Minutes/National Council/2012-10-02

Agenda

 * Ratify previous meeting's minutes
 * Registration process and RT - Brendan
 * FOI statuses - Brendan, Rodney
 * Meeting with "a notable Australian" - Rodney (or Brendan if unavailable)
 * auIGF - Brendan
 * Best contact address for PPAU-ACT - Mozart
 * PPI - Mozart
 * Polly update - Brendan
 * Announcement email - Brendan

Attendance

 * Brendan Molloy
 * David Campbell
 * Simon Frew
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
 * Glen Takkenberg
 * Rodney Serkowski - 20:16 (Late arrival)
 * Sam Kearns - 20:19 (Late arrival)

Start: 20:02 AEST

Finish: 21:38 AEST

Registration process and RT

 * Mailout made to 837 members.
 * 310 people have confirmed/updated their registration as of the time of meeting; over 50% towards our goal.
 * Registration Working Group will be verifying data contained in RT tickets generated by the signup form against the AEC online checker.
 * Issue with the SSL certificate on Android devices and isolated browsers when visiting the signup form has been resolved.
 * Address enquiries@ will also be migrated to RT in the coming week.

Freedom of Information request update

 * Brendan lodged a FoI request for the classification database.
 * Scope for part (b) modified to suit the classification board's document management processes.
 * 2 years of RC content classifications has been requested.
 * Deadline of 17th October for a response from the classification board.
 * Rodney has lodged a FoI request for the National Security Inquiry legislation with the Attorney General's Department.
 * Expected release date next Tuesday (9th October).
 * AGD being tight lipped on the content.

Meeting with a notable Australian

 * He has been made aware of PPAU thanks to an activist.
 * Rodney spoke with him on Monday morning:
 * Deficiencies in Australian Democracy.
 * Youth of Australia have a big part to play in politics.
 * Principles of Pirate movement, liquid democracy, culture, transparency.
 * He was receptive to and in full agreement with our viewpoints.
 * In person meeting slated for later this month (possibly 15th).
 * Rodney may fly down to Melbourne, or meet via teleconference if many people are interested.

auIGF

 * Brendan and Glen will be attending the auIGF.
 * Liam P. may also attend.
 * Request for PPAU to be on a panel - "the case for and against compromising in the cloud"

Best contact address for PPAU-ACT

 * enquiries (at) actpirates (dot) org (dot) au is the preferred contact address for PPAU-ACT

PPI

 * Pirate Parties International (PPI) Court of Arbitration (CoA) has entirely resigned:
 * Minimum 3 members requirement is not met; extraordinary GA probable.
 * 5 weeks noticed minimum notification required by the Board.
 * PPAU has ~6 weeks to send the condemnation letter.

Polly (PWG) update

 * Brendan has a 2d voting prototype
 * Tackling issue with delegation chains for proxy voting
 * Possible potential with an American voting system under development

Announcement email

 * Announcement e-mail contents to be added to http://pirateparty.openpad.me/announcement-20121002.

IPC International Pirate Collective

 * pirateint.org exists
 * supplementary international organ to PPI

Motions

 * Motion: Accept previous meeting's minutes - http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2012-09-26 
 * 4 ayes.
 * 1 abstain.
 * Motion passes.


 * Motion: redaction of name from minutes
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.


 * That Frew be appointed delegate to PPI for the upcoming GA
 * 6 Ayes.
 * Motion passes.
 * Simon accepts the position.

Action Items

 * Glen to email NC tomorrow about candidate for the auIGF panel from ACT.
 * Add link and e-mail for ACT Pirates to website.