PLUG Committee Minutes 2025-05-20

Meeting opened 19:47 PM

Attendees
- Present: Dan Buzzard, Harry McNally, James Henstridge, Nick Bannon
- Apologies: Wyatt Teakle
- Absent: Paul D.
Minutes of last committee meeting:
- https://www.plug.org.au/events/committee/2025/04-15/
- Proposed by Nick, seconded by James. Passed without dissent.
Next Meeting: Tuesday 2025-06-17
Reports
- Financials
  - Bendigo bank status at 2025-05-20
  - Main 2-to-sign: $2360.87
  - Business basic/Debit Card: $80.95
Specific Business
- ACTIONS: Who / What / When / With(Action-Buddy)
- ACTION: TODO: James, buddy Nick: https://github.com/plugorgau/calendar-check
  - No progress.
- ACTION: TODO: Upgrade James’ myID to Strong and lodge. Need to discover how to regain control of organisation.
  - Was contacted by the ATO. Informed that the forms were not sufficient because I had not been appointed as a “public officer”.
  - I will give this another go this month after getting appointed a public officer.
- ACTION: TODO: Submit our NFP self report under the category of “Scientific Association”.
  - Waiting on previous action item (need access to ABN).
- ACTION: TODO: Harry: Confirm if Wyatt has access to WA Commerce now?
  - Wyatt has not yet requested to join.
- ACTION: TODO: James to ask BendigoBank to add our ABN as a PayID
  - No progress.
- ACTION: TODO: Wyatt gets a Bendigo customer#?
  - No progress
Events

Review events:
- May 2025
  - Second Sunday 2025-05-11
    - PLUG+POSH
    - Quiet day, other venue activity going on
  - Second Tuesday 2025-05-13
    - Workshop/Installfest: BYO software or hardware installation, problems and work on your worries
      - Eight participants including Dan, Nick
Upcoming Events
- May 2025
  - 2025-05-28 18:00: PLUG in the Pub at The Island, Elizabeth Quay
    - RSVP: Hosts: Paul, Nick
  - ACTION: Paul, buddy Nick: email to plug@plug “What’s on for May”
- June 2025
  - Second Sunday 2025-06-08
    - PLUG+POSH
      - Hosts: Nick, James
      - Focus: migrate server to new Debian?
  - Second Tuesday 2025-06-10
    - James: talk: VLANs
      - Hosts: James, Dan
      - ACTION: Nick: get Spacecubed RFID to James
      - ACTION: James to fill in the calendar and Meetup.
      - Dan: drinks&ice
      - ??? light snacks
- July 2025
  - ACTION: James to check if Jasper is interested in giving his pfsense presentation as a July talk.
  - PLUG-in-the-Pub Gosnells Hotel https://www.gosnellshotel.com.au/
- August 2025
  - Dean’s talk: IPv6? https://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2025-April/011841.html
    - James and Nick to follow up with Dean to see if he can commit to this month?
- September 2025
  - Move PLUG-in-the-Pub to piratebar.com.au , Mount Hawthorn
    - maybe on Software Freedom Day
    - (consideration of Pirate Life, Murray St; Darling Darling Fremantle & pub crawl)
- Future events
  - virtualised pfsense by Jasper
  - DFD, HFD, SFD https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd
  - John McCabe-Dansted: Workshop: home backups server: Raspi 0W, Samba, BTRFS snapshots
  - Release parties: Ubuntu, Debian, more…
  - Quiz night suggested by Paul
  - Kings Park BBQ by Paul
  - Installfest Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora others.

General business
- To gain access to the PLUG ABN online via the Relationship Authorisation Manager, we must appoint someone as a public officer.
  - MOTION: The committee appoints James Henstridge as a public officer of the Perth Linux Users Group
    - Proposed by Nick, seconded by Harry. Passed unanimously.
Meeting finished at 20:47 PM