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| - | ====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - December 2006 ====== | ||
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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!) | ||
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| - | ====== Location ====== | ||
| - | Saint Louis Bread Company, | ||
| - | (at Old Olive and Olive), | ||
| - | 10550 Old Olive Street Road, | ||
| - | Creve Coeur, MO 63141 | ||
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| - | ====== Date and Time ====== | ||
| - | * December 6, 2006 | ||
| - | * 6:30 pm - | ||
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| - | ====== Attendees ====== | ||
| - | * Craig Buchek | ||
| - | * Carl Fitch | ||
| - | * Lee Lammert | ||
| - | * Barry Morrison | ||
| - | * Stan Reichardt | ||
| - | * Jeff Muse | ||
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| - | ====== Secretary Report ====== | ||
| - | * Secretary has been remiss in carrying out his duties the past month. | ||
| - | * Missed last month's meeting due to illness. | ||
| - | * Has not printed out recent minutes. | ||
| - | * Has not reviewed or edited November minutes. | ||
| - | * Secretary will have lots of free time in December to catch up. | ||
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| - | ====== Treasurer Report ====== | ||
| - | * Deposits: $150 | ||
| - | * $100.00 membership - Craig Buchek | ||
| - | * $10.00 Mike Knight - membership account | ||
| - | * $40.00 Book Sales | ||
| - | * Bank Balance $1085.39 (11/30/06) | ||
| - | * To Deposit: Jim Liengang/S3/$200 | ||
| - | * Pending AP - Wash U still refuses to send a final bill, despite two **written** notifications of the 10/31 termination date. | ||
| - | * Looking for assistance from Gary. | ||
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| - | ====== Book Sales Report ====== | ||
| - | * Books were sold but unable to record. Carl loaded wrong drawers, transactions could not be finalized. | ||
| - | * Carl says he thinks that there were 5 books sold in November. | ||
| - | * All in-stock books will be sold at half price (or less) going forward. | ||
| - | * Microsoft titles will be $5. | ||
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| - | ====== Membership Report ====== | ||
| - | * Attendance for November | ||
| - | * 1 Nov STEERC - 3 | ||
| - | * 8 Nov SLUUG - 20 | ||
| - | * 16 Nov STLLUG - 16 | ||
| - | * 20 Nov STCLUG - 10 | ||
| - | * 21 Nov SOLARIS - 6 | ||
| - | * 28 Nov HZWLUG - 11 | ||
| - | * 29 Nov SECURE - 10 | ||
| - | * Current mailing list membership numbers (approximate): | ||
| - | * 916 on ANNOUNCE | ||
| - | * 180 on DISCUSS | ||
| - | * Attendance sheets now available from each web site as .pdf and .sxw | ||
| - | * [[http://www.sluug.org/attendance.pdf]] | ||
| - | * [[http://stclug.sluug.org/attendance.pdf]] | ||
| - | * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org/attendance.sxw]] | ||
| - | |||
| - | ====== Nominations Report ====== | ||
| - | * Nominations needed for February elections | ||
| - | * Stan R. and Gary M. are on the nominating committee. | ||
| - | * No updates. | ||
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| - | ====== Comments on Presentations ====== | ||
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| - | ===== November 2006 ===== | ||
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| - | ==== SLUUG - Nov 8 ==== | ||
| - | * Base: Cronolog - Effortless Log Rotation by Carl Fitch | ||
| - | * Pretty good. Improved significantly over the St. Charles version of the presentation. | ||
| - | * Main: Introduction to Logical Volume Manager (LVM) by Jeff Muse | ||
| - | * Stan R. worked with Jeff M. on building presentation slides. | ||
| - | * This tutorial was on a heavy duty topic with 45+ slides. | ||
| - | * Excellent. Took a bit of time for some folks to "get it", but hopefully most did. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== STLLUG - Nov 16 ==== | ||
| - | * Main: Demonstration of Logical Volume Manager (LVM) by Jeff Muse | ||
| - | * This was a follow-up (part 2) of the SLUUG presentation. | ||
| - | * Excellent. Covered more difficult LVM concepts, but again, we think most of the audience "got it". | ||
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| - | ==== STCLUG - Nov 20 ==== | ||
| - | * Regular date would have fallen on Thanksgiving Day Holiday. | ||
| - | * TOPIC: Konqueror - the Swiss Army Knife by Carl Fitch | ||
| - | * Informative. Convinced several GNOME users to try it. | ||
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| - | ==== SOLARIS- Nov 21 ==== | ||
| - | * Group voted to change name to St. Louis OpenSolaris Users Group (STLOSUG) | ||
| - | * Will remain as a SLUUG Special Interest Group. | ||
| - | * TOPIC: Introductory Information | ||
| - | * What is Solaris? (Solaris 10, Open Solaris, Solaris Express, Nevada) | ||
| - | * How to get started with Solaris | ||
| - | * Online resources | ||
| - | * Carl Fitch collected attendance sheet. | ||
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| - | ==== HZWLUG - Nov 28 ==== | ||
| - | * Announced December meeting date change. | ||
| - | * TOPIC: Konqueror - the Swiss Army Knife by Carl Fitch | ||
| - | * Great once again. Also covered KIO slaves and SSH. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== SECURITY - Nov 29 ==== | ||
| - | * Regular date Nov 22 was one day prior to Thanksgiving Day. | ||
| - | * UMSL provided pizza. | ||
| - | * Topic was hands on using SSH. | ||
| - | * UMSL-Micro Labs closed in December. Consensus was that there will not be a meeting in December. | ||
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| - | ====== Presentation Schedule ====== | ||
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| - | ===== December 2006 ===== | ||
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| - | ==== SLUUG - Dec 13 ==== | ||
| - | * Base: Using OpenOffice.org Impress - Building Presentation Slides by Stan Reichardt | ||
| - | * Main: Postfix Configuration by Carl Fitch (based on SLUUG new server [[http://wiki.sluug.org/build/postfix | Postfix config]]) | ||
| - | * Carl has book sales cash box; needs to hand it off whenever he's not there. | ||
| - | * Need to do nominations for February elections. | ||
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| - | ==== SOLARIS- Dec 19 ==== | ||
| - | * Main: Basics of ZFS File System by Jeff Muse | ||
| - | * Will include coverage of snapshots (in case you didn't get enough at the last LUG meeting). | ||
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| - | ==== HZWLUG - Dec 19 ==== | ||
| - | * Holiday schedule date. | ||
| - | * The 26 Dec date given last month was wrong, meeting room is reserved for 19 Dec.- Stan R. | ||
| - | * Topic TBD. | ||
| - | * Need to do nominations for February elections. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== STLLUG - Dec 21 ==== | ||
| - | * Need to determine Holiday schedule date. | ||
| - | * Base: TBD -- open to any volunteers | ||
| - | * Main: TBD -- will probably run some videos from [[http://getdemocracy.com/ | Democracy]]. | ||
| - | * Need to do nominations for February elections. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== SECURITY - CANCELED ==== | ||
| - | * UMSL-Micro Labs closed in December. Consensus was that there will not be a meeting in December. | ||
| - | * No meeting this month. | ||
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| - | ==== STCLUG - Dec 28 ==== | ||
| - | * TOPIC: Postfix Configuration by Carl Fitch | ||
| - | * Carl has confirmed 28th is good for December. | ||
| - | * Need to do nominations for February elections. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ===== January 2007 ===== | ||
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| - | ==== SLUUG - Jan 10 ==== | ||
| - | * Base: TBD. | ||
| - | * MAIN: Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Lee L.) | ||
| - | * Need to do additional nominations | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== SOLARIS - Jan 16 ==== | ||
| - | * Hands-on: Installing virtual machines, and using new Solaris process management tools (TENTATIVE) | ||
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| - | ==== STLLUG - Jan 18 ==== | ||
| - | * Base: TBD. | ||
| - | * Main: TBD. | ||
| - | * Need do final nominations for STL Linux chair. | ||
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| - | ==== HZWLUG - Jan 23 ==== | ||
| - | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
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| - | ==== SECURITY - Jan 24 ==== | ||
| - | * TOPIC: Advanced SSH (TENTATIVE) | ||
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| - | ==== STCLUG - Jan 25 ==== | ||
| - | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
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| - | ===== February 2007 ===== | ||
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| - | ==== HZWLUG - Feb 13 ==== | ||
| - | * This early date necessary due to StLC Library Branch scheduling conflicts | ||
| - | * Election balloting (vote early!) | ||
| - | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== SLUUG - Feb 14 ==== | ||
| - | * WARNING: Valentines Day - Might cause low attendance | ||
| - | * Back-to-back meeting this month with STLLUG | ||
| - | * Official annual SLUUG business meeting | ||
| - | * Election balloting | ||
| - | * Lightning Talks are usually done in February at SLUUG | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== STLLUG - Feb 15 ==== | ||
| - | * Back-to-back meeting this month with SLUUG | ||
| - | * Election balloting | ||
| - | * TOPIC: TBD. (Probably Lightning Talks) | ||
| - | |||
| - | ==== SOLARIS - Feb 20 ==== | ||
| - | * Election balloting | ||
| - | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
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| - | ==== STCLUG - Feb 22 ==== | ||
| - | * Election balloting | ||
| - | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
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| - | ==== SECURITY - Feb 28 ==== | ||
| - | * Election balloting | ||
| - | * TOPIC: TBD. | ||
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| - | ====== Potential Presentations ====== | ||
| - | * 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) | ||
| - | * Hands-on: IP Filter (ipf) (Solaris group) | ||
| - | * 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 Stan R.) | ||
| - | * WiFi - Jerry @ OCI (via Gary) | ||
| - | * CVS/Subversion - Sanjiv, Ed Howland (via ???) | ||
| - | * Tech Futures - Railroad guy (via Rich Seibel) | ||
| - | * 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 | ||
| - | * MythTV / Freevo / TiVo - (STLLUG?) - (via Sarah on the Perl list, or others) | ||
| - | * Video cards in Linux (Heuris) | ||
| - | * IBM vs. Sun vs. HP on UNIX | ||
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| - | ====== Sponsorships ====== | ||
| - | * Stan R. purged a number of old sponsor icons from SLUUG website. | ||
| - | * Stan R. created temporary sponsor icon for S3 and added it into rotating image script. | ||
| - | * Stan R. ran into problem with rotating image script. | ||
| - | * Depends on URL ending in .com, and UMSL's URL ends in .edu | ||
| - | * Stan left it as-is, so UMSL's link does not work from the front page. | ||
| - | * We've gotten several emails from head-hunters. | ||
| - | * Consensus was that if they're out of town, ignore them. | ||
| - | * For local companies, request that they sign up as a sponsor. | ||
| - | * For specific local jobs, we will forward the emails to DISCUSS. | ||
| - | * Primary criteria will be usefulness to our members. | ||
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| - | ====== Website Library ====== | ||
| - | * Stan R. working with Ted P. to get presentations put up. | ||
| - | * Ted has gotten some of the older presentations gathered | ||
| - | * Resources page listing past presentations is up to date. | ||
| - | * No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration | ||
| - | * No progress this month. | ||
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| - | ====== System Administration ====== | ||
| - | * Dark | ||
| - | * Still having intermittent hardware failures | ||
| - | * Michelob | ||
| - | * Defunct WU Dialup hardware | ||
| - | * Gary will remove it in a few months. | ||
| - | * Barry will talk to John Hodge about assisting with installing more disk space. | ||
| - | * Volume of mail is overwhelming Dark. | ||
| - | * Postgrey has been enabled, which will hopefully reduce volume. | ||
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| - | ====== New Servers Project ====== | ||
| - | * Met at Old Monroe on November 18. | ||
| - | * Some progress made: | ||
| - | * Migrated web sites for all SIGs. | ||
| - | * Only main site (and user pages) remain on old servers. | ||
| - | * Updated DNS to point at new URLs. | ||
| - | * Added several aliases for each. | ||
| - | * Mailing list archives moved off of old server into Mailman on new server. | ||
| - | * Except for SYSADMIN, which has a different password. | ||
| - | * Will need to move December arcives over. | ||
| - | * Drupal installed, but configuration not completed. | ||
| - | * Mailman installed and tested, but not in production. | ||
| - | * Postfix installed, configured, and tested, but not in production. | ||
| - | * DNS configured to be authoratative for our zones, but not in production. | ||
| - | * NS records do not point at them. | ||
| - | * Carl suggests putting Bud, Budlight, and Dark as primary NS and EveryDNS as secondaries. | ||
| - | * Decisions to make: | ||
| - | * How to migrate email, while allowing users to access email via existing methods. | ||
| - | * How to migrate mailing lists to Mailman on new server. | ||
| - | * To complete: | ||
| - | * Migrate SLUUG main web site. | ||
| - | * Point http://sluug.org/~user to http://users.sluug.org/~user | ||
| - | * Which can remain on Dark/Michelob, and be migrated to Budlight later. | ||
| - | * Migrate Chris Byrd's Drupal install over for Security site. | ||
| - | * Make Bud an admin-only box. | ||
| - | * Make Budlight a user-accessible box. | ||
| - | * Need offline (sensitive?) working documentation matrix of machines (for recovery) | ||
| - | * hostnames and IP numbers | ||
| - | * functional purpose | ||
| - | * hardware | ||
| - | * resources | ||
| - | * holders of root, sudo | ||
| - | * Carl wants to implement LDAP on servers eventually. | ||
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| - | ====== Other Old Business ====== | ||
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| - | ===== Dial-up Lines ===== | ||
| - | * We were to have Wash U drop the remaining line on October 30. | ||
| - | * Was request made? Lee sent them a physical letter on 10/20 and 11/20. | ||
| - | * Still active on 12/04. | ||
| - | * Was letter lost or misdirected? Send again and call? | ||
| - | * Gary will follow up. | ||
| - | * Do we need to yank some equipment? | ||
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| - | ===== Membership ===== | ||
| - | * 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. | ||
| - | * Craig B. was to write up new membership info on membership levels for web site and hand-outs. | ||
| - | * Stan R. sent SLUUG membership flier OOo document to Craig B. for updating | ||
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| - | ====== New Business ====== | ||
| - | * Always more to do. | ||
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| - | ====== Blue Sky ====== | ||
| - | * Do we want to consider absentee ballots? | ||
| - | * We can put up a PDF of the ballot on the web site. | ||
| - | * Members can mail the ballots to our PO box. | ||
| - | * Would help increase member participation. | ||
| - | * Consensus was that this would be fine, as long as it does not violate by-laws. | ||
| - | * Don't feel the need to advertise this, but it's OK to do that if someone wants to. | ||
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| - | ====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== | ||
| - | * CRAIG: Catch up on minutes. | ||
| - | * CRAIG: Get updated S3 logo? | ||
| - | * CRAIG: Get confirmation of LUG presentations from folks. | ||
| - | * CRAIG: Write up membership stuff. | ||
| - | * GARY: Follow up on Wash U phone lines. | ||
| - | * EVERYONE: Get 2 presentations for Lightning Talks in February. | ||
| - | * BARRY: Talk to John Hodge about assisting with installing more disk space on AIX boxes. | ||
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