0. Opening

  • Meeting opened by Nick at 7:40 PM 2020-02-18

Attendance

  • Present: Nick, Paul, Peter, James
  • Apologies: Margaret, Michel, Benjamin
  • Absent: None

1. Confirmation of Previous Minutes

2. Reports & Standing Items

  • Financial Situation as of 2020-02-17 (Peter)

    • Balances:
      • Cash box
        • $591.60 current, $582.60 start of year ($390.25 start 2019)
      • Debit card(old)
        • Expired current, Expired start of year ($40.86 start 2019) (Paul: should this be removed? Peter: has it been recovered?)
      • Bank Balance
        • $2086.07 current, $2114.42 start of year ($2754.04 start 2019)
      • Receivables
        • $34.73 (Paul) from expired Debit card (old) load go.
      • Total Assets
        • $2782.13 (was $2801.48 start of year) ($3213.04 start 2019)
    • Statement:
      • Income
        • $29.00 this month, $70.00 last, $99.00 this year
      • Expense
        • $69.00 this month, $42.34 last, $111.34 this year
      • Net Proceeds
        • ($40.00) this month, $27.66 last, ($12.34) this year
    • Outstanding:
      • Debts
        • BBQ $48+$29 Drinks+Foods Done
        • AGM? $30 Food? Done
        • AWS? $42 January(Nick) Done
        • DMIRS $17 Cert Done

  • Membership Situation as of 2020-02-18 (Paul)

    • 3 renewals/new in February $20
    • 3 renewals/new in January $70 ($10 donation)
    • 2 renewals/new in November $40
    • 0 renewals/new in October $0
    • 1 renewals/new in September $20
    • 30 Current Paid Members, previous month was 24 (I made a correction for Niall I missed, from the Quiz night)
    • 300 Expired Members, previous month was 302
    • 410 Members on meetup.com, previous month 402

3. Events status

  • February 2020

    • 9 people at AGM. Not a huge turn out.

  • March 2020

    • Second Sunday PLUG+POSH 2020-03-08
      • (Paid venue)
    • Raspberry Pi Jam and Workshop. 2020-03-10
      • Registered at Raspberrypi.org and confirmed.
      • Next time, we’ll delegate someone to register it before the end of the year
      • ACTION: We have drinks, Paul to get snacks.
      • People can bring their own hardware/pi’s.
    • PLUG in the Pub. 2020-03-30 The Mighty Quinn in Yokine, confirmed.

  • April 2020

    • Second Sunday PLUG+POSH 2020-04-12
    • Talk: 2020-04-14 Jamesh Github Actions, definite.

  • Future

    • May: Focal Fossa Ubuntu 20/04 pre-release demo/launch party?
      • Expected release date 2020-04-23
    • June: Quiz?
      • Take it to email, need to book a venue.
    • Talk by Martin
      • ACTION: Benjamin to reach out? when we’re at our best, promotion & AV-wise
    • 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)
    • Boostnote
    • Anki

4. General Business and Matters Arising

  • ACTION: Update PLUG addresses
    • (New address President X)
      • PLUG Incorporation number: A1007186U ABN: 58 233 849 580
      • done: DMIRS.
      • done: Bendigo Bank.
      • ASIC.gov.au, Margaret noted that there was no address for PLUG on that site.
        • STATUS: Need to update the address associated with the ABN, ASIC.
      • ACTION: Peter will update the address associated with the ABN, Paul can help.
    • ACTION: Peter 2018 & 2019 financial report on PLUG website .ODP.
      • ACTION: Nick will help to get it into the published site
    • TODO: New Bendigo accounts, Benjamin/Peter/Nick - Banks require forms to be signed.
      • ACTION: Back to the bank. * Peter will tell us Monday 2020-02-24 when we can schedule a visit.

5. New General Business

  • TODO: Peter will bank some of the cash box moneys.
    • STATUS: Still to do
  • TODO: Paul: I received a $34.73 cheque for the Load and Go card and I will cash it.
  • AV gear has been returned.
  • ACTION: Server migration to digital ocean is progressing.
    • We anticipate for it to be complete in March. If it takes long Nick will notify us if more time is needed:)
      • Status: Some interdependencies have been identified and are being worked on
  • TODO: Paul Publish AGM and meeting minutes to Github.(If someone can send through hackmd)
    • Status: Done except for financial reports

6. Next committee meeting

  • Tuesday 2020-03-17 19:30

Meeting closed by Nick at 8:32 PM.