Minutes/National Council/2018-01-29

Start: 20:36 PM AEDT (09:36 UTC)

End: 11:03 PM AEDT

Attendance

 * Emily Sievers
 * John August
 * John Jefferies
 * Mark Gibbons
 * Miles Whiticker
 * Peter Lawler
 * Simon Frew
 * Tom Randle

Apologies

 * Alex Jago

Other Attendees

 * IRC lurkers

Previous Meeting Minutes (Tom)

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2018-01-10

AEC audit (Tom)

 * We passed the audit
 * Tom noted the pass was down to members updating their details

Part 1 (Advertisting)

 * Miles is proposing $1000 for social media for the next 12 months or until the next federal election is announced around the end of this year, as per https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/socmed_budget_2018
 * Miles states that this will be solely ads on Facebook
 * Frew mentioned that we've profited from advertising in the past
 * Mark mentioned that while it is worthwhile to do, there may be diminishing returns over time
 * JohnA says he is in favour of trying something out in the interest of experimenting and is not an excessive spend
 * JohnJ wondered if we may need more money in than we spend
 * Miles mentioned that Alex suggested we check every 3 months to decide on continuation of spend
 * JohnA also suggested monitoring performance
 * Mark suggested attempting to keep track of which ads return best results
 * Miles wants to try a free account before trying a Buffer subscription
 * Pete suggested not advertising in regions that have active elections due to possibly conflicting with local election laws, and would decrease the overall spend in those months
 * Tom said that the problem with Buffer subscription is the Seats not the account limit
 * Conversation between Miles and Tom decided that they'd approach the Seats issue again at a later Council meeting if needed.
 * Tom mentioned we needed to discuss Inoreader subscription, Miles said we should make the decision about it in a separate Motion
 * Discussion about reviewing the spend centred around wording of how NC can look into anything at any time, but that we shall require reports so that the spend and team doing the work know what is expected.

Inoreader

 * Inoreader provides a service which we can use to automate finding new online content and articles relevant to the Party, for socmed commentary and sharing.
 * Tom has built a simple connector to push found content to IRC/Riot
 * A one year subscription is USD$49.99/year

Strategy progress (Frew)

 * Frew asked people to have another think about the Strategy https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Strategic_plan_2017
 * Miles thinks getting a Melbourne crew active is urgent
 * Miles thinks 'pazazzing up' the Sydney crew is also needed
 * Pete suggested some of the comments in the Forums thread noted at the end of the strategy be adopted worked into adoption into the Strategy

Crypto currencies (John Jefferies)

 * JohnJ discussed his belief for a need in a policy covering Currency and Lending that would incorporate Crypto Currencies
 * Tom suggested taking this to the Policy Development Committee, so as to expand the Digital Currencies policy

ICAC for Federal parliament (John Jefferies)

 * Mark said that our existing policy was to introduce a Federal anti-corruption authority based modeled on powers of NSW ICAC
 * Tom pointed out that NSW ICAC rules have changed their ICAC's powers so that we may need to change the wording in our polcy
 * JohnJ discussed ending political donations and that elections should be taxpayer funded
 * Discussion proceeded to talk about problems with the Policy document and that it is unweildy, being a single document.

NC 2018 meeting schedule (Tom)

 * Tom presented the result of his poll, where Wednesdays and Mondays eventuated as the best days to hold NC Meetings.

General Business

 * Frew presented the ICT Review paper https://pirateparty.org.au/media/submissions/PPAU_2018_01_PJCLE_impact_of_new_and_emerging_information_and_communications_technology.pdf
 * Tom reminded JohnJ that he needed a biography and photo for the website

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept the minutes from PPAU National Council meeting of 10 January 2018.
 * Put by: Emily Sievers
 * Ayes: (Emily Sievers, Peter Lawler, Tom Randle, Simon Frew, Miles Whiticker) Nays: Abstain: (John August, John Jefferies, Mark Gibbons)
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Approve proposal to spend $3 per day (approximately $1000) for Facebook ads up until end of December 2018 with reports to be provided to NC every 3 months.
 * Put by: Peter Lawler
 * Ayes: (Tom Randle, Peter Lawler, Emily Sievers, John Jeffery, Mark Gibbons, Simon Frew, John August, Miles Whiticker) Nays: Abstain:
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Approve USD$49.99 for a one year subscription to Inoreader for social media content discovery/automation.
 * Put by: Emily Sievers
 * Ayes: (Tom Randle, Peter Lawler, John August, Mark Gibbons, Simon Frew, Miles Whiticker, John Jefferey, Emily Sievers) Nays: Abstain:
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Meetings of the National Council for the remainder of the 2017-2018 term will occur fortnightly on Mondays at 8:30pm AEDT/AEST from 5th February 2018
 * Put by: Tom Randle
 * Ayes: (Tom Randle, Peter Lawler, Emily Sievers, Mark Gibbons, Simon Frew, Miles Whiticker) Nays: Abstain: (John August)
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: close meeting
 * Put by: Emily Sievers
 * Ayes: (Tom Randle, Emily Sievers, Peter Lawler, Mark Gibbons, John August, Simon Frew) Nays: Abstain: (John Jefferies, Miles Whiticker)
 * Motion carries.