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* August 2, 2006 | * August 2, 2006 | ||
- | * 6:30 pm - 8:?? pm | + | * 6:30 pm - 8:12 pm |
===== Attendees ===== | ===== Attendees ===== | ||
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* Craig Buchek | * Craig Buchek | ||
* Bob Hansen | * Bob Hansen | ||
- | * | + | * Stan Reichardt |
===== Secretary Report ===== | ===== Secretary Report ===== | ||
* Printed out minutes from Steering Committee meetings up through July. | * Printed out minutes from Steering Committee meetings up through July. | ||
+ | * Had the president sign them. | ||
+ | * Will include them in secretary folder. | ||
+ | * Still need to type up minutes of previous Board meeting. | ||
===== Treasurer Report ===== | ===== Treasurer Report ===== | ||
+ | |||
| ^ Amount ^ Notes ^ | | ^ Amount ^ Notes ^ | ||
|Current Bank Balance | $903.68| Bank Statement| | |Current Bank Balance | $903.68| Bank Statement| | ||
- | |AP Due (Wash U) | $170.00| (5 lines @34)| | + | |AP Due (Wash U) | $170.00| (5 lines @ $34)| |
- | |Balance as of 6/30/06 ^$733.68 || | + | |Balance as of 7/30/06 ^$733.68 || |
- | + | ||
- | Please be sure Gary gets the termination order in to Wash U for 9/30. Note that we are still being billed for five lines, even though they supposedly terminated the 5th in April. | + | |
+ | * Lee says Wash U is still billing us for 5 lines. | ||
+ | * They supposedly terminated the 5th line in April. | ||
+ | * Lee will look into getting refunded for having only 4 lines, but paying for 5. | ||
+ | * Lee asked that Gary gets the termination order in to Wash U for 9/30 AHEAD OF TIME. | ||
===== Book Sales ===== | ===== Book Sales ===== | ||
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Attendance figures for last 3 months: | Attendance figures for last 3 months: | ||
- | 3 May STEERC - 6 ........ 7 Jun STEERC - 6 ........ Jul STEERC - 5 | + | 3 May STEERC - 6 ........ 7 Jun STEERC - 6 ........ 5 Jul STEERC - 5 |
- | 10 May SLUUG - 37 ........ 14 Jun SLUUG - 15 ........ Jul SLUUG - | + | 10 May SLUUG - 37 ........ 14 Jun SLUUG - 15 ........ 12 Jul SLUUG - 29 |
- | 18 May STLLUG - 15(17)..... 15 Jun STLLUG - 23 ........ Jul STLLUG - | + | 18 May STLLUG - 15(17)..... 15 Jun STLLUG - 23 ........ 20 Jul STLLUG - CANCELED |
- | 23 May HZWLUG - 7 ........ 22 Jun STCLUG - 8 ........ Jul STCLUG - 11 | + | 23 May HZWLUG - 7 ........ 22 Jun STCLUG - 8 ........ 27 Jul STCLUG - 11 |
- | 24 May SECURE - 8 ........ 27 Jun HZWLUG - 7 ........ Jul HZWLUG - 8 | + | 24 May SECURE - 8 ........ 27 Jun HZWLUG - 7 ........ 25 Jul HZWLUG - 8 |
- | 25 May STCLUG - 11 ........ 28 Jun SECURE - 9 ........ Jul SECURE - 10 | + | 25 May STCLUG - 11 ........ 28 Jun SECURE - 9 ........ 26 Jul SECURE - 10 |
Figures in parenthesis is actual head count. | Figures in parenthesis is actual head count. | ||
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=== SLUUG - July 12 === | === SLUUG - July 12 === | ||
* Base: Graylisting with Postgray (Making Spammers Wait) by Carl Fitch | * Base: Graylisting with Postgray (Making Spammers Wait) by Carl Fitch | ||
- | * | + | * Good. |
* Main: Novell SUSE in the Enterprise Space by Matt Skipton of Novell | * Main: Novell SUSE in the Enterprise Space by Matt Skipton of Novell | ||
- | * | + | * Neat technology. Covered a lot. Almost too much. |
+ | * We need to have vendors in here more often. | ||
+ | * Especially the big ones. (IBM, Sun, Novell) | ||
+ | * We should have him back in a few months to go in depth on one of the topics. | ||
=== STLLUG - July 20 === | === STLLUG - July 20 === | ||
- | * Meeting canceled due to storm related power outage. | + | * Meeting canceled due to storm-related power outage at the library. |
=== STCLUG - July 27 === | === STCLUG - July 27 === | ||
- | * Booting Multiple Live CD’s from a Single CD-ROM or DVD by Mike Duncan | + | * Booting Multiple Live CD's from a Single CD-ROM or DVD by Mike Duncan |
- | * | + | * Interesting. Good speaker. |
=== HZWLUG - July 25 === | === HZWLUG - July 25 === | ||
* How To Update Your System - pkg, rpm, tar, apt, yum, yast, etc. | * How To Update Your System - pkg, rpm, tar, apt, yum, yast, etc. | ||
- | * | + | * Talked mostly about Debian apt. |
=== Security - July 26 === | === Security - July 26 === | ||
* Topic: OpenVPN by Mark Buchanon | * Topic: OpenVPN by Mark Buchanon | ||
- | * | + | * Good, but a bit Windows-oriented. |
===== Presentation Schedule ===== | ===== Presentation Schedule ===== | ||
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=== SLUUG - Aug 9 === | === SLUUG - Aug 9 === | ||
- | * Base: Intro to Metasploit Security Tool by Chris Byrd (TENTATIVE) | + | * Base: Intro to Metasploit Security Tool by Chris Byrd |
* Main: We're all doomed!: A look into the present & future by Scott Granneman | * Main: We're all doomed!: A look into the present & future by Scott Granneman | ||
- | * | ||
=== STLLUG - Aug 17 === | === STLLUG - Aug 17 === | ||
- | * Main: InkScape - Mark Jarnowski (TENTATIVE, via Craig) | + | * Main: JT Moree - Personal Accomplishments in Open Source |
- | * Get abstract/bio and confirm date. | + | |
=== HZWLUG - Aug 22 === | === HZWLUG - Aug 22 === | ||
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=== STCLUG - Aug 24 === | === STCLUG - Aug 24 === | ||
- | * Creating a VNC repeater for your customers and relatives - and WHY? by Carl Fitch | + | * Main: Creating a VNC repeater for your customers and relatives - and WHY? by Carl Fitch |
- | ==== September 2006 ==== | + | ==== September 2006 ==== |
=== SLUUG - Sep 13 === | === SLUUG - Sep 13 === | ||
* Base: TBD | * Base: TBD | ||
- | * Main: Secure Email by Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson of Slashmail (via Craig) | + | * Main: |
=== STLLUG - Sep 21 === | === STLLUG - Sep 21 === | ||
- | * Main: TBD | + | * Main: Update on SCO v. IBM Lawsuit by AllParadox (TENTATIVE, via Scott McKellar) |
=== HZWLUG - Sep 26 === | === HZWLUG - Sep 26 === | ||
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=== STLLUG - Oct 19 === | === STLLUG - Oct 19 === | ||
* Base: TBD | * Base: TBD | ||
- | * Main: TBD | + | * Main: Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Exchange "replacement") by Matthew Porter (TENTATIVE) |
==== Potential Presentations ==== | ==== Potential Presentations ==== | ||
+ | * Main: InkScape - Mark Jarnowski (via Craig) | ||
* Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Tim Cross) | * 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) | * Perl Scripts to do DNA Genetic Research by Bryce Meyer from Wiltel/Level 3 (via Gary) | ||
* OpenVPN by Robert Citek (via ???) | * OpenVPN by Robert Citek (via ???) | ||
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* MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list) | * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list) | ||
* WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) | * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) | ||
- | * CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, JT, Ed Howland (via ???) | + | * CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, Ed Howland (via ???) |
* Requests: | * Requests: | ||
* VPN (hands-on preferred, good for a Security meeting) | * VPN (hands-on preferred, good for a Security meeting) | ||
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===== System Administration ===== | ===== System Administration ===== | ||
- | + | * No news is good news? | |
- | * Spoofing of old email address on DISCUSS mailing list. | + | |
- | * Mike Knight found old board member names still allowed to post. | + | |
- | * Porblem has hopefully been resolved. | + | |
===== PROJECT: New servers ===== | ===== PROJECT: New servers ===== | ||
+ | * Someone (Mike Knight?) added a lot of good discussion on the wiki about user accounts. | ||
* Need to complete migration to new servers. | * Need to complete migration to new servers. | ||
* Chris volunteered to help. | * Chris volunteered to help. | ||
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===== Old Business ===== | ===== Old Business ===== | ||
- | * Missouri Exempt status - (Carl Fitch and Lee Lammert, with help from Fred Smith's wife) | + | * Annual report was submitted to the state. |
- | * Carl has the forms. Working to finish filling them out. Will hand them off to Lee. | + | * 1 month early -- saves us $5. |
- | * Gary will take forms to Rich McClennan to get help answering some of the questions. | + | |
* Craig needs to work to write up new membership info. | * Craig needs to work to write up new membership info. | ||
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===== New Business ===== | ===== New Business ===== | ||
- | * Carl **MUST** submit annual report to the state by July 15 to keep us in business. **Done** | + | * Christine Wanta emailed the list, saying she would have to resign her Board seat. |
- | * Carl will have forms filled out by July 12. **No longer needed** | + | * Unable to attend enough meetings. |
+ | * The 3 attending Board members agreed to wait until Lee was here to choose a replacement. | ||
+ | * Christine has not submitted a written resignation letter as of yet. | ||
- | * We seem to be proceeding with dropping dial-up once the current term expires. | + | * We are proceeding with dropping dial-up on September 30. |
- | * Stan suggested keeping 1 dial-up line for ememergency access to Wash U systems. | + | * Carl emailed all our users, telling them dial-up would be going away. |
+ | * Stan suggested keeping 1 dial-up line for emergency access to Wash U systems. | ||
* Those in attendance agreed that this was a good idea. | * Those in attendance agreed that this was a good idea. | ||
- | * Lee suggested we drop the dial-up lines on September 30. | + | * Unanimous agreement to keep the 1 line. |
- | * Gary suggested we give users 90 days notice. | + | |
- | * The proposal is actually 80 days+. | + | * EPC - big sale this Saturday. |
- | * Those in attendance agreed this was a good idea. | + | * EPC is now installing Ubuntu Linux on their systems by default. |
+ | * We will be there to answer Linux questions. | ||
+ | * Sort of like a Hazelwood LUG meeting. | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Clarence showed us Chris Byrd's Drupal mock-up of the Security SIG's web group. | ||
+ | * We agreed that it looked good. | ||
+ | * We'd like to move the site to our new boxes. | ||
+ | * Craig will work with him. | ||
- | * Mike Knight asked if we should delete suspected spam emails, without letting users see them. | + | * We discussed membership dues in relation to shell accounts. |
- | * It was suggested that it would be good to delete **some** emails. | + | * Agreed that there should be 3 levels of voluntary membership dues. |
- | * Those with really high spam scores. | + | * $100 |
- | * It was agreed that Mike could set the threshold to a conservative value of his choice. | + | * $70 |
+ | * $35 | ||
+ | * Agreed that shell accounts are available in 1 of 2 conditions: | ||
+ | * User pays voluntary membership dues, | ||
+ | * OR user attended 2 meetings in the previous calendar year, and pays $10. | ||
===== Blue Sky ===== | ===== Blue Sky ===== | ||
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* Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/Mailmain for new servers. | * Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/Mailmain for new servers. | ||
* Need to be able to preserve the archives. | * Need to be able to preserve the archives. | ||
- | * Gary - Talk to people about presentations (see above). | ||
* Tim - Contact Mark Russell about presenting at Security group. | * Tim - Contact Mark Russell about presenting at Security group. | ||
* Stan - Update web sites. | * Stan - Update web sites. | ||
* Ted and Stan - Upload presentations to web archive. | * Ted and Stan - Upload presentations to web archive. | ||
* Gary - work with Wash U on dial-up lines. | * Gary - work with Wash U on dial-up lines. | ||
+ | * Terminating all but 1 on 9/30. | ||