Minutes/National Council/2012-12-11

Agenda

 * Visit last minutes
 * Last official meeting — http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2012-11-27
 * Last unofficial meeting — http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2012-12-05
 * State Coordinator elections at next Congress (Brendan)
 * Membership post-registration (Brendan)
 * TPP FOI (Brendan)
 * PDC (Mozart)
 * Terms of reference — http://pirateparty.openpad.me/pdc-requirements
 * Appoint Mark Gibbons Policy Development Officer (if he accepts it).
 * TPP DFAT submission — http://pirateparty.openpad.me/tpp-dfat-submission (Brendan)
 * Resolution on Secretary publishing membership numbers regularly (Brendan)
 * By-laws publication (Brendan)
 * PPI conferences (Mozart)
 * Gazetting (Brendan)
 * Halt membership until after?

Attendance

 * Brendan Molloy
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
 * David Campbell
 * Simon Frew
 * Rodney Serkowski
 * Glen Takkenberg


 * Apologies given by Sam Kearns.

Start: 20:03 11/12/2012 AEST

Finish: 21:54 11/12/2012 AEST

Accept Meeting Minutes of last meeting

 * See motions
 * Both accepted

State coordinator elections at next Congress

 * Current appointment system does not appear to be working that well.
 * Members might want to elect their own state coordinators.
 * General agreement that states/territories with an existing council should not need a coordinator.
 * Currently NT and SA do not have coordinators.
 * No motion on this tonight; something to think critically about.

Membership post-registration

 * Discussion of how to implement new categories of membership.
 * Constitution states that the NC can make new categories, but the membership has to vote on them.
 * Motion to create a by-law to implement NC resolution 2011-2 (http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/National_Council_Resolutions#Resolution-2011-2) will be ready for next meeting.
 * General agreement that constitution will not need to be changed; by-law can clarify.

TPP FOI

 * Lazy non-response from DFAT.
 * Brendan will keep trying.

Policy Development Committee

 * See motions
 * Brendan stabs Rodney.
 * Terms of reference accepted.
 * Mark Gibbons appointed PDO.
 * Terms of reference modified by motion.
 * Policy Development Committee

TPP DFAT submission

 * Working on a submission over the Christmas break.

Resolution of Secretary publishing membership numbers regularly

 * See motions.

By-laws publication

 * By-laws to be published here http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/By-laws

PPI Conferences

 * According to Gregory Engels: extraordinary online GA is still on.
 * Travis McCrea says not to hold our breaths.
 * Frew will be attending it.
 * April 2013 GA may be boycotted by PPAU, likely to be in Canada.
 * Call for 2014 GA hosts will be in January, according to Engels.

Gazetting

 * PPAU will be gazetted tomorrow.
 * Discussion of whether or not to halt membership during the appeals period (until February).
 * Need to have Paypal sorted out as soon as possible.

Flattr

 * Discussion that it was unauthorised.
 * See motions.

Notification of intent to sign up to amazon glacier

 * IT intends to enable Amazon Glacier for long term data archives.
 * Cost is about 1c per gigabyte.
 * Cost will be 30c extra per year.
 * Hosted in EU and encrypted — not liable under US PATRIOT Act.

Membership database

 * Brendan will back up an encrypted copy of the membership database and keep it securely on a USB stick.

Motions

 * Motion: accept minutes of previous two NC meetings (27/11 and 05/12)
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.


 * Motion: accept the terms of reference for the Policy Development Committee
 * 6 ayes.
 * Motion passes.


 * Motion: appoint Mark Gibbons as Policy Development Officer
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.


 * Motion: accept the two amendments to the terms of reference
 * "The group will be co-ordinated by the Policy Development Officer (PDO), who will be elected by preferential vote of the membership at the National Congress."
 * "Applications for membership will be made to the National Council and will be accepted upon majority vote of the National Council."
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.


 * Motion: authorise the Flattr account.
 * 6 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

Resolutions

 * Resolution: The Secretary must inform the National Council at the first NC meeting of each month of the current membership numbers. The report must include how many individual resignations, new members and a breakdown of membership categories.
 * Motion: accept the resolution as worded.
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.