0. Opening

  • Meeting opened by Niall at 19:38 PM
    • VENUE: Online
  • Present: Nick, Niall, James, Sarah
  • Apologies:
  • Absent: Lochy, Dan, Ben
  • Guest:

1. Confirmation of Previous Minutes

2. Next Committee Meeting

3. Reports & Standing Items

  • Financial Situation

    • Balances:
      • Cash box (at Peter’s)
        • $679.10 current, $598.95 start of year ($446.30 start 2022)
      • Business Debit Card
        • $128.90
      • Bank Balance
        • $2872.25

  • Membership Situation as of 2024-03-19

    • ? new members, ? returned, ? renewals
      • Need to nudge new attendees towards formal financial membership
    • Current Paid Members 26, was 25 at AGM
    • Expired Members 333, was 332 at AGM
    • Members on meetup.com 547, was 472 at AGM

4. Events Status

  • Review of recent events:

    • February 2024
      • Second Sunday 2024-02-11 PLUG+POSH@Artifactory
      • Second Tuesday 2024-02-13
        • We got confirmation for venue at SpaceCubed, but need a SC member as sponsor.
        • Dan contacted Alastair: he is OK with being our venue contact (email 2024-02-13)
          • yes!
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:48:22 +0800
From: Dan Buzzard <dan@danscomp.net>
To: committee@plug.org.au
Subject: [plug-ctte] Fwd: Re: PLUG contact for Spacecubed

From: Alastair Irvine <alastair@al.id.au>
To: Dan Buzzard <dan@danscomp.net>
Subject: Re: PLUG contact for Spacecubed
Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2024 12:05 AM

On Tue, 13 February, 2024 at 08:43:09PM +0800, Dan Buzzard wrote:
> Hi Alastair,
>
> I'm writing to you on behalf of the Perth Linux Users Group to find out if you'd be willing to become our contact for Spacecubed? We need a current Spacecubed member to act as our contact in order to continue receiving our spacecubed venue hire.
>
> Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, Dan.  Sure thing.

* Ops meeting, handover
      * TODO: Update website to reflect new membership prices

  • March 2024

  • Upcoming events:

    • March 2024

    • April 2024

      • Second Tuesday 2024-04-09
        • Workshop on Inkscape
        • Presented by John
      • Second Sunday 2024-04-14
        • T-shirt printing

    • May 2024

  • Future talks?

    • James: Emacs as an IDE / Language Server Protocol (maybe June?)
    • Margaret: EMACS-based UIs for database applications (not until 2023)
    • Yuchen: Haskell-code-explorer (unlikely to be ready in 2023)
    • Locutus: Ian Clarke (Contact)
    • Aidan - Graphics work (Confirm Sat 2024-01-20) (Not at this stage)

  • Other event info moved here for non actionable items. https://hackmd.io/O85j6jvpR8SlIKln1UD_AQ

5. General Business & Matters Arising

  • ACTION: Grants: AV? Linux Australia?
  • Ephemeral BBB instance, e.g. https://demo.bigbluebutton.org/gl/m-s-e73-zvh-5hy but with our own single-meeting build, run&record, download and teardown workflow
  • update mailing lists: moderators
    • admin/committee busybee items: get people using bulk actions on mailing lists
  • ACTION: Purchase a smaller/lighter cashbox, suitable for bringing to meetings.

6. New General Business

  • Committee handover

    • Bank
      • Update signatories (add James)
      • Add PayID: Sarah: in bank when collecting her card. Cannot set up in app.
      • ACTION: Sarah: Pickup cashbox, GNUcash records
    • ACTION: Update PLUG addresses + update the address associated with the ABN (via ATO.gov.au?), ASIC (N.B. BenjaminA’s new address)
      • ABN Search shows current address at postcode 6153
    • ACTION: Niall: Set AWS address: To Niall’s place
    • ACTION: Nick: rsync.net new card
    • Mailing list management. Niall working on it.
    • Membership processing

  • Infra

    • Deploy membership pricing: website, UGMM

  • AVnode1

    • laptop upgraded, TODO: revert to non-HWE for graphics support

7. Meeting closed by Niall at 20:39