Minutes/National Council/2019-07-09

National Council Meeting: Tuesday July 9th 2019

Start Time: 20:30 AEST End Time: 21:07 AEST

Agenda

 * Previous meeting minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2019-06-25
 * Correspondence, reports, and action items
 * Congress hardware update
 * Discussion items, and motions
 * Code of Conduct endorsement ahead of Congress (Alex)
 * General business
 * Motion to close the meeting

Attendance

 * Miles Whiticker
 * Alex Jago
 * Mark Gibbons
 * David Read
 * Daniel Oakley
 * Bryn Busai (DRC/Congress, nonvoting)

Absentees

 * John August

Congress equipment (pre-meeting start, inquorate)

 * Bryn has simplified the PA equipment list as per discussion, down to $170/day
 * mixer, 3 microphones + stands, speaker + stand, cables + leads, music stand
 * Second supplier waiting to hear back
 * willing to send someone on the day... checking if that's a volunteer
 * Working on room movement plans
 * have to shift one room over during lunch break on Day 1 some time after 12pm ACST
 * long lunch then to allow re-setup

Discussion items

 * Code of Conduct
 * Reference: https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/towards-a-code-of-conduct-for-ppau/2764/11
 * Really just a spirit-of thing right now
 * How to enforce?
 * "let's talk about transgressions that need to be dealt with"
 * in terms of severity and consequences
 * this is a thing for the forums mostly
 * Alex asks "should this go through Congress, or just be a by-law"

Motions

 * MOTION: Approve the minutes of the previous meeting as located at : https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2019-06-25
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes: AJ, MW, MG, DR; Abstain DO
 * Motion passed at 20:52


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Ayes: 4 (DR, DO, MG, AJ)
 * Quorum being lost, meeting declared closed at 21:07


 * To be emailed: motion approving the voting server spend.

Audio

 * https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hXqaLejsPEw14lJkEtnioXT6i8aVAvm9
 * recording starts shortly before the meeting opens
 * please note that the recording bot disconnected unexpectedly. However, this was directly before the motion to close was commenced, no items have been lost.