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| title: PLUG Committee Meeting 2024-05-21 | ||
| date: 2024-05-21 | ||
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| ## 0. Opening | ||
| * Meeting opened by Nick at 19:40 PM | ||
| * VENUE: Online | ||
| * Present: Nick, Sarah, James, Dan, Ben | ||
| * Apologies: Niall | ||
| * Absent: Lochy | ||
| * Guest: | ||
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| ## 1. Confirmation of Previous Minutes | ||
| * https://www.plug.org.au/events/committee/2024/03-19/ | ||
| * Proposed by James, seconded by Sarah. Passed without dissent | ||
| * 2024-04-16 Informal chat, ajourned due to no quorum, next meeting 2024-05-21 | ||
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| ## 2. Next Committee Meeting | ||
| * Tuesday 2024-06-18T18:30--20:30 | ||
| * In-person busybee for NFP tax exemption, event placeholders for ops/infra/PLUG-in-the-Pub, etc.? James' place | ||
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| ## 3. Reports & Standing Items | ||
| * Financial Situation | ||
| * Balances: | ||
| * Cash box (at Sarah's) | ||
| * Banking done, $198.95 current, $598.95 at start of 2024 | ||
| * Business Debit Card | ||
| * $222.95 | ||
| * Bank Balance | ||
| * $3042.25 | ||
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| * Membership Situation as of 2024-03-19 | ||
| - ? new members, ? returned, ? renewals | ||
| - Need to nudge new attendees towards formal financial membership | ||
| - Current Paid Members 26, was 25 at AGM | ||
| - Expired Members 333, was 332 at AGM | ||
| - Members on meetup.com 605, was 472 at AGM | ||
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| * Correspondance | ||
| * John M-D: 2025 panel on PLUG/FOSS/open standards? | ||
| ``` | ||
| Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 11:16:00 +0800 | ||
| From: John McCabe-Dansted <[email protected]> | ||
| To: ... [email protected] | ||
| Subject: Re: [plug-ctte] Run Panel at GenghisCon? | ||
| ``` | ||
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| ## 4. Events Status | ||
| * Review of recent events: | ||
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| * April 2024 | ||
| * Second Tuesday 2024-04-09 | ||
| * Workshop on Inkscape, t-shirt design, vinyl cutters: Cricut & G-WEIKE | ||
| * 28 views on youtube! | ||
| * Presented by John | ||
| * Second Sunday 2024-04-14 | ||
| * T-shirt printing | ||
| * Pi Day/Raspberry Jam | ||
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| * May 2024 | ||
| * Second Sunday 2024-05-12 PLUG+POSH | ||
| * new member! | ||
| * Second Tuesday 2024-05-14 | ||
| * Hack on infra/committee | ||
| * AV refresh - need a grant! | ||
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| * Upcoming events: | ||
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| * May 2024 | ||
| * PLUG-in-Pub: 4 Mates Bar & Grill, Bassendean. Thursday $1 wings! | ||
| * Thursday 2024-05-30 6pm-8pm | ||
| * https://www.4matesburger.com.au/ | ||
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| * June 2024 | ||
| * Second Sunday 2024-06-09 PLUG+POSH | ||
| * Second Tuesday 2024-06-11 | ||
| * Turning your Editor into an IDE with the Language Server Protocol by James | ||
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| * July 2024 | ||
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| * Second Sunday 2024-07-14 PLUG+POSH | ||
| * Second Tuesday 2024-07-16 | ||
| * Placeholder, look for outings, work visits; or infra workshop | ||
| * PLUG-in-the-Pub Wednesday 2024-07-24: Brotzeit | ||
| * Joondalup Lakeside Shopping City, 420 Joondalup Drive Joondalup WA 6027 | ||
| * https://www.joondalupbrotzeit.com.au/ | ||
| * 18:00 start (but happy hour is available, 16:00--17:00) | ||
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| * Future talks? | ||
| * written in for June, James: Emacs as an IDE / Language Server Protocol (maybe June?) | ||
| * 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) (Not at this stage) | ||
| * Other event info moved here for non actionable items. https://hackmd.io/O85j6jvpR8SlIKln1UD_AQ | ||
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| ## 5. General Business & Matters Arising | ||
| * ACTION: DONE: Nick: Update website re: membership pricing | ||
| * Will require UGMM and website redeploys | ||
| * Concession: 20 | ||
| * Full: 50 | ||
| * Tested a UGMM build with `diffoscope` | ||
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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: XXX: Update PLUG addresses + update the address associated with the ABN (via ATO.gov.au?), ASIC (was this 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: Create a GovID (not a personal one) | ||
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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: XXX 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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| * 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 | ||
| * https://www.bendigobank.com.au/ways-to-bank/real-time-payments/using-payid | ||
| * Interesting bearing accounts: only 1.45% at Bendigo, others have it at 5%+ | ||
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| * aws.amazon.com | ||
| * Bill due first few days of each month | ||
| * ACTION: (late 2023?) Niall/Nick: Contact Developer Marketing Manager for an event speaker+swag: quiz | ||
| * Plan is for PLUG to take over digitalocean.com bill directly: see general business | ||
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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 | ||
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| ## 6. New General Business | ||
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| * Benjamin (Wings) requested that we shut down the `edison` Digital Ocean droplet | ||
| * Just wants to get it off his billing, but more than happy to give like 30 days grace. | ||
| * happy to offer as many VMs as we want on Riff Labs | ||
| * ACTION: James: ask Wings: can we get an IP? for DNS hosting, mumble? | ||
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| * Domain renewal is due again: plug.org.au | ||
| * Tim White | ||
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| - Committee handover | ||
| - Bank | ||
| - ACTION: James: Update signatories, add James: CBD branch, early 2024-06? | ||
| - ACTION: Add PayID: Sarah: in bank when collecting her card. Cannot set up in app. | ||
| - Done ACTION: Sarah: 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 | ||
| - ACTION: Niall: Set AWS address: To Niall's place | ||
| - Mailing list management. Niall working on it. | ||
| - Membership processing | ||
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| - MOTION: Authorise up to $50 for a new cashbox | ||
| - Proposed: Nick Seconded: Dan | ||
| - For: 6 Against: 0. Motion passed. | ||
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| ## 7. Meeting closed by Nick at 20:46 |