Minutes/National Council/2020-08-20

National Council Meeting 20th August 2020

08:30pm scheduled start time, in Discord.

Meeting commenced at 08:36pm.

Previous minutes: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2020-08-04

Attendance

 * Miles Whiticker (President)
 * Alex Jago (Secretary)
 * Dave "Satch" Kennedy (Councillor)
 * Fred Gerner (Councillor)
 * Phillip Richards (Councillor)


 * Bryn "mandrke" Busai (DRC)
 * Pip Foweraker (PDC)


 * John August (Treasurer, sporadic)

Minutes

 * Handover continued (Alex)
 * https://trello.com/b/8egn941W/nc-handover-2020
 * bios for website
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/national-council/
 * Action item for Alex to update
 * Action item for everyone to give Alex things to update with


 * Most of the rest is Treasury / Public Officer / Party Agent related (all John)


 * TODO: update the Platform to reflect updates as of Congress


 * Voting wrapup (Alex)
 * Announcements
 * TODO: email, website post, wiki page
 * seeking volunteers to help write
 * Miles is on it
 * Email can be a direct copy from the forum pretty much, website we might want to just use percentages.


 * AEC membership audit
 * general agreement that regardless of whether we try to pass or not, we still should run a big membership drive
 * Proposal: spend up to $500 on advertising
 * (Proposal still to be fleshed out)


 * Remix this! Meme comp https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/meme_comp (Miles)


 * (if we have time) PDC re-launch

Motions

 * MOTION: Approve the minutes of the previous meeting as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2020-08-04
 * Ayes 5 (AJ, MW, PR, FG, JA); Abstain 1 (DK)
 * Motion carried at 20:54


 * MOTION: close the meeting.
 * Unanimous; meeting closed at 9:55pm.