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title: PLUG Committee Minutes 2025-11-18
date: 2025-11-18
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Meeting opened 19:59 PM
1. Attendees
* Present: Dan, James, Harry, Nick
* Apologies: Wyatt
* Absent: Paul

2. Minutes of last committee meeting:
- https://www.plug.org.au/events/committee/2025/10-21/
- Proposed by Nick, seconded by Harry. Passed without dissent
3. Next Meeting: AGM, subject to venue
- Next Committee meeting Tuesday 2026-01-20?
4. Reports
* Financials
* Bendigo bank status at 2025-11-18
* Main 2-to-sign: $2,237.62
* Business basic/Debit Card: $141.56
* Cashbox: Paul to recount and confirm how much.
* Membership at 2025-11-18
* 23 current members (+0)
* 5 overdue members (+3)
* 1 renewal this month (+0)

5. Specific Business
- ACTIONS: Who / What / When / With(Action-Buddy)
- 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 reply to "Expression of Interest - Perth WA - Everything Open & PyCon AU"
* No action

6. Events
* Review events:
* November 2025
* Sunday 2025-11-09 PLUG+POSH
* 5 attendees.
* Monday 2025-11-10 John McCabe-Dansted: Workshop or workshops: home backups server: Raspi 0W, Samba, BTRFS snapshots
* 6 attendees
* Reset PLUG wifi, also used phone internet
* Upcoming Events
* November 2025
* Saturday 2025-11-22 [Installfest](https://www.plug.org.au/events/2025/installfest_november/)
* Collins Street Centre
* Harry and Nick have successfully tested a 5GHz point-to-point wifi uplink
* Any change to choice of live USBs ?
* Harry to install IRC server
* Wednesday 2025-11-26 PLUG-in-the-Pub, The Island at Elizabeth Quay
* Book table?
* December 2025
* BBQ on second Sunday 2025-12-14 11:00?
* Target: 12 attendees, pending more RSVPs
* Consider inviting past committee members and other lapsed members
* ACTION: Nick, James, Dan?
* Need to advertise on Calendar/MeetUp now. Organise actual event next month
* To bring:
* James: sausages+onions+sauce
* Dan: ice+esky
* Nick: Drinks+bread
* January 2026
* Second Sunday PLUG+POSH?
* AGM: 2026-01-13 18:00 to 20:00 - date subject to venue availability
* Hire a room at Collins St Centre, South Perth? $20/hour? plus deposit
* Try to organise with UWA again? Hire a room? Space for 50 in the upstairs room.
* Need to have a venue where we can at least hold elections.
* Benjamin Lupton is willing to be a speaker
* Need a projector? Large monitor?
* ACTION: (jamesh): update members@ subscriber list. Make sure we call for nominations in the announcement.
* plus meetup.com event
* PLUG-in-the-Pub
* Rockingham? or
* Phat Brew, City West as a fallback
* February 2026
* Second Sunday PLUG+POSH?
* Second Tuesday? Raspberry Jam/Microbackup workshop encore
* March 2026
* Second Sunday PLUG+POSH?
* Installfest?
* PLUG-in-the-Pub
* March: Irish pub? JB O'Reilly's?
* April 2026
* Resolute Raccoon!
* Future events
* Round-table discussion:
* Set a topic, structured theme, hedgedoc with conversation starter ideas
* Promising format
* 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
* 2025-07-24 Happy to plug PLUG
* virtualised pfsense by Jasper
* DFD, HFD, SFD https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd
* Release parties: Ubuntu, Debian, 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?

7. General business

8. Meeting finished at 21:07 PM