Minutes/National Council/2014-08-21

Agenda

 * Previous meeting's minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2014-08-10
 * Debit card (Brendan)
 * PO Box change (Brendan)
 * Congress minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2014/Minutes
 * Standards (Brendan)
 * PDC Membership
 * Committee Applications
 * Bitcoin Donations (Brendan)
 * Membership db migration (Brendan)
 * General Business

Start: 20:35

End: 21:26

Attendance

 * Brendan Molloy
 * Daniel Judge
 * Fletcher Boyd
 * Simon Frew
 * Mark Gibbons
 * Michael Keating
 * David Campbell

Apologies

 * Ben McGinnes
 * Melanie Thomas (Will be Late)

Previous Meetings Minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2014-08-10
 * See Motions

Previous meeting action items

 * Debit card: not done
 * further dicussions regarding donations: not really done (illness)
 * call for officers/volunteers: done
 * listing of communication avenues: progressing
 * follow up QLD twitter accounts: done

Debit Card

 * Needs to be done, urgently, still not done
 * as a critically high priority item
 * MarkG to take over this task as a priority

PO Box Change

 * New address:
 * PO Box 385, Figtree NSW 2525
 * See motions

Congress minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2014/Minutes
 * some bits need to be looked over and fixed up, aim to get done by next meeting
 * eg there are some consistency issues, like MOTION: Accept Cap-4
 * and "Clarify from Audio" bits

Standards

 * Progressing
 * statuses to be updated to reflect actual status
 * people have been chipping in

PDC Membership

 * Email from AndrewD about inactive members (hard to reach quorum)
 * see Motions
 * Laura resigned (no motion needed in relation to Laura)
 * Also new people interested
 * See Motions
 * Fletcher and Sunny well known to NC, Brendan vouches for Ben

Committee Applications

 * No applications for Press and SocMed
 * although Ben Fairless interested
 * Need to get more people/members using discourse
 * Miles Whitaker interested in International Relations Team
 * See Motions
 * Some other people have expressed in interest in other groups such as programming team, but they need to formally email if they want to be on it.
 * Mozart should be on international relations teams also
 * See Motions

Bitcoin Donations

 * ATO ruled on bitcoin
 * https://www.ato.gov.au/Media-centre/Media-releases/ATO-delivers-guidance-on-Bitcoin/
 * basically we can accept bitcoin now without it accruing a tax burden
 * A good outcome
 * See Motions
 * no rush to set this up, it'll be a programming spec

Membership db migration

 * Brendan played with civicrm on the weekend
 * he thinks he can get it to behave just enough for now
 * but does not want to have to use this in the longterm, so will look into arranging for sopmeone to come up with an alternative in the long term.

General Business

 * AEC deemed refused Brendans FOI request on the senate order
 * Brendan met up with a guy from the local young greens the other week. He may attend a Sydney meeting for reasons.
 * also spoke with disgruntled green member today at a pub
 * Brendan will be headed to auIGF next week, hotel paid courtesy of auDA, flights paid courtesy of EFA
 * Brendan has called a 5EP meeting for next weekend
 * so far all parties have responded with someone to meet
 * we _must_ hold an IRT meeting asap
 * Brendan will have the IT team create a mailing list for intrels
 * Frew: meeting on Sunday possibly
 * Brendan needs to get the Registered officer form to DanielJ
 * as mentioned in email, Keating bought a Vodafone 4G USB device for the purposes of streaming congress
 * will email treasury to provide a donation receipt for the value of the modem, and the modem becomes a donated possession of the party
 * mail it to the new PO Box
 * Brendan quite happy with the progress we've made in the last less than a month

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept the minutes of 2014-08-10.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 6 (Brendan, Frew, DanielJ, Fletcher, MarkG, Keating); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Change the party mailing address to PO Box 385, Figtree NSW 2525.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 6 (Fletcher, Brendan, DanielJ, MarkG, Frew, Keating); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Remove Ben McGinnes and Trevor Dadson from the PDC due to inactivity.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 7 (Brendan, Fletcher, MarkG, DanielJ, Keating, David, Frew); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Add Fletcher Boyd, Ben Fairless and Sunny Kalsi to the PDC.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 6 (Brendan, MarkG, Keating, DanielJ, Frew, David); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 1 (Fletcher)
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Add Miles Whiticker and Peter Fulton to the International Relations Team.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 6 (Brendan, MarkG, Fletcher, Keating, Frew, DanielJ); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Permit Bitcoin to be accepted as a donation, conditional on AEC donor information requirements being met, preferably using a service that immediately converts the BTC into AUD.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 6 (Brendan, Fletcher, MarkG, DanielJ, Keating, David); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Add Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer to the International Relations Team.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 7 (Brendan, Frew, MarkG, DanielJ, Keating, Fletcher, David); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: End meeting.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 6 (Fletcher, DanielJ, Brendan, Keating, David, Frew); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.

Action Items

 * Mozart and Brendan to update Draft State Constitutions to reflect newly passed Constitutional amendments
 * Brendan to contact IPA about a debate at some stage in future
 * MarkG to chase Debit Card
 * Daniel, Fletcher to refine Congress minutes
 * Brendan will have the IT team create a mailing list for intrels
 * MarkG to check up on Vodafone reimbursement for DanielJ
 * Keating to email treasury for dongle receipt and mail dongle to new PO Box