Minutes/Policy Development Committee Meeting/2014-09-10

Attendees

 * Andrew Downing (Chair)
 * Brendan Molloy
 * Ben Fairless
 * Bill McLean
 * Fletcher Boyd
 * Daniel Judge
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer (Inquiries Officer)
 * Mark Gibbons

Absent

 * Sunny Kalsi

Apologies

 * David Crafti

PDC members Changes
Ben Fairless (his first meeting tonight) - must find him something to do. Done: Ben now chairs an FOI policy working group. ref: IRC log.

Inquiries Status update by Inquiries Officer (Mozart)
Mozart: Yes, we dropped quite a monster submission on Friday. 25 pages on the online copyright infringement discussion paper. I believe that's the longest (or second longest) submission we've made. It, and all our submissions, are available from http://pirateparty.org.au/submissions/

Universal Healthcare Working Group (Chair=BillM)
Set first meeting for Wednesday, 17th September. Added DanielJ to team. Brendan just has watching brief.

Corporate Stalking (Chair=DavidC)
Pending participation by Liam

Startups Working Group (Chair=AndrewD)
No progress.

Distributed Digital Currencies and Economies Policy (Chair=AndrewD)
Set 1st meeting to be Monday 22nd September, 8:30pm in #ppau-pdc AndrewD to post discourse topic to prompt member discussion, well before meeting.

Library and Cultural Development Policy (Chair=Sunny Kalsi)
Met two mondays back. Missed this monday. Some work done. Found these interesting links ...
 * http://www.wired.com/2014/09/makerspace/
 * Title: Why Your Library May Soon Have Laser Cutters and 3-D Printers | Design | WIRED (at www.wired.com)
 * http://www.alia.org.au/sites/default/files/Kelly%20-%20final.pdf
 * Title: Why do we need one of those? The role of the public library in creating and promoting makerspaces.
 * http://eprints.qut.edu.au/73071/
 * Title: A place to make, hack, and learn: makerspaces in Australian public libraries | QUT ePrints (at eprints.qut.edu.au)
 * http://eprints.qut.edu.au/73071/1/73071.pdf
 * Title: A Place to Make, Hack, and Learn: Makerspaces in Australian Public Libraries

Libraries seem to already be thinking about adapting their roles to include things like Maker Spaces but they do seem a bit worried about copyright and other IP issues