PLUG Committee Minutes 2025-11-18

Meeting opened 19:59 PM

Attendees
- Present: Dan, James, Harry, Nick
- Apologies: Wyatt
- Absent: Paul
Minutes of last committee meeting:
- https://www.plug.org.au/events/committee/2025/10-21/
- Proposed by Nick, seconded by Harry. Passed without dissent
Next Meeting: AGM, subject to venue
- Next Committee meeting Tuesday 2026-01-20?
Reports
- Financials
  - Bendigo bank status at 2025-11-18
  - Main 2-to-sign: $2,237.62
  - Business basic/Debit Card: $141.56
  - Cashbox: Paul to recount and confirm how much.
- Membership at 2025-11-18
  - 23 current members (+0)
  - 5 overdue members (+3)
  - 1 renewal this month (+0)
Specific Business
- ACTIONS: Who / What / When / With(Action-Buddy)
- 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
- ACTION: James to reply to “Expression of Interest - Perth WA - Everything Open & PyCon AU”
  - No action
Events

Review events:
- November 2025
  - Sunday 2025-11-09 PLUG+POSH
    - 5 attendees.
  - Monday 2025-11-10 John McCabe-Dansted: Workshop or workshops: home backups server: Raspi 0W, Samba, BTRFS snapshots
    - 6 attendees
    - Reset PLUG wifi, also used phone internet
Upcoming Events
- November 2025
  - Saturday 2025-11-22 Installfest
    - Collins Street Centre
    - Harry and Nick have successfully tested a 5GHz point-to-point wifi uplink
    - Any change to choice of live USBs ?
    - Harry to install IRC server
  - Wednesday 2025-11-26 PLUG-in-the-Pub, The Island at Elizabeth Quay
    - Book table?
- December 2025
  - BBQ on second Sunday 2025-12-14 11:00?
    - Target: 12 attendees, pending more RSVPs
    - Consider inviting past committee members and other lapsed members
      - ACTION: Nick, James, Dan?
    - Need to advertise on Calendar/MeetUp now. Organise actual event next month
    - To bring:
      - James: sausages+onions+sauce
      - Dan: ice+esky
      - Nick: Drinks+bread
- January 2026
  - Second Sunday PLUG+POSH?
  - AGM: 2026-01-13 18:00 to 20:00 - date subject to venue availability
    - Hire a room at Collins St Centre, South Perth? $20/hour? plus deposit
    - Try to organise with UWA again? Hire a room? Space for 50 in the upstairs room.
    - Need to have a venue where we can at least hold elections.
    - Benjamin Lupton is willing to be a speaker
    - Need a projector? Large monitor?
    - ACTION: (jamesh): update members@ subscriber list. Make sure we call for nominations in the announcement.
      - plus meetup.com event
  - PLUG-in-the-Pub
    - Rockingham? or
    - Phat Brew, City West as a fallback
- February 2026
  - Second Sunday PLUG+POSH?
  - Second Tuesday? Raspberry Jam/Microbackup workshop encore
- March 2026
  - Second Sunday PLUG+POSH?
  - Installfest?
  - PLUG-in-the-Pub
    - March: Irish pub? JB O’Reilly’s?
- April 2026
  - Resolute Raccoon!
- Future events
  - Round-table discussion:
    - Set a topic, structured theme, hedgedoc with conversation starter ideas
    - Promising format
  - Onno: mentioned hosting a meetup to discuss what members want from PLUG
  - Dean’s talk: IPv6? https://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2025-April/011841.html
    - 2025-07-24 Happy to plug PLUG
  - virtualised pfsense by Jasper
  - DFD, HFD, SFD https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd
  - Release parties: Ubuntu, Debian, more…
  - Quiz night suggested by Paul
  - Kings Park BBQ by Paul
  - Installfest Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora others.
    - Regular venue at Collins St Centre, South Perth with JAFWA?

General business
Meeting finished at 21:07 PM