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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - February 2008 ======

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, 6 February 2008
  * 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm

====== Attendees ======
  * Barry Morrison
  * Craig Buchek

====== Secretary Report  ======
  * Printed out minutes from Steering Committee meetings through December.


====== Treasurer Report ======
  * Balance: $1,174.72 as of 1/31/08

  * Carl needs to give money collected for memberships to the Treasurer.
  * Open issues:
    * New IRS reporting requirement
      * We will (likely) have to file a form 990-EZ for the 2007 tax year.
      * Need response from Rich McClennan.
      * Any other advisory resources available?
    * Final bill from Wash U. - need to complete reply


====== Attendance Report ======
  * Some numbers:

||Meeting   | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul |  Aug  | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan ||
|| Steercom:|   4 |   5 |   4 |   3 |  5 |   7 |   4 |   5  |   5 |  No |   6 |   3 |   6 ||
|| SLACC:   |   9 |   6 |   7 |  ?? |  ?? |   8 |   6 |  10  |   7 |   5 |   8 |   4 |   7 ||
|| 1st LDAP:|   7 |  xx |   5 |   6 |  7 |   6 |  No |  No  |  No |  No |  ?? |  No |   4 ||
|| SLUUG:   |  26 |  12 |  23 |  22 |  18 |  16 |  27 |  36  |  21 |  24 |  25 |  20 |  14 ||
|| Solaris: |   3 |   4 |  No |  18 |  15 |   6 |   8 |  No  |  11 |  No |   5 |  No |  13(??)||
|| 2nd LDAP:|  xx |  xx |   6 |   5 |  5 |   6 |  No |  No  |  (6)|   7 |  No |   3 |  ?? ||
|| STLLUG:  |  15 |  12 |  14 |  18 |  23 |  20 |  31 |  31 (32) |  23 |  19 |  25 |  20 |  17 ||
|| HZWLUG:  |   9 |   7 |   9 |   8 |  9 |  No |  11 |  11  |  10 |  10 |  15 |   9 |  10 ||
|| Security:|  10 |  No |  No |   7 |  9 |  No |   6 |  No  |  No |  No |  No |  No |  No ||
|| STCLUG:  |  12 |  10 |  10 |   6 |  ?? |   8 |  11 |  17  |  10 |  11 |  No |  11 |   9 ||

  * 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.

  * Attendance seems to be down, which is not unusual for the winter months.

====== Mailing List Report ======
  * 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):

|| List     | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb ||
|| ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 | 866 | 857 | 856 ||
|| DISCUSS  | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 | 185 | 185 | 185 ||
|| STEERCOM |  32 |  32 |  33 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  31 |  31 ||
|| SYSADMIN |  xx |  xx |  18 |  18 |  18 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 |  17 ||

  * Blocking of mailing list attachments not completely configured yet.

  * ANNOUNCE mailing list.
    * Still no volunteer editor to do a Quarterly or monthly newsletter.


====== Nominations and Elections Report  ======
  * Elections will be held during February meetings.
  * Announcement of election was made at previous meetings.
  * Attendance report totals for CY 2007 were made using data base developed by Scott Nesler.
    * 203 different attendees
    * 112 attended 2 or more times.
    *  91 only once
  * List of eligible voters posted as PDF on SLUUG front page.
  * Stan R. and Gary M. are on the nominating committee.
  * Gary Meyer was generally not able to help the last few months.
  * Nominations still needed for February elections.
  * If no nominations, names placed on ballot will be arbitrary. 
  * ? Stan will create the ballot forms, based on last year's.
  * ? Board seats up for election:

====== Review and Comments ======

===== January 2008 =====

==== SLACC - January 3 ====
  * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

==== SLUUG - January 9 ====
  * BASE: Introduction to Partitions by Stan Reichardt
    * Good.
  * MAIN: Using PartImage by Carl Fitch 
    * Good. Would like to see more professional-oriented UNIX presentations.

==== Solaris - January 15 ====
  * TOPIC: Project Indiana by Bob Netherton


==== STLLUG - January 17 ====
  * Alternate site reservations for CY 2008 made at Thornhill Branch Library were canceled.
  * Quick poll taken about starting time.
  * TOPIC: CakePHP and PHPReports by Scott Nesler
    * Generally good. Good to see how he's using PHP.

==== HZWLUG - January 22 ====
  * Meeting announcement mistake, library room not available, was scheduled for following week.
  * Meeting moved to Bridgeton branch of St. Louis Bread Company on St. Charles Rock Road.
  * Planned presentation of updated "Intro to Partitions" was NOT done.

==== STCLUG - January 24 ====
  * Disk Cloning Utilities by Carl Fitch
  * Use of old projector helped.

====== Presentation Schedule ======

===== February 2008 =====

==== SLACC - February 7 ====
  * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.


==== SLUUG - February 13 ====
  * BASE: TBD
  * MAIN: TBD

==== Solaris - February 19 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD


==== STLLUG - February 21 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== HZWLUG - February 26 ====
  * TOPIC: Intro to Partitions
  * 

==== STCLUG - February 28 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

===== March 2008 =====

==== SLACC - March 6 ====
  * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.


==== SLUUG - March 12 ====
  * BASE: TBD
  * MAIN: iSCSI by Erich Schark of Alliance Systems (via Craig)


==== Solaris - March 1? ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== STLLUG - March 20 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== HZWLUG - March 25 ====
  * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees

==== STCLUG - March 27 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

===== April 2008 =====

==== SLACC - April 5 ====
  * Linux Configuration Workshop - No presentation.

==== SLUUG - April 11 ====
  * BASE: TBD
  * MAIN: TBD

==== Solaris - April 1x ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== STLLUG - April 19 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== HZWLUG - April 24 ====
  * TOPIC: Usually determined by attendees

==== STCLUG - April 26 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD


===== 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)
  * 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)
    * 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, compatibility.
      * NDISWrapper and native (devicescape stack).
      * Drivers
      * Tools (using wpa_supplicant).
      * Network Monitor
      * Wireshark sniffing.

====== Sponsorships ======
  * New Sponsor - 
  * ? Have the current paying sponsors been asked to renew (with payment)?
    * ? Ajilon (Stan to follow up)
    * ? S3 - Strategic Staffing Solutions (Craig to follow up)
  * ? 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.
    * ? No effort means no more new sponsors.

====== Server Admin ======
  * Root passwords were changed.
    * Contact Carl or Mike Knight if you need to know the new passwords.

====== Server Migration Project ======
  * ? Work left to do:
    * ? Make sure docs are up to date.
      * ? Add documentation telling users how to configure mail clients to use Bud.
      * ? Started documenting client email configurations, to help users migrate.
      * ? See [[../users]] and [[../mail_setup]] pages.
    * ? Start migrating individual users.
      * ? Make sure we have documentation on what we need to migrate.
    * ? Finish rebuilding Budlight.
      * ? Carl may rebuild using virtual machines.
    * ? Craig - Work on finishing server builds.
      * ? Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig)
      * ? Get offsite backups working.
      * ? Publish SSH host keys on web page.
      * ? Work with Ed Wehner to migrate gateway-l and archrivals lists.
      * ? Migrate USERS mailing list.
  * ? Other work to do:
    * ? Jeff working on virus scanning
    * ? Craig working on Drupal


====== Website Library ======
  * Stan R. and Ted P.
  * Uploaded January SLUUG Base "Introduction to Partitions" tutorial.
  * No more other presentation uploads yet.

====== SLACC as a SIG ======
  * ? Carl needs to follow up with Noel about transferring the domain to us.
    * ? The registration is paid up until 2009.
    * ? Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.com email addresses.

====== Membership (and Shell Accounts) ======
  * ? Membership drive
    * ? 2 members signed up in September.
      * ? Shell accounts have been created.
      * ? Lee has membership forms.
    * ? Need to print out name tags.
      * ? Omnitec will print them out and bring to SLUUG meeting.
  * ? Cafe Press merchandise
    * ? Carl has money from purchases -- needs to turn into treasurer.
    * ? Stan to add CafePress link to SLUUG web site when we get info.
    * ? Stan to link new membership page into SLUUG web site.
  * ? It was suggested that we use Scott Nesler's logos.
    * ? We should ask Scott.
    * ? We should post the choices to STEERCOM for voting to make it official.

====== Other Old Business ======
  * ? Library reservations (October 6)
    * ? Reserved rooms for all our meetings.
      * ? A few holiday conflicts.
    * ? We have Thornhill as a backup to Indian Trails for STLLUG meetings.
      * ? Stan will cancel the backup reservations.
      * ? Meeting room is better, but no projector.
  * ? [[http://www.stchman.com/ | Bob Nelson]] - [[http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-466368.html | wants to start an Ubuntu LoCo]]
    * ? Craig to follow up again.
    * ? EPC would like to hold the meetings.
      * ? Open 9-2 on weekends, close at 6 on weekdays.
      * ? Talk to Tony Lavasco and Frank Polston if we need to follow up.
  * ? Security Group
    * ? Has not had a meeting in the past 3 months.
    * ? Clarence has had conflicts.
    * ? Other leaders have not been responsive.
    * ? Steering Committee has declared the group "in hiatus".
      * ? Stan will update web site with the new status.
    * ? Gary will start a thread on DISCUSS.
      * ? Asking for location and leadership.
  * ? Lee suggested we create a Rails app on Bud to manage the group.
    * ? Member data - payments, expirations, etc.
    * ? Sponsors - expirations, etc.
    * ? Attendance
    * ? STL Ruby Group is writing a similar application.
      * ? RAMS - Rails Association Management System
      * ? We should leverage that, and guide it to our needs
    * ? Scott Nesler has built an app for attendance
      * ? Stan has plugged data into it for the year
      * ? Not sure if the app fits any of our other needs
  * ? Stan suggested that we NOT have Lightning Talks this year.
    * ? Lack of organizing them ahead of time.
    * ? Lack of commitment from presenters.
    * ? Several people skip that meeting because they don't like the idea.
  * ? We have started recording the audio of our presentations.
    * ? From Ken's suggestion from last month.
    * ? Craig spent about $85 on a digital voice recorder.
    * ? Stan has been posting audio files to the web site.


====== New Business ======
  * 

====== Blue Sky ======
  * 

====== Follow-up and Action Items ======
  * ? Carl - Cancel credit card processing.
  * ? Carl - Turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer.
  * ? Carl - Speak w/ Noel.
  * ? Jeff - Seek assistance from AIX gurus (Barry, John, Mike, Gary) to see if we want to set up his box.
  * Barry - Get someone from IBM to talk about POWER6, AIX 6.0, DB2, etc.
  * Barry - Follow up w/ John Hodge about a presentation in the near future.
  * Barry, John - Talk to Rich Seibel and Dave Mills about AIX hardware they have.
  * ? Lee - Follow up drafting reply to Wash U.
  * Craig - Follow up w/ Ubuntu LoCo person.
  * 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 - Submit receipt for voice recorder.
  * ? Stan - Ask Ajilon about continuing $200 sponsorship.
  * ? Stan - Add CafePress link to SLUUG web site when we get info.
  * ? Stan - Link new membership page into SLUUG web site.
  * ? Gary - Prepare Sun E250 for potential use.
  * ? Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.
  * ? Server Builders - Meet on January 8 for work day @ Lee's (6:30).
  * Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
  * Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
  * Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.
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