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====== SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - March 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, March 5, 2008
  * 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

====== Attendees ======
  * Craig Buchek
  * Lee Lammert
  * Stan Reichardt
  * Gary Meyer

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

  * 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 | Mar ||
|| ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 | 866 | 857 | 856 | 853 ||
|| DISCUSS  | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 186 ||
|| STEERCOM |  32 |  32 |  33 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  31 |  31 |  31 ||
|| SYSADMIN |  xx |  xx |  18 |  18 |  18 |  17 |  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.

====== Elections Report  ======
  * Elections were held during February meetings.
  * There were 19 ballots received and validated.
    * No invalid ballots.
  * Board seat results:
    * Carl Fitch (incumbent) - 16
    * Barry Morrison (write-in) - 1
    * Gary Meyer (write-in) - 1
    * Don Ellis (write-in) - 1
  * All incumbents were re-elected for their respective advisory positions.
    * Presidential race was very close.

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

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

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

==== SLUUG - February 13 ====
  * MAIN: Mail server project by Carl Fitch.
    * Good, especially for not having spent time preparing to present on the topic.

==== Solaris - February 19 ====
  * CANCELED due to Weather

==== STLLUG - February 21 ====
  * CANCELED due to Weather

==== HZWLUG - February 26 ====
  * TOPIC: Intro to Partitions
    * Only got through slide 14 -- lots more to cover
    * Lots and lots of questions

==== STCLUG - February 28 ====
  * MAIN: Mail server project by Carl Fitch.

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

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

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

==== SLUUG - March 12 ====
  * BASE: Importing/Exporting Data Between Spreadsheets and Databases by Lee Lammert
  * MAIN: iSCSI by Erich Schark of Alliance Systems (via Craig)

==== Solaris - March 18 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

==== STLLUG - March 20 ====
  * TOPIC: WINE by Ed Howland

==== 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 15 ====
  * TOPIC: TBD

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

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

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


===== Potential Future Topics =====
  * Mac OS X Leopard by Don Benne (via Gary)
    * Previously presented at GAMUG In-Depth SIG
  * 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
  * 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)
    * VMware - 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.
  * 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 have been changed (AGAIN).
    * Contact Stan, Craig, Gary, or Lee if you need to know the new passwords.

====== Server Intrusion and Rebuild ======
  * Mike Knight found evidence of intrusion on Bud on February 23.
    * Attacker had broken into 2 accounts.
    * SSH daemon was compromised and recording passwords.
  * Craig and Mike removed the damage as much as possible.
    * They could not be certain that a rootkit was not installed, however.
  * Craig rebuilt the server on March 2.
    * Mike and Gary assisted remotely from CWELUG.
    * Had some issues getting users configured to receive emails.
    * Had an issue with locking out root.

====== 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.
    * Craig - Work on finishing server builds.
      * Document changes to PAM to correct MAIL variable. (Craig)
      * More security, for SSH and otherwise.
      * Get offsite backups working. (Mike)
      * Publish SSH host keys on web page.
      * Standardize/regularize user accounts (IDs, password expirations). (Mike)
  * Other work to do:
    * Better web site management tools
  * Craig will get together with Mike to work on tasks in next coming weeks.

====== 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
    * 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 ======
  * [[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
  * We have started recording the audio of our presentations.
    * From Ken's suggestion.
    * Craig spent about $85 on a digital voice recorder.
    * Stan has been posting audio files to the web site.

====== Small Business Expo ======
  * March 18, 11:00 - 6:00
  * St. Charles Convention Center
  * We are in booth 801.
  * Will be ordering electricity and an extra table.
    * $80 + tax
  * Need people to man the booth.
    * Contact Lee or Carl.
  * Need to have some demos of using software.
    * Contact Lee or Carl.

====== Old Business ======
  * Hostirian renewed our hosting agreement.
    * Lee sent them a letter stating what we're providing.
    * Lee had the wrong email address for Ken Cox, our contact.

====== New Business ======
  * none

====== Blue Sky ======
  * none

====== 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 - 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, Barry - Get someone from IBM to talk about POWER6, AIX 6.0, etc.
  * 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 - Add CafePress link to SLUUG web site when we get info.
  * Stan - Link new membership page into SLUUG web site.
  * Gary - Ask Ajilon about continuing $200 sponsorship.
  * Gary - Prepare Sun E250 for potential use.
  * Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.
  * 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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