Minutes/General Meeting/2013-08-27

=General IRC Meeting (#ppau)=

Start: 20:02 27/8/13 AEST

Finish: 21:11 27/8/13 AEST

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

Agenda

 * A last social media push
 * A call for good memes
 * State & Territory reports
 * ACT (Glen)
 * NSW (Sunny)
 * Qld (Mel)
 * SA (Bryn)
 * Tas (Thomas)
 * Vic (Ben)
 * WA (Krystin)
 * The logistics of polling day
 * Polling Places
 * Any other business

National Council, Co-ordinators, Candidates and Officers

 * Simon Frew (Chair)
 * Daniel Judge
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
 * Mark Gibbons
 * David Campbell
 * Sunny Kalsi
 * Ben McGinnes
 * Glen Takkenberg
 * Brendan Molloy
 * Bryn Busai
 * Joe Miles
 * Tom Storey
 * + a number of other general members etc

Apologies

 * Melanie Thomas
 * Thomas Randle

Social media push

 * Rundll has been working on memes for election
 * pad for ideas: http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/campaigns-poster-slogans
 * We need more ideas, good ones
 * So people need to help spread them around their own social circles

Video

 * hard to get to look professional
 * meet the pirates type thing or other ideas

QLD

 * Dave picking up more flyers & corflutes from Mel Wed afternoon for distribution in his area, which is inner East Brisbane.
 * Also dropping some flyers to Miles, who is inner South.
 * Both have already placed corflutes in their areas as have I. I'll continue to cover inner north, south and west over Wed & Thurs afternoon.

NSW

 * have been focusing on getting flyers to volunteers and have been flyering on the weekend
 * next weekend there's another meeting
 * Hopefully 'How to Vote' cards will be in by this meeting
 * start with a regular meeting, show some new volunteers the usual place
 * then hand out flyers and HTVs to volunteers
 * start with some flyering beforehand
 * Corflutes and flyers have also made it to Wollongong and North Coast with things happening there
 * Wollongong Saturday meeting, plan to meet first then do some street campaigning/flyering
 * Meet at Hideaway cafe 11:30
 * Neewcastle meeting on weekend, final push meeting before election, disseminate flyers etc
 * Newcastle have blanketted Maitland, Lake Macquarie and Charlestown with flyers, plan on targeting Hamilton area next

Vic

 * Had a meeting on saturday, minutes to come soon
 * Mark Street is distributing signs to people able to display them. Could use more volunteers to supply them to.
 * Flyering run planned for this weekend
 * Saturday morning on Brunswick st
 * Saturday afternoon on Ackland st
 * Sunday, south east, possibly some shopping centres if allowed. Chadstone etc
 * The next big order of flyers havent arrived yet, but Ben suspects courier was missed while retrieving other stuff from P.O.
 * We've also resolved to encourage all volunteers to vote during the week before the election, so people are free on the day itself to focus on influencing other peoples' votes
 * Currently figuring out which polling places are best to target
 * most likely inner city: places like Brunswick, Fitzroy, Melbourne and Richmond. Also Kensington.
 * Joe has a spot on Syn FM election day (youth radio network in Melb)

SA

 * SA, meeting was called, no-one showed up
 * will call an IRC meeting for in a fortnight.

Polling day

 * People campaigning on polling day remember water, a hat if its warm, sunscreen... food...
 * Rest during quiet times
 * Booze only after you have handed out all your flyers
 * There is some useful info for volunteers here: http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Electioneering
 * It would be ideal if volunteers could brush up on policy, platform etc or at least: http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_briefs
 * Be sure to be nice and courteous

Polling Locations

 * NSW spreadhseet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AswFEwjAHtmedEJxYXF1dDBIWUQ1VDFpZFFwbldONkE&usp=sharing for places we are most likely to have volunteers
 * Polling places sorted by number of votes cast at that booth
 * Makes sense to target places with higher turnout
 * also wise to look for booths that are less hard core liberal or are more likely to have friendly voters (ie near the University etc)
 * AEC Source materials for polling boot numbers:
 * http://www.aec.gov.au/election/downloads.htm
 * http://results.aec.gov.au/15508/Website/HouseResultsMenu-15508.htm
 * http://results.aec.gov.au/15508/Website/HouseDownloadsMenu-15508-csv.htm