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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: | ||
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## 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. | ||
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## 2. Next Committee Meeting | ||
* Tuesday 2024-03-19 - Online: https://meetings.ucc.asn.au/b/plug | ||
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## 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 | ||
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* 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! | ||
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## 4. Events Status | ||
* Review of recent events: | ||
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* 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 | ||
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* Upcoming events: | ||
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* 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 | ||
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* PLUG-in-the-Pub 2024-03-25 | ||
* Irish pub? Fibber McGee's, Leederville? | ||
* 711 Newcastle Street, Leederville WA 6007 | ||
* https://www.fibbermcgees.com.au/ | ||
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* April 2024 | ||
* Second Tuesday 2024-04-09 | ||
* Perhaps workshop on Inkscape | ||
* Presented by John? | ||
* Second Sunday 2024-04-14 | ||
* T-shirt printing | ||
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* May 2024 | ||
* Hack on infra/committee | ||
* AV refresh | ||
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* 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 | ||
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## 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 | ||
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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 | ||
* Meetup/Google calendar | ||
* `Matt Richardson <[email protected]>` ACTION: Promote relevant events on events.raspberrypi.com , need "Raspberry Pi ID" | ||
* facebook? | ||
* X? | ||
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* 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 | ||
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* 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 | ||
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* 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 | ||
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* 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 | ||
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- 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. | ||
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* 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. | ||
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## 6. New General Business | ||
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- 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 | ||
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## 7. Meeting closed by Niall at 20:10 | ||
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- Post-meeting busybee | ||
- Event calendars | ||