Minutes/General Meeting/2013-08-13

=General IRC Meeting (#ppau)=

Start: 20:05 13/08/13 AEST

Finish: 21:45 13/08/13 AEST

Rules
Rules conveyed as available here: http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/General_Meeting/Rules

Agenda

 * Press etc
 * Election stuff and materials
 * Preferencing
 * Policy Development Officer Report (Mozart)
 * Policy Briefs
 * State & Territory reports
 * ACT Coordinator (Glen)
 * NSW Coordinator (Sunny)
 * QLD Coordinator (Mel)
 * SA Coordinator (Bryn)
 * Tas Coordinator (Thomas)
 * Vic Coordinator (Ben)
 * Other business

Attendance

 * Roughly 10+ including many new names

National Council

 * Daniel Judge(Chair)
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
 * Brendan Molloy
 * David Campbell
 * Rodney Serkowksi
 * Glen Takkenberg

Officers

 * Policy Development Officer (Mozart)
 * Melanie Thomas (Qld)
 * Bryn Busai (SA)
 * Glen Takkenberg (ACT)
 * Thomas Randle (Tas)

Absentees (no apology received)

 * Sunny Kalsi (NSW)
 * Ben McGinnes (Vic)
 * Thomas Randle (Tas)

Press

 * Have had some good coverage, Illawarra Mercury with Daniel and Frew, Brendan and Joe with separate Radio interviews (SBS and a Melbourne station), Mel getting stuff done on Brisbane etc
 * Lot's of Press Releases going out.
 * Mozart doing lots of good work
 * irc #ppau-press for helping out
 * will get booted from that channel if only ever lurking & not helping though

Election Materials and stuff

 * More Volunteers needed for election day (and lead up, but especially sept 7)
 * Sign up here if you want to help: http://pirateparty.org.au/contribute/
 * 250 Corflute signs ordered today
 * 20k flyers being printed (Blue DL)
 * How to Vote cards being designed
 * If interested in helping with campaign materials: #ppau-campaigns channel
 * AEC Nomination forms done, cheques mailed.

Preferences ballot

 * 12pm tomorrow ballot closes
 * then the deals ballot will be sent out
 * it will close on 12pm Thursday
 * on Friday we get the forms (GVT)
 * on Saturday we submit the forms to the AEC in each state
 * this page has the details of the preference decision process: http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Preferences
 * Special thanks to Brendan and Glen for lots of the work regarding preferences

Policy Development Officer Report

 * There's a halt on policy development until after September 7.
 * So no one email suggestions, please, or they will get lost.
 * After Sep 7, we'll be issuing a survey to the members asking them to decide the direction we develop policy in.
 * The general idea was to offer up to 20 policy areas that members could rank preferentially (like the ballot we just did).
 * And it would also include a field for people to write anything we may have missed.
 * Policy areas will probably be things like: health, employment, (maybe firearms) etc.
 * hopefully we'll be able to issue that between Sep 7 and Sep 14.
 * We'll also be revising existing policies after the 7th.
 * Introducing additional citations and generally making improvements.
 * discussion re Welfare policy details.
 * Email policydev@pirateparty.org.au for details on policies or clarifications etc

Policy Briefs

 * http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_briefs
 * Brief descriptions of our policies to explain to the media quickly.
 * Primarily these were for candidates, and anyone doing media relations stuff (eg. President)
 * But if you're thinking of talking to people about our policies, they might come in useful.
 * One to two sentences, and a five point outline for each policy.
 * Of course, it's no subsitute for actually reading our Platform and policies, but it will help if you're trying to remember the key facets.

ACT

 * No new news. (will election campaign in Queenbeyan for NSW as no ACT candidate)

SA

 * Meeting planned for Saturday

TAS

 * Have done two weekends of flyer distro, boots on the street, a digital privacy event is also in the works

VIC

 * Ben sick for last meeting and so Geoff took over
 * weather prevent much showing
 * AEC meeting tomorrow
 * Ben has a meeting at free software melb on thursday

QLD

 * Apology from Mel as she is on the road

Other Business

 * We are on here now: https://yourview.org.au/forums/5/
 * Script for campaign launch video about
 * would be good to get it done
 * General discussion re advertising, election costs & donations
 * most ppau donations are from members with a few standout members putting in decent amounts of personal money