Add July committee minutes

Author: jhenstridge

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+title: PLUG Committee Minutes 2025-07-15
+date: 2025-07-15
+---
+
+Meeting opened 19:53 PM
+1. Attendees
+    * Present:
+      - James
+      - Harry
+      - Nick
+    * Apologies:
+    * Absent:
+
+3. Minutes of last committee meeting:
+   - https://www.plug.org.au/events/committee/2025/06-17/
+   - Proposed by James, seconded by Harry. Passed without dissent.
+4. Next Meeting: Tuesday 2025-08-19
+5. Reports
+   * Financials
+     * Bendigo bank status at 2025-07-15
+     * Main 2-to-sign: $2,450.87
+     * Business basic/Debit Card: $153.01
+     * Cashbox: Paul to recount and confirm how much.
+
+6. 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".
+        - No action, James to send in.
+    - 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
+
+7. Events
+  * Review events:
+    * June 2025
+        * 2025-06-21: Scope out [Collins Street Centre](https://onlineservices.southperth.wa.gov.au/facilities/facility/collins-street-centre)
+    * July 2025
+      * Second Tuesday 2025-07-08:
+        * Event was cancelled due to losing access to SpaceCubed as a venue
+      * PLUG+POSH 2025-07-13:
+        * Four attendees: Nick, James H, Roy, and James S.
+        * James started looking at getting UGMM working on modern systems (again).
+  * Upcoming Events
+    * July 2025
+      * PLUG-in-the-Pub 2025-07-30: Gosnells Hotel
+        * https://www.gosnellshotel.com.au
+    * August 2025
+        * Second Tuesday 2025-08-12?
+            * Probably needs to be cancelled due to venue access, and in favour of Installfest.
+        * Saturday 2025-08-23 Installfest?
+            * Still need to secure venue.
+    * September 2025
+        * Move PLUG-in-the-Pub to piratebar.net, Mount Hawthorn
+          * maybe on [Software Freedom Day](https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd)
+          * (consideration of *Pirate Life*, Murray St; *Darling Darling* Fremantle & pub crawl)
+    * Future events
+      * Dean's talk: IPv6? https://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2025-April/011841.html
+      * 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.
+      
+8. General business
+    * ACTION: James to send message to Benjamin about decomissioning `edison`
+      * Droplet is now destroyed and reserved IP is unassigned
+
+9. Meeting finished at 20:28 PM