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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
December 6, 2006
6:30 pm -
Attendees
Firstname Lastname
Firstname Lastname
Firstname Lastname
Firstname Lastname
Secretary Report
Treasurer Report
Deposits: $150 (Carl?)
Bank Balance $1085.39 (11/1/06)
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. Suggestions?
Book Sales Report
Membership Report
Nominations Report
November 2006
SLUUG - Nov 8
STLLUG - Nov 16
STCLUG - Nov 20
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.
Thanksgiving Day - Nov 23
HZWLUG - Nov 28
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: TBD.
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
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.
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STLLUG - Dec 21
Christmas Day - Dec 25
SECURITY - Dec 27
STCLUG - Dec 28
January 2007
SLUUG - Jan 10
SOLARIS- Jan 16
STLLUG - Jan 18
HZWLUG - Jan 23
SECURITY - Jan 24
STCLUG - Jan 25
February 2007
HZWLUG - Feb 13
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
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Base:
Main:
STLLUG - Feb 15
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)
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 ???)
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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Craig was contacted with sponsorship offer from S3 (formerly KPG).
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.
Craig said the check is in the mail to PO box.
What is status of Lee sending out invoices to previous sponsors? ($200)
Lee is wating for us to generate a list of contacts.
Clarence J. and Stan R. to gather information about previous sponsors.
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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
New Servers Project
Other Old Business
Dial-up Lines
Membership
New Business
Blue Sky
Follow-up and Action Items