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, 5 September 2007
• 6:30 pm -

• ?? Carl Fitch
• ?? Stan Reichardt
• ?? Lee Lammert
• ?? Craig Buchek
• ?? Gary Meyer
• ?? Jeff Muse
• ??

• 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.
• ??

• Previous Balance: $1239.81 as of 6/30/07
• Money in:
• Bills paid:
• Current Balance:

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

• 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.
• Added an Attendance (Sign In Sheets) page to the Resources drop down menu on the SLUUG website.
• Directly reached by http://www.sluug.org/resources/attendance/
  • Attendance for August 2007:
    • Aug 1 - Steercom: 5
    • Aug 2 - SLACC: 10
    • Aug 7- 1st LDAP: No meeting in Aug
    • Aug 8 - SLUUG: 36
    • Aug 15 - 2nd LDAP: No meeting in Aug
    • Aug 16 - STLLUG: 31 (32)
    • Aug 17 - Solaris: No meeting in Aug
    • Aug 22 - Security: No meeting in Aug
    • Aug 23 - STCLUG: 17
    • Aug 28 - HZWLUG: 11
• XX
  • XX

• 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):

• Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet.
• Jeff ? / Craig ? added icon package that show up on list search results screen.

• 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.

• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.
  • x

• 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.
  • EPC printed our brochures for us to hand out.
  • Handouts included newly created St. Charles LUG brochure on GNU/Linux resources.
• Set up of tables done Friday evening from 4-6 PM by…
• On Saturday we had some SLUUG folks demonstrating applications.
  • Focus was on how to use GNU/Linux and Open Source applications.
  • Volunteers at tables included…
• Gary Meyer and Stan R. helped Carl F. shutdown tables.

• Base: SFTP by Carl Fitch
  • Slides messed up.
• Main: Technology Since 1968 by Scott Granneman (via Gary)
  • This was alternate, swapped with John Hodges presentation.
  • Went way over normal time, but enjoyed by all.

• TOPIC: Podcasting with Audacity by Scott Granneman (via Craig)
  • Little response during Q&A - No current events brought up (not even SCO decision).
  • Door prizes by SylLogisteks - iPOD won by Robert Citek. Lesser prizes awarded as "boobie prizes".
  • x

• CANCELLED - Usual room not available per Jeff Logullo.
  • x

• CANCELLED - Summer Hietus

• TOPIC: xrdp: An Open Source Remote Desktop Protocol(rdp) Server by Tony Lovasco of EPC
  • x

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

• Labor Day

• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.
• Might be available for OpenSolaris Installation and/or Configuration Workshop.

• Note - Red Hat Seminarhttp://www.redhat.com/promo/value2NA/ at Westport Plaza (8:45-12:30)
• BASE: Rsyncing System Files with Root Permissions by Carl Fitch
• MAIN: APV (Advance POWER Virtualization) Overview by John Hodge

• TOPIC: DTrace by Jeff Muse (Tentative)

• TOPIC: ZoneMinder - Linux video camera security and surveillance by Simon Amies (via ???)

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

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD. Something possibly by John Pitney.

• At St. Charles Convention Center - 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
  • See http://sbmon.com/expo/expo.html
  • SLUUG will have a booth again.
  • Should we have small table space for our sponsor brochures, business cards and other materials?
  • Should we have sign touting SLUUG sponsorships for $200 and $300 per year?

• 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

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

• TOPIC: TBD
• Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions
• On the 5th Tuesday because of Library schedule conflict.

• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• Veterans Day (Observed).

• TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, etc. (part 1) by Robert Citek (TENTATIVE, via Craig).
• NOTE: Back-to-back meeting dates.

• TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, etc. (part 2) by Robert Citek (TENTATIVE, via Craig).
• NOTE: Back-to-back meeting dates.

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

• TOPIC: TBD

• Thanksgiving Day

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

• TOPIC: TBD

• Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

• BASE:
• MAIN: All About Google by Scott Granneman (via Stan R).

• TOPIC: TBD

• TOPIC: TBD
• Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions.
• NOTE: On the 3rd Tuesday because Christmas Day is on 4th Tuesday.

• TOPIC: TBD

• Christmas Day

• TOPIC: PHP-Nuke and other PHP Apps by Scott Nesler (confirmed, via Carl).

• 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)
  • 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.

• Annual sponsorship is $200 for Businesses and $300 for Large Enterprise Corporations.
• Have the current paying sponsors been asked to renew (with payment)?
  • Ajilon
  • S3 - Stratigic Staffing Solutions
• 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?
  • Consider that Omnitek has been providing services in kind comenserate with other sponsors.
  • Working on logo for SLUUG website rotating front page display (stan r).
• 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
  • Wanted to provide member discounts in lieu of $200 annual (per Lee).
  • Not sure it makes financial sense.
• Need sign about sponsoring our group for booth/table display at meetings and trade shows.
• More effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
  • No effort means no more new sponsors.

• Backup and restore for BUD and BUDLIGHT?

• 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.
    • AUG - See users page.
    • 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 - Make sure we have documentation on what we need to migrate.
  • AUG - Rebuild Budlight.
    • AUG - Carl may rebuild using virtual machines.
  • 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.

• Server Build progress
  • Jeff working on virus scanning
  • Craig working on Drupal

• 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.

• JUL -Carl spoke with Noel about moving the SLACC.com domain website.
• JUL - Carl - Call Noel about transferring SLACC.com domain.
  • AUG -Yes. Carl to follow up.

• AUG - Stan and Craig met earlier on August 1 to work out membership issues.
  • AUG - See the wiki membership page.
• AUG - Those present read through the write-up on the wiki page.
• AUG - Recommendations from the group:
  • AUG - Make it clear that the primary benefit is to support the group.
  • AUG - Give away an item (from our CafePress page) for each level
    • AUG - Platinum level - golf shirt
    • AUG - Gold level - t-shirt, mug, or baseball cap
    • AUG - Silver level - bumper sticker (excluding the $10 level)
  • AUG - No longer need to follow July - June billing cycle.
    • AUG - Each member will renew 1 year from their start date.
• 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
  • Craig has fixed up membership info page
    • Is everyone OK with its current form?
  • 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.

• AUG - Craig and Stan met earlier on August 1 to work on handouts.
  • AUG - Reviewed and mapped out improvements to the brochures we have.
  • AUG - Decided to include a page telling when/where all our meetings are. (Craig working on)
• AUG - Stan had previously created a St. Charles LUG brochure on GNU/Linux resources.
  • AUG - Added link to PDF on SLUUG Handouts web page.
  • AUG - Will add link to PDF on STCLUG web page.
• AUG - Need about 200 copies of all brochures.
  • AUG - Carl was to ask EPC to print 200 copies of each.
  • AUG - After event at EPC we should ask for volunteer on DISCUSS to print any shortages.
• Craig wrote up calendar sheet on meetings.

• JUL - Gary has an additional (E250?) Sun box to put into production for our members to access.

• AUG - Jeff has an RS/6000 to get rid of.
  • AUG - 300 MHz, 512 MB, 18 GB+36 GB drives
  • AUG - Has PCI bus, so will run AIX 5.3.
  • AUG - Tower system.
  • AUG - Would be a good system to use once we retire Michelob and/or Dark.
    • AUG - We don't have space otherwise.
  • AUG - Jeff would be willing to build it with AIX 5.3 if someone has CDs.
    • AUG - Currently running AIX 5.1.
  • AUG - If Jeff can get assistance from others, we can use it.

• Nik Moon has some equipment to donate.
  • List of items was posted to STEERCOM list.
  • Concensus is that this is more stuff than we can deal with using.
  • Nik so advised by Stan R.

• What did we forget about?

• Do we have anything else?

• Is it still up there?

• AUG - Jeff - Seek assistance from AIX gurus to see if we want to set up his box.
• AUG - Stan - Work on updating brochures on membership issues.