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SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - August 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
Wednesday, 1 August 2007
6:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Attendees
?? Carl Fitch
?? Stan Reichardt
?? Craig Buchek
?? Lee Lammert
?? Gary Meyer
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Secretary Report
Craig was to review printed minutes to ensure we are not missing any.
NOTE: Wireless was down at Bread Co during July meeting, so minutes were not done on-line.
July Minutes were taken off-line and uploaded to the wiki later.
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Treasurer Report
Book Sales Report
Membership Attendance Report
Mailing List Report
List | May | June | July | Aug |
ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 |
DISCUSS | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 |
STEERCOM | 32 | 32 | 33 | 32 |
SYSADMIN | xx | xx | 18 | 18 |
Un-advertised MailMan lists are MAILMAN, TEST, TESTING and SYSADMIN.
Still need to do USERS, FLYBALL, and ???
July 2007
HOLIDAY - July 4
SLACC - July 5
SLUUG - July 11
Base: DSH - Distributed Shell by John Hodge.
Main: Basic GIMP Usage by Scott Nesler (confirmed, via Craig).
SOLARIS - July 17
STLLUG - July 19
HZWLUG - July 24
SECURITY - July 25
TOPIC: Continued Examination of Snort and BASE by Chris Byrd, CISSP, and Mark Buchanan.
Excellent review & continuation of topic.
Suggestion made to make Savvis primary meeting location, but no hands-on available in main conference room.
STCLUG - July 26
Presentation Schedule
August 2007
SLACC - August 2
SLUUG - August 8
IMMEDIATE DECISON NEEDED!!!
See this afternoon's e-mail to steercom
1. Scott Granneman is willing to present but is teaching in Sept & Oct.
2. Does John want to do this Aug 8 or is he willing to move to Sept? (Solves our Sept problem.)
3. Do we want Scott 2 weeks in a row?
4. We need to change web-page & other publicity ASAP!
STLLUG - August 16
SOLARIS - August 21
STCLUG - August 23
HZWLUG - August 28
SECURITY - August 29
September 2007
HOLIDAY - September 3
SLACC - September 6
SLUUG - September 12
SOLARIS - September 18
STLLUG - September 20
HZWLUG - September 25
SECURITY - September 26
STCLUG - September 27
October 2007
SLACC - October 4
HOLIDAY - October 8
SLUUG - October 10
SOLARIS - October 16
STLLUG - October 18
HZWLUG - October 23
SECURITY - October 24
STCLUG - October 25
November 2007
HOLIDAY - November 12
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)
HOLIDAY - November 22
Potential Future Topics
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)- still looking for volunteer (via Craig).
CentOS Linux by Tim Dreste (Not in August or September. Tentative October, via stanr.)
AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge)
Another presentation from Tom Bowman at TeamCentric Technologies (via Craig)
A cool history of tech since 1968 from Scott Granneman (via Gary).
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From Ed Howland
Suggestions for upcoming topics for Steercom:
Building a modern kernel (probably been a long time since this has
been touched.)
Using git (maybe first since you need git to to the build - a two
parter or tutorial first.
2 Parter on Linux(xBSD, etc) on Wireless.
1. Theory and operation of wireless networks.
The 802.11 stack (relevant protocols.)
Descriptions of terms, expansion of alphabet soup.
Security (WEP,WPA, WPA2)
Network types (ad-hoc, infrastrucure.)
Modes (ad-hoc, managed, master, monitor.)
Packet Types (management, data frames. Beacons, probes.)
2. Practical Linux Wireless configuration.
Cards, compatiblity.
NDISWrapper and native (devicescape stack.)
Drivers
Tools (using wpa_supplicant.) Network Monitor
Wireshark sniffing.
I see the wireless as being done by 2 people on 2 nights (say in the
same month at the SLUUG and StlLinux meetings.
Ed
No change from last month.
Recognition of extended membership levels has not yet been done.
Effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
System Administration
Server Migration Project
Carl F., Craig B., Mike Knight and Stan R. met on July 25
Migrate ANNOUNCE.
Fix problem with mailing list archive listings.
Correct mailing list pages to point to new archives.
Fix problem Phil reported with mailing list passwords.
Things To Do:
??? Consolidated TLS configurations.
??? Set up cron job about submitting annual report.
??? Make sure docs are up to date.
??? Start migrating individual users.
??? All web access (except users) moved to Bud.
??? Load Apachie mod_usrdir to allow ~/user home pages
Carl was going to rebuild Budlight.
Get offsite backups working.
Website Library
Stan R. and Ted P.
Partial migration from Dark to Bud sufficient to start loading presentations.
Migration means that we can start making real progress each month.
No routine presentation uploads yet.
Each website has skeleton presentation page listing topics given to date.
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SLACC as a SIG
Domain Renewal
?? DONE ??
?? The SLUUG.ORG domain was to expire on July 10.
?? Gary Meyer renewed it on July 8.
?? 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.
Event at EPC
August 3-5 is Missouri's tax holiday, which includes computers.
EPC is having a big sale on August 4.
We'd like to have some SLUUG folks demonstrate applications.
Publicity Handouts
Shell Account Renewals
Shell account renewal cycle for July 2007 to June 2008.
Membership issues 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.
Other Old Business
New Business
Follow-up and Action Items