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-====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - February 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 ====== 
-  * February 7, 2007 
-  * 6:30 pm - 
- 
- 
-====== Attendees ====== 
-  * Firstname Lastname 
-  * 
- 
- 
-====== Secretary Report ​ ====== 
-  * 
- 
-====== Treasurer Report ====== 
- 
-== Deposits == 
- 
-||From |Description | Amt || 
-||Mike Kriz|Membership |50|| 
-||Stan Reichart|Membership|10|| 
-||Book Sales|Total|60|| 
-||S3|Sponsorship |250|| 
-== Bank balance as of 1/​31/​07 ​     $ 1,074.75== 
-== Pending Deposits 0 == 
-== Pending AP 0* == 
- 
-* Still have not received final bill from Wash U yet. 
- 
-====== Book Sales Report ====== 
-  * CY 2006 
-    * 
-  * January 2007 
-    * 
- 
-====== Membership Report ====== 
- 
-  * Attendance for January 2007 
-    *  3 Jan STEERC ​ -  4 
-    * 10 Jan SLUUG   - 26 
-    * 16 Jan SOLARIS -  3 
-    * 18 Jan STLLUG ​ - 15 
-    * 23 Jan HZWLUG ​ -  9 
-    * 24 Jan SECURE ​ - 10 
-    * 25 Jan STCLUG ​ - 12 
- 
- 
- 
- 
-====== Mailing List Report ​ ====== 
-  * Current Structure 
-    * Majordomo packages is used for bulk mailings 
-    * Two main mailing lists are ANNOUNCE and DISCUSS 
-      * ANNOUNCE is intended for low volume 
-        * Monthly Newsletter 
-        * Events For This Week 
-        * Quick Announcements and Corrections 
-      * DISCUSS is for general participation 
-      * Two other lists are STEERCOM and SYSADMIN - for making soap 
-      * Other miscellaneous lists - USERS for announcements to BBS users 
-  * Mailing list messages are archived 
-    * Except ANNOUNCE and USERS 
-  * Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate):​ 
-    * ANNOUNCE 
-    * DISCUSS 
-  * Current Activities 
-    * No Editor means no newsletter 
-    * Weekly mailing of "​Events For This Week" continues by Stan Reichardt 
-    * Effort to automate EFTW process not finished 
-    * Refinement of process has cut production time in half compared to 6 months ago 
-    * A draft of upcoming monthly calendar is posted to STEERCOM mailing list 
-    * No List Administrator means no handling of user questions or subscription problems 
-  * Anticipating monthly calendar on revised SLUUG website ​ 
- 
-====== Nominations Report ​ ====== 
-    * Nominations needed for February elections 
-    * Stan R. and Gary M. are on the nominating committee. 
-    * If no updates, names placed on ballot will be arbitrary. 
-    * 
- 
-====== Presentation Review and Comments ====== 
- 
-===== January 2007 ===== 
- 
-==== SLUUG - Jan 10 ==== 
-  * Base: Coping with Spam Using Filters - Carl Fitch 
-  * Main: Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge (via Lee L.) 
-  * 
- 
-==== 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). 
-  *  
-  ​ 
-==== STLLUG - Jan 18 ==== 
-  * Main: Floppy Disks by Stan Reichardt 
-  * Last minute topic, nobody else volunteered. 
-  * Updated a presentation that was given about 2 years ago at HZWLUG meeting 
-  * Discussed next month having volunteers do 10 minutes of Tips, Tricks at the keyboard 
-  *  
-  ​ 
-==== HZWLUG - Jan 23 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: Floppy Disks by Stan Reichardt 
-  * Got about half way thru slides. ​ Lots of questions and discussion. 
-  *  
-  ​ 
-==== SECURITY - Jan 24 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: Security Certifications by Stan Reichardt 
-  * Discussed February conflicts and decided to cancel February meeting. 
-  *  
-  ​ 
-==== STCLUG - Jan 25 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: Filtering Spam with Postfix by Carl Fitch. 
-  *  
-  ​ 
-====== Presentation Schedule ====== 
- 
-===== February 2007 ===== 
- 
-==== SLUUG - Feb 14 ==== 
-  * WARNING: Valentines Day - Might reduce attendance 
-  * Back-to-back meetings this month with SLUUG - STLLUG 
-  * HZWLUG meeting will NOT be on 13 Feb as previously anticipated 
-  * 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 SLUUG - STLLUG 
-  * Election balloting 
-  * TOPIC: 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. 
-  *  
-  ​ 
-==== HZWLUG - Feb 27 ==== 
-  * HZWLUG meeting will NOT be on 13 Feb as previously anticipated 
-  * Temporary change of location to Bridgeton Trails Branch Library. 
-  * This necessary due to StLC Library Branch scheduling conflicts 
-  * Election balloting (Last chance to vote at a meeting!) 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  *  
-  ​ 
-==== SECURITY - Feb 28 ==== 
-  * Clarence Johnson can't be there and too difficult to try to get building access. 
-  * Ateendees agreed to forego having February meeting. 
-  * Therefore no meeting this month. 
-  * 
-  ​ 
-===== March 2007 ===== 
- 
- 
-==== SLUUG - Mar 14 ==== 
-  * Base: Matthew Porter - Zimbra as an Exchange Replacement 
-  * Main: TBD. 
-  *  
-  ​ 
-==== STLLUG - Mar 15 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  *  
-  ​ 
-==== SOLARIS - Mar 20 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  *  
-  ​ 
-==== STCLUG - Mar 22 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  *  
-  ​ 
-==== HZWLUG - Mar 27 ==== 
-  * Temporary change of location to Bridgeton Trails Branch Library. 
-  * This necessary due to StLC Library Branch scheduling conflicts 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  *  
-  ​ 
-==== SECURITY - Mar 28 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: Extraordinary SSH Use by Carl Fitch 
-  *  
-  ​ 
-===== April 2007 ===== 
- 
- 
-==== SLUUG - Apr 11 ==== 
-  * Base: TBD. 
-  * Main: TBD. 
-  *  
-  ​ 
-==== SOLARIS - Apr 17 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  * 
- 
-==== STLLUG - Apr 19 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  * 
- 
-==== HZWLUG - Apr 24 ==== 
-  * Back at the regular Prairie Commons Branch Library location. 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  * 
- 
-==== SECURITY - Apr 25 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  * 
- 
-==== STCLUG - Apr 26 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
-  * 
- 
-====== Lightning Talks ====== 
-  * Everyone was to line up 2 presentations for Lightning Talks 
-  * 
-  .........I hope others are getting some talks lined up because I have NOT!  -Gary 
- 
-====== Potential Presentations ====== 
-  * Carl Fitch sent cleaned up list to DISCUSS to generate interest. 
-  * 
- 
-====== Sponsorships ====== 
-  * Effort should be directed to find new sponsors. 
-  * No effort means No new sponsors 
-  * 
- 
-====== Dial-up Line Removal ====== 
-  * Has WU cancelled lines? 
-  * Gary was to follow up on cancellation of WU phone lines. 
-  * 
- 
-====== System Administration ====== 
-  * Barry was supposed to talk to John Hodge about assisting with installing more AIX disk space. 
-  * Not yet able to talk to John Hodge, hopefully next week or so. 
-  * **Dark**__Underlined Text__ 
-    * Still having crashes due to hardware failures, averaging every other day now.  Need to quickly move to new systems or replace dark's hardware. ​  Gary predicts failure rate is increasing and will be more than once a day by end of month February. ​ **DEAD in/before APRIL!**//​__Italic Text____Underlined Text__// 
-This project needs **emergency priority!**//​__Italic Text____Underlined Text__// 
- 
- 
-                               The history: 
- 
-                                Feb = every other day (therefore project 15-20 this month) 
-                                Jan = 10 times 
-                                Dec = 6 times 
-                                April thru Oct = 13 failure in 7 months ​ (i.e. 2 times per month) 
-                                prior to April = 5 months between failures (i.e. Oct. '05) 
- 
-               Gary will ask Allen @ Wash U if heat may be a problem! ​  ​Considering University holidays for 
-lack of AC, change of seasons,​...this does look like a familair calender. ​  Gary will ask Mike 
-if he knows of any temp sensor. 
- 
-  * Michelob 
-    * Volume of mail stabilized once graymilter was activated. 
-    * Michelob depends on NFS filesystem from Dark!!! ​ **See above** emergency! 
-  * Bud 
-  * Budlight 
-  * WhatEverItIsNamed?​ 
-      ​ 
- 
-====== Server Migration Project ====== 
-  * Anything new? 
-  * 
- 
-====== Website Library ====== 
-  * Stan R. and Ted P. 
-  * No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration 
-  * No migration means no progress this month. 
-  * 
- 
- 
- 
-====== 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 ====== 
-  * person - task 
-  * 
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