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-====== 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, 
-  (at Old Olive and Olive), 
-  10550 Old Olive Street Road, 
-  Creve Coeur, MO 63141 
- 
-====== Date and Time ====== 
-  * October 4, 2006 
-  * 6:30 pm - 
- 
-====== Attendees ====== 
-  * Lee Lammert 
-  * Barry Morrison 
-  * Stan Reichardt 
-  * Carl Fitch 
-  * Craig Buchek 
-  * Gary Meyer 
-  * ??Clarence Johnson 
- 
-====== Secretary Report ​ ====== 
-  * Need to print out September Steering Committee meeting minutes. 
-  * Need Carl to sign August'​s minutes. 
-  * Still need to type up minutes of previous Board meeting. 
- 
-====== Treasurer Report ====== 
-|                      ^ Amount ^    Notes    ^ 
-|Starting Bank Balance |  $586.17| Bank Statement| 
-|AP Due (Wash U)       ​| ​ $170.00| (4 lines @ $34)| 
-|AR                    | $100.00| Membership payment| 
-|Balance as of 8/31/06 ^$516.17 || 
- 
-  * September numbers pending. 
-  * Still need to reconcile QuickBooks for previous years. 
-    * Lee will need some assistance with that. 
- 
-====== Book Sales Report ====== 
-  * No book sales in September. 
- 
-====== Attendance Report ====== 
-Year to Date figures for 2006 posted to STEERCOM mailing list 
- 
-  *  6 Sep STEERC ​ -  6 
-  * 13 Sep SLUUG   - 15 
-  * 21 Sep STLLUG ​ - 15(17) 
-  * 26 Sep HZWLUG ​ -  8 
-  * 27 Sep SECURE ​ - 17 
-  * 28 Sep STCLUG ​ - 10 
- 
-  * Security SIG had an excellent turn-out this month. 
-  * LUG turn-out was lighter than expected. 
-  * Gary suggested members call some of the old members to remind them of upcoming meetings. 
- 
-====== Comments on Presentations ====== 
- 
-===== September 2006 ===== 
- 
-==== SLUUG - Sep 13 ==== 
-  * Base: Bugzilla by Craig Buchek 
-    * Excellent. Hopefully this will help members report bugs. 
-  * Main: Techie Videos from the Internet (DLTV) 
-    * DLTV episode was too long. 
-    * Good idea for filler, but choose shorter videos next time. 
- 
-==== STLLUG - Sep 21 ==== 
-  * Main: Update on SCO v. IBM Lawsuit by AllParadox (Benjamin White) 
-    * Started out slow, but was better in the middle and end. 
-    * Helped us understand some of the technical legal details. 
- 
-==== HZWLUG - Sep 26 ==== 
-  * Finding Linux Applications 
-    * Maybe okay. 
-    * Had problems with projector. 
-  * Other Newbie Topics 
- 
-==== SECURITY - Sep 27 ==== 
-  * Network Diagnostics & Deep Packet Scanning by Ed Morrisy of Global Velocity 
-    * Pizza was really good. 
-    * Presentation was good and interesting,​ but a bit too much salesmanship. 
- 
-==== STCLUG - Sep 28 ==== 
-  * Finding Linux Applications 
-    * Reprise of Hazelwood talk. 
-    * Started late, but went faster. 
- 
-====== Presentation Schedule ====== 
- 
-===== October 2006 ===== 
- 
-==== SLUUG - Oct 11 ==== 
-  * Base: Firebug (Firefox plugin - JavaScript debugger) by Ed Howland 
-  * Main: AppArmor by Matt Skiption of Novell 
- 
-==== STLLUG - Oct 19 ==== 
-  * Main: To Be Determined 
- 
-==== HZWLUG - Oct 24 ==== 
-  * Base: Newbie Topics 
- 
-==== SECURITY - Oct 25 ==== 
-  * Primer on Encryption by Mark Buchanan 
- 
-==== STCLUG - Oct 26 ==== 
-  * Cronolog Log Rotation by Carl Fitch 
- 
-===== November 2006 ===== 
- 
-==== SLUUG - Nov 8 ==== 
-  * Base: TBD. 
-  * Main: Introduction to Logical Volume Manager by Jeff Muse (TENATIVE) 
- 
-==== STLLUG - Nov 16 ==== 
-  * Main: Follow-up Demonstration of Logical Volume Manager by Jeff Muse (TENATIVE) 
- 
-==== SECURITY - Nov 22 ==== 
-  * TBD. 
- 
-==== Thanksgiving Day - Nov 23 ==== 
- 
-==== STCLUG - Nov ?? ==== 
-  * Need to determine Holiday schedule date. 
- 
-==== HZWLUG - Nov 28 ==== 
-  * Newbie Topics 
- 
-===== December 2006 ===== 
-SLUUG - Dec 13 
-  * Base: 
-  * Main: 
- 
-STLLUG - Dec 21 
-  * Base: 
-  * Main: InkScape by Mark Jarnowski (TENTATIVE) 
- 
-Christmas Day - Dec 25 
- 
-HZWLUG - Dec 26 
- 
-SECURITY - Dec 27 
- 
-STCLUG - Dec 28 
- 
-===== January 2007 ===== 
- 
-SLUUG - Jan 10 
- 
-  * Base: 
-  * Main: 
- 
-STLLUG - Jan 18 
- 
-  * Base: 
-  * Main: 
- 
-HZWLUG - Jan 23 
- 
-SECURITY - Jan 24 
- 
-STCLUG - Jan 25 
- 
-====== Potential Presentations ====== 
- 
-  * Main: InkScape by Mark Jarnowski (via Craig) (was STLLUG TENTATIVE) 
-  * Everything you (N)Ever Wanted to Know About HDTV by Craig Buchek (will work on this to have as a stand-by) 
-  * Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Lee) 
-  * Contact Mark Russell about presenting at Security group. (via Tim/Ted ?) 
-  * XGL by Matt Skipton of Novell (via Lee) 
-  * Perl Scripts to do DNA Genetic Research by Bryce Meyer from Wiltel/​Level 3 (via Gary) 
-  * OpenVPN by Robert Citek (via ???) 
-  * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list) 
-  * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) 
-  * CVS/​Subversion - Sanjiv, Ed Howland (via ???) 
-  * Tech Futures - Railroad guy (via Rich Seibel) 
-  * SELinux by Stan Reichardt (Not Earlier Than November, If Then) 
-  * 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 
-    * Using One-Time Passwords 
-    * Video cards in Linux (Heuris) 
-    * IBM vs. Sun vs. HP on UNIX 
- 
-====== Weekly Announcements ====== 
-  * What is status of ? 
- 
-====== Library Room Reservations ====== 
-  * First Saturday in October. 
-  * Stan will fill out paperwork. 
-  * Phil Bunch usually delivers paperwork to Indian Trails for STLLUG. 
-  * Stan will reserve Hazelwood for HZLUG. 
- 
-====== Sponsorships ====== 
- 
-  * Lee updated our web site to show a different logo (and link) for Primary Networks 
-  * 
-  * What is status of ? 
-  * 
-  * Lee L. working to send out invoices to previous sponsors. ($200) 
-  * Clarence J. and Stan R. to gather information about previous sponsors. 
-          o Collect sponsor contact info. 
-          o Starting with information from the web site. 
- 
-====== Website Library ====== 
- 
-    * What is status of ? 
-    * 
-    * Stan R. working with Ted P. to get presentations put up. 
-    * Ted has gotten some of the older presentations gathered 
-    * No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration 
- 
-====== System Administration ====== 
- 
-    * What is status of ? 
-    * 
-    * Dark 
-    * Michelob 
-    * WU Dialup hardware 
- 
-====== New Servers Project ====== 
- 
-    * What is status of ? 
-    * 
-    * Bud 
-    * Budlight(?) 
-    * SLUUG website migration to new servers. 
-    * SLUUG mail  migration to new servers. 
-    * Chris Byrd - to migrate Security website page over 
-    * Craig Buchek - set up Chris with access 
-    * Barry - Look into Webmin and Majordomo/​Mailman for new servers. 
-    * Need to be able to preserve the archives. 
- 
-====== Other Old Business ====== 
- 
-===== Board Member ===== 
- 
-    * What is status of ? 
-    * Christine Wanta emailed the list, saying she would have to resign her Board seat. 
-    * Unable to attend enough meetings. 
-    * Christine says she has mailed a written resignation letter 
-    * 
- 
-===== Dial-up Lines ===== 
- 
-    * What is status of ? 
-    * 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. 
-    * Lee has notified Wash U in writing, to drop all but 1 line on October 1. 
- 
-===== Membership ​ ===== 
- 
-    * What is status of ? 
-    * We discussed membership dues in relation to shell accounts. 
- 
-          o Agreed that there should be 3 levels of voluntary membership dues. 
-                + $100 
-                + $70 
-                + $35 
-          o 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. 
-          o Craig was to write up new membership info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs. 
- 
-    
-   * x 
- 
-====== New Business ====== 
- 
-  * S3 (formerly KPG) wants to "​sponsor"​ the upcoming SLUUG meeting 
-  * Who will collect cash payments at meetings? 
-  * Nominations for February elections 
-  * Solaris SIG (special interest group) 
- 
-====== Blue Sky ====== 
- 
-    * Is the sky still blue? 
-    * 
- 
-====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== 
- 
-    * Stan - Update web sites. 
-    * Craig - 
-    * Others - 
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