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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
  • ??Craig Buchek
  • ??Clarence Johnson
  • ??Gary Meyer
  • ??Stan Reichardt

Secretary Report

  • What is status of ?

Treasurer Report

  • What is status of ?
  • Lee - Submit treasurer reports for inclusion in secretary folder.

Book Sales

  • What is status of ?

Previous Meetings

Attendance

Year to Date figures 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

Comments on Presentations

September 2006

SLUUG - Sep 13

  • Base: Bugzilla by Craig Buchek
  • Main: Techie Videos from the Internet

o Revolution OS not shown, clip from DLTV, etc.

STLLUG - Sep 21

  • Main: Update on SCO v. IBM Lawsuit by AllParadox (Benjamin White)

HZWLUG - Sep 26

  • Finding Linux Applications
  • Other Newbie Topics

Security - Sep 27

  • Network Diagnostics & Deep Packet Scanning by Ed Morrisy of Global Velocity
  • Pizza. Meeting went on as scheduled.

STCLUG - Sep 28

  • Finding Linux Applications

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: Zimbra Collaboration Suite (Exchange “replacement”) by Matthew Porter (TENTATIVE)

HZWLUG - Oct

Security - Oct 25 - Primer on Encryption by Mark Buchanan

STCLUG - Oct

November 2006

SLUUG - Nov 8

  • Base:
  • Main: Introduction to Logical Volume Manager by Jeff Muse (TENATIVE)

STLLUG - Nov 16

  • Base:
  • Main: Follow-up Demonstration of Logical Volume Manager by Jeff Muse (TENATIVE)
  • Main: InkScape by Mark Jarnowski (TENTATIVE)

HZWLUG - Nov Security - Nov STCLUG - Nov

December 2006

SLUUG - Dec 13

  • Base:
  • Main:

STLLUG - Dec 21

  • Base:
  • Main:

HZWLUG - Dec Security - Dec STCLUG - Dec

January 2006

SLUUG - Jan 10

  • Base:
  • Main:

STLLUG - Jan 18

  • Base:
  • Main:

HZWLUG - Jan Security - Jan STCLUG - Jan

Potential Presentations

  • Main: InkScape by Mark Jarnowski (via Craig) (was STLLUG TENTATIVE)
  • 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:

        o VPN (hands-on preferred, good for a Security meeting)
        o CVS/Subversion for Config Files
        o Oracle Application Express
        o How To Update Your System - apt, yum, yast, etc.
        o Music - Linux on iPod, iPod on Linux, Ogg, players, etc.
        o Using Secure Email Clients
        o TrueCrypt - file-level encryption for Windows/Linux
        o Using One-Time Passwords
        o Video cards in Linux (Heuris)
        o IBM vs. Sun vs. HP on UNIX

Weekly Announcements

  • What is status of ?

Library Room Reservations

  • What is status of ?
  • 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 Librarian

  • What is status of ?
  • Stan R. working with Ted P. to get presentations put up.

o Ted has gotten some of the older presentations gathered

        o No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration

System Administration

  • What is status of ?
  • Dark
  • Michelob
  • WU Dialup hardware

PROJECT: New servers

  • 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.

o Need to be able to preserve the archives.

Other Old Business

  • What is status of ?
  • Christine Wanta emailed the list, saying she would have to resign her Board seat.

o Unable to attend enough meetings.

        o Christine says she has mailed a written resignation letter
  • What is status of ?
  • We are proceeding with dropping dial-up on September 30.

o Carl emailed all our users, telling them dial-up would be going away.

        o Stan suggested keeping 1 dial-up line for emergency access to Wash U systems.
        o Lee has notified Wash U in writing, to drop all but 1 line on October 1.
  • 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.

New Business

  • Who will collect payments at meetings?
  • Nominations for February elections

Blue Sky

  • Is the sky still blue?

Follow-up and Action Items

  • Stan - Update web sites.
  • Craig -
  • Others -
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