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SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - September 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
Attendees
?? Carl Fitch
?? Stan Reichardt
?? Lee Lammert
?? Craig Buchek
?? Gary Meyer
?? Jeff Muse
??
Secretary Report
AUG - Craig - Print minutes for any months missing from secretary folder.
Print minutes for any months missing from secretary folder.
Last print out of minutes was June.
Needs to print out minutes for July and August.
??
Treasurer Report
Book Sales Report
Membership Attendance Report
Mailing List Report
List | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep |
ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 |
DISCUSS | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 |
STEERCOM | 32 | 32 | 33 | 32 | xx |
SYSADMIN | xx | xx | 18 | 18 | xx |
ANNOUNCE mailing list.
Still no volunteer editor to do a Quarterly or monthly newsletter.
Craig configured list so that postings from non-subscribers is automaticly dropped.
Any postings from subscribers must be manually released.
Added Gary Meyer as monitor capable of releasing items, but his default address won't work.
About 24 subscriptions suspended due to excessive bounces. System did not seem to reuse, so they were unsubscribed.
Latest weekly ANNOUNCE EVENTS mailing sent out on 2 September.
Continued including name and link to a sponsor in each mailing.
Have done all sponsors shown on our SLUUG sponsors page in roughly reverse alphabetical order.
Started sending in alphabetical order.
August 2007
SLACC - August 2
Event at EPC - August 4
August 3-5 was Missouri's Tax Holiday, which includes computers.
EPC Missouri Tax Holiday sale on August 4 allowed us tables.
Carl F. - Led effort at EPC.
Set up of tables done Friday evening from 4-6 PM by…
On Saturday we had some SLUUG folks demonstrating applications.
Gary Meyer and Stan R. helped Carl F. shutdown tables.
SLUUG - August 8
STLLUG - August 16
SOLARIS - August 21
SECURITY - August 22
STCLUG - August 23
HZWLUG - August 28
Presentation Schedule
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
St. Louis Business Expo - October 2
SLACC - October 4
HOLIDAY - October 8
SLUUG - October 10
SOLARIS - October 16
STLLUG - October 18
SECURITY - October 24
STCLUG - October 25
HZWLUG - October 30
November 2007
SLACC - November 1
HOLIDAY - November 12
SLUUG - November 14
TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, etc. (part 1) by Robert Citek (TENTATIVE, via Craig).
NOTE: Back-to-back meeting dates.
STLLUG - November 15
TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, etc. (part 2) by Robert Citek (TENTATIVE, via Craig).
NOTE: Back-to-back meeting dates.
STCLUG - November 19
NOTE: Monday date scheduled due to 4th Thursday falling on Thanksgiving.
TOPIC: PHP-Nuke and other PHP Apps by Scott Nesler (confirmed, via Carl).
SOLARIS - November 20
HOLIDAY - November 22
HZWLUG - November 27
SECURITY - November 28
December 2007
SLACC - December 6
SLUUG - December 12
SOLARIS - December 18
HZWLUG - December 18
STLLUG - December 20
HOLIDAY - December 25
STCLUG - December 27
Potential Future Topics
Demo/Using Scribus by Stan Reichardt.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)- still looking for volunteer (via Craig).
Untangle Gateway Platform (instead of CentOS Linux) by Tim Dreste (Tentatively October, via Stan R).
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. (Suggested by Ed Howland)
Annual sponsorship is $200 for Businesses and $300 for Large Enterprise Corporations.
Have the current paying sponsors been asked to renew (with payment)?
We in fact recogize multiple entities as sponsors due to community support or services in kind.
We should review them once or twice annually and establish an end date on recognition.
They are:
EPC - STLLUG Installfest, STL BusExpo hardware use & handout printing support, SLUUG discount.
Computers & Things - STLLUG Installfests, STCLUG projector & STL BusExpo printing support.
Graybar - SLUUG general meeting site.
Hostirian - New server hosting.
K&S Pritchard Enterprises - Hosted STLLUG web pages thru to Spring 2007.
O'Reilly - discount book arrangement (now moot - suggest removing).
Law Offices of Rich McLennen - legal services as needed.
UMSL-MicroLabs - The St. Louis Security Group meeting lab area.
Should Omnitek be recognized as a sponsor?
New Sponsor - SylLogisteks
They has been providing door prizes and paying room fee for STLLUG meetings.
They were to have mailed a sponsorship check for $200.
Working on logo for SLUUG website rotating front page display (stan r).
Possible Sponsor - pcMemoryStore
Need sign about sponsoring our group for booth/table display at meetings and trade shows.
More effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
System Administration
Server Migration Project
AUG - Work left to do:
AUG - Make sure docs are up to date.
AUG - Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud.
AUG - Started documenting client email configurations, to help users migrate.
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AUG - It was suggested that the Mail Clients sections be split out to separate pages to reduce overall size.
AUG - Carl - Split out Mail Clients pages on users wiki document.
AUG - Start migrating individual users.
AUG - Rebuild Budlight.
AUG - Craig - Work on finishing server builds.
AUG - Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig)
AUG - Get offsite backups working.
AUG - Put SSH host keys on web page.
AUG - Work with Ed Wehner to migrate gateway-l and archrivals lists.
AUG - Migrate USERS mailing list.
Website Library
Stan R. and Ted P.
Partial migration from Dark to Bud sufficient to start loading presentations.
Each website has skeleton presentation page listing topics given to date.
No routine presentation uploads yet.
SLACC as a SIG
Membership (and Shell Accounts)
AUG - Stan and Craig met earlier on August 1 to work out membership issues.
AUG - Those present read through the write-up on the wiki page.
AUG - Recommendations from the group:
AUG - Craig to rework the membership page a bit.
AUG - Will post
URL to STEERCOM for confirmation/vote.
Membership drive
AUG - Membership drive will start in September.
Carl mentioned it at SLUUG meeting
Craig has written up sign-up form
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Carl - order items from Cafe Press
Are we ready to promote and accept dues?
AUG - Carl will spend $150 to buy membership gifts to have on-hand.
AUG - Carl - Buy $150 of membership gifts from CafePress to have on-hand.
AUG - Unanimous support from committee to spend this amount.
AUG - After that point, Stan will add CafePress link to SLUUG web site.
AUG - We talked about making the logos that Scott Nesler made official logos.
AUG - Will post URLs to options on STEERCOM, and vote on them there.
AUG - NOTE: Membership sign-ups must include form with user info.
AUG - Craig - Was to fix up membership page, per recommendations.
AUG - Was to post
URL to STEERCOM for confirmation/vote.
AUG - Lee - Consider online database for membership applications/renewals.
Publicity Handouts
AUG - Craig and Stan met earlier on August 1 to work on handouts.
AUG - Stan had previously created a St. Charles LUG brochure on GNU/Linux resources.
AUG - Need about 200 copies of all brochures.
Craig wrote up calendar sheet on meetings.
Hardware Donations
Other Old Business
New Business
Blue Sky
Follow-up and Action Items