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SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - June 2006

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

NOTE: HAVEN'T UPDATE ANY OF THE DATES OR INFO FOR JUNE YET!!!!!!!!!

Location

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

Date / Time

  • June 7, 2006
  • 6:30 pm -

Attendees

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

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 2004 data into QuickBooks.
  • We created some stationery. Carl got some samples from Rich Seibel.

Book Sales

  • No books sold.
  • No new books ordered this year.

Previous Meetings

Attendance

May attendance figures:

10 - UNIX     - xx
18 - STL LUG  - 15 (17 head count)
23 - HZW LUG  - x
24 - Security - x
25 - STC LUG  - 10

Comments on Presentations

May 2006

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)
STLLUG - May 18
  • Main: GeeXboX / MythTV / HTPC by Mark Sims (Carl has reconfirmed date and location)
HZWLUG - May 23
  • Newbie topics
    • Demonstration of Starwreck movie (first 5 minutes)
    • Demonstration of Elephant Dreams video done with Blender (first 5 minutes)
    • Main Topic: Broken lockfiles (hands on and slide show with gwenview)
Security - May 24
  • Wireless Troubleshooting - Kismet & Other Diagnostic Tools
STCLUG - May 25
  • Further Explorations with Ruby on Rails by Ed Howland

Presentation Schedule

June 2006

SLUUG - June 14

  • Base: Master Boot Records by Carl Fitch
  • Main: Secure Email by Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson of Slashmail (via Craig)

STLLUG - June 15

  • Main: SUSE 10 by Matt Skipton of Novell (via Lee)

STCLUG - June 22

  • TBD

HZWLUG - June 27

  • Newbie topics

Security - June 28

  • TBD

July 2006

SLUUG - July 12

  • Base: TBD
  • Main: Novell SuSE in the Enterprise Space (LVL Tentative)

STLLUG - July 20

  • Installing Linux from a Disk Image by Carl Fitch

HZWLUG - July 25

  • TBD

Security - July 26

  • TBD

STCLUG - July 27

  • TBD

August 2006

SLUUG - Aug 9

  • Base: TBD
  • Main: something by Scott Granneman (TENTATIVE, via Gary)

STLLUG - Aug 17

  • Main: InkScape - Mark Jarnowski (TENTATIVE, via Craig)

HZWLUG - Aug 22

  • TBD

Security - Aug 23

  • TBD

STCLUG - Aug 24

  • TBD

September 2006

SLUUG - Sep 13

  • Base: TBD
  • Main: something by

STLLUG - Sep 21

  • Main:

HZWLUG - Sep 26

  • TBD

Security - Sep 27

  • TBD

STCLUG - Sep 28

  • TBD

Potential Presentations

  • 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.

Weekly Announcements

  • Stan is looking to somehow automate the announcements.

Sponsorships

  • 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.

Website Librarian

  • 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.

System Administration

  • Mike Knight pointed out a configuration problem with our new servers.

PROJECT: New servers

  • 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.

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.
  • Stan proposed we clean house, and send any excess inventory to WITS.
  • Craig needs to work to write up new membership info.
    • See last month's minutes for full details.
  • Gary sent email to reduce dial-up lines to 4.
  • 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.

New Business

  • Craig proposes that a BBS Committee be formed.
    • They will ensure financial viability of the BBS.
    • They will report to Steering Committee on continuing viability at least quarterly.
      • Or else the BBS service will be canceled the following year.
    • If no committee is formed by interested parties, the BBS service will be canceled the following year.

Blue Sky

  • Stan will look into removing many of our email aliases.
    • Most of them only collect spam.
    • Craig suggested that we may need to set procmail to delete spam of a certain rating.

Follow-up and Action Items

  • Carl - Get abstract/bio from Mark Sims.
  • 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 - Get abstract/bio from Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson.
    • Tell them to spend at least half the time on client-side (PGP).
  • 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.
  • Lee - Get abstract/bio from Matt Skipton of Novell.
  • Lee - Finish QB transfer & financials.
  • Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/Mailmain for new servers.
    • Need to be able to preserve the archives.
  • Ted - Get abstract/bio from Mark Murdock and Scott Winter.
  • Gary - Talk to people about presentations (see above).
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