Minutes/National Council/2014-09-04

Agenda

 * Previous meeting's minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2014-08-21
 * Constitution (Brendan)
 * Debit card (Mark)
 * General Business
 * Policy documentation formats (Fletcher)

Start: 20:01 AEST End: 20:39 AEST

Attendance

 * Brendan Molloy (chair)
 * Fletcher Boyd
 * David Campbell
 * Daniel Judge
 * Michael Keating
 * Simon Frew
 * Mark Gibbons

Apologies

 * None

Absent

 * Ben McGinnes
 * Melanie Thomas

Previous Meetings Minutes

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2014-08-21
 * See Motions

Action Items from Previous Minutes

 * Congress Minutes
 * Not yet managed to get to finishing those, will go on Secretary to do list
 * Join Form
 * should have been in action items
 * it's happening, new member working on it. Brendan was working with him today
 * Making good progress. :)
 * should be usable within a month
 * Keating to send dongle tomorrow

Constitution

 * Has been updated
 * Brendan sent the link around before meeting
 * Mozart has given it the thumbs up
 * all seems well
 * See motions

Debit Card

 * MarkG updates that the account opening is underway
 * soon signatories will need to go in and co-sign for the setup
 * the bank was meant to ring today to confirm the account was open, but they failed to do so MarkG will call them tomorrow
 * progress has occurred, there was much rejoicing
 * with any luck, we can change signatories and open the account at the same time
 * MarkG will have to confirm that we can do this
 * DanielJ to forward MarkG the letter and minutes doc regarding bank signatories

General Business

 * Great progress in last week
 * Brendan recruited someone to work on the join form and server
 * target is 14 Sept for new forms
 * DanielJ received the registered officer form back from Keating today, so will submit to AEC
 * Also need to finalise materials for recruitment; policy flyers, etc, but hopefully coming month will see more progress with submissions out of the way etc
 * Monthly announcement is two days late, Brendan wanted to revised DanielJ's template further.
 * It will be sent out tonight or tomorrow
 * will be putting it on the forum, and emailing a link to it
 * the FAQ on the website has been updated to be more relevant where it was outdated, and the front page of the website has been changed a little, specifically the menus
 * we recently recruited a guy in NSW who used to work on Greens campaigns
 * so, we're also starting to get people with lots of experience we can use
 * First International Relations group meeting is scheduled for next thursday (NC meeting off weeks)
 * Suggest pre-discussing items via email before meeting
 * 5EP meeting was had
 * discussed PPI stuff
 * Helping USPP with some IT issues & hosting their lists now
 * UK pirates discussed their plans regarding elections
 * PPNZ is regrouping nicely too
 * offered our assistance where possible
 * they may seek some assistance with policy etc
 * DanielJ has some notes to add to the meeting pad
 * minimal progress on the Womens WG as yet, been obviously very busy
 * Brendan has a meeting with the professor that runs austlii tomorrow
 * going to try to convince him to open source the platform if possible :)

Standards

 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Standards
 * we need to finalise the standards more, but those are still progressing steadily
 * Joe made one for procurement and the like
 * And social media has been improved/completed

Submissions

 * Brendan realises we will have made more submissions in 2014 than 2013, 2012 and 2011 combined
 * Copyright review response coming along nicely
 * will submit tomorrow
 * there were not enough feels, too much technical response
 * so Brendan extended it to discuss our position a bit more, and also discussed the concept of a readonly vs read-write culture

Policy documentation formats

 * Fletcher would like to slowly start working on mirroring our platform in a nice format on the website instead of just the wiki.
 * So far he has gotten an example of our digital liberties text converted to multimarkdown (which can convert to html, latex etc)
 * http://fboyd.me/u/MMD/ (for in-meeting feedback)
 * this method means we could easily generate pdf versions as well
 * http://bywordapp.com/markdown/guide.html#section-mmd has a general list of the differences between MD and MMD
 * Brendan will then probably write a script to generate a useful table of contents buttons
 * Also convert http://int.piratenpartei.de/Statutes

Motions

 * MOTION: Accept the minutes of 2014-08-12.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 7 (Brendan, Fletcher, David, DanielJ, Keating, Frew, MarkG); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Accept the amended Constitution as per Congress amendments.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 7 (Brendan, Frew, MarkG, Keating, DanielJ, David, Fletcher); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.


 * MOTION: Close meeting.
 * Put by: Brendan
 * Ayes: 6 (Brendan, DanielJ, MarkG, Fletcher, David, Keating); Nays: 0 ; Abstains: 0
 * Motion carries.

Action Items

 * DanielJ to complete finalising the Congress Minutes for ratification
 * Join form to be progressed upon
 * Brendan to get IT to update the constitution doc.
 * MarkG to ring bank and followup re Debit Card, and confirm ability to change signatories at same time as opening account
 * DanielJ to forward MarkG the letter and minutes doc regarding bank signatories
 * Fletcher to convert the PPAU platform and PPI statutes to MultiMarkdown
 * DanielJ to update 5EP pad with notes