NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial. Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!)

Saint Louis Bread Company,
(at Old Olive and Olive),
10550 Old Olive Street Road,
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

• May 2, 2007
• 6:30 pm -

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

• Secretary is catching up with things.
  • MARCH -
  • APRIL -
  • MAY -

New Sign (1x6')                $ 50.00

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

• We had xx booksales and xx membership renewal(s).

• Attendance for April 2007:
  • Apr 4 - Steercom: 3
  • Apr 11 - SLUUG: 22
  • Apr 17 - Solaris - 18
  • Apr 19 - STLLUG: 18
  • Apr 24 - HZWLUG: 8
  • Apr 25 - Security: 7
  • Apr 26 - STCLUG: 6

• Observations:
  • Unable to advertise at UMSL RMS lecture

• Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate):
  • ANNOUNCE - 917
  • DISCUSS - 184
  • STEERCOM - 32

• Base: Handcrafting Weekly Events with VIM by Stan Reichardt
  • Due to some earlier conflicts set up and start were delayed. Internet connection was not attempted.
  • No slides were harmed during this session.
  • This was a live demonstration of VIM techniques used to build ANNOUNCE Weekly Events mailing.
  • Some interesting issues due to incorrect file permissions - got a few laughs.
• 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.

• TOPIC: TBD.

• TOPIC: TBD.

• 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.
• Event was added to the April calendar and appeared in ANNOUNCE Weekly Events.
• Additional ANNOUNCE blurbs were sent out by Gary Meyer.
• Event was posted to www.askarchy.com and www.stlcalendar.com/ by Stan R.
• Per RMS objections we did not have a table for fliers, or signage.

• Back at the regular Prairie Commons Branch Library location.
• TOPIC: Using GRUB to boot multiple distros
• Demo: A little of Ubuntu and DSL distros

• TOPIC: Extraordinary SSH Use by Carl Fitch (re-scheduled from last month)

• TOPIC: TBD.

• Base: TBD.
• Main: TBD.

• TOPIC: TBD.

• TOPIC: Ubuntu GNU/Linux (tentative via Craig Buchek)

• The HZWLUG meetings thru November are now listed on www.stlcalendar.com
• Experimenting with www.askarchy.com listing. Only submitted May meeting.
• Uncertain if Stan R. will be in town for this meeting.
• TOPIC: TBD.

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD.

• Base: TBD.
• Main: Building your own bootable USB drive for troubleshooting

by James Campbell (Bring your laptops & 1GB stick)

• TOPIC: TBD.

• TOPIC: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 (tentative via Craig Buchek)

• TOPIC: TBD.

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD.

• Base: TBD.
• Main: TBD.

• TOPIC: TBD.

• TOPIC: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About HDTV by Craig Buchek

• TOPIC: TBD.

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD.

• Added EPC to sponsors lists. EPC graphic will appear randomly on front page.
• Recognition of extended mempership levels has not yet been done.
• Effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
• No effort means no new sponsors.

• Dark keeps crashing
• Waiting for it to not come back up.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• none

• none

• anything up there?

• Who will do what