Minutes/National Council/2015-02-04

Agenda

 * Previous meeting's minutes
 * http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2015-01-21
 * Action Items
 * PPI GA (Brendan)
 * Pozible Shirts (Secretariat)
 * General Business

Start: 20:42 AEDT

End: 21:15  AEDT

Attendance

 * Brendan Molloy
 * Daniel Judge
 * Ben McGinnes
 * Michael Keating
 * Mark Gibbons
 * Simon Frew
 * Fletcher Boyd (20:47)

Apologies

 * Fletcher Boyd (Maybe)

Previous meeting's minutes

 * http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2015-01-21
 * Some typos in names needed fixing
 * See motions

Action Items

 * Credit Card
 * Acquired and stuff being moved to it
 * Brendan expresses fervent hope that nothing this month comes from his own cards.

PPI GA

 * It's happening
 * The PPI board failed to have a quorate meeting last night
 * Nobody else has applied to be on the GA team yet but that is not surprising
 * http://wiki.pp-international.net/Online_GA_2015/SAPs/A_Collaborative_PPI_(Complete_Statute_Overhaul)
 * the talk page has already been rigorously used
 * http://wiki.pp-international.net/Talk:Online_GA_2015/SAPs/A_Collaborative_PPI_(Complete_Statute_Overhaul)
 * so the model is working pretty well
 * Brendan still thinks the chances of a positive outcome are slim
 * But either way it's important distinction from our original troubles: if we fail now, it is due to the PPI _members_ being shit, not the board.
 * The board has given us full control over this GA.
 * The UK, for example, doesn't know who their PPI delegate is. Others who set up meetings with Brendan then fail to attend those meetings and go dark.
 * We need at least 1/3 of members to give a shit
 * Brendan speaking at the Swedish Young Pirates GA in March
 * Brendan being located in Europe atm has changed quite a few attitudes
 * Note that this PPI overhaul is an all or nothing
 * we either get it or we leave, there can be no exceptions.
 * no point staying around as the current PPI has proven unfixable and unworkable without a rewrite.

Pozible Shirts

 * Daniel emailed Joe
 * Joe has been busy but reckons he should have enough for postage (ie satchels etc) and beginning address envelopes tonight

General Business

 * Study, illnesses and dealing with PPI has meant Brendan has had to put aside member DB work for now
 * Assistance with it would be greatly appreciated
 * It'll take as long as it takes: Every time Brendan puts a deadline on it he gets ill.
 * a more collaborative PPI next year would be great as countries can share infrastructure resources etc:
 * eg PP Argentina prints some amazing code  and they're excited by this new model of organisation so they would be involved :)


 * Thank you card received in the mail from Linguistico from using their translation service

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept the minutes of 2015-01-21
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 5 (Keating, Ben, Brendan, Frew, MarkG); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 1 (DanielJ)
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: End this meeting.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 5 (Brendan, Keating, Ben, DanielJ, MarkG); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.