w/ info on April presentations. 
-  * Stan - Confirm April 12 tutorial with Stanford Baldwin. Get topic/​details. 
-  * Lee - Finish QB transfer & financials. 
-  * Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/​Mailmain for new servers. 
-    * Need to be able to preserve the archives. 
  
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