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title: Committee Agenda May 2026
date: 2026-05-19
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Meeting opened 17:30 PM
1. Attendees
* Present: Wyatt
* Apologies:
* Absent:

2. Minutes of last committee meeting:
https://hackmd.io/@plug/S1e_cywtkg

3. Next Committee meeting Tuesday 2026-05-19

4. Reports
* Financials
* Main Bendigo Bank 2-to-sign:
* Bendigo Bank Business basic/Debit Card: $128
* 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 (+0)
* 4 overdue members (+1)
* 3 renewal this month (+3)
* 2 new member (+2)
* 11 people at the last Talk

5. Specific Business

5.1. Approval to register the following Accounts for PLUG:
* Instagram: To promote events
* Fediverse: To Promote Events
* SEEK: To recruit Volunteers.

5.2. Approval to begin recruiting and rostering volunteers.
* [Roles and Responsibilities](/7qG427pgSUmNSGqodc8S1g)
6. Events
* Review events:
* 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
* 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

* Upcoming Events
* 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
* July Talk: MCP Server @ UNDECIDED W/ John Clema
* August Talk: Rust @ UWA w/ John Vandenburg
* September 14th Talk: FOSS Research tools @ Curtin w/Adam Sparks
* October/Nov Talk: Health system API @ UNDECIDED w/John Clema

* 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:

7. General business

8. Meeting finished at 08:45 PM