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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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-  * August 2, 2006 
-  * 6:?? pm - 8:?? pm 
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-===== Attendees ===== 
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-  * Carl Fitch 
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-  * and more 
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-===== Secretary Report ===== 
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-===== Treasurer Report ===== 
-|                      ^Amount ​ ^Notes ^ 
-|Current Bank Balance |  $903.68| Bank Statement| 
-|AP Due (Wash U)       ​| ​ $170.00| (5 lines @34)| 
-|Balance as of 6/30/06 |  $733.68|| 
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-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. 
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-===== Book Sales ===== 
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-  * No books sold in July. 
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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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-   3 May STEERC ​ -  6 ........ ​ 7 Jun STEERC ​ -  6 ........ ​ Jul STEERC ​ -  5 
-  10 May SLUUG   - 37 ........ 14 Jun SLUUG   - 15 ........ ​ Jul SLUUG   ​- ​ 
-  18 May STLLUG ​ - 15(17)..... 15 Jun STLLUG ​ - 23 ........ ​ Jul STLLUG ​ -  
-  23 May HZWLUG ​ -  7 ........ 22 Jun STCLUG ​ -  8 ........ ​ Jul STCLUG ​ -  11 
-  24 May SECURE ​ -  8 ........ 27 Jun HZWLUG ​ -  7 ........ ​ Jul HZWLUG ​ -  8 
-  25 May STCLUG ​ - 11 ........ 28 Jun SECURE ​ -  9 ........ ​ Jul SECURE ​ -  10 
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-Figures in parenthesis is actual head count. 
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-Chris volunteered to cross-promote our Security meetings at other local security groups (Infragaurd and ISSA). 
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-==== Comments on Presentations ==== 
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-==== June 2006 ==== 
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-=== SLUUG - July 12 === 
-  * Base: Graylisting with Postgray (Making Spammers Wait) by Carl Fitch 
-    * 
-  * Main: Novell SUSE in the Enterprise Space by Matt Skipton of Novell 
-    *  
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-=== STLLUG - July 20 === 
-  * Meeting canceled due to storm related power outage. 
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-=== STCLUG - July 27 === 
-  * Booting Multiple Live CD’s from a Single CD-ROM or DVD by Mike Duncan 
-    *  
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-=== HZWLUG - July 25 === 
-  * How To Update Your System - pkg, rpm, tar, apt, yum, yast, etc. 
-    *  
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-=== Security - July 26 === 
-  * Topic: OpenVPN by Mark Buchanon 
-    *  
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-===== Presentation Schedule ===== 
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-==== August 2006 ==== 
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-=== SLUUG - Aug 9 === 
-  * Base: Intro to Metasploit Security Tool by Chris Byrd (TENTATIVE) 
-  * Main: We're all doomed!: A look into the present & future by Scott Granneman 
-    * 
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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 === 
-  * Hands-On: Metasploit by Chris Byrd 
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-=== STCLUG - Aug 24 === 
-  * Creating a VNC repeater for your customers and relatives - and WHY? by Carl Fitch 
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-==== September ​ 2006 ==== 
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-=== SLUUG - Sep 13 === 
-  * Base: TBD 
-  * Main: Secure Email by Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson of Slashmail (via Craig) 
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-=== STLLUG - Sep 21 === 
-  * Main: TBD 
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-=== 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 
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-=== STLLUG - Oct 19 === 
-  * Base: TBD 
-  * Main: TBD 
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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 
-    * TrueCrypt - file-level encryption for Windows/​Linux 
-    * One-Time Passwords 
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-===== Weekly Announcements ===== 
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-  * Stan has recently gotten a number of positive comments on Weekly Events mailings. 
-  * Stan 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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-  * 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. 
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-===== PROJECT: New servers ===== 
-  * Need to complete migration to new servers. 
-  * Chris volunteered to help. 
-    * Has good Drupal experience. 
-    * Has done Linux administration. 
-  * Craig has a 1U UltraSparc with Solaris 10 to donate and install at Primary. 
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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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-  * Craig needs to work to write up new membership info. 
-    * See previous minutes for full details. 
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-===== New Business ===== 
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-  * Carl **MUST** submit annual report to the state by July 15 to keep us in business. **Done** 
-    * Carl will have forms filled out by July 12. **No longer needed** 
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-  * We seem to be proceeding with dropping dial-up once the current term expires. 
-    * Stan suggested keeping 1 dial-up line for ememergency access to Wash U systems. 
-      * Those in attendance agreed that this was a good idea. 
-    * Lee suggested we drop the dial-up lines on September 30. 
-      * Gary suggested we give users 90 days notice. 
-        * The proposal is actually 80 days+. 
-      * Those in attendance agreed this was a good idea. 
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-  * Mike Knight asked if we should delete suspected spam emails, without letting users see them. 
-    * It was suggested that it would be good to delete **some** emails. 
-      * Those with really high spam scores. 
-      * It was agreed that Mike could set the threshold to a conservative value of his choice. 
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-===== Blue Sky ===== 
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-===== Follow-up and Action Items ===== 
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-  * Carl - **MUST** complete annual report for state by July 12. **Done** 
-  * Carl - Complete state exempt status paperwork. **No longer needed** 
-  * Chris and Craig - Work on migrating to new servers. 
-  * Craig - Confirm Dustin Anders and Paul Vinson for September 13 presentation. 
-    * Tell them to spend at least half the time on client-side (PGP). 
-    * Get abstract/​bio. 
-    * Follow up at monthly intervals. 
-  * Craig - Print out meeting minutes for inclusion in secretary folder. 
-  * Craig - Write up info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs. 
-  * Lee - Submit treasurer reports. 
-  * Lee - Finish QuickBooks transfer & financials. 
-  * Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/​Mailmain for new servers. 
-    * 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. 
-  * Stan - Update web sites. 
-  * Ted and Stan - Upload presentations to web archive. 
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