Minutes/General Meeting/2013-06-04

=General IRC Meeting (#ppau)=

Start: 20:01 04/06/13 AEST

Finish: 20:37 04/06/13 AEST

Rules

 * Feel free to add anything reasonable you wish to the end of the agenda, and it will be discussed.
 * There is one speaker per agenda item noted in brackets.
 * Discussion on each agenda item will commence upon the speaker finishing.
 * When you have finished speaking on your item, ask for question and comments.
 * Wait until a speaker indicates they have finished before making comments.
 * People not conducting themselves as if in a meeting will be kicked (out).

Agenda

 * TPB AFK screening Sydney
 * Developing local crews
 * Congress announcement?
 * Steven talks about vote results
 * Any other business

Attendance

 * National Council
 * David Campbell (chair)
 * Simon Frew
 * Glen Takkenberg


 * State Coordinators
 * Simon Frew (NSW)
 * Liam Pomfret (QLD)
 * Thomas Randle (Tas)
 * Krystin Dix (WA)

+ various candidates and others

Apologies

 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer

TPB AFK screening Sydney

 * http://sff.org.au/films-container/tpb-afk-the-pirate-bay-away-from-keyboard/
 * This weekend (Free, Sunday 9 June, 3-5pm, Theatrette, Sydney Film Festival Hub @ Lower Town Hall, 483 George Street)
 * a few of us from campaigns will be there with pamphlets, Frew will be sitting on a panel
 * if anyone has any points to assist Frew, they can be added here: https://pressteam.piratenpad.de/12
 * http://dc84.com/2012/10/ipaf-get-with-it/ Blog post by David Campbell may be of help

Developing local crews

 * Local crews encouraged but the rules of "no rules" isn't really working well
 * so the NC will be implementing a framework for crews to follow
 * this should hopefully help make things less confusing and get more crews up and running
 * those with any input please contact the NC with ideas via email nationalcouncil@pirateparty.org.au

Congress announcement

 * Loose ends being tied up
 * will be announced tomorrow

Steven talks about vote results

 * A potential oddity in the vote results
 * eg NSW:
 * David Campbell: Y:74 N:9 [89.16%]
 * Brendan Molloy: Y:69 N:14 [83.13%]
 * but only half actually voted
 * Brendan Molloy: 37
 * David Campbell: 27
 * Similar issues for other states
 * Issues is most likely that: people voted in the approval voting but not the ranked voting to mean "I approve of these candidates, but I don't care about order"
 * Ranking is optional, some people don't care to rank.
 * From Bendan:
 * of the voting, only a couple were technically donkeys, and two were invalid
 * randomisation of candidate order is used to stop donkey voting.

Other business

 * comments of approval on the website design
 * donations at this stage at about $320ish per month