Minutes/National Council/2015-02-18

Agenda

 * Previous meeting's minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2015-02-04
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2015-02-11
 * Action Items
 * Leave of absence (Brendan)
 * PPI (Brendan)
 * Pozible Shirts (Secretariat)
 * General Business

Start: 20:30 AEDT End: 21:06  AEDT

Attendance (NC)

 * Brendan Molloy
 * Simon Frew
 * Fletcher Boyd
 * Ben McGinnes
 * Mark Gibbons
 * Daniel Judge
 * Michael Keating
 * David Campbell
 * Melanie Thomas

Previous meeting's minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2015-02-04
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2015-02-11
 * See Motions

Leave of absence

 * Brendan taking 3 months leave of absence
 * suffering from burnout
 * this does mean that the membership db becomes responsibility of the secretariat, including finishing the dead bits.
 * Fletcher is on it.
 * media strategy will be on the deputy president, which it largely already had been
 * and international whoever wishes to take it on
 * although, pirateint is being successful
 * wiki.pirateint.org/wiki/International_Contacts
 * 13 parties only one week in.
 * So Brendan will be effectively gone from the end of this meeting for all official duties
 * Anything you would need to ask Brendan can be answered by Fletcher or Mozart
 * Brendan will still dabble in some international issues

PPI

 * PPAU has resigned from PPI
 * via email
 * At PPI Board next meeting on the weekend they are trying to "resolve" their inability to accept that it's not a registered letter
 * They are planning to crowdfund $30 to send to us so we can pay for the letter.
 * alternatively they will just ask the Court of Arbitration (CoA) to declare us non-members.
 * Brendan also requested the CoA declare our membership invalid already
 * The meeting minutes also claimed Brendans resignation email wasn't PGP signed.
 * Brendan changed it to "definiely pgp signed, did you even read the email?"
 * pirateint happens, it has #pirateint, it will soon have a configured discourse

Pozible Shirts

 * Joe has shipped the shirts (badges and sticker packs as well)
 * as of yesterday afternoon
 * He had enough satchels etc left over to cover them all
 * Brendan has privately updated the pozible page

General Business

 * Brendan will be speaking at the Young Pirates Sweden conference in March
 * Also meeting some Belgian pirate at some stage
 * Also visiting London at some stage
 * Frew moving house
 * Daniel having some family issues that will affect availability
 * Davids issues have settled somewhat & back to 'business as usual' or close enough
 * Will get back to mashing paperwork at NSW fair trading and will get things in order and chase up some figures from Ben this week

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept the minutes of 2015-02-04
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 6 (Brendan, Fletcher, DanielJ, Frew, Ben, Keating); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Accept the minutes of 2015-02-11.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 6 (Brendan, DanielJ, Ben, Frew, Keating, MarkG); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Close meeting.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 9 (Ben, Keating, Brendan, DanielJ, Fletcher, mel, MarkG, Frew, David); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.

Action Items

 * David to chase Ben for some figures
 * Fletcher working on membership db
 * Pirateint discourse to be set up