Category:Pirate Bureau

Pirate Bureau Ops Guide

DRAFT - NOT AUTHORISED

this pad https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/PropagandaMinistryTOR supercedes and over-rules everything below. THIS IS A DRAFT

the Pirate Bureau Operations Guide
The Pirate Bureau Steering Crew (a formal Pirate Party Committee) was formed to amalgamate the Social Media, Design and Press Teams. The Steering Crew goal is to encourage participation and streamline Pirate Party Artwork creation, consideration, approval and use. The primary vehicle the Steering Crew will employ to realise these goals is the "Pirate Bureau" or the Bureau. The Bureau aims to be an ongoing experimental "Art House" focused on producing "Pirate Art" appropriate for inclusion with Pirate Party Policies and Press Releases. The Bureau promots a collaborative creative culture. Anyone can join.

Mistakes will be made, and learnt from.

Nomenclature
"Pirate Bureau" - "Steering Crew" - "Bosun" - "Deck Hand" - "SocMed Crew". It's about the "vibe". The Pirate Partys' Pirate Bureau should use Pirate and nautical terms (Duh). The Bureau should be a fun place, not a committee (that's what the Steering Crew is for). Think of it as an "Art House" ... for Pirate Artists. So, nautical names, Pirate names and fun titles. "Bosuns" for any Steering Committee member, except NC Officers because: they're already Officers.

Pirate Art
"Pirate Artworks" is any Pirate Party approved creative "Artworks" that promote Pirate Party ideology and policies. Pirate Artworks creators are "Artists", not "contributors". Give a Pirate some credit ... Authorised Pirate Art is stored in the Pirate Treasure Trove.

Pirate Bureau creation how-to (2b deleted)
The Pirate Bureau Steering Crew (short "Steering Crew") is created (by the NC) and is the responsible official entity. This is good because:
 * It relieves the artwork authorisation process bottleneck.
 * It absorbs Socmed, Press and Design Teams, with the current team ToR's used to guide the Steering Crew.

At this point the NC can stand back and watch.

The Steering Crew creates and manages the "Pirate Bureau", using (but limited to):
 * a dedicated discourse category ("Pirate Bureau Forum") and
 * irc (#ppau-bureau).

Membership of the Pirate Bureau
Pirate Bureau Membership is open to anyone, not just Pirates. Simply apply to join the Pirate Bureau in the Bureau Forum thread "Cadet Applications". Once approved posting rights are given and ... tada! You're a Pirate Bureau Cadet!

Positions within the Pirate Bureau
Rationale

Do the SocMed, Press and Design appointed positions have to be called "Officers"? They could be easily confused with the new NC positions next year. How about "Chief"? "Chief" better describes the duties of these 3 positions and aids in differentiating between NC members and appointed positions. "Chief Mozart". I like it! (makes him sound badass) Let's be Pirates! or at least let the Bureau be Pirates ... even if you don't want to be :P

Officer - a member of the National Council (mentioned to provide context). Quartermaster - Only one. Ex NC member. (included because: it's cool having a Pirate Party Quartermaster). Chief - Any Bosun also tasked with managing a Crew (think Working Group). Bosun - Authorised Pirate Party Committee member (eg Steering, PDC). A Pirate. Formal authority as defined by NC. Deck Hand - a recognised Crew (think Working Group) member. No formal authority. Cadet - Anyone who is accepted as a Pirate Bureau member (eg. via the application thread in the Bureau Forum). No formal authority.

Pirate Bureau Steering Committee
See Administration in the ToR above. The Steering Committee also manages the Crews (below). The Steering Committee has three (3) Chiefs and should have (at least) three (3) Bosuns.

Pirate Bureau Crews (think Working Groups)
These crews are the same Working Groups, just renamed. Any current WG members can go straight to those Crews once they've joined the Bureau.
 * Design Crew
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Design_Team
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Design
 * Help make Art-ammo
 * Maintain the Pirate Artworks Trove https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Category:Pirate_Artworks_Trove (test)
 * SocMed Crew (6 positions? thinking restricting access to posting as ppau) https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Social_Media_Team
 * Fire Art-ammo
 * Maintain PPAU SocMed accounts including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Youtube etc.
 * Press Crew
 * Help make and fire Art-ammo
 * Do Press Releases

Note: An example of a Pirate Bureau campaign/project NOW would be PAX2016 Pax Pirata. just sayin.

If any Pirate Party committees or working groups external to the Bureau would like to adopt these names then I suspect the Bureau can come up with some licensing arrangement.

more to come ...