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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 Report

  • What is status of ?

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

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 24

SECURITY - Oct 25 - Primer on Encryption by Mark Buchanan

STCLUG - Oct 26

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)

SECURITY - Nov 22

Thanksgiving Day - Nov 23

STCLUG - Nov ?? - Need to determine Holiday schedule date

HZWLUG - Nov 28

December 2006

SLUUG - Dec 13

  • Base:
  • Main:

STLLUG - Dec 21

  • Base:
  • Main:

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)
  • 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 Library

  • 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

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.

o 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

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