Minutes/Election Committee Meeting/2013-06-04

Meeting Minutes

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Agenda

Start time: 20:01 AEST 04/06/13
Finish time: 22:20 AEST 04/06/13

Frew has done up a draft PR for preferences and a mail for Parties based on a reply taco had concocted
- https://pressteam.piratenpad.de/10
  - quotes to be reduced as media tends to ignore quote heavy PRs
- Brendan will also revise some aspects before next NC meeting
Taco will follow up the prior email sent.
Also, Taco: "The greens are switching to a national negotiator, and I haven't heard anything further from that"
Comment from Frew that preference process "... will work best as a demonstration of us practising what we preach, unsure how it will go down with other Parties"

Note: "The idea with this, is to have it every meeting to keep abreast of stuff in the news that are good for us to campaign on"
- eg ASIC censorship using section 313 of the telecommunication act
Discussion re Victorian police seizing art and threatening an artist with child porn offenses today
Ongoing TPPA negotiation stuff
- Brendan and Frew attended consultation last week
ASIC is being questioned in estimates by Ludlam
- http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/estimates/asic-internet-filtering
Thomas Randle states he went hard on electoral funding and ASIC censorship this week on facebook and it went well
Discussion re S313 and relation to old filter plans
- Possible contact with Melbourne Free University to see what they plan, although they may be unlikely to formally/legally challenge due to their possible ad hoc nature
- Discussion re blocklists and ins and outs of transparent lists and effectiveness and/or lack thereof
- Discussion re iiNet and ISPs in general
- Discussion and lack of agreement around possibilities of using TPB as a way of hosting party materials.
- Website content for a repeal S313 campaign
  - needs a 'plan of action' for visitors
    - Frew to formulate of said
      - Melanie, chanel, arikb to assist with content
www.faircopyright.com.au pointed out as a thing

we have two approved flyers now, feenicks has another 2 A4 posters coming as well, they just missed the deadline of the stuff we approved today
Thomas Randle would like to get the NC to spend about $150 getting as many of these printed up as possible:
- https://trello-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/5133289140b87b561c0075ac/51937aa810e002dd1100257e/ff2aef6c20aebd44b8d673130726f083/flyer_preview.png
Epic discussion on logistics of printing, printing options, locations, prices etc etc ensued, also comments on "Printed by/at" AEC guidelines.
- DL Size info: DL 99 × 210 common flyer 1/3 of an A4
- want to have a supply for the TPB:AFK Screening
  - Blue unlikely to be done in time via printery locations so will take time and find best price.
  - a note to try ensure this is sorted earlier next time
David shall print a Black and White supply from home.
We will arrange to have the blue version produced at a later date to acceptable standards at that time

3 people to help redesign the membership registration process/welcoming/party intro
Sunny Kalsi wrote a doc on how to start helping if you're a new member
- https://trello.com/card/members-registration-initiation/513328b1ea2a26397e002d27/11
Existing welcome email text: http://openpad.me/80GATCOlpx
Thomas is concerned that the existing welcome email is too wordy
- would like: the welcome message broken into _multiple_, styled with pretty html, and a few sent covering the different topic areas
  - ie: how the party is managed, how to get involved
  - He also believes every new member must be automatically signed up to the announcements list
- Sunny offers to assist in content for this
dada mail integration issues raised but not discussed at this time

New website issues menu content to start going out next week, as a day by day release pushed on social media.
- Thomas will finish off and we'll start releasing them next week as a series

More social media sharing assets, one for each core principle and join/donate items
- popular with the audience, we should make more

Discussion on timing during congress.
- tending towards Saturday afternoon, but Thomas would prefer morning
further discussion to occur over email

Discuss this another time, holdover to next meeting.
- Possible venue in Newcastle, Beaumont St, Hamilton (Newcastle Crew Meetup Location)