0. Opening

Meeting opened by Ben at 7:32 PM

Attendance:

  • Present: Michel, Paul, Margaret, Ben, Nick, Peter
  • Apologies: James
  • Absent: -

1. Confirmation of Previous Minutes.

MOTION: Proposed by Ben and Seconded by Nick, Passed without dissent. https://github.com/plugorgau/plugorgau.github.io/blob/master/content/minutes/2019-08-20-minutes.md

2. Reports & Standing Items.

  • Financial Situation as of 17-09-2019 (Peter)

    • Balances:
      • Cash box
        • $486.35 current, $252.55 start of year ($252.55 start 2018)
      • Debit card(old)
        • $0 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
        • $2421.73 current, $2754.04 start of year ($3469.95 start 2018) *Is about $80 lower than previous.
      • Receivables
        • $40.86 from expired Debit card (old)
        • $27.89 from expired Load&Go (new)
      • Total Assets
        • $2980.21 (was $3213.04 start of year) ($3924.57 start 2018)
    • Statement:
      • Income
        • $68.10 this month, $0.00 last, $850.10 this year
      • Expense
        • $4.50 this month, $110.68 last, $1019.33 this year
      • Net Proceeds
        • $63.60 this month, ($110.68) last, ($169.23) this year
    • Outstanding
      • Debts
        • $71.22 for AWS June 2019 reimbursement
        • $0.00 for AWS August 2019 Note things to be confirmed: Possible $80 difference of the bank balance of $80. $68 from food donations at last event.

  • Membership Situation as of 17-09-2019(Paul)

    • 1 renewals/new in September $10
    • 0 renewals/new in August $0
    • 6 renewals/new in July $120 + donations
    • 7 renewals/new in June $140 + donations
    • 23 Current Paid Members, previous month was 28
    • 302 Expired Members, previous month was 297
    • 391 Members on meetup.com, previous month 384

3. Events status.

  • September

    • Fix sign and ph number next time.
    • Lots of new people this event.
    • Could be around 20 people?
    • Michel: Do we have a linkedin account?
    • Peter: Alastair set up linkedin?
      • Peter is a group manager, JamesB is the group owner
    • ACTION: Paul: sending a reminder for ITLAPD to the plug@plug.org.au list

  • October

    • Hack on your own project/Admin.

  • November

    • Paul, Leon doing his LCA2020 talk but no reply.
    • Quiz Night 2019, 2019-11-12
      • ACTION: Paul to check out Belgian Beer cafe.
      • MC? Ask Magnus “Danger” Magnus or James Bromberger or Ben/Paul.
      • 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
        • -> 4/5 rounds as geeky? general knowledge
    • 2019-11-25: PLUG-in-the-Pub @ Fremantle?

  • December

    • Christmas BBQ party
      • Scheduled for…?
      • Sat 7th or Sun 8th or Sat 14th or Sunday 15th?
        • to fix: Sunday 2019-12-08 1200–1600
        • Paul: I think we should have our own event and a BBQ outside is something our members enjoy.
        • Good point, but: scheduling…?
      • ACTION: Nick: check costs?
        • Not done yet, TODO
    • PLUG+POSH regular second Sunday 2019-12-08 1200–1600 https://www.meetup.com/Perth-Hackers/events/tvgcnqyzqblb/ Saturday 7th?

  • January/Febuary 2020?

    • Ben suggested Lightning talk?
    • 5-10mins? 5 or more?
    • Send out a call for talks.

  • Future

    • Talk by Martin, Want to be at our best, promotion & AV-wise.
      • 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
    • Foreman? (Bare Metal Deployment with Foreman)
    • RPi 4 demo
    • Blender
    • Netbox (IPAM/DCIM)
    • Snipe-IT (python inventory management)

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 complete.
    • Auskey/abr. Peter did you look at this?
    • Check name needs fixing?
  • ACTION: Peter 2018 financial report on PLUG website .ODP
  • ACTION: to open a Bendigo interest bearing bank account. 2 approv sigs?
  • ACTION: to open a Bendigo bank account (one-to-sign) and get a debit card. 2 approved sigs plus the person who needs the card?
  • TODO: Peter, Nick: Monday afternoon 2019-09-23 1400 (backup plan: Friday morning 2019-09-27)
  • AV publicity material.
  • Lawrence: borrow video camera, create flyer, greenscreen background?

5. New General Business.

  • Peter is a manager of our linkedin group.
  • AWS is in credit for next month.

6. Next committee meeting.

  • Tuesday 2019-10-15? 1930

Meeting closed by Benjamin 8:28 PM