Minutes/National Council/2021-07-01

National Council meeting for July 1st 2021

Agenda

 * Previous meeting's minutes
 * http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-06-03
 * Next NC Meeting
 * Congress prep?
 * General Business

Start: 20:33 End: 21:28

Attendance

 * Alex Jago
 * John August
 * Phillip Richards
 * Fred Gerner
 * David Kennedy
 * Bryn Busai (DRC)
 * Roger W (member)

Apologies

 * Miles Whiticker

Previous Meetings Minutes

 * http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-06-03

Congress prep

 * Report: Wiki is organised, Eventbrite is happening, presumably there's a FB event, Mandrake is AV lord again, policies are FINALLY updated to reflect all policy motions from last year... and we have one new nomination!
 * CAPs due this Saturday
 * "I would love to be able to argue about nominations this year" - Alex
 * Alex todo: voting server update

General Business and Reports

 * Alex's reimbursement still in progress, paper ugh
 * JohnA to get in touch with Joe Toscano and his "Public Interest Before Corporate Interest" party and try to convince them to join forces
 * Cooperatives and public housing focus -- we may have few conflicts there
 * Alex reminds John that there has to be some quid pro quo
 * John met up with a member in Sydney, good time was had by all
 * John has applied to attend the Right to Repair event in the ACT in person
 * "Try and get a four paragraph Position Statement out of that, would you? - Alex"
 * John did a quite decent CPI/Economics speech
 * More videos & video events to-do!
 * Rodney got in touch with Alex to organise domain handover, Nick is helping to sort it out

Stepping up Social Fridays (Fred)

 * "We've been thinking of stepping it up a notch and doing streams - candidate name '4 drunk Pirates'"
 * Not sure how to format it?
 * "One current event, one general discussion topic, one thing that ties in with the platform"
 * Musical interlude by Roger
 * "This is extremely cool; please make it happen" - Alex
 * https://www.alphr.com/connect-discord-to-twitch/ may be of use

Motions

 * MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous meeting on June 3rd 2021 as at http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-06-03
 * Put By: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 4 (AJ, JA, PR, FG); Abstain 1 (DK)
 * Motion carried 20:38


 * MOTION: hold a pre-Congress NC meeting on Thursday 15th July in the usual fashion.
 * Put By: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 5 (AJ, JA, PR, FG, DK);
 * Motion carried 20:41


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: John August
 * Ayes 4 (JA, FG, AJ, DK)
 * Motion carried; meeting closed at 21:28.

Action Items

 * Alex to ensure website calendar is up-to-date
 * Alex to update voting server
 * Alex to put out Congress reminder email on Saturday
 * Mandrke to look into multi-stream bounce server (so not just streaming to one platform)
 * Priority order for streaming destinations: Youtube, Facebook, Twitch, others
 * Streamster.io looking like the frontrunner
 * John / Alex / Mark to prepare Treasurer's Report