Minutes/National Council/2015-01-07

Agenda

 * Previous meeting's minutes
 * http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2014-12-29
 * Ben's absence (Ben)
 * Banking update (Brendan)
 * PPI update (Brendan)
 * Shirts (Daniel)
 * Goodbye forever! (Brendan)
 * General Business

Start: 20:34 AEDT

End: 21:28 AEDT

Attendance

 * Brendan Molloy
 * Ben McGinnes
 * Mark Gibbons
 * Daniel Judge
 * Fletcher Boyd
 * Michael Keating
 * Melanie Thomas

Apologies

 * David Campbell

Previous meeting's minutes

 * http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2014-12-29
 * See Motions

Past Action Items

 * Debit Card Obtained
 * MarkG talking to Nick via email on fundraising proposal
 * Shirts quotes on agenda
 * emails sent
 * AEC still to be followed up upon
 * Action item list still being worked on

Ben's absence

 * Ben emailed details to Brendan and DanielJ (but not NC)
 * Absence due to various personal matters beyond his control
 * Ben is now back and will stay back and available (barring any unforseen catastrophic events)
 * Ben commits to inform us as soon as possible if he thinks he wont be around
 * Reminder to everyone, missing meetings requires providing apologies.

Banking update

 * IT'S BASICALLY DONE YAY
 * Bendigo is closed and Brendan transferred remaining funds to ANZ accounts
 * ANZ Debit card exists
 * Reminder re opsec issues surrounding bank cards and banking issues
 * MarkG to get Xero properly set up asap
 * As of 6 Jan 2015
 * Transaction Account: $811.76
 * Savings Account: $7,145.45

PPI update

 * Our motion got knocked back and replaced with one that is functionally the same except names us specifically.
 * understood that it was Mozart who suggested they do this
 * http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_Minutes_2015-01-06
 * A Board member apparently wanted to sue PPI CoA for their decision in our favour because "they were not consulted" even though the complaint was against the GA and the statutes.
 * they were merely functionaries and therefore not a defendent.
 * Other various issues of note can be found in the PPI minutes
 * Early draft proposal of how Brendan would like to see GA handled: https://gist.github.com/bbqsrc/4d41201dce4d64f0d2dc
 * the most likely factor of whether the online GA fails or not will be if we can get quorum
 * Quorum = 1/3 of PPI member parties (~20)
 * need to attend Mumble meeting on 14th March
 * mainly to vote on minimal Rules of Procedure and Ballot design
 * Obtaining contact details for all parties still a challenges, some are informal organisations
 * Also: Masa has been removed from the board due to inactivity so our resignation trigger has already been met.
 * Item 4 was stable board: http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2014/Motions#FM-1:_Conditional_withdrawal_from_Pirate_Parties_International
 * this of course is of no consequence, but useful to know that wasn't even manageable.
 * Two relevant articles in Pirate Times
 * http://piratetimes.net/2014-an-eventful-year-for-pirate-party-australia/
 * http://piratetimes.net/ppi-board-cannot-collect-fees/
 * COA ruling: http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_CoA/PPI_CoA_Ruling_2014-1

Shirts

 * Yes to confirmation to order x20 instead of x15
 * Joe confirms over email he is ready to go for distribution

Goodbye forever!

 * Not really forever
 * Brendan leaves for Sweden next Thursday.
 * people still seem to not be aware of this no matter how many times he has said it.
 * he'll be sending an email to the officers@ list to make it clear.
 * returning in July (2015)

General business

 * Membership DB
 * to be completed by end of month


 * Attention brought to a tweet of Mel's regarding visiting anti-vax speaker that has been minsconstrued as minimising danger of not vaccinating
 * Mel ensures a mistake due to Twitters 140 char limit
 * her main point is support of free speech, even if disagree with speaker
 * Resounding support of vaccinations expressed by NC members during discussion
 * Mel angry when shown how 3rd party MT's her tweet taking it out of context
 * 21:26: Mel departs IRC/meeting

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept the minutes of 2014-12-29 as written.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 5 (MarkG, Fletcher, Brendan, Keating, DanielJ); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 1 (Ben)
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Close the last meeting.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * *** Ayes: 6 (Ben, Brendan, MarkG, DanielJ, Fletcher, Keating); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.

Action Items

 * MarkG to follow up Xero setup
 * DanielJ to follow up AEC re electoral roll postage addresses
 * DanielJ to confirm shirt order
 * Fletcher and DanielJ to set up/maintain repository of wishlist/action items etc