Minutes/National Council/2015-01-07

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Agenda

• Previous meeting's minutes
  • https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2014-12-29
• Ben's absence (Ben)
• Banking update (Brendan)
• PPI update (Brendan)
• Shirts (Daniel)
• Goodbye forever! (Brendan)
• General Business

Start: 20:34 AEDT
End: 21:28 AEDT

Attendance

• Brendan Molloy
• Ben McGinnes
• Mark Gibbons
• Daniel Judge
• Fletcher Boyd
• Michael Keating
• Melanie Thomas

Apologies

• David Campbell

Minutes

Previous meeting's minutes

• https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2014-12-29
• See Motions

Past Action Items

• Debit Card Obtained
• MarkG talking to Nick via email on fundraising proposal
• Shirts quotes on agenda
• emails sent
• AEC still to be followed up upon
• Action item list still being worked on

Ben's absence

• Ben emailed details to Brendan and DanielJ (but not NC)
  • Absence due to various personal matters beyond his control
• Ben is now back and will stay back and available (barring any unforseen catastrophic events)
• Ben commits to inform us as soon as possible if he thinks he wont be around
• Reminder to everyone, missing meetings requires providing apologies.

Banking update

• IT'S BASICALLY DONE YAY
• Bendigo is closed and Brendan transferred remaining funds to ANZ accounts
• ANZ Debit card exists
• Reminder re opsec issues surrounding bank cards and banking issues
• MarkG to get Xero properly set up asap
• As of 6 Jan 2015
  • Transaction Account: $811.76
  • Savings Account: $7,145.45

PPI update

• Our motion got knocked back and replaced with one that is functionally the same except names us specifically.
  • understood that it was Mozart who suggested they do this
• http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_Minutes_2015-01-06
• A Board member apparently wanted to sue PPI CoA for their decision in our favour because "they were not consulted" even though the complaint was against the GA and the statutes.
  • they were merely functionaries and therefore not a defendent.
• Other various issues of note can be found in the PPI minutes
• Early draft proposal of how Brendan would like to see GA handled: https://gist.github.com/bbqsrc/4d41201dce4d64f0d2dc
  • the most likely factor of whether the online GA fails or not will be if we can get quorum
    • Quorum = 1/3 of PPI member parties (~20)
    • need to attend Mumble meeting on 14th March
    • mainly to vote on minimal Rules of Procedure and Ballot design
• Obtaining contact details for all parties still a challenges, some are informal organisations
• Also: Masa has been removed from the board due to inactivity so our resignation trigger has already been met.
  • Item 4 was stable board: https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Pirate_Congress_2014/Motions#FM-1:_Conditional_withdrawal_from_Pirate_Parties_International
    • this of course is of no consequence, but useful to know that wasn't even manageable.
• Two relevant articles in Pirate Times
  • http://piratetimes.net/2014-an-eventful-year-for-pirate-party-australia/
  • http://piratetimes.net/ppi-board-cannot-collect-fees/
• COA ruling: http://wiki.pp-international.net/PPI_CoA/PPI_CoA_Ruling_2014-1

Shirts

• Yes to confirmation to order x20 instead of x15
• Joe confirms over email he is ready to go for distribution

Goodbye forever!

• Not really forever
• Brendan leaves for Sweden next Thursday.
• people still seem to not be aware of this no matter how many times he has said it.
  • he'll be sending an email to the officers@ list to make it clear.
• returning in July (2015)

General business

• Membership DB
  • to be completed by end of month

• Attention brought to a tweet of Mel's regarding visiting anti-vax speaker that has been minsconstrued as minimising danger of not vaccinating
• Mel ensures a mistake due to Twitters 140 char limit
  • her main point is support of free speech, even if disagree with speaker
• Resounding support of vaccinations expressed by NC members during discussion
• Mel angry when shown how 3rd party MT's her tweet taking it out of context
  • 21:26: Mel departs IRC/meeting

Motions

• MOTION: Accept the minutes of 2014-12-29 as written.
  • Put by: Brendan
  • Ayes: 5 (MarkG, Fletcher, Brendan, Keating, DanielJ); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 1 (Ben)
    • Motion carries.

• MOTION: Close the last meeting.
  • Put by: Brendan
  • *** Ayes: 6 (Ben, Brendan, MarkG, DanielJ, Fletcher, Keating); Nays: 0 (); Abstains: 0 ()
    • Motion carries.

Action Items

• MarkG to follow up Xero setup
• DanielJ to follow up AEC re electoral roll postage addresses
• DanielJ to confirm shirt order
• Fletcher and DanielJ to set up/maintain repository of wishlist/action items etc