Minutes/National Council/2022-01-20

National Council Meeting 20th January 2021 Scheduled start time: 2030 AEDT

Meeting Open: 20:30 AEDT Meeting Close: 22:03 AEDT

Attendees

 * Miles Whiticker
 * Andrew Downing
 * Roger Whatling
 * John August (until 21:55)
 * Dave Kennedy
 * Fred Gerner
 * Alex Jago

Guests

 * Sahar Khalil (Science)

Agenda

 * Reports and Communication
 * Fusion report backs (multiple?)
 * Executive (Miles/Roger/Dave)
 * Election (Miles)
 * State organising
 * Policy
 * Constitution


 * Strategic Plan 2022 (see NC emails) (Miles)


 * PPI (Miles/David/Jay)


 * LQFB trial (Miles/Dave)


 * New FIRO? (Miles/Jay)
 * FIR terms of reference update (Miles/Jay)
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Foreign_and_International_Relations_Team/Terms_of_Reference

(change) Purpose: The Foreign and International Relations Team is established to engage with overseas individuals, organisations or other such entities for purposes that align with the principles and objects of Pirate Party Australia. (add) Objectives and responsibilities: (2.1) The team do not require explicit approval for informal engagement with foreign or international bodies so long as they comply with the principles and objects of Pirate Party Australia. This includes observation, consulting or "meet and greet" type events but excludes promotional events, affiliation, and statements of support/opposition.


 * Pre-election cryptoparties (Miles)
 * City targets: Syd-Bris-Melb-Adl
 * Who should we talk to? Existing cryptoparty organisers, APF, EFA, DRW, Asher Wolf
 * Meeting Fri 7pm Sydney time


 * ABF phone sniffing incident @ customs (Miles)
 * See https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/s1pvs3/customs_confiscated_and_scanned_our_mobile_phones/
 * Partnership with the guy? Waiting to hear back


 * Fusion Code of Conduct (Roger W)

General Business

 * Email fun times: we might actually have to start paying for it
 * https://9to5google.com/2022/01/19/g-suite-legacy-free-edition/


 * Miles PP Chile DAO livestream

Previous Minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-01-06

Report-backs

 * Fusion exec meeting report-back (just before this meeting)
 * Discussions re name-change and candidacies


 * Brandon still to look into his network re AEC shenanigans
 * Miles not optimistic re chances based on feedback with Brandon and Kammy's partner
 * No real precedent here


 * Fusion Campaigns Ctte
 * Miles presented his proposal for state-based (cross-branch) organisation
 * Planning kicked off for soft-launch press release


 * Fusion Policy working group
 * Have been going over the 10-ish main topics, breaking out mid-sized explanation
 * "More than a bullet-point, less than the level of detail our platform goes to"
 * Policy WG also taking on responsibility for some other website content
 * Request for each party to provide 2-3 paras + a quote about it as a branch
 * Policy WG is about long-term stuff as opposed to short-term "campaigns" stuff
 * Miles raises a be-aware about people trying to wedge us where our specifics differ (e.g. in the figures)
 * Dave: I actively want to see us hosting publicised internal friendly debates to get ahead of this
 * Miles: "I have not forgotten (or forgiven) the nuclear debate fiasco
 * Andrew: What I'm finding in general is that we spend a lot of time reconciling subtle differences getting to shared goals - so adversarial debate isn't necessarily the right approach here IMHO
 * Roger: No parties out there have zero internal conflict. We certainly do! And so do they, and does Fusion. I think the process is working well.


 * Constitution Ctte
 * Andrew: we got through the 'behaviour' items


 * John has been in touch with Drew Pavlou's Sydney people
 * candidate from the Tibet council
 * Show this Tuesday is a compilation show
 * interview with Campbell Ray from 2019 about protests at universities - anything goes except hurting the bottom line
 * Miles asks if John talked to Drew about Pirate/Fusion things; requests that John mention us because we want to collaborate
 * John has also been reaching out to pro-copyright people
 * John Prior from Aus Ind Music Asn - recording is available
 * Miles: In 2016 we had a great discussion at PAX Aus on copyright, see if we can get that guy on for another friendly debate
 * John has another economic speech in the works

Fusion campaign and comms plan (Sahar K)

 * "In SP we have a pretty vague comms process"
 * There is now a spreadsheet! (It's good)
 * Decentralised writing, centralised editing

Strategic Plan 2022 (Miles)

 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/r.11463262d6342d8bde27570d50ee3652
 * You all got an email about this
 * Member growth goal both for PPAU specifically and for Fusion in general
 * 6 phase pipeline of non-awareness to engagement to (hopefully not) burnout
 * Dave: beware dilution in search of marketability
 * DK concerned about Fusion policies violating PPAU constitutional redlines
 * Miles: yes, member data and internal comms issues as well as 'policy' policy
 * Endorsed (see motions)

PPI report-back

 * Jay (new Foreign and Intl Rel Officer) got an interview off the back of the presser!
 * Also got to talk about Fusion and our Sydney candidates
 * Well done, Jay!
 * Jay and Miles have a positive view of PPI based on recent interactions
 * 14 parties at their recent GA, about 30 parties in PPI right now
 * What would it take for PPAU to re-join PPI?
 * vote at NC
 * some complexity with also being part of Fusion, but whatever
 * Fairly trivial financial cost to join
 * For NC's consideration over the coming months

Liquid Feedback trial

 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/lqfb_trial_ppau


 * Miles had an interesting phone call this morning from Luke Housego
 * Seems like he's looking to use us as the test client for a democracy software project
 * Miles pointed him at our LQFB efforts
 * Potential to put some professional dev hours into improving LQFB for our needs

Foreign and Intl Rel Ctte

 * Delayed to a future meeting

ABF phone sniffing incident

 * Old mate has had a few interviews,
 * Miles hasn't heard from him recently

Fusion Code of Conduct

 * It's developing well!

Cryptoparties

 * This would be a nice networking and campaigning event
 * ... but it could happen after the election
 * ... and not all cities have to occur simultaneously
 * Likely capacity in Syd/Melb outside PPAU to run it
 * Brendan Clark (Science) has previously run one
 * Scoping meeting tomorrow night 7pm AEST
 * Dave notes: does this work as a not-in-person event?

PP-Chile DAO livestream

 * Miles has been talking to a guy

G Suite yikes

 * We run legacy free G Suite, so we have ~2 months
 * Looking at over a grand Australian just for NC mailboxes
 * Dave and Alex to look into things

Motions

 * MOTION: accept the minutes of the previous meeting on 6th January 2022
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 6 (MW, AD, AJ, DK, JA, RW) Nays 0; Abstain 0.
 * Motion carried 20:39 AEDT.


 * MOTION: endorse the Strategic Plan (such as it is)
 * Ayes 5 (JA, AJ, FG, AD, DK)
 * Abstains 2 (MW, RW)
 * Motion carried 21:06 AEDT.


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 6 (MW, AD, DK, FG, RW, AJ)

Meeting closed 22:03 AEDT.