0. Opening

  • Meeting opened by Ben at 19:40 PM 2020-10-20

Attendance

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

1. Confirmation of Previous Minutes

https://github.com/plugorgau/plugorgau.github.io/blob/master/content/minutes/2020-09-15-minutes.md

  • MOTION: Proposed by Ben and seconded by Margaret, James
  • Passed without dissent

2. Next Committee Meeting

3. Reports & Standing Items

  • Financial Situation as of 2020-10-19 (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)
      • Bank Balance
        • $3731.47 current, $2114.42 start of year ($2754.04 start 2019)
      • Business Debit Card
        • $266.00 current, $0.00 start of year (opened June 26, 2020)
      • 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
        • $40.00 this month, $170.00 last, $2752.80 this year.
      • Expense
        • $130.00 this month, $4.00 last, $733.14 this year
      • Net Proceeds
        • ($90.00) this month, $166.00 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

    • 2020-09-08 Michael: matrix.org messaging/chat
      • Some interruptions: double NAT or poor wifi?
      • migrate router to PLUG hardware, better wifi?
    • Saturday 2020-09-19 PLUG-in-the-Pub Software Freedom Day, ITLAPD
    • 2020-10-11 Second Sunday PLUG+POSH hack afternoon
    • 2020-10-13 Second Tuesday quiz night!
      • 12 participants, 3 teams, 3 new memberships
      • enjoyable and successful

  • Forthcoming events:

    • November 2020-11:
      • 2020-11-08 Second Sunday PLUG+POSH hack afternoon
      • 2020-11-10 Second Tuesday: DUG talk
        • talk and tour of data centre - November
        • ACTION: Margaret will liaise with Stuart to confirm, RSVPs requested
        • ACTION: Nick post event on meetup.com, facebook.com
      • PLUG-in-the-Pub
        • Fourth Monday? 2020-11-23
        • Last Drop Cockburn? (Beeliar)
    • December 2020-12:
      • Xmas BBQ: first or second weekend?
        • Saturday 5/12/19 vs Sunday 6/13/20?
        • BBQ Second Sunday 2020-12-13 11:00 @ King’s Park
          • then continue to…
      • 2020-11-13 Second Sunday PLUG+POSH hack afternoon
        • Xmas BBQ: same event? or different event?
      • Second Tuesday: skip?
      • Usual committee meeting?
    • January 2021-01:
      • 2021-01-10 Second Sunday PLUG+POSH hack afternoon
      • 2021-01-12 Second Tuesday AGM
        • ACTION: Nick: Confirm the following ACTION itme in email
        • ACTION: Peter: Confirm with Spacecubed/Amandine: No PLUG meeting in Riff in 2020-11, 2020-12; PLUG AGM in 2021-01-12 as usual
      • 2021-01-23 – 25 LCA2021 online

  • Future:

    • Foreman (Wings)
      • No timeline yet
    • Ansible AWX (Wings + Michael?)
      • 2021-02
    • Raspberry Jam 2021-03?
    • 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

6. New General Business

  • ACTION: Wings to ensure POSH meetup account is closed so that Stephen isn’t paying for it

Meeting closed by at 8:40 PM.