PLUG Annual General Meeting Minutes for 2021

• Venue: Spacecubed.com, 45 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000
• Time: Tuesday 12th January 2021 at 7:00 PM

Agenda

0. Opening.(Starting 7:00 PM sharp)
1. Confirmation of the Minutes of the 2020 AGM
2. Committee Reports. (Including accounts)
3. Election of 2020 Committee.
4. General Business.
5. Meeting Close.

0. Meeting Opening at 19:05 PM by NB

Attendance

• Nick Bannon
• James Henstridge
• Paul A
• Peter Lyons
• Margaret Wood
• Michael Collins
• Niall Navin
• Steve Schrader
• Sarah Allard Apologies
• Benjamin Arntzen
• Michel Nzikou

Nick: Thanks to our venue Sponsor: Spacecubed and thanks for the use of their “Riff” space for no cost. Come to the Open Week, starting Monday 2021-02-08: https://events.humanitix.com/spacecubed-open-week-intro-to-flex-working

1. Confirmation of the minutes of the previous AGM.

• https://plugorgau.github.io/events/AGM/2020/
• Moved by Nick and seconded by Margaret
• Passed without dissent.

2. Committee Reports.

1. President’s Report: (unable to attend)
2. Chair Report:
   • Thank you to the outgoing committee
   • 2020 was good to us, here in Perth! PLUG’s events continued as scheduled, with a few extra online showings - thanks to UCC’s BigBlueButton instance
   • We uploaded more seminar talks, James published a bbb-render to record the BBB streams to a single video file using gstreamer editing services - as used as GUADEC; and there have been community contributions to add start/end titles
3. Secretary Report:
   • Secretarys_Report-2021.pdf (37 KiB)
4. Treasurer’s Report:
   • Treasurers_Report-2020.pdf (179 KiB)

3. Election of 2021 Committee.

The Nominations are:

• Chairperson:
  • Benjamin - elected
  • Nick (withdrawn)
• Vice Chairperson:
  • Benjamin (elected to other position)
  • Nick (withdrawn)
  • Michel
  • Patrick - elected
• Secretary:
  • Nick (withdrawn)
  • Margaret - elected
  • Paul (withdrawn)
• Treasurer:
  • Nick
  • Peter - elected
  • Paul
• OCM:
  • Benjamin (elected to other position)
  • Nick - elected
  • Michel
  • Patrick (elected to other position)
  • Peter (elected to other position)
  • Margaret (elected to other position)
  • James - elected
  • Paul - elected

Election results:

• Chairperson: Benjamin Arntzen
• Vice Chairperson: Patrick Cody
• Secretary: Margaret Wood
• Treasurer: Peter Lyons
• OCM: Nick Bannon, Paul A, James Henstridge

4. General Business.

• Steve: put forward a thing for a car rally(scavenger type event). He wants to know what members to think, when and how much.
  • Sunday morning would be better and possibly in April.
  • $10-20 entry? BYO BBQ? PLUG banner?
• Michael: Every month or quarterly let’s have a jitsi party online to chat and catch up.
  • It’s free, come hang out online. Hosted by jitsi.perthchat.org!
• Peter: AV Hardware and Software refresh? HDMI Capture cards?

5. Meeting Close at 20:39 PM by NB