Add June committee minutes

Author: jhenstridge

content/minutes/2025-06-17-minutes.md

@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+---
+title: PLUG Committee Minutes 2025-06-17
+date: 2025-06-17
+---
+
+Meeting opened 19:45 PM
+1. Attendees 
+    * Present:
+      - James
+      - Nick
+      - Harry
+      - Paul
+    * Apologies: 
+    * Absent:
+      - Dan
+      - Wyatt
+
+3. Minutes of last committee meeting:
+   - https://www.plug.org.au/events/committee/2025/05-20/
+   - Proposed by James, seconded by Nick. Passed without dissent.
+4. Next Meeting: Tuesday 2025-07-15
+5. Reports
+   * Financials
+     * Bendigo bank status at 2025-06-17
+     * Main 2-to-sign: $2,250.87
+     * Business basic/Debit Card: $213.56
+     * 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 progress.
+    - ACTION: TODO: Upgrade James’ myID to Strong and lodge. Need to discover how to regain control of organisation.
+        - James H now has access to the PLUG ABN. Other associates on file were James B and Peter's executor. Contacts appeared to be the 2011 committee.
+        - Need to sort out adding new associates and update contact details.
+        - Paul happy to be added as associate.
+    - ACTION: TODO: Submit our NFP self report under the category of "Scientific Association".
+        - Thanks please the Committee says yes please proceed and No 5 No Charitable purposes.
+    - ACTION: TODO: Harry: Confirm if Wyatt has access to WA Commerce now?
+        - No progress.
+    - ACTION: TODO: James to ask BendigoBank to add our ABN as a PayID
+        - No progress.
+    - ACTION: TODO: Wyatt gets a Bendigo customer#?
+        - No progress.
+
+7. Events
+  * Review events:
+    * May 2025
+      * 2025-05-28 18:00: PLUG in the Pub at The Island, Elizabeth Quay
+        * Well attended.
+    * June 2025
+      * Second Sunday 2025-06-08 
+        * PLUG+POSH
+            * Well attended: Nick, James, Harry, Dan, James S, Mark W.
+            * Fixed immediate `borgbackup` problems, but likely to break without upgrading `sshd`
+            * Talked about upgrading the server. James put together a proposal here: https://hackmd.io/hWc4sXeRRkymUlWI21Adtw
+            * Focus: migrate server to new Debian? Backup run, may not work in future
+      * Second Tuesday 2025-06-10
+        * James: talk: VLANs
+          * James didn't get round to advertising the talk well, but got moderate attendance.
+          * We were in a small conference room at SpaceCubed, and did not bother setting up recording.
+          * Seemed to go pretty well.
+  * Upcoming Events
+    * June 2025
+        * 2025-06-21: Scope out [Collins Street Centre](https://onlineservices.southperth.wa.gov.au/facilities/facility/collins-street-centre)
+            * Meet at 4:30pm
+    * July 2025
+      * Second Tuesday 2025-07-08:
+        * ACTION: James to check if Jasper is interested in giving his pfsense presentation as a July talk.
+            * Sent message on Matrix on 2025-06-17. Waiting for response.
+            * In person at last event he seemed to be interested.
+      * PLUG+POSH 2025-07-13:
+        * Confirm if we should cancel because of resources?
+      * PLUG-in-the-Pub 2025-07-30: Gosnells Hotel
+        * https://www.gosnellshotel.com.au
+    * August 2025
+        * Dean's talk: IPv6? https://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2025-April/011841.html
+            * James and Nick to follow up with Dean to see if he can commit to this month?
+        * Saturday 2025-08-30 Installfest?
+    * September 2025
+        * Move PLUG-in-the-Pub to piratebar.com.au, 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
+      * 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
+   * Now that we've got access to our ABN again, we need to add more associates so there is a backup in future.
+       * Paul offered to become an associate. Follow offline later.
+   * The list of contacts for our ABN need to be updated. At the moment they seem to reflect the 2011 committee.
+   * The contact address for the ABN needs to be updated.
+
+9. Meeting finished at 21:00 PM