0. Opening

  • Meeting opened by Ben at 19:42 PM 2020-11-17

Attendance

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

1. Confirmation of Previous Minutes

https://github.com/plugorgau/plugorgau.github.io/blob/master/content/minutes/2020-10-20-minutes.md

  • MOTION: Proposed by Ben and seconded by James
  • Passed with change to remove question mark from Absent members list.

2. Next Committee Meeting

3. Reports & Standing Items

  • Financial Situation as of 2020-11-16 (Peter)

    • Balances:
      • Cash box
        • $694.60 current, $582.60 start of year ($390.25 start 2019)
      • Debit card (old)
        • Expired current, Expired start of year ($40.86 start 2019)
      • Business Debit Card
        • $266.00 current, $0.00 start of year (opened June 26, 2020)
      • Bank Balance
        • $3731.47 current, $2114.42 start of year ($2754.04 start 2019)
      • Receivables
        • $x (Paul) from expired Debit card (old) load go.
      • Total Assets
        • $4796.53 (was $2801.48 start of year) ($3213.04 start 2019)
    • Statement:
      • Income
        • $0.00 this month, $40.00 last, $2752.80 this year.
      • Expense
        • $0.00 this month, $130.00 last, $733.14 this year
      • Net Proceeds
        • $0.00 this month, ($90.00) last, $2019.66 this year
    • Outstanding:
      • Payables
        • Up to date
      • Receivables
      • Transfers
        • Up to date

  • Membership Situation as of 2020-10-20

    • ? renewals
    • 3 new in October

  • Membership trends:

    • 29 Current Paid Members July, previous month was 31
    • 306 Expired Members July, previous month was 303
    • 423 Members on meetup.com July, previous month 417

4. Events Status

  • Review of recent events

    • 2020-11-08 Second Sunday PLUG+POSH hack afternoon
    • 2020-11-10 Second Tuesday: DUG talk
      • talk and tour of data centre
      • Late RSVPs were almost an issue
        • Would be a big issue for PLUG-catered events.

  • Forthcoming events

    • PLUG-in-the-Pub
    • Fourth Monday? 2020-11-23
    • Last Drop Cockburn? (Beeliar)

  • December 2020-12:

    • Xmas BBQ:
      • BBQ Second Sunday 2020-12-13 11:00 @ King’s Park
        • then continue to…
    • 2020-12-13 Second Sunday PLUG+POSH hack afternoo
      • Xmas BBQ: same event? or different event?
    • ACTION: Margaret: update calendar
    • ACTION: Benjamin: update meetup
      • Facebook?
    • Second Tuesday: skip
    • Usual committee meeting: skip

  • January 2021-01:

    • 2021-01-10 Second Sunday PLUG+POSH hack afternoon
    • 2021-01-12 Second Tuesday AGM
      • ACTION: DONE: Nick: Confirm the following ACTION time in email
      • ACTION: DONE: Peter: Confirm with Spacecubed/Amandine: No PLUG meeting in Riff in 2020-11, 2020-12; PLUG AGM in 2021-01-12 as usual
      • ACTION: Paul: Formal AGM notice, call for nominations
      • ACTION: Nick: Confirm with Paul in 2020-11
    • 2021-01-23 – 25 LCA2021 online
    • Tentative PLUG-in-the-Pub 2021-01, usual February, March events

  • February 2021-02

    • Ansible AWX (Wings and possibly Michael)
      • A look at the open source Ansible AWX project, which provides a way of controlling, organising and running Ansible playbooks in a handy web interface

  • Future:

    • Steve S: Could organise a car rally: 2021-02/03/04/05?
      • Promote at AGM?
      • February is Fringe?
      • March and end up at a pub?
    • Raspberry Jam 2021-03?
    • Foreman (Wings)
      • No timeline yet
    • MooseFS Expansion (Wings)
      • 2021-04 possibly
    • MiniMagnus Pi “Supercomputer” (Wings, check back in March 2021)
    • Editing video with code (GStreamer Editing Services) (jamesh)
      • First half of 2021
    • Quiz Nights?
    • Future Games Nights? (no, not for a while)
    • Puppet talk (remotely - in talks with Puppet folks for BBB session soon)
    • PLUG AV hack sessions

5. General Business & Matters Arising

  • ACTION: Event promotion: team effort

    • ACTION: Margaret: email list with announcements/final reminders
    • ACTION: Paul: meetup.com
    • ACTION: Nick/Benjamin: meetup.com (backup) + facebook.com
    • ACTION: Nick, All: calendar, backup where needed
    • ACTION: Peter to investigate promoting on Twitter? (Official PLUG?)

  • ACTION: Peter: will bank some of the cash box moneys

  • ACTION: Paul: Needs to cash the load and go cheque $34.73

  • ACTION: Paul: Amandine Trouillet - Spacecubed agreement

  • ACTION: Peter: Update PLUG addresses + update the address associated with the ABN, ASIC (N.B. Benjamin’s new address?)

    • Who/what/where to contact next?
    • Also AWS has old address: volunteer to fix?

  • ACTION: Server migration RFT2019-11 (r2)

    • General admin help always wanted, have tried to onboard through hack sessions

  • ACTION: New signatory on Bendigo Business Basic account

    • Join 2 other signatories during business hours; “Friday or Monday can probably be made to work for me” – PL, BA, NB
    • ACTION: Paul: forms are available at Bentley when convenient

  • ACTION: Ben to ensure POSH meetup account is closed so that Stephen isn’t paying for it - Still needs doing

6. New General Business

Ben would like to formally thank all of the 2020 committee members ahead of the 2021 AGM. Thank you for your service.

Meeting closed by Ben at 8:28 PM.