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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 -

Attendees

  • Craig Buchek
  • Carl Fitch
  • Lee Lammert
  • Barry Morrison
  • Stan Reichardt
  • Jeff Muse

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

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.

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.

SOLARIS- Dec 19

  • Topic TBD.

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.
  • Main: TBD.
  • Need to do nominations for February elections.

Christmas Day - Dec 25

SECURITY - Dec 27

  • 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: TBD.
  • Carl has confirmed 28th is good for December.
  • Need to do nominations for February elections.

January 2007

SLUUG - Jan 10

  • Base:
  • MAIN: Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Lee L.)
  • Need to do additional nominations

SOLARIS- Jan 16

  • TOPIC: TBD.

STLLUG - Jan 18

  • Base:
  • Main:
  • Need do final nominations for STL Linux chair.

HZWLUG - Jan 23

  • TOPIC: TBD.

SECURITY - Jan 24

  • TOPIC: TBD.

STCLUG - Jan 25

  • TOPIC: TBD.

February 2007

HZWLUG - Feb 13

  • This early date necessary due to StLC Library Branch scheduling conflicts
  • Election balloting
  • 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
  • Base:
  • Main:

STLLUG - Feb 15

  • Back-to-back meeting this month with SLUUG
  • Election balloting
  • TOPIC: TBD.

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)
  • 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

Sponsorships

  • 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.
    • Collect sponsor contact info.
    • Starting with information from the web site.
    • No progress this month.

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
  • Michelob
  • Defunct WU Dialup hardware

New Servers Project

  • This section needs to be reviewed and updated!
  • Met at Old Monroe
    • Some progress made:
      • Moved web sites for SIGs.
      • Added DNS references to SIGs.
    • Decisions to make:
      • How to get mailing list archives on the new web server.
      • How to migrate email, while allowing users to access email via existing methods.
      • How to migrate mailing lists.
        • Look into Majordomo/Mailman.
    • To complete:
      • Migrate SLUUG web site.
        • 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 Fitch and Jeff Muse have DNS running on bud and budlight
    • Suggestion from Carl to put bud bros and a machine at Wash U. as primary name servers and easydns as secondarys

Other Old Business

Dial-up Lines

  • We were to have WU drop the remaining line on October 30.
    • Was request made? Lee sent them a physical letter on 10/20. Still active on 12/04, was letter lost or misdirected? Send again and call?
    • 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

  • Still blue.

Follow-up and Action Items

  • CRAIG: Catch up on minutes.
  • CRAIG: Get KPG/S3 logo to post on website. Have already received check from them.
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