Minutes/National Council/2016-03-02

Agenda

 * Previous meeting's minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2016-02-17
 * Electoral Reform
 * Greens Meeting report back (Frew, MarkG, DanielJ)
 * TPP/Website Blocking Strategy Meeting report (Frew)
 * PO Box Renewal (DanielJ)
 * Investigate how to convert the organisation from a NSW incorporated association to a Federal corporation (DanielJ)
 * Raisely (MarkG)
 * Etsy Store (DanielJ)
 * Name Change Proposal (DanielJ)
 * https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/formal-proposal-to-rename-the-pirate-party-by-2018/682
 * General Business

Start: 20:39 AEST

End: 22:30 AEST

National Council

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

Apologies

 * Ben McGinnes

Previous meeting's minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2016-02-17
 * See Motions

Electoral Reform

 * This is happening
 * will change things with the AfP
 * Makes the odds of us getting elected any time soon much lower
 * Our Submission was great
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/media/submissions/PPAU_2016_JSCEM_Electoral_Amendment_Bill.pdf
 * nice work those who wrote it
 * the Greens and Libs ended up shutting down the inquiry because it was inconvenient
 * the JSCEM report was obviously largely pre-written
 * could mean a renewed focus on state politics and state level registration
 * we should probably run on the Fed election in the states where we think we could get state rego & use it as a way to raise profile
 * Some subtle low key feelers for candidate nominations have gone out, but nothing yet.
 * Will need to explicitly call for candidates soon


 * Ludlam was given our submission to JSCEM
 * Greens agreed to BTL in a party room meeting it seems
 * Overall issue may harm Green image in long term

Greens meeting report back

 * Simon Frew, Mark Gibbons and Daniel Judge met with Greens representatives regarding our concerns over electoral reform
 * Mostly platitudes to try and placate us
 * implication that they were happy to meet with us due to our less combatative response to electoral reform moves
 * Pointed out they kept member audit at 500 rather than 1500
 * They seem to think reforms wont benefit coalition too much, nor be too much of a barrier to legit minors.
 * The deal with Libs seemed pretty much set in stone. Their minds made up.
 * 'we're not going to vote against something that's been our policy for 10 years'
 * They do seem to be under a fair amount of pressure from other elements on the left, but reforms will entrench them as the main crossbench so in their benefit.
 * 'its a turf war justified with preachy rhetoric'

TPP/Website Blocking Strategy Meeting report

 * Basically, people thought doing a good sub to the JSCOT review was the best thing we could do for the TPP
 * If there is time we should put up pointers for others to do their own subs - try to encourage as many people to send in their thoughts as possible
 * With the website blocking cases, we should put out our guide on how to get around any blocks put in place by ISPs
 * promote it verily, like the data retention guide
 * like https://pirateparty.org.au/dataretention/
 * it is useful to have the pirateparty in the url cos it's an extra marketing/profile piece
 * Idea of a DIY guide for people to do submissions is well liked
 * just needs to be sufficiently different so they don't all look the same
 * We need people putting in time to gathering info for the TPP sub
 * And if possible, that info going up for everyone to pilfer to bombard JSCOT
 * Pad or wiki. maybe pad to start, compile into wiki to share when ready

PO Box Renewal

 * maybe best to wait tiol mark gets back for this one
 * just have the renewal notice for the PO Box
 * we save $5 if paid by 31 March

Investigate how to convert the organisation from a NSW incorporated association to a Federal corporation

 * we need to do this
 * minimum requirements of two board members from NSW makes NSW rego untenable
 * all other states have an equivalent rule
 * Thereofrm only option is federal corp
 * the investigation was insofar as what requirements to changing the constitution there are
 * whether we would have one constitution for the limited corporation and another for the party management itself
 * which me might if 80% of the constitution became legalistic bullshit that had no relevance to the Party as an organ
 * and the final aspect: reporting requirements. cost, etc


 * How about a constitutional amendment that in the event that there aren't two NC members from NSW, then some resident(s) can be appointed with limited council voting rights?
 * Then we can stick with the NSW incorporated association.
 * Note, this doesn't legally work as they have to have equal power


 * David Crafti to investigate this issue
 * we need to know:
 * What constitution changes/reqs there are for fed corp migration
 * What the motions at the next Congress need to be to create a new legal entity and move the NC over to it
 * timeline is congress

Raisely

 * Referred to MarkGs email
 * Raisely better targeted to ongoing donation campaigns rather than one-off specific goal fundraising drives
 * Doesn't really have functionality for award levels etc - if we wanted that we'd probably have to pay them to develop it if not a simple customisation
 * Raisely would primarily be a donation portal rather than specific item crowdfund drives
 * Raisely option would be best suited to create something like a "pirate party election fund" and then someone at a state level could independently spin off their own campaign to market differently but the money goes to us
 * so you could make mini campaigns on all sorts of things and the money all goes into a common bucket
 * it's good for general fundraising
 * Open ended ongoing campaigns, which could suit ongoing development enhancements to the MemberDB
 * but pozible etc could be better for memberDB initial goal raising
 * it looks like something good as a general campaign/donation tool but isnt a Pozible-style replacement
 * it's a fundraising management tool.
 * you create a broad campaign and people pledge things to the overall campaign
 * Suggestion made to look into chuffed.org as an alternative to pozible for cheaper rates?

MemberDB and AfP meeting

 * Brendan will also attend AfP meeting and tak on member DB
 * Project-M (memberDB) has been dubbed "Collectiva"
 * spinning it off as a community open source project which will get all of the feed-in
 * Brendan working on code right now

Etsy Store

 * Mark will ensure emails for Etsy orders make their way to DanielJ
 * https://www.etsy.com/shop/PiratePartyAustralia
 * ready to start sharing around.
 * First order has been posted off
 * DanielJ will likely do postage reimbursements in lots rather than piecemeal
 * Mark will look into banner image etc to piratify the store a bit more.

Name Change Proposal

 * only mentioned in NC meeting to acknowledge existence of discussion
 * name change should be party-wide debate and decision, not an NC driven thing, but facilitated where needed.
 * individual NC members can engage in debate, rather than the NC as a body
 * Has generated most traffic ever on discuss
 * Brendans tweet got RT'd widely and cause much notifications and European parties etc are aware of the discussion and reading the post

General Business

 * none

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept Minutes for 2016-02-17 as presented
 * Put by: Frew
 * Ayes: 7 (Frew, DanielJ, CAPT-Irrelevant, Keating_, MarkG, Fletcher, dcrafti); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Result: Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Close the meeting forever
 * Put by: Frew
 * Ayes: 5 (DanielJ, Keating_, Frew, dcrafti, CAPT-Irrelevant); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Result: Motion carries.