Minutes/Hobart Meeting/2015-04-09

Hobart Meeting

 * Thursday 9 April 2015
 * Tasman Quartermasters (http://www.tasmanquartermasters.com.au/)
 * From 18:00; meeting closed at 19:47

Agenda

 * Discuss possible State Branch formation

Attendance

 * Tim Serong
 * Thaiis Thei
 * Peter Lawler
 * Charles Gregory
 * Thomas Randle
 * Scott Bragg

Minutes

 * Meeting opened 18:25
 * Discussion of possible State Branch formation, now that we have 50 tasmanian members according to national membership records (see http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Branch_Formation_Working_Group_ToR#Scope_.26_Responsibilities).
 * Pete suggests waiting on national membership audit first.
 * General consensus on state branch formation, is first we:
 * Need means of communication and decision making (something more formal than random mail to the discuss list).
 * Suggestion that we should use the PPAU wiki for this in the interim, absent something more liquid-democracy-like
 * Need means of ensuring participation with all members, people who can't make Hobart meetings, etc.
 * Suggestion for road trip to north / northwest, because road trips are awesome
 * Pete strongly encourages visit to pirate takeaway in Stanley
 * Pete suggests Pirates of Tas run a hack weekend / hackfest thing to try to put together an openaustralia/rightotknow FOI style thing, for Tasmania
 * Thomas: can this fork/derive from existing OA/RTK thing?
 * Thomas acknowledges Charles' excellent work posting on the PiratePartyTas facebook page.
 * Pete requested an online store for t-shirts, stickers, etc. for fundraising.
 * Thomas suggested future objectives:
 * Events for members, not like the annual congress, but a regular hack day, or fun thing
 * Eventually obtain our own space somewhere, or even coworking space
 * At some point in future we will eventually want to be able to have paid staff
 * Pete requested a couple of oddites be minuted that arguably aren't strictly party business:
 * Using Firefox private browsing on a mobile phone for minute taking on the etherpad sucks
 * Tim still has a beard
 * Meeting closed at 19:47

Action Items

 * Tim to:
 * Find out geographic spread within state
 * Update discussion list with URLs of minutes etc.
 * Note: they're all on the party etherpad, e.g.: http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/tas-20150409, they just haven't all been transferred to the party wiki yet; change the date at the end of the URL to see the minutes for the appropriate meeting
 * Send draft branch constitution to discuss list