Minutes/National Council/2020-07-21

National Council Meeting Tuesday 21 July 2020

Attendance

 * Miles
 * Alex
 * Brandon
 * Mandrake (DRC)
 * Parduss (member)
 * Satch
 * Twisty
 * ppweekly (international pirate)

Agenda

 * Previous meeting minutes (Alex)
 * PPWeekly joining the socmed team
 * Approve the Financial Report (Alex)
 * NC President renom and 2021 strategic goals (Miles)
 * Other renoms? (everyone)
 * Voting platform (Alex)
 * Final housekeeping for congress (Miles/Alex)
 * Final tech test this Thursday (Miles)

PPWeekly joining the SocMed team

 * Starting up PP-Hawaii, joined PPAU as international supporter (also with USPP and PPDE)
 * Goals for PPAU twitter: being there, being helpful
 * Runs @PiratePartyINT
 * "I wanted to take more of an international scope because Hawai'i has such a diverse community"
 * "I'm pretty active on social media, lots of experience on different platforms: YT, Twitch, Discord, TikTok and of course Twitter".
 * International law student, studying online, Very Online
 * NC: Welcome aboard!
 * twisty has visions of an international simultaneous Pirate campaign

Financial Report

 * Key points: we paid for servers, people made donations
 * Fraudulent direct debit recovered
 * Paypal still annoying

Voting Platform

 * Update: work is going well
 * voting.pirateparty.org.au in almost full operation
 * just jumping through the email-sending hoops
 * Expect a test election in the next few days

Re-nominations

 * Miles: renominating for President
 * Miles: likely that we would lose registration, intend to have a plan to pivot to advocacy org
 * Propose to use freed up cash to professionalise


 * Twisty not renominating
 * "I just don't have the time"
 * Willing to stand again to maintain quorum
 * "Esteemed National Council: After little thought and many rums I reluctantly conclude my limited time allowance, chosen lifestyle and work commitments hinder my capacity to contribute appropriately in my current Pirate Party Australia (PPAU) role. With a heavy heart, I will not stand for any party positions this coming term. If the incoming NC wish I will stay on as SocMed officer (fwiw)."
 * Working this weekend, sends apologies.


 * Alex is re-nominating for Secretary
 * "With respect, I disagree with Miles' financial model; I think most of our election cash is raised with elections in mind"

Pre-congress housekeeping

 * Sent out a reminder email
 * Re-bridged Discord and IRC
 * Discord and IRC are both fine as text platforms for Congress
 * Need to put motion text and results into YouTube comment stream

Tech Test on Thursday

 * Clarification: Belenios, like Oyster, is for post Congress voting, floor votes are to be done with Aye/Nay in chat.
 * Want to do a full load test on Thursday
 * make sure we're not overloading Mandrkes' / Satchs' computer
 * Mandrke has performance concerns
 * Satch has a good rig and gigabit/50 internet
 * 7PM Sydney time / 6:30 Adelaide ?

Motions

 * MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous meeting as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2020-07-07
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes: 5 (AJ, MW, DR, BS)
 * Motion carried at 20:49


 * MOTION: approve the Financial Report to be presented at Congress
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes: 5 (AJ, MW, DR, BS)
 * Motion carried at 21:05


 * MOTION: end the meeting
 * Put by: everyone
 * Ayes: 5 (AJ, MW, DR, BS)
 * Motion carried at 21:34