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title: PLUG Committee Minutes 2025-09-16
date: 2025-09-16
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Meeting opened 19:45 PM
1. Attendees
* Present: James, Nick, Harry
* Apologies: Wyatt
* Absent: Paul, Dan

2. Minutes of last committee meeting:
- https://www.plug.org.au/events/committee/2025/08-19/
- Proposed by James, seconded by Nick. Passed unanimously.
3. Next Meeting: Tuesday 2025-10-21
4. Reports
* Financials
* Bendigo bank status at 2025-09-16
* Main 2-to-sign: $2,167.62
* Business basic/Debit Card: $250.47
* Cashbox: Paul to recount and confirm how much.
* Transferred $200 to the debit card account.

5. Specific Business
- ACTIONS: Who / What / When / With(Action-Buddy)
- ACTION: TODO: James, buddy Nick: https://github.com/plugorgau/calendar-check
- No action
- 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 email plug@ about venue situation.
* DONE: https://lists.plug.org.au/pipermail/plug/2025-September/085075.html plus posted to Matrix channel.
* No responses on list yet.
* See also General Business

6. Events
* Review events:
* August 2025
* Saturday 2025-08-23 Installfest
* Happened at Collins St Centre in collaboration with JAFWA
* https://www.plug.org.au/installfest
* 15 attendees
* Used phone for internet, bridged to Beryl router. Venue seems to be a bit of a coverage deadspot.
* ubuntu, debian xfce-kde-gnome, mint cinnamon-mate-xfce, fedora
* we still have all of the USB keys to reuse or rewrite
* Equipment to return:
* Harry has Brad Campbell's switch to return
* Harry has switch and wireless antenna from Karl (donation to PLUG)
* Harry has posters etc
* Ran in collaboration with JAFWA under their insurance. May be able to run future events at Collins St independently with LA insurance.
* Next time:
* Local chat; or connect to Matrix, OAUTH social logins available on Matrix.org
* Want people to connect with us on Matrix or list email after the event rather than give them emphemeral channels
* September
* PLUG+POSH Sunday 2025-09-14 12:00
* Focus: get email working on `iec.plug.org.au` ?
* 3 attendees
* todo: get online chat going! bring demo laptop?
* Upcoming Events
* September 2025
* Saturday 2025-09-20 16:30 PLUG-in-the-Pub at piratebar.net, Mount Hawthorn
* [Software Freedom Day](https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd)
* October 2025
* ACTION: Harry to ask Onno about round table and consult committee for Plug in the Pub
* November 2025
* Wednesday 2025-11-26 PLUG-in-the-Pub, The Island at Elizabeth Quay
* December 2025 - BBQ?
* BBQ on second Sunday 2025-12-14 11:00?
* Consider inviting past committee members and other lapsed members.
* January 2026 - AGM?
* Second Tuesday 2026-01-13 19:00?
* Need to have a venue where we can at least hold elections.
* 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

* 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.

7. General business
* Email from Business Events Perth, titled "Expression of Interest - Perth WA - Everything Open & PyCon AU"
* They are possibly offering [Business Event Funding](https://www.businesseventsperth.com/host-an-event/funding-incentives/business-event-funding/)
* No current bid underway from the PLUG members, but we are interested in anyone who is
* Also, contact [PythonWA](https://www.pythonwa.com/) directly
* ACTION: James to reply
* Venues
* List call out, as above
* UWA venues available for booking, when co-hosted by staff/students
* Pubs and function rooms: preferably PLUG-in-the-Pub schedule every second month
* November, or January - AGM time
* Server migration still going slowly.
* Tackling SMTP, which is required for migrating mailing lists and ugmm. Posted plans to admin@ list.
* http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/admin/2025-September/012205.html

8. Meeting finished at 21:05 PM