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| title: PLUG Committee Agenda 2023-02-21 | ||
| title: PLUG Committee Meeting 2023-02-21 | ||
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| title: PLUG Committee Agenda 2023-03-21 | ||
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| title: PLUG Committee Meeting 2023-05-16 | ||
| date: 2023-05-16 | ||
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| ## 0. Opening | ||
| * Meeting opened by Niall at 19:34 PM | ||
| * VENUE: https://jitsi.perthchat.org/plug | ||
| * Present: James, Niall, Peter, Paul, Nick | ||
| * Apologies: Ben, Patrick | ||
| * Absent: | ||
| * Guest: | ||
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| ## 1. Confirmation of Previous Minutes | ||
| * https://github.com/plugorgau/plugorgau.github.io/blob/master/content/minutes/2023-03-21-minutes.md | ||
| * Proposed by Niall and seconded by James | ||
| * Passed without dissent | ||
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| ## 2. Next Committee Meeting | ||
| * Third Tuesday 2023-06-20 19:30 PM - Online | ||
| * Maybe every quarter in person, to be discussed. | ||
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| ## 3. Reports & Standing Items | ||
| * Financial Situation end of 2023-05-15 (Peter) | ||
| * Balances: | ||
| * Cash box | ||
| * $639.50 current, $598.95 start of year ($446.30 start 2022) | ||
| * Business Debit Card | ||
| * $110.83 current, $167.17 start of year ($200.00 start 2022) | ||
| * Bank Balance | ||
| * $3324.25 current, $3610.89 start of year ($3885.20 start 2022) | ||
| * Receivables | ||
| * $10.00 cash being held by Nick as petty cash/float | ||
| * Total Assets | ||
| * $4115.58 (was $4418.01 start of year) ($4531.50 start 2022) | ||
| * Statement: | ||
| * Income | ||
| * $20.00 this month, $40.00 last, $40.55 March, $170.55 this year | ||
| * Expense | ||
| * ($54.21) this month, ($286.96) last, ($13.76) March, ($472.98) this year | ||
| * Net Proceeds | ||
| * ($34.21) this month, ($246.96) last, $26.79 March, ($302.43) this year | ||
| * Outstanding: | ||
| * Payables | ||
| * Receivables | ||
| * Transfers | ||
| * Unreconciled | ||
| * $86.30 cash to be checked if already booked | ||
| * $49.00 cash to be added to cash box | ||
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| * Membership Situation as of 2023-02-21 | ||
| - ? new members, ? returned, ? renewals | ||
| - Current Paid Members 28, previous month was 29 | ||
| - Overdue Members ?, previous month was ? | ||
| - Expired Members 324, previous month was 319 | ||
| - Members on meetup.com 486, previous month 479 | ||
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| ## 4. Events Status | ||
| * Review of recent events: | ||
| * March 2023 | ||
| * Second Tuesday Talk 2023-03-14: SBC Jam | ||
| * Niall: Raspberry Pi Foundation has sent us their new camera and a 1-year print subscription to [The MagPi](https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/) | ||
| * PLUG-in-the-Pub 2023-03-27: feniansirishpub.com.au , Adelaide Tce, CBD | ||
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| * April 2023 | ||
| * Second Sunday PLUG+POSH 2023-04-09 12-4PM at Artifactory | ||
| * Chris, Geminii, Nick got in touch on IRC | ||
| * Niall+Nick: Server admin | ||
| * BBB investigation | ||
| * Cloud bill payments | ||
| * Chris: Trying online meeting options: Jitsi, Jami, BBB, Zoom... | ||
| * Second Tuesday Talk 2023-04-11 | ||
| * Wings: See a home lab that's grown too large | ||
| * New faces, 14-15 people? | ||
| * AV node 1 was not easy to get going | ||
| * partial update of proprietary graphics drivers had happened in background, needed interactive upgrade to complete | ||
| * but first, the rest of the unattended-upgrades took 30-45 minutes | ||
| * Backup plan: Could not get audio mixer talking to presenter laptop (required too much power? and video out was fragile) | ||
| * Backup plan: Audio mixer talked to Niall's laptop | ||
| * No time to get AV node 1 camera running | ||
| * No PLUG backup AV nodes or parallel setup | ||
| * Benjamin D-S brought a camera+tripod, with ~1 hour of card recording | ||
| * Need adaptors/dongles: | ||
| * 12m cat5e ethernet | ||
| * USB-C to HDMI video out | ||
| * HDMI to USB video capture | ||
| * USB-C to USB-A to audio mixer | ||
| * Could not clean last phone number off sign - try acetone? cover with foil tape? another sign? | ||
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| * May 2023 | ||
| * Second Tuesday Talk: Custom Android ROMs 2023-05-09 | ||
| * Jasper: Alternative Android phone ROMs | ||
| * Refreshments: Nick brought some | ||
| * AV node 1 is with Nick, RFID cards with Nick+Niall | ||
| * UCC's BigBlueButton was unreachable on the night, so we ended up recording the meeting with OBS Studio | ||
| * Only used a single camera pointed at projector screen plus wireless mic. It was serviceable, but would have been better with a second capture card for the presenter laptop. | ||
| * It took a little time to set up the scenes. Would need a bit more to set up dual cam scenes. | ||
| * Second Sunday PLUG+POSH 2023-05-14 12-4PM | ||
| * Above-average attendance (with huge RSVPs!) | ||
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| * Upcoming events: | ||
| * May 2023 | ||
| * PLUG-in-the-Pub 2023-05-29: Norfolk Fremantle | ||
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| * June 2023 | ||
| * Second Sunday PLUG+POSH 2023-06-11 12-4PM | ||
| * Debian Release Party? see below | ||
| * Second Tuesday 2023-06-13 Talk if not Workshop. | ||
| * ACTION: Niall will confirm with Lachlan Barker: Linux sound/audio stack | ||
| * If not AV Workshop. OBS work and build AV node 2, 3? | ||
| * ACTION: Refreshments? | ||
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| * July 2023 | ||
| * Second Sunday PLUG+POSH 2023-07-09 12-4PM | ||
| * Second Tuesday 2023-07-11 Talk? or workshop? | ||
| * PLUG Admin? or AV in person workshop; build AV node 2, 3? | ||
| * PLUG-in-the-Pub 2023-07-xx: Stirling Arms, Guildford? Mon 31st? | ||
| * join/share for specials | ||
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| * August/September 2023 | ||
| * PirateBar@Mount Hawthorn / PirateLife@CBD ? | ||
| * or both, try to align with: | ||
| * https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay Wednesday 2023-08-16 (30th anniversary, founded 1993-08-16) | ||
| * https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases Bookworm Release Party, could be sooner, even Saturday 2023-06-10 | ||
| * ITLAPD Tuesday 2023-09-19 | ||
| * Second Tuesday 2023-08-08 Talk? or workshop? | ||
| * use part? of timeslot to work on PLUG Admin? or AV in person workshop; build AV node 2, 3? | ||
| * Second Sunday PLUG+POSH 2023-08-13 12-4PM | ||
| * Second Sunday PLUG+POSH 2023-09-10 12-4PM | ||
| * Second Tuesday 2023-09-12 Talk? or workshop? | ||
| * use part? of timeslot to work on PLUG Admin? or AV in person workshop; build AV node 2, 3? | ||
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| * Future talks? | ||
| * Margaret: EMACS-based UIs for database applications (not until 2023) | ||
| * Benjamin D-S: EMACS | ||
| * Yuchen: Haskell-code-explorer (unlikely to be ready this year) | ||
| * Locutus: Ian Clarke (Contact) | ||
| * Aidan - Graphics work | ||
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| * Other event info moved here for non actionable items. https://hackmd.io/O85j6jvpR8SlIKln1UD_AQ | ||
| * Allowing us to focus on the remainder of the items | ||
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| ## 5. General Business & Matters Arising | ||
| * ACTION: meetup.com: consolidate paid subscription with Artifactory, as confirmed on 2022-05-17 | ||
| Date: Tue, 02 May 2023 11:22:19 +0000 (UTC) | ||
| From: Meetup <info@email.meetup.com> | ||
| Subject: Important message about Perth Linux Users Group (PLUG) ?????? | ||
| * 2023-05-15 status: Fletcher, plus Niall, Nick, Peter, Benjamin, James, Patrick, Stephen ? | ||
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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 | ||
| * ACTION: Paul will update all events in Google calendar initially | ||
| * ACTION: Paul will update all events in meetup from Google calendar (tweak both as required to keep them in sync) | ||
| * `Matt Richardson <matt@raspberrypi.com>` ACTION: Promote relevant events on events.raspberrypi.com , need "Raspberry Pi ID" ? | ||
| * facebook? | ||
| * list email? | ||
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| * ACTION: Peter: Update PLUG addresses + update the address associated with the ABN (via ATO.gov.au?), ASIC (N.B. Benjamin's new address) | ||
| * Who/what/where to contact next? | ||
| * https://connectonline.asic.gov.au/ , "Perth Linux User Group" ABN 58233849580 | ||
| * Also AWS has old address: volunteer to fix? | ||
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| * Subcommittee: Review of PLUG mailing lists Discuss with mailing list members. Reinstate plug-announce and ensure all active members are on it to enable us to meet legal requirements for announcing AGM. This would require regular updates as members join/drop out. Margaret to investigate using UGMM for official announcements - script written to extract email addresses of all current and overdue members, used for official announcement of AGM and call for nominations. | ||
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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 | ||
| * ACTION: Niall to confirm with Bendigo Bank when account signatories process is happening | ||
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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: Margaret to investigate how to update our details | ||
| * ACTION: Niall to reach out to Margaret and confirm. | ||
| * On hold till contact person returns to choir | ||
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| - Bank signatories: Niall, Benjamin, Nick, Peter | ||
| - Print AGM minutes | ||
| - Collect AGM reports (also from previous years -> website) | ||
| - Perth? Paul + Nick + Niall | ||
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| - ACTION: Paul: Linux Australia grant money, when have stablised our events. | ||
| - 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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| ## 6. New General Business | ||
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| - President and Secretary to arrange going to the bank. | ||
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| ## 7. Meeting closed by Niall at 20:26 PM |