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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 - 8:00 pm 
- 
- 
-====== Attendees ====== 
-  * Lee Lammert 
-  * Carl Fitch 
-  * Craig Buchek 
-  * Gary Meyer 
-  * Stan Reichardt 
- 
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-====== Secretary Report ​ ====== 
-  * Secretary is catching up with things. 
-    * Should have print-outs of things by next month. 
-  * Will probably not be able to make it to the official annual meeting on February 14. 
-    * Stan will take the minutes, or find someone to do it. 
- 
-====== Treasurer Report ====== 
- 
-== Deposits == 
- 
-||From |Description | Amt || 
-||Mike Knight|| ​ $10.00|| 
-||Stan Reichardt|| ​ $10.00|| 
-||Mike kriz|| ​ $50.00|| 
-||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 ====== 
- 
-We recieved three memberships in January and one booksales. 
- 
-||Mike Knight|| ​ $10.00|| 
-||Stan Reichardt|| ​ $10.00|| 
-||Mike Kriz|| ​ $50.00|| 
-||Don Ellis|| ​ $8.95|| 
-||CC fees|| ​ <​$5.74>​|| 
-||Total|| ​ $73.21|| 
- 
-====== 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 - PENDING 
-    * DISCUSS - PENDING 
-    * STEERCOM - 31 
-  * 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. 
-  * Stan nominated Gary for President. 
-  * Board seats up for election: 
-    * Clarence Johnson 
-    * Barry Morrison 
- 
-====== Presentation Review and Comments ====== 
- 
-===== January 2007 ===== 
- 
-==== SLUUG - Jan 10 ==== 
-  * Base: Coping with Spam Using Filters - Carl Fitch 
-    * Good. Covered the client side of things. 
-  * Main: Certified Ethical Hacking by Mark Russell of Premier Knowledge 
-    * Good. A bit light on details. 
-    * First 45 minutes were too long -- sales pitch about the training class. 
- 
-==== SOLARIS - Jan 16 ==== 
-  * Main: Basics of ZFS File System by Jeff Muse 
-    * Was originally scheduled for December. 
-    * Attendance low due to ice storm, severe weather, and power outages. 
-    * Very good. 
-    * Included coverage of snapshots (in case you didn't get enough at the last LUG meeting). 
-    * Planning to reprise the presentation at a Wednesday night SLUUG 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. 
-    * More interesting than expected. 
-  * 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. 
-    * Plenty of interest, questions, and tangents. 
- 
-==== SECURITY - Jan 24 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: Security Certifications by Stan Reichardt 
-    * Good stuff. 
-  * Discussed February conflicts. 
-    * Decided to cancel February meeting. 
- 
-==== STCLUG - Jan 25 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: Filtering Spam with Postfix by Carl Fitch. 
-    * Good. Covered the server side. 
- 
-====== 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 
-    * Point man: Stan and/or Gary. 
-  * Official annual SLUUG business meeting 
-  * Election balloting 
- 
-==== STLLUG - Feb 15 ==== 
-  * Back-to-back meetings this month with SLUUG - STLLUG 
-  * Election balloting 
-  * TOPIC: Ten-minute tips (each person sits at the keyboard) 
- 
-==== SOLARIS - Feb 20 ==== 
-  * Election balloting 
-  * Hands-on: Installing virtual machines, and using new Solaris process management tools (Jeff Muse? - TENTATIVE) 
- 
-==== STCLUG - Feb 22 ==== 
-  * Election balloting 
-  * TOPIC: TBD. 
- 
-==== HZWLUG - Feb 27 ==== 
-  * HZWLUG meeting will NOT be on 13 Feb as previously anticipated 
-  * NOTE!!!: 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. 
-  * NO MEETING THIS MONTH. 
- 
-===== March 2007 ===== 
- 
-==== SLUUG - Mar 14 ==== 
-  * Base: TBD. 
-  * Main: Matthew Porter - Zimbra as an Exchange Replacement 
- 
-==== STLLUG - Mar 15 ==== 
-  * TOPIC: Survey of GUI Email Clients (Buchek - TENTATIVE) 
- 
-==== 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. 
-  * Contact Stan and/or Gary to sign up. 
- 
-====== Potential Presentations ====== 
-  * Carl Fitch sent a list of potential topics to DISCUSS to generate interest. 
-  * Craig created a wiki page on his site to work on presentations. 
-    * Emailed DISCUSS w/ the URL. 
-    * Invited people to contribute. 
-    * There was a small amount of interest. 
- 
-====== Sponsorships ====== 
-  * Effort should be directed to find new sponsors. 
-  * No effort means no new sponsors. 
- 
-====== Dial-up Line Removal ====== 
-  * Has WU cancelled lines? 
-    * No! 
-  * Gary to follow up on cancellation of WU phone lines. 
- 
-====== System Administration ====== 
-  * Dark keeps crashing 
-    * 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. 
-      * System may be DEAD in/before APRIL! 
-      * This project needs **emergency priority!** 
-    * Gary will ask Allen @ Wash U if heat may be a problem! 
-      * Mike Knight does not belive that heat is the problem.  ​ 
-    * Gary asked Mike Knight if he knows of any temp sensor. 
-      * Mike is not aware of any heat sensor. 
-  * 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. 
-  * Michelob 
-    * Volume of mail stabilized once graymilter was activated. 
-    * Michelob depends on NFS filesystem from Dark!!! 
-  * Bud, Budlight - see Server Migration Project below. 
- 
-====== Server Migration Project ====== 
-  * Craig has been working on testing email. 
-    * Craig to compare notes with Carl on Postfix configuration. 
-  * Craig has been working on installing and configuring latest Drupal. 
-  * Need to work on getting clients to configure to use IMAP. 
-  * Jeff Muse got Mailman working and tested. 
-    * Craig found a Drupal module for Mailman. 
-    * Will be quick and simple to migrate mailing lists once we move the MX record. 
- 
-====== Website Library ====== 
-  * Stan R. and Ted P. 
-  * No presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration 
-  * No migration means no progress this month. 
- 
-====== Other Old Business ====== 
-  * none 
- 
-====== New Business ====== 
-  * none 
- 
-====== Blue Sky ====== 
-  * none 
- 
-====== Follow-up and Action Items ====== 
-  * Craig - print out previous minutes. 
-  * Craig - finish up work on email server. 
-  * Craig - get people to test using IMAP to connect to Bud from their email clients. 
-  * Craig - get with Chris Byrd to work on Drupal and other stuff. 
-  * Carl and Craig - get together on Feb 13 or 14 during the day to work on new servers. 
-  * Gary - follow up on Wash U phone lines. 
-  * Gary - get more Lightning Talk people lined up. 
-  * Stan - prepare for voting. 
-  * Lee - provide power, food, and drink for workers. 
  
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