0. Opening

Meeting opened by Benjamin at 7:31 PM

Attendance:

  • Present: Benjamin, Paul, Margaret, Peter, Nick, James
  • Apologies: Michel
  • Absent: x

1. Confirmation of Previous Minutes.

MOTION: Proposed by Ben and Seconded by James Passed? Yes https://github.com/plugorgau/plugorgau.github.io/blob/master/content/minutes/2019-06-18-minutes.md

2. Reports & Standing Items.

  • Financial Situation as of 15-07-2019 (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 current, $27.89 start of year ($161.21 start 2018)
      • Bank Balance
        • $2552.71 current, $2850.34 start of year ($3469.95 start 2018)
      • Total Assets
        • $3029.92 (was $3309.34 start of year) ($3924.57 start 2018)
    • Statement:
      • Income
        • $120.00 this month, $240.00 last, $702.00 this year
      • Expense
        • $0.00 this month, $207.15 last, $904.15 this year
      • Net Proceeds
        • $120.00 this month, $32.85 last, ($202.15) this year
    • Outstanding
      • Debts
        • $71.22 for AWS
      • Receipts
        • $31.27 from expired Load&Go (new)
        • $78.90 from Donations (to be confirmed)
      • ACTION:
        • Peter to pay AWS bills on his card if needed

  • Membership Situation as of 16-07-2019(Paul)

    • 6 renewals/new in July $120 + donations
    • 7 renewals/new in June $140 + donations
    • 4 renewals/new in May $80
    • 1 renewals/new in April $20 + donations
    • 28 Current Paid Members, previous month was 26
    • 297 Expired Members, previous month was 297
    • 384 Members on meetup.com, previous month 368
    • Note quite a few members have paid for 2 years in advanced.

3. Events status.

Note we only have 4 more talk slots left this year, Aug/Sep/Oct/Nov.

  • July 2019

    • AV Intro Demo by Nick. Thanks Pretty good considering not organised and about 12 people.
    • 2019-07-29: PLUG in the Pub @Village Bar Subiaco

  • August 2019

    • Kodi/RetroPie/Blender/LibreCAD/OpenSCAD/FreeCAD/KiCad/Oregano/GQRX/CubicSDR/Inkscape/RetroArch? ACTION: Not confirmed.

  • September 2019

    • 2019-09-10: Benjamin on The Elastic NAS & MooseFS. ACTION: Confirmed.

  • October 2019

    • Quiz Night 2019? ACTION: Paul will need to confirm venue.

  • November 2019

    • RPi 4 demo/Hack night.
    • 2019-09-25: PLUG-in-the-Pub @ ?

  • December 2019

    • Christmas BBQ party. ACTION: Pick a Saturday/Sunday to have it.

  • Future

    • Talk by Martin Dougiamas, Want to be at our best, promotion & AV-wise. ACTION: Benjamin to reach out?
    • Puppet Inc may want to do talks/presentations etc with us, Need to talk to Gino D’Ambrosio ACTION: Benjamin to reach out?
    • OpenVPN? Routing
    • Godot: Free software game engine
    • Wireguard?
    • Puppet talk in future, Benjamins contact
    • Foreman? (Bare Metal Deployment with Foreman)

4. General Business and Matters Arising.

  • ACTION: Update PLUG addresses.

    • (New address President Unit 410/130A Mounts Bay Road)
    • 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

    • TODO? No

5. New General Business.

6. Next committee meeting.

  • Tuesday 20-08-2019

Meeting closed by Benjamin 8:03 PM

Next Agenda https://hackmd.io/ywUWXaKsRWKpPMnCiYnu6g?edit