Minutes/General Meeting/2013-06-18

=General IRC Meeting (#ppau)=

Start: 20:07 18/06/13 AEST

Finish: 20:45 18/06/13 AEST

Rules

 * Feel free to add anything reasonable you wish to the end of the agenda, and it will be discussed.
 * There is one speaker per agenda item noted in brackets.
 * Discussion on each agenda item will commence upon the speaker finishing.
 * When you have finished speaking on your item, ask for question and comments.
 * Wait until a speaker indicates they have finished before making comments.
 * People not conducting themselves as if in a meeting will be kicked (out).

Agenda

 * Congress (Mozart)
 * Copyright review (Mozart)
 * State reports
 * PDC report
 * Any other business

National Council

 * David Campbell
 * Simon Frew
 * Glenn Takkenberg
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
 * Brendan Molloy

State Co-ordinators

 * Ben McGinnes (Vic)
 * Glenn Takkenberg (ACT)
 * Liam Pomfret (Qld)
 * Thomas Randle (Tas)
 * Simon Frew (NSW)

+ various candidates and others

Congress

 * Announcement has been sent
 * Congress will be on the 13th and 14th July, in Canberra.
 * Proposals for constitutional amendments have closed, so we cannot accept anymore for this Congress.
 * Policy proposals will be open until 9 AM on the 10th of July.
 * This deadline gives us enough time to prepare the agenda and get them printed.
 * Also saves time with poorly formed motions
 * Proposals can be sent to Policy Development Committee for clean up/refinement/proofing etc
 * send to: policydev@pirateparty.org.au
 * Not compulsory but recommended to create better formed proposals
 * alternately can send to: secretary@pirateparty.org.au
 * Several Positions up for election
 * If you wish to nominate, add yourself to: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2013/Nominations
 * (Space for Dispute Resolutions Committee will be added tonight)
 * No date/time limit for position nominations, from floor on day is allowed.
 * Preferable however that people do nominate at least three days prior

Copyright review

 * Some months ago we submitted to a paper from the ALRC on copyright.
 * ALRC has since taken all submissions and built a discussion paper from them.
 * PPAU got referenced in this discussion paper a healthy number of times.
 * We now need to submit our views on that paper.
 * Details are here: http://www.alrc.gov.au/inquiries/copyright-and-digital-economy
 * Anyone interested in helping write this, please join the mailing list here: http://lists.pirateparty.org.au/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/copyrevwg/
 * Also anyone interested can join irc channel #copyrev
 * We have about 6 weeks to write the submission
 * The more hands on deck to help, the better
 * Mozart will likely co-ordinate
 * Pad and/or google doc should be set up soon

ACT - Glenn Takkenberg

 * ACT Met on Saturday to start to plan the protect our privacy rally

NSW - Simon Frew

 * Had Film Festival battle with IPAF (TPB:AFK screening)
 * Had planning meeting for privacy protest last Saturday
 * We have a stall planned in 2 saturdays, before meeting

QLD - Liam Pomfret

 * Have been having firtnightly meetings for month and a half now
 * starting to get more members showing up on average, with indications this will continue to climb as we get closer to the election.
 * University committments had kept out most younger members to date
 * There was an additional meeting this last Saturday to plan the Protect our Privacy rally,
 * Member working on PPAU mobile app reports that he should have a working prototype within 2 weeks.
 * LiamP will not be standing for QLD co-oridnator at next congress due to family and travel committments in the coming year.

VIC - Ben McGinnes

 * Had a protest meeting on Saturday, Ben had a prior committment but Joe Miles took care of matters
 * Next meeting is this weekend

TAS -Thomas Randle

 * All quiet, shall drum up members again this week

PDC Report - MarkG

 * Over the next few weeks we will be working on policies in education and also the long-awaited asylum seeker group is going to be getting together
 * As always, anyone is welcome to any meeting and can contribute as much or as little as they like.
 * We are in the #ppau-pdc channel or via policydev@pirateparty.org.au
 * Hope to see everyone in July, but don't forget to drop the PDC a line if you want to contribute to the policy process in the meantime.

Other business

 * Reminder to people to check calendar: https://pirateparty.org.au/calendar/ for meeting times etc
 * PRISM/NSA surveillance related articles collated here: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Issues/PRISM

Action Items

 * Congress needs to be added to Calendar - IT Officer