PLUG Committee Minutes 2019-06-18
0. Opening
Meeting opened by Benjamin at 7:37 PM
Attendance:
- Present: Margaret, Benjamin, James, Nick, Peter
- Apologies: Paul
- Absent: Michel
1. Confirmation of Previous Minutes
MOTION: Proposed by Peter and Seconded by Margaret, James, Passed? Yes (Ben and Nick abstain) http://tiny.cc/bwr16y -> https://github.com/plugorgau/plugorgau.github.io/blob/master/content/minutes/2019-05-21-minutes.md
2. Reports & Standing Items.
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Financial Situation as of 2019-06-17 (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)
- $31.27 current, $27.89 start of year ($161.21 start 2018)
- Bank Balance
- $2312.71 current, $2850.34 start of year ($3469.95 start 2018)
- Total Assets
- $2821.19 (was $3309.34 start of year) ($3924.57 start 2018)
- Cash box
- Statement:
- Income
- $120.00 this month, $187.00 last, $562.00 this year
- Expense
- $207.15 this month, $261.11 last, $904.15 this year
- Net Proceeds
- ($87.15) this month, ($74.11) last, ($442.15) this year
- Income
- Balances:
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MOTION: To transfer $150 into the Load & Go card to cover AWS usage. Moved: Peter. Seconded: Benjamin, Margaret, Nick, James. Passed.
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Membership Situation as of 2019-06-18 (Paul)
- x renewals/new in June $x
- x renewals/new in May $x
- 1 renewals/new in April $20
- 1 renewals/new in March $20
- x Current Paid Members, previous month was 26
- x Expired Members, previous month was 296
- x Members on meetup.com, previous month 359
- x Visitors on meetup.com in June
- x Visitors on meetup.com in May
- 1579 Visitors on meetup.com in April
- 1933 Visitors on meetup.com in March
- No real benefit of being a member rather than a visitor
- Infrastructure -> shell accounts?
- Beware admin overhead, but is it a currently missing pipeline towards admin help?
- Infrastructure -> shell accounts?
- Maybe a $5 cover charge for non-members for food/drinks?
- No real benefit of being a member rather than a visitor
3. Events
- June 2019
- 2019-06-11: Benjamin’s Linux & Open Source LAN Party.
- 5 attendees, social event then Grill’d
- Build netbox for network independence?
- mirror/fileserver/transproxy
- Steampipe: caching works now
- 4G/wifi/ethernet uplink
- 2019-06-11: Benjamin’s Linux & Open Source LAN Party.
- July 2019
- 2019-07-09: Posponed to September: Benjamin on MooseFS + The Elastic NAS
- ACTION: Ben said he won’t be in Perth
- Video best-of night
- Value add: Q&A, panel discussion?
- By end of Thursday 2019-06-20 further suggestions welcome
- AV system - eventstreamr Leon Wright 51mins, inspiration/prompt
- Then and now/review/taking stock
- bring kit to make it tangible?
- dvswitch vs voctomix
- Food&drink after meetings:
- The Island Brew House
- Grill’d
- Northbridge: Chimek? Kebabs?
- 2019-07-14: Second Sunday Regular PLUG + POSH Hack Day
- 2019-07-22: PLUG in the Pub. Central?
- North? Tuart Hill: Mighty Quinn?
- West? Subiaco: The Vic/The Village; Cottesloe Albion
- 2019-07-09: Posponed to September: Benjamin on MooseFS + The Elastic NAS
- August 2019
- Replace with tutorial: Kodi/RetroPie/Blender/LibreCAD/OpenSCAD/FreeCAD/KiCad/Oregano/GQRX/CubicSDR/Inkscape?
- Wireguard? OpenVPN? Routing
- …maybe in a form we could use for PLUG events? Network box that hands out DHCP on one side and takes a wired/wireless/LTE uplink on the other
- With a traffic counter screen?
- Wireguard? OpenVPN? Routing
- Godot: Free software game engine
- or a busybee/hack night?
- Replace with tutorial: Kodi/RetroPie/Blender/LibreCAD/OpenSCAD/FreeCAD/KiCad/Oregano/GQRX/CubicSDR/Inkscape?
- September 2019
- 2019-09-10: Benjamin on MooseFS + The Elastic NAS
- 2019-09-19: PLUG-in-the-Pub @ Pirate Bar
- Thursday games night again?
- 19th ITLAPD or the week after? They are not open Mondays, might have to move the day?
- ACTION: to be Confirmed?
- Quiz Night 2019?
- ACTION: Paul: To find out if we can have at the Belgian Beer Cafe
- Installfest ?
- Future
- Talk by Martin Dougiamas
- Want to be at our best, promotion & AV-wise, so not in August
- ACTION: Benjamin to reach out
- Talk by Martin Dougiamas
4. General Business and Matters Arising
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ACTION: Update PLUG addresses.
- (New address President X)
- PLUG Incorporation number: A1007186U ABN: 58 233 849 580
- https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?id=58233849580
- ABN plus name may need updating also - Margaret noted that it has the post code of a previous President and that the name has “User” instead of “Users”, this needs to be corrected be corrected
- ACTION: Paul and another to co-sign form for Bendigo.
- ASIC.gov.au, Margaret noted that there was no address for PLUG on that site
- ato.gov.au/ abr auskey
- DMIRS.wa.gov.au
- ACTION: Peter to check DMIRS address and ensure that annual report has been done
- PLUG Incorporation number: A1007186U ABN: 58 233 849 580
- (New address President X)
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ACTION: Peter 2018 financial report on PLUG website .ODP
- Still TODO? Yes
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James has sent through a zip file of converted minutes to committee list to check if anything needs to be redacted
- Sent through to committee list
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:02:13 +0800
From: James Henstridge <james@jamesh.id.au>
To: PLUG Committee <committee@plug.org.au>
Subject: [plug-ctte] Historical minutes for review
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ACTION: Paul working on tender document RFT2019-05 with Peters help. Will email committee once finished.
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ACTION: Paul to email LA with specific hosting details/requirements.
5. New General Business
6. Next committee meeting
- Tuesday 2019-07-16
- Agenda URL: ??
- Wishlist: AWS pipeline to publish minutes? until server upgrade is online
- ACTION: James publish this month’s minutes
Meeting closed by Benjamin at 8:57 PM.