--- # System prepended metadata title: PLUG Committee Minutes 2026-03-17 tags: [committee] --- --- title: PLUG Committee Minutes 2026-04-21 date: 2026-04-21 --- 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 ) * 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