PLUG Committee Minutes 2025-04-15

Meeting opened 19:38 PM

Attendees
- Present: Dan, Paul, James, Nick
- Apologies: Wyatt, Harry
Minutes of last committee meeting:
- https://plugorgau.github.io/events/committee/2025/03-25/
- Proposed by James, seconded by Nick. Passed without dissent.
Next Meeting: Tuesday 2025-05-20
Reports
- Chairman’s report
  - Progressing on regaining access to our ABN. I expect to hear back from the ATO next week.
- Financials
  - Bendigo bank status at 2025-04-13
  - Main 2-to-sign: $2290
  - Business basic/Debit Card: $147
Specific Business
- ACTIONS: Who / What / When / With(Action-Buddy)
- ACTION: TODO: James, buddy Nick: https://github.com/plugorgau/calendar-check
- ACTION: TODO: Upgrade James’ myID to Strong and lodge. Need to discover how to regain control of organisation.
  - James and Harry spent an afternoon working on this.
  - Worked out what forms were needed to update our ABN.
  - Mailed out the forms plus evidence. Waiting to hear back from ATO.
- ACTION: TODO: Submit our NFP self report under the category of “Scientific Association”.
  - Email reminder arrived: http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2025-April/011844.html
  - ATO can accept or decline NFP declaration.
  - Waiting on previous action item (need access to ABN).
- ACTION: TODO: Harry: Confirm if Wyatt has access to WA Commerce now?
- ACTION: TODO: James to ask BendigoBank to add our ABN as a PayID
- ACTION: TODO: Wyatt gets a Bendigo customer#?
Events

Review events:
- March 2025
  - 2025-03-26: PLUG-in-the-Pub: The Mighty Quinn Tavern, Yokine
    - Big turnout! some mailing list members
- April 2025
  - Second Tuesday 2025-04-08
    - Jasper’s: Homelab Talk
      - 8 people turned up.
      - Talk recorded and video published.
      - AV setup finished early
  - Second Sunday 2025-04-13 PLUG+POSH
    - 4 people attended.
    - Processed Jasper’s video.
    - Sysadmin work on the mailman virtualhost: turn on lists.plug.org.au TLS.
Upcoming Events
- May 2025
  - Second Sunday 2025-05-11
    - PLUG+POSH
    - Risk of lack of hosts?
  - Second Tuesday 2025-05-13
    - Workshop/Installfest: BYO software or hardware installation, problems and work on your worries
    - Venue is not available: Storm emailed 2025-03-27: https://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2025-March/011826.html
      - ACTION: DONE: 2025-04-15 Paul emailed Spacecubed to make sure one of the meeting room or another, is available 2025-05-13 and 2025-06-10
      - ACTION: Paul, buddy Nick: Followup Storm@Spacecubed re: meeting room access on the second Tuesdays May, June
      - ACTION: Paul, buddy Nick: Email committee a draft workshop announcement for May if we get the venue
        
        PLUG to bring a powerboard
      - ACTION: James (buddy Paul) to update calendar+meetup once venue is locked in.
    - Jasper has something to show re:virtualised pfsense
    - RSVP Hosts at 18:00, Paul light snacks, Dan with the drinks+ice
  - 2025-05-28 18:00: PLUG in the Pub at The Island, Elizabeth Quay
    - RSVP: Hosts: Paul, Nick
  - ACTION: Paul, buddy Nick: email to plug@plug “What’s on for May”
- June 2025
  - Second Sunday 2025-06-08
    - PLUG+POSH
    - Hosts: Nick, James
  - Second Tuesday 2025-06-10
    - James: talk: VLANs
      - Hosts: James, Dan
      - ACTION: Nick: get Spacecubed RFID to James
      - Dan: drinks&ice
      - ??? light snacks
- July 2025
  - ACTION: James to check if Jasper is interested in giving his pfsense presentation as a July talk.
  - PLUG-in-the-Pub Gosnells Hotel https://www.gosnellshotel.com.au/
- August 2025
  - Dean’s talk: IPv6? https://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2025-April/011841.html
- September 2025
  - Move PLUG-in-the-Pub to piratebar.com.au , Mount Hawthorn
    - maybe on Software Freedom Day
    - (consideration of Pirate Life, Murray St; Darling Darling Fremantle & pub crawl)
- Future events
  - virtualised pfsense by Jasper
  - DFD, HFD, SFD https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd
  - Release parties: Ubuntu, Debian, more…
  - Quiz night suggested by Paul
  - Kings Park BBQ by Paul
  - Installfest Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora others.

General business

Midterm goals, to be scheduled in email:
- Building more AV nodes
  - Grants
- Hardware colo/Raspberry-based?

Meeting finished at 20:57 PM