Minutes/Policy Development Committee Meeting/2013-02-20
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Meeting Minutes
This document is a record of a meeting. Do not edit this document without contacting the relevant group first.
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Agenda
- Attendance/apologies
- Possible changes to voice chat procedure
- Reports from working groups / vote on draft policies
- Establishment of new working groups
- Asylum seeker policy
- Other business
Attendance
- Sam
- Mark
- Rodney
- Brendan
- Melanie
- Ben
- Andrew
- David (21:33)
Start time: 20:14 End time: 21:35
Minutes
- Brendan forced to do the minutes.
- Future voice chat meetings will be held on Mumble as people do not have G+ accounts
- Instructions will be provided to new committee members - https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Mumble
- Two finalised draft policies
- Copyright WG - http://pirateparty.openpad.me/202
- Will be revisited next meeting
- Whistleblowing WG - David missing from meeting
- Copyright WG - http://pirateparty.openpad.me/202
- Brendan raises concern with two aspects of Drug Policy draft
- "Drugs which meet these criteria include marijuana, as well as psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin." lacks citations
- "Small quantities may, as examples, be defined as" lacks citations, remarked "right now it looks like a druggy's wish list."
- Rodney raised issue with remark "not sure statements like druggy's wishlist are very helpful."
- "I think it is. I'm talking specifically about the format." -- Brendan
- Establishment of new working groups
- Digital Liberties WG
- Motion passes
- Asylum Seekers WG
- Motion passes
- Meeting at 8pm Monday
- Digital Liberties WG
- AndrewD talks about Bill of Rights WG
- Bill of Rights WG has formed a list of potential rights and criteria for their assessment, met to achieve concensus on those and all WG members have filled out numbers in a MAUT. We have to meet again to reconcile our positions and form an actual policy proposal.
- Other business
- Citation guide
- Motion passes
- Sam tenders resignation due to time constraints
- Action item for modifying process
- Mark Gibbons assumes chair of solar tariff working group
- Motion for additional meeting passes
- Meeting closed
Motions
- Motion: that the PDC will develop a policy set on digital liberties. This will include the development of policies dealing with data retention, net neutrality, and internet censorship. A working group will be formed for this policy set headed by Ben McGinnes that will produce a draft proposal including detailed policy and MAUT tables for the PDC meeting held on 13 March 2013
- 6 ayes
- Motion: that the PDC will develop a policy regarding asylum seekers and refugees. The working group will be expected to liaise with relevant organisations for the purposes of gaining an understanding of good policy in this area. A working group will be formed for this policy headed by Brendan Molloy that will attempt to produce a draft proposal to be presented and accepted by the PDC, before the Policy Meeting in April
- 7 ayes
- Motion: adopt the Pirate Party Australia Refencing Style for the purposes of writing policy.
- 6 ayes
- Motion: that Mark Gibbons assume chairmanship of the solar tariff working group in place of Sam Kearns.
- 6 ayes
- Motion: that the PDC convene an additional meeting scheduled for March 13 at 8:30PM to conduct policy review.
- 6 ayes
Action Items
- Brendan to add "full membership review" and "citation review" to https://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Policy_Development_Process