Add August committee minutes

Author: jhenstridge

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+title: PLUG Committee Minutes 2025-08-19
+date: 2025-08-19
+---
+
+Meeting opened 19:39 PM
+1. Attendees
+    * Present: James, Nick, Dan, Harry
+    * Apologies:
+    * Absent: Wyatt, Paul
+
+2. Minutes of last committee meeting:
+   - https://www.plug.org.au/events/committee/2025/07-15/
+   - Proposed by James, seconded by Nick. Passed without dissent.
+3. Next Meeting: Tuesday 2025-09-16
+4. Reports
+   * Financials
+     * Bendigo bank status at 2025-08-19
+     * Main 2-to-sign: $2,520.87
+     * Business basic/Debit Card: $101.88
+     * Cashbox: Paul to recount and confirm how much.
+   * Artifactory invoice #1015800 on 2025-08-06 for Meetup.com share: $153.25
+
+5. Specific Business
+    - ACTIONS: Who / What / When / With(Action-Buddy)
+    - ACTION: TODO: James, buddy Nick: https://github.com/plugorgau/calendar-check
+        - No action
+    - ACTION: TODO: Submit our NFP self report under the category of "Scientific Association".
+        - James lodged 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 self reviews.
+    - ACTION: TODO: Harry: Confirm if Wyatt has access to WA Commerce now?
+        - No action
+    - ACTION: TODO: James to ask BendigoBank to add our ABN as a PayID
+        - No action
+    - ACTION: TODO: Wyatt gets a Bendigo customer#?
+        - No action
+    - ACTION: add Paul as an associate to the ABN
+        - No action
+    - ACTION: The list of contacts for our ABN need to be updated. At the moment they seem to reflect the 2011 committee.
+        - No action
+    - ACTION: The contact address for the ABN needs to be updated.
+        - No action
+    * ACTION: James to send message to Benjamin about decomissioning `edison`
+        * James emailed Benjamin. Offered to extend his membership in recognition of Digital Ocean payments.
+
+6. Events
+  * Review events:
+    * July 2025
+      * PLUG-in-the-Pub 2025-07-30: Gosnells Hotel
+        * https://www.gosnellshotel.com.au
+        * 6 attendees, 4 regulars.
+    * August 2025
+        * PLUG+POSH 2025-08-10:
+            * 8 attendees, 4 regulars.
+  * Upcoming Events
+    * August 2025
+        * Saturday 2025-08-23 Installfest
+            * Running at Collins St Centre in collaboration with JAFWA
+            * https://www.plug.org.au/installfest
+            * Help offers - Karl, Roy
+            * ubuntu, debian xfce-kde-gnome, mint cinnamon-mate-xfce
+            * add fedora
+            * Extended booking 2 hours. Cost will be $40.
+            * Tasks: write waiver, poster(h?), write USBs
+            * Gear outstanding
+            * Equipment to bring:
+                * Harry: microserver, gaffer tape, texta
+                * James: 8 port switch, ethernet cables, power board
+                * Nick: Beryl, 20m extension, 8 port PoE switch
+                * ???: 16 port switch if we can get it
+            * phone with data plan
+    * September
+        * PLUG+POSH Sunday 2025-09-14 12:00
+            * Focus: get email working on `iec.plug.org.au` ?
+        * Saturday 2025-09-20 16:30 PLUG-in-the-Pub at piratebar.net, Mount Hawthorn
+          * [Software Freedom Day](https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd)
+    * October
+    * November
+        * PLUG-in-the-Pub
+    * December - BBQ?
+    * January 2026 - AGM?
+    * Future events
+      * Dean's talk: IPv6? https://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2025-April/011841.html
+        * 2025-07-24 Happy to plug PLUG
+      * virtualised pfsense by Jasper
+      * DFD, HFD, SFD https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd
+      * John McCabe-Dansted: Workshop or workshops: home backups server: Raspi 0W, Samba, BTRFS snapshots
+      * Release parties: Ubuntu, Debian, more...
+      * Quiz night suggested by Paul
+      * Kings Park BBQ by Paul
+      * Installfest Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora others.
+
+7. General business
+    * ACTION: James to email plug@ about venue situation.
+
+8. Meeting finished at 21:01 PM