PLUG Committee Minutes 2025-07-15

Meeting opened 19:53 PM

1. Attendees

   • Present:
     • James
     • Harry
     • Nick
   • Apologies:
   • Absent:

2. Minutes of last committee meeting:

   • https://www.plug.org.au/events/committee/2025/06-17/
   • Proposed by James, seconded by Harry. Passed without dissent.

3. Next Meeting: Tuesday 2025-08-19

4. Reports

   • Financials
     • Bendigo bank status at 2025-07-15
     • Main 2-to-sign: $2,450.87
     • Business basic/Debit Card: $153.01
     • 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 action
   • ACTION: TODO: Submit our NFP self report under the category of “Scientific Association”.
     • No action, James to send in.
   • ACTION: TODO: Harry: Confirm if Wyatt has access to WA Commerce now?
     • No action
   • ACTION: TODO: James to ask BendigoBank to add our ABN as a PayID
     • No action
   • ACTION: TODO: Wyatt gets a Bendigo customer#?
     • No action
   • ACTION: add Paul as an associate to the ABN
     • No action
   • ACTION: The list of contacts for our ABN need to be updated. At the moment they seem to reflect the 2011 committee.
     • No action
   • ACTION: The contact address for the ABN needs to be updated.
     • No action

6. Events

• Review events:
  • June 2025
    • 2025-06-21: Scope out Collins Street Centre
  • July 2025
    • Second Tuesday 2025-07-08:
      • Event was cancelled due to losing access to SpaceCubed as a venue
    • PLUG+POSH 2025-07-13:
      • Four attendees: Nick, James H, Roy, and James S.
      • James started looking at getting UGMM working on modern systems (again).
• Upcoming Events
  • July 2025
    • PLUG-in-the-Pub 2025-07-30: Gosnells Hotel
      • https://www.gosnellshotel.com.au
  • August 2025
    • Second Tuesday 2025-08-12?
      • Probably needs to be cancelled due to venue access, and in favour of Installfest.
    • Saturday 2025-08-23 Installfest?
      • Still need to secure venue.
  • September 2025
    • Move PLUG-in-the-Pub to piratebar.net, Mount Hawthorn
      • maybe on Software Freedom Day
      • (consideration of Pirate Life, Murray St; Darling Darling Fremantle & pub crawl)
  • Future events
    • Dean’s talk: IPv6? https://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2025-April/011841.html
    • 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.

8. General business

   • ACTION: James to send message to Benjamin about decomissioning edison
     • Droplet is now destroyed and reserved IP is unassigned

9. Meeting finished at 20:28 PM