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title: PLUG Committee Meeting 2024-02-20
date: 2024-02-20
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## 0. Opening
* Meeting opened by Niall at 19:25 PM
* VENUE: James's place
* Present: Ben, Dan, Nick, Niall, James, Sarah,
* Apologies: Lochy
* Absent:
* Guest:

## 1. Confirmation of Previous Minutes
* https://github.com/plugorgau/plugorgau.github.io/blob/master/content/minutes/2024-01-16-minutes.md
* Proposed by Niall, seconded by Nick. Passed without dissent.

## 2. Next Committee Meeting
* Tuesday 2024-03-19 - Online: https://meetings.ucc.asn.au/b/plug

## 3. Reports & Standing Items
* Financial Situation
* Balances:
* Cash box (at Peter's)
* $679.10 current, $598.95 start of year ($446.30 start 2022)
* Business Debit Card
* $15.20
* Bank Balance
* $3027.25 current
* Topped up to $200.20 / $2842.25

* Membership Situation as of 2023-09-12
- ? new members, ? returned, ? renewals
- Need to nudge new attendees towards formal financial membership
- Current Paid Members 25, was 25 at AGM
- Expired Members 333, was 332 at AGM
- Members on meetup.com 547, was 472 at AGM
- lost our survey questions!

## 4. Events Status
* Review of recent events:

* February 2024
* Second Sunday 2024-02-11 PLUG+POSH@Artifactory
* Second Tuesday 2024-02-13
* We got confirmation for venue at SpaceCubed, but need a SC member as sponsor.
* Dan contacted Alastair: he is OK with being our venue contact (email 2024-02-13)
* Ops meeting, handover
* TODO: Update website to reflect new membership prices

* Upcoming events:

* March 2024
* Second Sunday 2024-03-10
* Second Tuesday 2024-03-12
* Need to confirm venue?
* Pi Day/Raspberry Jam
* Promote event: https://events.raspberrypi.com/community/f74a0e43-e952-44a4-a84e-c246cdf6a71d
* ACTION: Niall: Get 12th-birthday pack

* PLUG-in-the-Pub 2024-03-25
* Irish pub? Fibber McGee's, Leederville?
* 711 Newcastle Street, Leederville WA 6007
* https://www.fibbermcgees.com.au/

* April 2024
* Second Tuesday 2024-04-09
* Perhaps workshop on Inkscape
* Presented by John?
* Second Sunday 2024-04-14
* T-shirt printing

* May 2024
* Hack on infra/committee
* AV refresh

* Future talks?
* Margaret: EMACS-based UIs for database applications (not until 2023)
* Yuchen: Haskell-code-explorer (unlikely to be ready in 2023)
* Locutus: Ian Clarke (Contact)
* Aidan - Graphics work (Confirm Sat 2024-01-20)
* Other event info moved here for non actionable items. https://hackmd.io/O85j6jvpR8SlIKln1UD_AQ

## 5. General Business & Matters Arising
* ACTION: Update website re: membership pricing
* Will require UGMM and website redeploys
* Concession: 20
* Full: 50
* Starting in 2024, when implemented

* 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
* Meetup/Google calendar
* `Matt Richardson <[email protected]>` ACTION: Promote relevant events on events.raspberrypi.com , need "Raspberry Pi ID"
* facebook?
* X?

* ACTION: Peter: Update PLUG addresses + update the address associated with the ABN (via ATO.gov.au?), ASIC (N.B. BenjaminA's new address)
* Who/what/where to contact next?
* https://connectonline.asic.gov.au/ , "Perth Linux User Group" ABN 58233849580
* 2021 was President's address
* Bank using Treasurer's address
* TODO: Pickup cashbox and GNUcash records

* Can we create a [PayID](https://payid.com.au/) 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
* Ask Bendigo Bank again, post-AGM-2024

* aws.amazon.com
* Bill due first few days of each month
* ACTION: (late 2023?) Nick: Contact Developer Marketing Manager for an event speaker+swag: quiz
* Plan is for PLUG to take over digitalocean.com bill directly

* New reporting requirements for tax-exempt not-for-profit organisations.
* https://www.ato.gov.au/Non-profit/Newsroom/General/Straight-from-the-source---August-2022/
* ACTION: Peter to fill in online form
* https://associations.commerce.wa.gov.au/
* Reports done up to 2023, next will be due post-AGM-2024-01

- ACTION: Grants: AV? Linux Australia?
- Ephemeral BBB instance, e.g. https://demo.bigbluebutton.org/gl/m-s-e73-zvh-5hy but with our own single-meeting build, run&record, download and teardown workflow
- update mailing lists: moderators
- admin/committee busybee items: get people using bulk actions on mailing lists
- ACTION: Purchase a smaller/lighter cashbox, suitable for bringing to meetings.

* Set up public Matrix channel to replace IRC channel
- Channel set up at [#plug:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#plug:matrix.org). Not advertised on website yet.

## 6. New General Business

- Committee handover
- Bank
- Update signatories
- Add PayID
- ACTION: Nick: Pickup cashbox, GNUcash records
- ACTION: Update PLUG addresses + update the address associated with the ABN (via ATO.gov.au?), ASIC (N.B. BenjaminA's new address)
- [ABN Search](https://www.abn.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=58233849580) shows current address at postcode 6153
- AWS has old address: volunteer to fix?
- rsync.net new card
- Mailing list mangement
- Membership processing
- ACTION: Nick: Pickup Raspberry Pi 5's?
- Infra
- Deploy membership pricing: website, UGMM
- Raspberry Jam event?
- card topup
- membership processing

## 7. Meeting closed by Niall at 20:10

- Post-meeting busybee
- Event calendars
- Facebook

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