PLUG Annual General Meeting Minutes for 2021

  • Venue: Spacecubed.com, 45 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000
  • Time: Tuesday 12th January 2021 at 7:00 PM

Agenda

  1. Opening.(Starting 7:00 PM sharp)
  2. Confirmation of the Minutes of the 2020 AGM
  3. Committee Reports. (Including accounts)
  4. Election of 2020 Committee.
  5. General Business.
  6. Meeting Close.

0. Meeting Opening at 19:05 PM by NB

Attendance

  • Nick Bannon
  • James Henstridge
  • Paul A
  • Peter Lyons
  • Margaret Wood
  • Michael Collins
  • Niall Navin
  • Steve Schrader
  • Sarah Allard Apologies
  • Benjamin Arntzen
  • Michel Nzikou

Nick: Thanks to our venue Sponsor: Spacecubed and thanks for the use of their “Riff” space for no cost. Come to the Open Week, starting Monday 2021-02-08: https://events.humanitix.com/spacecubed-open-week-intro-to-flex-working

1. Confirmation of the minutes of the previous AGM.

2. Committee Reports.

  1. President’s Report: (unable to attend)
  2. Chair Report:
    • Thank you to the outgoing committee
    • 2020 was good to us, here in Perth! PLUG’s events continued as scheduled, with a few extra online showings - thanks to UCC’s BigBlueButton instance
    • We uploaded more seminar talks, James published a bbb-render to record the BBB streams to a single video file using gstreamer editing services - as used as GUADEC; and there have been community contributions to add start/end titles
  3. Secretary Report:
  4. Treasurer’s Report:

3. Election of 2021 Committee.

The Nominations are:

  • Chairperson:
    • Benjamin - elected
    • Nick (withdrawn)
  • Vice Chairperson:
    • Benjamin (elected to other position)
    • Nick (withdrawn)
    • Michel
    • Patrick - elected
  • Secretary:
    • Nick (withdrawn)
    • Margaret - elected
    • Paul (withdrawn)
  • Treasurer:
    • Nick
    • Peter - elected
    • Paul
  • OCM:
    • Benjamin (elected to other position)
    • Nick - elected
    • Michel
    • Patrick (elected to other position)
    • Peter (elected to other position)
    • Margaret (elected to other position)
    • James - elected
    • Paul - elected

Election results:

  • Chairperson: Benjamin Arntzen
  • Vice Chairperson: Patrick Cody
  • Secretary: Margaret Wood
  • Treasurer: Peter Lyons
  • OCM: Nick Bannon, Paul A, James Henstridge

4. General Business.

  • Steve: put forward a thing for a car rally(scavenger type event). He wants to know what members to think, when and how much.
    • Sunday morning would be better and possibly in April.
    • $10-20 entry? BYO BBQ? PLUG banner?
  • Michael: Every month or quarterly let’s have a jitsi party online to chat and catch up.
    • It’s free, come hang out online. Hosted by jitsi.perthchat.org!
  • Peter: AV Hardware and Software refresh? HDMI Capture cards?

5. Meeting Close at 20:39 PM by NB