Minutes/National Council/2016-02-03

Agenda
Start: 20:46 AEST
 * Previous meeting's minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2016-01-20
 * Member Database update (Frew)
 * Member DB Pozible (Frew)
 * Fundraising Strategy Meeting (Frew)
 * State Branches & ToR (Frew)
 * Tassy weekend retreat (Rundll)
 * Congress (Frew)
 * Etsy store (MarkG)

End: 21:52 AEST

National Council

 * Simon Frew
 * Thomas Randle
 * Daniel Judge
 * Mark Gibbons
 * Michael Keating
 * Peter Fulton
 * Ben McGinnes

Previous meeting's minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2016-01-20
 * See Motions

Member Database update

 * Some delays as the project coordinator's wife gave birth - a legitimate enough reason
 * We don't have screenshots still so no crowdfunding campaign until we have stuff to put up
 * there's been commits on git today, so looks like it is still progressing even if it's a little slower
 * Pozible text needs polishing to be ready to go

Fundraising Strategy Meeting

 * We are planning to hold this next week
 * Frew started putting my thoughts down for a discussion starter:
 * http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/fundraisingmeetingdiscusspost
 * If people have ideas throw them in the pad or start a discuss topic
 * Meeting to be next Weds, 8:30pm AEDT?
 * Simple reminder email with date and time to be sent out friday or monday
 * http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/fundraisingstrategyannounce
 * Some input from Treasury would be great, money guys need to help get money

State Branches & ToR

 * We have had 3 people contact us interested in helping out state election committees
 * NC members are encouraged to participate in the state meetings wherever you live
 * We should call an all in meeting and invite everyone interested along
 * Need someone to volunteer taking charge of this - calling the meeting, setting the date and helping pimp it
 * we should maybe set up some kind of internal list or register somewhere to keep track of such people?
 * something else to look at doing is to go back over emails from canning and prev elections and find names of people who did HTVs in the past - next election we should at very least contact those people directly again

Tassy weekend retreat

 * Weekend before last tserong & $partner graciously hosted a few pirates down south (tas) for a weekend get away with a party focus.
 * We all really enjoyed the get away and spent the time working on a party project we picked at the previous hobart meetup, for soliciting tax time donations, to take advantage of the personal tax deductible threshold/incentive for political donations. (and drinking + great food + great people)
 * We've mostly completely a mini-website and calculator and some social media content/memes to run in the lead up to June 30th each year.
 * Will integrate it with Pin.js/Stripe forms to take donations, I'll chase up public api keys etc in the next fortnight with IT/Ben/MarkG.
 * IT for API Keys
 * It was really good, it'd recommend each state try something similar
 * Write up something for Discuss if you get the chance Rundll, good way to spark interest

Congress
What I mean is we should look at their policies
 * Brendan has floated the first Constitutional amendments for Congress this year
 * https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/party-constitution-amendment-proposals-for-2016/656
 * Tassie folks just about all have connections to venues down here
 * even the place we had the last meetup for a meal can host around ~30 if we booked it out
 * Need date and location locked in as early as we can, so people can get their shit together
 * our next meetup is 11th feb, we'll start looking to lock something in/get quotes etc
 * Date is technically locked in, barring any problems
 * we voted for weekend of 23/24th of July
 * We need to think about how we want the Party to run into the future, what isn't working etc
 * Work out what changes if any, organisationally we can adopt that would help out
 * Could be useful to look at Iceland
 * Though not necessarily applicable in the Australian context, Iceland is smaller than Wollongong
 * Some stuff might be worth adopting, but we are in an entirely different situation
 * Policy also perhaps
 * However we also have a broader policy platform already
 * Mozart will start looking into options for equipment hire.
 * Everyone think and feel free to float ideas however you wish, Discuss is good
 * emailing the NC to bounce ideas off is good too
 * We should also consider holding pre-selection at congress if we dont have reason to earlier

Etsy store

 * https://www.etsy.com/shop/PiratePartyAustralia?ele=shop_open
 * pictures of badges and stickers supplied to MarkG to list those.
 * Once updated formally open and promote, MarG to email NC when done
 * Remove white shirts for now as minimal stock

General Business

 * DanielJ will very likely be in Finland from 10th april to 27th april
 * Frews 40th is in a few weeks
 * we should draft a letter to non AfP parties about the royal commission thing
 * If someone wants to get their rant on, the TPP is getting signed in NZ tomorrow, a statement/ PR / Tweets would be good

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept the minutes for 2016-1-20 as worded
 * Put by: Frew
 * Ayes: 6 (DanielJ, MarkG, Frew2, CAPT-Irrelevant, Rundll, Keating_); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 1 (Ben)
 * Result: Motion carries.