Minutes/National Council/2023-01-19

National Council Meeting 2023-01-19

Start at 21:44 AEDT

Agenda

 * Previous meeting minutes https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2023-01-05 (AlexJ)
 * Pirate branch representative to Fusion Executive (MilesW)
 * FIRC committee meeting 27/01/22 7pm Syd/Melb (Miles/Jay)
 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/firc_mailout_jan23
 * Pirate Identity Survey update (MilesW)
 * 2022 Privacy Breach Awards (MilesW/JohnA)
 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/awards
 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/privacy_awards2022_plan
 * Australian Republic speaker event for Fusion (Miles)
 * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gf-wboGIZNVralvpBEMmiwF6DWyMnVnk9OKPNIKvk-g/edit

Attendance

 * Alex Jago (minutes)
 * Roger Whatling (until 22:31)
 * John August
 * Michael George
 * Miles Whiticker (chair)
 * David Kennedy
 * Tyrone D'Lisle

Guests

 * Petar Johnson (Fusion Convenor)
 * Andrew Downing
 * Star_Tube

Fusion branch representative

 * The Fusion DRC are currently investigating this; are happy for me to continue in the role until such time as they make a ruling; and have also instructed me to say no more on the matter. - Miles
 * Petar confirms.
 * John & Tyrone note that members have concerns/reservations about the whole Fusion affiliation given recent events.
 * Miles: as someone who's been involved since before it was Fusion, the party still has my support. We need only to show up.

FIRC

 * Friday 27th
 * Mailout TODO:
 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/firc_mailout_jan23
 * Jay has about 5 items, hopefully we can pick one to work on
 * Good recent collabs with Chile, Germany and Czechia

Pirate Identity Survey

 * In the process of setting up a temp VPS with LimeSurvey to run it all
 * No timeframe yet, medium priority

Privacy Breach Awards

 * https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/awards
 * Planning pad: https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/privacy_awards2022_plan
 * Run a big survey!
 * Self-promo and PR
 * Nominations phase and voting phase
 * "Let's get back to our roots, make some noise on privacy" - Miles
 * John: I think we should have several categories (government/private/international x abuse/stuff-up x 2022 / last three years)
 * Let's also think we can allow community input without allowing any particular interest to swing the vote
 * John wants a theatrical awards ceremony with special guests from e.g. APF and volunteers to host
 * Opportunity for individual members to give commentary to camera on specific items
 * Need someone to be promo director
 * Probably three press releases in this - announcing nominations, announcing voting on (filtered) nominations, announcing winners (basically the awards ceremony transcript)

Aus Republic speaker event (Fusion)

 * Miles has floated this and Fusion exec seem supportive
 * Not historically a core Pirate issue, good for coalition building

General Business

 * John and Andrew will be in Perth soon!
 * Saturday 28th (see #wa channel)
 * Fusion Brissie meetup then too
 * Pirate PDC meeting 2023-01-31 20:00 AEDT

Actions

 * John to reach out to the privacy groups for Privacy Breach Awards speakers
 * Event planning...
 * General mailout: https://emailpad.pirateparty.org.au/load/mailout-jan-2023

Motions

 * URGENT MOTION: endorse the appointment of Miles Whiticker as the Pirate branch representative to the Fusion executive committee, substituting for David Kennedy whether by deputisation or by filling a casual vacancy.
 * Put by: Alex Jago (January 7th 2023; over email)
 * Ayes 6 (Alex Jago, John August, David Kennedy, Michael George, Roger Whatling, Tyrone D'Lisle)
 * Abstain 1 (Miles Whiticker)
 * Motion Carried (on 11th January 2023; over email)


 * MOTION: approve the minutes of the previous meeting on the 5th of January 2023 as at https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2023-01-05
 * Put by: Alex Jago
 * Ayes 5 (MW, TDL, MG, JA, AJ)
 * Abstain 2 (RW, DK)
 * Motion carried 21:46


 * MOTION: close the meeting
 * Ayes 6 (MW, TDL, MG, JA, AJ, DK)
 * Meeting closed.