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151.145.63.122 Updated name of 9/21 presenter. (CMB)
steercom:2006-09 [2006/09/19 07:08]
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-====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - September 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) 
- 
-===== Date / Time ===== 
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-  * September ???, 2006 
-  * 6:30 pm - ?? pm 
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-===== Attendees ===== 
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-  * Carl Fitch? 
-  * Clarence Johnson? 
-  * Craig Buchek? 
-  * Bob Hansen? 
-  * Stan Reichardt? 
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-===== Secretary Report ===== 
- 
-  * Still need to type up minutes of previous Board meeting. 
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-===== Treasurer Report ===== 
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-OLD STUFF: 
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-|                      ^ Amount ^    Notes    ^ 
-|Current Bank Balance |  $903.68| Bank Statement| 
-|AP Due (Wash U)       ​| ​ $170.00| (5 lines @ $34)| 
-|Balance as of 7/30/06 ^$733.68 || 
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-  * 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. 
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-===== Book Sales ===== 
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-  * Books sold? 
-  * Books raffled off? 
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-===== Previous Meetings ===== 
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-==== Attendance ==== 
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-  * August 27 SLUUG meeting: 26 signed in, 27 actual head-count. 
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-==== Comments on Presentations ==== 
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-===== August 2006 ===== 
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-=== SLUUG - Aug 9 === 
-  * Base: Intro to Metasploit Security Tool by Chris Byrd 
-  * Main: We're all doomed!: A look into the present & future by Scott Granneman 
- 
-=== STLLUG - Aug 17 === 
-  * Main: JT Moree - Personal Accomplishments in Open Source 
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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 === 
-  * Main: Creating a VNC repeater for your customers and relatives - and WHY? by Carl Fitch 
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-===== Presentation Schedule ===== 
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-==== September 2006 ==== 
- 
-=== SLUUG - Sep 13 === 
-  * Base: TBD 
-  * Main:  
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-=== STLLUG - Sep 21 === 
-  * Main: Update on SCO v. IBM Lawsuit by AllParadox (Benjamin White) (via Craig Buchek / Scott McKellar) 
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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 ==== 
- 
-=== SLUUG - Oct 11 === 
-  * Base: TBD 
-  * Main: TBD 
- 
-=== STLLUG - Oct 19 === 
-  * Base: TBD 
-  * Main: Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Exchange "​replacement"​) by Matthew Porter (TENTATIVE) 
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-==== Potential Presentations ==== 
-  * Main: InkScape - Mark Jarnowski (via Craig) 
-  * Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Tim Cross) 
-  * 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, 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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-===== 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 ===== 
- 
-  * 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 ===== 
-  * No news is good news? 
- 
-===== 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. 
-  * 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. 
- 
-===== Old Business ===== 
-  * Annual report was submitted to the state. 
-    * 1 month early -- saves us $5. 
- 
-  * Craig needs to work to write up new membership info. 
-    * See previous minutes for full details. 
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-===== New Business ===== 
- 
-  * Christine Wanta emailed the list, saying she would have to resign her Board seat. 
-    * 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. 
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-  * We are proceeding with dropping dial-up on September 30. 
-    * 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. 
-      * Unanimous agreement to keep the 1 line. 
- 
-  * EPC - big sale this Saturday. 
-    * 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. 
- 
-  * We discussed membership dues in relation to shell accounts. 
-    * Agreed that there should be 3 levels of voluntary membership dues. 
-      * $100 
-      * $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. 
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-===== Blue Sky ===== 
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-===== Follow-up and Action Items ===== 
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-  * Chris and Craig - Work on migrating to new servers. 
-  * Craig - Write up info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs. 
-  * Lee - Submit treasurer reports for inclusion in secretary folder. 
-  * Lee - Finish QuickBooks transfer & financials. 
-  * Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/​Mailmain for new servers. 
-    * Need to be able to preserve the archives. 
-  * Tim - Contact Mark Russell about presenting at Security group. 
-  * Stan - Update web sites. 
-  * Ted and Stan - Upload presentations to web archive. 
-  * Gary - work with Wash U on dial-up lines. 
-    * Terminating all but 1 on 9/30. 
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