Minutes/Election Committee Meeting/2013-07-17

Agenda

 * Preferences
 * Media
 * Building media contacts
 * Media training
 * Writing in to newspapers
 * Getting in on local issues & expanding press team
 * a) Crowd funding & b) schwag
 * Hitting up businesses for funding
 * How to handle PR for new policies (Glen)

Start time: 20:03 AEST 17/07/13

Finish time: 21:47 AEST 17/07/13

Attendance

 * Simon Frew
 * Brendan Molloy
 * Glenn Takkenberg
 * Ben McGinnes
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
 * Melanie Thomas
 * David Campbell
 * Joe Miles
 * Daniel Judge
 * Thomas Randle

Apologies

 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer

Preferences

 * email sent out, waiting on responses.
 * PR done for sending soon.

Media

 * Develop regularly asked questions "cheat sheet" - use Mumble to prep.

Building Media Contacts

 * Mel to provide contact list.

Media Training

 * Investigate costs of training.
 * Use mumble for training.
 * Practice by doing
 * sharing experiences.
 * Seek journalism students.

Writing to Newspapers

 * Use the opinion pages of local and regional papers to make localised points, speak to larger concepts and issues, may get picked up by bigger & metro papers etc.

Getting in on local issues & expanding press team

 * Members in each state are responsible for identifying and writing on local issues for Press Releases.
 * All drafts to be forwarded to Mozart for clearance and sending.

Crowd funding & schwag

 * Crowd Funding
 * Chasing this up.
 * Donations portal done and getting truly awesome.
 * Swag
 * Get swag sorted once and for all.
 * Teespring probably, organic, non-child-labour and all the rest.

Hitting up businesses for funding

 * Compile list/pad of businesses affected by Pirate issues, approach for funding/donations/membership etc.
 * for example:
 * generic medicine manufacturers
 * Grey Importers like The Reject Shop etc
 * Woolworths etc do grey importing as well
 * Internet Service Providers
 * Make it perfectly clear who we are, why we're asking, what we're doing and that we'll fight the good fight regardless of donation.

How to handle PR for new policies

 * Drip feed policies over time, not all in one hit otherwise press may not take time to comb through it
 * Target PRs to coincide with topical issues/news stories
 * Have pre-written items ready to go with minor customisations
 * Priorities pad: https://pressteam.piratenpad.de/priorities