Minutes/National Council/2022-01-06

PPAU National Council Meeting 6 January 2022

Meeting Open: 2040 AEDT Meeting Close: 2152 AEDT

Attendees

 * Miles W
 * Andrew D
 * John A
 * Mitch C
 * Alex J
 * Dave K
 * Roger W

Agenda

 * Approve previous minutes
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-12-09
 * https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2021-12-23
 * USPP strategy consulting (Miles)
 * Democracy livestream (Miles)
 * PPI Congress (https://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/2022_ppi_ga_call-for-volunteers)
 * Any other business (everyone)

USPP strategy consulting

 * Meeting date to be set, Dave potentially interested depending on timing

PPI Congress

 * PPI GA https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_General_Assembly_JAN_2022
 * Miles & Dave potentially attending, though timing might be awkward

Democracy livestream

 * Nuclear livestream temporarily shelved
 * Democracy to include: AU Pirates, US Pirates, Flux, XR
 * XR's input toward DD https://rebellion.global/blog/2021/01/05/citizens-assembly-climate-change/
 * Dave is still working on Liquid Feedback local setup
 * Andrew and Dave potentially to be involved in livestream, Dave to work on a potential showcase of LF as part of the stream
 * Andrew to investigate 3-5 issues to set up in LF demo

General Business

 * Andrew Potts (Affordable Housing Party) doing a Reddit AMA tonight here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianPolitics/comments/rx8955/im_andrew_potts_the_federal_leader_of_the/
 * Update from Alex, "the party has a Visa Debit card to pay for servers; I am the new bearer of the new card."
 * Alex clarifies this is a replacement card, used for paying AWS services.
 * Dave suggested this is possibly a way to distribute petty cash if such a function was approved
 * Nick, our long serving IT volunteer, will be stepping down at the end of the month
 * Alex will be getting a hand over and taking most responsibilities until suitable help can be onboarded
 * "Some things we may simply deprecate, like the custom payments processor on the donate page"
 * EtherPad might also be a problem, breaks with large number of users
 * Critical: Wiki, WordPress, Member DB, voting server. We need to find people to help support.
 * Potential to deprecate the PPAU Forum - possibly use Liquid Feedback as an alternative
 * * general tech discussion about OAUTH and member DB and other tech jargon *

Motions
MOTION: Approve the minutes of the previous meeting from 9 Dec & 23 Dec 2021
 * Put by: Miles W
 * Passes (6 aye, 1 abstain)

MOTION: vote of thanks to Nick for all the work he's done for the Party over the years
 * Put by: Alex J
 * Passes (6 aye) notable mention of Alex: "Aye with deep gratitude"

MOTION: close the meeting
 * Put by: Miles W
 * Passes (5 aye)

Actions

 * Dave complete setup of LF
 * Andrew to investigate 3-5 issues to set up in LF demo