Meeting opened 19:00pm

  1. Attendees

    • Present: Wyatt, Nick, James, Steve
    • Apologies: Terry
    • Absent: Paul, Benjamin
    • Guests: Damien

  2. Minutes of last committee meeting: https://hackmd.io/@plug/S1e_cywtkg

  3. Next Committee meeting Tuesday 2026-06-18

  4. Reports

    • Financials
      • Main Bendigo Bank 2-to-sign: $2,292.23
      • Bendigo Bank Business basic/Debit Card: $88.87
      • Cashbox: ACTION: Paul $534 as of 2026-01-20, give to Terry for depositing
      • Members ACTION: Wyatt to get new members email to complete membership
    • Membership at 2026-03-17
      • 30 current members (+1)
      • 4 overdue members (+1)
      • 3 renewal this month (+3)
      • 2 new member (+2)
      • 11 people at the last Talk

  5. Specific Business

    1. Contact Linux Australia to create a formal association agreement with PLUG
    • Benefits:
    • This will give us access to insurance, such that we can complete a verification of volunteer work form, allowing people to fufil Jobseeker obligations with us
    • Limitations:
    • Namely we must:
      • Seek Authorisation when we change how we function.
      • Have a privacy Policy for collecting personal info.
        • Wyatt Willing to action
      • Be bound by LA Constitution.
      • Keep LA updated on board members details.
    • ACTION: Wyatt to SEEK association Status with LA.

    1. ACTION: Wyatt to Register the following Accounts for PLUG:

      • Instagram: To promote events
      • Fediverse: To Promote Events
      • SEEK: To recruit Volunteers.

    2. ACTION: Wyatt to begin recruiting and rostering volunteers.

  6. Events

  • Review events:

    • May 2026
      • Tuesday 2026-05-12 6-8PM. Phat Brew, City West
        • About 10 people attended, 3 familiar faces
        • Pool table cost $3.50 to play
          • ACTION: Steve to be the contact number for PIP Events.
    • Cannington Library Talks/installfests
      • Tuesday 2026-05-05: 11 attendees
    • Retroworld, Carlisle Saturday 2026-05-16
      • 7 attendees
      • Great venue, we should make/bring a coreflute sign?
    • Cannington Library Installfest: Tuesday 2026-05-19 17:30–18:30pm * 4 attendees * 2 Linux installations

  • Upcoming Events

    • June 2026

      • Talk
        • Tuesday 9 or 16 17:30–18:30
        • Cannington Library
      • Installfest Saturday 2026-06-20 (backup & restore demo?)
        • Installfest
          • Sat 2026-06-20 10:30–16:00
            • With JAFWA at the Collins Street Centre
            • Organised by Harry
            • Check in on Drew and Harry closer to the event
      • Talk/Installfest
        • Tuesday 23 or 30 17:30–18:30
        • Cannington Library

    • July 2026

      • Vincent Library Talk: What are Operating Systems?
        • 7th or 14th July, 10:30–12:30pm
      • Vincent Library Installfest: Daily Driver OSs
        • 21st or 28th of July, 10:30–12:30pm
        • Thursday 9th July, 6:30-8:30pm
        • Planet Royale, 12 Lake St (near Roe St) Northbridge, Thursdays $25 card/unlimited games

    • August 2026

    • September 2026

    • October 2026

      • Installfest
        • Saturday 2026-10-31
        • Sharing space with JAFWA, confirm with Drew closer to event.
        • Harry Organising Event
        • (halloween! anniversary of endof10.org http://endof10.org )
        • Lined up with prospective JAFWA event at Collins Street Centre but not Guaranteed that they will hold an event at the same time.
        • Theme around end of windows 10. Encourage people to bring old Windows 10 laptops to install modern Linux.

    • November 2026

    • December 2026

      • Xmas BBQ

    • January 2027

  • Future events

    • Potential venues

      • July Talk: MCP Server @ UNDECIDED W/ John Clema
      • August Talk: Rust @ UWA w/ John Vandenburg
      • September 14th Talk: FOSS Research tools @ Curtin w/Adam Sparks
      • October/Nov Talk: Health system API @ UNDECIDED w/John Clema

    • DFD, HFD, SFD, public calendar on https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd

      • SFD/ITLAPD Sat 2026-09-19

    • Round-table discussion:

  1. General business

  2. Meeting finished at 08:15 PM