Minutes/National Council/2013-03-13

Agenda

 * Minutes from last week
 * Action items
 * Motion to add membership levels (temporary constitutional amendment) (Brendan) - http://pirateparty.openpad.me/temporary-constitutional-membership-amendment
 * Motion to amend preselection bylaw again (Brendan)
 * Approval of new join form (Brendan)
 * Banking status (Rodney)
 * Consider James Varoutsos's application for position on Campaigns
 * email update from campaigns (see email)
 * Election Committee ToR — http://pirateparty.openpad.me/electioncommToR
 * Approve funds for streaming in advance (if we have time)
 * PPI

Start: 20:21 13/03/2013 AEDT

Finish: 21:26 13/03/2013 AEDT

Attendance

 * Brendan Molloy
 * David Campbell
 * Glen Takkenberg
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
 * Rodney Serkowski
 * Simon Frew

Approve previous meeting minutes

 * See motions

Action items from previous meeting

 * David has informed Mark by e-mail of the Victorian coordinator replacement.
 * Brendan has forgotten to e-mail Senator Ludlam, although he has thanked him on twitter and spoken to his P.A. Felicity while at ADA to pass on our thanks.
 * IRC Code of Conduct added to the wiki and linked in the channel topic by Brendan for Mozart.

Motion to add membership levels (temporary constitutional amendment)

 * Draft text is available at: http://pirateparty.openpad.me/temporary-constitutional-membership-amendment
 * Written by Mozart based on Brendan's proposal.
 * Implementation of the 2011 resolution.
 * Will be put to the members for voting (7 day period) and then made an operational/temporary amendment (clause 7.4) before a final vote at the Congress.
 * Vote on motion delayed to next NC meeting due to short notice.

Motion to amend preselection bylaw

 * Background checks to be submitted only if preselection candidates pass the preselection vote, and before the formal nomination period.
 * Lowers cost to potential candidates to $0 unless they win.
 * Rudimentary honesty test to verify candidates disclosed items of potentail concern prior to voting.

Approval of new join form

 * Generated tax invoice cleared by Rodney (Treasurer) are legally compliant.
 * New join form to be deployed on the weekend.
 * Solution is being developed for Rodney and Sam to manage payments - verification of membership payment requires manual intervention currently as Paypal instant payment notifications are not yet fully functional.
 * News members will be sent two emails - a "welcome" e-mail and an invoice e-mail. Existing members will be sent an e-mail that asks for payment type.

Note: Programming Working Group has a new Python developer who is working on the crowdfunding platform

Banking update

 * Letters have not been received from Bendingo Bank yet.
 * Reodney will ring Bendigo tomorrow to chase up.
 * PPAU services currently being paid through the Paypal account.
 * $500+ in donations from the past month alone.

Application for Campaigns Committee position by James Varoutsos

 * see motions

E-mail update from campaigns

 * Refer toe-mail (private).

Election Committee Terms of Reference

 * "Two members" changed to "Minimum two (NC) members"
 * Party Agent included in minimum two NC requirement.
 * " all voting for fun and profit"
 * " voting for profit? this isnt NSW ALP"

Pirate Parties International

 * See March 2013 pp.international.general list.
 * Gregory Engels refusing to respond to e-mail due to sheer unmitigated arrogance/
 * He refuses to respond to anything -
 * Containing curses
 * Letters
 * Resignations
 * Anything he dislikes or can not be bothered reading
 * Criticisms of his incompetent leadership.
 * 3 Pirate Parties are also considering withdrawing from PPI.
 * General amusement at the fact many European PP's will be remote delegates at the Kazan meeting.
 * PPI-GA may as well be hosted in Siberia as the solution to complaints was to host it in an inaccessible location.

April Policy & Preselection Meeting

 * Only 6 RSVPs so far, another call will be oput out in the enxt announcement e-mail.
 * Simon to ring venue for confirmation of booking.
 * Minimum attendance required is 15 paying attendees.

Candidates

 * Currently no candidates in Victoria as Mark S. and David C. have withdrawn.
 * Three possible candidates in NSW.

Motions
Motion: Accept http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2013-02-27 as last meetings minutes.
 * 6 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

Motion: Application for Campaigns Committee position by James Varoutsos.
 * 6 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

Motion: no longer require that advertising positions on behalf of officers require an NC meeting and motion to be allowed.
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

Motion: accept the Election Committee ToR.
 * 6 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

Motion: approve up to $60 for streaming policy meeting, including equipment and bandwidth.
 * 6 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

Motion: to temporarily amend the Pirate Party Australia Constitution to include the categories of associate member and free member.
 * Withdrawn.

Motion: close meeting.
 * 5 ayes.
 * Motion passes.

Action items

 * none