Minutes/National Council/2022-06-23

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Meeting Minutes
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National Council Meeting 23rd June 2022

Start: 9:09 pm AEST

End: 10:08 AEST

Agenda

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

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

Discussion items

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.)

General Business

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: 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
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