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- | ====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - July 2006 ====== | ||
- | 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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- | * July 5, 2006 | ||
- | * ?? 6:30 pm - | ||
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- | ===== Attendees ===== | ||
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- | * ?? Barry Morrison | ||
- | * ?? Carl Fitch | ||
- | * ?? Craig Buchek | ||
- | * ?? Gary Myer | ||
- | * ?? Lee Lammert | ||
- | * ?? Stan Reichardt | ||
- | * ?? Ted Palmer | ||
- | * ?? Tim Cross | ||
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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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- | * ?? No report. | ||
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- | ===== Book Sales ===== | ||
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- | * ?? Sold 7 books in May for about $94. | ||
- | * ?? Sold x books in June for about $x. | ||
- | * ?? No new books ordered this year. | ||
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- | ===== Previous Meetings ===== | ||
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- | ==== Attendance ==== | ||
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- | Attendance figures for last 3 months: | ||
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- | == 5 Apr STEERC - 5 ........ 3 May STEERC - 6 ........ 7 Jun STEERC - 6 == | ||
- | == 12 Apr SLUUG - 17 ........ 10 May SLUUG - 37 ........ 14 Jun SLUUG - 15 == | ||
- | == 20 Apr STLLUG - 20 ........ 18 May STLLUG - 15(17)..... 15 Jun STLLUG - 23 == | ||
- | == 25 Apr HZWLUG - 7 ........ 23 May HZWLUG - 7 ........ 22 Jun STCLUG - 8 == | ||
- | == 26 Apr SECURE - 8 ........ 24 May SECURE - 8 ........ 27 Jun HZWLUG - 7 == | ||
- | == 27 Apr STCLUG - 9 ........ 25 May STCLUG - 11 ........ 28 Jun SECURE - 9 == | ||
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- | Figures in parenthesis is actual head count. | ||
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- | ==== Comments on Presentations ==== | ||
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- | ==== June 2006 ==== | ||
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- | === SLUUG - June 14 === | ||
- | * Base: Master Boot Records by Carl Fitch | ||
- | * NOT DONE: Secure Email by Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson of Slashmail (via Craig) | ||
- | * Main: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About Hard Drives by Creg Buchek | ||
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- | === STLLUG - June 15 === | ||
- | * Again started main presentation at 7:00 PM. Seems to be working well. | ||
- | * Main: SUSE 10 by Matt Skipton of Novell (via Lee) | ||
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- | === STCLUG - June 22 === | ||
- | * Topic: Kids Programming Language (KPL) by Fred Smith | ||
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- | === HZWLUG - June 27 === | ||
- | * Newbie topics: | ||
- | * Processes and the ''kill'' command | ||
- | * CHMOD and the SUID and SGUID permissions | ||
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- | === Security - June 28 === | ||
- | * Topic: Basic Linux Security by Clarence Johnson | ||
- | * Looking for for more volunteer presenters | ||
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- | ===== Presentation Schedule ===== | ||
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- | ==== July 2006 ==== | ||
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- | === SLUUG - July 12 === | ||
- | * Base: TBD | ||
- | * Main: Novell SuSE in the Enterprise Space by Matt Skipton of Novell ( via Lee ) | ||
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- | === STLLUG - July 20 === | ||
- | * Stan R. WILL BE out of town - Need someone else to take attendance | ||
- | * Installing Ubuntu Linux from a Disk Image by Tony Lovasco of EPC (via Carl Fitch) | ||
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- | === HZWLUG - July 25 === | ||
- | * Stan R. might still be out of town - May need someone else to take attendance | ||
- | * Newbie Topics | ||
- | * SUGGESTION: How To Update Your System - pkg, rpm, tar, apt, yum, yast, etc. | ||
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- | === Security - July 26 === | ||
- | * Stan R. might still be out of town - May need someone else to take attendance | ||
- | * TOPIC: OpenVPN by Mark Buchanon | ||
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- | === STCLUG - July 27 === | ||
- | * Stan R. might still be out of town - May need someone else to take attendance | ||
- | * TBD | ||
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- | ==== August 2006 ==== | ||
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- | === SLUUG - Aug 9 === | ||
- | * Base: TBD | ||
- | * Main: Something by Scott Granneman (TENTATIVE, via Gary) | ||
- | * - Get abstract/bio and confirm date. | ||
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- | === STLLUG - Aug 17 === | ||
- | * Main: InkScape - Mark Jarnowski (TENTATIVE, via Craig) | ||
- | * - Get abstract/bio and confirm date. | ||
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- | === HZWLUG - Aug 22 === | ||
- | * Newbie Topics | ||
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- | === Security - Aug 23 === | ||
- | * TBD | ||
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- | === STCLUG - Aug 24 === | ||
- | * TBD | ||
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- | ==== September 2006 ==== | ||
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- | === SLUUG - Sep 13 === | ||
- | * Base: TBD | ||
- | * Main: Search Engine Optimization and Web Services by Jeff Heaton (TENTATIVE, via Ted) | ||
- | * - Get abstract/bio and confirm date. | ||
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- | === STLLUG - Sep 21 === | ||
- | * Main: TBD | ||
- | * - Get abstract/bio and confirm date. | ||
- | |||
- | === HZWLUG - Sep 26 === | ||
- | * Newbie Topics | ||
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- | === Security - Sep 27 === | ||
- | * TBD | ||
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- | === STCLUG - Sep 28 === | ||
- | * TBD | ||
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- | ==== October 2006 ==== | ||
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- | === SLUUG - Oct 11 === | ||
- | * Base: TBD | ||
- | * Main: TBD | ||
- | * - Get abstract/bio and confirm date. | ||
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- | === STLLUG - Oct 19 === | ||
- | * Base: TBD | ||
- | * Main: TBD | ||
- | * - Get abstract/bio and confirm date | ||
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- | ==== Potential Presentations ==== | ||
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- | * Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Tim Cross) | ||
- | * Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Exchange "replacement") - Matthew Porter volunteered (October last year?) | ||
- | * Perl Scripts to do DNA Genetic Research by Bryce Meyer from Wiltel/Level 3 (via Gary) | ||
- | * OpenVPN by Robert Citek (via ???) | ||
- | * SELinux by Stan Reichardt (Not Earlier Than October, If Then) | ||
- | * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list) | ||
- | * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) | ||
- | * CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, JT, Ed Howland (via ???) | ||
- | * 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. | ||
- | * Using Secure Email Clients | ||
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- | ===== Weekly Announcements ===== | ||
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- | * Stan R. has recently gotten a number of positive comments on Weekly Events. | ||
- | * Stan R. has started experimenting with SED & AWK scripts to automate build. | ||
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- | ===== Sponsorships ===== | ||
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- | * ?? Lee working to send out invoices to previous sponsors. ($200) | ||
- | * ?? Clarence and Stan R. 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 1996 have now been listed. | ||
- | * Stan R. indicated that accuracy is not high, but will search additional notes. | ||
- | * Stan R. and Ted will continue listing prior years' data as time permits. | ||
- | * Stan R. will start adding some of the materials that are smaller. | ||
- | * Presentation STL LUG topics are now up to date. | ||
- | * Previously stopped after year 2000. | ||
- | * Accuracy not high, about 5 months missing. | ||
- | * ?? Stan R. working with Ted to get presentations put up. | ||
- | * ?? Ted not comfortable with ''librarian'' as a title, but the goal remains to gather the materials. | ||
- | * ?? Ted has gotten some of the older presentations gathered. | ||
- | * ?? Ted's major emphasis will be to focus on getting the material from presenters. | ||
- | * ?? We anticipate HTML to be the most desirable format, followed by PDF. | ||
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- | ===== System Administration ===== | ||
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- | * ?? Mike Knight reported on a recurring rebooting issue with Dark. | ||
- | * ?? Mike Knight reported on a recurring issue with one of the modems. | ||
- | * Spoofing of old email address on DISCUSS mailing list | ||
- | * Mike Knight found old board member names still allowed to post | ||
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- | ===== 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. | ||
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- | ===== 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. | ||
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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 R. proposed we clean house, and send any excess inventory to WITS. | ||
- | * ?? Suggested someone other than Stan R. volunteer | ||
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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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- | * ?? Stan R. has removed many of our email aliases. | ||
- | * ?? Most of them only collected spam. | ||
- | * ?? Needs to make a few alias changes still. | ||
- | * ?? Updated the contacts page. | ||
- | * ?? Needs to make a few more changes to the web site still. | ||
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- | ===== 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. | ||
- | * ?? Carl says that 12 people have used the dial-up over the past year. | ||
- | * ?? Carl will inform all these current users about our plans. | ||
- | * ?? Primary Networks offers dial-up service. | ||
- | * ?? For $8/month, users can get basic dial-up. | ||
- | * ?? For $10/month, users can get nation-wide dial-up. | ||
- | * ?? Carl said it is an option to resell Primary's dial-up. | ||
- | * ?? Despite notification that we'd discuss this, nobody who cares showed up. | ||
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- | * ?? We seem to be proceeding with dropping dial-up once the current term expires. | ||
- | * ?? Gary seems resigned to letting go of the dial-up. | ||
- | * ?? Gary has started the process of notifying current users. | ||
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- | * ?? Craig suggested that we may need to set procmail to delete spam of a certain rating. | ||
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- | ===== Blue Sky ===== | ||
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- | * ?? Carl suggested we remove the passwords from mailing list archives. | ||
- | * ?? Craig thinks that Mhonarc does not strip email addresses from the message bodies. | ||
- | * ?? Barry will look into stripping email addresses from bodies on new servers. | ||
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- | * ?? Stan R. suggested we hold the occasional meeting at some other location. | ||
- | * ?? Or a joint meeting with some other group. | ||
- | * ?? Java groups. | ||
- | * ?? Web Developers. | ||
- | * ?? LAMP would be a great topic. | ||
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- | ===== Follow-up and Action Items ===== | ||
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- | * ?? Carl - Complete tax-exempt status paperwork. | ||
- | * ?? 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. | ||
- | * ?? Craig - Write up info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs. | ||
- | * ?? Lee - Get abstract/bio from Matt Skipton of Novell. | ||
- | * ?? Lee - Finish QuickBooks 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 Jeff Heaton and confirm date. | ||
- | * ?? Gary - Talk to people about presentations (see above). | ||
- | * ?? Tim - Contact Mark Russell about presenting at Security group. | ||
- | * ?? Stan R. - Update web sites. | ||
- | * ?? Stan R. - Upload presentations to web archive. |