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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - December 2006 ======

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 ======
  * December 6, 2006
  * 6:30 pm - 8:15 pm

====== Attendees ======
  * Craig Buchek
  * Carl Fitch
  * Lee Lammert
  * Barry Morrison
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Jeff Muse
  * Gary Meyer

====== 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.

====== 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.

====== 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.

====== 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.

====== Comments on Presentations ======

===== November 2006 =====

==== 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".

==== 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.

==== 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.

==== 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.

====== Presentation Schedule ======

===== December 2006 =====

==== 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.

==== 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).

==== 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.

==== 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 =====

==== 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)

==== STLLUG - Jan 18 ====
  * Base: TBD.
  * Main: TBD.
  * Need do final nominations for STL Linux chair.

==== HZWLUG - Jan 23 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.

==== SECURITY - Jan 24 ====
  * TOPIC: Advanced SSH (TENTATIVE)

==== STCLUG - Jan 25 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.

===== February 2007 =====

==== 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.

==== STCLUG - Feb 22 ====
  * Election balloting
  * TOPIC: TBD.

==== SECURITY - Feb 28 ====
  * Election balloting
  * TOPIC: TBD.

====== 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

====== 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.

====== 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.

====== 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.

====== 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.

====== Other Old Business ======

===== 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?

===== 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

====== New Business ======
  * Always more to do.

====== 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.

====== 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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