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.

  • 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)
    • 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
  • MOTION: To transfer $150 into the Load & Go card to cover AWS usage. Moved: Peter. Seconded: Benjamin, Margaret, Nick, James. Passed.

  • 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?
      • Maybe a $5 cover charge for non-members for food/drinks?

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
  • 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:
    • 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
  • 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?
    • Godot: Free software game engine
    • or a busybee/hack night?
  • 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

4. General Business and Matters Arising

  • ACTION: Update PLUG addresses.

    • (New address President X)
      • PLUG Incorporation number: A1007186U ABN: 58 233 849 580
      • 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
  • ACTION: Peter 2018 financial report on PLUG website .ODP

    • Still TODO? Yes
  • 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
  • ACTION: Paul working on tender document RFT2019-05 with Peters help. Will email committee once finished.

  • 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.