Minutes/National Council/2022-06-23

National Council Meeting 23rd June 2022

Start: 9:09 pm AEST

End: 10:08 AEST

Agenda

 * Previous meeting minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-06-09
 * Correspondence, reports, action items (Secretariat)
 * Discussion items, and motions
 * Dave email report back
 * General business
 * Motion to close the meeting

Attendance

 * Alex Jago (chair til 21:25)
 * John August
 * Roger Whatling
 * Andrew Downing
 * David Kennedy
 * Mils Whiticker (from 21:25)

Apologies

 * Miles Whiticker (until 21:25)

Absentees

 * Brandon Selic
 * Fred Gerner

Observers

 * Milspec (member)
 * Sam (member)
 * Morton (member) (from 21:20)

Previous Minutes

 * As at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-06-09
 * See motions.

Correspondence, reports, and action items completed

 * Congress was announced
 * CAP drafted to carry over vacancies with Congress soon
 * CAPs due 9am this Saturday
 * Roger: "I don't know if I'll have, or if we'll want, a solution in time"
 * read: no DB merger CAP this year
 * Invites to Fusion things: sent
 * Calls for Vic and NSW state elections: still pending
 * Email options: see below

Email options (Dave)

 * "there's a huge void between the cheap and the good"
 * Icewarp best balance between value and security
 * Lite plan: $2.80USD/month/user, 5GB
 * read: $4-ish AUD
 * Certainly cheaper than Google!
 * Dreamhost slightly cheaper but less good
 * Substantial migration work needed
 * OK, now we need to figure out if we can switch pronto

Fusion at the Vic and NSW state elections

 * At this stage it seems unlikely that the long-shot hope of taking on Flux's NSW rego will pan out, given there's a week until it's due
 * Vic party rego due in a month, c'mon Vic
 * Miles has a proposed mailout: https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/vic_state_22
 * Vic (and national) campaigns committees being permanently stood up
 * We Have A Plan (t.m.)

International relations

 * Chile: platform collation is ongoing, Jay is on it
 * Iceland: Kari G wants to do some things re Transformative Learning Groups with Online Circle work

Finances

 * About 2 grand in the bank, which is honestly better than expected
 * Need to organise donations channel via Fusion

Julian Assange latest

 * Dave has drafted a PR, could be from Fusion or from PPAU
 * Last UK level appeal before extradition to US
 * Various letters to be written / visits to be made
 * The new Government has committed to do "what they can"

Actions going forward

 * Acceptance testing for Icewarp email (Dave, Andrew, Alex)
 * Migration to Icewarp conditional on acceptance testing (Dave, Alex)
 * Forward the Fusion donation email (Alex; tonight)
 * Miles' Victorian mailout
 * Write Treasurer's Report (John)

Motions

 * MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous meeting as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2022-06-09
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 5 (AJ, AD, RW, DK, JA)
 * Carried 21:12


 * MOTION: switch from G Suite to Icewarp email, conditional on final acceptance testing
 * Put by: Alex Jago; seconded by Dave Kennedy
 * Ayes 6 (DK, RW, JA, AJ, MW, AD)
 * Carried 21:39


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 6 (MW, AD, DK, RW, JA, AJ)
 * Carried 22:08