Minutes/National Council/2016-04-27

Agenda

 * Previous meeting's minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2016-04-13
 * Congress 2015 minutes
 * Pozible last throes
 * Membership Fees
 * Election
 * Pre-selection meeting
 * Fundraising round 2
 * Election materials
 * Party votes
 * Deputy registered officers (whoever)
 * General Business

Start: 20:31 AEST

End:  22:59 AEST

National Council

 * Simon Frew
 * David Crafti
 * Mark Gibbons
 * Fletcher Boyd
 * Thomas Randle
 * Michael Keating
 * Peter Fulton

Previous meeting's minutes

 * Typo fixes and minor corrections
 * See Motions

Congress 2015 minutes

 * Call for vote was done via email
 * Minutes: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2015/Minutes
 * See Motions

Pozible last throes

 * We did it!
 * Especially good effort by Rundll on promotion & management of it etc
 * Kudos and thanks to everyone who donated
 * Other parties and NGOs etc were less help than hoped, it came down to our members and other individual supporters for most part
 * MarkG will do up a nice PR
 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/memberdbwin
 * Total Pledged : A$ 12,610.00
 * Not Captured : A$ 1,935.00
 * Total Captured : A$ 10,675.00
 * so ~$2K of card declines
 * one of these is a single $1.5k donation that has been identified and will be captured soon


 * Also an issue found with Pozible where editing your donation results in being charged for each iteration of the edit
 * CAPT-Irrelevant got charged 5 times.
 * ie if someone donated $50, and edited it to $75, they've been charged $125
 * Rundll will contact pozible - e bug in their software charging people the full amount each time they tried to edit a pledge
 * Multiple charges bug amounts to about $500 worth


 * Now we will need to hit everyone up again for electoral stuff

Membership Fees

 * So far unresolved
 * Do we want to charge set membership fees? There were mixed opinions
 * Much discussion, especially around preferred default.
 * Shall keep "Pay what you want" for the first year at least
 * Don't want to hammer our members with a mandatory fee just after we've been hounding them over memberdb and election pozibles
 * Discussion of trialling a minimum with a subset of members nixed as would be unfair to those members.
 * Will raise membership fees as a congress item and/or a discuss thread
 * Decided shall set default value to $50 with the option for people to set their own value including to $0, thus retaining "Pay what you want" for now

Pre-selection meeting

 * We have only 1 NSW potental candidate at this stage
 * We have the email ready to go out
 * dcrafti said he would be returning officer
 * there's no reason not to close everything at the start of the meeting
 * Fletcher suggest's that people can add nominations right up until the preselection meeting starts
 * If we are going to leave it open for NSW we should leave it open for other states too
 * even though our original close was 25th, that doesnt necessarily preclude us from leaving it til meeting start, especially if we state so in this next mailout
 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/preselectionmeetingreminder
 * Concern that states with 2 niminees should close, but decided that better candidates trumps prompt candidates (depsite promptness being a personal plus)
 * a wider field is better in all cases to get the best candidate so all niominations will be left open til start of preselection meeting
 * For the meeting itself, it will be basically: candidates intro, questions, general election chat, close, vote
 * See motions
 * DanielJ abstains due to considering nominating for NSW to bring candidates to x2

Fundraising round 2

 * We are going to have to do this all over
 * we now have money again so the worst is over
 * We'll need to get materials, targets etc sorted out...
 * First goal will be making sure we have enough for 3 states
 * Ideally should aim for $10k.
 * perhaps $5k since we have already hit everyone up already
 * Do We have other options besides Pozible?
 * Crafti has met Luke a few times and ponders if we should consider approaching him to be the campaign manager for Victoria.
 * CAPT-Irrelevant will explore some pozible alternatives

Election materials

 * This is just to note, we are going to need content
 * lots of content
 * We will need update this asap: https://pirateparty.org.au/election/
 * The HTV design from canning is there
 * we might want to write some 'cheat sheets' for candidates to help with interviews and whatnot
 * MarkG will look into this
 * Also some material on https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Electioneering that could be of help, but page needs updating

Party votes

 * We need to run the votes for the financial report and the name change straw polls
 * perhaps can bundle in with the preselection voting
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2016-03-16#Rename_Vote_proposal
 * "The Pirate Party should develop proposals to rename the party for consideration at the upcoming National Congress"
 * if they can be combined, will do, if they cant then we wont.

Deputy registered officers (whoever)

 * We will need to nominate deputy registered officers to deal with state preselection bureaucracy
 * Last time it was mostly the first candidate on the ballot I recall but lets just do NC members per state we could have candidates
 * That way can sort it out beforehand
 * so NC or first candidate on case by case basis as per convenience/location
 * Perhaps do all states except SA, NT, ACT
 * Fletcher is already listed (from Canning)
 * Forms will need to be arranged, signed etc and fed trhough dcrafti
 * deputy appointment can be handled online, it is just a lot of back and forward of printing, signing, scanning, emailing. But for candidate nominations that RO will need take forms into office in person
 * ideally recommend that everyone get an electronic signature, so that we can skip the printing/scanning steps?
 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/election-2016-dep-registered-officers
 * http://www.aec.gov.au/parties_and_representatives/party_registration/Registered_parties/pirate.htm
 * DanielJ will do NSW, Keating QLD, and dcrafti Vic (already RO)

General Business

 * Snowden email needs to be sent, will go out when we arent sending desperately important emails the same day
 * Logo is sorted, currently advertised by AEC in objection period
 * http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/party_registration/applications/index.htm
 * no objections listed for ours so far
 * Period lcoses May 11

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept minutes for 2016-04-13 as amended
 * Put by: Frew
 * Ayes: 4 (Frew, Rundll, MarkG, dcrafti); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 3 (Fletcher, DanielJ, CAPT-Irrelevant)
 * Result: Motion carries.


 * CFV MOTION: Approve the minutes for the 2015 national congress as written
 * Put by: Fletcher
 * Ayes: 6 (Frew, dcrafti, MarkG, Fletcher, Rundll, Keating); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 1 (CAPT-Irrelevant)
 * Result: Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Extend pre-selection nominations until 4pm Sunday May 1
 * Put by: Simon Frew
 * Ayes: 5 (CAPT-Irrelevant, Frew, dcrafti, MarkG, Rundll); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 1 (DanielJ)
 * Result: Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Close meeting now
 * Put by: Simon Frew
 * Ayes: 5 (CAPT-Irrelevant, Frew, DanielJ, MarkG, Rundll); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Result: Motion carries.