Monthly Meeting

Our next Monthly Meeting is on Wednesday 3rd September 2025
This will be run as a "hybrid" meeting, meaning we will be in person in the Borrett Room at the club but also opening it up to members via Zoom. Click here a little before 7pm to join the meeting on Zoom or make sure you have secured your raffle tickets at the door and are seated before 7pm.
This Month's MC Barry Horn will start at 7pm sharp.
Online registration details can also be found in our Events Calendar before the meeting date.
Finding us at Moorabbin:
This Month's MC Barry Horn will start at 7pm sharp.
Agenda
7:00 pm ... Guest Presentation: Alexar Pendashteh in person at Moorabbin
Topic: Technology Commons; foundation for Digital Freedoms
Alexar Pendashteh is a technologist and social entrepreneur who currently serves as President of Linux Victoria and is a former board member of Open Source Industry Australia. Trained as an Electrical Engineer, Alexar has built extensive experience working in government and universities and consulting with startups, SMEs, and enterprises before transitioning into roles as a business executive and mentor. He brings deep expertise in distributed technologies, cooperative business models, and mutual financing. Alexar is passionate about building technology commons that strengthen local economies and resilient communities, with a particular focus on sovereignty in the age of AI.
Hope you can join us in the clubrooms for a lively social chat.
Then...
We are going to have an extended interval with drinks and nibbles and an opportunity to have a bit of a chat and generally socialise. We will provide light nibbles, tea, coffee and soft drinks. Feel free to BYO beer or vino.
And then ...
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Member Presentation: David F Evans "Down the rabbit hole: Setting up a CNC Router in my garage"
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And we will hear from iHelp with Bert Alesich.
- To wind up we'll have as long as you like to chat over Zoom. Please feel free to hang around; the socialising is good medicine in these stressful times.
and last but not least ...
The restaurant has been arranged for WAFFLE, a relaxed social get together at nearby Fong's Chinese restaurant. Details and maps will be available on the night.
https://www.melbpc.org.au/
The meeting will recorded and subsequently published publicly.
See you at (or a bit before!!!) 7pm. Via Zoom or in person.
Regards,
David Stonier-Gibson
If you would like to submit questions for any of our speakers, you need to do so on the Zoom Chat panel.. All you need to do is join the 'Monthly meeting live' group and post there.
Monthly Meeting videos can be accessed here. You will need to login with the credentials listed in the members monthly meeting email.