Meeting opened 19:45 PM

  1. Attendees

    • Present:
      • James
      • Nick
      • Harry
      • Paul
    • Apologies:
    • Absent:
      • Dan
      • Wyatt

  2. Minutes of last committee meeting:

  3. Next Meeting: Tuesday 2025-07-15

  4. Reports

    • Financials
      • Bendigo bank status at 2025-06-17
      • Main 2-to-sign: $2,250.87
      • Business basic/Debit Card: $213.56
      • Cashbox: Paul to recount and confirm how much.

  5. Specific Business

    • ACTIONS: Who / What / When / With(Action-Buddy)
    • ACTION: TODO: James, buddy Nick: https://github.com/plugorgau/calendar-check
      • No progress.
    • ACTION: TODO: Upgrade James’ myID to Strong and lodge. Need to discover how to regain control of organisation.
      • James H now has access to the PLUG ABN. Other associates on file were James B and Peter’s executor. Contacts appeared to be the 2011 committee.
      • Need to sort out adding new associates and update contact details.
      • Paul happy to be added as associate.
    • ACTION: TODO: Submit our NFP self report under the category of “Scientific Association”.
      • Thanks please the Committee says yes please proceed and No 5 No Charitable purposes.
    • ACTION: TODO: Harry: Confirm if Wyatt has access to WA Commerce now?
      • No progress.
    • ACTION: TODO: James to ask BendigoBank to add our ABN as a PayID
      • No progress.
    • ACTION: TODO: Wyatt gets a Bendigo customer#?
      • No progress.

  6. Events

  • Review events:
    • May 2025
      • 2025-05-28 18:00: PLUG in the Pub at The Island, Elizabeth Quay
        • Well attended.
    • June 2025
      • Second Sunday 2025-06-08
        • PLUG+POSH
          • Well attended: Nick, James, Harry, Dan, James S, Mark W.
          • Fixed immediate borgbackup problems, but likely to break without upgrading sshd
          • Talked about upgrading the server. James put together a proposal here: https://hackmd.io/hWc4sXeRRkymUlWI21Adtw
          • Focus: migrate server to new Debian? Backup run, may not work in future
      • Second Tuesday 2025-06-10
        • James: talk: VLANs
          • James didn’t get round to advertising the talk well, but got moderate attendance.
          • We were in a small conference room at SpaceCubed, and did not bother setting up recording.
          • Seemed to go pretty well.
  • Upcoming Events
    • June 2025
    • July 2025
      • Second Tuesday 2025-07-08:
        • ACTION: James to check if Jasper is interested in giving his pfsense presentation as a July talk.
          • Sent message on Matrix on 2025-06-17. Waiting for response.
          • In person at last event he seemed to be interested.
      • PLUG+POSH 2025-07-13:
        • Confirm if we should cancel because of resources?
      • PLUG-in-the-Pub 2025-07-30: Gosnells Hotel
    • August 2025
    • September 2025
      • Move PLUG-in-the-Pub to piratebar.com.au, Mount Hawthorn
        • maybe on Software Freedom Day
        • (consideration of Pirate Life, Murray St; Darling Darling Fremantle & pub crawl)
    • Future events
      • virtualised pfsense by Jasper
      • DFD, HFD, SFD https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd
      • John McCabe-Dansted: Workshop or workshops: home backups server: Raspi 0W, Samba, BTRFS snapshots
      • Release parties: Ubuntu, Debian, more…
      • Quiz night suggested by Paul
      • Kings Park BBQ by Paul
      • Installfest Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora others.

  1. General business

    • Now that we’ve got access to our ABN again, we need to add more associates so there is a backup in future.
      • Paul offered to become an associate. Follow offline later.
    • The list of contacts for our ABN need to be updated. At the moment they seem to reflect the 2011 committee.
    • The contact address for the ABN needs to be updated.

  2. Meeting finished at 21:00 PM