Meeting opened 19:30pm

  1. Attendees
    • Present: Wyatt, Nick, James, Steve
    • Apologies:
    • Absent: Paul, Benjamin, Terry
  • Call around

  1. Minutes of last committee meeting: https://www.plug.org.au/events/committee/2026/07-21/

  2. Next Committee meeting

    • Due an in-person busybee
    • Combine with Monday 2026-09-14 event at UWA, see below
      • Event is scheduled 17:30–19:30
      • Venue: UWA EZone, Crawley
      • 17:30/18:00 Speaker’s talk
      • 19:00 Committee meeting, in-person
        • Email and phone to get confirmed RSVP’s
        • AGENDA: Fill out our events through to the AGM, and early 2027
      • Afterwards likely dinner crowd, nearby

  3. Reports

    • Financials at 2026-08-18
      • Main Bendigo Bank 2-to-sign: $2,900.23
      • Bendigo Bank Business basic/Debit Card: $103.09
      • 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
      • meetup.com invoice:
        • AU2026-18888 to the Perth Artifactory: billing cycle 2026-07-31–2027-01-31
          • Issued 2026-07-28, USD$196.89/6 months, inc. 10% tax
          • Paid: Artifactory INV-1019250 - PLUG MeetUp: AUD$155.97
    • Membership at 2026-08-18
      • 31 current members (+0)
      • 2 overdue members (0)
      • 0 renewal this month (-1)
      • 0 new members ()
      • 12 people at the last Talk

  4. Specific Business

    • Updates on previous business:
      • ACTION: Wyatt to Register Fediverse account for PLUG
        • No action yet. Deferring for now
      • ACTION: James to put together a half yearly finance report.
        • James imported bank and other data into Beancount, data stored as private Github repo
        • Found a few membership deposits that I can’t easily match with UGMM
        • Sent delayed receipts for PLUG Payment confirmation 829, 830

  5. Events

  • Review events:

    • August 2026
      • 2026-08-13: Security & Privacy in FOSS by Ben Hutton
        • Thursday 18:00 – 20:00
        • Was to be held in Bassendean Memorial Library, but we didn’t get the key in time. Went to restaurant close by as a backup
        • Contingency plan! Reimbursement paid: $30 to Steve S

  • Upcoming Events

    • September 2026

    • October 2026

      • Tuesday 2026-10-06T1730–18:45
        • Cannington Library meetup
        • Host: ??
      • 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
        • SteveS: venue suggestion?
      • Weekend 2026-12-05/Sun 06? 12/Sun 13?
      • then hack afternoon?

    • January 2027

      • AGM: Pick a venue
        • Tuesday 2027-01-12? (nudgeable if beneficial at that venue)

  • 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 20:29 PM