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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!)

Location

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

Date / Time

  • July 5, 2006
  • 6:45 pm -

Attendees

  • Craig Buchek
  • Carl Fitch
  • Ted Palmer
  • Chris Byrd
  • Stan Reichardt
  • ?? Barry Morrison
  • ?? Tim Cross

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.
  • There was some dispute about what was decided at the Board meeting in April.
    • The wording that was agreed to was "proposed fee structure for accounts/memberships".
    • The proposed fee structure was listed as:
      • Level 1: $35 (basic/shell) Shell
      • Level 2: $65 (dial-up + shell) Sustaining
      • Level 3: $100 ("professional") Professional
      • Corporate Sponsorship: $200
    • Some are now saying that they only agreed to the $100 level.
    • May be a moot point if we re-do the structure when we disband the dial-up accounts.

Treasurer Report

  • No report. Lee was out of town.
  • Says we will run out of funds by May if we don't stop paying for dial-up lines.
    • Has not provided data to back that up yet.
  • Current balance: $1350 (approximate)
  • Collected 1 $35 membership fee for 2006-2007.

Book Sales

  • Sold 4 books in June for about $45.
  • No new books ordered this year.
  • Stan suggested a fire sale to get rid of remaining inventory.
    • Also raffle off books at meetings as door prizes.

Previous Meetings

Attendance

Attendance figures for last 3 months:

 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

Figures in parenthesis is actual head count.

Chris volunteered to cross-promote our Security meetings at other local security groups (Infragaurd and ISSA).

Comments on Presentations

June 2006

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

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)

STCLUG - June 22

  • Topic: Kids Programming Language (KPL) by Fred Smith

HZWLUG - June 27

  • New comer topics:
    • Processes and the ps, kill, and top commands
    • CHMOD and the SUID and SGUID permissions

Security - June 28

  • Topic: Basic Linux Security by Clarence Johnson
  • Looking for for more volunteer presenters

Presentation Schedule

July 2006

SLUUG - July 12

  • Base: TBD
  • Main: Novell SuSE in the Enterprise Space by Matt Skipton of Novell ( via Lee )

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)

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.

Security - July 26

  • Stan R. might still be out of town - May need someone else to take attendance
  • TOPIC: OpenVPN by Mark Buchanon

STCLUG - July 27

  • Stan R. might still be out of town - May need someone else to take attendance
  • TOPIC: Booting Multiple Live CD's from a Single CDROM or DVD by Mike Duncan

August 2006

SLUUG - Aug 9

  • Base: TBD
  • Main: Something by Scott Granneman (TENTATIVE, via Gary)
    • - Get abstract/bio and confirm date.

STLLUG - Aug 17

  • Main: InkScape - Mark Jarnowski (TENTATIVE, via Craig)
    • - Get abstract/bio and confirm date.

HZWLUG - Aug 22

  • Newbie Topics

Security - Aug 23

  • TBD

STCLUG - Aug 24

  • TBD

September 2006

SLUUG - Sep 13

  • Base: TBD
  • Main: Search Engine Optimization and Web Services by Jeff Heaton (TENTATIVE, via Ted)
    • - Get abstract/bio and confirm date.

STLLUG - Sep 21

  • Main: TBD
    • - Get abstract/bio and confirm date.

HZWLUG - Sep 26

  • Newbie Topics

Security - Sep 27

  • TBD

STCLUG - Sep 28

  • TBD

October 2006

SLUUG - Oct 11

  • Base: TBD
  • Main: TBD
    • - Get abstract/bio and confirm date.

STLLUG - Oct 19

  • Base: TBD
  • Main: TBD
    • - Get abstract/bio and confirm date

Potential Presentations

  • 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

Weekly Announcements

  • 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.

Sponsorships

  • ?? 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.

Website Librarian

  • 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.

System Administration

  • ?? 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

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 R. proposed we clean house, and send any excess inventory to WITS.
    • ?? Suggested someone other than Stan R. volunteer
  • ?? 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.
  • ?? 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.

New Business

  • Review April minutes for the Steering Committee and Board to verify what was voted on and approved. Was it the "proposed fee structure for accounts/memberships", or just the $100 "professional" membership.
  • ?? 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.
  • ?? 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.
  • ?? Craig suggested that we may need to set procmail to delete spam of a certain rating.

Blue Sky

  • ?? 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.
  • ?? 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.

Follow-up and Action Items

  • ?? 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.
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