Minutes/General Meeting/2013-09-10

=General IRC Meeting (#ppau)= Note: Special election debrief meeting "Lessons learned" pad here: http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/lessons-learned

Start: 20:05 10/9/13 AEST

Finish: 21:45 10/9/13 AEST

Rules
Rules conveyed as available here: http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/General_Meeting/Rules

Agenda

 * Debrief of lead-up to election
 * Notes for future campaigns
 * Debrief of Election Day
 * Notes for future campaigns
 * Notes for future election days
 * 'Party line' on election of other minors and other party preferencing? (DanielJ)
 * What to prepare before election is called
 * Further meetings
 * Immediate Future
 * Talk Like a Pirate Day
 * Consultation on Draft Australian Privacy Principles (APP) Guidelines (Mozart)
 * Consultation on proposed objects clause and patentability exclusion (Mozart)
 * Consultation on Review of the Innovation Patent System (Mozart)
 * More Stuff for the future
 * Pirates as a Movement vs Pirates as a Party
 * Analytics

National Council, Co-ordinators, Candidates and Officers

 * Simon Frew (Chair)
 * Daniel Judge
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
 * Mark Gibbons
 * David Campbell
 * Sunny Kalsi
 * Ben McGinnes
 * Glen Takkenberg
 * Brendan Molloy
 * Bryn Busai
 * Joe Miles
 * Tom Storey
 * + a number of other general members etc

Debrief of lead-up to election

 * Comment from Joe Miles: "You were all fucking stars!"
 * Frew thanks everyone for their hard work.
 * Overall we did quite well.


 * Due to "authorisation line" How to vote issue we declare that we authorise everything as a matter of course.
 * not the only ones to have issues
 * recent changed in electoral laws, missed.
 * thanks to all for hard work getting the line printed the night before where necessary.
 * Make HTVs bigger than DL, DL easily lost in the pile of bigger ones.
 * Public evidence of Brendan claim that 'he did a lot': http://mappingonlinepublics.net/dev/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Most-active-politicians-since-4-Aug.-c.png

Debrief of Election Day

 * Dressing up was quite popular with punters, or where there was otherwise a bit of flair
 * a welcome break from the standard fare
 * the name etc is good hook to pique peoples interest
 * sometimes people would come back due to hearing our name when they were otherwise eschewing all HTVs
 * Lots of our corflutes stolen, some vindictive, most seemingly souvenired.
 * one burnt down in QLD
 * lots of high traffic booths covered by volunteers
 * Great work by Asher, Taco, LiamP and others on twitter
 * pointing people to our platform etc when they musing on the "pirate party" name garnered a lot of potential converts
 * "Pirate Party" trended all day on election day.
 * twitter doesnt decide elections obviously, but fits well with our aim of using this election to increase awareness
 * Possible converts for next time
 * Come for the name, stay for the policies (a common sentiment, expressed in various other ways)
 * Pirate Volunteers very popular with many other party HTV volunteers and even candidates at polling places
 * many others taking our HTVs/Flyers out of interest
 * lots of policy questions and conversations
 * Idea of participatory democracy can sell well, especially to younger voters
 * increased targeting of dissafected youth could be effective
 * need to step up Uni based work etc
 * target youth unemployment (and quality of jobs)
 * People are reminded of the Policy Development Committee and that all members can suggest and propose policies etc
 * further policies on workplace stuff, economy etc could be good, unemployment etc. Need solutions, not just slogans or well wishings.
 * Lower House candidates next time?
 * Too exensive for value, but if people self fund etc could be good.
 * also work on local election levels and build grassroots etc


 * Note also, lots of ideas etc in the feedback pad: http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/lessons-learned
 * eg/also: more web systems, better planned spending on sites like reddit/facebook/delimiter/crikey/indi news sites
 * having designs premade for all sorts of promotional material, including easily reusable and/or fill-in-the-blanks designs. The less stuff we're having to create on the spot during the election campaign itself the better.
 * Letters to editor/local papers etc
 * lots of other ideas, eg: "tech savvy" volunteers to help out i ntheir local communities giving computer lessons to retiree and disability groups and communities under the Pirate name
 * Merchandise
 * Note shops so far at: http://www.redbubble.com/people/pirateparty, http://www.zazzle.com.au/piratepartyau More to come
 * Need also our own procurment systems and print/make our own stuff for better fundraising

'Party line' on election of other minors and other party preferencing

 * "Party line" not an accurate term.
 * PDC to work on an electoral reform policy as a matter of course
 * Brendan suggests: robson rotation (although still some issues, maybe some columnular rotation system; "Molloy Rotation") and optional above the line preferencing. Suggest we reject minimum percentages for attaining representation.
 * Threshold quotas can also be gamed
 * The sooner we have a policy here, the sooner we have a press release on it. We'll want our own policy ready before the Libs figure out what theirs is.
 * Not joining minor party alliance gained us lots of credibility

What to prepare before election is called

 * Mostly "everything"!
 * Candidates, pre prepared and prepped
 * ready to go designs for all materials
 * new HTVs etc
 * Ensure good suppliers in advance with less deadline (& shout out to how awesome & professional "Discount Printing" were)
 * Standard suppliers and local suppliers to be considered (also follow up leads on suppliers that other parties have recommended)
 * better organisational capacity (ie a functioning party bureacracy)
 * not good that DanielJ and Brendan had to develop so many materials themselves.
 * Procurement!
 * New "Quarter Master" positions to be defined. (eg Gator, see also Vjmes)
 * 1 per state perhaps?
 * Need to build state branches
 * this leads to building local member bases, and then target the areas people know best
 * Mozart and Brendan will start workig towards building templates for state constitutions
 * The Federal constitution scales down well to local/state
 * idea is state branches would just be a group within the federal Pirate Party, not indpedenent, but can have own state policies etc
 * See http://pirateparty.org.au/constitution/#2.1(4)
 * Note also preparing to register in NSW will be daunting task
 * also trend will be to make it harder to registers, need to get in front of that
 * Videos would be nice

Further meetings

 * General meetings to continue as per usual in a fortnight
 * NC meetings will be every two weeks, starting tomorrow night.
 * Mozart will email around for best PDC meeting nights, likely Tues or Weds
 * Then put in calendar

Immediate Future

 * sleep, rest, recovery (and stop having election dreams/nightmares)

Talk like a Pirate day

 * Talk Like a Pirate Day!! Only 9 days away, is a thursday
 * Would be a waste not to capitalise on it
 * Likely not enough time for a full fundraiser party event
 * Press team to do policy filled PR (Frew to start writing since he is on every committee by default!)
 * Maybe some mailout to members to encourage people to talk to people and get them on board, both face-to-face and through social media. Try to get Pirate Party trending on twitter that day.
 * also note: Cancer charity: http://www.talklikeapirateday.org/
 * Option to Register a register a TLAP picnic for Birrung Marr (park in Melbourne)
 * 6:30 event, gold coin donation perhaps. even if a small pillow fight flashmob, something to get some attention
 * Asher to present further plan to NC tomorrow if keen
 * possible sign up opportunity as well (ipad handy for joinform?)

Consultations to have stuff written for

 * Consultation on Draft Australian Privacy Principles (APP) Guidelines (Mozart)
 * http://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-engaging-with-you/current-privacy-consultations/draft-australian-privacy-principles-guidelines/draft-app-guidelines
 * We've only got 10 days to critique 5 chapters and the intro material. (actually less chapters, others arent released yet)
 * LiamP will take this on


 * Consultation on proposed objects clause and patentability exclusion (Mozart)
 * Suprisingly basic: a brief consultation paper with about three questions.
 * http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/about-us/public-consultations/objects-clause/
 * mostly about defining what the scope of patents should be.
 * Frew will take this on


 * Consultation on Review of the Innovation Patent System (Mozart)
 * Advisory Council on Intellectual Property's (ACIP) Options Paper, a review of the Innovation Patent system.
 * due on 4 October
 * Mozart will take this on (since he wrote most of the previous one on this topic)
 * Mozart also attending an ACIP roundtable in Sydney this Thursday.

General Business

 * the election pledge: http://getawarrant.org.au
 * immensely popular & very useful to push on social media.
 * MX ad well recieved:
 * https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3970124/mxs04sep2013syd002.pdf
 * Will need statistics people to go through election results when all counted
 * already some potential volunteers, need to be followed up on
 * tserong: https://privatepaste.com/46d4b47eb1 --- % of vote, pirate votes, total votes, state, division
 * Big thanks to Asher Wolf for twitter support
 * wants to do more social engagement events
 * Brendan and Asher will attend auIGF
 * This is also on in Vic if people are interested: http://wheelercentre.com/events/event/copyright-is-dead-long-live-the-pirates/
 * Asher will be attending this also
 * G20 on Horizon and draconian restrictions... Mel has been going to organising meetings