0. Opening

1. Confirmation of Previous Minutes

2. Next Committee Meeting

  • Third Tuesday 2022-09-20 19:30

3. Reports & Standing Items

  • Financial Situation as of 2022-08-15 (Peter)

    • Balances:
      • Cash box
        • $578.95 current, $446.30 start of year ($694.60 start 2021)
      • Business Debit Card
        • $191.90 current, $200.00 start of year ($266.00 start 2021)
      • Bank Balance
        • $3440.89 current, $3885.20 start of year ($3801.47 start 2021)
      • Receivables
        • $13.00 cash being held by Nick as petty cash/float Total Assets
        • $4252.74 (was $4531.50 start of year) ($4846.53 start 2021)
    • Statement:
      • Income
        • $10.00 this month, $51.00 last, $436.00 this year
      • Expense
        • $0.00 this month, $112.00 last, $742.41 this year
      • Net Proceeds
        • $10.00 this month, ($61.00) last, ($306.41) this year
    • Outstanding:
      • Payables
      • Receivables
      • Transfers
      • Unreconciled
      • $49.00 cash to be added to cash box
    • Peter to purchase a smaller/lighter cashbox, suitable for bringing to meetings.

  • Membership Situation as of 2022-08-16 (Margaret)

    • 0 new members, 2 renewals since last committee meeting

  • Membership trends as of 2022-08-16 (Margaret)

    • Current Paid Members 28, previous month was 30
    • Overdue Members 3, previous month was 2
    • Expired Members 319, previous month was 318
    • Members on meetup.com 470, previous month 466

4. Events Status

  • Review of recent events:

    • July 2022

      • PLUG-in-the-Pub: last Monday 2022-07-25T18:00
        • Gage Roads, “A” Shed, Fremantle
          • https://gageroads.com.au/

          • Open every day from 11am till late. No bookings needed, just come on down

          • Breezy warehouse areas, al fresco in season

    • August 2022

      • Second Tuesday 2022-08-09T18:00

        • General discussion on future events
        • James hacking on: calendar cross-check tool

      • Second Sunday 2022-08-14T12:00 PLUG+POSH

  • Upcoming events

    • September 2022

      • Second Sunday 2022-09-11T12:00 PLUG+POSH
      • Second Tuesday 2022-09-13T18:00
        • Peter would prefer a speaker
        • Backup plans: Lightning talks? Best-of video screening?
          • James has a lightning talk WIP
          • Margaret re: Code generators?
      • Fourth Thursday 2022-09-22 happy hour from 17:30 at https://piratebar.com.au/ ?

    • October 2022

    • November 2022

      • Second Tuesday 2022-11-08
        • Nick: replace second Tuesday + PLUG-in-the-Pub with a quiz night? is it enough lead time to get some sponsors?
          • Questions: Sarah, Niall, location booking SMA, Patrick has general knowledge questions
            • All are volunteer MCs
        • ACTION: Sarah will make booking
          • Preferably not Wed, Fri
      • Second Sunday 2022-11-13T12:00 PLUG+POSH

    • December 2022

      • Xmas BBQ: Second Sunday 2022-12-11? then PLUG+POSH
        • Usual place in King’s Park: May Drive Parkland

    • January 2023

  • Future:

    • Sarah: Plan for a talk; then a followup related outing e.g. robotics and rawmatter.io ROS2
    • Format: Panel/round table hosted by …!
    • Jasper: alternative phone ROMs
    • Margaret: EMACS-based UIs for database applications (not until 2023); Code generators (October if we are desperate)?
    • Yuchen: Haskell-code-explorer (unlikely to be ready this year)
    • Quiz?

  • Wishlist

    • Wanted: Small organisation documentation and minutes workflow, hedgedoc, git, Hugo

      • good for other meetup users
      • Someone??? and Nick can help document what we’re doing

    • Best of Conferences/other Talks

      • LCA/Libreplanet/CCC/FOSDEM/Debconf/Ubuntu/GUADEC/…

    • Local or visiting tech personalities

      • Dedicated HDMI passthrough capture of laptop screen
        • Check framerate
      • Opsis, plus buy spare for node 2/3

    • Local tech visits a la dug.com, ICRAR, Pawsey, rawmatter.io

      • Incentive: Recruitment/careers
      • Promotion&marketing

    • Lightning talks

      • Topics:
        • Software:
          • Major applications, tutorials?: Inkscape, Blender, Git, development, CAD/CAM/CNC
          • Utilities: backup, network, benchmark, productivity, security and password vaults
          • Games
          • Self-hosting services/webapps
        • Hardware: Laptops, Desktops, GPUs
          • Electronics and design
        • Firmware: Coreboot, Wifi, CPU management engines/secure elements SGX/TrustZone
      • Enforce the format a bit more
      • Speaker runsheets? PDF slides in advance
      • All in person? vs all remote on a single evening
        • switching modes after setup can take too long
      • countdown timer

    • Panel discussions:

      • TV on Linux, vs Smart TVs, MythTV, Kodi, DLNA, modern Chromecast - Android (old was ChromeOS)…
      • Running retro browsers/Java for XUL extensions, Java jnlp remote consoles, snaps
      • Retro gaming
      • Low power, playdate: crank input device, solar, …

    • Benjamin: torrent2ipfs (github.com/zorlin/torrent2ipfs), IPFS Cluster, MooseFS for Proxmox (? Possible)

    • Meta-AV-streaming: Bigbluebutton and presenter overview

      • Permissions/moderator/presenter
      • Uploading slides/office documents
      • Shared Whiteboard

    • PLUG-in-the-Pub possibilities:

5. General Business & Matters Arising

  • ACTION: Paul: meetup.com: consolidate paid subscription with Artifactory, as confirmed on 2022-05-17

    • Status: ready to ACTION, confirmed with Paul 2022-06-20, email 2022-07-19

  • 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 or Peter will update all events in meetup and sync with Google calendar

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • rsync.net - also should be paid via debit card if possible, due April

    • ACTION: Peter: link PLUG debit card to rsync.net account

  • aws.amazon.com

    • Bill due?

  • Plan is for PLUG to take over digitalocean.com bill directly

  • aws.amazon.com

    • ACTION: Nick: Contact Developer Marketing Manager for an event speaker+swag
    • Maybe 2022-08?

ACTION : Patrick to email Paul about lapsed membership

  • Replacement sign for door ACTION: Margaret to email PDF to Patrick. DONE

6. New General Business

7. Meeting closed by Patrick at 20:34