Minutes/Policy Development Committee Meeting/2014-09-10

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Meeting Minutes
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Attendees

  • Andrew Downing (Chair)
  • Brendan Molloy
  • Ben Fairless
  • Bill McLean
  • Fletcher Boyd
  • Daniel Judge
  • Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer (Inquiries Officer)
  • Mark Gibbons

Absent

  • Sunny Kalsi

Apologies

  • David Crafti

Agenda

PDC members Changes

Ben Fairless (his first meeting tonight) - must find him something to do. Done: Ben now chairs an FOI policy working group. ref: IRC log.

Inquiries Status update by Inquiries Officer (Mozart)

   Mozart:
   Yes, we dropped quite a monster submission on Friday.
   25 pages on the online copyright infringement discussion paper.
   I believe that's the longest (or second longest) submission we've made.
   It, and all our submissions, are available from https://pirateparty.org.au/submissions/

Progress Reports from Active Working Groups

Universal Healthcare Working Group (Chair=BillM)

   Set first meeting for Wednesday, 17th September.
   Added DanielJ to team.
   Brendan just has watching brief.

Corporate Stalking (Chair=DavidC)

   Pending participation by Liam

Startups Working Group (Chair=AndrewD)

   No progress.

Distributed Digital Currencies and Economies Policy (Chair=AndrewD)

   Set 1st meeting to be Monday 22nd September, 8:30pm in #ppau-pdc
   AndrewD to post discourse topic to prompt member discussion, well before meeting.

Library and Cultural Development Policy (Chair=Sunny Kalsi)

Met two mondays back. Missed this monday. Some work done. Found these interesting links ...

Libraries seem to already be thinking about adapting their roles to include things like Maker Spaces but they do seem a bit worried about copyright and other IP issues