PLUG Committee Meeting 2022-02-15
0. Opening
- Meeting opened by Patrick at 19:43
- Present: Patrick, Margaret, Nick, James, Peter, Benjamin(from 20:04 to 20:26)
- Apologies: Paul
- Absent:
- Guest: Fraser
1. Confirmation of Previous Minutes
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https://github.com/plugorgau/plugorgau.github.io/blob/master/content/minutes/2022-01-18-minutes.md
- Comment - expired members was actually 314 on that date
- Proposed by Patrick, seconded by Nick
- Passed without Dissent
2. Next Committee Meeting
- Third Tuesday 2022-03-15 19:30
3. Reports & Standing Items
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Financial Situation as of 2022-02-14 (Peter)
- Balances:
- Cash box
- $473.95 current, $446.30 start of year ($694.60 start 2021)
- Business Debit Card
- $96.52 current, $200.00 start of year ($266.00 start 2021)
- Bank Balance
- $3955.20 current, $3885.20 start of year ($3801.47 start 2021)
- Receivables
- Total Assets
- $4498.02 (was $4531.50 start of year) ($4846.53 start 2021)
- Cash box
- Statement:
- Income
- $30.00 this month, $40.00 last, $70.00 this year
- Expense
- $5.50 this month, $97.98 last, $103.48 this year
- Net Proceeds
- $24.50 this month, ($57.98) last, ($33.48) this year
- Income
- Outstanding:
- Payables
- $157.00 to Paul for Meetup Fee 2022-01-11–2022-07-11 (TBA)
- Receivables
- $10.00 cash being held by Nick as petty cash/float
- Taken back at AGM? (to check)
- Transfers
- $103.48 to Debit card (Approved)
- Unreconciled
- $49.00 cash to be added to cash box
- Payables
- Balances:
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Membership Situation as of 2022-02-14 (Margaret)
- 2 new members (one is possibly an expired member from 2005 rejoining), 2 renewals since last committee meeting
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Membership trends as of 2022-02-14 (Margaret)
- Current Paid Members 32, previous month was 30
- Overdue Members 2, previous month was 2
- Expired Members 314, previous month was 314
- Members on meetup.com 462, previous month 464
4. Events Status
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Review of recent events:
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January 2022
- Wednesday 2022-01-19 PLUG-in-the-Pub
- Bull Creek Tavern
- Wednesday 2022-01-19 PLUG-in-the-Pub
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February 2022
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Second Tuesday 2022-02-08
- Alastair Irvine - Toolbelt: install almost anything (in theory)
- 8 attendees + speaker
- Might be useful to have a guide for speakers on using BigBlueButton
- ACTION - Margaret to investigate BBB documentation
- Audio glitches, mostly at start: network? but very little jitter/loss overall
- Clipping between voice-activity detection
- Lapel microphone helps a lot, need in each AV node?
- Real install, configure persistent settings
- Checklist: post meeting transcode, then title the recording and switch to Public listing
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Second Sunday PLUG+POSH 2022-02-13
- do a talk at that venue? hardware based?
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Upcoming events:
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February 2022
- AV Hack session
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March 2022
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Second Tuesday 2022-03-08 - Linux/hardware workshop?
- Potlatch Compote Smörgåsbord
- Project or theme
- James: setting up an arm64 Ubuntu Core Raspberry Pi
- build a pihole?
- remoting into it with VNC
- remote to your home PC/Server :) tnx for the idea Steve
- with updates later in the year
- New people often show up
- https://www.raspberrypi.org/jam/ - not currently promoting in-person events
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PLUG-in-the-Irish-pub?
- Discuss at next meeting, put your ideas here
- Irish Pubs https://goo.gl/maps/o9WeNkqQwY2ofVme7
- https://www.thegalwayhooker.com.au/
- Monday 2022-03-28T18:00
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PLUG Hack afternoon
- AV hack session @CBD?
- AV build/buy node2?
- static templates for youtube uploads
- next session?
- Quick turnaround: Interaction/questions from audience with remote speaker
- need a low latency backchannel
- without audio-feedback-loop
- speaker needs to be using headphones
- two sources in BBB recording?
- test directionality room microphones
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Future:
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TODO: Paul to send our email call for talks to the plug list after Alastair’s talk
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Meta-AV-streaming: Bigbluebutton and presenter overview
- Permissions/moderator/presenter
- Uploading slides/office documents
- Shared Whiteboard
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PLUG AV hack sessions
- Piggyback on PLUG+POSH Second Sundays for starters, but announce an AV session for… ?
- Could announce one by email (av@plug, plug@plug) as a AV/admin focused event
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Hugo static site generator websites
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PLUG-in-the-Pub possibilities:
- Paddington Alehouse, Mount Hawthorn: http://www.paddo.com.au/
- Ocean Beach Hotel: https://www.obh.com.au/
- Last Drop, Beeliar? Was last there
- Mount Henry Tavern, 27 Manning Rd, Como
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5. General Business & Matters Arising
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ACTION: Event promotion: team effort - see previous minutes for details, e.g. https://github.com/plugorgau/plugorgau.github.io/blob/master/content/minutes/2021-05-18-minutes.md#5-general-business--matters-arising
- Paul will update all events in meetup and sync with Google calendar
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ACTION: Peter: Update PLUG addresses + update the address associated with the ABN (via ATO.gov.au?), ASIC (N.B. Benjamin’s new address)
- Who/what/where to contact next?
- https://connectonline.asic.gov.au/ , “Perth Linux User Group” ABN 58233849580
- Also AWS has old address: volunteer to fix?
- Who/what/where to contact next?
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Subcommittee: Review of PLUG mailing lists Discuss with mailing list members. Reinstate plug-announce and ensure all active members are on it to enable us to meet legal requirements for announcing AGM. This would require regular updates as members join/drop out. Margaret to investigate using UGMM for official announcements - script written to extract email addresses of all current and overdue members, used for official announcement of AGM and call for nominations.
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Can we create a PayID for the PLUG bank account? This would be less error prone than typing the BSB + account number. We could create PayIDs for committee email address and maybe also ABN.
- http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2021-June/010370.html
- ACTION: Peter to visit branch and try setting up committee address as payid (also ABN?)
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Problem with backups?
Got unexpected RPC data format from server: This account is currently not available.
- ACTION: James to follow up with Margaret about details of error.
- Failed:
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 06:57:25 +0800 (AWST)
- Worked:
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 08:01:05 +0800 (AWST)
100 GB Standard Offsite Filesystem USD$18.00 per year Next billing: April 13, 2022
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Done: Paul or Peter to read Spacecubed/Riff meetup agreement renewal for 2022 and reply back to committee. Peter sent a FWD email from Amandine, she replied in person that it was
- Verbally confirmed as signed, before the 2022-02-08 meeting
6. New General Business
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Meetup - can we get renewal emails sent to committee@plug.org.au, and use PLUG debit card to pay?
- Discuss for 10 minutes at next AV hack session
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rsync.net - also should be paid via debit card if possible
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MOTION: Reimburse Paul for the latest 6-monthly meetup.com bill
- Proposed: Nick, Seconded: Patrick
- Passed without dissent
- ( approximately $157.00 to Paul for Meetup Fee 2022-01-11–2022-07-11 (TBA) )