Summary for the impatient

The new PLUG committee for 2007 is:

  • President: Ian Kent
  • Vice President: Patrick Coleman
  • Secretary: Daniel Axtens
  • Treasurer: Mark Gaynor
  • Ordinary Committee Members: To be appointed on-list

Non-committee positions:

  • Librarian: Ken Muir-Hunt
  • List masters: Unchanged
  • Web masters: Unchanged
  • Talks coordinator: Alastair Irvine

Full Minutes

Meeting opened Mon Jan 29 20:17 2007

Members present included:

  • Bruce Axtens
  • Daniel Axtens
  • Tim Bowden
  • Patrick Coleman
  • Innis Cunningham
  • Mark Gaynor
  • Ian Kent
  • John McCabe-Dansted
  • Harry McNally
  • Ken Muir-Hunt

President's report:

  • Nothing to report

Treasurer's report:

  • PLUG is in a solid financial position.
  • Financial membership is a little down
  • Current funds about $1600

Moved by Daniel Axtens to accept the minutes of the last meeting. Seconded by Ian Kent. Carried unanimously.

Librarian's Report:

  • No inquiries about borrowing resources in the last year.
  • Two people have volunteered to take over.
  • Suggested reducing volume of old CDs.

Secretary's report:

  • Very quiet year for PLUG
  • Challenges for PLUG in the new year include finding a seminar venue, and finding UCC members to book/close our workshop venue.
  • Tim Bowden raised the possibility of PLUG paying for UCC memberships of committee members.

Committee Vacated - Elections begin

Secretary:
Daniel Axtens nominated by Mark Gaynor. Seconded by Ian Kent. Accepted

Daniel Axtens elected Secretary unopposed.

Treasurer:
Mark Gaynor nominated by Daniel Axtens. Seconded by Ian Kent. Accepted

Mark Gaynor elected Treasurer unopposed.

Vice President:

Patrick Coleman nominated by Mark Gaynor. Seconded by Ian Kent. Accepted

Patrick Coleman elected Vice President unopposed.

President:
Ian Kent nominated by self. Seconded by Mark Gaynor. Accepted

Ian Kent elected President unopposed.

Ordinary Committee Members:
Moved appointments of OCMs and librarian to PLUG mailing list and IRC.

Committee filled - elections end.

General Business:

None.

AGM closed Mon Jan 29 20:36 2007

PLUG Meeting opened.

Volunteer (non-committee) positions for 2006:

  • Librarian: Ken Muir-Hunt mentions that 2 people have approached him to take over the library. To be sorted out on-list.
  • Talks coordinator, listmasters and webmaster/webslaves: No change.

Other Business discussed:

  • Tim Bowden raises possibility of running another linux.conf.au in Perth. Fair amount of interest expressed. PLUG to work towards a critical mass of people to plan and run this.
  • Informal Lightning Talks - possible drop-in replacement for months were speakers cannot be found.
  • Seminar Venue - Will approach some universities - UWA, Curtin, possibly others - central location desirable. PLUG may need to purchase own Data Projector. Possibly have more than 1 possible venue. Should also approach some companies - HP, IBM, possibly others. Change of time mooted. Discussion moved to list.
  • Daniel Axtens asks about the recording equipment - current location unknown.

PLUG meeting closed Mon Jan 29 20:58 2007