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SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - November 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
Craig Buchek
Carl Fitch
Lee Lammert
Stan Reichardt
?? Gary Meyer
Secretary Report
Treasurer Report
No report. Needs to catch up on statements.
Carl needs to give money collected for memberships to the Treasurer.
Collected a $200 check from SyllogisTeks for sponsorship.
Open issues:
Book Sales Report
Attendance Report
Meeting | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
Steercom: | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | No |
SLACC: | 9 | 6 | 7 | ?? | ?? | 8 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 5 |
1st LDAP: | 7 | xx | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | No | No | No | No |
SLUUG: | 26 | 12 | 23 | 22 | 18 | 16 | 27 | 36 | 21 | 24 |
Solaris: | 3 | 4 | No | 18 | 15 | 6 | 8 | No | 11 | No |
2nd LDAP: | xx | xx | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | No | No | (6) | 7 |
STLLUG: | 15 | 12 | 14 | 18 | 23 | 20 | 31 | 31 (32) | 23 | 19 |
HZWLUG: | 9 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 | No | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 |
Security: | 10 | No | No | 7 | 9 | No | 6 | No | No | No |
STCLUG: | 12 | 10 | 10 | 6 | ?? | 8 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 11 |
No - indicates no meeting.
() - Numbers in parentheses are head count.
?? - Question marks indicate attendance not taken or sheet missing.
xx - attendance numbers not yet recorded.
Mailing List Report
List | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov |
ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 |
DISCUSS | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 |
STEERCOM | 32 | 32 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
SYSADMIN | xx | xx | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 |
September 2007
HOLIDAY - September 3
SLACC - September 6
SLUUG - September 12
SOLARIS - September 18
STLLUG - September 20
TOPIC: ZoneMinder - Linux video camera security and surveillance by Simon Amies (via Carl)
Excellent presentation.
Craig was not able to attend; Carl was MC.
Much better Q&A session this month.
Carl modeled SLUUG stuff.
Two new folks - one from EPC booth info & one from Internet search.
Door prizes were left-overs from RH Tour.
HZWLUG - September 25
TOPIC: Partitioning Schemes
Plus other unstructured topics requested by Newbie questions
Split up into smaller groups after loss of control.
SECURITY - September 26
STCLUG - September 27
October 2007
St. Louis Small Business Expo - October 2
SLACC - October 4
SLUUG - October 10
SOLARIS - October 16
STLLUG - October 18
SECURITY - October 24
STCLUG - October 25
HZWLUG - October 30
NOTE: 5th Tuesday because of Library schedule conflict.
Was going to talk about network connections.
Split up into 3 groups (before losing control, this time).
Helped people with wireless issues.
Helped someone with YUM and package management.
Helped someone with a bad Ubuntu install (bad CD).
Presentation Schedule
November 2007
SLACC - November 1
HOLIDAY - November 12
SLUUG - November 14
TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, Epigenetics, etc. (part 1) by Robert Citek (via Craig).
NOTE: Back-to-back meeting dates.
STLLUG - November 15
TOPIC: Genetics, DNA, Viruses, Bioinfomatics, Epigenetics, etc. (part 2) by Robert Citek (via Craig).
NOTE: Back-to-back meeting dates.
STCLUG - November 19
SOLARIS - November 20
HOLIDAY - November 22
HZWLUG - November 27
SECURITY - November 28
December 2007
SLACC - December 6
SLUUG - December 12
Linux / Free Software Open House - December 13
2:00 - 8:00 at Premier Knowledge (in South St. Louis)
Looking for topics and presenters
Anyone who is interested should contact Lee Lammert
Not an InstallFest – more of "what to do next"
SOLARIS - December 18
HZWLUG - December 18
STLLUG - December 20
HOLIDAY - December 25
STCLUG - December 27
January 2008
February 2008
STLLUG - February 21
Potential Future Topics
APV (Advance POWER Virtualization) Overview by John Hodge
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 (via Stan R).
AIX 6 - due out later this year (about November, IBM via John Hodge)
Another presentation from Tom Bowman at TeamCentric Technologies (DB2?) (via Craig)
Building a modern kernel by Ed Howland.
Using git by Ed Howland.
Remotely presented (video conferencing) topics.
Qt/KDE (TrollTech sales rep, via Craig)
Linux(xBSD, etc) on Wireless. (Suggested by Ed Howland)
New Sponsor - SyllogisTeks
They have been providing door prizes and paying room fee for STLLUG meetings.
We have received a sponsorship check for $200.
Working on logo for SLUUG website rotating front page display (Stan R.)
Attendees were in favor of adding logo to our site before receiving money.
They paid for dinner after the meeting last month.
Have the current paying sponsors been asked to renew (with payment)?
Potential sponsors
Sun - Jeff Logullo
IBM - (John Hodge may have a contact)
Red Hat - Clark Smith (Craig to follow up)
Novell / SuSE - Matt Skipton
Some old information has:
Annual sponsorship as $200 for Businesses and
$300 for Large Enterprise Corporations. This amount show on sluuginfo.pdf (18 April 2007) handout.
The $300 amount not viable, so sponsorships are $200.
Stan will purge any $300 amount from web site and forms.
We should review them once or twice annually and establish an end date on recognition.
We in fact recognize multiple entities as sponsors due to community support or services in kind.
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.
Omnitec - has been providing services in kind commensurate with other sponsors.
Possible Sponsor - pcMemoryStore
Last meeting, we approved.
However, their deal turned out not to be of any advantage to us or our members.
Need sign about sponsoring our group for booth/table display at meetings and trade shows.
More effort should be directed to find new sponsors.
Server Migration Project
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)
Other Old Business
New Business
Blue Sky
Follow-up and Action Items
Carl - cancel credit card processing
Carl - turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer
Jeff - Seek assistance from AIX gurus to see if we want to set up his box.
Lee - Follow up drafting reply to Wash U.
Lee - Place CafePress order
ASAP. (DONE)
Lee - Follow up w/ PC Memory Store and get coupon code from them.
Craig - Email Clark Smith @ Red Hat about getting someone to present on RHEL5, and $200 sponsorship.
Craig - Email Jim Leingang @ S3 about $200 sponsorship.
Craig - Ask Brian Button / Kyle Cordes about XP-STL / SLUUG joint meeting.
Craig - Follow up w/ Tom Bowman of TeamCentric about October 18 meeting.
Carl - Follow up w/ Scott Nessler about PHP-Nuke at STCLUG.
Carl - Follow up w/ John Pitney about future STCLUG presentation.
Stan - Add Omnitec and Syllogistek as sponsors.
Stan - Send info on Bob Nelson (Ubuntu advocate) to Carl and Craig.
Stan - Ask Ajilon about continuing $200 sponsorship.
Stan - Follow up w/ Clarence and Chris Byrd to get topic for Security meeting.
Stan - Follow up with Tim Dreste about a presentation.
Gary - Prepare Sun E250 for potential use.
Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.
Gary - Organize October 2 event at Small Business Expo.