Add April committee minutes

Author: jhenstridge

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+title: PLUG Committee Minutes 2025-04-15
+date: 2025-04-15
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+
+Meeting opened 19:38 PM
+1. Attendees 
+    * Present: Dan, Paul, James, Nick 
+    * Apologies: Wyatt, Harry
+
+3. Minutes of last committee meeting:
+   - https://plugorgau.github.io/events/committee/2025/03-25/
+   - Proposed by James, seconded by Nick. Passed without dissent.
+4. Next Meeting: Tuesday 2025-05-20
+5. Reports
+   * Chairman's report
+     * Progressing on regaining access to our ABN. I expect to hear back from the ATO next week.
+   * Financials
+     * Bendigo bank status at 2025-04-13
+     * Main 2-to-sign: $2290
+     * Business basic/Debit Card: $147
+
+6. Specific Business
+    - ACTIONS: Who / What / When / With(Action-Buddy)
+    - ACTION: TODO: James, buddy Nick: https://github.com/plugorgau/calendar-check
+    - ACTION: TODO: Upgrade James’ myID to Strong and lodge. Need to discover how to regain control of organisation.
+        - James and Harry spent an afternoon working on this.
+        - Worked out what forms were needed to update our ABN.
+        - Mailed out the forms plus evidence. Waiting to hear back from ATO.
+    - ACTION: TODO: Submit our NFP self report under the category of "Scientific Association".
+      - Email reminder arrived: http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2025-April/011844.html
+      - ATO can accept or decline NFP declaration.
+      - Waiting on previous action item (need access to ABN).
+    - ACTION: TODO: Harry: Confirm if Wyatt has access to WA Commerce now?
+    - ACTION: TODO: James to ask BendigoBank to add our ABN as a PayID
+    - ACTION: TODO: Wyatt gets a Bendigo customer#?
+
+7. Events
+  * Review events:
+    * March 2025
+        * 2025-03-26: PLUG-in-the-Pub: The Mighty Quinn Tavern, Yokine
+          * Big turnout! some mailing list members
+    * April 2025
+      * Second Tuesday 2025-04-08
+        * Jasper's: Homelab Talk
+            * 8 people turned up.
+            * Talk recorded and video published.
+            * AV setup finished early
+      * Second Sunday 2025-04-13 PLUG+POSH
+          * 4 people attended.
+          * Processed Jasper's video.
+          * Sysadmin work on the mailman virtualhost: turn on lists.plug.org.au TLS.
+  * Upcoming Events
+    * May 2025
+      * Second Sunday 2025-05-11 
+        * PLUG+POSH
+        * Risk of lack of hosts?
+      * Second Tuesday 2025-05-13
+          * Workshop/Installfest: BYO software or hardware installation, problems and work on your worries
+          * Venue is not available: Storm emailed 2025-03-27: https://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/private/committee/2025-March/011826.html
+            * ACTION: DONE: 2025-04-15 Paul emailed Spacecubed to make sure one of the meeting room or another, is available 2025-05-13 and 2025-06-10
+            * ACTION: Paul, buddy Nick: Followup Storm@Spacecubed re: meeting room access on the second Tuesdays May, June
+            * ACTION: Paul, buddy Nick: Email committee a draft workshop announcement for May if we get the venue
+              * PLUG to bring a powerboard
+            * ACTION: James (buddy Paul) to update calendar+meetup once venue is locked in.
+          * Jasper has something to show re:virtualised pfsense
+          * RSVP Hosts at 18:00, Paul light snacks, Dan with the drinks+ice
+      * 2025-05-28 18:00: PLUG in the Pub at The Island, Elizabeth Quay
+        * RSVP: Hosts: Paul, Nick
+      * ACTION: Paul, buddy Nick: email to plug@plug "What's on for May"
+    * June 2025
+      * Second Sunday 2025-06-08 
+        * PLUG+POSH
+        * Hosts: Nick, James
+      * Second Tuesday 2025-06-10
+        * James: talk: VLANs
+          * Hosts: James, Dan
+          * ACTION: Nick: get Spacecubed RFID to James
+          * Dan: drinks&ice
+          * ??? light snacks
+    * July 2025
+        * ACTION: James to check if Jasper is interested in giving his pfsense presentation as a July talk.
+        * PLUG-in-the-Pub 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
+    * 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
+      * Release parties: Ubuntu, Debian, more...
+      * Quiz night suggested by Paul
+      * Kings Park BBQ by Paul
+      * Installfest Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora others.
+      
+8. General business
+  - Midterm goals, to be scheduled in email:
+    - Building more AV nodes
+      - Grants
+    - Hardware colo/Raspberry-based?
+ 
+9. Meeting finished at 20:57 PM