Minutes/National Council/2012-09-18

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Agenda

• Halt on new NC commitments/responsibilities until after registration - Mozart
• Copyright review - Mozart http://www.alrc.gov.au/inquiries/copyright-and-digital-economy.
• Campaigns proposals - David
• Registration Work Group Update - Glen, Brendan
• Transfer responsibility of IT invoice payments to treasurer/s
• Amazon S3/Ninefold
• Clear last meeting's minutes https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2012-09-04
• Facebook post policy - Mozart
• Internet Governance Forum - http://www.igf.org.au/about-igf - Brendan
• FOI
• Possible blog/statement on Python iView - http://static.sunriseroad.net/jeremy/documents/abc-python-iview-letter-20120807.pdf
  • http://www.mibus.org/2012/09/18/letter-to-the-abc-re-the-takedown-of-python-iview/

Attendance

• Brendan Molloy
• David Campbell
• Glen Takkenberg
• Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer
• Rodney Serkowski
• Sam Kearns
• Simon Frew

Start: 20:04 AEST
Finish: 21:49 AEST

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Minutes

Halt on NC commitments and responsibilities until after registration

• Party registration is a top priority.
• Non-essential duties will be delegated to work groups and committees.

Copyright Review

• Due November 30th.
• Working group will be formed to tackle the submission.
• Terms of Reference (ToR) will be presented at next Tuesdays meeting.

Registration Work Group update

• Waiting on RT implementation to be completed.
• Members who have failed the AEC enrolment check will be contacted via e-mail.
• Non-responses after 3 days will be contacted by phone.
• Members can update their records online.

Transfer of responsibility for IT invoice payments to treasury

• See action item below (re billing logins)

Amazon S3/Ninefold

• See motion below

ABC takedown of Python iView

• Services like Python iView are illegal following the Optus TVNow verdict.
• Services are responsible for the actions of their users.
• Similar in functionality to "Youtube downloaders".
• Availability of code is free speech and should not be restricted on the grounds it could possibly be used for evil.
• Issues involved:
  • TPM circumvention.
  • Authorisation.
  • Validity of the takedown notice.
  • Format shifting exceptions.

Facebook Posting Policy

• Initials of the poster to be appended in brackets to the end of all posts.
• Sexist post was made by an authorized admin on the PPAU Facebook account; only 5 people had access.
• Screenshot any odd posts before deletion.

Internet Governance Forum - October 11-12th

• See motion below

Freedom of Information request sent to the Classifications Board by Brendan

• sent, reply received and awaiting to "see what happens"

Banking

• Awaiting for NC members to complete paperwork for NAB and Bendigo Bank.

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Motions

• Motion: NC refrains from time consuming additional work load until registration achieved.
  • 7 ayes.
  • Motion passes.

• Motion: Approve the creation of the Creative Services Work Group under the following referral to the Campaigns Committee.
  • 7 Ayes.
  • Motion passes.

• Motion: Approve the updated Vacant Volunteer Positions website page.
  • 6 Ayes.
  • Motion passes.

• Motion: Approve storage of backups on Amazon s3 with appropriate encryption, Approve signing up to service.
  • 7 Ayes.
  • Motion passes.

• Motion: Clear the minutes of the previous meeting. (2012-09-04)
  • 6 Ayes.
  • Motion passes.

• Motion: Brendan Molloy attends IGF as our delegate, PPAU will pay $50 admission.
  • 7 Ayes.
  • Motion passes.

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Action Items

• Prepare terms of reference for copyright review working group and Programming Working Group - Rodney + Brendan
• Create a billing login for Rodney and Sam for the webhost to allow them to pay invoices.
• Press release to be written regarding the Python iView takedown by the ABC