PLUG Committee Minutes 2026-06-18

Meeting opened 19:33pm

1. Attendees

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

2. Minutes of last committee meeting: https://www.plug.org.au/events/committee/2026/05-26/

3. Next Committee meeting Tuesday 2026-07-21

   • Online BBB

4. Reports

   • Financials at 2026-06-18
     • Main Bendigo Bank 2-to-sign: $2,300.23
     • Bendigo Bank Business basic/Debit Card: $249.10
     • 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 2026-06-18
     • 32 current members (+2)
     • 3 overdue members (-1)
     • 3 renewal this month (+0)
     • 3 new members (+1)
     • 7 people at the last Talk

5. Specific Business

   • Updates on previous business:

     • ACTION: Wyatt to SEEK association Status with LA.

       • ACTIONED

     • ACTION: Wyatt to Register Instagram account for PLUG

       • Account created: https://www.instagram.com/plugorgau/
       • Meta Business portfolio linking with FB page is

     • ACTION: Wyatt to Register Fediverse account for PLUG

       • No action yet. Deferring for now.

     • ACTION: Wyatt to Register SEEK account for PLUG

       • No action yet, will sort after looking into Jobseeker.

     • ACTION: Wyatt to begin recruiting and rostering volunteers

       • No action yet, will sort after looking into Jobseeker..

6. Events

• Review events:

  • May 2026
    • Busybee 2026-05-26:
      • One member (Damien), resulted in a UGMM pull request: https://github.com/plugorgau/ugmm/pull/67
  • June 2026
    • Cannington Library 2026-06-02:
      • 7 participants. Talk in importance of tech advocacy
    • Cannington Library 2026-06-16:
      • 5 participants. Installfest/busybee

• Upcoming Events

  • 2026-06-20 Installfest Saturday (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

  • Tuesday 2026-06-30: Community Group

    • Tuesday 2026-06-30 17:30–18:30
    • Cannington Library
    • ACTION: Wyatt to confirm or delete

  • July 2026

    • 2026-07-09: Plug in the Pub at Planet Royale
      • 12 Lake St (near Roe St) Northbridge
      • Thursdays $25 card/unlimited games

  • August 2026

  • September 2026

    • Adam Sparks Open Source Tools for Research 14th September 17:30pm
    • Question: As of 2026-06-18, Steve says Ben Hutton could present - When - September? Which venue?

  • 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

    • Tuesday 2026-11-0T15:00 Rust in Game Development at Retroworld, 134 Oats St, East Victoria Park

  • 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:

7. General business

   • Sponsorship drive
     • for a particular event?
     • display on https://www.plug.org.au/sponsors/

8. Meeting finished at 20:34 PM