Meeting opened 19:45 PM

  1. Attendees

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

  2. Minutes of last committee meeting:

  3. Next Meeting: Tuesday 2025-10-21

  4. Reports

    • Financials
      • Bendigo bank status at 2025-09-16
      • Main 2-to-sign: $2,167.62
      • Business basic/Debit Card: $250.47
      • Cashbox: Paul to recount and confirm how much.
    • Transferred $200 to the debit card account.

  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: 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:

    • August 2025
      • Saturday 2025-08-23 Installfest
        • Happened at Collins St Centre in collaboration with JAFWA
        • https://www.plug.org.au/installfest
        • 15 attendees
        • Used phone for internet, bridged to Beryl router. Venue seems to be a bit of a coverage deadspot.
        • ubuntu, debian xfce-kde-gnome, mint cinnamon-mate-xfce, fedora
        • we still have all of the USB keys to reuse or rewrite
        • Equipment to return:
          • Harry has Brad Campbell’s switch to return
          • Harry has switch and wireless antenna from Karl (donation to PLUG)
          • Harry has posters etc
        • Ran in collaboration with JAFWA under their insurance. May be able to run future events at Collins St independently with LA insurance.
        • Next time:
          • Local chat; or connect to Matrix, OAUTH social logins available on Matrix.org
          • Want people to connect with us on Matrix or list email after the event rather than give them emphemeral channels
    • September
      • PLUG+POSH Sunday 2025-09-14 12:00
        • Focus: get email working on iec.plug.org.au ?
        • 3 attendees
        • todo: get online chat going! bring demo laptop?

  • Upcoming Events

    • September 2025
    • October 2025 * ACTION: Harry to ask Onno about round table and consult committee for Plug in the Pub
    • November 2025
      • Wednesday 2025-11-26 PLUG-in-the-Pub, The Island at Elizabeth Quay
    • December 2025 - BBQ?
      • BBQ on second Sunday 2025-12-14 11:00?
        • Consider inviting past committee members and other lapsed members.
    • January 2026 - AGM?
      • Second Tuesday 2026-01-13 19:00?
      • Need to have a venue where we can at least hold elections.
    • Future events

  • 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
  • Email from Business Events Perth, titled “Expression of Interest - Perth WA - Everything Open & PyCon AU”
    • They are possibly offering Business Event Funding
    • No current bid underway from the PLUG members, but we are interested in anyone who is
    • Also, contact PythonWA directly
    • ACTION: James to reply
  • Venues
    • List call out, as above
    • UWA venues available for booking, when co-hosted by staff/students
    • Pubs and function rooms: preferably PLUG-in-the-Pub schedule every second month
      • November, or January - AGM time
  • Server migration still going slowly.
  1. Meeting finished at 21:05 PM