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title: PLUG Committee Minutes 2026-04-21
date: 2026-04-21
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Meeting opened 18:30 PM
1. Attendees
* Present: Wyatt, James, Steve, Nick
* Apologies: Terry
* Absent: Ben

2. Minutes of last committee meeting:
- https://www.plug.org.au/events/committee/
- Not yet published
ACTION: Wyatt to Upload and update Minutes on website.
3. Next Committee meeting Tuesday 2026-05-19
- Event Type and Place:
- 17:00pm--18:30pm
- brief meeting to follow procedure.
4. Reports
* Financials
* Bendigo Bank Business basic/Debit Card: $88.87
* Main Account: $2222.23
* Cashbox: ACTION: Paul $534 [as of 2026-01-20](https://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2026-January/012269.html), give to Terry for depositing
* Membership at 2026-03-17
* 29 current members (+3)
* 3 overdue members (+0)
* 1 renewal this month (+1)
* 1 new member (+2)
* 18 people at the last Talk

5. Specific Business

- Promoting Socials: James has set up Luma and is looking to running that and potentially replacing meetup in the future.
- DONE: Anyone who knows an IT workplace that is worth reaching out to for tours or as a venue can go into the [list of venues spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yRKy9xZxra5-bpzPcscuEds4r2axxmh8PoaTxo1jn30/edit?usp=sharing)
- Discussing

- ACTIONS: Who / What / When / With(Action-Buddy)

- ACTION: TODO: James to ask BendigoBank to add our ABN as a PayID
- No action
- ACTION: add Paul as an associate to the ABN
- James to add Committee members details to ABN.
- ACTION: The list of contacts for our ABN need to be updated. At the moment they seem to reflect the 2011 committee.
- ACTION: James and Wyatt to sort out adding Wyatt.
- James to ask Terry
- ACTION: The contact address for the ABN needs to be updated.
- James to action without issue.

6. Events
* Review events:
* March 2026
* Second Sunday 2026-03-08 PLUG+POSH
* Nick+James+Wyatt
* PLUG-in-the-Pub
* Wed 2026-03-11 March: Durty Nelly's, Shafto Lane, CBD Perth. 6pm.
* Committee Meeting Tuesday 17th.
* Installfest
* Sat 2026-03-28 Summary:
* Harry set up event without issue. Confirmed with Harry and Drew the next couple Installfests, subject to change, so keep in contact with Drew closer to the dates.
* June 20th, 12:30-14:00
* October 31st, 12:30-16:30
* As JAFWA covered the Venue costs, I waived fees for those involved, so attendees only needed to pay $5 for JAFWA event cost.
* Recieved a $20 cash donation from someone named Dale. I pocketed the cash and sent $20 to the PLUG bank account.
* WYATT - Given access to socials, made a facebook post about the event to test facebook access.

* April 2026
* Second Sunday 2026-04-12 PLUG+POSH
* Hack Day for April, Wyatt and Nick to correspond by email (cc Committee) to organise hack day.
Operating Systems,
* Talk: 16th April at 6:30pm, by Ben Hutton, Software Engineer
* DONE: Confirm Venue by Friday - Bassendean Library
* Talk: good and bad (with lessons learned) with open source
* Committee Meeting and BusyBee: April 21st
* Upcoming Events
* May 2026
* Tuesday 2026-05-12 6-8PM. Phat Brew, City West
* ("40 people is a small group!")
* Added in Meetup
* Cannington Library Talks/installfests
* Events Officer at Cannington Library has allowed us to trial events there. Every second Tuesday in May and June. They will add us to their Groups and Clubs webpage
* Talk: Tuesday 5 or 12 17:30-18:30pm
* Talk: Explain Linux and encourage people to bring devices to Installfest?
* Cannington Library
* Installfest: Tuesday 19 or 26 17:30-18:30pm
* Installfest?
* Cannington Library
* June 2026

* Talk
* Tuesday 9 or 16 17:30-18:30
* Cannington Library
* Installfest Saturday 2026-06-20 (backup & restore demo?)
* Installfest
* Sat 2026-06-20
* With JAFWA at Colins Street Centre
* Organised by Harry.
* Check in on Drew and Harry closer to the event.
* Talk/Installfest
* Tuesday 23 or 30 17:30-18:30
* Cannington Library
* July 2026
* Vincent Library Talk: What are Operating Systems?
* 7th or 14th July, 10:30-12:30pm
* Vincent Library Installfest: Daily Driver OSs
* 21st or 28th of July, 10:30-12:30pm
* Thursday 9th July. 6:30-8:30pm
* Planet Royale, 12 Lake St (near Roe St) Northbridge, Thursdays $25 card/unlimited games
* August 2026
* September 2026
* 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
* December 2026
* Xmas BBQ
* January 2027
* Future events
* Potential venues
* [spreadsheet of venues here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yRKy9xZxra5-bpzPcscuEds4r2axxmh8PoaTxo1jn30/edit?usp=sharing)
*Talks being organised
* David Gow: Retro Linux Gaming
* Wyatt organising Event
* Seeing if it can be held at Retro World. Owner, Ian, interested.
* Talk Ideas
* FE: Stephen mentioned knows a Principal Software Engineer
* Stephen confirmed PSE is interested in talking, getting ben to Provide list of topics.
* FE: David mentioned he can ask his boss if he would like to host a talk about anything. Background in security.

* DFD, HFD, SFD, public calendar on https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd
* DFD Wed 2026-03-25
* HFD Sat 2026-04-18
* SFD/ITLAPD Sat 2026-09-19
* Round-table discussion:
* Set a topic, structured theme, hedgedoc/hackmd with conversation starter ideas
* Onno: mentioned hosting a meetup to discuss what members want from PLUG
* Dean's talk: IPv6? https://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2025-April/011841.html
* 2026-02-12 Happy to plug PLUG
* virtualised pfsense by Jasper
* Release parties: GNOME 50 2026-03? Ubuntu 2026-04 "Resolute Raccoon" / Fedora 44 2026-04-14? / Ubuntu 2026-10 , Debian 2027-06?, more...
* Quiz night suggested by Paul
* Kings Park BBQ by Paul
* Installfest Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora others.
* Regular venue at Collins St Centre, South Perth with JAFWA?
* CTF team entry

7. General business

8. Meeting finished at 20:xx PM