Minutes/General Meeting/2014-04-22

=General IRC Meeting (#ppau)=

Start: 20:05 22/04/14 AEST

Finish: 20:49 22/04/14 AEST

Agenda

 * Upcoming Congress
 * State & Territory reports
 * ACT (Glen)
 * NSW (Sunny)
 * Qld (Mel) - Michael :)
 * SA (Bryn)
 * Tas (Tim)
 * Vic (Ben)
 * WA (Fletcher)
 * Any other business

National Council, Co-ordinators and Officers

 * Simon Frew (Chair)
 * Daniel Judge (NC)
 * Melanie Thomas (NC)
 * Glen Takkenberg (NC)
 * Tim Serong (Tas)
 * David Campbell (NC)
 * Michael Keating (Qld)
 * Bryn Busai (SA)
 * Rebecca Howard (Social Media)

Apologies

 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer (NC, Press, PDC)

General Announcements

 * Reminder of PDC Page: http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_Development_Committee

National Congress

 * It is in Brisbane this year, just locking in a venue (probably the Irish Club) before we do the official announcement
 * Michael is doing a recon tomorrow to do some tech stuff - testing the internet speed, the 4G etc
 * There is a likley alternative option if the Irish club proves unsuitable
 * We'll have the usual online participation options
 * Will have new policies to decide
 * Elect a new NC
 * Mel also looking into some guest/keynote speaker options

QLD

 * Have set a date for a Brisbane meetup for the last Wednesday night of each month
 * May not work for everyone so happy to be flexible, but we will lock it in for next Wednesday and see what happens!
 * May instead go with Thursday

NSW

 * Meeting Saturday in Sydney, 12pm Paragon hotel...
 * Brendan and Frew had beers with Ludlam last week, he was in good spirits as you would imagine
 * Newcastle meeting was a fizzer
 * David to leave it in newcastle peeps hands if they want to get involved, in the meantime David and Sam are meeting each Tuesday in Maitland
 * Daniel will start looking into restarting Wollongong meeting soon, depending Doctors visit outcomes

WA

 * Had a post election thing.
 * Next social gathering will probably be at the moon and sixpence because we need more beer on tap

ACT

 * Glen sent out an announcement email to ACT members asking for input on when they'd like to hold meetups, mid-week seems like the preferred option from the couple of responses that he got.
 * Will be holding it next week

Tas

 * Had another in person meeting
 * minutes http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/Hobart_Meeting/2014-04-10)
 * Incredibly, there were 7 people, which is probably some sort of record
 * Tim appointed tas state coordinator
 * His intended mission is to keep the meetings going
 * One important action item is to find all the people who signed up to be on the state branch formation working group back in November(?)

SA

 * SA can use electronic signature for registration purposes

General Business

 * Rebecca states that if anyone is interested in helping out with socmed stuff, shoot her a message and join #ppau-socmed
 * Fletcher and Rebecca are working out a system for adding people to Twitter on a third party app/site for better overisght, account control