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SLUUG Steering Committee Minutes - May 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, May 7, 2008
6:30 pm -
Attendees
Carl Fitch
Craig Buchek
Stan Reichardt
Gary Meyer
Secretary Report
Printed out minutes from Steering Committee meetings through March.
Treasurer Report
FIXME
* Balance: $1,174.72 as of 1/31/08
Carl gave money collected for memberships to the Treasurer.
Carl - Turn in cash drawer funds to treasurer.
Carl - Cancel credit card processing. (In progress – need to fax them a 2nd letter.)
Craig - Submit receipt for voice recorder.
Gary - Turn in receipt for domain registration.
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?
Lee - Follow up drafting reply to Wash U.
Final bill from Wash U. - need to complete reply
Attendance Report
Meeting | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
Steercom | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | No | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
SLACC | 6 | 7 | ? | ? | 8 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 4 | (4) | ? |
1st LDAP | xx | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | No | No | No | No | ? | No | 4 | No | No | No |
SLUUG | 12 | 23 | 22 | 18 | 16 | 27 | 36 | 21 | 24 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 23 | 17 |
Solaris | 4 | No | 18 | 15 | 6 | 8 | No | 11 | No | 5 | No | 13 | No | 6 | No |
2nd LDAP | xx | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | No | No | (6) | 7 | No | 3 | ? | No | No | No |
STLLUG | 12 | 14 | 18 | 23 | 20 | 31 | 31 | 23 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 17 | No | 16 | 17 |
HZWLUG | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 | No | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 11 |
STCLUG | 10 | 10 | 6 | ? | 8 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 11 | No | 11 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 13 |
No - indicates no meeting.
() - Numbers in parentheses are head count.
? - Question mark indicates attendance not taken or sheet missing.
xx - attendance numbers not yet recorded.
Mailing List Report
List | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May |
ANNOUNCE | 917 | 925 | 900 | 915 | 885 | 877 | 877 | 866 | 857 | 856 | 853 | 854 | xxx |
DISCUSS | 184 | 190 | 188 | 190 | 190 | 192 | 192 | 185 | 185 | 185 | 186 | 1?? | x?? |
STEERCOM | 32 | 32 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 31 | 31 | 31 | ?? | ?? |
SYSADMIN | xx | xx | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | ?? | ?? |
April 2008
April 2008
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30
SLACC - April 3
SLUUG - April 9
Solaris - April 15
STLLUG - April 17
EPC Sale - April 19
HZWLUG - April 22
STCLUG - April 24
Presentation Schedule
May 2008
May 2008
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
SLACC - May 1
SLUUG - May 14
NOTE: Back to back meetings
BASE: Last.FM by Ed Howland (TENTATIVE, via Gary)
MAIN: MythTV by Jason Clark (TENTATIVE, via Craig)
BACKUP CHOICE: Encryption by Mike May from SLU (via Gary)
STLLUG - May 15
NOTE: Back to back meetings
TOPIC: MythTV by Jason Clark (TENTATIVE, via Craig)
TOPIC: Encryption by Mike May, Prof @ SLU (TENTATIVE, via Gary)
Solaris - May 20
STCLUG - May 22
HZWLUG - May 27
June 2008
June 2008
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
SLACC - June 5
SLUUG - June 11
BASE:
MAIN:
BACKUP CHOICE:
Solaris - June 17
STLLUG - June 19
HZWLUG - June 24
STCLUG - June 26
July 2008
July 2008
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
SLACC - July 3
SLUUG - July 9
BASE:
MAIN:
BACKUP CHOICE:
Solaris - July 15
STLLUG - July 17
HZWLUG - July 22
STCLUG - July 24
Potential Future Topics
GIMP by Scott Nesler.
Encryption by Mike May S.J., Prof @ SLU, Chair Math/CS dept (via Gary)
Stoneware webOS and Desktop Virtualization by Jack Loane (via Carl/Craig/e-mail)
iSCSI
EnterpriseDB (packaged version of PostgreSQL) (via Carl)
Who is the Spencer Lecture speaker @ UMSL?
Mac
OS X Leopard by Don Benne (via Gary)
VirtualBox (& xVM (Zen)) by Jeff Logullo? (via Gary)
Status of Sun Solaris by Jeff Logullo (via Gary)
Versioning filenames (snapshots?) in ZFS by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse? (via Gary)
New release of ZFS " " " " " " "
Project Indiana, a new package mngmnt system ala apt/dpkg by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse? (via Gary)
Belenix & otherlive CD's based on Open Solaris by Jeff Logullo? Jeff Muse? (via Gary)
Cell phone issues by Don Ellis (via Gary)
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)
Status of BSD by Randy? John? (via Gary?)
Wireshark sniffing by ??? @ Savvis (via Clarence?).
Last.fm, Amarok,…free music downloads by Ed Howland (via Gary)
- Line items from last month are marked for deletion.
STL Small Business Expo
March 18, 11:00 - 6:00
St. Charles Convention Center
We were in booth 801.
Volunteers: Gary McKee, Lee Lammert, Carl Fitch, Stan Reichardt
Lots of people stopped by – busy corner.
Not sure it's worth our time, money, and effort.
Linux Table at EPC Earth Day Sale
New Sponsor -
Have the current paying sponsors been asked to renew (with payment)?
Potential sponsors
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.
Server Admin
Mail was temporarily blocked when /var hit 100%
Stan R. moved large backup file to /spare directory.
Craig B. created script to notify when mail spool exceeded 90 %
Mike Knight resolved problem with Membership JOIN page and Volunteer page
Stan R. made temporary revision of Membership JOIN page
Server Intrusion and Rebuild
Server Migration Project
Website Libraries
SLACC as a SIG
Noel asked that we allow current email users to keep their SLACC.com email addresses.
The registration is paid up until 2009.
Carl - follow up with Noel about transferring the domain to us.
Membership (and Shell Accounts)
An Ubuntu Group
Security Group
Has not had a meeting in the past x months.
Steering Committee has declared the group "in hiatus".
Gary will start a thread on DISCUSS.
Manage The Group
Other Old Business
New Business
Blue Sky
Follow-up and Action Items
Carl, Lee - Need to print out name tags for paying members.
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.
Craig - Follow up w/ Jason Clark about doing back-to-back nights in May.
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.
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Stan - Link new membership page into SLUUG web site.
Gary - Prepare Sun E250 for potential use.
Everyone - Talk to someone about coming to meetings.
Everyone - Talk to someone about sponsorships.
Everyone - Talk to someone about giving a presentation.