Minutes/International Relations Team/2014-09-11

Agenda

 * Communicating Congress Motion with PPI (Frew)
 * 5 Eye Patches (Frew)
 * Pirate Parties Asia-Pacific (Frew)
 * Communicating with Pirate Parties around the world (Frew/ Brendan)

Attendance

 * Frew
 * Mozart
 * PeterF (CAPT-Irrelevant)
 * Brendan (late)

Communicating Congress Motion with PPI

 * Congress motion:
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2014/Motions#FM-1:_Conditional_withdrawal_from_Pirate_Parties_International
 * Plan to formally draft an explanation to PPI about the motion to withdraw that was passed at the last Congress. Will put it in a Pad for editing. The final draft will be put to the next National Council meeting
 * Needs to explain what improvements we need to see to be satisfied it will get bettwe
 * Needs to include an offer to provide logistical help

Five Eye-Patches Meeting

 * Meeting held on Sunday Aug 31
 * PPAU has standing offer to help PPUS and PPNZ with mail servers, this is under way
 * Miles had sound troubles with Mumble, other than that it went smoothly.

Pirate Parties Asia-Pacific

 * Plan to make contact with Parties in the region, offer help and logistical support as required
 * Peter Fulton to search out contact points for the various Parties
 * Informal at the stage, the aim is to have communications set up, not create a formal organisation

Communicating with Pirate Parties around the world
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12594568/PPI%20online%20GA%20proposal.pdf
 * Need to go through PPI statutes to improve the language, grammar etc.
 * Need a proposal for how an online GA would work along with formal withdrawal mail
 * Andrew Norton put forward a comprehensive plan that was ignored by PPI
 * PPI ignored Brendan's request for contact points for all of the constituent Parties in PPI
 * We will try to get all of the contact details. Peter Fulton already working on Asia Pacific contact list, can source the others from Pirate Times