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title: PLUG Meeting Minutes 2019-08-20
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# PLUG Meeting Minutes 2019-08-20.

## 0. Opening
Meeting opened by Benjamin at 7:32 PM

Attendance:
* Present: Benjamin, James, Nick Bannon, Peter
* Apologies: Margaret, Paul, Michel
* Absent: None
* Guests/Observers: Lawrence

## 1. Confirmation of Previous Minutes.
MOTION: Proposed by Ben and Seconded by James, Nick Passed? Yes.
https://github.com/plugorgau/plugorgau.github.io/blob/master/_posts/minutes/2019-07-16-minutes.md

## 2. Reports & Standing Items.
* Financial Situation as of 20-08-2019 (Peter)
* Balances:
* Cash box
* $436.35 current, $252.55 start of year ($252.55 start 2018)
* Debit card(old)
* $40.86 current, $40.86 start of year ($40.86 start 2018)
* Load&Go(new)
* $0.00 current, $27.89 start of year ($161.21 start 2018)
* Bank Balance
* $2552.71 current, $2850.34 start of year ($3469.95 start 2018)
* Receivables
* $31.27 from expired Load&Go (new)
* Total Assets
* $3061.19 (was $3309.34 start of year) ($3924.57 start 2018)
* Statement:
* Income
* $0.00 this month, $120.00 last, $702.00 this year
* Expense
* $0.00 this month, $0.00 last, $904.15 this year
* Net Proceeds
* $0.00 this month, $120.00 last, ($202.15) this year
* Outstanding
* Debts
* $71.22 for AWS June 2019
* $75.56 for AWS July 2019
* Receipts
* $78.90 from Donations (to be confirmed)

* Membership Situation as of 20-08-2019(Paul)
* 0 renewals/new in August $0
* 6 renewals/new in July $120 + donations
* 7 renewals/new in June $140 + donations
* 4 renewals/new in May $80
* 23 Current Paid Members, previous month was 28
* 302 Expired Members, previous month was 297
* 389 Members on meetup.com, previous month 384
* Note: A lot of our memberships expire around March-September

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## 3. Events status.
* September
* 2019-09-10: Benjamin on MooseFS & The Elastic NAS
* 2019-09-19: PLUG-in-the-Pub ITLAPD@ piratebar.com.au Nick Arrrr!.
ACTION: Nick: Promote on the mailing list.
* October
* Talk or maybe a good idea to work on AV/Admin/your own project?
* ACTION/TODO: Make an agenda
* November
* Quiz Night, 2nd Tuesday November? 2019-11-12
* ACTION/TODO: Lock in some basics in the coming week or two - committee and main mailing list
* Venue
* Try near the city?
* Belgian Beer Cafe function room?
* Last Drop? out of the way, south?
* Quizmaster/MC?
* MC?
* Ask Magnus "Danger" Magnus or James B or others?
* Ben could contribute to questions
* Prizes?
* O'Reilly e-book vouchers?
* We last requested a voucher on April 2014. Search for "book request for Perth Linux User Group" in committee list archives.
* Business email/calling/doorknocking
* Donations drive, spot prizes, incentives
* Questions should be more general knowledge -
Benjamin suggests 80% or more be general knowledge, remaining
be open source/Linux-based questions
(Nick suggests a bonus round, or a separate quiz for those?)
* Talk or maybe a good idea to work on AV/Admin/your own project?
* 2019-11-25: PLUG-in-the-Pub @ ?
* December
* Christmas BBQ party.
ACTION: choose date
* Sat 7th or Sun 8th - maybe at POSH?
* https://www.meetup.com/Perth-Hackers/events/tvgcnqyzqblb/
* ACTION: Nick: check costs?
* over Sat 14th or Sunday 15th?
* First weekend may be better before Christmas parties.
* Future
* Talk by Martin, Want to be at our best, promotion & AV-wise. * First weekend may be better before Christmas par ties.

ACTION: Benjamin to reach out?
* Puppet Inc may want to do with us, need to talk to Gino (but as above)
ACTION: Benjamin to reach out?
* OpenVPN? Routing, Wireguard?
* Godot: Free software game engine
* Puppet talk in future, Benjamins contact
* Foreman? (Bare Metal Deployment with Foreman)
* Paul, Leon doing his LCA2020 talk if approved
* RPi 4 demo

## 4. General Business and Matters Arising.
* ACTION: Update PLUG addresses.
* (New address President X)
* PLUG Incorporation number: A1007186U ABN: 58 233 849 580
* TODO: Paul and another to co-sign form for Bendigo.
* ASIC.gov.au, Margaret noted that there was no address for PLUG on that site
* DMIRS.wa.gov.au, ACTION: Peter to check address and ensure that annual report has been done.
* Auskey/abr. Paul, I was told once you update that the ato will be updated, will wait for Peter.
* ACTION: Peter 2018 financial report on PLUG website .ODP

* Motion to open an interest bearing bank account
* MOTION: The PLUG committee authorises the opening of an
interest-bearing savings account with Bendigo Bank with
the same approved signatories as our current Bendigo
Transaction account.
* Benjamin proposes, Nick seconds. All in favour. Motion passed unanimously.

* Motion to open a bank account (one-to-sign) and get a debit card to use instead of load-and-go card.
ACTION: We where going to vote on the above in August.
* MOTION: The PLUG committee authorises the opening of an
account with Bendigo Bank suitable for use with debit/credit
card transactions, with the same approved signatories as our
current Bendigo Transaction account.
* Benjamin proposes, James seconds. All in favour. Motion passed unanimously.

* MOTION: The PLUG committee authorises the Chair
to request a Visa or Mastercard debit card attached
to the above account.
* Nick proposes, James seconds. All in favour. Motion passed unanimously.

* MOTION: The PLUG committee authorises the Treasurer
to request a Visa or Mastercard debit card attached
to the above account.
* Nick proposes, James seconds. All in favour. Motion passed unanimously.

## 5. New General Business.
* Big thanks to Benjamin for buying us a digital ocean server VM. Please send us the receipt so I can send to Linux Australia.
* If AV and or Admin would like to give a quick report.
(Please keep it short for everyone working tomorrow:)
* Nick reimbursement request for Amazon AWS credit 13 Aug 2019 PAYPAL *WASIS AUD$35.12
* MOTION: Reimburse Nick $35.12 for Amazon AWS credit
* James proposes, Peter seconds. All in favour. Motion passed unanimously.
* MOTION: Reimburse Benjamin $71.22 for Amazon AWS emergency payment
* James proposes, Nick seconds. All in favour. Motion passed unanimously.
* MOTION: Reimburse Peter $75.56 for Amazon AWS emergency payment
* James proposes, Benjamin seconds. All in favour. Motion passed unanimously.

* AV publicity material
* Lawrence: borrow video camera, create flyer, greenscreen background?
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## 6. Next committee meeting.
* Tuesday 2019-09-17 1930

Meeting closed by Benjamin 8:51 PM