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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - April 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 ======
  * April 4, 2007
  * 6:30 pm -

====== Attendees ======
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Lee Lammert
  * Gary Meyer

====== Secretary Report  ======
  * Secretary is catching up with things.
    * MARCH - Should have print-outs of things by next month.
    * APRIL - 

====== Treasurer Report ======

== Pending Deposits ==
||From |Description | Amt ||
||Wayne Molitor||  $70.00||
||Phillip Foster||  $70.00||
== Bank balance as of 2/28/07      $ 1,1446.36==

== Expenses ==
  St. Charles Convention Center  $ 65.05
  Small Business Monthly (Booth) $100.00
  Total Booth Expense            $165.05

* Still have not received final bill from Wash U yet.

====== Book Sales Report ======
  * We had xx booksales and xx membership renewal(s).

||Xxxxxxx xxx xxxx ||
||Xxxx Xxxxx - membership||
|| _______________________ ||
||Total income: $xx.xx||

====== Membership Report ======
  * Attendance for March 2007:
    * Mar 7 - Steercom: 4
    * Mar 14 - SLUUG: 23
    * Mar 15 - STLLUG: 14
    * Mar 20 - Solaris: NO MEETING
    * Mar 22 - STCLUG: 10
    * Mar 27 - HZWLUG: 7
    * Mar 28 - Security: NO MEETING
  * Observations:
    * Two meetings had to be cancelled
    * SLUUG almost double.  Had NO publicised Basic topic to draw anybody in.
    * Other attendance numbers were about like last month.
    * HZWLUG disappointing
    *

====== Mailing List Report  ======
  * Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate):
    * ANNOUNCE - 902 
    * DISCUSS - 182 
    * STEERCOM - 32

  * Recent ANNOUNCE Problem
    * Had multiple re-transmissions of Events For This Week itme 
    * Mike Knight fixed announce-posters file 


====== Presentation Review and Comments ======

===== March 2007 =====

==== SLUUG - Mar 14 ====
  * Base: General Discussion by Various Members ???
    *
  * Main: Zimbra as an Exchange Replacement by Matthew Porter

Excellent but not enuff time.  More coming in part 2 in a couple months.  Also need some additional
background on what is MS-Exchange,  why do people use it, why is it a bitch to replace, ...???
Perhaps a side-by-side comparison/demo?
    *

==== STLLUG - Mar 15 ====
  * Base: ???
  * Main: Survey of GUI Email Clients (Craig Buchek)

Very good!   Similar comparison talks would be great.  Lots of audiance interaction.
    *

==== SOLARIS - Mar 20 ====
  * NO MEETING THIS MONTH.
  * Canceled due to multiple conflicts.
  *

==== STCLUG - Mar 22 ====
  * TOPIC: Karaoke at the Keyboard/Mouse aka Night at the Keyboard
    * Copy of STLLUG Ten-minute Tips (each person sits at the keyboard)
    * Went over very well, with lots of tips, interaction and discussion.
Reminded of our old meetings!!!   Great way to share knowledge!!
    *

==== HZWLUG - Mar 27 ====
  * Temporary change of location to Bridgeton Trails Branch Library.
    * This was necessary due to StLC Library Branch scheduling conflicts.
    * Was in smaller room than previous month, NO reliable WIFI avaliable.
  * TOPIC: Boot Loaders and Partitioning Hard Drives
    * Old Projector working, but not as expected.
      * Might have been Operator Head Space Gap.
      * Couldn not show boot loader activity live.
      * Demo of Live CD MEPIS 6.5RC3 went well.
    * 3 first time attendees.
    * Attendance otherwise low.
  *

==== SECURITY - Mar 28 ====
  * NO MEETING THIS MONTH.
  * Canceled at last minute. Clarence Johnson could not be there, NO access without him.
  *

====== Small Business Expo - Review and Comments ======
  * [[http://www.sbmon.com/expo/index.htm | St. Louis Business Expo]] by St. Louis Small Business Monthly
    * March 20, 11:00-6:00
    * St. Charles Convention Center
  * Lee Lammert was in charge of setting up and getting volunteers to man the booth.
  * Steering Committee had approved $200 for booth cost and expenses.
    * We had a booth with two tables and electricity.
    * Wifi was too expensive.
      * Volunteered wireless cell card ... we never got it to work because we couldn't get it activated.
Even Verison couldn't check if it was a valid account.  Took the owner over an hour to get it to work later.
  * Carl Fitch got some demo computers from EPC.
    * Installed Linux distros: MEPIS, SuSE, Xandros, and Ubuntu on a Mac
  * Novell provide SWAG (Penguins, SLES 10 CDs, etc.)
  * Fred Smith of Old Monroe printed 200 new SLUUG flyers.
  * Also used on hand Linux4Beginner and Password tri-fold flyers.
  * Booth was manned by Lee Lammert, Carl Fitch, Gary McGee, Phil Bunch, Stan Reichardt, Jay Truesdale, and (?)

  * Observations:
    * Center facilities quite nice.
    * Our booth way too small.
    * Carl Fitch can sell free software.
    * Need newer logo on SLUUG sign.

=== Follow Up ===
  * New vector format of SLUUG logo is in hand, .. we can print any size sign when we wish.
  * Plan for next year is to negotiate a 10x10 booth, or, at the very least, a corner booth so we can turn the 2nd table out to the side.

====== Presentation Schedule ======

===== April 2007 =====

==== SLUUG - Apr 11 ====
  * Base: Handcrafting Weekly Events with VIM by Stan Reichardt
    * A few slides and live demonstration of VIM techniques used
    * Requires laptop (using Carl's) and Internet link desirable
  * Main: ZFS by Jeff Muse
    * ZFS is a new kind of filesystem that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We've blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at the source, and created a storage system that's actually a pleasure to use.

==== SOLARIS - Apr 17 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.

==== STLLUG - Apr 19 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.
  *

==== Special Event - Apr 23 ====
  * Richard Stallman lecture at UMSL.
  * TOPIC: Goals of the Free Software Movement.
  * SLUUG and all SIG web pages carry announcement blurb with link to PDF flyer and maps.
  * On the April calendar and will appear in ANNOUNCE Weekly Events.
  * What else can we do to promote this event?
We need to have fliers, signage,etc ??? for the event.
gary will ask Sanjiv for permission.

==== HZWLUG - Apr 24 ====
  * Back at the regular Prairie Commons Branch Library location.
  * TOPIC: TBD.
  *

==== SECURITY - Apr 25 ====
  * TOPIC: Extraordinary SSH Use by Carl Fitch (re-scheduled from last month)
  *

==== STCLUG - Apr 26 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.
  *


===== May 2007 =====

==== SLUUG - May 9 ====
  * Base: TBD.
  * Main: TBD.

==== SOLARIS - May 15 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.

==== STLLUG - May 17 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.
  *

==== HZWLUG - May 22 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.
  *

==== SECURITY - May 23 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD
  *

==== STCLUG - May 24 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.
  *

===== June 2007 =====

==== SLUUG - June 12 ====
  * Base: TBD.
  * Main: Building your own bootable USB drive for troubleshooting
      by James Campbell (Bring your laptops & 1GB stick)


==== SOLARIS - June 19 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.

==== STLLUG - June 21 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.
  *

==== HZWLUG - June 26 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.
  *

==== SECURITY - June 27 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD
  *

==== STCLUG - June 28 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD.
  *

====== Sponsorships ======
  * Effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
  * No effort means no new sponsors.



====== System Administration ======
  * Dark keeps crashing
    * Has slowed down.
      * This supports the overheating theory.
    * Need to quickly move to new systems or replace dark's hardware.
      * Gary had predicted increasing failure rate and to be more than once a day by end of month February.
      * Current System may DIE in APRIL!
      * This project needs **emergency priority!**
    * Gary was to ask Allen @ Wash U if heat may be a problem!
  * Barry talked to John Hodge about assisting with installing more AIX disk space.
    * Mike Knight reminded all that hardware is issue, not space.
  * Michelob
    * 
  * Bud, Budlight - see Server Migration Project below.

====== Server Migration Project ======
  * MARCH - Carl fixed (hopefully) the sign-up CGI page to reduce spam.
  * MARCH - Craig has been working on testing email.
    * MARCH - Craig to compare notes with Carl on Postfix configuration.
  * MARCH - Craig has been working on installing and configuring latest Drupal.
  * MARCH - Need to work on getting clients to configure to use IMAP.
  * MARCH - Jeff Muse got Mailman working and tested.
    * MARCH - Craig found a Drupal module for Mailman.
    * MARCH - Will be quick and simple to migrate mailing lists once we move the MX record.
  * MARCH - Craig and Carl were to get together to work on things, but weather and Craig moving got in the way.

====== Website Library ======
  * Stan R. and Ted P.
  * No routine presentation uploads yet - waiting for migration
  * No migration means no real progress this month.

====== MARCH Follow-up and Action Items ======
  * MARCH - Craig - print out previous minutes.
  * MARCH - Craig - finish up work on email server.
  * MARCH - Craig - get people to test using IMAP to connect to Bud from their email clients.
  * MARCH - Craig - get with Chris Byrd to work on Drupal and other stuff.
  * MARCH - Carl and Craig - get together to work on new servers.
  * MARCH - Gary - get Sun 1U boxes from Craig, and install them at Primary.
  * MARCH - Lee - provide power, food, and drink for those working on servers.

====== Other Old Business ======
  * none
  *

====== New Business ======
  * none
  *

====== Blue Sky ======
  * anything up there?
  *


====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
  * Who will do what
  *
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