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--- steercom:2007-06 [2007/06/03 18:19]
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71.10.176.218 Confirmed GIMP presentation for July 11. (CMB)
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 ====== Date and Time ======
   * June 6, 2007
-  * 6:30 pm -
+  * 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
 ====== Attendees ======
-  * ?? Carl Fitch
+  * Carl Fitch
-  * ?? Lee Lammert
+  * Lee Lammert
-  * ?? Craig Buchek
+  * Craig Buchek
-  * ?? Gary Meyer
+  * Barry Morrison
-  * ?? Patrick Bellinger
+  * John Hodge
-  * ?? Stan Reichardt
+  * Stan Reichardt
-  * ??
+  * Jeff Urbanec
 ====== Secretary Report  ======
-  * Secretary is catching up with things, but SLUUG minutes doesn't seem to be one of them. ;-)
+  * Secretary needs to catch up with things, especially printing out minutes.
-  * Craig - print out previous minutes?
-  *
 ====== Treasurer Report ======
   * As of:    4/30/07
   * Bank balance: $     1275.59
-  * Pending deposits:
+  * Pending deposits: none
-  * Expenses
+  * Pending expenses:
     * Pens - ordered, should be here soon
   * Final bill from Wash U has not been received.
-    * Gary to provide good address to forward correspondance
+    * Gary provided good address to forward correspondence.
+  * Need receipts for expense reimbursements.
+    * Gary - domain registration
+    * Carl - state registration
 ====== Book Sales Report ======
-  * Book sales
+  * Book sales - none for previous month
-  *
 ====== Membership Attendance Report ======
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     * or http://solaris.sluug.org/attendance.pdf, and so on.
   * Attendance for May 2007:
-    * May  1 - 1stOLDAP: 7
+    * May  1 - 1st LDAP: 7
     * May  2 - Steercom: 5
-    * May  9 - SLUUG:
+    * May  9 - SLUUG: missing attendance sheet
-    * May 16 - 2ndOLDAP: 5
+    * May 16 - 2nd LDAP: 5
-    * May 17 - STLLUG:
+    * May 17 - STLLUG: missing attendance sheet
     * May 22 - Solaris: 15
-    * May 22 - HZWLUG:
+    * May 22 - HZWLUG: missing attendance sheet
-    * May 24 - STCLUG:
+    * May 24 - STCLUG: missing attendance sheet
     * May 30 - Security: 9
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 == Subscriber numbers ==
-|| List | May | June||
+|| List | May | June ||
 || ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 ||
 || DISCUSS | 184 | 190 ||
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     * This was an extended topic -- there was no separate tutorial.
     * Reprise of last month's STCLUG presentation.
-    * ??? Included discussion of Windows BartPE and Linux both bootable from CD ???
+    * Included discussion of Windows BartPE and Linux both bootable from CD
     * People could follow along if they brought their own Windows XP installation disc.
       * Could use an OEM recovery disc or Windows Server 2003.
-  *
+    * Good. A bit of hands on.
 ==== STLLUG - May 17 ====
   * TOPIC: Ubuntu GNU/Linux by Jay Truesdale
-  * Craig and Stan were to be out of town. Needed someone to run the meeting.
+    * Went quickly. Showed off features of latest version of Ubuntu.
-  *
+    * Covered wireless support in-depth.
+  * Craig and Stan were out of town. Carl ran the meeting.
 ==== SOLARIS - May 22 ====
+  * TOPIC: Virtualizing Solaris: The Big Rules for Zones, Xen, LDOMs and VMware by Bob Neatherton
+    * Excellent - a whole day's presentation condensed into 3 hours.
+    * Sun's virtual machine specialist gave the presentation.
   * Nobody seemed to be updating http://solaris.sluug.org web page.
     * Jeff Logullo was maintaining a new web page
     * Stan R. put HTML page at our Solaris SIG URL to now redirect to Jeff L.'s new URL
     * New URL is http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/stl-osug/
-    * References to our http://solaris.sluug.org/ URL are automaticly redirected.
+    * References to our http://solaris.sluug.org/ URL are automatically redirected.
-  * TOPIC: Virtualizing Solaris: The Big Rules for Zones, Xen, LDOMs and VMware
-  *
 ==== HZWLUG - May 22 ====
-  * The HZWLUG meetings thru November are now listed on www.stlcalendar.com
+  * Stan R. was not in town for this meeting. Carl ran the meeting.
-  * Experimenting with www.askarchy.com listing.  Only submitted May meeting.
+  * Covered wireless network config and troubleshooting.
-  * Stan R. was not in town for this meeting.
+  * The HZWLUG meetings thru November are now listed on [[http://www.stlcalendar.com | www.stlcalendar.com]]
-  *
+  * Experimenting with askarchy.com listing.  Only submitted May meeting so far.
 ==== STCLUG - May 24 ====
-  * TOPIC: TBD
+  * TOPIC: Round-table discussion on various topics.
-  *
+    * Plenty of contributions from the crowd.
 ==== SECURITY - May 30 ====
   * TOPIC: Snort and Base by Clarence Johnson
-  * meeting rescheduled on short notice from May 23rd
+    * Excellent. Will cover in more detail next month.
-  *
+  * Meeting rescheduled on short notice from May 23rd
 ====== Presentation Schedule ======
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 ==== SLUUG - June 13 ====
-  * Base: TBD
+  * Base: Public Key Authentication in SSH by Barry Morrison
-  * Main: Building a Bootable USB Drive for Troubleshooting by James Campbell
+  * Main: Building a Bootable USB Drive for Troubleshooting by James Campbell (via Lee)
     * People can follow along if they bring their own laptop and 1 GB USB memory stick.
-    *
 ==== SOLARIS - June 19 ====
   * TOPIC: TBD
-  *
 ==== HZWLUG - June 19 ====
-  * Meeting date tentative - regular Prairie Commons Branch room not avialable on 26th; so, scheduled this date.  Still trying to find a location for the regular date.
+  * Meeting date tentative - regular Prairie Commons Branch room not available on 26th
-  * TOPIC: TBD
+    * Still trying to find a location for the regular date.
-  *
+  * TOPIC: Newbie topics.
 ==== STLLUG - June 21 ====
   * TOPIC: Physical Computing with Linux by Jason Burke (confirmed)
-  *
-==== HZWLUG - June 26 ====
-  * Meeting location tentative - regular location not avialable on 26th
-  * TOPIC: TBD
-  *
 ==== SECURITY - June 27 ====
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 ==== STCLUG - June 28 ====
-  * Stan R. updaged STCLUG Web site.
   * TOPIC: TBD
-  *
+  * Stan R. updated STCLUG Web site.
 ===== July 2007 =====
 ==== SLUUG - July 11 ====
-  * Base: TBD
+  * Base: DSH - Distributed Shell by John Hodge
-  * Main: Basic GIMP Usage by Scott Nesler (tentative)
+  * Main: Basic GIMP Usage by Scott Nesler (confirmed, via Craig)
 ==== SOLARIS - July 17 ====
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 ==== STLLUG - July 19 ====
   * TOPIC: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About HDTV by Craig Buchek
-  *
 ==== HZWLUG - July 24 ====
-  * TOPIC: TBD
+  * TOPIC: Newbie topics
-  *
 ==== SECURITY - July 25 ====
   * TOPIC: TBD
-  *
 ==== STCLUG - July 26 ====
   * TOPIC: TBD
-  *
 ===== August 2007 =====
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 ==== SLUUG - August 8 ====
   * Base: TBD
-  * Main: TBD
+  * Main: one of the following topics by John Hodge
+    * Micro-Partitioning
+    * VIO - virtual I/O - sharing network devices on POWER hardware
+    * Storage Virtualization on AIX
+    * HACMP - High Availability on AIX
 ==== STLLUG - August 16 ====
-  * TOPIC: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 (tentative)
+  * TOPIC: TBD
-  *
 ==== SOLARIS - August 21 ====
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 ==== STCLUG - August 23 ====
   * TOPIC: TBD
-  *
 ==== HZWLUG - August 28 ====
   * TOPIC: TBD
-  *
 ==== SECURITY - August 29 ====
   * TOPIC: TBD
-  *
+===== October =====
+==== STLLUG - October 18 ====
+  * TOPIC: Lotus Notes (Client and Server) on Linux by Tom Bowman of TeamCentric (confirmed, via Craig)
+===== Potential Future Topics =====
+  * DNA, Genes, Viruses, Bioinformatics by Robert Citek
+  * Something by Scott Granneman
+  * Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
+  * AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge)
 ====== Sponsorships ======
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 ====== System Administration ======
   * Dark keeps crashing.
-  * Waiting for it to not come back up.
+    * Waiting for it to not come back up.
+    * Work on new servers to replace AIX boxes is moving along rapidly.
   * Security issues
+    * Had some accounts compromised.
 ====== Server Migration Project ======
-  * Carl and Craig to meet at Lee's on May 9 to work on migration.
+  * Carl and Craig met at Lee's on May 9 to work on migration.
-    * Compare notes on Postfix configuration.
+    * Accomplished quite a bit.
+      * Got SASL and TLS added to Postfix configuration.
+      * Integrated SpamAssassin into Postfix via MailScanner.
+        * Grabbed most of the config from Dark.
+      * Upgraded version of DokuWiki.
+  * Craig rebuilt Bud on May 30.
+    * Built per documentation on the wiki.
+    * Took about 2 hours on-site to build.
+      * Should only have taken 1 hour, but had some incorrect documentation.
+    * Took about 1-2 days to get it back to same shape it was before.
+  * Carl, Craig, Jeff Muse, Stan, and Lee meeting on June 13 to do more work.
+    * Make sure Mailman is working.
+    * Make sure mailing lists get archived to web.
+    * Make offsite backups work.
+      * Scheduled deletion of older backups.
+    * Move all SSL cert creation to one place in the docs.
+    * Apache for users.sluug.org.
+      * Will use this to migrate users from Michelob to Budlight.
     * Install and configure Drupal for multiple web sites.
       * Integrate Drupal module for Mailman.
-    * Integrate SpamAssassin into Postfix.
-      * Compare configuration with Dark.
-    * Verify Postfix delivery to IMAP server.
 ====== Website Library ======
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 ====== Other Old Business ======
-  * Craig - print out previous minutes.
+  * none
-  * Craig - finish up work on email server.
-  * Craig - get people to test using IMAP to connect to Bud from their email clients.
-  * Carl and Craig - get together to work on new servers.
-  * Gary - get Sun Netra T1/105 (1U) boxes from Craig, and install them at Primary.
-  *
 ====== New Business ======
-===== Publicity Handouts =====
-We have 3 handouts for our meetings, each available at the URLs
-listed below.  They are given out at all of our meetings, at
-events where we have a booth, and are distributed to various
-St. Louis County Library Branches.
-The SLUUG general information handout (front is portrait and back is landscape):
+===== SLACC as a SIG =====
+  * It was mentioned that St. Louis Area Computer Club (SLACC) membership was nearly all SLUUG members.
-[[http://www.sluug.org/sluugA070319.pdf| http://www.sluug.org/sluugA070319.pdf]] (portrait page)
+  * Someone asked if perhaps we should give SLACC status as a SLUUG Special Interest Group (SIG).
+  * There was little discussion, and agreement that it would make sense to have SLACC as a SIG.
-[[http://www.sluug.org/sluugB070319.pdf| http://www.sluug.org/sluugB070319.pdf]] (landscape page)
+    * It would give SLUUG an official meeting for bringing machines in to install/configure Linux.
-  Both Revised 19 March 2007
+  * Craig to make URL http://slacc.sluug.org
-  Note that URLS in these PDFs are set up as hot links.
+  * Stan to build web page, add links on SLUUG site, and take attendance at SLACC meetings.
+  * Craig suggested that the board should hold an official vote, and SLACC should also vote on the issue.
-The Hazelwood LUG GNU/Linux for Beginners:
-[[http://hzwlug.sluug.org/Linux4Beginners.pdf| http://hzwlug.sluug.org/Linux4Beginners.pdf]]
-  May 2007 version 3.5 (looks nice on light green paper)
-  Note that URLS in this PDF are set up as hot links.
-The St. Louis Security Group Password Guidelines for Beginners:
-[[http://security.sluug.org/passwordguide.pdf| http://security.sluug.org/passwordguide.pdf]]
-  April 2006 version 0.4
-Stan R. has about 75 of the SLUUG general information handouts
-available.  Don't need any more right now.
-Stan R. is out of the last two.  Have any more been printed?
 ===== Domain Renewal =====
+  * The sluug.org domain expires in July.
+  * Gary Meyer has put on his credit card.
+    * But Whois still shows it expiring on July 10, 2007.
-The sluug.org domain expires in July.  Gary Meyer put on his credit card.
+===== Annual Report to State of Missouri =====
+  * See [[https://www.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/soskb/Corp.asp?681250 | SLUUG Info]] on file with State of Missouri.
+  * Due by 31 August, Carl saved us $5 last year by filing early.
+  * Should we change the "registered agent" shown on the forms?
+    * YES: Change to "Stan Reichardt" @ same address as our "corporate headquarters".
+    * Should help us receive official hard-copy forms from the state.
-===== Annual Report to State =====
+===== Publicity Handouts =====
-  * Due in July (?).
+  * We have 3 handouts for our meetings, each available at the URLs listed below.
-  *
+    * SLUUG general information handout (front is portrait and back is landscape):
+      * [[http://www.sluug.org/sluugA070418.pdf| http://www.sluug.org/sluugA070418.pdf]] (portrait page)
-===== Anything Else =====
+      * [[http://www.sluug.org/sluugB070418.pdf| http://www.sluug.org/sluugB070418.pdf]] (landscape page)
+      * [[http://www.sluug.org/sluuginfo.pdf| http://www.sluug.org/sluuginfo.pdf]] (combined)
-  * anything else?
+    * Hazelwood LUG GNU/Linux for Beginners:
+      * [[http://hzwlug.sluug.org/Linux4Beginners.pdf| http://hzwlug.sluug.org/Linux4Beginners.pdf]]
-====== Blue Sky ======
+    * St. Louis Security Group Password Guidelines for Beginners:
-  * anything up there?
+      * [[http://security.sluug.org/passwordguide.pdf| http://security.sluug.org/passwordguide.pdf]]
+  * Need more copies of Hazelwood and Security brochures.
+    * Carl will print 200 copies of each.
 ====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
+  * Craig: Ping Robert Citek and Scott Granneman about presentations.
+  * Craig: Follow up w/ Tom Bowman of TeamCentric Technologies on Lotus Notes presentation + another.
+  * Craig: Follow up w/ Scott Nesler on GIMP presentation.
+  * Craig: Set up virtual host to test www.sluug.org site on new server.
+  * Craig: Print out previous minutes.
+  * Craig: Write up info on membership levels.
+  * Gary: Get Sun Netra T1/105 (1U) boxes from Craig, install Solaris, and install them at Primary.
+  * Gary: Verify that domain has been renewed in Whois.
+  * Carl: Print 200 copies each of Hazelwood and Security brochures.

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