Minutes/National Council/2013-11-20

Agenda

 * Ratify previous meeting minutes — http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2013-11-06
 * Creation of Tasmania Branch Formation Working Group (Mozart)
 * Creation of NSW Branch Formation Working Group (Mozart)
 * Destruction of paper membership forms (Mozart)
 * Branch naming convention (Mozart)
 * Crowdsourcing Brendan to do development work (Frew)

Start: 20:32 AEDT Finish: 22:07 AEDT

National Council

 * Simon Frew
 * Daniel Judge
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
 * Glenn Takkenberg
 * Mark Gibbons
 * David Campbell
 * Ben McGinnes

Other Officers, Co-ordinators etc

 * Sunny Kalsi (NSW Coord)
 * Fletcher Boyd (WA Coord)
 * Thomas Randle (Tas Coord)

Apologies

 * Brendan Molloy
 * Melanie Thomas

Ratification of previous meeting's minutes

 * See motions

Creation of NSW Branch Formation Working Group

 * WorkGorup for NSW branch formation ready to be created with the members: Sunny Kalsi, Brendan Molloy and Peter Fulton
 * see motions

Creation of Tasmania Branch Formation Working Group

 * Tasmania under Thomas Randle is going well pulling things together
 * members named in correpsiondence by Thomas as potential WG members haev been verified at PPAU members.
 * Branch Creation WG to be formed with the members: Tim Serong, Craige McWhirter, Charles Gregory, Liam Batchelor, Thomas Randle, Thomas Storey, Phil Cracknell, Scott Bragg
 * see motions
 * Also a motion by Thomas on social media issues, for NC to give TAS WG local Tas social media authority
 * See motions

Destruction of paper membership forms

 * Brendan has old forms that need be destroyed, not necessary to retain anymore.
 * will advise on method of destruction

Branch naming convention

 * Branch names: "Pirate Party Australia (Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory Branches, ACT, or NSW Branch)"
 * Shortened forms will be: "Pirate Party Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory, ACT, or NSW."
 * Internal abbreviations: "PPAU-Qld, -NSW, -ACT, -Vic, -Tas, -SA, -WA, -NT."

Crowdsourcing Brendan to do development work

 * prima facie a good idea, NC in favour of further development of the idea.

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept National Council meeting minutes for 2013-11-06
 * Put by: Frew
 * Ayes: 6 (Mozart, Frew, Taco, DanielJ, MarkG, DavidCampbell); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carried


 * MOTION: Create the "Tasmania Branch Formation Working Group" with the members: Tim Serong, Craige McWhirter, Charles Gregory, Liam Batchelor, Thomas Randle, Thomas Storey, Phil Cracknell and Scott Bragg as per the Branch Formation Working Group Terms of Reference.
 * Put by: Brendan Molloy
 * Ayes 6 (Frew, Mozart, DanielJ, MarkG, DavidCampbell, Taco); Nays 0 ; Abstains 0
 * Motion carried


 * MOTION: "Give the TBFWG permission to start and/or access social media profiles, with administrator access by two NC members, and login details provided to the NC for the accounts.
 * Put by: Mozart
 * Ayes 7 (Frew, Mozart, Hasimir, MarG, taco, DavidCampbell, DanielJ)


 * '''MOTION: Create the "NSW Branch Formation Working Group" with the members: Sunny Kalsi, Brendan Molloy and Peter Fulton, as per the Branch Formation Working Group Terms of Reference.
 * Put by: Brendan Molloy
 * Ayes 7 (Frew, DanielJ, Hasimir, DavidCampbell, taco, Mozart, MarkG); Nays 0 ; Abstains 0
 * Motion carried


 * MOTION: Permit the proper destruction of all paper membership forms currently in the possession of Brendan Molloy with the method to be determined by email.
 * Put by: Brendan Molloy
 * Ayes 7 (taco, Hasimir, MarkG, Mozart, DanielJ, Frew, DavidCampbell); Nays 0 ; Abstains 0
 * Motion carried


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: Frew
 * Ayes: 7 (Mozart, Frew, Taco, DanielJ, MarkG, DavidCampbell, Hasimir); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carried