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-====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - January 2007 ====== 
  
-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 ====== 
-  * January 3, 2007 
-  * 6:44 pm - 
- 
-====== Attendees ====== 
-  * Firstname Lastname 
-  * Firstname Lastname 
-  * Firstname Lastname 
-  * Firstname Lastname 
-  * Firstname Lastname 
-  * 
- 
-====== Secretary Report ​ ====== 
-  * Craig was suppost to catch up on minutes. 
-  * Secretary had lots of free time in December to catch up. 
-  * 
- 
-====== Treasurer Report ====== 
-  * Deposits: 
-    * Membership - 
-    * Book Sales - 
-    * Sponsorship - 
-  * Bank Balance: 
-  * Pending Deposit: 
-  * Pending AP - 
-  * 
- 
-====== Book Sales Report ====== 
-  * Credit card transactions 
-  * All in-stock books will be sold at half price (or less) going forward. 
-    * Microsoft titles will be $5. 
-  * 
-== Book Sales December 2006 == 
- 
-||Customer Name |Sale Description – Misc |Sale Description – Books|| 
-||Robert Hansen |Membership |- || 
-||Harry Hodge |- |LPI || 
-||Rich Seibel |Membership |- || 
-||Carl Fitch |Membership |- || 
-||Craig Bucheck |- |Revolution in the Valley || 
-||Barry Morrison|- |VI || 
-||Stanford Baldwin|Membership |- ||  
- 
-== Preliminary 2006 YTD == 
- 
-||Monthly totals for 2006||  
-||Sales| ||  
-||January| $108.00|| 
-||February| -$5.00|| 
-||March| $95.37|| 
-||April| -$6.44|| 
-||May| $92.32|| 
-||June| $79.35|| 
-||July| -$5.00|| 
-||August| $27.47|| 
-||September| -$5.00|| 
-||October| -$5.00|| 
-||November| $5.00|| 
-||December| $137.50|| 
-|| || 
-||YTD| $518.57|| 
-|| || 
-||Book Purchases| $0.00|| 
-||Shipping| $0.00|| 
-||Credits| $0.00|| 
-||Total to date| $518.57|| 
- 
-== Income Via Booksales or Credit Card == 
-||Cash| $88.82|| 
-||Check| $67.45|| 
-||Credit Card| $418.23|| 
-||CC fees| $65.93|| 
-||YTD| $508.57|| 
-||Shell Accounts| $440.00|| 
-||Total Income| $948.57|| 
- 
- * Not including December credit card usage fees 
- 
-====== Membership Report ====== 
-  * Attendance for December 2006 
-    *  6 Dec STEERC ​ -  7 
-    * 13 Dec SLUUG   - 20 
-    * 19 Dec SOLARIS -  * No Meeting This Month 
-    * 19 Dec HZWLUG ​ -  8 
-    * 21 Dec STLLUG ​ - 14 
-    * 27 Dec SECURE ​ -  * No Meeting This Month 
-    * 28 Dec STCLUG ​ -  4 
- 
-  * Current mailing list membership numbers (approximate):​ 
-    * 913 on ANNOUNCE 
-    * 179 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]] 
- 
-  * 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 
-        * Craig was suppost to write up membership stuff on the membership flier. 
-    * 
- 
-====== Nominations Report ​ ====== 
-    * Nominations needed for February elections 
-    * Stan R. and Gary M. are on the nominating committee. 
-    * No updates. 
- 
-====== Presentation Review and Comments ====== 
- 
-===== 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. 
-  * 
- 
-==== SOLARIS- Dec 19 ==== 
-  * Last minute cancellation of St. Louis OpenSolaris Users Group (STLOSUG) meeting 
-  * Main: Basics of ZFS File System by Jeff Muse 
-    * Presenter had to work late. 
-    * Web page was updated ASAP and item posted to DISCUSS. 
-  * 
- 
-==== HZWLUG - Dec 19 ==== 
-  * Holiday schedule date. 
-  * Didn't have projector available 
-  * TOPIC was Finding Linux Resources. 
-    * Reviewed HZWLUG brochure suggested URLS 
-    * Looked at stan r.'s bookmark HTML page 
-    * Looked at TLDP and others 
-  * Again, satisfied newcomers to Linux. 
-  * 
- 
-==== STLLUG - Dec 21 ==== 
-  * Base: TBD -- {Was anything done?} 
-  * Main: Overview of "​democracy"​ videos from [[http://​getdemocracy.com/​ | Democracy]]. 
-    * Craig Buchek under the weather, showed up anyway 
-    * Lots of background information and extensive references material 
-    * Had hardware problem with video projector not displaying videos 
-  * Early departure 
-  * 
- 
-==== SECURITY - CANCELED ==== 
-  * No meeting this month. 
-  * UMSL-Micro Labs closed in December. 
- 
-==== STCLUG - Dec 28 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: Postfix Configuration by Carl Fitch 
-    * Presenter had to cancel 
-    * Didn't have projector available 
-    * Round table discussion was quite dynamic 
-  * 
- 
-====== Presentation Schedule ====== 
- 
-===== 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 for February elections. 
-  * 
- 
-==== SOLARIS - Jan 16 ==== 
-  * Main: Basics of ZFS File System by Jeff Muse 
-    * Was originally scheduled for December 
-    * Will include coverage of snapshots (in case you didn't get enough at the last LUG meeting). 
-  * Need to do additional nominations for February elections. 
-  * 
- 
-==== STLLUG - Jan 18 ==== 
-  * Base: TBD. 
-  * Main: TBD. 
-  * Need do final nominations for STL Linux chair. 
-  * Need to do additional nominations for February elections. 
-  * 
- 
-==== HZWLUG - Jan 23 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  * Need to do additional nominations for February elections. 
-  * 
- 
-==== SECURITY - Jan 24 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: Advanced SSH (TENTATIVE) 
-  * Need to do nominations for February elections. 
-  * 
- 
-==== STCLUG - Jan 25 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  * Need to do nominations for February elections. 
-  * 
- 
-===== February 2007 ===== 
- 
-==== HZWLUG - Feb 13 ==== 
-  * This early date necessary due to StLC Library Branch scheduling conflicts 
-  * Back-to-back meetings this month with HZWLUG - SLUUG - STLLUG 
-  * Election balloting (Vote early! Vote often!) 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  * 
- 
-==== SLUUG - Feb 14 ==== 
-  * WARNING: Valentines Day - Might reduce attendance 
-  * Back-to-back meetings this month with HZWLUG - SLUUG - STLLUG 
-  * EVERYONE: Was to line up 2 presentations for Lightning Talks 
-  * TOPIC: Lightning Talks are usually done in February at SLUUG 
-  * Official annual SLUUG business meeting 
-  * Election balloting 
-  * 
- 
-==== STLLUG - Feb 15 ==== 
-  * Back-to-back meetings this month with HZWLUG - SLUUG - STLLUG 
-  * Election balloting 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. (Possibly Lightning Talks) 
-  * 
- 
-==== SOLARIS - Feb 20 ==== 
-  * Election balloting 
-  * Hands-on: Installing virtual machines, and using new Solaris process management tools (TENTATIVE) 
-  * 
- 
-==== STCLUG - Feb 22 ==== 
-  * Election balloting 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  * 
- 
-==== SECURITY - Feb 28 ==== 
-  * Election balloting 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  * 
- 
-===== March 2007 ===== 
- 
- 
- 
-==== SLUUG - Mar 14 ==== 
-  * Base: TBD. 
-  * Main: TBD. 
-  * 
- 
-==== STLLUG - Mar 15 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  * 
- 
-==== SOLARIS - Mar 20 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  * 
- 
-==== STCLUG - Mar 22 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  * 
- 
-==== HZWLUG - Mar 27 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  * 
- 
-==== SECURITY - Mar 28 ==== 
-  * 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 ====== 
-  * CRAIG: Get updated S3 logo? 
-  * Effort should be directed to find new sponsors. 
-  * No effort means No new sponsors 
-  * 
- 
-====== Website Library ====== 
-  * Stan R. and Ted P. 
-  * No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration 
-  * No migration means no progress this month. 
-  * 
- 
-====== System Administration ====== 
-  * Mike Knight continues providing fantastic support and analysis of problems 
-    * posted ssh key table 
-  * Barry was suppost talk to John Hodge about assisting with installing more AIX disk space. 
-  * Dark 
-    * Still having intermittent hardware failures 
-  * Michelob 
-    * Volume of mail 
-  * Bud 
-  * Budlight 
-  * 
- 
-====== Server Migration Project ====== 
-  * ??? Last gathering was at Old Monroe on November 18. 
-  * ??? 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. 
- 
- 
-====== Dial-up Line Removal ====== 
-  * We were to have Wash U drop the remaining line on October 30. 
-    * 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 was to follow up on cancellation of WU phone lines. 
-    * Gary will remove defunct WU Dialup hardware in a few months. 
-  * 
-====== Other Old Business ====== 
-  * What else was done? 
- 
-====== New Business ====== 
-  * Always more to do. 
- 
-====== Blue Sky ====== 
-  * What else do we want to consider? 
- 
-====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== 
-  * EVERYONE: Line up 2 presentations for Lightning Talks 
-  * 
-                                                            ​ 
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