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+title: PLUG Committee Minutes 2025-11-18
+date: 2025-11-18
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+Meeting opened 19:59 PM
+1. Attendees
+    * Present: Dan, James, Harry, Nick
+    * Apologies: Wyatt
+    * Absent: Paul
+
+2. Minutes of last committee meeting:
+   - https://www.plug.org.au/events/committee/2025/10-21/
+   - Proposed by Nick, seconded by Harry. Passed without dissent
+3. Next Meeting: AGM, subject to venue
+   - Next Committee meeting Tuesday 2026-01-20?
+4. Reports
+   * Financials
+     * Bendigo bank status at 2025-11-18
+     * Main 2-to-sign: $2,237.62
+     * Business basic/Debit Card: $141.56
+     * Cashbox: Paul to recount and confirm how much.
+   * Membership at 2025-11-18
+       * 23 current members (+0)
+       * 5 overdue members (+3)
+       * 1 renewal this month (+0)
+
+5. Specific Business
+    - ACTIONS: Who / What / When / With(Action-Buddy)
+    - 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 reply to "Expression of Interest - Perth WA - Everything Open & PyCon AU"
+        * No action
+
+6. Events
+  * Review events:
+    * November 2025
+        * Sunday 2025-11-09 PLUG+POSH
+            * 5 attendees.
+        * Monday 2025-11-10 John McCabe-Dansted: Workshop or workshops: home backups server: Raspi 0W, Samba, BTRFS snapshots
+            * 6 attendees
+            * Reset PLUG wifi, also used phone internet
+  * Upcoming Events
+    * November 2025
+        * Saturday 2025-11-22 [Installfest](https://www.plug.org.au/events/2025/installfest_november/)
+            * Collins Street Centre
+            * Harry and Nick have successfully tested a 5GHz point-to-point wifi uplink
+            * Any change to choice of live USBs ?
+            * Harry to install IRC server
+        * Wednesday 2025-11-26 PLUG-in-the-Pub, The Island at Elizabeth Quay
+            * Book table?
+    * December 2025
+        * BBQ on second Sunday 2025-12-14 11:00?
+            * Target: 12 attendees, pending more RSVPs 
+            * Consider inviting past committee members and other lapsed members
+              * ACTION: Nick, James, Dan?
+            * Need to advertise on Calendar/MeetUp now. Organise actual event next month
+            * To bring:
+              * James: sausages+onions+sauce
+              * Dan: ice+esky
+              * Nick: Drinks+bread
+    * January 2026
+        * Second Sunday PLUG+POSH?
+        * AGM: 2026-01-13 18:00 to 20:00 - date subject to venue availability
+            * Hire a room at Collins St Centre, South Perth? $20/hour? plus deposit
+            * Try to organise with UWA again? Hire a room? Space for 50 in the upstairs room.
+            * Need to have a venue where we can at least hold elections.
+            * Benjamin Lupton is willing to be a speaker
+            * Need a projector? Large monitor?
+            * ACTION: (jamesh): update members@ subscriber list. Make sure we call for nominations in the announcement.
+              * plus meetup.com event
+        * PLUG-in-the-Pub
+          * Rockingham? or
+          * Phat Brew, City West as a fallback
+    * February 2026
+        * Second Sunday PLUG+POSH?
+        * Second Tuesday? Raspberry Jam/Microbackup workshop encore
+    * March 2026
+        * Second Sunday PLUG+POSH?
+        * Installfest?
+        * PLUG-in-the-Pub
+          * March: Irish pub? JB O'Reilly's?
+    * April 2026
+        * Resolute Raccoon!
+    * Future events
+      * Round-table discussion:
+        * Set a topic, structured theme, hedgedoc with conversation starter ideas
+        * Promising format
+      * Onno: mentioned hosting a meetup to discuss what members want from PLUG 
+      * 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
+      * Release parties: Ubuntu, Debian, more...
+      * Quiz night suggested by Paul
+      * Kings Park BBQ by Paul
+      * Installfest Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora others.
+        * Regular venue at Collins St Centre, South Perth with JAFWA?
+
+7. General business
+
+8. Meeting finished at 21:07 PM