Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!)

Saint Louis Bread Company,
(at Old Olive and Olive),
10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

• October 4, 2006
• 6:30 pm -

• Lee Lammert
• Barry Morrison
• Stan Reichardt
• Carl Fitch
• Craig Buchek
• Gary Meyer
• ??Clarence Johnson

• 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.

• September numbers pending.
• Still need to reconcile QuickBooks for previous years.
  • Lee will need some assistance with that.

• No book sales in September.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Finding Linux Applications
  • Maybe okay.
  • Had problems with projector.
• Other Newbie Topics

• 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.

• Finding Linux Applications
  • Reprise of Hazelwood talk.
  • Started late, but went faster.

• Base: Firebug (Firefox plugin - JavaScript debugger) by Ed Howland
• Main: AppArmor by Matt Skiption of Novell

• Main: To Be Determined

• Base: Newbie Topics

• Primer on Encryption by Mark Buchanan

• Cronolog Log Rotation by Carl Fitch

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

• Main: Follow-up Demonstration of Logical Volume Manager by Jeff Muse (TENATIVE)

• TBD.

• Need to determine Holiday schedule date.

• Newbie Topics

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

SLUUG - Jan 10

• Base:
• Main:

STLLUG - Jan 18

• Base:
• Main:

HZWLUG - Jan 23

SECURITY - Jan 24

STCLUG - Jan 25

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

 
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• 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)

• Is the sky still blue?

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