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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

  • Person One
  • Person Two
  • Person Three
  • Person Four
  • Person Five

Secretary Report

  • Secretary is catching up with things.
    • MARCH - Should have print-outs of things by next month.

Treasurer Report

Deposits
Bank balance as of x/xx/07 $ x,xxx.xx
Pending Deposits x
Pending AP x*

* 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: ???
  • Main: Zimbra as an Exchange Replacement by Matthew Porter

STLLUG - Mar 15

  • Base: ???
  • Main: Survey of GUI Email Clients (Craig Buchek)

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.

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

  • 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 …
  • Carl Fitch got some demo computers from EPC.
    • Installed Linux distros: MEPIS, SuSE, Xandros, and ???
  • 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, Ted Palmer (?)
  • Observations:
    • Center facilities quite nice.
    • Our booth way too small.
    • Carl Fitch can sell free software.
    • Need newer logo on SLUUG sign.
    • Other?
  • Next year?

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: TBD.

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?

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.

Sponsorships

  • Effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
  • No effort means no new sponsors.

Dial-up Line Removal

  • WU had cancelled lines
  • Billing was still in dispute.
    • WU procedure was ignoring our responses
    • Lee Lammert was to work with Wash U to correct the problem.

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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