Minutes/National Council/2023-10-05

National Council Meeting 2023-10-05

Start: 20:30 AEST

Agenda

 * Previous meeting minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2023-09-07
 * Correspondence, reports, action items (Secretariat)
 * Discussion items, and motions
 * General business
 * Motion to close the meeting
 * Motion to close the meeting

Attendance

 * Miles Whiticker
 * John August
 * Alex Jago
 * Adam Woodings (from 21:03)

Observers

 * Milspec (member; until 21:07)

Correspondence, reports, and action items completed
None

Fusion report backs: Miles

 * State coords roadmap drafted (with Drew W)
 * Kickoff meeting on the 20th October
 * Implementation and adjustments from there
 * "This is where resources need to go from here on"
 * Experience and theory say go!
 * "we've done a lot of things which haven't worked"
 * existing models haven't been sustainable, clearly
 * core idea going forward of the organising cycle and avoiding resets between campaigns
 * Fusion as critical mass
 * Victoria 2022 fine-tuned Federal 2022, but Aston really got it right

Fusion AGM

 * November 5th
 * Andrea Leong has got some major constitutional proposals restructuring branch existence
 * Pirates are by far the most "independent" branch
 * If Fusion ever wants anyone else to merge with us, we need to keep a semblance of branches
 * Certainly major issues to work through e.g. around people who just want to be a part of Fusion & candidate selection
 * What we functionally need to do is add in state branches as the default, with ideological branches as an optional extra

Alex doesn't scale

 * tl;dr your Secretary has been basically AWOL for the last month
 * We have a lot of legacy software and a very low bus factor
 * NationBuilder being offshore and extremely closed-source is a bit anathema
 * Need change to make MemberDB more accessible to more people
 * No immediate solutions
 * Hope not yet lost on MemberDB
 * In terms of actual sending-emails-to-people there's also getting more people access to Dada.
 * Alex had intended to put twin motions to merge Pirate DB at Congress, but it didn't quite happen.
 * People identifying as Pirates submitting resignations to Fusion, data race condition.
 * Need to update Pirate join page
 * "Emails aren't enough for engagement"
 * Phone and text-banking gets so much more of a response
 * Adam: "how would Fusion people feel about sending out branch specific emails with Fusion infra?"
 * Miles: many objectors aren't around any more, but that would have to be a condition also.


 * Todos:
 * Top-level Dada access for NC members (with the expectation that e.g. John, Adam would be bus factor)
 * Revise privacy policy if needed
 * General meeting.

Actions going forward

 * Announcement email!
 * Alex: Congress minutes finalisation
 * Updated constitution & approval (Alex / NC)
 * Alex: add Adam's SSH to remaining two servers (Payments and Members)

Motions

 * Motion: approve the minutes of the previous meeting as at: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2023-09-07
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 4 (MW, AJ, JA, AW)
 * Carried 21:38.


 * Close the meeting.
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 4
 * Carried 21:39.