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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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- | ==== July 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. |