Minutes/National Council/2017-01-25

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Attendance

 * Andrew Downing
 * Simon Frew
 * Emily Seivers
 * Michael Keating
 * Thomas Randle
 * Peter Fulton
 * Fletcher Boyd
 * David Read (Socmed)

Absent


 * David Crafti
 * Mark Gibbons

Previous meeting minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2017-01-11
 * See motions

Open Democracy
Andrew Downing: As you probably already know, I've been investigating the use of online participating/direct democracy, with an eye to incorporating some of this into PPAU in future.

There is a discussion group "Designing Open Democracy: Technical Discussion Group" that has formed from a collective of interested parties, mostly from the main groups trying to do this sort of thing in Australia. They were previously mentioned here: https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/designing-open-democracy-melbourne-meeting/942 I also expressed some views on those various groups approaches here: https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/designing-online-democracy-some-thoughts/943 Although this group is more Melbourne centric, I attended their last meeting via Skype conference.

There's a lot to be considered, but at this point, I think the mivote organisation shows some promise and they would like to open some discussions with PPAU.

Some key points to clarify up front: 1. mivote insists that they are "strictly ideologically neutral" 2. Even though they have aspirations to be a political party, this does not involve any kind of merger or anything like that. 3. there are various potential models for cooperation. They are open to discussion.

I would like to form a small working group from within the NC to meet with mivote, consider our options and report back to the NC.


 * Andrew Downing, David Read, Simon Frew, and Emily Seivers will participate.
 * Mailing list created

Flyers

 * Pad distributed for flyer refresh. Specifically intended for use at UQ.

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept the 2017-01-11 minutes as written.
 * Put by: Fletcher
 * Ayes: 7 (Andrew Downing, Simon Frew, Emily Seivers, Michael Keating, Thomas Randle, Peter Fulton, Fletcher Boyd); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.