PLUG Committee Minutes 2025-08-19
Meeting opened 19:39 PM
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Attendees
- Present: James, Nick, Dan, Harry
- Apologies:
- Absent: Wyatt, Paul
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Minutes of last committee meeting:
- https://www.plug.org.au/events/committee/2025/07-15/
- Proposed by James, seconded by Nick. Passed without dissent.
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Next Meeting: Tuesday 2025-09-16
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Reports
- Financials
- Bendigo bank status at 2025-08-19
- Main 2-to-sign: $2,520.87
- Business basic/Debit Card: $101.88
- Cashbox: Paul to recount and confirm how much.
- Artifactory invoice #1015800 on 2025-08-06 for Meetup.com share: $153.25
- Financials
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Specific Business
- ACTIONS: Who / What / When / With(Action-Buddy)
- ACTION: TODO: James, buddy Nick: https://github.com/plugorgau/calendar-check
- No action
- ACTION: TODO: Submit our NFP self report under the category of “Scientific Association”.
- James lodged 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 self reviews.
- ACTION: TODO: Harry: Confirm if Wyatt has access to WA Commerce now?
- No action
- ACTION: TODO: James to ask BendigoBank to add our ABN as a PayID
- No action
- ACTION: TODO: Wyatt gets a Bendigo customer#?
- No action
- ACTION: add Paul as an associate to the ABN
- No action
- ACTION: The list of contacts for our ABN need to be updated. At the moment they seem to reflect the 2011 committee.
- No action
- ACTION: The contact address for the ABN needs to be updated.
- No action
- ACTION: James to send message to Benjamin about decomissioning
edison
- James emailed Benjamin. Offered to extend his membership in recognition of Digital Ocean payments.
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Events
- Review events:
- July 2025
- PLUG-in-the-Pub 2025-07-30: Gosnells Hotel
- https://www.gosnellshotel.com.au
- 6 attendees, 4 regulars.
- PLUG-in-the-Pub 2025-07-30: Gosnells Hotel
- August 2025
- PLUG+POSH 2025-08-10:
- 8 attendees, 4 regulars.
- PLUG+POSH 2025-08-10:
- July 2025
- Upcoming Events
- August 2025
- Saturday 2025-08-23 Installfest
- Running at Collins St Centre in collaboration with JAFWA
- https://www.plug.org.au/installfest
- Help offers - Karl, Roy
- ubuntu, debian xfce-kde-gnome, mint cinnamon-mate-xfce
- add fedora
- Extended booking 2 hours. Cost will be $40.
- Tasks: write waiver, poster(h?), write USBs
- Gear outstanding
- Equipment to bring:
- Harry: microserver, gaffer tape, texta
- James: 8 port switch, ethernet cables, power board
- Nick: Beryl, 20m extension, 8 port PoE switch
- ???: 16 port switch if we can get it
- phone with data plan
- Saturday 2025-08-23 Installfest
- September
- PLUG+POSH Sunday 2025-09-14 12:00
- Focus: get email working on
iec.plug.org.au
?
- Focus: get email working on
- Saturday 2025-09-20 16:30 PLUG-in-the-Pub at piratebar.net, Mount Hawthorn
- PLUG+POSH Sunday 2025-09-14 12:00
- October
- November
- PLUG-in-the-Pub
- December - BBQ?
- January 2026 - AGM?
- Future events
- Dean’s talk: IPv6? https://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2025-April/011841.html
- 2025-07-24 Happy to plug PLUG
- virtualised pfsense by Jasper
- DFD, HFD, SFD https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd
- John McCabe-Dansted: Workshop or workshops: 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.
- Dean’s talk: IPv6? https://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2025-April/011841.html
- August 2025
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General business
- ACTION: James to email plug@ about venue situation.
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Meeting finished at 21:01 PM