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

• Wednesday, 1 August 2007
• 6:30 pm - 8:?? pm

• Stan Reichardt
• Craig Buchek
• Carl Fitch
• Lee Lammert
• Jeff Muse

• Craig needs to review printed minutes to ensure we are not missing any.
  • Needs to print out minutes for July.
• July minutes have been uploaded to wiki.
  • Due to WiFi issues, minutes were taken off-line.

• Current Balance: $1239.81 as of 6/30/07
• Bills paid: $23.57 (Pizza for 6/13 server work day)

• Open questions:
  • Final bill from Wash U.
  • Receipts for expense reimbursements:
    • Gary - domain registration
    • Carl - state registration

• None reported for June.

• Most attendance sheets are available from the web servers.
• Use URLs like http://www.sluug.org/attendance.pdf, http://solaris.sluug.org/attendance.pdf, and so on.
  • Attendance for July 2007:
    • Jul 4 - HOLIDAY - Independence Day
    • Jul 5 - SLACC: 6
    • Jul 10 - 1st LDAP: No meeting in July
    • Jul 11 - SLUUG: 27
    • Jul 16 - Steercom: 4
    • Jul 17 - Solaris: 8
    • Jul 18 - 2nd LDAP: No meeting in July
    • Jul 19 - STLLUG: 31
    • Jul 24 - HZWLUG: 11
    • Jul 25 - Security: 6
    • Jul 26 - STCLUG: 11
• Must have had good topics, as these numbers are higher than recent months.
  • And July attendance is normally low due to vacations, good weather, etc.

• We have migrated most lists from Majordomo on Michelob to MailMan on Bud.
  • USERS and non-SLUUG lists are only remaining lists to migrate.
• Some current mailing list subscriber numbers (approximate):

• Un-advertised MailMan lists are MAILMAN, TEST, TESTING and SYSADMIN.

• The old ANNOUNCE Majordomo list has been converted to a MailMan list.
  • Subscribed (injected) 920 addresses into the new ANNOUNCE MailMan list on 29 July.
  • Surprisingly fewer than expect unsubscribe requests so far.
  • We still anticipate more ANNOUNCE reductions due to MailMan automated handling of bounces.
  • Already two new subscribers via the new process.
  • Lots of non-subscriber submissions every day – SPAM.
• Weekly ANNOUNCE EVENTS mailing.
  • Latest mailing sent out on MailMan list. Late Sunday evening, 29 July.
  • Continued including name and link to a sponsor in each weekly ANNOUNCE EVENTS mailing.
  • Doing in reverse alphabetical order.
  • Have done 7 so far: UMSL-micros, Strategic Staffing, O'Reilly, K&S Pritchard, Hostirian Graybar, Computers & Things.
  • Next up: EPC and then Ajilon.

• Independence Day

• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• Base: DSH - Distributed Shell by John Hodge
  • Good, but only covered the AIX version for the most part.
  • Generated good discussion on DISCUSS, including alternatives.
• Main: Basic GIMP Usage by Scott Nesler (confirmed, via Craig)
  • Excellent. Everyone learned something new.
  • Scott enjoyed presenting; wants to do more.

• TOPIC: SMF - Service Management Facility by Bob Netherton
  • Very interesting. Centered around satisfying startup dependencies.
  • Bob Netherton was excellent as always.

• TOPIC: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About HDTV by Craig Buchek
  • Excellent. Tons of information covered in a short amount of time.
  • Invitation mailed to ANNOUNCE the prior day seemed to bring in several new people.

• TOPIC: Review updated HZWLUG Information CD-ROM Disc by Stan Reichardt
  • Went well. Stan did well, even without Carl there.
• Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions

• TOPIC: Continued Examination of Snort by Chris Byrd and Mark Buchanan
  • Excellent review and continuation of topic.
• Suggestion made to make Savvis primary meeting location.
  • PRO: Room is available more than UMSL location.
  • PRO: Nice space - main conference room.
  • PRO: Free sodas.
  • PRO: Gets Chris Byrd and Mark Buchanan more involved in leadership.
  • CON: No hands-on available in main conference room.
  • CON: Difficult to get into the building after 6:00.
• Clarence should make the final decision about moving.
  • Carl will call Clarence.

• TOPIC: Basic GIMP Usage by Scott Nesler
  • Updated a bit from SLUUG version, fewer mistakes.
  • Excellent once again.

• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• Base: SFTP by Carl Fitch
• Main: APV (Advance POWER Virtualization) Overview by John Hodge

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!

• TOPIC: Podcasting with Audacity by Scott Granneman (via Craig)

• TOPIC: TBD. Possibly work on installing (Open)Solaris, or DTrace presentation by Jeff Muse

• TOPIC: TBD. Possibly John Pitney.

• TOPIC: Whatever the newest person wants to talk about.
• Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions.

• TOPIC: TBD.

• Labor Day

• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• Base: Rsyncing System Files with Root Permissions by Carl Fitch
• TOPIC: TBD

SEE Aug 8 question about John Hodge moving to this date.

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD
• Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• At St. Charles Convention Center
  • SLUUG will have a booth again.

• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• Columbus Day

• Base: TBD
• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Lotus Notes (Client and Server) on Linux by Tom Bowman of TeamCentric (confirmed, via Craig)

• TOPIC: TBD
• Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: Joomla by Mark Ward (confirmed, via Carl)

• Veterans Day (Observed)

• TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, etc. (part 1) by Robert Citek (tentative, via Craig)

• TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, etc. (part 2) by Robert Citek (tentative, via Craig)

• NOTE: Date changed due to 4th Thursday falling on Thanksgiving.
• TOPIC: PHP-Nuke and other PHP Apps by Scott Nesler (confirmed, via Carl)

• Thanksgiving Day

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)- still looking for volunteer (via Craig).
• CentOS Linux by Tim Dreste (Tentatively October, via Stan.)
• AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge)
• Another presentation from Tom Bowman at TeamCentric Technologies (via Craig)
• History of tech since 1968 from Scott Granneman (via Gary).
• Building a modern kernel by Ed Howland.
• Using git by Ed Howland.
• Linux(xBSD, etc) on Wireless.
  • Part 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.)
  • Part 2: Practical Linux Wireless configuration.
    • Cards, compatiblity.
    • NDISWrapper and native (devicescape stack.)
    • Drivers
    • Tools (using wpa_supplicant.) Network Monitor
    • Wireshark sniffing.

• 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.

• 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
  • Confirmed that we will not be using "sudo" on new sysems.
  • Set new root passwords on BUD and BUDLIGHT.
  • Sent notice of change out to SYSADMIN list.
  • Set up cron job to dun us to change it every 6 months.

• 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.

• 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.

• Carl was to speak with Noel about moving the SLACC.com domain website.

• 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.

• 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.
  • Carl was to contact EPC about printing brochures for us to hand out.
  • Blurb put in this week's ANNOUNCE about Linux Demonstration Table at EPC

• Craig and Stan were to meet on the morning of August 1st.
  • Work out membership issues.
  • Document membership levels.
  • Improve the brochures we have.
  • Develop a Newbie packet.

• Stan created St. Charles LUG brochure on GNU/Linux resources.
  • Added link to PDF on SLUUG Handouts web page.
  • Will add link to PDF on STCLUG web page.

• Need about 200 copies of all brochures.
  • Carl was to ask EPC to print 200 copies of each.
  • After event at EPC we should ask for volunteer on DISCUSS to print balance.

• 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.

• ?? Craig delivered 2 Sun Netra T1/105 (1U) boxes to Jeff Muse.
• ?? Solaris SIG should do install Solaris (or other OSes) on them and install them at Primary.
• Gary has additional (E250?) Sun box to put into the BBS.

• Anything?

• Somebody - Something