Minutes/General Meeting/2013-01-29

=General IRC Meeting (#ppau)=

Start: 20:00 29/01/13 AEDT

Finish: 22:06 29/01/13 AEDT

Agenda

 * Introduction and attendance
 * Assign minuter
 * Link to previous general meeting minutes (DavidCampbell) — http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/General_Meeting/2013-01-15
 * discuss roll-over topics from previous meeting (DavidCampbell)
 * Policy & pre-selection meeting venues (Mozart)
 * Fun things from the Secretary (Brendan)
 * ACT status report (Glen)
 * More detail on registration of parties (Brendan)
 * QLD status report (Liam)
 * VIC status report (Mark)
 * Quick PDC shoutout to encourage people to get involved (Sam)
 * Quick Webcast shoutout (sam)
 * Campaigning (everyone who hijacked Brendan's thing)
 * Event Calanders (VJmes)

Attendance

 * NC members
 * Glen Takkenberg
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
 * Brendan Molloy
 * David Campbell
 * Simon Frew
 * Sam Kearns


 * State Coordinators
 * Glen Takkenberg (ACT)
 * Thomas Randle (Tas)
 * Liam Pomfret (Qld)
 * Simon Frew (NSW)
 * Mark Street (Vic) — late
 * + Approximate attendees:
 * 12

Policy & pre-selection meeting venues

 * Meeting in 2 months for purposes of policies and pre-selection
 * If anyone finds suitable venue please inform National Council: nationalcouncil@pirateparty.org.au
 * near public transport
 * preferably <$600 for 2 days (flexible) <-- ie for venue rental
 * Good internet/wifi
 * failing good internet, need at least decent mobile/3G signal
 * size likely <50

Fun things from the Secretary

 * Pirate Party Australia is now officially registered for federal elections.
 * Post-registration membership database cleanup
 * 74 new (payable) members since registration
 * members may host and should host local crew meetings
 * Brendan is building a google maps ... map of population centres to work out where best members should host crew meetings
 * Membership breakdown (Confirmed members who responded to the registration emails)
 * QLD has 96.
 * NSW has 203
 * VIC 129
 * ACT 93
 * NT 4
 * TAS 17
 * SA 49
 * WA 66
 * TOTAL: 658 (ie members with valid contact information/verfied details)
 * Approx 90% male
 * Old data is backed up
 * "Autopen" http://nsw.ppau.brendan.so for NSW EC
 * Brendan has emailed NSWEC to see if allowed

ACT status report

 * report by taco (aka Glen Takkenberg)
 * ACT Rego delayed til DB work was done
 * A few short of rego, so recruiting to be done
 * First post-election meeting turnout was low (3)
 * Plan Cryptoparty?
 * Concerns re Camera networks on buses
 * would like to complete submission into size of legislative assembly (for better proportionality)
 * State/Territory co-ords will get spacialised DB access (CRM-type system)

More detail on registration of parties

 * NSW requires 750 NSW members for NSW registration/elections.
 * Costs 2000
 * Needs Physical signed form, no electronic forms
 * QLD needs 500
 * Vic 500
 * ACT 100(?) Free

QLD status report

 * report by LiamP
 * inactive lately due to exams etc (high proportion of uni students)
 * today's planned meeting cancelled due to weather
 * postponed to Feb 11
 * next meeting (11Feb) will host Anna Troburg (current leader of Swedish Pirate Party)
 * some interest from people looking to attend before joining
 * no o-week table this year but flyers on friendly tables
 * also LiamP has guest lectures on online privacy scheduled
 * did lose potential pre-selected candidate last month so no suitable candidate atm
 * now with rego more people should appear
 * Cryptoparty fell through (lack of qualified speakers and venue)

VIC status report

 * report from Faradn
 * started a meetup group
 * had a joint meeting with "Free software Melbourne"
 * 30 ppl on their maillist
 * 2 member & 2 potentials showed + 12 of their (FSM) guys
 * good interest in policies etc, nice BBQ but no formal minutes/actions
 * this week (thursday meeting) down to business
 * no post election contact from dhaidon
 * "meetup" $70 per 6 mths & keeping up facebook/twitter
 * vic generally slowed, focusing on federal for now (& policy etc)
 * 26 responses from member poll re meeting times, Thurs nights decided upon
 * sat also popular so potential change due to low turnout on thurs
 * any vic ppl - please join the meetup.com group
 * http://www.meetup.com/The-Melbourne-Pirate-Party-Crew/
 * Brendan will do a population centre map soon, should help with meeting locations etc
 * Progress re registration?:
 * dcrafti and dhaidon each came up with some notes / constitutional things they wanted to see but no document has been put together yet
 * incorporated association first step; but not necessarily 100% necessary
 * possibility of state parties forming as working groups under PPAU until there was enough reason to take the bureaucratic burden
 * next step likely faradn and dcrafti put something together from notes thus far
 * next state election 2014
 * federal election hopefully help springboard

Quick PDC shoutout to encourage people to get involved

 * work has begun
 * 7 members
 * see: http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_Development_Committee
 * working groups re particular polcies being established
 * email policydev@pirateparty.org.au if interested in helping develop/suggest any particular policy
 * email nationalcouncil@pirateparty.org.au if you want to formally join the committee
 * EVERYONE PLEASE HELP!
 * go to http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_Development_Committee, look over the policies being worked on, and send an email to policydev@pirateparty.org.au stating which ones you'd like to help with
 * tight deadline before March Congress
 * other tools like wiki, irc, pads, google docs etc used as needed, but use email as first port of call & check working group pages
 * Note: NC communication paper coming soon

Quick Webcast shoutout

 * good first attempt at live show
 * Sam, looking forward to live interaction
 * be good to have people hang around etc
 * suggestions: Sam.Kearns@pirateparty.org.au

Campaigning

 * should look at Linux.conf.au
 * posters, be good to target "Uni" cities/locations
 * t-shirt talk
 * payment gateway talk (eg "eway")
 * crowdfunding (rules re political parties?)
 * ... event calendars?

Action Items

 * Frew to email some venues re policy/pre-selection meeting
 * anyone to email National Council: nationalcouncil@pirateparty.org.au if they know of good venues (or Simon Frew: simon.frew@pirateparty.org.au )