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2020-11-17T00:00:00+08:00 |
PLUG Committee Meeting 2020-11-17 |
- Meeting opened by Ben at 19:42 PM 2020-11-17
- Present: Nick, Ben, Peter, Margaret, James
- Apologies:
- Absent: Paul, Michel
- Guest:
https://github.com/plugorgau/plugorgau.github.io/blob/master/content/minutes/2020-10-20-minutes.md
- MOTION: Proposed by Ben and seconded by James
- Passed with change to remove question mark from Absent members list.
- Proposed to be on Tuesday 2021-01-19 19:30 @ UCC BigBlueButton https://meetings.ucc.asn.au/b/nic-4cd-3jg
- Date to be decided by 2021 committee post-election.
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Financial Situation as of 2020-11-16 (Peter)
- Balances:
- Cash box
- $694.60 current, $582.60 start of year ($390.25 start 2019)
- Debit card (old)
- Expired current, Expired start of year ($40.86 start 2019)
- Business Debit Card
- $266.00 current, $0.00 start of year (opened June 26, 2020)
- Bank Balance
- $3731.47 current, $2114.42 start of year ($2754.04 start 2019)
- Receivables
- $x (Paul) from expired Debit card (old) load go.
- Total Assets
- $4796.53 (was $2801.48 start of year) ($3213.04 start 2019)
- Cash box
- Statement:
- Income
- $0.00 this month, $40.00 last, $2752.80 this year.
- Expense
- $0.00 this month, $130.00 last, $733.14 this year
- Net Proceeds
- $0.00 this month, ($90.00) last, $2019.66 this year
- Income
- Outstanding:
- Payables
- Up to date
- Receivables
- Transfers
- Up to date
- Payables
- Balances:
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Membership Situation as of 2020-10-20
- ? renewals
- 3 new in October
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Membership trends:
- 29 Current Paid Members July, previous month was 31
- 306 Expired Members July, previous month was 303
- 423 Members on meetup.com July, previous month 417
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Review of recent events
- 2020-11-08 Second Sunday PLUG+POSH hack afternoon
- 2020-11-10 Second Tuesday: DUG talk
- talk and tour of data centre
- Late RSVPs were almost an issue
- Would be a big issue for PLUG-catered events.
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Forthcoming events
- PLUG-in-the-Pub
- Fourth Monday? 2020-11-23
- Last Drop Cockburn? (Beeliar)
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December 2020-12:
- Xmas BBQ:
- BBQ Second Sunday 2020-12-13 11:00 @ King's Park
- then continue to...
- BBQ Second Sunday 2020-12-13 11:00 @ King's Park
- 2020-12-13 Second Sunday PLUG+POSH hack afternoo
- Xmas BBQ: same event? or different event?
- ACTION: Margaret: update calendar
- ACTION: Benjamin: update meetup
- Facebook?
- Second Tuesday: skip
- Usual committee meeting: skip
- Xmas BBQ:
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January 2021-01:
- 2021-01-10 Second Sunday PLUG+POSH hack afternoon
- 2021-01-12 Second Tuesday AGM
- ACTION: DONE: Nick: Confirm the following ACTION time in email
- ACTION: DONE: Peter: Confirm with Spacecubed/Amandine: No PLUG meeting in Riff in 2020-11, 2020-12; PLUG AGM in 2021-01-12 as usual
- ACTION: Paul: Formal AGM notice, call for nominations
- ACTION: Nick: Confirm with Paul in 2020-11
- 2021-01-23 -- 25 LCA2021 online
- Tentative PLUG-in-the-Pub 2021-01, usual February, March events
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February 2021-02
- Ansible AWX (Wings and possibly Michael)
- A look at the open source Ansible AWX project, which provides a way of controlling, organising and running Ansible playbooks in a handy web interface
- Ansible AWX (Wings and possibly Michael)
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Future:
- Steve S: Could organise a car rally: 2021-02/03/04/05?
- Promote at AGM?
- February is Fringe?
- March and end up at a pub?
- Raspberry Jam 2021-03?
- Foreman (Wings)
- No timeline yet
- MooseFS Expansion (Wings)
- 2021-04 possibly
- MiniMagnus Pi "Supercomputer" (Wings, check back in March 2021)
- Editing video with code (GStreamer Editing Services) (jamesh)
- First half of 2021
- Quiz Nights?
- Future Games Nights? (no, not for a while)
- Puppet talk (remotely - in talks with Puppet folks for BBB session soon)
- PLUG AV hack sessions
- Steve S: Could organise a car rally: 2021-02/03/04/05?
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ACTION: Event promotion: team effort
- ACTION: Margaret: email list with announcements/final reminders
- ACTION: Paul: meetup.com
- ACTION: Nick/Benjamin: meetup.com (backup) + facebook.com
- ACTION: Nick, All: calendar, backup where needed
- ACTION: Peter to investigate promoting on Twitter? (Official PLUG?)
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ACTION: Peter: will bank some of the cash box moneys
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ACTION: Paul: Needs to cash the load and go cheque $34.73
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ACTION: Paul: Amandine Trouillet - Spacecubed agreement
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ACTION: Peter: Update PLUG addresses + update the address associated with the ABN, ASIC (N.B. Benjamin's new address?)
- Who/what/where to contact next?
- Also AWS has old address: volunteer to fix?
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ACTION: Server migration RFT2019-11 (r2)
- General admin help always wanted, have tried to onboard through hack sessions
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ACTION: New signatory on Bendigo Business Basic account
- Join 2 other signatories during business hours; "Friday or Monday can probably be made to work for me" -- PL, BA, NB
- ACTION: Paul: forms are available at Bentley when convenient
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ACTION: Ben to ensure POSH meetup account is closed so that Stephen isn't paying for it - Still needs doing
Ben would like to formally thank all of the 2020 committee members ahead of the 2021 AGM. Thank you for your service.
Meeting closed by Ben at 8:28 PM.