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--- steercom:2007-07 [2007/07/15 12:35]
70.242.65.50 details, details, details. - stan r.
+++ steercom:2007-07 [2007/07/29 16:14]
70.242.156.34 Basics might change, so marked it "Tentative". - stan r.
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 Old Olive Street Road,
   Creve Coeur, MO 63141
 ====== Date and Time ======
-  * Rescheduled because of Independence Day HOLIDAY
-  * Previously select 9 July, too many couldn't make this date either.
   * Monday, 16 July 2007
-  * 6:30 pm -
+    * The Steering Committee meeting was rescheduled due to Independence Day HOLIDAY.
+    * Had previously selected 9 July, but too many couldn't make that date either.
+  * 6:30 pm - 8:40 pm
 ====== Attendees ======
-  * ?? Carl Fitch
+  * Carl Fitch
-  * ?? Stan Reichardt
+  * Stan Reichardt
-  * ?? Craig Buchek
+  * Craig Buchek
-  * ?? Lee Lammert
+  * Gary Meyer
-  * ?? Gary Meyer
-  * ?? John Hodge
-  * ?? Barry Morrison
-  * ?? Ted Palmer
-  * ?? Jeff Urbanec
 ====== Secretary Report  ======
-  * ?? Print out previous minutes.
+  * Craig printed out previous minutes for the first half of 2007.
+    * Carl signed the minutes for inclusion in secretary folder.
+    * Craig will review printed minutes to ensure we are not missing any.
+  * NOTE: Wireless was down at Bread Co this month, so minutes were not done on-line.
+    * Minutes were taken off-line and uploaded to the wiki later.
 ====== Treasurer Report ======
-  * ?? As of:    4/30/07
+  * NO REPORT.
-  * ?? Bank balance: $     1275.59
+  * Possibly open questions:
-  * ?? Pending deposits: none
+    * Status of pens we ordered with our slogan.
-  * ?? Pending expenses:
+    * Final bill from Wash U.
-    * ?? Pens - ordered, should be here soon
+    * Receipts for expense reimbursements:
-  * ?? Final bill from Wash U has not been received.
+      * Gary - domain registration
-    * ?? Gary provided good address to forward correspondence.
+      * Carl - state registration
-  * ?? Need receipts for expense reimbursements.
-    * ?? Gary - domain registration
-    * ?? Carl - state registration
 ====== Book Sales Report ======
-  * ?? Book sales - none for previous month
+  * None for previous month.
 ====== Membership Attendance Report ======
-  * ?? Most attendance sheets are available from the web servers.
+  * Most attendance sheets are available from the web servers.
-    * ?? using URL as in http://www.sluug.org/attendance.pdf,
+    * Use URLs like http://www.sluug.org/attendance.pdf, http://solaris.sluug.org/attendance.pdf, and so on.
-    * ?? or http://solaris.sluug.org/attendance.pdf, and so on.
   * Attendance for June 2007:
     * Jun  5 - 1st LDAP:  6
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 ====== Mailing List Report ======
-  * Started including name and link to a sponsor in each ANNOUNCE mailing.
+  * Started including name and link to a sponsor in each weekly ANNOUNCE mailing.
-    * Doing in reverse order.
+    * Doing in reverse alphabetical order.
-    * Have done 4 so far, UMSL-micros, Stratigic Staffing and O'Reilly Media, Inc., K&S Pritchard, Inc.
+      * Have done 5 so far: UMSL-micros, Strategic Staffing, O'Reilly, K&S Pritchard, Hostirian
-    * Next is Historian, Graybar, EPC, Computers & Things, then Ajilon.
+    * Next up: Graybar, EPC, Computers & Things, then Ajilon.
   * Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate):
-== Subscriber numbers ==
 || List | May | June | July ||
 || ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 ||
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 || SYSADMIN | xx | xx | 18 ||
+  * Mike Knight did some major purging of ANNOUNCE bounces.
+  * We can anticipate more reductions when ANNOUNCE is switched to a MailMan list.
+    * Due to MailMan automated handling of bounces.
 ====== Presentation Review and Comments ======
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 ==== SLACC - June  7 ====
   * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.
-    *
 ==== SLUUG - June 13 ====
   * Base: Public Key Authentication in SSH by Barry Morrison.
-    *
+    * Good.
-  * Main: Building a Bootable USB Drive for Troubleshooting by James Campbell (via Lee).
+  * Main: Building a Bootable USB Drive for Troubleshooting by James Campbell.
     * People could follow along if they brought their own laptop and 1 GB USB memory stick.
-    *
+    * OK. Faced some heckling and hardware problems.
+      * Only 1 successful audience member, due mostly to hardware compatibility issues.
+      * Presenter seemed to be OK, just ran into too many problems.
 ==== SOLARIS - June 19 ====
   * TOPIC: Partitioning, Multi-booting, and Solaris by Jeff Logullo.
-    *
+    * NO REPORT. Attendance was relatively low.
 ==== STLLUG - June 21 ====
-  * TOPIC: Physical Computing with Linux on Microcontrollers by Jason Burke.
+  * TOPIC: Physical Computing with Linux on Micro-controllers by Jason Burke.
-    *
+    * Excellent. Lots of participation and questions from audience.
+      * Participation from members who don't often contribute much or attend often.
 ==== HZWLUG - June 26  ====
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     * Tentative meeting date of 19th did not work due to other conflicts.
     * Did not find a suitable alternate location for the regular date.
-    *
 ==== SECURITY - June 27 ====
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     * Scheduled TOPIC was: Continued Examination of Snort and BASE by Chris Byrd, CISSP.
     * Access to UMSL-micro computer center room was not available.
-    *
 ==== STCLUG - June 28 ====
   * TOPIC: Nothing Planned
     * Old projector not really workable with Carl's laptop.
-    * Attendance split into two rambling discussion groups.
+    * Attendance was relatively low.
-    *
+    * People split into two rambling discussion groups.
 ====== Presentation Schedule ======
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 ==== SLACC - July  5 ====
   * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.
-    *
 ==== SLUUG - July 11 ====
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 ==== SOLARIS - July 17 ====
   * TOPIC: SMF - Service Management Facility by Bob Netherton
-  *
 ==== STLLUG - July 19 ====
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 ==== HZWLUG - July 24 ====
-  * TOPIC: Review updated HZWLUG Information CDROM Disc (Tentative)
+  * TOPIC: Review updated HZWLUG Information CD-ROM Disc (Tentative)
   * Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions
 ==== SECURITY - July 25 ====
-  * TOPIC: TBD
+  * TOPIC: Continued Examination of Snort and BASE by Chris Byrd, CISSP, and Mark Buchanan.
-    * Tentative: Continued Examination of Snort and BASE by Chris Byrd, CISSP.
+    * Carried over from last month, when room was not available.
 ==== STCLUG - July 26 ====
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 ==== SLACC - August  2 ====
   * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.
-    *
 ==== SLUUG - August 8 ====
-  * Base: TBD
+  * Base: SFTP by Carl Fitch (Tentataive)
-  * Main: one of the following topics by John Hodge.
+  * Main: one of the following topics by John Hodge. (Stan to follow up w/ John.)
     * Micro-Partitioning
     * VIO - virtual I/O - sharing network devices on POWER hardware
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 ==== STLLUG - August 16 ====
-  * TOPIC: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 (tentative) (via Craig???)
+  * TOPIC: Podcasting with Audacity by Scott Granneman (via Craig)
 ==== SOLARIS - August 21 ====
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 ==== SLACC - September  6 ====
   * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.
-    *
 ==== SLUUG - September 12 ====
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 ==== STLLUG - October 18 ====
-  * TOPIC: Lotus Notes (Client and Server) on Linux by Tom Bowman of TeamCentric
+  * TOPIC: Lotus Notes (Client and Server) on Linux by Tom Bowman of TeamCentric (confirmed, via Craig)
-  * (confirmed, via Craig).
+===== November =====
+==== SLUUG - November 14 ====
+  * TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, etc. (part 1) by Robert Citek (tentative, via Craig)
+==== STLLUG - November 15 ====
+  * TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, etc. (part 2) by Robert Citek (tentative, via Craig)
 ===== Potential Future Topics =====
-  * DNA, Genes, Viruses, Bioinformatics by Robert Citek (via Craig)
+  * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)
-  * Something by Scott Granneman (via Craig)
+  * CentOS by Tim Dreste
-  * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) (via Craig)
   * AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge)
   * Another presentation from Tom Bowman at TeamCentric Technologies (via Craig)
-  *
 ====== Sponsorships ======
-  * No Change from last month
+  * No change from last month.
   * Recognition of extended membership levels has not yet been done.
+    * Craig and Stan to work on membership levels on August 1.
   * Effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
   * No effort means no new sponsors.
 ====== System Administration ======
-  * ?? Dark keeps crashing.
-    * ?? Waiting for it to not come back up.
-    * ?? Work on new servers to replace AIX boxes is moving along rapidly.
-    *
   * Dark and Michelob were not reachable over a weekend.
     * Gary tracked down problem with bad LAN switch at WU.
-    *
   * ISSUE - Storage space on MICHELOB/DARK /home directory
     * Space use at 95% level causing backups to FAIL.
     * One user taking up way too much space.
-    *
   * Security issues
     * Thought we had another account compromised - but it wasn't.
+  * Historian (Primary) did Emergency maintenance on short notice.
-  * Historian (Primary) did Emergency maintanence on short notice.
+    * Early 4 AM to 7 AM Monday might have caused intermittent problems.
-    * Early 4 AM to 7 AM Monday might have caused intermitent problems.
     * Notice posted to web pages and DISCUSS list.
     * No real problems noticed.
-    *
 ====== Server Migration Project ======
-  * ??Carl, ??Craig, ??Jeff Muse, and ??Lee were to meet on June 13 to do more work.
+  * Carl, Craig, Jeff Muse, Mike Knight, Gary, and Lee met on June 13 to do more work.
-    * ?? Make sure Mailman is working.
+    * A lot was accomplished:
-    * ?? Make sure mailing lists get archived to web.
+      * Moved email transport to Bud. Delivery still on Michelob.
-    * ?? Make offsite backups work.
+      * Mailing lists (except ANNOUNCE) moved to Bud, using MailMan.
-      * ?? Scheduled deletion of older backups.
+      * Mailing list archives moved to Bud.
-    * ?? Move all SSL cert creation to one place in the docs.
+      * All web access (except users) moved to Bud.
-    * ?? Apache for users.sluug.org.
+      * Consolidated TLS configurations.
-      * ?? Will use this to migrate users from Michelob to Budlight.
+  * Carl, Craig, and anyone else to meet on July 25 to finish remaining work:
-    * ?? Install and configure Drupal for multiple web sites.
+    * Migrate ANNOUNCE.
-      * ?? Integrate Drupal module for Mailman.
+    * Fix problem with mailing list archive listings.
+    * Correct mailing list pages to point to new archives.
-  * Migration of mailing lists from Michelob to Bud...
+    * Fix problem Phil reported with mailing list passwords.
-    * Craig Buchek and Jeff Muse
+    * Make sure docs are up to date.
-    * Using Mailman instead of Majordomo.
+    * Start migrating individual users.
-      * Mailman now doing Discuss, Steercom and Sysadmin mailing lists.
+    * Rebuild Budlight.
-      * Weekly Announce mailing still using MAjordomo.
+    * Get offsite backups working.
-      * When will Announce follow?
-    * Archives?
-    * Problems...
-    * Issues...
-    * Concerns...
 ====== Website Library ======
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   * No routine presentation uploads yet.
   * Each website has skeleton presentation page listing topics given to date.
-  *
 ====== SLACC as a SIG ======
-  * Carl checked with SLACC members about being a SIG of SLUUG.
+  * A vote was held by the SLACC attendees on July 5.
-  * Carl was to let Nole know.
+    * The vote was unanimous to become a SLUUG SIG.
-  * Craig added URL http://slacc.sluug.org
+  * Carl needs to speak with Noel about moving the SLACC.com domain website.
-  * Stan build web page, added links on SLUUG site and made attendance sheet.
+  * Craig added URL http://slacc.sluug.org/.
-  * URL http://slacc.sluug.org/attendance.pdf pulls down attendance sheet.
+  * Stan built a basic web page, added links on SLUUG site and made attendance sheet.
-  *
+    * URL http://slacc.sluug.org/attendance.pdf pulls down attendance sheet.
 ====== Domain Renewal ======
-  * The sluug.org domain was to expire in July.
+  * The SLUUG.ORG domain was to expire on July 10.
-  * Gary Meyer has put on his credit card.
+  * Gary Meyer renewed it on July 8.
-    * New Whois inquiry shows Expiration Date:10-Jul-2008
+    * Put the charges on his credit card, to be reimbursed by SLUUG.
+    * WHOIS query now shows expiration date of 10-Jul-2008.
+  * As usual, Dotster's automated renewal did not work.
+    * Partly due to credit card expiring.
+    * Partly due to auto-renewal not working right after updating credit card info.
+    * Craig suggested that we manually renew from now on, and not rely on auto-renewal.
+  * Note that it is SLUUG's policy to only renew one year at a time.
+    * So we don't lose organizational knowledge of how to do it.
 ====== Annual Report to State of Missouri ======
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     * Changing a registered agent requires the enclosure of a written consent.
   * Was there a "registered agent change" filed?
-  *
 ====== Publicity Handouts ======
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     * Carl was to print 200 copies of each.
     * Should we ask for volunteer on DISCUSS?
-    *
+  * Stan talked about improving the brochures we have.
+    * Craig talked about his old "newbie packet" idea.
+    * Craig and Stan to work on this at their August 1 meeting.
 ====== Other Old Business ======
-  * Craig: Write up info on membership levels.
+  * Craig delivered 2 Sun Netra T1/105 (1U) boxes to Jeff Muse.
-  * Gary: Get Sun Netra T1/105 (1U) boxes from Craig, install Solaris, and install them at Primary.
+    * Solaris SIG should to install Solaris (or other OSes) on them and install them at Primary.
-  * Carl: Let Nole know about SLACC becoming SIG of SLUUG.
-  * Gary: Verify that sluug.org domain has been renewed in Whois.
-  *
 ====== New Business ======
-  * BBS account renewal cycle for July 2007 to June 2008.  Send bills, etc.
+  * BBS account renewal cycle for July 2007 to June 2008.
+    * We need to get our membership levels documented first.
+      * To be completed by Craig and Stan on August 1.
+      * This will likely push our cycle back 1 month.
+    * Then treasurer will send out notices and bills, etc.
+  * August 3-5 is Missouri's tax holiday, which includes computers.
+    * EPC is having a big sale on August 4.
+      * We'd like to send some SLUUG folks with brochures to that event.
+      * Carl to contact EPC to see about us handing out brochures.
+  * Scott Nesler ran stats on his web site on afternoon before his presentation.
+    * He got 52 hits from the link we posted on ANNOUNCE in 4 hours.
+    * By Friday afternoon, after posing to DISCUSS, he had 79 hits.
+    * This seems like an excellent response rate for a mailing list of 900 members.
 ====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
-  * Somebody: Something
+  * Stan: Follow up w/ John Hodge to finalize August 8 presentation topic.
-  *
+  * Craig: Find presentation for August STLLUG.
+  * Craig: Get w/ Jeff Muse to get help fixing mail web archive.
+  * Craig and Carl: Work on new servers - July 25.
+  * Carl: Speak w/ Noel about SLACC web site.
+  * Carl: Call EPC about us being there.
+  * Carl: Set up cron job to look into submitting annual report.
+    * Change registered agent to Stan or someone, if he becomes a registered agent.
+    * Correct Craig's name and address.
+  * Craig and Stan: Meet on August 1 to work on membership issues, brochures, newbie packet.

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