Minutes/General Meeting/2014-03-25

=General IRC Meeting (#ppau)=

Start: 19:57 25/03/14 AEST

Finish: 21:03 25/03/14 AEST

Agenda

 * General announcements
 * PDC report (Mozart)
 * State reports:
 * ACT
 * QLD
 * update on QCLN activities)
 * SA
 * WA
 * NSW

National Council, Co-ordinators and Officers

 * Simon Frew (Chair)
 * Daniel Judge (NC)
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer (NC, PDO)
 * Brendan Molloy (NC)
 * David Campbell (NC)
 * Bryn Busai
 * Michelle Allen
 * Sunny Kalsi

Apologies

 * Fletcher Boyd (WA) - interview.

General Announcements

 * Happy Birthday Brendan

TPP Stakeholder meeting

 * There is a Trans-Pacific Partnership briefing from DFAT on Thursday that a few of us are attending
 * there are also more public meetings explaining the agreement being organised
 * once details are locked down, everyone will be informed

Internet Engineering Committee

 * There is now an Internet Engineering Committee (IEC)
 * Basically we are building a baby IETF/W3C in the party to rage against both of those things when they do bad
 * If you're interested, let us know.
 * (if you don't know what any of that means, you won't be a suitable candidate)
 * See https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Committee/Terms_of_Reference for more info

PDC report

 * Most of you will have received (and hopefully read) and announcement about what the Policy Development Committee (PDC) has been up to lately.
 * A few working groups have been launched and they have had their meetings
 * It's really important for everyone to check the calendar on the website.
 * Best form of communicating when meetings are on otherwise there would be too many emails
 * Last Thursday was a meeting of the Constitutional Reform WG.
 * Minutes: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/Policy_Development_Committee/Constitutional_Reform_WG/2014-03-19
 * Last night was a meeting of the Agriculture and Food WG.
 * Minutes should go on the wiki soon and will be available from here: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes
 * Tomorrow is the the Senate Elections WG
 * They will be making a position statement from which we can write a submission on a review of the 2013 election.
 * Activities of the committee are available at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_Development_Committee#What_Is_Happening_Right_Now
 * You can use that to keep track of meetings and WGs that you might be interested in, and Mozart will be sending out fortnightly announcements hopefully.
 * Everyone is able to attend and participate in working groups, for clarification.

ACT

 * Nothing to report

QLD

 * QCLN held a meeting in the Brisbane Town Hall last night, under the banner 'Unite to Defend Civil Liberties' - 'repeal VLAD and other anti-democratic laws' http://qcln.org.au/
 * A modest turnout, but good nonetheless
 * Some great speakers on the lineup
 * We'll be resuming PP QLD meeting proper over the next few weeks
 * The last few months have seen our core members heavily commited elsewhere, and we've not had a proper meeting in quite some time..
 * Note: dotnetdave reporting on behalf of Mel

SA

 * for last month... nothing much
 * Bryn is now the bridge between the party and Tammy Franks, a Greens MLC
 * we'll need to look at the Labor CCTV bill.

WA

 * Candidates have had several more media appearances
 * including a fairly large spread in The West Australian (seemingly no online version)
 * video by ECU Daily (not sure when released)
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/candidates/ is now live
 * Election day volunteers can fill out this form: https://pirateparty.org.au/contribute/
 * Note: poedgirl reporting on behalf of Fletcher

NSW

 * There's a meeting for Sydney this weekend
 * Newcastle meeting next weekend.

TAS

 * Had an actual in person meeting on the 13th, only three of us there, but that's better than no in person meeting
 * Some minutes of what was discussed at: http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/tas-20140313 (not yet put on the wiki)
 * Other news: state election the other week, looks like 15 liberal 7 labor 3 greens at this stage
 * Planning another meeting for next month with hopefully more turnout

General Business

 * Some discussion on 'Knighthoods' in response to Abbotts titles announcement
 * Some discussion on electoral guidelines and how they interact with the nature of the internet and whether a tweet is considered a publication, a broadcast or a communication.