Minutes/National Council/2021-08-05

National Council meeting for August 5th 2021

Quorum achieved 20:36

Agenda

 * Previous meeting's minutes
 * http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-07-22
 * Onboarding of new NC members
 * Additional Discord Discussion Topic Channels (Roger)
 * NC meeting date/time/frequency
 * @twisty is back. Would like to re-occupy Social Media Officer position. We never really dropped that, but it waned for a long time.
 * Merch Store
 * Sticker drive (Alex, others?)
 * JA Covid video and media release ( if not sorted out on the discord chat)
 * JA Treasurer email / Mark G transfer of stripe responsibility
 * National Congress debrief (Miles, Alex, everyone)

Start: 20:36 AEST. End: 22:43 AEST.

Attendance

 * Miles Whiticker (President, chair)
 * Brandon Selic (Deputy President) (until 22:05)
 * Alex Jago (Secretary, minutes)
 * Roger Whatling (incoming Deputy Secretary)
 * John August (Treasurer)
 * Mitchell Curnoe (incoming Deputy Treasurer)
 * Fred Gerner (Councillor)
 * Dave Kennedy (Councillor)
 * Andrew Downing (incoming Councillor & PDO)

Apologies

 * None

Previous Meetings Minutes

 * http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-07-22

Onboarding

 * Welcome to the new members, and a refresher for the continuing members!
 * Miles encourages people to take responsibility for a particular portfolio
 * Especial need now for press releases etc and social media content
 * Twisty back for SocMed
 * Brandon volunteers as tribute
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Press_Release_Guide
 * see also https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Authorisation_processes
 * Be sure that what we put out actually does comply with our policy and principles, too!
 * And try and do a bit of due diligence to see whether the policy is out of date!
 * Roger charges the PDO with reviewing existing policy for not being overtaken by events.
 * Satch gives continued consent for use of his address for authorisation.
 * Miles also links to https://pirateparty.org.au/constitution/
 * "We are the ones who are putting these objects into practice"


 * There are various committees and working groups
 * IT, Press Team, Policy Dev, Internal Elections
 * Miles sees the PDC as a clearing-house for policy initiatives and for updates and maintenance, too
 * initiatives will come along from interested members, also need PDC people who know the ropes to make it happen


 * Chris Cheng (Milspec) appointed to the PDC.


 * International Relations also exist
 * Originally founded to deal with PPI
 * Recently resurrected, a couple of meetings
 * Potential work doing more liaision with PPI and other national parties
 * Policy comparisons and cross-pollination
 * Friday night possibilities


 * Task for the NC this year: website revamp

Additional Discord Discussion Topic Channels

 * Roger notes that Milspec asked for an Infrastructure channel
 * "Granted" - Alex
 * Roger points out that lots of infra delivery is state level
 * Andrew: yes, this ties in to having state-level policies
 * Mitch: does this have an impact of some policies being good in one state but not in another due to existing laws?
 * Roger also asks about day-to-day activity; mostly it's Discord now, but what can we do to encourage local meetups post-Covid
 * Suggests state channels for organisation and meetups, less so discussion

Future NC meetings

 * Alex has class quite late on Thursdays
 * New NC; worth putting it as a question
 * Mitch would like to start earlier - trouble for non-Sydneysiders if we do that though
 * Back to fortnightly. See motions

Committee memberships

 * Twisty resuming SocMed
 * technically never vacated the role
 * still has access
 * welcome back!


 * ITWG and IEWG have particularly low bus factor.
 * Eventually we need to get this to a point where the Secretary doesn't need to have solid IT skills
 * Fred (and Dave?) are getting co-opted

Merch Store & Stickers

 * Shirts can happen via The Print Bar dropshipping without too much effort from our part
 * website integration is the pain point
 * can point a subdomain at TPB's site, probably


 * Conversely can/should do stickers as prepared prints
 * stickers need auth tags, so we need to know where they're printed
 * Also way easier logistically
 * this doesn't wait for re-rego, this is part of getting people enthused
 * https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m6b9-96YGNsfsn97qqzo0TdnsANtPnVB6OWkp3bH7pw/edit#gid=0
 * We could do upfront orders and send stuff as it comes too, but there's a lot of time overhead
 * Approved for crowdfund scheme, see motions

John's Covid video

 * Andrew and Miles have approved.
 * Working on the media release
 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/john_covid_mr

Treasury things

 * Alex by oversight never added John to the Treasury list
 * Mark and Alex working through Stripe things
 * John and Mitchell need ANZ IB4B set up
 * see also By-law 2021-01
 * John and Mitchell automatically on by position
 * need to do a motion to say who we add - next time
 * Alex to stay as 3rd sig

Congress debrief

 * Be good to have appointed Liam as elections RO in advance rather than from the floor
 * TODO: extract Jpeg's and Andrew's interviews and upload seperately
 * Future discussion: clean up speaking order, enforce not talking over each other
 * formalise and update the "chair grants speaking perms" system for current era
 * need to clarify how and when people on stream get to speak
 * Also slow getting people up to speak
 * need a second stream master?
 * and more practice in general
 * Roger asks what our communication processes need to change to
 * Miles emphasises inclusivity and accessibility
 * Text chat not going away any time soon
 * Live stream not going away, so we still need audio chatter
 * __Don't__ want free voice chatter though, because it heavily privileges speakers
 * TODO: put some more thought into this

Motions

 * MOTION: accept previous NC minutes from July 22nd
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 6 (Alex Jago, Miles Whiticker, David Kennedy, Brandon Selic, John August, Fred Gerner)
 * Abstain 3 (Roger Whatling, Mitchell Curnoe, Andrew Downing)
 * Motion carried 20:40 AEST


 * MOTION: Resume fortnightly NC meetings from 19th August
 * Put by: David Kennedy
 * Carried unanimously.


 * MOTION: authorise Alex's sticker pack crowdfund scheme
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Carried unanimously (Roger Whatling, Fred Gerner, David Kennedy, Mitchell Curnoe, Miles Whitcker, Andrew Downing, John August) at 22:06 AEST.


 * MOTION: John August (Treasurer), Mitchell Curnoe (Deputy Treasurer) and Alexander Jago (Secretary) are to be the signatories to all three of Pirate Party Australia's ANZ bank accounts.
 * Put by John August
 * Ayes 8 (Roger Whatling, John August, David Kennedy, Andrew Downing, Mitchell Curnoe, Fred Gerner, Alex Jago, Miles Whiticker)
 * Nays 0; Abstain 0
 * Motion carried 22:28 AEST.


 * MOTION: close the meeting.
 * Put by: Miles Whiticker
 * Ayes 8 (Miles Whiticker, Fred Gerner, Mitchell Curnoe, David Kennedy, Roger Whatling, Andrew Downing, John August, Alex Jago)
 * Meeting closed at 22:43 AEST.